Father's Day

Father's Day, the Lord's Day and Men's Day is an error committed in various parts of the world holiday in honor of fathers and men. In German-speaking vary importance and exact date of the day. In Germany, it is celebrated on Ascension Day, the 40th day after Easter (see also Mr. festival).

Father's Day has its roots in the United States of America. There, Father's Day is celebrated as a special day for fathers on the third Sunday in June (see Mother's Day). The holiday is due to Sonora Smart Dodd (1882-1978), whose father had fought in the Civil War 1861-1865. In 1910 she called, influenced by the introduction of a Mother's Day, a movement to honor fathers to life. President Calvin Coolidge was in 1924 a recommendation for the introduction of a special celebration day to the individual states of the United States out. President Richard Nixon in 1972 elevated him to the rank of official public holiday in June.

Europe, German -speaking

Germany

The popular Father's Day is celebrated in Germany on the Christian holiday Ascension Day, the 40th day after Easter. He is also known as Men's Day, or, especially in eastern Germany as the Lord's Day, which for the men's game day is paramount.

The present form of " Vatertagfeierns " has emerged late 19th century in and around Berlin and still enjoys great popularity among men. Core element was the inauguration of the younger members of the manners and bad habits of masculinity. Since 1934, ascension in Germany legal holiday of Christ (in the GDR was the day only to 1966 and in 1990 a public holiday ). It was used ways to make this day yet the Lord Tags game. So there was about the right for members of religious communities to celebrate their feast days, unless that was granted by the employer or could be.

The ( traditionally male ) participants of the Lord Tags section make this mostly a walk or a ride together in the often much alcohol is consumed. Target are often traditional excursion points or restaurants. When hiking carts, carts or wheelbarrows are often carried to transport the beverage better. Most bikes (some with trailers), Kremser cars ( carriages ) or older tractors are used with supporters for the exits. The vehicles or cars are thereby partially used only in this day and specially converted, such as special bicycle tandems or bicycles with more than a dozen seats. Often the fellow with lilac and birch branches adorned.

Due to the increased alcohol consumption and the frequently performed mass events (this includes, inter alia, joint excursions such as barbecue trips, trips to the lake for fishing, carriage rides ), there is, if you look at the statistics, Father's significantly more fights than usual other days. According to the Federal Statistical Office, the number of alcohol-related traffic accidents increases Ascension on three times the average of other days and reached a highlight of the year.

Often Father's Day is also celebrated as a family festival to make some for common day trips, but also over the long weekend ( with Friday as Bridge Day, which will be released in many schools ) to take a short break.

Austria

In Austria we mean by the Father's Day the second Sunday of June, which is similar to Mother's Day offer an occasion to buy flowers and small gifts. Father's Day was celebrated for the first time in Austria in 1955 and is perceived more and more. 2009 reached the Father's Day in Austria with 108 million euros already 2/3 of Mother's Day sales ( 2009: € 156 million).

Switzerland

In Switzerland, the Father's Day was not celebrated widely. Only in migrant families and in border regions, he was committed sporadically.

2007, the fixed and action has been introduced on an unofficial basis in Switzerland: the so-called Swiss Father's Day is celebrated across the country on the first Sunday in June. According to the initiators of the men's movement ( maenner.ch ) of the Swiss Father's Day is to bring value estimate for paternal commitment expressed. Unlike father days in other countries of Father's Day primarily consists in a fathers - children - action and aims at a political dimension: the conditions for a committed fatherhood in work, family and society should be improved. In the first implementation of 17 June 2007 regional events took place and the media reported on the political demands. In the second implementation on 15 June 2008, the challenges were around the reconciliation of family and work in the center.

In Ticino, is Father's Day, as celebrated in Italy, on March 19 ( St. Joseph / San Giuseppe ).

Liechtenstein

In Liechtenstein, Father's Day, as in Italy is celebrated on March 19. This day is also officially the St. Joseph (St. Joseph ). The day is a local holiday. Also in the Catholic Liechtenstein, the day is as usual not committed in the South as " Mr. batch 'within the West German sense.

