✚11639✚ German post WW1 Bavarian Industry Association Service Award 25 Years

Original German / Bavarian post WW1 Weimar Republic Service Award of the Bavarian Industry Association (Bayerischer Industriellen Verband - Silberne Medaille ""Für 25 Jahre Treue Dienste) 1927-1933 version, IN PERFECT CONDITION, ON GENUINE RIBBON, INTACT ENAMEL, A GREAT EXAMPLE, THE AWARD IS NOT OFTEN SEEN

HISTORY OF THE AWARD:

Service Award of the Bavarian Industry Association (Bayerischer Industriellen Verband - Silberne / Goldene Medaille ""Für 25 / 40 Jahre Treue Dienste” - The medal was awarded in two grades, Silver for 25 years’ service and Gold for 40 years’s service. Oval medal, 49 x 34 mm in size on blue & white ribbon. The medal in this form was awarded from a very short period from 1927 to 1933. The first attempts to found a Bavarian industrial association failed in 1896 and 1899. In 1900 the Federation of Industrialists then founded a district association in Nuremberg, from which a southern German district association emerged in 1902. At that time, the BDI primarily represented the processing industry, while the textile, iron and machine industries were represented throughout Germany by the competing Central Association of German Industrialists . In order to prevent a division of industrial representation in Bavaria, the Bavarian Federation of Industrialists was established in 1902 as the first joint interest group for Bavarian industry(BIV) founded. The declared goal was, among other things, the ""improvement of transport routes, municipal affairs and freight tariffs"" whereas the pursuit of ""any partisan political goals"" was excluded. In the early years, only companies were members of the BIV, until the first associations joined in 1906. The number of memberships increased in the first year from 76 (1902) to 354 (1903). After the First World War , in 1919, 1924 individual companies and 37 associations were members of the Bavarian Industrial Association (BIV - Bayerischer Industriellen Verband). This strong increase in membership is due to several factors: The successful representation of interests towards the Bavarian state government was the main reason for joining in the first decade of the association's existence. During the First World War, the BIV was able to arrange orders for army supplies for its members through good contacts with the war committee of German industry, which prompted other entrepreneurs to join. The November Revolution in 1918, the end of the monarchy, the formation of the Soviet Republic in Bavariaand the accompanying uncertainty about the political future led to the peak in membership in 1919. [4]In the same year, the BIV represented the employers in the negotiations for the first Bavarian state collective agreement. However, since the BIV had promised by a cartel agreement concluded in 1905 that it would devote itself to purely economic policy issues, the ""Bavarian State Office of the Association of German Employers' Associations"" (VAB) was founded in 1919. In 1924 this changed its name to the ""Association of Bavarian Employers"". From this point on, the representation of economic and political interests of the Bavarian economy was organizationally separated from the socio-political representation. VBA and BIV coordinated their activities via the “Bavarian Industry State Committee” set up specifically for this purpose, which was managed jointly by both associations. After the National Socialists seized power , the Bavarian business associations were gradually brought into line. On June 19, 1933, the ""Reich Association of German Industry"" and the ""Association of German Employers' Associations"" were merged at the national level to form the ""Reich Estate of German Industry"" and thus brought into line. In the Third Reich, management advice centers of the ""German Labor Front"" represented and advised companies on economic and socio-political issues and represented them before labor courts.