Prinzengarde Düsseldorf blue and white

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Prinzengarde blue and white
purpose Customs care
president Lothar Hörning
Vice President Rolf Herpens
executive Director Michael Schmitz
Treasurer Johannes Huken
founding 1926/1927
Members about 550
Seat Dusseldorf
Website http://www.prinzengarde-blau-weiss.de/

The Prinzengarde of the city of Düsseldorf Blau-Weiss e. V. 1927 - Life Guard of Princess Venetia , abbreviated also simply "Prinzengarde Blau-Weiss", "Prinzengarde Düsseldorf Blau-Weiss", "Life Guard of Princess Venetia" or simply "Blau-Weiss" is one of the traditional corps in the Düsseldorf Carnival and at the same time with more than 540 members in terms of number of members the largest carnival society in Düsseldorf.

It was founded in the 1920s and has played a key role in the carnival in the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital ever since . The Guard currently provides the acting managing director, a vice-president and the press spokesman for the Comitee Düsseldorfer Carneval e. V. Many a carnival prince and many a princess Venetia of the Düsseldorf prince couple also came from the guard.

What is unusual about the Düsseldorf Carnival is that two traditional corps with the name Prinzengarde coexist. While the Prinzengarde Blau-Weiss supports the Princess Venetia during the session with an adjutant (consisting of two people: the adjutant of the Venetia and the standard officer of the Venetia), its sister guard , the red-clad Prinzengarde of the city of Düsseldorf , provides the bodyguard of the Prince Carnival e . V. , the Adjutantur of the Carnival Prince .

history

The Prinzengarde Blau-Weiss was founded in November 1926 under the presidency of Willi Holstein as the "Düsseldorfer Karnevalsgesellschaft Kavallerie Blau-Weiss" and entered into the association register for the first time on October 29, 1927. With the name Kavallerie Blau-Weiss consciously linked to a group of knights around Otto von Wittelsbach , who led the first Düsseldorf Rose Monday procession in 1825 under the title "Blau-Weiss" on horseback. On the Rose Monday parades that followed in 1927, the guard provided the Venetia, so that the name was soon changed to its current name.

Already in the early days of the guard, a close exchange developed with the carnivalists of the Mainz Ranzengarde , whose field marshal Emil Kupferberg was appointed “General à la Suite” of the Blau-Weissen in 1936. In addition, a visit by Field Marshal of the Knapsack Guard Dieter Hummel to the Prinzengarde Blau-Weiss should be responsible for the fact that the exclamation “ Helau ” was established instead of the usual “Hoch” in the Mainz Carnival .

Eleven years after the founding, the then chairman of the Carnival Committee (today Comitee Düsseldorfer Carneval) and entrepreneur Leo Statz stated that “the Prinzengarde Blau-Weiss [has] so strongly asserted that it is not only a guard, but also a leading one Carnival Association ".

After the war, the Prinzengarde Blau-Weiss was the first carnival company in Düsseldorf to move through the halls with its own dance guard .

The development of the Prinzengarde was particularly shaped by its long-time President Engelbert Oxenfort, who led the Guard for 19 years from 1982 onwards. In his era, among other things, the first awarding of the “Golden Pritsche” as a carnival award of the Guard to personalities from politics, culture, business and science.

Events inside and outside the session

Prinzengarde Düsseldorf Blau-Weiss at the Rose Monday procession 2013

The Prinzengarde Blau-Weiss organizes a variety of different events during the carnival session . Starting with the celebratory meeting ball as an event of the classic “patent leather carnival”, through the large gala session with numerous hand-made speakers, bands and dance performances, right up to the conference party and the so-called preferential parties in the headquarters of the Düsseldorf brewery Schumacher , the events attract carnivalists of all kinds. In addition, there is the participation in the Düsseldorf Rose Monday procession with riding corps, foot group and carriage. The active corps and the dance guard also appear at numerous events of other carnival clubs in Düsseldorf and in the region. In addition, the active corps is the permanent adjudicator of Princess Venetia in the Düsseldorf Carnival.

Even outside of the actual session, the Prinzengarde organizes numerous other activities with traditional evenings, royal shooting, autumn hunt and excursions.

Departments

The Prinzengarde Blau-Weiss with over 540 members is divided into several departments.

Uniformed corps

Active corps

The appearance in the carnival is shaped by the active corps, which takes part in uniformed carnival sessions and other events with its own stage program. The stage program consists of song and dance. Club members Jens Lier, Thomas Dregger and Valerie Schneider are currently singing for the Prinzengarde, some of them self-written songs.

The Active Corps takes care of the Carnival Monday fleet of the Prinzengarde, actively supports the board of directors at events and performs other work services for the association.

