At the 2024 German Scaffolding Championship, only four state champions competed. Eric Schreber (in the yellow hoodie; training company: Gerüstbau Oliver Schreber) took the title. Maurice Kutsch (2nd from left; training company: Flak & Co. Gerüstbau GmbH) was the runner-up in the national rankings. Benedikt Kleinfeld (left; training company: Graf Gerüstbau GmbH) took third place. Lennart Mitschke (4th from left; training company: Salamon Gerüstbau GmbH) had to settle for a disappointing fourth place. Also pictured: Florian Pelmer (3rd from left; HWK Dortmund), Dr. Stefan Häusele (4th from right; SOKA Gerüstbau), Malte Kern (3rd from right; Wedekind + Kern Gerüstbau), Andreas Eckardt (2nd from right; HWK Dortmund), and Norbert Krolle (Fritz-Henssler-Berufskolleg) (Photo: © HWK Dortmund)
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Eric Schreber from Rhineland-Palatinate was honored as the first national scaffolding builder winner in 2024. Maurice Kutsch from North Rhine-Westphalia took second place. Benedikt Kleinfeld from Lower Saxony took third place.
Five state champions qualified for the German Scaffolding Championship on November 5, 2024. Four of them participated in the competition at the Hansemann Training Center of the Dortmund Chamber of Skilled Crafts . The quartet had to demonstrate their skills in several disciplines.
At the German Scaffolding Championships, three tasks had to be completed: the construction of a steel tube coupling scaffold based on a technical drawing, troubleshooting on a working scaffold constructed according to the standard design, documentation of the errors and the measures to eliminate them, and the completion of a surveying task.
The tasks were set by the evaluation committee . This included Norbert Krolle from the Fritz-Henssler-Berufskolleg of the city of Dortmund, Florian Pelmer and Andreas Eckhardt from the Hansemann training center of the Dortmund Chamber of Skilled Crafts , and Malte Kern from the company Wedekind + Kern Gerüstbau GmbH & Co. KG from Melle.
"The country's best have demanding tasks The Level of performance war hoch and the Results close together", says the social security fund of the scaffolding industry. German champions is Scaffolder 2024 is Eric Schreber (Training company: Scaffolding construction Oliver Schreber, Maikammer) out Rheinland-Pfalz. Runner-up the novel Maurice Kutsch (Training company: Flak & Co. Scaffolding GmbH, Dortmund) out North Rhine-Westphalia . Benedict Kleinfeld (Training company: Graf Scaffolding GmbH, Braunschweig) out Lower Saxony took the third place.
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Lennart Mitschke ( training company: Salamon Gerüstbau GmbH, Hamburg ) from Hamburg had to settle for the unenviable fourth place.
The state winners received trophies in the form of couplings from the Dortmund Chamber of Skilled Crafts, awarded in gold, silver, bronze, and steel according to their placement. The collective bargaining parties SOKA Gerüstbau ( the scaffolding industry's social security fund) , the German Scaffolding Association , and the Industrial Union for Construction, Agriculture, and the Environment awarded a cash prize to the top three candidates.
Eric Schreber received €1.000 for winning the national competition . Maurice Kutsch, who came in second, was awarded €500 . Benedikt Kleinfeld, who finished third, received €250.
The awards ceremony for the competition will take place on December 7, 2024, in Berlin. During the event, all winners of the German Skilled Trades Championship and the "Good Design in Skilled Trades – Craftspeople Design" competition will be honored by the German Confederation of Skilled Crafts (ZDH).
Source: Social Insurance Fund of the Scaffolding Industry
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