Rest of Europe

  • Bulgaria: On December 26, Father's Day is celebrated in Bulgaria.
  • Belgium: On the second Sunday in June is (except in Antwerp) celebrated Father's Day in Belgium.
  • Denmark: In Denmark, Father's Day is celebrated on June 5, which is also the day of the Danish Constitution.
  • France: In France, Father's Day is celebrated since 1952 on the third Sunday in June.
  • Finland: In Finland, Father's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in November.
  • Italy: In the predominantly Catholic Italy is Father's Day, festa del papà, the celebrated St. Joseph's Day on March 19. Father's Day is here, unlike in Germany, not a day for men's games or " day for men ", but a deeply rooted family holiday that is celebrated and observed as a counterpart to the Mother's Day. The children make or buy small gifts for the father, learn poems or lead in kindergarten and school in small pieces.
  • Ireland: Even in predominantly Catholic Ireland is the Father's Day ( Fathers Day ) at 19.06. celebrated. For this purpose, special tables are garnished with special gifts men already in the weeks before in many department stores.
  • Croatia: In Croatia, the Father's Day ( Očev dan ) is celebrated on March 19.
  • Lithuania: In Lithuania, Father's Day is celebrated on the first Sunday in June, four weeks after Mother's Day ( the first Sunday in May).
  • Luxembourg: In Luxembourg we celebrate Father's Day ( " Pappendag " ) on the first Sunday in October. The children give their father flowers or small gifts or crafts. In elementary school, partly Father's Day songs are prepared and home then presented.
  • Netherlands: In the Netherlands, Father's Day ( vaderdag ) has been celebrated since the 70s/80s on the third Sunday in June. The fathers breakfast Typically on this day brought to bed and there are typical "Men Gifts" presented (eg, ties, socks, cigars, razors, electronics or even handmade things ). Some divorced fathers to take the opportunity to advocate for the movement of Fathers 4 Justice.
  • Norway: Norwegian to say farsdag. Reader Sweden.
  • Poland: In Poland, the Father's Day ( Dzień Ojca ) is celebrated on June 23.
  • Portugal: In Portugal, Father's Day Dia do Pai is celebrated on March 19.
  • Romania: In Romania, Father's Day is officially celebrated on May 5th since 2008. The decision came in 2007, connected to the initiative of Interbrew SA Romania brewer beer with the brand mountain.
  • Russia: The Day of the Defender of the Fatherland (Russian День защитника Отечества ) is a public holiday in Russia and some other parts of the former Soviet Union, inter alia, in Ukraine and Belarus. It is celebrated in Russia annually on 23 February and is free of work since 1993. Today, February 23 is also the unofficial man as a counterpart to Women's Day on 8 March.
  • Sweden: The Swedish fars dag is celebrated on the second Sunday in November. In 1931 the tradition from the U.S. to Sweden and was first celebrated in June. But later, Father's Day was at the request of nordiska handelssamfundet ( Nordic trading community ) on the November Sunday postponed to give him a status comparable to the Mother. Even so, an increased commercialization of the holiday has been reached. Father's Day is celebrated all over Scandinavia and Estonia on the same date, with the exception of Denmark, where he will be held on June 5.
  • Slovakia: Originally, the Father's Day in Slovakia was celebrated at St. Joseph's, so on March 19. In the meantime, however, the American version was adapted. Now, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June.
  • Spain: On March 19, the Spaniards celebrate their Día del Padre El Father's Day. This day was therefore selected because it is the Joseftag, the day of Saint José ( Jesus' father) is. In Spain, it is customary to receive gifts of children, they usually painted or crafted in the school. Instrumental in the creation of this festival day was the school teacher Manuela Vicente Ferrero with their school near Madrid, the 1948 festival in her school organized in which the fathers of their students were entertained. The festival should be a balance to existing Mother and appease the " envious " fathers.
  • Hungary: In Hungary, Father's Day is held on the third Sunday in June. However, he plays in society as opposed to Mother's Day, which is celebrated there on the first Sunday in May, and more for Women's Day on March 8, does not matter.
  • United Kingdom: In the UK Father's Day (English Father 's Day) is celebrated on the third Sunday in June. He is not an official holiday.

