Berlin International Green Week

The International Green Week Berlin, usually abbreviated Green Week, is a trade show in Berlin, on the agricultural products (in the broadest sense) presented by manufacturers and marketers from around the world and is open to not only visitors, but also to the general public. It is the most important international trade fair for food, agriculture and horticulture and traditionally takes place on the beginning of the year in the exhibition halls on the Berlin instead. 2013, it had about 407,000 visitors.

History

The first Green Week (then not "international" ) was held from 20th to 28 February 1926, when an employee in the Berlin Tourist Office has had the idea to combine the traditional winter meeting of the German Agricultural Society in Berlin with an agricultural exhibition and so to bring the without this taking place street sale of agricultural products to the participants of the meeting in an orderly form. In the first year already 50,000 visitors were counted on an exhibition area of 7,000 sqm. It was named after the then fair often dressed in green loden coats Forestry and Agriculture visitors. By 1939 the Green Week took place annually, with the exception of 1938 due to the rampant sale of foot-and-mouth disease. After wartime break there was the Green Week in 1948. After she had to be canceled due to 1950 major construction work, she found from 1951, a year. The participation of foreign exhibitors rose continuously from that date, in 1963 they already accounted for two-thirds of all participants in the exhibition from. Since the 1990s, the Green Week witnessed by the German reunification and the opening of the Eastern bloc a special recovery. Special exhibitions on topics such as " cheese from Germany " and a supporting program of the year 2005 more than 250 lectures, seminars and symposia, round off the exhibition.

Accompanying protests

Green Week is a year of protests under the slogan We are tired of it! accompanied. To kick off 2013 protested 25,000 people against factory farming, the excessive use of antibiotics in animals for fattening and called for a change in agriculture. The chairman of the League for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Hubert Weiger, said at the closing rally 2013: " Behind the beautiful appearance of exhibition stands conceals millionfold animal suffering. "