Wine Brotherhood of the Palatinate
| Wine Brotherhood of the Palatinate V. | |
|---|---|
| purpose | Care of the cultural asset of wine |
| Chair: | Oliver Stiess (since 2014) |
| Establishment date: | 1954/55 (precursor 1939) |
| Number of members: | 1071 (November 27, 2014) |
| Seat : | Neustadt an der Weinstrasse |
| Website: | www.weinbruderschaft-der-pfalz.com |
The Palatinate Wine Brotherhood is a non-profit association based in the Palatinate city of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ( Rhineland-Palatinate ). According to its own rules, it is an “association of men who understand wine to form a religious order committed to the cultural property of German wine ”, which is “selfless” and rejects commercial purposes. It has about 1000 members.
On the basis of a forerunner organization from 1939, the Wine Brotherhood was founded in 1954/55 and is, depending on the perspective, the oldest or second oldest such German association. As the only German wine brotherhood , it also has a section abroad.
overview
Historical roots and purpose of the association
The wine brotherhood is essentially organized and structured along the lines of the medieval knightly orders . That is why the legal bodies of the association were largely named after traditional bodies and functionaries. According to the statutes, the number of current committee members is determined by the number of people who helped found the association. The statute bears the name "Order Rule".
The Palatinate Wine Brotherhood has set itself the goal of promoting the reputation of German wine and "makes it its task to preserve the wine culture and to spread and increase it as best as possible in word, writing and deed." she especially the wine culture efforts "in all branches of art and literature." She sees the realization of these goals in the "cultivation of artistic, scientific and friendly relations" with all those working in this cultural field at home and abroad. Expressions of the association's efforts are, for example, own collections of wine literature, directories of corresponding printed works or art collections. This work is mainly done by members who are oenologists , writers or artists .
Membership and Activities
Membership is only possible for men. Aspirants need two guarantors of their righteousness and have to endure an idea. It is not necessary that they have to do with wine professionally and only applies to around 15%. They acquire knowledge about wine as members at the latest. The membership certificate was designed by Fritz Wiedemann .
Prominent members are or were:
- Kurt Beck , former Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate
- Helmut Kohl , former Federal Chancellor
- Paul Tremmel , Palatinate dialect poet
- Fritz Wiedemann (1920–1987), Palatinate painter and sculptor
Of the many activities that have to do with wine, the literary wine lesson , initiated in 1954 by Oskar Bischoff and Josef Keller, has taken place every year since then. The large Palatinate wine tasting on the occasion of the German Grape Harvest Festival has also been a tradition since 1965, when it was founded by the former order cellar master Hermann Conrad (1911–1995). The former master of the order Fritz Schumann , who is also chairman of the Society for the History of Wine in Wiesbaden, is active as a wine historian ; The Palatinate Wine Brotherhood therefore maintains particularly close relationships with them.
organization
Seat and regional structure
The Palatinate Wine Brotherhood, in turn a member of the Community of German-speaking Wine Brotherhoods, has its headquarters in the Ordenshaus on the historic market square in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse.
Commanderies as regional representations are the Groß-Komturei München (since 1960) as well as the Commanderies in Nuremberg (since 1969) and Berlin (since 1976). The Netherlands section , the only foreign branch of a German wine brotherhood, has existed since 1999.
organs
The Wine Brotherhood has named its organs as follows:
General meeting in the legal sense of the association is the great convention of all members.
The chapter of the Order, consisting of 16 people, acts as the executive committee . Its chairmanship is incumbent on the order master , the vice chairman is the order chancellor . An extended board is the small convent , which consists of the chapter and ten other people.
The head of the regional Commanderies are the Komturen , honorary members are religious councils called.
Between the Great Convention and the little convent is the Small Assembly that from the little convent , the religious councils and Komturen composed.
Insignia, motto, awards
Order sign is a pin designed as a coat of arms , which represents a stylized vine and bears the first letters of the Latin order slogan "In vite vita" (Life in the vine) . The oldest award given by the Palatinate Wine Brotherhood is the appointment as a knight of the German Wine Route .
