National Committee
As a National Committee responsible for a state representative is in an international organization referred. There are national committees for a wide variety of areas - from political and socially relevant topics to science, monument protection and art.
Politics: from revolutionary committees to UNESCO
Political national committees were primarily important for the Russian Revolution , but so were committees and workers' councils for other upheavals since 1848. In the 1956 Hungarian uprising , national committees took over the administration of several provinces. During the First World War, several national committees were created in Europe in preparation for governments in exile , for example for Czechoslovakia, Georgia and Turkey. During the Second World War, the “ National Committee for Free Germany ” was founded in Moscow in 1943 .
Today there are numerous politically active national committees for agendas of the UN and UNESCO , in Germany for example for the UNESCO program “ Man and the Biosphere ” (MAB), the International Hydrological Program and the Geoscientific Program of UNESCO and for “Memory of the World” ".
National Scientific Committees
An example from the scientific field is the subject group of geosciences , where there is an almost continuous breakdown into national committees for the International Union for Geodesy and Geophysics . In the German-speaking countries it is
- the German National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics
- the former National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics of the GDR (NKGG)
- Austrian National Committee (ÖNK) for the International Union for Geodesy and Geophysics
- Swiss Committee of the International Union for Geodesy and Geophysics