Honorary member
Honorary member is a member of an association or federation , association or institution who is appointed on the basis of his or her merits .
appointment
Honorary members are usually appointed by the board of directors or by the general assembly of all voting members. The term merits includes a certain spread, as these merits can refer to the awarding institution - or to a common ideal goal . In Germany and Austria , honorary membership is firmly anchored in the statutes of many associations.
Types
Often even be honorary members of different categories created, for example, many "regular" honorary members , but only a honorary president or honorary president . In political parties there is traditionally the role of the honorary chairman . Honorary chairmen were or are in German parties: Willy Brandt , Walter Scheel , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Otto Graf Lambsdorff , Edmund Stoiber , Hans Modrow and Helmut Kohl , the latter only temporarily.
Rights and obligations
Honorary members are generally free from duties . You do not have to pay membership fees and do not take part in the association's work. In some associations, however, they have all the rights of full members, in others they have no rights and thus neither active nor passive voting rights .
See also
- List of honorary members of the German Physical Society
- List of honorary members of the Royal Academy of Arts
- List of honorary members of the Vienna State Opera
- List of honorary members of the Association of German Engineers
- List of honorary members of the Association for the History of Berlin
Academies
- Category: Honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- Category: Honorary member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Category: Honorary member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
- Category: Honorary member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
- Category: Honorary member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences
German companies
- Category: Honorary member of the German Society for Surgery
- Category: Honorary member of the Society for the History and Archeology of the Baltic Provinces of Russia
- Category: Honorary member of the physical association
Individual evidence
- ↑ Honorary member. In: Digital dictionary of the German language . Retrieved November 15, 2019