Völklingen district
| Völklinger District (VK) |
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|---|---|
| purpose | Association of gay executives from business, science, administration and culture with the aim of equal rights for gays in professional life |
| Chair: | Matthias Weber |
| Establishment date: | 1991 |
| Seat : | Berlin |
| Website: | vk-online.de |
The Völklinger Kreis e. V. - Federal Association of Gay Executives (VK) is the professional association for gay managers , entrepreneurs and freelancers . The aim of the UK is to achieve a non-discriminatory working and living environment for gay leaders. Lesbian entrepreneurs are organized in a separate association, the Wirtschaftsweibern.
The initiative was started in 1990 by a board assistant from Völklingen . The association was founded in Hamburg in September 1991, and its federal office has been in Berlin since 2007. The approximately 700 members are organized in 14 specialist groups and 21 regional groups:
At the European level, the UK and the Wirtschaftsweiber work together with the following gay and / or lesbian partner organizations, with which they have been affiliated since 2005 in the umbrella organization European Gay and Lesbian Managers Association (EGMA): AGPro (Austria), L'autre cercle (France ), Network ( Switzerland) and Primo (Italy).
Focus of work
- Professional and private networking of the members
- Political lobbying to achieve equality of rights and opportunities for gays
- The spread and anchoring of diversity management in the German economy
- Participation in the nationwide action group for service providers, to which professional associations with a total of 200,000 members belong
Specialist groups
The 14 specialist groups are:
- Construction and project development
- Finances
- Research and Technology
- Health and social
- human Resource
- IT
- Small businesses
- politics
- Public service
- Law
- Seniors in the UK
- Entrepreneur
- Accountants and tax advisers
- Young professionals
Regional groups
The 21 regional groups are:
- Berlin
- Bielefeld-Paderborn
- Bonn
- Bremen
- Dusseldorf
- Dortmund
- Dresden
- Frankfurt
- Freiburg
- Hamburg
- Hanover
- Cologne
- Leipzig
- Munich
- Münster / Osnabrück
- Mainz / Wiesbaden
- Nuremberg
- Oldenburg
- Rhine / Neckar
- Stuttgart
- South Westphalia
Max Spohr Prize
The VK awards the Max Spohr Prize every two years . This prize is awarded under the patronage of the current Federal Minister of Justice to companies that operate excellent diversity management and present best practice examples in the German economy. The VK also carries out a biennial diversity study, which is used to monitor and record the state of development of diversity management in the German economy. The prize has been awarded to two employers on an equal footing since 2010, and since 2012 to one employer each from the public and private sectors.
Previous winners:
- 2001: Ford Germany
- 2002: Deutsche Bank
- 2004: Deutsche Bahn
- 2006: Volkswagen Bank
- 2008: SAP
- 2010: IBM and Commerzbank
- 2012: Deutsche Telekom and state capital Munich
- 2014: Daimler AG and City of Dortmund
- 2016: Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe and Ernst & Young
- 2018: Siemens and state capital Hanover ; Special award for Marlies Krämer
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b How it all began. Völklinger Kreis e. V., accessed on October 27, 2017 .
- ↑ The winners. In: club website. Völklinger Kreis, accessed on June 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Award ceremony 2018. In: Press release. Völklinger Kreis, November 9, 2018, accessed June 15, 2019 .