Craftsmanship is appreciated

Created: 02/10/2022, 08:00

Notable performance: district master craftsman Michael Andrä (back left) and district craftsman's association manager Roland Streim (back right) with the guild winners Veronika Brachner, Lea Bock, Anna-Lena Frei, Viola Partheymüller, Lorenz Ostler, Johanna Albrecht (back from 2nd from left) and Michael Angerer, Lucas Oliver Knoth, Maximilian Bablick, Thomas Felix Stefan Luitz, Sebastian Trainer and Pius Susanek (front from left).

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There was reason to celebrate at the Oberland District Craftsmen's Association: 128 young women and men were acquitted.

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- Of course, the focus was on the graduates that evening, but not alone: ​​At the acquittal ceremony of the district craftsmen's association in Murnau, not only they, who can now call themselves journeymen, were the focus, but also the craft and its social relevance.

The craft, shaped by customs and tradition, is at the same time innovative and sustainable.

Those who were acquitted come from the areas of "plant mechanics" (10), "bakery" (4), "electronics/energy and building technology" (14), "specialist sales in the food trade" (bakery: 4; butcher: 5), "precision mechanics". (6), "Hairdressing" (17), "Office management" (13), "Metal construction" (4), "Butcher's trade" (5), "Carpentry" (42) and "Plumbing" (4).

When Dieter Vierlbeck stood on the stage and looked down at the young craftsmen, he said that he didn't have to worry about the future.

When I see this, "I know that we're on the right track," said the deputy general manager of the Chamber of Crafts for Munich and Upper Bavaria.

"Everyone is equally important"

Craftsmen came through crises well, said Vierlbeck.

However, he did not want to use the acquittal to talk about politics.

Because he didn't want to say goodbye to the stage with the words of a "poet or something like that", he used a song by the band "Die Toten Hosen".

That "life is a test" is sung about in the song "Paradise";

to get to heaven you have to get an A.

However, Vierlbeck did not wish the young people such a paradise of notes.

Michael Rapp, deputy Garmisch-Partenkirchen district administrator (CSU), emphasized that it is not just people who “come through the Abi and go to study” that are needed.

He was "always amazed at how diverse the craft is".

Traditionally, district master craftsman Michael Andrä elevated the 128 young people to the status of journeyman.

They "mastered the training with a lot of diligence and bravura", he said.

Especially in the last few years, the appreciation for the craft has increased - and he would like that for other professions, says Andrä.

"Whether it's a craftsman, a lawyer or a sewer cleaner, everyone is equally important."

The guild winners then received their certificates: twelve women and men, "a lot", said Roland Streim.

The hairdressers received a lot of applause.

The managing director had previously praised the guild winners Lea Bock and Anna-Lena Frei, after all, they had been temporarily “prohibited from providing services” due to Corona.

For Streim, good grades are "not a matter of course" under these circumstances.

Antonia Reindl