Club history
Predecessor organizations
On December 6, 1954, in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, the Landsknechte of the Weinstrasse, which had been in existence since 1939, and the press regulars table founded in 1950 to form the Palatinate Wine Brotherhood. The initiator for both associations was Daniel Meininger , founder of the Neustadt printing house Meininger. Since the press regulars table mainly consisted of journalists as well as a few authors and publishers, the Landsknechte of the Weinstrasse should be seen as the actual predecessor organization in terms of the club's ideas. About this, which has revived the old tradition of wine brotherhoods, the wine brotherhood of the Palatinate is the oldest modern organization of its kind.
Constitution
The founding of the Palatinate Wine Brotherhood, decided on December 6, 1954, was carried out by 26 men in the constituent assembly that took place on January 11, 1955 in the "Künstlerkeller" belonging to the Neustadt "Saalbau" building . Prominent founding members were:
- Oskar Bischoff (1912–1985), Palatinate dialect poet and 2nd chairman of the Association of German Writers in Rhineland-Palatinate
- Josef Keller (1906–1983), managing director of the Weinbauverband Rheinpfalz and head of the viticulture office of the Palatinate Chamber of Agriculture, chancellor of the order from 1955
- Helmut Metzger (1917–1995), Palatinate dialect poet
- Hans Moster (1910–1982), teacher and 1949 initiator of the children's choir " Pfälzer Weinkehlchen "
- Leopold Reitz (1889–1972), poet and writer, master of the order from 1955 to 1972
- Oskar Stübinger (1910–1988), Rhineland-Palatinate Minister for Agriculture, Viticulture and Forests, proclaimed the first knight of the German Wine Route in 1954 by the Wine Brotherhood
- Ludwig Urschbach (1916–2003), 32 years chairman of the Heimatbund Edenkoben , honorary citizen of the city
Order master
The office of master of the order is characterized by great continuity. The terms of office since 1955 were 17, 30 and 12 years.
- 1955–1972: Leopold Reitz
- 1972–2002: Theo Becker , 2002 honorary title of Grand Master
- 2002–2014: Fritz Schumann (born December 3, 1939), 2014 honorary title of Grand Master
- 2014– : Oliver Stiess (born May 10, 1962)
literature
- Leopold Reitz: Palatinate wine cantata . 1955. Setting by Ernst Kochan (1919–1999)
- Theo Becker: The Palatinate's wine knowledge . The historical development of the Palatinate Wine Brotherhood. In: Bad Dürkheim district (Hrsg.): Home year book of the Bad Dürkheim district . No. 6 (1988) . Verlag H. Englram, Haßloch 1987, p. 90 ff .
- Gerhard Berzel and Liane Kloss: The Palatinate Wine Brotherhood - In Vite Vita . Pfälzische Verlagsanstalt, Landau 1992 (follow-up volume on the 50th anniversary, Landau 2004).
- Gerhard Berzel and Liane Kloss: Leopold Reitz, 1889–1972. Life and work . Poet, writer, founder and first order master of the Palatinate Wine Brotherhood. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1994.
- Gerhard Berzel and Liane Kloss: Theo Becker. A profile from the Palatinate . Graduate farmer, wine specialist, master of the order of the Wine Brotherhood of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1997.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b About us. In: weinbruderschaft-der-pfalz.com. Retrieved April 12, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c rules of the order. In: weinbruderschaft-der-pfalz.com. Accessed March 31, 2020 .
- ↑ Confession. (No longer available online.) Palatinate Wine Brotherhood, November 27, 2014, archived from the original on April 14, 2015 ; Retrieved December 3, 2014 . 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.
- ↑ Günter Werner (güw): Wine Brotherhood: Master of the Order now from the Southern Palatinate . In: Die Rheinpfalz , complete edition . Ludwigshafen November 10, 2014, p. 9 .
- ↑ Oliver Stiess Wine Commission - Weinkellerei GmbH. firmendb.de, November 24, 2014, accessed December 3, 2014 .
