Association of German Scientists

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Association of German Scientists
(VDW)
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legal form registered association
founding 1959
founder Fritz Bopp , Max Born , Gerd Burkhardt , Rudolf Fleischmann , Hermann R. Franz, Wolfgang Gentner , Otto Hahn , Otto Haxel , Werner Heisenberg , Helmut Hönl , Willibald Jentschke , Werner Kliefoth, Hans Kopfermann , Werner Kroebel , Max von Laue , Josef Mattauch , Wolfgang Paul , Wolfgang Riezler , Wilhelm Walcher , Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , Karl A. Wolf
Seat Berlin
motto For responsibility and sustainability in science
Website www.vdw-ev.de

The Association of German Scientists V. ( VDW ) is a German association that advocates responsibility and sustainability in science in accordance with its statutes. The VDW has the legal form of a registered association. It was founded in 1959 by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , Max Born , Otto Hahn and other scientists who two years earlier had spoken out in the declaration of the Göttingen 18 against atomic armament of the Bundeswehr . In 1963 the constitutional lawyers Helmut Ridder and Ekkehart Stein “wrote” a memorandum against the emergency laws published as a book on behalf of the association .

The association takes a position on social and scientific topics and on peace and security policy through events, working groups and publications. The VDW has members who are humanities and social scientists as well as natural scientists. The office of the association is in Berlin .

Board

Since November 2016 the board has been formed by:

Advisory Board

Since November 2016, the advisory board has been formed by:

Managing directors

Maria Reinisch has been the managing director since February 2016. Ulrike Wunderle was managing director from 2014 to 2015.

Whistleblower Prize

The VDW, together with the German section of the International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms, has been awarding the Whistleblower Prize every two years since 1999 for people "who have gone public with references to social risks and problems after being in their own institution have not been heard ”. The aim of the award is to raise public awareness of whistleblowing and to support the award winners - who are often affected or threatened by dismissal and measures. The previous winners are:

Publications / literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissenting opinion of Judge Gaier, in: Federal Constitutional Court, decision of July 3, 2012 on Az. 2 PBvU 1/11 ( https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Entscheidungen/DE/2012/07/up20120703_2pbvu000111.html ) , Paragraph 68: “As an example of the fears linked to the emergency legislation , the memorandum of the Association of German Scientists 'The permanent emergency' written by Ekkehart Stein and Helmut Ridder as early as 1963 (printed in Ridder, Gesammelte Schriften, 2010, p. 563 <566 >) serve ”(emphasis added).
  2. ↑ The permanent state of emergency . Memorandum on behalf of the VDW, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: Göttingen; 1st edition: 1963 (?), 2nd edition: (also?) 1963; 3rd edition: 1964; reprinted in: Helmut Ridder, Gesammelte Schriften ed. by Dieter Deiseroth / Peter Derleder / Christoph Koch / Frank-Walter Steinmeier . Nomos: Baden-Baden, 2010, 563 - 596 (?).
  3. ↑ Board members of the VDW eV Archived copy ( memento from January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Members of the Advisory Board of VDW eV Archived copy ( Memento from January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ on Brock see his homepage at http://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/58335773/lbrock
  6. ↑ see http://www.vdw-ev.de/geschaeftsfuehrung/