Masonic Lodge Officers#Worshipful Master

As Master of the Chair, Chair Master or Grand Master is referred to the chairman of a Masonic Lodge.

The word comes from the English for Chairman. Chairman dubbed the chairman of a medieval building workshop. Nowadays within the English Freemasonry, the term Worshipful Master is common.

The Worshipful Master ( MvSt. ) leads the Masonic work and dismisses a. In the assembled box he has his seat in the East ( symbolic).

Usually, he is elected by the lodge members and holds the office, usually two or three years from. In most English-speaking lodges of the master of the chair changes every year; occasionally the transferor shall be elected after the first term of office for a further year. The badge of the Master of the Chair. are the first hammer of the lodge and the angular, he wears a band on the chest.

In the Grand National of Freemasons of Germany ( Masonic order ) is called the presiding Master of a Lodge Grand Master. He is elected for a term of three years and may be re-elected more than twice.