Experimental and educational institute for brewery
| VLB Berlin | |
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| legal form | Registered association |
| founding | January 1, 1883 |
| Seat | Berlin-Wedding ( ⊙ ) |
| main emphasis | Brewing |
| people | Ulrich Rust (President) Josef Fontaine (Technical Director) Gerhard Andreas Schreiber (Commercial Director) |
| Employees | approx. 145 (2017) |
| Members | approx. 360 (2014) |
| Website | www.vlb-berlin.org |
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The experimental and educational institute for brewery e. V. (VLB) is a research facility for the brewing, malt and beverage industry in the Berlin district of Wedding . The legal form has been a registered association since December 16, 2004 . Among other things, he is a founding member of the Central European Brewery Analysis Commission and the Zuse Association and, since 2002, the sole sponsor of the Institute for Fermentation Industry and Biotechnology .
The institute researches the further development of the brewing industry, trains brewers and also offers various technical services to the industry. Among other things, the TU Berlin, in cooperation with the VLB, offers a bachelor's and master's degree in brewery and beverage technology . Internationally known is the VLB's six-month course to become a Certified Brewmaster , in which students from several continents regularly take part. It has been in its current location since the end of the 19th century. The Seestrasse campus has numerous listed buildings. Since most of the training in brewing at the Technical University of Berlin takes place on the premises and the TU has rights of use there, Seestrasse 13 is also an outside campus of this university. The TUB's research brewery is also located on this site.
history
Founding and participating organizations
The history of the association goes back to several predecessor organizations that were located in the Plötzensee manor district , which was still outside Berlin at the time, at the current location at Seestrasse 13. The institute for fermentation , founded in 1874 by the association of alcohol manufacturers founded in 1854, and the original experimental and training institute for brewing (founded in 1883 by the brewing and malting industry) were formative. In the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this was followed by the Association of those interested in starch in Germany , the Research Institute of the Association of German Potato Driers , the Research Institute of the Yeast Industry (VH), the Research Institute of the Grain Distillery and the Research Institute of the Vinegar Manufacturers .
As the first of the facilities that were involved in the creation of today's VLB, the experimental and teaching institute for alcohol production (VLSF) of the association of alcohol manufacturers was established at the Agricultural University Berlin . The association decided in favor of Berlin, which at the time was the center of German potato cultivation and spirits trading. The organizational model for the institute was the Agricultural Research Station in Möckern and the agricultural research institute headed by Max Maercker , professor of agricultural chemistry at the University of Halle, at which the founding director of the Institute for Fermentation Industry previously worked.
On December 19, 1882, at a meeting in Friedrich Goldschmidt's apartment in the headquarters of the Patzenhofer brewery, A.-G. together with Armand Knoblauch (1832–1905) from the Bohemian Brewery , Richard Roesicke (1845–1903) from the Schultheiss Brewery and Max Delbrück (1850–1919) the Association for the Experimental and Educational Institute for Brewery in Berlin . By founding this association, the resources of the brewing industry, science and the state should come together to promote research on the brewing industry on the one hand, but also to promote the training of brewers themselves on the other. The institute was founded on the models of the Institute for Sugar Industry in Berlin-Wedding, founded in 1867, and the Scientific Station for Brewery in Munich, founded in 1876 . While the Munich station was primarily shaped and oriented towards large Bavarian breweries, the establishment in Berlin was primarily intended to serve the interests of the breweries from the North German brewing tax community. In particular, the interests of small and medium-sized breweries, which were too small to be able to carry out extensive in-house research, should also be protected.
The main operators of the founding of the VLB were the civil servant in the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture Hugo Thiel and the chemist Max Delbrück , who had been chairman of the research institute of the Association of Spirits Manufacture in Germany since 1874 , as well as the director of the Schultheiss brewery Richard Roesicke on the part of the breweries . Delbrück also became the first scientific director of the VLB until he died in 1919. Delbrück later played a key role in the founding of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society , whose institutes were mostly built according to the organizational model of the VLSF / VLB.
Start of operation
On January 1, 1883, the establishment began its work with publication activities; on December 14, 1883, the first edition of the weekly for brewery appeared in the Paul Parey publishing house in Berlin. In 1888 the VLB was granted the status of a legal entity by royal cabinet order. The training company began in 1888 with the first summer course in what was then the club's premises on Invalidenstrasse , which was followed by an additional winter course on the same site in 1890 due to the great demand.
In 1888, the Prussian state government approved the construction of an experimental and teaching brewery, which later became the university brewery .
