German Astronautical Society
The German Astronautical Society ( DAG ) was an association in the GDR of representatives from various disciplines whose task it was to promote the exploration and use of space , to contribute to international cooperation in this area and to provide broad circles with knowledge of space research convey.
history
The DAG was founded on June 22nd, 1960 in Berlin. The seat of the DAG was East Berlin . The founding members elected the rocket control expert, Ferdinand Ruhle, as the company's first president. The DAG was affiliated with the Academy of Sciences of the GDR .
On the XI. Congress of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) in 1960 in Stockholm, the DAG was accepted as a voting member.
After the joint space flight between the GDR and the Soviet Union in August 1978, the DAG, also known as the GDR Astronautical Society, was expanded in February 1979. It took on new tasks , primarily due to the increasing involvement of the GDR in the Interkosmos program of the socialist states, and was renamed the Society for Space Research and Space Travel of the GDR (GWR).
The implementation of the 41st IAF Congress in Dresden in October 1990 put an end to the international work of the GWR. The society dissolved on December 31, 1991, whereupon some of the approximately 300 individual members became part of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt - Lilienthal-Oberth e. V. (DGLR) changed.
Act
From 1960 onwards, the DAG published detailed quick information on all spacecraft launches in an informal sequence. Together with the Central Technical Committee for Astronomy of the German Cultural Association , the DAG published its own specialist journal with the name “Astronomy and Space Travel” from 1963. The DAG promoted scientific work that was devoted to astronautical topics, held conferences and scientific discussions and carried out international cooperation and material exchange with other astronautical societies. The DAG or GWR operated a radio satellite observation station called “Junge Welt” in Berlin from 1964 to around 1980.
swell
- Heinz Mielke : Lexicon space travel . Transpress VEB publishing house for transport, Berlin 1970.
- Niklas Reinke: History of the German space policy. Concepts, influencing factors and interdependencies 1923–2002; Research institute of the German Society for Foreign Policy . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2004. ISBN 3-486-56842-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Academy for Political Science and Law of the GDR (ed.): Handbook of social organizations in the GDR. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1985, p. 88f.