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
Member	Mme Maria Schlueter-Hermkes	1954-1960	40-57
Member	M. Otto von Simson	1960-1964	58-68
Membre	M. Hans-Joachim von Merkatz	1964-1968	68-78
Membre	M. Hans Reimers	1968	78-80
Membre	M. Herbert Blankenhorn	1970-1976	86-100
Membre	M. Jens Petersen	1976-1978	101-105
Membre	M. Wilhelm Fabricius	1978-1980	105-110
Membre	M. Karl Moersch	1980-1985	111-122
Membre	M. Walter Gehlhoff	1985-1989	123-132
Member	M. Kurt Müller	1989-1993	133-142
Representative		1993-1999	143-157
Representative		1999-2001	158-162
Representative		2001-2005	163-172
Representative		2007- 2009	178-182
Representative		2009- 2011	183-187

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)