The active corps is musically accompanied by the Derendorf drum corps and the Gerresheim brass band.

The active corps is led by the commander Udo Bock and the deputy commander Jens Lier.

Reserve Corps

The reserve corps is reserved for veteran and honored members of the active corps. As a reservist you are in uniform, but you are released from the duties of the active corps.

Dance guard

The Tanzgarde is also very present at the carnival events in Düsseldorf with its stage shows. the repertoire of the dance guard includes two guard dances and one show dance with a changing motto per session.

The dance guard is currently being trained by Nicole Seemann and (the former Venetia) Alina Kappmeier. The dance guard is led by astrid Widera and Marijke-Lena Meseck.

Senators in uniform

Members of the Senate can participate in uniformed club activities without any further obligations.

Equestrian Corps

The Prinzengarde cavalry corps took part in the Rose Monday procession on horseback. In order to meet the requirements for participation in the Carnival Monday procession and your own high riding standards, compulsory riding lessons take place every two weeks. As a further requirement, all members of the equestrian corps have passed a riding test.

The cavalry corps is led by Rittmeister Walter Schmitz.

Clown group

The club's clown group accompanies the uniformed corps in the lifts.

The head of the clown group is the former Venetia Claudia Gehlfuß.

Corps à la suite

The Corps à la Suite is made up of selected patrons of the Guard and at the same time provides the General à la Suite. The General à la Suite is the highest representative of the Prince's Guard. It is affiliated with the Corps de Jeunesse, whose members are no more than 35 years old.

The Corps à la Suite is led by Klaus Hinkel and his deputy Klaus Jonas.

senate

In numerical terms, the largest division of the Prinzenguard is the Senate, which - unlike in many other traditional carnival corps - is composed of both senators.

The acting speaker of the Senate is Marc P. Battensein, his deputy is Gisela Piltz .

Honorary positions

Veneto

On the one hand, the Prinzengarde Blau-Weiss is the bodyguard of Princess Venetia and accompanies her through the session. On the other hand, numerous Venetians of the Düsseldorf Carnival come from the ranks of the blue-whites.

Flatbed carrier

Since 1984 the Prinzengarde Blau-Weiss has been awarding the “Goldene Pritsche” as a special kind of carnival award. The award is given to those who are distinguished by the fact that they always preserve humor, cheerfulness and motherhood in their lives and work, and so against Have fought "curmudgeon" and "curmudgeon". The cot , a joking instrument of percussion and punishment, also carries the Bergische Löwe in the logo of the Prinzengarde Blau-Weiss in his hands. Previous winners are:

General à la suite

The general is elected annually from the ranks of the corps à la suite and is the highest representative of the active corps during the session.

Hunting masters

The title of Hunting Lords is also awarded annually within the Prinzengarde. The title is associated with the patronage of the annual autumn hunt organized by the guard and the representation of the equestrian corps.

particularities

uniform

In contrast to many other traditional corps in the Rhenish Carnival , the uniform of the Prinzengarde Blau-Weiss is not based on the uniforms of Prussian troops or historical city ​​and citizen guards . The uniforms of the Prinzengarde Blau-Weiss were instead designed by the Düsseldorf painter Hans Kohlschein in the style of the uniforms of Spanish grandees and in early years also included gauntlet boots and capes with fur trimmings .

medal

The Prinzengarde Blau-Weiss order of sessions has been designed by a well-known contemporary artist since 2000. As with the drafts of the uniform, this is intended to pay tribute to the importance of the city of Düsseldorf for art and the art academy in a special way. While the basic diamond shape of the order has remained unchanged since 2000, the artists are free to design the central order element. The order will be presented to the public by the President and the artist during the annual press conference immediately before the start of the session.

So far the session orders of the Guard have been designed by the following artists: Heinz te Laake , Heinz Mack , Markus Lüpertz , Günther Uecker , Otto Piene , Bert Gerresheim , Klaus Richter , Norbert Tadeusz , Udo Dziersk , Georg Hornemann , Tony Cragg , Anatol Herzfeld , Martin Denker , Thomas Ruff , Jacques Tilly and Christian Megert .

Blue and white in the crime scene

The Prinzengarde Blau-Weiss was represented in several respects in the episode The Murderer and the Prince of the Dusseldorf crime scene team around Kriminalhauptkommissar Flemming (played by Martin Lüttge ), which was first broadcast on May 17, 1992 . Their uniforms were used as props for actors, such as Uwe Ochsenknecht , as Prince Guards were also embedded in the script as part of the plot about the fictional Carnival Prince Gero I. In addition, “real guardsmen”, such as then President Engelbert Oxenfort, were used in front of the camera to portray the Prinzengarde in the crime scene.

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