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Debating
Society Germany e.V. is a non-profit organisation formed in 1996 to facilitate
the development of debates in Baden-Württemberg and Germany. Its
members include debaters, coaches and adjudicators as well as people interested
in debates.
Debaters can expect to
use their experience in six months time when confronted with school teams
from our European neighbours, and they may compete for a place on the
WSDC German team.
If you have any queries
about the working of Debating Society Germany or would like to participate
or support future events please e-mail  info@schoolsdebate.de
You can find our constitution
and more information on the German
pages.
Dear colleagues and friends of debating,
May I welcome you, on behalf of the Debating Society Germany e.V., to
the new year of debating in Germany. It is my duty to inform you of a
major change to the structure of DSG for the forthcoming year.
At the Jahreshauptversammlung of the DSG (5th December 2009), a new Vorstand
was chosen consisting of myself as 1. Vorsitzender (Chairperson), Christopher
Sanchez as 2. Vorsitzender (Vice Chairperson), Ulrike Nogossek as Secretary
and Tanja Ferraro-Wolf as Treasurer. Of course, this means now that Angelika
Höness is no longer the 1. Vorsitzende. We, as the new "Executive"
would like to give huge thanks to Angelika for her work over the past
14 years in setting up debating in Germany and being the driving force
behind it and all the developments of these years, including the Worlds
of 2004 as THE highlight here. We are all hugely in debt to her for her
work and we know that we have a hard act to follow!
However, as a new Executive, we want to bring in some new ideas of our
own and so we wish to involve schools and interested parties in developing
and promoting debating far beyond the borders of Greater Stuttgart and
a few scattered cities. This is a national task and we require dedicated
people from all over the country. To this end, we wish to put the Society
on a fully democratic footing, giving you the members the power to organise
the activities intended to help those people who REALLY count: the debaters.
As such, we wish to setup committees to run the various activities (Germans,
Europeans, Senior League, Junior League, PR, the website, sponsorship,
accommodation, etc., also regional representation to put debating on a
local footing) in order to give everyone a say in the Society's activities.
And this is where YOU come in! If you'd be interested in helping us out,
in order to help facilitate debating for our youngsters, then please let
us know by the New Year so that we can arrange a meeting and allocate
tasks to various people. We intend to have bimonthly feedback meetings
in order to ensure that the members of the society know about progress
in various areas, allowing us to all really work as a team. Since we know
that we're not alone in this country, we're perfectly willing to conduct
such meetings in the form of moderated chats or via Skype or Facebook
in order to allow this to be a truly national Society, promoting the wonderful
thing that is debating from Flensburg to Füssen and from Aachen to
Frankfurt/Oder!
Come and be a part of this project! Come and make debating happen for
all those great dedicated students out there!
On behalf of DSG, I would also like to wish you a happy festive season
and we wish you (and hope to work with you!) a wonderful 2010.
Regards,
David Whitehead
1. Vorsitzender
Debating Society Germany e.V.
Executive Committee
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