Grand National Mother Lodge, "The Three Globes"
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| Constituted | 13 September 1740 |
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| Jurisdiction | Germany |
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Berlin Germany |
| Coordinates | 52.5091N 13.2623E |
| Website | Große National-Mutterloge„Zu den drei Weltkugeln” |
The Grand National Mother Lodge "The Three Globes" (Große National-Mutterloge „Zu den drei Weltkugeln“) is the oldest among the eight recognized Masonic Grand Lodges, which existed in Germany until their abolition in 1935 by the German Reich. It was founded in 1740 in Berlin, and suppressed in 1935. In 1933, as a national organisation, they had 22,700 members in 177 lodges. It was reactivated in 1946 and is currently a member of the umbrella organization United Grand Lodges of Germany.
On the night of 14/15 August 1738, the future Frederick the Great, then Crown Prince, was initiated as a Freemason in Brunswick, being quickly passed to fellowcraft and raised to Master, all without the knowledge of his father. He invited Baron von Oberg and the writer Jakob Friedrich von Bielfeld, who were instrumental to his candidature, to form La loge première/La loge du Roi notre grand maître at Rheinsberg Castle, with Oberg as Master. After his accession to the Crown he led the lodge himself from 20 June 1740. The foundation of the Grand Lodge is taken as 13 September 1740, when, with the King's permission, the lodge Aux Trois Globes was formed under the auspices of the privy council and Charles-Étienne Jordan. It was modelled on the Premier Grand Lodge of England, although it received no charter from it.
When the King departed in the same year for the first Silesian War, La loge première was dissolved and its members joined the new lodge. This new lodge created according to the custom of their time in the coming years lodges in Meiningen, Frankfurt an der Oder, Wrocław, Dresden and Neuchâtel. On 24 June 1744 they therefore took the name Great Royal Mother Lodge of the Three Globes, and finally changed this on 5 July 1772 to Grand National Mother Lodge of the Prussian-States.
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