Engineering Association of Waterways and Shipping Administration
| Ingenieurverband Wasser- und Schifffahrtsverwaltung e. V. (IWSV) |
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| purpose | Professional and promotional association in the waterway / shipping / port transport system |
| Chair: | Burkhard Knuth |
| Establishment date: | September 10, 1960 |
| Number of members: | approx. 1,000 |
| Seat : | Bremen |
| Website: | www.iwsv.de |
The Ingenieurverband Wasser- und Schifffahrtsverwaltung e. V. (IWSV) is a professional association of engineers from all disciplines who are active in the waterway / shipping and port transport system. The members are composed of the Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration , the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure , the higher authorities of the Federal Institute for Hydrology , the Federal Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency , the state administrations and municipalities as well as the economy, planning companies and engineering offices. The association is divided into seven different district groups and has been under the federal chairmanship of Burkhard Knuth since 2015. It has around 1,000 members. The quarterly publication of the association is the journal DER INGENIEUR .
Goals of the association
The association is involved in the following tasks:
- Political fields of activity of engineers in all disciplines in the waterway / shipping / port transport system
- Support for the professional development of engineers
- Underline the responsibility of engineers to society
- Safeguarding professional interests
- Promotion of professional training within the framework of technical progress
- Ensuring technical and professional competence in waterway and shipping administration.
requirements
The association is fundamentally committed to social and transport policy demands:
- Recognition of engineering activity in society
- Consideration of the engineers' expertise in political decisions
- Equal treatment of waterways with other modes of transport
- Promotion of waterways and shipping in Europe as an environmentally friendly, safe and energy-saving transport system.
The specific professional policy demands of the IWSV are:
- performance-based remuneration
- Securing engineering jobs
- Flexibility of career law and the use of skills and performance
- Modernization of the existing training structures
- Management positions are filled by engineers according to an individual performance profile
- Building submission authorization for civil engineers.
Educational measures
The advanced training measures offered by the IWSV extend to:
- promoting professional qualifications through subject-specific and personality-building seminars
- practice-oriented excursions
- Specialist lectures
- Site visits as well
- Central and, in the district groups, professional, professional and socio-political events.
history
On September 10, 1960, 20 participants from the Hamburg , Hanover , Kiel and Münster departments met in the Frönd restaurant in Münster for the founding meeting of the Engineering Association of the Waterways and Shipping Administration, initially with four district groups. The first federal chairman was the intellectual author Hans Brodersen, government building officer and supervisory officer in the Rendsburg district of the Kiel-Holtenau water and shipping office of the Kiel waterways and shipping directorate.
In 1961 the bulletin "Engineers Association of Waterways and Shipping Administration" appeared for the first time. As early as 1962, the IWSV became a full member of the “Central Association of Professional Engineering Associations eV” (ZBI). In 1963 there were already eight district groups at the waterways and shipping directorates in Kiel, Hamburg, Bremen, Aurich, Münster, Mainz, Stuttgart and Freiburg. At the 6th general meeting in Koblenz in 1966, the name of the association was changed to "Ingenieurverband Wasser- und Schifffahrtsverwaltung eV" (IWSV) in order to underline the independence of the association towards the administration. On October 20, 1970, the majority of the IWSV members took part in the large engineering rally in Bonn- Bad Godesberg . At the 11th general assembly in Würzburg in 1971, Hans Braemer was elected federal chairman. Hans Brodersen was appointed honorary chairman. In 1974 the association opened inwards so that engineers from other careers could also join the IWSV. The change in the administrative structures in 1976/1977 led to the establishment of new district groups. At the 19th general meeting in Lübeck in 1979, Dieter Kothe replaced the previous federal chairman, Hans Braemer. He was appointed honorary chairman. At the 31st general meeting in Lübeck in 1991 Werner Stoltmann became federal chairman and Dieter Kothe became honorary chairman.
In 1991 BG Ost was founded in Magdeburg . In 1992 the association opened up to the outside world. This gave employees of other authorities, the self-employed and also companies the opportunity to join the IWSV. At the 33rd general meeting in Kelheim in 1993, Paul Schmidtke was elected federal chairman. Werner Stoltmann became honorary chairman. With the 1st Engineers' Day in Uelzen in 2002 , the association underscored its professional orientation. Since then, general meetings and engineering days have been held alternately every year. At the 46th general meeting held in Koblenz in 2013 , Kerstin Metzner was confirmed as federal chairwoman. Paul Schmidtke was appointed honorary chairman at this event and was honored with the ZBI's Golden Badge of Honor for his many years of service to engineering. Burkhard Knuth was elected federal chairman in 2015 at the 47th federal members' meeting in Bremerhaven.
collaboration
The IWSV has been a member of the umbrella organization Zentralverband der Ingenieurvereine e. V. (ZBI), which with over 50,000 members is one of the largest engineering associations in Germany. The IWSV is actively involved in the ZBI committees. The IWSV is a member of the Association for European Inland Shipping and Waterways e. V. (VBW) as well as in the Association of German Water History Society e. V. (DWhG).