When the space requirements of the institutes that shared rooms in the Agricultural University increased, they began to plan a new building together. In 1896, co-financing by the Prussian state was ensured. The Prussian state supported the establishment by making land and buildings available, while the industrial associations involved financed equipment and ongoing operations. They have been at their current location on Seestrasse in Wedding since 1898 .
A nutritional physiology department was brought into being in 1909 and an accounting office was established within the economic department in 1910; The history department followed in 1913 and the Society for the History and Bibliography of Brewing e. V. was initiated.
While the VLB functioned essentially as a technical school until 1903 , it has since also managed to train brewing engineers. Since 1903 the VLB has been cooperating with the Royal Agricultural University of Berlin - which later merged into the Humboldt University - to offer a degree in brewing engineering. The right to award doctorates has existed since 1933.
Since 1945
From 1945 only the VLB, the Research Institute of the Yeast Industry (VH) and the Research and Training Institute for Alcohol Production (VLSF) remained as sponsors of the site and the Institute for Fermentation and Starch Production in Berlin . After the city of Berlin was divided, training to become a master brewer was also divided into two parts. In East Berlin, the Humboldt University in Berlin continued the training, while in West Berlin it took place in cooperation between the VLB and the Technical University.
The university brewery on the site ceased operations in 1981. As a successor there was a study brewery , which was mainly used on a much smaller scale to train students. In 1981 the Central European Brewery Analysis Commission was founded in the old library of the VLB .
Since December 2004 the VLB has been organized as a registered association, which at that time had over 400 members. In addition to the German breweries, there are also international members such as Firestone Walker and New Belgium from the USA, Boon Rawd Brewery from Thailand and Anadolu Efes from Turkey. There are also companies in the non-alcoholic beverage and spirits industries in the membership.
In 2008 the institution celebrated its 125th anniversary.
tasks
The VLB operates several research institutes. In addition, she runs VLB LaboTech GmbH and the Institute for Fermentation Industry and Biotechnology in Berlin (IfGB). This institute is one of the four major yeast banks in Germany.
In addition, the VLB offers practical services for the industry: It operates the packaging test center, which analyzes all types of beverage packaging and is a contract laboratory of the German Brewers' Association and the Association of the German Fruit Juice Industry .
Research institutes
Six research institutes and various departments are currently located under the umbrella of VLB Berlin:
- Beer and beverage production. This includes the packaging test center, the biological laboratory, the study brewery and the project laboratory
- raw materials
- Biotechnology and water
- Instrumental beer and beverage analysis
- Spirits, analysis technology and sensor technology
- Management & beverage logistics
- Yeast bank : VLB offers around 70 different yeast strains as dispatch goods for breweries; but also cultivates some wine, champagne and distillery yeasts.
In addition, the VLB is the sole shareholder of VLB LaboTech GmbH and operator of the Institute for Fermentation Industry and Biotechnology in Berlin (IfGB) and a member of the Central European Brewery Analysis Commission .
Branch offices
After the Second World War, there were considerations to relocate the VLB from Berlin to Cologne ; The rudiment of these relocation plans was the Cologne Research Laboratory, which became independent on January 1, 2006 as Laboratus GbR Cologne .
From 1991 to 2015 there was a VLB branch in Dresden with Wolfgang Kunze .
Teaching
The VLB offers a comprehensive program of training and further education: Starting with crash courses "Brewing for non-brewers", through further training for professional brewers and distillers, special courses for craft brewers , a course in brewing and the internationally renowned Certified Brewmaster course . In 1904, in cooperation with the Agricultural College is a four-semester course for diploma brewmaster founded, that of the Technical University of Berlin and the Chamber of Commerce continued to -Berlin of 2019. From October 2019 there will be an eleven-month preparatory course for the master's examination as a brewing and malt master (HWK) .
Students at the TU have been studying brewing and beverage technology for a Bachelor's or Master of Science degree since 2009. The VLB supports the course financially and in terms of content; For example, the VLB finances the TU's endowed professorship in brewing. The TU facilities for brewing are located on the premises of the VLB, where the course is mainly completed. Research for doctorates in engineering can also be carried out at the VLB in cooperation with the TU. The VLB offers courses to become a certified master brewer in English and Russian. The courses in English last six months, those in Russian eight weeks.
terrain
The VLB was located on a 32,000 m² corner property on Seestraße / Amrumer Straße in the immediate vicinity of the Rudolf Virchow Hospital , the Robert Koch Institute and the former Institute for the Sugar Industry with the former location of the Sugar Museum . The property belongs to the State of Berlin and has been transferred to the VLB and the TU Berlin for permanent use.
