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Germany


Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 11 July 1951

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

President: H.E. Mr Christian WULFF
Federal Chancellor: H.E. Ms Angela MERKEL

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

H. E. Mrs Martina Nibbeling-Wrießnig
Ambassador, Permanent Delegate (7/24/2009)

Permanent Delegation of Germany to UNESCO
13-15 avenue Franklin Roosevelt 75008 PARIS
Telephone: 01.53.83.46.63
Fax: 01.53.83.46.67
E-mail: info@unesco.diplo.de
dl.germany@unesco-delegations.org

National Commission for UNESCO

President: Mr Walter Hirche
Vice-President: Mrs Verena Metze-Mangold
2nd Vice-President: Prof. Dr. Christoph Wulf
Secretary-General: Mr Roland Bernecker

German Commission for UNESCO
15, Colmantstrasse 53115 BONN GERMANY
Telephone: (49.228) 60.49.70 (49.228) 60.49.719 (Sec-Gen)
Fax: (49.228) 60.49.730
E-mail: sekretariat@unesco.de; zillich@unesco.de; bernecker@unesco.de (SG)
Web site: http://www.unesco.de

Representation on the Executive Board

Title Name Years Sessions
MemberMme Maria Schlueter-Hermkes1954-196040-57
MemberM. Otto von Simson1960-196458-68
MembreM. Hans-Joachim von Merkatz1964-196868-78
MembreM. Hans Reimers196878-80
MembreM. Herbert Blankenhorn1970-197686-100
MembreM. Jens Petersen1976-1978101-105
MembreM. Wilhelm Fabricius1978-1980105-110
MembreM. Karl Moersch1980-1985111-122
MembreM. Walter Gehlhoff1985-1989123-132
MemberM. Kurt Müller1989-1993133-142
Representative1993-1999143-157
Representative1999-2001158-162
Representative2001-2005163-172
Representative2007- 2009178-182
Representative2009- 2011183-187
Note: The 1991 amendment modified Article V of the Constitution, with respect to the status of members of the Board, which with effect from the 27th session of the General Conference (1993) consists of Member States rather than of persons (26 C/Resolution 19.3).
Participation in subsidiary organs

    Subsidiary organs of the General Conference

  • Executive Board
    Representative (Term expires : 2011)

  • International Coordinating Council of the Programme on Man and the Biosphere
    Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)

  • Intergovernmental Council for the International Hydrological Programme
    Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)

  • Intergovernmental Committee for Physical Education and Sport
    Member (Term expires : 37th General Conference)

  • Conciliation and Good Offices Commission Responsible for Seeking the Settlement of any Disputes which may arise between States Parties to the Convention against Discrimination in Education
    Member : Mr Klaus Hüfner (Term expires : 37th General Conference)

  • Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee
    Member (Term expires : 37th General Conference)
  • Other intergovernmental organs

  • Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
    Member

  • Intergovernmental Committee of the International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations (Intergovernmental Committee of the Rome Convention)
    Member

  • Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
    Member (Term expires : 2011)
  • UNESCO institutes and centres

  • Council of the UNESCO International Bureau of Education
    Member (Term expires : 37th General Conference)

  • Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (former UNESCO Institute for Education, UIE)
    Member : Mr Walter HIRCHE (Term expires : 31 December 2011)

  • Advisory Board of the UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education
    President : Prof. Klaus Hüfner

Celebration of anniversaries

Two hundredth anniversary of the first research voyage to Latin America of the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (5 June 1999).

Two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 2000)

Hundredth anniversary of the death of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2000)

300th anniversary of the foundation of Wroclaw University (2002)

100th anniversary of the birth of Max Ophüls (2002)

100th anniversary of the death of Theodor Mommsen (2003)

100th anniversary of the birth of Theodor W. Adorno (2003)

300th anniversary of the translation of the “Thousand and One Nights” by Antoine Galland (2004)Web site

200th anniversary of the death of Immanuel Kant (2004)Web site

150th anniversary of the death of Heinrich Heine, writer (1779-1856) (2006)

100th anniversary of the birth of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian (1906-1945) (2006)

50th anniversary of the death of Bertolt Brecht, writer (1898-1956) (2006)

250th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Schiller, poet (1759-1805) (2009)

150th anniversary of the death of Bettina von Arnim, writer (1785-1859) (2009)

150th anniversary of the birth of Max Planck, physicist (1858-1947) (2008)

550th anniversary of the birth of Tilman Riemenschneider, sculptor (c.1460-1531) (2010)

150th anniversary of the death of Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (1788-1860) (2010)

200th anniversary of the death of Heinrich von Kleist, writer (1777-1811) (2011)

200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Schumann, music composer (1810-1856) (2010)

 
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