League for the United Nations
The League for the United Nations of the GDR was a social organization of the GDR to promote the activities of the UN . It existed from 1954 to 1990.
founding
In 1954 the "German League for the United Nations" was founded in Berlin . It was later renamed “League for the United Nations of the GDR” in order to differentiate it from the Federal Republic of Germany “ German Society for the United Nations ” (DGVN). In 1966, both German UN organizations were accepted as full members of the “ World Federation of Associations for the United Nations ” (FUNA). In the votes, the GDR League behaved in conformity with the corresponding organizations of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact states . The GDR League primarily focused on the problems of international security and the preservation of peace.
Inner organization
The leadership of the league was held by a presidium , which was headed by its president Gerhard Hahn and his deputies, u. a. Harry wishes , was headed. In some cities, local working groups of the League worked in Weimar for. B. chaired by the university lecturer Erich Taubert . The league called annual general meetings. Between the annual meetings, an executive committee took care of the international and national activities of the organization.
Publications
- German League for the United Nations (Ed.): The German People and the United Nations [Application by the Council of State d. GDR on membership d. GDR in d. Organization d. United Nations]
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Correspondence, notes and reports by the President of the League, minutes and templates from meetings of the Executive Committee and meetings of the Executive Committee and annual meetings of the League, declarations and declarations by the working groups, reports on cooperation in the World Federation of Associations for the United Nations, and the correspondence of the Secretary General have survived with UN leagues (countries A – Z) and discussions with UN companies, participation in international seminars and meetings of the UN, plenary assemblies and executive meetings of the World Federation of Associations for the United Nations through international conferences of non-governmental organizations, conferences of the international student movement for the United Nations, European and African regional conferences of the world federation for the United Nations, about trips abroad and joint meetings with the GDR Committee for Human Rights .
These sources are archived in the Federal Archives holdings DZ 23 and accessible via an online finding aid.
literature
- Wilhelm Bruns : The disagreed in the United Nations. Federal Republic of Germany and GDR in the UN . Library of Science and Politics, Vol. 25, Cologne 1980
- Collective of authors: In the spirit of the UN Charter. 25 years of the Weimar Working Group of the League for the United Nations in the German Democratic Republic . 64 pages of art print 165/230, 6 color and 50 black and white pictures. 1982