ESU-Mitgliederversammlung/ESU-General Meeting Lübeck 2008

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Mitgliederversammlung / General Meeting 19 - 20 September 2008 in Lübeck
Consequently, the EDA executive committee consists of and has to be entered in the register of the association
as follows:
Chairman: Michael Krüger, born 5th January 1941,
Nazarethkirchstr. 51, D-13347 Berlin
Vice-chairman: Dr. Dietmar Hesse, born 14th March 1960,
Neue Wiese 18, D-31061 Alfeld
Third chairman: Stefan Kiermeier, born 4th August 1967,
Arzberger Str. 10, D- 93057 Regensburg
Treasurer: Olaf Abendroth, born 27th November 1971,
Frauenländerstr. 54, D-71394 Kernen-Stetten
Secretary: Ulli Goll, born 1st November 1968,
Heerskamp 6, D-22524 Itzehoe
15.2) Election of the cash auditors
Mr Bender and Mr Steinbauer volunteered to take on the positions again and were unanimously elected as cash
auditors.
16.) Reorganization of the EDA
Dr. Hesse reported in detail on the results reached during a task force meeting on 22nd February 2008 in Würzburg:
• A full-time employee is necessary. Too few members are actively participating in the executive
committee’s work which is partly due to lack of time, partly to a lack of interest.
• The office shall be further expanded.
• It is important to improve the EDA image and to get younger members to participate in the executive
committee as wells as its tasks.
• In order to take the internationalization of the organization into account, it is necessary to break with the
domination of the German language as the main language within the association.
Restructuring is absolutely necessary and possibly also entails modifying the statutes.
The association has accomplished a lot and among other things contributed to allow the communication between
individual members.
It is also neccessary to determine which language should in future be spoken at events of the association and used
in the magazine and on the EDA homepage respectively. Now as ever, there is much to be said for English.
Dr. Hesse asked for suggestions and proposals from the meeting what such a restructuring could look like.
Once again, Mr Hogrefe was praised as a coordinator. His activity as the EDA and FDS secretary is regulated by
contract according to the decisions by the executive committee.
During the next general meeting in Luxemburg a concrete concept of the following steps to be taken shall be presented.
Mr Krüger pointed out to the participants that the chairman, vice-chairman and third chairman would have to be
elected next year and asked the members to start thinking about a possible collaboration in the executive committee.
A considerable part of the executive committee’s work until the next general meeting would be to plan the reorganization.
In this connection the cooperation of the task force or interested members would also be possible.
Mr van Beest of the BeNeLux section suggested to discuss the subject of the reorganization in the sections so that
everyone can form an opinion.
The participants accepted the initiated measures concerning the subject of the reorganization without further requests
to speak.
17.) Miscellaneous
A short break was followed by a lecture of Mr Christian Kolb, Böhler, on the subject: Liability from the Provisions of a
Contract/Agreements for Quality Assurance.
Since there were no requests to speak after this very interesting lecture, Mr Krüger closed the meeting at 6:06 pm.
Signed
Chairman, Michael Krüger Secretary, Ulli Goll
ESU-MAGAZINE Dezember 2008