German-Armenian Society
| German-Armenian Society (DAG) |
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|---|---|
| legal form | Registered association |
| founding | 1914 in Berlin , re-established in 1972 in Frankfurt am Main |
| founder | Johannes Lepsius , Paul Rohrbach and Avetik Issahakjan |
| main emphasis | Promotion of relations between the people in Armenia and Germany / advocacy for the rights of Armenian minorities |
| Chair | Raffi Kantian |
| Website | deutscharmenischegesellschaft.de |
The German-Armenian Society (DAG) is an association whose main goal is to promote mutual understanding between Germans and Armenians and to protect the interests of Armenians living in Germany . The DAG also advocates the rights and interests of Armenian minorities in Turkey and other countries in the Near and Middle East.
history
The DAG was founded in 1914 by Johannes Lepsius , Paul Rohrbach and Awetik Issahakjan in Berlin . Lepsius was the first chairman of the association. The initiative to found the association came from Lepsius against the background of the worsening situation for the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire . A year later, the Armenian genocide began . When it was founded, the DAG pursued the goal of independence and autonomy for the Armenian people. The initiative to found the DAG was started at the critical point in time when it was considered certain that the reforms demanded by the Western powers for the Armenians in the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire would be accepted by the Sublime Porte and the eyes of the European world again were once directed to these "Armenian provinces". Comprehensive reforms for the Armenians have been called for since the Berlin Treaty of 1878. Sultan Abdülhamid II ruled at that time . On February 8, 1914, the Young Turkish party İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti , which ruled the country between 1908 and 1912 and from 1913, finally accepted the reform plan.
After the death of the later chairman of the association, Rohrbach, the DAG was dissolved in 1956. In 1972 it was finally re-established in Frankfurt am Main . Today the association has 274 members.
activity
Since 1973 the association has published the quarterly magazine Armenisch-Deutsche Korrespondenz . The previous book publications by the DAG include:
- 75 years of the German-Armenian Society (Mainz 1989),
- Phoenix from the ashes - Armenia 80 years after the genocide (Frankfurt am Main 1996),
- Armenia - past and present in a difficult environment (Frankfurt am Main 1998),
- On some political and legal aspects of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem (Frankfurt a. M. 1999),
- 100 years of the German-Armenian Society - remember. Gedenken.gestalten (Frankfurt am Main, 2014).
The DAG organizes various conferences and lectures and is a member of the Association for the Study of Nationalities in the USA and the Institute for Foreign Relations in Stuttgart. The current chairman is Raffi Kantian.
See also
Web links
- Website of the German-Armenian Society
- Company's Facebook presence
- Letter of appeal for the establishment of the DAG - early 1914
- Report in the Berliner Börsen-Courier about the founding ceremony of the DAG - June 17, 1914
Individual evidence
- ↑ Axel Meißner: Martin Rades "Christian World" and Armenia - building blocks for an international political ethics of Protestantism
- ↑ Call up - beginning of 1914 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
