Association of German Railway Engineers

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Association of German Railway Engineers
logo
legal form Registered association
founding December 10, 1949

place Frankfurt am Main
Board President: Thomas Mainka
Vice President: Joachim Warlitz
Vice President: Manfred Kehr
Federal Secretary: Lothar Legler
Federal Treasurer: Tobias Barthel
Spokesman for the departments:

Reiner Altmann
Reiner Widmann
Waldemar Henschel
Klaus Dürnhofer

Members approx. 4,500
Website www.vdei.de

The Association of German Railway Engineers (VDEI) is the professional association of railway engineers in the "track-guided traffic" system. Its aim is to promote the technical and scientific development of the system of track-guided traffic and to support its transport policy strengthening.

history

The Association of German Railway Engineers was re-established on December 10, 1949 in the station rooms of the Hamm (Westphalia) station . Predecessor organizations were the associations of railway masters and railway engineers that existed until 1933.

From May 1950 the association magazine Zeitschrift des Verein Deutscher Eisenbahn-Ingenieure appeared , which has been issued since June 1951 under the title Der Eisenbahningenieur, which is still valid today .

The association later became the Association of German Railway Engineers . V. ( VDEI ) renamed.

Professional association and goals

The VDEI is the representative of the interests of the engineers working in the lane-guided traffic systems. It represents its members in professional policy matters and advocates professional training. For this purpose, the VDEI organizes specialist conferences, seminars and technical excursions under the umbrella of its VDEI Academy for Railway Systems. The VDEI is the national certification office for European railway engineers ( EURAIL-ING ) and the organizer of the "iaf International Exhibition of Track Technology" and the "iaf Congress Railway Construction". In addition to the monthly specialist magazine “Der Eisenbahningenieur” and the annual “Eisenbahningenieurkalender”, the VDEI also issues other specialist publications. The VDEI is a member of the Central Association of Engineering Associations . V. (ZBI), which, as an umbrella organization with over 50,000 members, is one of the largest engineering associations in Germany. The VDEI is represented by Manfred Kehr in the presidium of the ZBI and works actively in the bodies of the ZBI.

Members

Members are engineering offices, railway transport and railway infrastructure companies, federal authorities and people involved in teaching and research. Its members are mainly active in the fields of architecture / building construction, electrical engineering, control and safety technology, telecommunications, surveying technology, traffic planning, vehicle technology and maintenance.

organization

The office is located in Frankfurt am Main. The districts take care of the members in the regions. The technical work takes place in the departments with their specialist committees. The Federal Congress is the highest body of the VDEI. The federal executive board is the highest association leadership between the federal congresses. It consists of the members of the Presidium and the district chairmen. Important decisions that are not reserved for the Federal Congress are made by the Federal Executive Board. The Presidium represents the association internally and especially externally and is the permanent working body of the association. The advisory board follows the VDEI constructively and critically. It is made up of executives from the spectrum of railway supervisory authorities, leading companies in the railway industry, universities and the railways.

Departments

The VDEI is subdivided into the specialist areas of infrastructure, traffic and operations control, technical equipment and vehicles.

Districts

  • Berlin / Brandenburg
  • eat
  • Hamburg
  • Hanover
  • Hesse / Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Karlsruhe
  • Cologne
  • Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania / North Brandenburg
  • Northern Bavaria
  • Saarland / Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Saxony
  • Saxony-Anhalt
  • Stuttgart
  • Southern Bavaria
  • Thuringia

Publications

The VDEI is a partner of the railway companies and the political mandate holders. He is the organizer of national and international specialist conferences for railway technology. The VDEI issues the monthly publications Der Eisenbahningenieur , the specialist journal for rail transport and technology with the highest circulation in German-speaking countries, and the "Eisenbahn Ingenieur Kalender" (EIK) annually.

VDEI Academy for Railway Systems

On September 22, 2010, the VDEI Academy for Railway Systems was founded, which is the association's knowledge platform and training facility with specialist conferences, seminars and lectures on current topics.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About us . Retrieved June 11, 2013.
  2. ↑ Association No. 1854 of the announcement of the public list on the registration of associations and their representatives of the German Bundestag from May 3, 2010 ( Memento from December 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) published May 26, 2010 ( PDF ; 4.6 MB)
  3. ↑ Excerpt from the report on the 1st main conference of the Association of German Railway Engineers (VDEI) on March 25th and 26th, 1950 in the former prince's room at Hanover Central Station . In: Journal of the Association of German Railway Engineers . tape 1 , no. 1 , 1950, ISSN  0174-7649 , p. 3-9 .
  4. ↑ a b Wolfgang Seehafer: 125 years of EI - the railway engineer . In: The Railway Engineer . December 2009, ISSN  0013-2810 , pp. 8-11.
  5. ↑ 60 years of the Association of German Railway Engineers in the magazine Bahn aktuell .