German-Indian Society
The German-Indian Society (DIG) is an association founded in Hamburg in 1953 that is dedicated to maintaining relations between India and Germany.
prehistory
The East Asian Association founded in 1900 is a forerunner of the Indo-German Society. Between 1900 and 1942, other societies were established that were also interested in the culture, history, politics and economy of the Indian subcontinent and advocated understanding between Germans and Indians.
Two associations founded in Hamburg
The German-Indian Society in Hamburg eV was founded on September 11, 1942 . Chairman was Carl Vincent Krogmann First Mayor of Hamburg selected. Present was Subhash Chandra Bose , former Lord Mayor of Calcutta , who - in contrast to Mahatma Gandhi - was considered radical to achieve India's independence. In 1951, the Hamburg District Court revoked its legal capacity .
Lieselotte Hachmann founded a new company of the same name on October 25, 1954, and she was elected President. This society was dissolved again by resolution of the general assembly on September 30, 1964.
Later the "Hamburg German-Indian Society eV" was founded, which from 1981 was headed by Sibabrata Roy .
Other German-Indian companies in Germany
From 1953 onwards, further Indo-German companies were established in the Federal Republic of Germany. On May 13, 1953 in Stuttgart by Adalbert Seifriz Lutz founded the "Indo-German Research Association" and Wilhelm. In 1986, the Indo-German Society founded the Rabindranath Tagore (Culture) Prize. With this she wants to honor the transfers from the Indian languages into German and the mediation of historical, spiritual and contemporary India in the German language and cultural area. In cooperation with the Indo-German Society, the Gisela Bonn Prize has also been awarded annually since 1997 by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations / ICCR, mostly to younger Germans who have made outstanding contributions to the cultural relations between the two countries or show growth potential in this regard.
From 1955 branches were established: Aachen, Baden-Baden, Berlin, Bochum, Lake Constance, Bonn / Cologne, Braunschweig / Wolfsburg, Darmstadt, Dresden, Düren, Düsseldorf, Essen, Freiburg, Gießen, Hagen, Halle / Saale, Hamburg, Hanover, Heidelberg , Karlsruhe, Kassel, Kiel, Lübeck, Mainz, Miesbach / Obb., Münster, Neuss-Dormagen, Nuremberg, Remscheid, Schwäbisch Hall, Stuttgart, Winsen / Luhe, Wuppertal, Würzburg.
literature
- Dietlinde Hachmann: My desired inheritance. A biographical love travel documentary about the founder of the Indo-German Society in Hamburg eV 2 volumes. Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2010;
- Volume 1: Between two worlds. ISBN 978-3-941404-12-0 ;
- Volume 2: In the land of my dreams. ISBN 978-3-941404-72-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.oav.de: "About us" ( Memento of the original from October 5, 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. , accessed June 21, 2013
- ↑ Festival magazine for the 40th anniversary of the DIG, pages 8/9
- ↑ Register of Associations of the Hamburg State Archives, vol. 62, p. 4, no. 3499.
- ↑ Hamburg District Court , Section 69 of January 29, 1951 in accordance with Section 73 BGB , withdrawn. Hamburg Register of Associations and Festival Journal for the 50th anniversary of the DIG, page 62.
- ^ Register of associations of the State Archives of the City of Hamburg. Vol. 95, pp. 138 ff., No. 5511.
- ↑ , according to Stuttgart District Court , Dept. of Association Register, Business Reg. No. 176/178/53, document no. 580/1953, festival magazine for the 50th anniversary of the DIG, page 23.
- ↑ Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the German-Indian Society 1953-2003. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
- ↑ http://www.dig-ev.de/ueber-dig/zweiggesellschaft/ .