Africa

  • South Africa: In South Africa, Father's Day is held on the third Sunday in June.

America

  • Argentina: In Argentina they celebrate the "Dia del Padre " every year on the third Sunday in June.
  • Bolivia: In Bolivia, we celebrate Father's Day "Dia del Padre " on March 19, the St. Joseph's (San José ).
  • Brazil: In Brazil Father's Day is celebrated every year on the second Sunday in August.
  • Cuba: In Cuba, we celebrate Father's Day ( Día de los Padres ) on the 3rd Sunday in June. This date goes back to an initiative of the writer Dulce María Borrero, who campaigned for a national day of remembrance for the fathers. The first time Father's Day in Cuba was committed on June 19, 1938.
  • Panama: Panama Father's Day is celebrated every year on the third Sunday in June.
  • Paraguay: In Paraguay, Father's Day is celebrated every year on the third Sunday in June.
  • Peru: In Peru, Father's Day is celebrated every year on the third Sunday in June.
  • United States: In the U.S., Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June. Sonora Smart Dodd in 1909 brought the first time the idea of a "Father 's Day" to honor her father, William Jackson Smart, a Civil War veteran. His wife had died giving birth to the sixth child, and Mr. Smart took the newborn and the other five children alone on a farm in eastern Washington state on. Mrs. Dodd wanted the strength and selflessness, honor, her father had met with his children. The first Father's Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910 in Spokane, Washington. At the same time appeared in various U.S. cities on Father's Day celebrations. 1924 U.S. President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of ​​a national Father's Day. And in 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed a proclamation that declared the third Sunday in June for Father's Day. President Nixon raised in 1974, by Public Law 92-278, Father's Day to the rank of official celebration day for the third Sunday in June. Father's Day in the United States is primarily the day on which the children meet their fathers with gifts, poems and flowers. Joint excursions are on the program and many, especially male Americans, the Father's Day trips and activities with their fathers are forgotten. The U.S. President George W. Bush announced on 13 June 2003 issued a " President's Father's Day Proclamation ".
  • Venezuela: In Venezuela, Father's Day is celebrated every year on the third Sunday in June.

Asia

  • China (Republic): In the Republic of China on Taiwan Father's Day is celebrated on August 8. This is because the "eight" in Chinese ba (Chinese八, Pinyin bā ) is pronounced, and the eighth day of the eighth month, therefore, in short form baba is, what at the same time the Chinese pronunciation for " father " (Chinese爸爸, Pinyin BABA ) similar. In addition, the 8 is also a symbol of good luck.
  • Hong Kong: In Hong Kong, is Father's Day, regardless of China, celebrated on the third Sunday in June.
  • China (People's Republic): In the People's Republic of China, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June.
  • Iran: In Iran, Father's Day is celebrated on the anniversary of the birthday of the first Shia Imam, Ali. This day shifts due to the Islamic calendar and the lunar calendar from year to year.
  • Japan: In Japan, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June. In Japan this day " chichi no hi " is and is not a public holiday.
  • South Korea: In South Korea, there is no " Father's Day", but a " Children's Day " on May 5, to serve as a public holiday to the fact that fathers have time for her family. On top of that shall be the 8th May, however, not legally, as " Parents' Day ".
  • Thailand: In Thailand, Father's Day Phor Wan is called and is a national holiday. He is celebrated birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, December 5. On this day "outstanding fathers of the country" will be awarded ( in varying numbers ). In 2004, there were 327 fathers. Should December 5th fall on a Sunday, Father's Day is celebrated on the following Monday regardless of the king's birthday.
  • Turkey: In Turkey, the Father's Day ( " babalar günü " ) is celebrated on the third Sunday in June.
  • Philippines: In the Philippines, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June.

Oceania

  • Australia: In Australia, Father's Day is celebrated on the first Sunday in September.
  • New Zealand: In New Zealand, Father's Day, as in Australia is celebrated on the first Sunday in September
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