Verein Deutscher Ingenieure
The VDI - group consists of the non-profit association (VDI eV ) and the VDI GmbH with its commercial businesses. The abbreviation stands for VDI Association of German Engineers and is in the public perception associated mainly with the VDI eV (which is why most of the registered association VDI eV is meant in the following the term VDI, unless otherwise indicated ).
Task
Founded in 1856, the technical-scientific association VDI eV claims to be the largest association of engineers and scientists in Germany. He sees himself as a lobbyist for organized into him engineers and scientists, but describes itself as opposed to other stakeholders for technical professions officially as " wirtschaftsnah ". The VDI represents not only the interests of engineers in Germany in national politics, but also acts internationally in transnational umbrella organizations such as Feani or WFEO.
The members of the VDI group make technical and scientific work at standardization and as promoters of public research funding. The VDI - group lobbying in the tips of the federal government and the EU and is therefore listed among others in the lobby list the federal government.
History
The roots traced back to 1846 in the Royal Commercial Institute Berlin. The club was founded on the occasion of an excursion on May 12, 1856 in Alexisbad ( resin ) by members of the Academic Association hut eV Berlin at its 10th Founder's Day. 1857 for the first time, the journal of the Association of German Engineers was published. 1866 initiated the establishment of the VDI steam boiler inspection agencies as a forerunner of today's Technical Inspection (TÜV ). The first German Patent Act of 1877 was significantly influenced by their previous work of VDI. On December 21, 1896 published the VDI a call, which, Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin's protege plans to construct a rigid airship. The decades-long attempts by the VDI to establish the engineering sciences as a scientific discipline, were successful. The Institutes of Technology received in 1899 the right to award doctorates ( Dr. -Ing. ), At the same time, the academic degree Diplom-Ingenieur was established. The VDI Annual General Meeting 1903 in Munich was the impetus for the founding of the Deutsches Museum by Oskar von Miller. 1917 was the co-founder of the German VDI Standards Committee (now DIN). 1921 appeared the first time the VDI Nachrichten, 1923, VDI Verlag was founded.
After the Second World War, the VDI was founded again on 12 September 1946 and moved its office from Berlin to Dusseldorf. The VDI 1956 founded the Association for Nuclear Technology from 1959 emerged the German Atomic Forum. The VDI Commission on Air Pollution Prevention was founded in 1957, in 1964 the VDI Commission noise reduction. The VDI accompanied since the late 1950s critically the development of engineering education in Germany, the introduction of graduation for engineering graduates in 1964 and the concept of the colleges were there milestones. In 1990, the VDI was founded back in the GDR as VDI Outline DDR and integrated with the German reunification as a district club Leipzig in the VDI. In the national, European and international technical standardization and regulation since the mid-1990s act, the Commission on Air Pollution Prevention of VDI and DIN - Standards Committee and the Standards Committee Acoustics, Noise Control and Vibration Engineering ( NALS ) of DIN and VDI as joint bodies. The VDI - Verlag and Science Publisher Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, a joint venture, the Springer VDI Verlag GmbH & Co KG publisher of technical journals. Founded in 1997 In 2000, the VDI and the EXPO 2000 Hannover GmbH held the first Weltingenieurtag in Hanover.
After an architectural competition of the Berlin district of the VDI Association commissioned the Berlin architect Friedrich Konrad Reimer and Korte ( Reimer and Körte ) the construction of a club house. 1896-1897 was from her designs at the corner of Charlotte Street 43 / Unter den Linden, a four-storey building erected.
1914 moved the main office in the for this purpose also to designs by Reimer and Körte at the corner Ebertstraße / Dorotheenstraße built five-storey building to the east of the Reichstag to. Today, the house is integrated by extensive alterations in the parliamentary building ensemble Jakob- Kaiser-Haus and is a listed building.
After the start-up and installation of office from Berlin to Dusseldorf in 1946, the main office was located in the Prince George's Straße 77 /79 Dusseldorf - PEMPELFORT.
From 1967 to 2008, the main office then was in the Graf- Recke- Straße 84 in Dusseldorf - Duesseltal. The four-storey building with a square base was built in 1965-1967 to designs by Helmut Rhode for the VDI. The basic grid of the design had a side length of 7.50 m. The main beams of the building were 15 m long. These carriers prefabricated concrete slabs were suspended, which formed the outer facade of the house along with the bands of windows. Inside the building was a courtyard with chamfered corners; the courtyard facades were covered with slate. The building had the ground floor lecture halls, a library and meeting rooms, canteen and kitchen. In addition to running the VDI, the building was the seat of the German Association of Technical and Scientific Associations (DVT ), the Research Society for Process Engineering and the German Commission for Engineering Education ( DKI ). The building was demolished after the departure of the VDI 2008/2009; on the plot two residential buildings were built.
The club moved in 2008 with its headquarters in the Airport City called the office area at Dusseldorf Airport has to offer. The siebengeschössige new building was designed by the Düsseldorf office Petzinka Pink Architekten. For project management, the Duisburg architects was agiplan integral bauplanung ( aib ) responsible.
