German Schiller Society
The German Schiller Society e. V. (DSG) is an association of people at home and abroad who feel connected to Friedrich Schiller's work and literature in general. It is responsible for the Schiller National Museum and the German Literature Archive Marbach with the Modern Literature Museum . It is based in Marbach am Neckar . It has 3700 members (as of April 14, 2008) , making it one of the largest literary societies in Germany.
It was founded in 1895 as the Swabian Schiller Club , and in 1947 it took its current name.
goals and tasks
The purpose of the association was originally to "promote knowledge of Schiller's work, his person and his ideas and to establish an archive and museum in Marbach for this purpose " (preamble to the statutes), which was established in 1903. This included the entire Swabian literature in its collecting, scientific and popular education activities. The association went public with publications, exhibitions, lectures and other events. With the expansion of the collections, the Schiller National Museum developed into an archive of more recent German literature in a broader sense. The society complied with this in 1955 with the establishment of the German Literature Archive on the initiative of the museum director at the time, Bernhard Zeller .
As the sponsor of the Schiller National Museum and the German Literature Archive with the Museum of Modern Literature , it manages these institutes, expands the collections and makes them accessible to the public. In addition, its main tasks are to maintain, research and communicate newer German literature and to keep Schiller's intellectual legacy alive. (Articles of Association § 2).
The German Literature Archive Marbach, as the institutions of the German Schiller Society are commonly called, was evaluated by the Science Council in 2007. Its scientific policy statement calls for the activities of the German Literature Archive in Marbach to focus on core tasks and to expand and secure the institutional funding of the facilities.
history
The Marbacher Schiller Club had existed since 1835 , from which the Swabian Schiller Club emerged in 1895 . This is still a branch of the German Schiller Society and is represented on its committee .
The history and development of the German Schiller Society are inextricably linked with the history and development of the Schiller National Museum and the German Literature Archive . They are presented in detail in the article Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach .
The Weimarer Schillerverein e. V. is also represented on the committee as a legally independent branch of the German Schiller Society.
Organs of the German Schiller Society
General meeting
Convened by the President of the Society at least once a year, the General Assembly essentially has the following tasks (Section 7 of the Articles of Association of November 9, 1974 with six amendments):
- Election of the President and his deputy on the recommendation of the Board of Trustees;
- Election of a further eight members of the Board of Trustees, four of them at the suggestion of the Scientific Advisory Board, in accordance with Section 9 (1) letters a and b
- Receipt of the annual report ;
- Resolution on the closing of accounts and the discharge of the board of directors and the board of trustees ;
- Adoption of resolutions on proposals from the Board of Management, the Board of Trustees or members of the company
- Decision on the exclusion of association members acc. Section 5, Paragraph 7, Clause 2, Clause 2;
- Determination of the amount of the membership fee;
- Amendment of the Articles of Association in accordance with Section 8 Paragraphs 2 and 4.
Board of Trustees
The board of trustees includes:
- four members elected by the general assembly; Section 10 (2) and (3) apply accordingly;
- four members who are elected by the general assembly on the proposal of the scientific advisory board; Section 10 (2) and (3) apply accordingly;
- the president as chairman of the board of trustees;
- the deputy of the president;
- two representatives of the relevant federal ministry or the relevant supreme federal authority, with a total of three votes;
- one representative from the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg and one representative from the Ministry of Finance and Economics Baden-Württemberg, with a total of three votes;
- the chairman of the board of the Freundeskreis des Deutschen Literaturarchivs Marbach, the district administrator of the district of Ludwigsburg and the mayor of the city of Marbach am Neckar;
- The director of the German Literature Archive Marbach, the chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board and a member of the staff elected by the staff of the German Literature Archive Marbach provide advice.
The tasks of the board of trustees include:
- Supervision of the business activities of the management board of the German Schiller Society;
- Proposal for the election of the President and his deputy in accordance with § 7 Paragraph 5 Letter a;
- Election of the director of the German Literature Archive Marbach, but not against the joint vote of the representatives of the federal and state governments;
- Election of the treasurer and another member of the board, each from among the board of trustees;
- Election of the members of the Scientific Advisory Board in accordance with Section 10 Paragraph 5 Letter j;
- Approval of the business plan, but not against the votes of the federal and state representatives;
- Decision on the approval of the measures described in § 11 as requiring approval.
Board
The board consists of five people. It includes:
- the president as chairman;
- the deputy of the president;
- the director of the German Literature Archive in Marbach as executive board member;
- the treasurer from among the board of trustees;
- another board member elected from among its members by the board of trustees.
The director of the German Literature Archive Marbach as managing director
The director of the German Literature Archive is responsible for the management of the German Schiller Society and the management of the German Literature Archive in Marbach, unless individual tasks are assigned to other bodies in the statutes.
Chair of the Swabian Schiller Club
- 1895–1899: Julius von Griesinger
- 1900–1902: Julius Freiherr von Soden
- 1902–1906: Karl Freiherr von Gemmingen-Guttenberg
- 1906–1917: Julius Freiherr von Soden
- 1917–1918: Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath
- 1918–1938: Otto Güntter
- 1938–1943: Georg Schmückle
Chair of the Schiller Society
- 1943–1945: Georg Schmückle
- 1945: provisional Adolf Richter
Presidents of the German Schiller Society
- 1948–1954: Erwin Ackerknecht
- 1954–1979: Wilhelm Hoffmann , Stuttgart
- 1979–1980: Jürgen Hahn
- 1980–1988: Martin Cremer
- 1988–2002: Eberhard Lämmert
- 2002–2012: Manfred Erhardt
- since 2012: Peter-André Alt
New statutes since March 2012
The statutes of the Deutsche Schillergesellschaft e. V. was revised on March 10, 2012 and entered in the register of associations on March 29, 2012.
literature
- Detailed references in the article Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach