Association of German Mills

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Association of German Mills V.
(VDM)
legal form Registered association
purpose Representation of the interests of German mills
Seat Berlin
founding 1867

Board Hans-Christoph Erling
Website www.muehlen.org

The Verband Deutscher Mühlen eV (VDM) is the economic and socio-political interest group for German grain mills . More than 500 mills with over 90 percent of bread grain grinding in Germany are members directly or through regional associations.

working area

The association, based in Berlin, represents the interests of the flour mills and advises its members on political, social, economic, legal and technical issues. He is the contact person for parliament , ministries, administration, science and other organizations on professional issues from the municipal to the EU level . The association is responsible for communication with suppliers, customers, the media and the public. In the committees of the VDM, experts from the milling industry deal with the following topics:

  • Training & operation
  • Quality & Security
  • Raw materials & markets
  • Science & Nutrition

The VDM is a member of the Federal Association of the German Food Industry (BVE), the Federation for Food Law and Food Science (BLL), the Employers' Association Food and Enjoyment (ANG), the Central Association of German Crafts (ZDH), European Flour Millers (EFM), the Grain Research Working Group (AGF) and the Food Industry Research Group (FEI) .

history

The Association of German Millers (VDM) was founded on May 27, 1867. In 1899, the large millers founded the Association of German Mill Industrialists , which was renamed the Association of German Commercial Millers that same year . Also in 1899 the created German Confederation Müller as a splinter group from the Association of German Müller. The three milling associations existed side by side until 1933, when the Association of German Millers was dissolved. The three mill associations were then reorganized into two groups of mills, which continued until the end of the Second World War : the industrial mills formed the “Expert Group Grain Milling Industry” and the craft mills the “Reichsinnungsverband des Deutschen Müllerhandwerk”. In 1948 the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Handelsmühlen (ADH) in Frankfurt am Main was initially re-established or re-established for the industrial mills in the bizone . The beginnings of the ADH lay in the "Association of North and North-West German Trade Mills", which had been founded in the British occupation zone in 1946. The seat of the ADH was moved to Bonn, the seat of the federal government at that time, in 1950. In 1957 the Saarland mills were added when the Saarland joined the Federal Republic of Germany, and in 1990 many mills from the former GDR. In 1998 the ADH and the German Millers Association merged to form today's Association of German Mills (VDM). In February 2013, the association received a fine together with companies in the milling industry as part of antitrust proceedings . Unauthorized price fixing had taken place since 2001. The Federal Cartel Office had been investigating this since 2008.

Milling industry

The milling industry includes the areas of bread grain milling, milling of durum wheat (durum wheat) and corn , compound feed production as well as peeling and rice milling. The association bundles the mills that grind bread grain and corn. With around eight million tons of bread grain (common wheat and rye) being ground each year, the grain milling company is a partner to agriculture and food manufacturers. The German mills produce 6.5 million tons of ground products annually - 5.7 million tons of wheat and 800,000 tons of rye flour. Almost ten percent of this is exported. In addition to grinding products for human consumption, the mills produce around 1.5 million tons of mill feed every year. With around 6,000 employees, including 600 trainees, they generate annual sales of almost 2.5 billion euros. The millers , now called process technologists for mills and grains , produce 24 standard ground products in Germany, including wholemeal flour and meal. In addition, there are special flours or meals. The range of mills forms the basis for the German range of baked goods with over 300 types of bread and 1,200 types of biscuits.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association register: District Court Charlottenburg VR 33507 B
  2. ^ The German grain mills, Association of German Mills 2005.
  3. ↑ committees , muehlen.org, called on November 5, 2016
  4. ^ Deutscher Müllerbund: Lebendige Müllerei , Verlag Alfred Strothe, Frankfurt am Main 1986, pp. 9-11.
  5. ↑ Wirtschaftsblatt.at, Mehlkartell punished with 65 million euros , February 19, 2013 ( Memento from January 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Bundeskartellamt, Bundeskartellamt concludes mill proceedings and imposes fines totaling more than EUR 65 million ( memento of the original dated February 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release of the Federal Cartel Office from February 19, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundeskartellamt.de
  7. ↑ BIBB / A matter of ears! From the field to the warehouse to the mill. Retrieved June 8, 2017 .
  8. ↑ German Institute for Standardization (Ed.): DIN 10 355. Milled products from grain , Berlin 1991.
  9. ↑ Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection: Structure of the mill economy 2010 .
  10. ↑ nutritional Arrange 07/11: World Heritage German bread? , P. 348.
  11. ↑ Mills in Germany , muehlen.org, accessed on November 5, 2016