German-British Society

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Bronze plaque commemorating the founding of today's German-British Society at Carsch-Haus in the old town of Düsseldorf , where the “ Die Brücke ” cultural center established by the British military government was located

The German-British Society (until 2001 German-English Society ) is a registered association of natural and legal persons, whose aim is to promote German-British relations in all questions of public and cultural through its non-partisan, non-governmental and politically independent work To promote life, for example through lectures, theater events in English, exhibitions, excursions and joint dinners. The association includes a network of local and regional member associations of the German-British Society that is spread across Germany and that individually design their work and event programs. Not one of them is the Hannoversch-British Society , which cultivates the special historical relationships between the former Electorate and later Kingdom of Hanover in what is now Lower Saxony .

history

The society goes back to an association that was founded on March 18, 1949 in Düsseldorf and registered under the name Society for Cultural Exchange with England eV on April 29, 1949 in the register of associations of the Düsseldorf District Court and in March 1951 in the German-English Society was renamed. Lilo Milchsack (1905–1992, CMG , CBE , DCMG) and other citizens took the initiative, including Anne Franken , Emil Lehnartz and Georg Muche . The association should serve to build new relationships with the former war opponent Great Britain . He relied in particular on a grant from Sir Robert Birley , Educational Adviser to the Allied Control Council in the British zone of occupation from spring 1947 to August 1949 . As early as 1950, the first “German-English talks” were held in Milchsack's private house in Wittlaer near Düsseldorf. These discussions were later continued every year in Königswinter , so that the name Königswinter Conference prevailed for them .

present

Today the chairman of the board of the society is Hans-Henning Horstmann , ambassador a. D. Honorary Presidents were Kurt Biedenkopf , Katharina Focke , Karl-Günther von Hase , Jürgen Ruhfus , Walter Scheel , Helmut Schmidt and Richard von Weizsäcker .

The German-British Society - initially with its head office in Düsseldorf, then in Bonn and now at Pariser Platz 6 in Berlin - has acquired a reputation for being the most important non-governmental organization in the German-speaking world through conferences that brought together high-profile decision-makers from Great Britain and Germany in forums . British Relations to be; mainly through the institute of the annual Königswinter Conference (Königswinter Conference). Other conferences are the Jung Königswinter Conference and the Economic Königswinter .

GDR

In the German Democratic Republic , the German-British Society in the GDR (DEBRIG) was founded on June 18, 1963 , according to the official announcement “in accordance with the wishes of numerous citizens of the German Democratic Republic and Great Britain”, but actually as an instrument of state propaganda abroad and the real socialist concept of “ friendship between nations ”.

See also

literature

  • Ralph Uhlig: The German-English Society 1949–1983. The contribution of their “Königswinter Conferences” to British-German understanding. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1986, ISBN 3-525-36192-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerda Kaltwasser: Carsch House. It brought new architecture. It was the center of trade. Then a haven of culture. ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website in the portal phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de based on a report from January 27, 1979 in the Rheinische Post , accessed on July 9, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de
  2. ^ History of the German-British Society , website in the portal debrige.de (German-British Society), accessed on December 30, 2013
  3. ↑ See section External circles and institutions in: Eckart Konze, Norbert Frei, Peter Hayes, Moshe Zimmermann: The Office and the Past. German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic . Karl Blessing Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89667-430-2 , p. 634 ff.
  4. ↑ Marion Countess Dönhoff: On the death of Lilo Milchsack: Old enemies reconciled . Article of August 14, 1992 in the zeit.de portal , accessed on July 8, 2013
  5. ^ Karl-Günther von Hase: Lilo Milchsack (1905–1992) and the German-English Society. A personal review. ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PDF file for a lecture on October 14, 1999 at the Industrie-Club Düsseldorf , accessed on the debrige.de portal on July 8, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.debrige.de
  6. ^ Godehard Uhlemann: The German-British network .  ( 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. Article from February 28, 2009 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on July 9, 2013; also published in the portal abo.bbv-net.de  ( 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. , PDF file, accessed December 30, 2013@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rp-online.de  @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / abo.bbv-net.de  
  7. ↑ Barbara Suchy: Determined to overcome a gap ( memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Düsseldorfer Hefte, June 1989, PDF file, accessed on the debrige.de portal on December 30, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.debrige.de
  8. ↑ See biography in article Robert Birley in the English language Wikipedia
  9. ↑ Denise Kathrin Tscharntke: Educating German women: the work of the Women's Affair Section of the British military government 1946–1951 . PDF file, Durham University 2001, Durham E-theses Online, p. 14
  10. ↑ Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft eV (Headquarters: Düsseldorf) ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website in the debrige.de portal , accessed on July 9, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.debrige.de
  11. ↑ Cornelia Neumann: History of the German-British Society , website in the portal debrige.de , accessed on July 7, 2013
  12. ↑ History of Königswinter (History of the Königswinter Conferences) ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website in the debrige.de portal , accessed on July 7, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.debrige.de
  13. ↑ Hans-Georg Golz: Decreed friendship between nations. The work of the friendship society GDR-Great Britain and the Britain-GDR Society - possibilities and limits . Chemnitz University, Dissertation 2003, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-937209-25-5 , p. 163 ff.