The defining building was the neo-Gothic main building erected from 1891 directly on Seestrasse. Other listed building parts are a central building from 1936/1937 with the "Old Library", the "Laboratory and Library Building from 1896/1897", a late Classicist brick building and the so-called "Lübecker Tor" from 1901, a gate building based on models of the Brandenburg brick Gothic which today houses a transformer for connecting the VLB to the public power grid.
In the night of September 3 to 4, 1943, around 85 percent of the buildings were destroyed.
There has been a hop garden on the site since 2008 , in which 14 hop plants of different varieties are grown. The main purpose of these is to show the students how to grow hops. The harvest is used in the institution's own study brewery. Parts of the site are used by the German Heart Center and the TU Berlin, which among other things have housed laboratories here.
The “Kral” disco, the successor to the Joe am Wedding dance hall , was also located on the premises in the former ballroom of the university brewery . This building, like the distillery and a few others, has since been demolished.
New building
The new training center was inaugurated on October 16, 2017 and creates greater capacities for training and further training. The construction was supposed to cost a total of 27 million euros and was financed primarily from funds from the European Union , as well as state and federal funds. In view of the extension of the construction period of more than twelve months, the construction costs increased to around 35 million euros. Modern laboratory, seminar and office rooms as well as a modern malting and beverage technology center were built on around 6000 m² of floor space. The old building of the institute for fermentation industry is largely only used by the TU Berlin and the Charité .
Wilfried Rinke Brewery Technical Center
The brewery technology center named after Wilfried Rinke is located in the basement of the new building. It consists of
- a 5-hl brewhouse from Esau & Hueber , which corresponds to the very latest state of brewery technology
- a 2.5 hl brewery from Steinecker, which was taken over from the previous study brewery
- a fully automated 5-liter miniature brewery.
Libraries
In the new building of the VLB there are two brewing science libraries that are supported by private organizations. They are not only available to the employees of the VLB and the members of the GGB, but also to all students, scientists and the interested public.
Axel Simon Library
The new specialist library of the VLB for biotechnology and fermentation trade was named after Axel Th. Simon ; An iron bust created by the sculptor Karlheinz Oswald from Worms was set up in the entrance area of the new library . The Axel Simon Library (ASB) consists of around 10,000 books, 2,000 dissertations and diploma theses and around 12,000 journal volumes.
Schultze Berndt Library
As with the Lorberg Library of the Institute for Fermentation Trade , the Schultze-Berndt Library (SBB), which is stocked with over 5,000 works on the history of brewing, is part of the Society for the History of Brewing . It is named after the long-time managing director of VLB Hans Günter Schultze-Berndt (1927–1996). The books in the Schultze-Berndt-Bibliothek can be researched via an online catalog.
People of the VLB
President and Chairperson of the VLB
- Richard Roesicke , from 1883
- Friedrich Goldschmidt , from 1894
- Bernhard Knoblauch , from 1902
- Walter Sobernheim , from 1925
- Werner Janke , from 1933
- Walter Nadolny , from 1945
- Hans Sixtus , from 1955
- Heinz Tietze , from 1976
- Wilfried Rinke , from 1980
- Axel Th. Simon , from 1989
- Mike Eberle , from 2014
- Ulrich Rust , from 2015
Honorary President
- Wilfried Rinke (* 1931), since 1999; from 1980 to 1988 chairman of the administrative board of VLB Berlin
- Axel Th. Simon, since 2014
Honorary Chairman
- Kommerzienrat Bernhard Knoblauch
Honorary members
Hugo Thiel , Emil Christian Hansen , F. Henrich, G. Sedlmayr, Adolphus Busch , Carl J. Jacobsen, Emil Fischer , Eduard Buchner , Carl Lintner sen., CJ Lintner, Johann Edler von Medinger sen., Carl von Linde , Auguste Fernbach , MW Beijerinck, Horace T. Brown , Henri van Laer , Jul. E. Thausing, A. Cluß, Bernhard Knoblauch, G. Wernecke, Peter Klason , Georg Haase , Hans von Euler-Chelpin , Anton Lindemann , Walter Nadolny.
literature
- Olaf Hendel, Wiebke Nöthlich-Künnemann, Michaela Knör: 125 years of testing and training institute for breweries in Berlin. VLB, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-921690-59-8 .
