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Second General Assembly of the IG-BBH

Second Meeting of the Interest Group in Berlin and Brandenburg Hufbeschlagschmiede with far-reaching goals ended


The second General Assembly of the IG-BBH on 03/06/2009 was Brieselang with about 20 colleagues again well attended and provided sufficient material for lively discussions around the horseshoe. So decided, the members of the coordination of inter-company training and continuing education for Hufbeschlagschmiede and trainees should be merged. So far, the training of interns for each farriers always a huge effort, for which the forging of the horseshoe is a good example. A blacksmith, the daily work has to do, must, in addition to the fitting themselves, nor give the proper forging. Not all farriers, however, have the opportunity to have access to this effect in stationary forging.

The importance of this issue can be recognized that the correct forms of the horseshoe is the fitting for the health of the horses of the utmost importance. In the future, the colleagues located at two additional centers to the north, and south of Templin, in Lübeck, recourse to national education and training. These centers complement the offerings of the Berlin study forged and round off the possibilities of practical training. It will include the practical training is the College itself, by the nationally held conferences are complemented by practical training. So that the IG-BBH has put this topic in its second general meeting on the agenda, she recognizes the importance of education and training, making it one of its priority tasks.

Linked to this is another urgent problem to face the IG must BBH. The horseshoe "without license"! Every colleague will be increasingly confronted with problems that stem from the fact that horse owners want to save money by "Gelegenheitshufschmiede" money. What ends at the end but still expensive for owners and pain for the horse should be explained with a broad campaign to horse owners. For this purpose the General Assembly decided steps that already show the first successes and Nationwide provide imitators. The first chairman of the IG, Peter Olaf, has developed this concept and contributes significantly to its successful implementation. For the individual colleagues, their employees properly registered and insured, this problem is a big nuisance, they must earn the inherited responsibility for the horses of their customers and their employees about their work, while making the "Gelegenheitshufschmiede" obviously "good prices" can. Professional Liability for Hufbeschlagschmiede and social responsibility to its employees remain foreign concepts to them. By the way, the many years of hard training to do certified Hufbeschlagschmied save it and also where the misery ends, we see colleagues "on the front line every day. With responsible animal welfare the whole thing has nothing to do. Not to mention the liability if something should ever happen ...




Dirk Ludwig

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Berlin-Brandenburg Hufbeschlagschmiede based interest group

Before the Day of German Unity, numerous Hufbeschlagschmiede found from all parts of Berlin and Brandenburg and a number of interested visitors in a long letter to form a "community of interest Hufbeschlagschmiede Berlin-Brandenburg" (IG-BBH). were preceded by the establishment

already forged a series of regional round tables on which the special problems of a professional group discussed the operation of which is usually more focused on individually and collectively. The initiators Olaf Peter and Volker Schurig Thanks to that the Hufbeschlagschmiede Berlin and Brandenburg will now work together on issues of education and training and the further systematization of the craft. Vacation and sick leave of colleagues each other, in the past often led by Anger, should also be the subject common approach.

After lively discussions, was laid in the framework for future cooperation, took place the election of the board; Olaf Peter, Hufbeschlaglehrmeister Gransee was made by the attending 20 charter members unanimously elected the first chairman. Stephen Mathias, Mathias Polzfuß and Volker Schurig agreed to accept the election as vice-chairman, treasurer and secretary to actively complement to the board.

requirement for membership is the successful completion of state audit as Hufbeschlagschmied to ensure a high level in dealing with the horses entrusted to us to ensure and further extended in the future can. For a long overdue step has been taken, which makes the work of certified Hufbeschlagschmiede Berlin and Brandenburg on a new basis for both our customers and colleagues for each positive effects expected in the future can be.



Dirk Ludwig

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honorable craft and modern

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The horseshoe is a traditional and certainly honorable craft. He is aged around 2000 years and has changed in that time what the actual technology itself, concerned, hardly. Representations from the Saxons in the mirror 11. Century show the operations, which are still carried out even in this kind of blacksmith. On the question remains as to whether the forging is an art, and hence the horseshoe are the ghosts. Judged an art, an old Danish book forging was not hard enough, but not art. We want to pan the book is not now but later it is a strange sentence. Perhaps the author does not know of the past, perhaps he never saw the perfection of a sword from the hand of a master, or did he never the divine in a perfect tool should look? Art is the transmission of the sensation of the divine element to the concrete world of man. In a picture of a cantata or a poem that is specifically expectant gaze of the creators of what he sees and how he handles it. And if the blacksmith was going on just now? His deepest and purest sense in incorporating the blade of a knife? Then there would not be a work whose form language compelled us to the admission that it is art?

While the honorable craft essentially always has to be a creative process, it keeps the work in the mere business stuck in all of creation is excluded because the workers only filled or emptied and the process itself can not determine everything. The blacksmith's anvil, be holy, because he can see him yourself, the machine is working his machine resources for the purpose of earning a living. The factory of modernity created by their need for regular routine of the worker, contrary to the tradition of the craft, whose work indeed in some cases, routine calls, but this in a different relationship to reality is. A blacksmith forged nails by hand and each of these nails is unique, because the feelings of the blacksmith are reflected in the work piece. In one factory, the sensation of the worker is the same thing, every nail is the same! No end a little thicker or thinner, no edge more round or square. In the modern result of the conflict between craft and machine work by the greed of the merchant and the consumer. Both merchant and consumer pull this together and, although it is not in their interest to change it and create a new level.

the honorable craft was since time immemorial, the principle, where two can be satisfied through work, are also two that work done, apply in this regard in a factory other laws. Where more can be produced with fewer workers, must happen, because the factory that has a root in the workshop, the other in the greed, no longer has internal structure that reflects the people and by the people is alienated and himself, where he relies on them entortet. Not so in the traditional Craft. The place is always the man, not the machine. It remains the master left to the rhythm of the work with the hand hammer to vote and vote a fellow of increases in the now lifting song of the forge. It appears from the will and skill of the master the song, from the need of the machine or the merchant, making the machine subservient. Hardly surprising

come from the Anglo-Saxon considering how the profit should be increased for farriers best. There are tools invented or adapted so that the farrier can also work quite alone, he does not need any more helpers. This is useful in times when the purchasing power in general markedly decreased, but at the same time it destroys social bonds, it undermines the principle of the old European Fides and returns it into the general felony, which now makes the rounds everywhere. When the master constraint is destroyed, there is a short-term effect, because of more "artists" can open very quickly a "deal" and there is a long-term effect is that social structures are destroyed and directed to the substitute consumption. Quite apart from making the bungling, even the largest of North America based business. You know, anyone can buy any tool at all, and even tinkering, whether he can or not is irrelevant because it does not comes to a tough plant. Later, the tools are getting cheaper self-produced, so that the resulting work is as fast-paced, as is his tool, too. There will be private bungling the new culture and promoted the general lack of culture.