United Grand Lodges of Germany


The United Grand Lodges of Germany is an association of the five Grand Lodges of Freemasons in Germany which are recognized as regular by the United Grand Lodge of England, and represents them all at an international level.
The organization claims to have approximately 470 lodges, all male, for a total of about 14,100 Masons.
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Grand Lodges

The United Grand Lodges of Germany comprise five constituent lodges:
Additionally, the United Grand Lodges of Germany adopted the two St. John's lodges with special responsibilities for Jacob de Molay of the Flaming Star the travelling lodge The White Lily and the research lodge Quatuor Coronati.

Constitution

On 27 April 1958, the former United Grand Lodge of Germany and the Grand Landlodge of the Freemasons of Germany joined together in the Vereinigten Großlogen von Deutschland, Bruderschaft der Freimaurer with a Magna Carta of German Freemasons. In 1970, the Grand National Mother Lodge, "The Three Globes", the German District Grand Lodge of the United Grand Lodge of England and the American Canadian Provincial Grand Lodge also joined the United Grand Lodges of Germany under this Magna Carta.
The VGLvD represents German Freemasonry to foreign institutions and the German public. The member Grand Lodges are autonomous in their internal affairs and in the manner of teaching.
Unlike other grand lodges of the Grand Master of VGLvD acts only as a representative. The decision-making body is the Senate which consists of five members of the GL AFuAMvD, three members of the GLLFvD and one member of each of the other three Grand Lodges.

Grandmasters

  • Theodor Vogel,
  • Friedrich August Pinkerneil,
  • Konrad Merkel,
  • Richard Müller-Börner,
  • Willi Schulz,
  • Werner Römer,,
  • Heinz Rüggeberg,
  • Hans Gemünd,
  • Hermann Kehlenbeck,
  • Friedrich Heller,
  • Walter Veit,
  • Hans Werner Schneider,
  • Günther Gall,
  • Bernhard Rohland,
  • Jürgen Holtorf,
  • Ernst Walter,
  • Rainer J. Schicke,
  • Alfred F. Koska,
  • Klaus Horneffer,
  • Klaus-M. Kott,
  • Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Templin,
  • Christoph Bosbach,
  • Michael Volkwein.