Upper Baden Brass Band Association Breisgau
| Upper Baden Brass Music Association (OBV) |
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|---|---|
| purpose | Music association |
| Chair: | Sabine Woelfle |
| Establishment date: | 1892 |
| Number of members: | 6200 (as of March 2019) |
| Seat : | Freiburg |
| Website: | www.obv-breisgau.de |
The Oberbadischer Blasmusikverband Breisgau eV (OBV) was founded on August 21, 1892 in Buggingen . It is the oldest brass music association in German-speaking countries and currently comprises 76 member associations and 8 young wind players with a total of over 6,000 members.
The OBV is a member association of the Federation of German Brass Music Associations .
history
The Upper Baden Brass Music Association, founded in Buggingen in 1892 with eleven associations, is, together with the Markgräfler Musikverband, the oldest brass music association in Germany. The association did not get its current name until 1900, when it was founded under the name "Breisgau-Markgräfler Musikverband". The first trombonist of the Freiburg City Theater Orchestra, Franz Meier, is considered to be the initiator of the foundation. He conducted several wind orchestras and thus made it easier for the clubs to merge. The purpose of the foundation was to create highlights at association festivals by making music together and to improve the quality of the member clubs and also to check it through rating games. Between the founding and the First World War , 11 association festivals took place. As a result of the war, the number of members in the associations fell and it was not until 1921 that another association festival could be celebrated , this time in Ettenheim . Then came the big boom with a large number of newly founded clubs, so that the number of member clubs rose to over 100. In the same year, the Lower Markgräfler Musikvereinsverband split off from the OBV. In 1926, 9 associations formed a working group in order to secure an economic basis for themselves. In 1928 this association was given the name "Bund Südwestdeutscher Musikvereine" and was run by its first chairman, Kilian Heitz. In 1933 the 30th anniversary of the association was celebrated with a large music festival (240 bands, over 3000 musicians), before brass music was used for propaganda purposes of the Nazi regime shortly afterwards and the association was dissolved. The association was not re-established until January 10, 1950 after the Second World War . Just a year later, 109 bands were members of the association, which was the largest in Germany.
The number of member clubs continued to grow, until in 1955 142 clubs belonged to the association. As it was difficult to manage the large number of members, it was decided to split the association into three associations. The Upper Baden Folk Music Association was named as the successor organization to the old association, and the Ortenau Music Association and the Kaiserstuhl-Tuniberg Association were newly founded.
At the general assembly in Kenzingen in 1965 , Eugen Faller from Teningen was elected president of the association. Under Faller, youth work was to be intensified, which he succeeded, as can be seen from the increasing number of members and the falling average age. Eugen Faller's period of service only ended in 1989 with a concert by the Association Youth Orchestra, which was founded in 1988. Faller was made honorary president for his services.
His successor was Karl Heinz Beck, Mayor of Vörstetten , under whose leadership the 100th anniversary was celebrated in Emmendingen in 1992 . After Karl Heinz Beck, Dr. Harald Bobeth elected as President. In 2019, Sabine Wölfle, member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg, succeeded Dr. Harald Bobeth elected.
Districts of the Upper Baden Brass Music Association
The association area is divided into seven districts. Each district is represented by a district chairman elected in the district assemblies in the Presidium of the Upper Baden Brass Music Association in Breisgau.
| district | region | number | society |
|---|---|---|---|
| I. | City of Freiburg | 13 | Member clubs |
| II | Hexental / Schönberg | 8th | Member clubs |
| 1 | Young wind players | ||
| III | Dreisamtal | 7th | Member clubs |
| IV | To Elz and Glotter | 9 | Member clubs |
| V | Elztal and Simonswald | 17th | Member clubs |
| 6th | Young wind players | ||
| VI | Emmendingen | 11 | Member clubs |
| 1 | Young wind players | ||
| VII | Kenzingen / Herbolzheim | 11 | Member clubs |
| 1 | District Seniors Chapel |
people
Bureau
| Office | Surname | since |
|---|---|---|
| president | Sabine Wölfle | 2019 |
| Deputy president | Karin Horst | 2019 |
| Deputy president | Michael Moser | 2019 |
| Deputy president | Claudia White | 2019 |
| Association calculator | Gudrun Müller | 2004 |
| Association conductor | Nicholas Reed | 2019 |
| Association Secretary | Judith Riesterer | 2019 |
| Managing Director Music | Rainer Burkhardt | |
| Association youth leaders | Dee Boyd | 2019 |
| Chairman of the Youth Wind Orchestra | Dee Boyd | 2019 |
Honorary members
| Surname | place of residence | since |
|---|---|---|
| Peter Bank | Kirchzarten | |
| Hermann Hepp | Waldkirch-Kollnau | |
| Hubert Bilharz | Kenzingen | |
| Eugene Hiß | Teningen | |
| Ludwig Schneider | Tail | |
| Karl Heinz Beck | Vörstetten |
orchestra
The OBV also includes the Freiburg Symphonic Wind Orchestra , directed by the association's conductor Siegfried Rappenecker . The Breisgau Youth Brass Orchestra was founded in 2013 and is designed for young people with the silver award for young musicians. The orchestra is led by Katrin Osner, who also conducts the music and fire brigade band Teningen .