The General German Workers' Association was a German political party founded on 23 May 1863 in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony by Ferdinand Lassalle. It was the first organized mass working-class party in European history.
The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) is a nonprofit membership organization for information professionals that sponsors an annual conference as well as several serial publications, including the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). The organization provides administration and communications support for its various divisions, known as special-interest groups or SIGs; provides administration for geographically defined chapters; connects job seekers with potential employers; and provides organizational support for continuing education programs for information professionals.
An eingetragener Verein, abbreviated e. V., is a legal status for a registered voluntary association in Germany. While any group may be called a Verein, registration as eingetragener Verein confers many legal benefits, because it confers the status of a juridical person rather than just a group of individuals. The legal status must be mentioned in the name as well. Like certain other corporate bodies, an eingetragener Verein can apply for the status of a charitable organization.
Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI) is an organization of about 135,000 engineers and natural scientists. More than 12,000 honorary experts process the latest technical findings each year to promote the technology location. Established in 1856, it is the largest engineering association in Western Europe. Its role in Germany is comparable to that of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in the United States or Engineers Australia (EA) in Australia, but includes broader field work. It is not a union, but promotes the advancement of technology and represents the interests of engineers and engineering businesses in Germany.
The ADAC, officially the Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club, is Europe's largest automobile association. The ADAC is the largest verein (club) in Germany, with around 21 million members. Its headquarters is located in Munich. Its original and most well-known service is roadside assistance.
Joseph Gillow was an English Roman Catholic antiquary, historian and bio-bibliographer, "the Plutarch of the English Catholics".
Corporatism is a collectivist political ideology which advocates the organisation of society by corporate groups, such as agricultural, labour, military, business, scientific, or guild associations, on the basis of their common interests. The term is derived from the Latin corpus, or "body".
The Institute der Wirtschaftsprüfer in Deutschland e.V. is a privately run organization based in Düsseldorf established to serve its members who comprise both individual Wirtschaftsprüfers and Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaften. The IDW was established on a voluntary basis rather than having been established under German law. In accordance with its Articles of Incorporation, the IDW does not operate as a commercial business and is a not-for-profit organization. Membership as of 31 December 2009 was 12,979 full members, of whom 11,959 were German public auditors and 1,020 were German public audit firms.
The Academic Boniface Association was a German Catholic youth organization for students at colleges and universities.
The German Chemical Society is a learned society and professional association founded in 1949 to represent the interests of German chemists in local, national and international contexts. GDCh "brings together people working in chemistry and the molecular sciences and supports their striving for positive, sustainable scientific advance – for the good of humankind and the environment, and a future worth living for."
The Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA) is a German association of 3,600 German and European mechanical and plant engineering companies. 'Industry' refers to innovation, export orientation and SMEs. The companies employ around 3 million people in the European Union (EU), and more than 1.2 million in Germany alone. This makes mechanical and plant engineering the largest employer among the capital goods industries, both in the EU and in Germany. In the EU, it represents a turnover volume of an estimated 860 billion euros. Around 80 percent of the machinery sold in the EU comes from a manufacturing plant in the domestic market.
The Heathen Woman's Friend was a Christian women's monthly newspaper. Established in May 1869, it was published by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Boston, Massachusetts. The monthly magazine describe conditions in the mission fields of the church, document the work of the society, and provide assistance to missionaries. The Heathen Woman's Friend was launched with volume 1, number 1 in May 1869. Its final issue, volume 27, number 6, was issued December 1895. The publication was relaunched as the Woman's Missionary Friend with volume 27, number 7 in January 1896, and ended with volume 73, number 7 in August 1940.
Margarete Gröwel was a German teacher who became a politician. Later, in 1953, she became the first woman to serve in the German consular service in Houston.
ProVeg Deutschland is a German non-profit organisation whose goal is to reduce the consumption of animal products. ProVeg Deutschland is part of ProVeg International, which serves as an international umbrella for a group of nationally operating organisations.
Alice Bensheimer was a German women's rights activist and longstanding secretary to the Federation of German Women's Associations .
Mathilde Block was a German painter and embroiderer. Her artworks and paintings range from pencil portraits to embroidered quilts and have been exhibited in numerous art expositions throughout the world.
Malkasten is a progressive German artists' association, founded in Düsseldorf in 1848, during the March Revolution. Since 1867, their headquarters have been in the Pempelfort district.
Moritz Geisenheimer was a German merchant and playwright. He was an activist for Jewish Emancipation and involved in the German Gymnastics and National Movement. As part of his role within the German Gymnastics and National Movement he was one of the first sports officials in Düsseldorf. Geisenheimer was also a publicist and politician for the democracy movement during the German revolution of 1848–1849.
Joseph Ignaz Euler was a Prussian notary and politician of the democratic movement.
The Association of German Librarians, also known by its German initialism VDB, represents the professional interests of academic librarians and works to promote academic books and libraries. It was founded in 1900, re-founded in 1948 (Munich) and is the oldest librarian association in Germany. The association has more than 1753 members (2020) who are employed in academic library service - or are being trained for it - or who are close to and represent the goals of the association. The office rotates with the respective board and, with the election of library director Anke Berghaus-Sprengel, has been located in Halle (Saale) at the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt since August 1, 2021.
