Morning company

The morning society (self-deprecatingly and colloquially also known as the "early riser") was a discussion group of liberal-minded upper - class citizens that existed in Nuremberg from 1830 to 1933. It was a closed, but not institutionalized as a registered association, circle of influential and patronage personalities of different political stripes, although the members were to be assigned to political liberalism in the broadest sense . The motto of the circle was: "Everyone can do what he wants."

The morning party met in the Lutzschen coffee house (today Lutzgarten ), a restaurant in the northern Nuremberg suburb of Großreuth behind the fortress (today Nürnberg-Großreuth) for morning coffee. The morning companions left the inner city early in the morning via the Maxtor towards Großreuth. In winter they had to wear lanterns (until the gas lighting was installed in 1847), unless the moon was shining.

The members included a. Max von Kirschbaum , August von Kreling , Johann Perlberg , August Witschel , Sigmund Schuckert , Georg von Stromer , Ludwig Ritter von Gerngroß . At first the members were recruited from the former patrician class and later increasingly from the upper middle class. The members collected and donated considerable sums for charitable and cultural purposes. The most important patron was Ludwig Ritter von Gerngroß. Beginning around 1880, many, above all secular Jews, found their way into the morning society. After about a hundred years, this meant the end of the circle, which no longer met from 1933. (Even after the beginning of Nazi rule, the landlord of the Lutzgarten refused to put up the "Jews undesirable" sign.) After 1945, the tradition of morning society was not revived.

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Magnus Zawodsky: "The" Lutzgarten "in Großreuth is 300 years old" in Nürnberger Zeitung 2006, ( http://www.franken-wiki.de/index.php/Lutzgarten )