Main office Dorotheenstraße 43, Berlin ( VDI seat from 1914 to 1944, state 1951)
VDI building Graf- Recke- Straße 84, Dusseldorf ( VDI seat from 1967 to 2008 )
Input of the VDI - house Graf- Recke- Straße 84
VDI - building in the Airport- City, Dusseldorf ( VDI seat since 2008)
Organization
The VDI corporate group consists of five private-sector companies pursuing profit-making goals and two registered clubs: VDI Technology Center, VDI center resource efficiency GmbH, VDI / VDE Innovation und Technik GmbH, VDI -Verlag GmbH ( a joint venture between VDI and Axel - Springer -Verlag), VDI insurance services GmbH, VDI knowledge Forum GmbH; and VDI eV and VDI Engineer Hilfe eV
The number of members is 2012 almost 150,000, which increasingly include not only engineers from different disciplines and scientists and computer scientists to members. By comparison, the number of socially insured employed engineers in Germany in 2007 was approximately 650,000. - Added tens of thousands of free consulting engineers. Although only about one-sixth of salaried engineers is organized in the VDI, the VDI is one of the most technically -oriented clubs and associations worldwide. The main office of the VDI is located in Dusseldorf. Regional divided the club in 15 country offices, 45 district associations, groups of students and young engineers ( suj ) VDI and VDI missions abroad. In addition, the VDI maintains a number of university offices at German universities.
The association is divided into four areas:
- Profession and society
- Members and Regional Service
- Strategy and Communication
- Technology and Science
Responsible positions are often occupied in VDI eV and in the district clubs by professors and other university staff. This explains the high school-related attitude of VDI in matters of education policy, for example in the introduction of Bachelor and Master programs. The VDI is involved as a member of the ASIIN directly to the accreditation of engineering science courses at German universities.
Activities
All members of the association receive the nationwide weekly newspaper VDI news, which is also available at newsagents. In addition to detailed reports on all the latest developments in technology and a business section and headings are included for management and career.
The association has set up a technical code, the 2012 with 2,000 valid ( and about 750 retracted ) VDI guidelines largely covers the broad field of technology. The technical policy work is done by volunteer for the VDI experts. In contrast to DIN persons to be included in the policy committees, which may be completely even with a change of employer. When DIN companies are loaded with their representatives for the most part. The reference of the VDI guidelines is chargeable for VDI members, but there is a discount granted.
The VDI Knowledge Forum is a major provider of continuing vocational training courses, particularly for engineering and other technical topics. The seminars, conferences and symposia offered are also open to non-members.
The club offers its members a range of services to, for example, individual counseling, insurance, discounted subscription of journals and books as well as the opportunity to participate in several local and regional professional events that are geared to support the professional development of members.
1934 Ring of Honor VDI was donated.
President
- Carl von Linde (1904-1905)
- Oskar von Miller (1912-1914)
- Fritz Todt (1939-1942)
- Hans Bluhm (1947-1952)
- Hans Schuberth (1953-1956)
- Gerhard Wilhelm Becker (1978-1982)
- Karl Eugen Becker (1983-1988)
- Joachim Pawns (1989-1991)
- Klaus Czeguhn (1992-1994)
- Hans -Jürgen Warnecke (1995-1997)
- Hubertus Christ (1998-2003)
- Eike Lehmann (2004-2007)
- Bruno O. Braun (2007-2012)
- Udo monster (since 2013)
Working Group on Women in Engineering
The Working Group on Women in Engineering of VDIsieht itself. Representing the interests of engineers and students in the engineering sciences in society and in technology He runs national and international contacts with the German engineers covenant to European Platform of Women Scientists to European Women in Mathematics, the AKC the German Zoological Society of Women in Industrial Research, INWES and the Center for Women and Information Technology.
The FIB is organized in several regional working groups within the VDI. Chairman of the working group is in 2013 Burghilde Wieneke - Toutaoui.
Grashof Commemorative Medal
The highest honor of the VDI, the Grashof Commemorative Medal, in 1894 donated to the memory of Franz Grashof ( professor of theoretical machines at the Technical University of Karlsruhe, co-founder and first director of VDI 1856-1890 ) in recognition of engineers, the outstanding scientific or professional services have provided in the technical field.
The embossed gold medal on the obverse the portrait of Franz Grashof, on the back the name of the honoree and the date of the ceremony. The miniature is a needle with the reduced medal in gold on blue bow.
The ceremony will take place at the decision of the Bureau at the VDI German engineering days. Owner of the Grashof Commemorative Medal are engineers such as Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Wilhelm Maybach, Carl Bosch, Ferdinand Porsche and Rudolf Schulten.
Criticism
The VDI initiative for the introduction of a single European professional card under the name "Engineering Card " is criticized by IG Metall, inter alia, under the grounds that privacy is not guaranteed and will that brought about by the introduction of the card a standardization of vocational training in the Anglo -Saxon model.
The years continued VDI campaign skills shortage in the engineering professions is criticized both inside and outside the VDI also in the grounds that the methodology to which the VDI is based in the collection of numbers to double surveys of vacancies and thus to a exaggeration of the actual labor market situation leads. It is discussed, among other things, how the assumed distortion of the labor market situation of VDI is intended and what interest the VDI hereby pursued.
In the year 2012, in protest against the information policy of a group of VDI VDI - members together to form the campaign "We are VDI ". The initiative calls for a move away from the perceived lack of skilled workers as a disinformation campaign and threatened with a call for mass resignations.
Additional name VDI
Engineers and scientists, as well as those (such as the Bavarian engineer Act) are entitled to use the professional title of engineer in accordance with the German engineering laws can be full members of the VDI. Only full members of the VDI may put the suffix " VDI " directly behind her last name, eg "John Doe VDI ".