- 100 years of experimental and training institute for breweries in Berlin (VLB). Editor Hans Günter Schultze-Berndt. VLB, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-921690-25-0 .
- Seventy-five years of VLB. Experimental and educational institute for breweries in Berlin. VLB, Berlin 1958
Web links
- Experimental and educational institute for breweries in Berlin
- Department of Brewing: Specializing in brewing. In: brauwesen.tu-berlin.de. April 9, 2018, accessed June 18, 2018 .
- Education and training center for breweries. In: gerberarchitekten.de. Retrieved June 18, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ zuse-gemeinschaft.de
- ↑ LDL Berlin: Institute for Fermentation Industry and Biotechnology
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 29, 2017 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.
- ↑ see yearbook of the association of alcohol manufacturers in Germany, the association of those interested in starch in Germany and the association of German potato dryers. Ninth year 1909, pp. 208 to 214. Paul Parey publishing house: Berlin 1909
- ↑ a b c Senate Department for Urban Development: Call for tenders: New construction of the training center for the experimental and teaching institute for brewery . (PDF) July 2009, p. 36
- ^ A b Luitgard Marschall: In the shadow of chemical synthesis: industrial biotechnology in Germany (1900–1970) Campus Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-593-36585-5 , pp. 58–60
- ^ Willi Glaser: From handicraft to large business. The Schultheiss brewing tradition in Berlin . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 12, 1998, ISSN 0944-5560 , p. 4–11 ( luise-berlin.de ).
- ↑ a b Lydia Winkelmann, Horst Dornbusch: VLB Berlin . In: Garrett Oliver, Tom Colicchio (Eds.): The Oxford Companion to Beer Oxford University Press, 2011 ISBN 0-19-991210-6 .
- ↑ Mikuláš pond: Beer, science and economy in Germany 1800-1914 . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-205-99239-3 , p. 116
- ↑ a b Mikuláš pond: Beer, science and economy in Germany 1800–1914 . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-205-99239-3 , p. 107
- ^ A b Ulrich Marsch: Joint industrial research in Germany and Great Britain - Kaiser Wilhelm Institute and Research Associations 1916–1936 in: Bernhard Vom Brocke (Ed.): The Harnack Principle Walter de Gruyter, 1996 ISBN 3-11-080244- 9 , p. 564
- ↑ sperrzone.net
- ^ Luitgard Marschall: In the shadow of chemical synthesis: industrial biotechnology in Germany (1900–1970) Campus Verlag, 2000 ISBN 3-593-36585-5 , p. 60
- ↑ Luitgard Marschall: In the shadow of chemical synthesis: industrial biotechnology in Germany (1900-1970) . Campus Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-593-36585-5 , p. 66.
- ↑ a b Zuse Association: Research and Training Institute for Brewery in Berlin (VLB) e. V . accessed November 20, 2015
- ↑ VLB awards four people the golden badge of honor . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. vlb-berlin.org
- ↑ Welcome to brew-niversity , ex-Berlin July 10, 2013
- ↑ Rosmarie Rittmann; The treasures of German brewers are stored here. welt.de , October 27, 2015.
- ↑ VLB Berlin: Research Institute for Machine and Packaging Technology (FMV) with packaging test center . Competence forum for beverage containers; accessed on September 30, 2017
- ↑ Organization chart ( page can no longer be called up , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ vlb-berlin.org
- ↑ laboratus.de
- ↑ VLB 1883-1983. Berlin 1983, p. 185
- ↑ brauwesen.tu-berlin.de
- ↑ vlb-berlin.org
- ↑ Brewing technology courses at the TU Berlin / VLB Berlin . VLB Berlin; Retrieved November 20, 2015
- ↑ International brewing courses . VLB Berlin; Retrieved November 20, 2015
- ↑ Call for tenders: New construction of the training center for the experimental and teaching institute for brewery . (PDF) Senate Department for Urban Development, July 2009, p. 7, p. 24
- ↑ Hop harvest completed at VLB Berlin . ( Memento of the original of November 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. VLB Berlin, September 14, 2015
- ↑ Call for tenders: New construction of the training center for the experimental and teaching institute for brewery . (PDF) Senate Department for Urban Development, July 2009, p. 31
- ↑ Brewery Forum , 1/2019, p. 30
- ↑ Opening times
- ↑ Berlin library is named after the ex-brewery boss Simon . At: volksfreund.de , January 16, 2018
- ↑ Michaela Knoer: The bustling academic libraries at the VLB Berlin. In: Brewery Forum 10/2018, p. 12
- ↑ ggb-berlin.de
