Bavaria's best butchers 2025: These ten companies set standards!

Bavaria's best butchers 2025: These ten companies set standards!

The butchers in Bavaria can be relied-and this was also confirmed at the recent award ceremony in the Max-Joseph Hall of the Munich Residence. On June 4, 2025, the Bavarian Minister of Nutrition Michaela Kaniber awarded the Bavarian State Handy to the Metzger Handwerk to the ten best businesses in the federal state. The event not only had a festive character, but also underlined the important role of the butchers for local supply and regional added value in Bavaria.

With impressive 2,549 butchers, Bavaria represents most in Germany. In addition, there are around 1,600 slaughterhouse approved under EU law that ensure that Bavarian consumers are supplied with high-quality meat and sausages. In her speech, Minister Kaniber emphasized the importance of the butchers for the nationwide local supply and emphasized the training of young people in the craft as the key to the future.

The winners in detail

The awards for the two vocational schools are particularly noteworthy: the Franz-oberthür-School in Würzburg . Both schools received special prices for their valuable promotion of young professionals in the butcher trade.

A look into the future

The Bavarian butchers not only stand for tradition, they also look into the future. Already in March the "German butcher team", largely consisting of Bavarian butchers, celebrated the vice world championship title in Paris. These successes show that the craft is not only on site, but also internationally high.

In order to support the industry, several investment funding programs such as "market structural funding" and Vuvregio have already been improved. In the last funding period, impressive 16 million euros were approved for the meat sector . These are important steps to keep the butchers in Bavaria strong and competitive in the future. With a good hand for tradition and modernity, the butcher is well positioned in Bavaria.