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A short and number-heavy post today. Because I'm feeling a bit crap. Nothing too serious, just an annoying cold.I told you that deliveries to the Germans were very unevenly spread amongst Dutch brewers. Here's the confirmation. But first we're going to look at the absolute quantities involved.
If you consider the security implications, it's weird that the CBK (Dutch brewers' organisation) had access to the figures for deliveries to German canteens. In later documents they state that the ration was 9 litres per head per month. Which works out to around 30 cl per day. Not a huge amount. But that wasn't the real total, as soldiers also drank in ordinary pubs.
Despite this, Wehrmacht canteens were responsible to 8% to 9% of total beer consumption. It's fair to say that the real percentage consumed by the German military was at least double that.
From the quantity of beer, it's pretty simple to calculate the number of German personnel based in Holland. I've had trouble tracking down the exact number from other sources. Though I did find one which gave it as around 125,000. Which tallies pretty well with my calculation.
As you can see in this table:
Wehrmacht beer deliveries
month
hl
% of total Dutch consumption
implied no. of German troops
Dec. 1940
12,516
7.05
139,067
Jan. 1941
12,992
8.43
144,356
Febr. 1941
13,131
9.01
145,900
Source:
Minutes of the management of the CBK on 8th May 1941, held at the Amsterdamse Stadsarchief, document number 31121-1, page 158.
Four breweries - Amstel, Drie Hoefijzers, Heineken and van Vollenhoven - supplied almost two-thirds of the total. Which this next table makes very clear.
Wehrmacht beer deliveries in January 1941 by brewery
Brewery
hl
% of total
Amstel
2,197
16.91%
Bavaria
382
2.94%
Brand
54
0.42%
Drie Hoefijzers
1,654
12.73%
H.B.M. (Heineken)
2,314
17.81%
Klok
251
1.93%
Leeuw
11
0.08%
Oranjeboom
853
6.57%
Vollenhoven
2,138
16.46%
van Waes Boodts
17
0.13%
total of these breweries
9,871
75.98%
grand total
12,992
Source:
Minutes of the management of the CBK on 8th May 1941, held at the Amsterdamse Stadsarchief, document number 31121-1, page 158.
Partially, this inequality just represents the difference in size of the breweries. Amstel, Drie Hoefijzers and Heineken were three of the biggest. Van Vollenhoven, on the other hand, despite being very old , was nothing like on the scale of the other three.
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A short and number-heavy post today. Because I'm feeling a bit crap. Nothing too serious, just an annoying cold.I told you that deliveries to the Germans were very unevenly spread amongst Dutch brewers. Here's the confirmation. But first we're going to look at the absolute quantities involved.
If you consider the security implications, it's weird that the CBK (Dutch brewers' organisation) had access to the figures for deliveries to German canteens. In later documents they state that the ration was 9 litres per head per month. Which works out to around 30 cl per day. Not a huge amount. But that wasn't the real total, as soldiers also drank in ordinary pubs.
Despite this, Wehrmacht canteens were responsible to 8% to 9% of total beer consumption. It's fair to say that the real percentage consumed by the German military was at least double that.
From the quantity of beer, it's pretty simple to calculate the number of German personnel based in Holland. I've had trouble tracking down the exact number from other sources. Though I did find one which gave it as around 125,000. Which tallies pretty well with my calculation.
As you can see in this table:
Wehrmacht beer deliveries
month
hl
% of total Dutch consumption
implied no. of German troops
Dec. 1940
12,516
7.05
139,067
Jan. 1941
12,992
8.43
144,356
Febr. 1941
13,131
9.01
145,900
Source:
Minutes of the management of the CBK on 8th May 1941, held at the Amsterdamse Stadsarchief, document number 31121-1, page 158.
Four breweries - Amstel, Drie Hoefijzers, Heineken and van Vollenhoven - supplied almost two-thirds of the total. Which this next table makes very clear.
Wehrmacht beer deliveries in January 1941 by brewery
Brewery
hl
% of total
Amstel
2,197
16.91%
Bavaria
382
2.94%
Brand
54
0.42%
Drie Hoefijzers
1,654
12.73%
H.B.M. (Heineken)
2,314
17.81%
Klok
251
1.93%
Leeuw
11
0.08%
Oranjeboom
853
6.57%
Vollenhoven
2,138
16.46%
van Waes Boodts
17
0.13%
total of these breweries
9,871
75.98%
grand total
12,992
Source:
Minutes of the management of the CBK on 8th May 1941, held at the Amsterdamse Stadsarchief, document number 31121-1, page 158.
Partially, this inequality just represents the difference in size of the breweries. Amstel, Drie Hoefijzers and Heineken were three of the biggest. Van Vollenhoven, on the other hand, despite being very old , was nothing like on the scale of the other three.
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