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The DGF held its annual meeting in the cozy town of Höxter (Northrhine-Westphalia),
9 to 11 October 2009. Friday evening most of the people met for dinner, showed
and exchanged a few things, and chatted away. The old board held its last
meeting as well. Saturday morning was free for e.g. visiting Höxter with its
rich complement of historic half-timbered houses. At 11am we were greeted by
Höxter mayor and the first representative of the press, the latter looking for
good photo-ops. Scans of the local newspaper reports can be found at
http://flaggenkunde.de/tagungen/Tagungsbericht_17.html.
The afternoon
program contained talks by Erwin Günther (Coats-of-arms and flags in Western
Prussia), Jörg Majewski (Flags of Russian raions), Roman Klimes (Symbols of Saar
since 1920) and Klaus Günther (Municipal flags in Northrhine-Westphalia). There
was a first part of the general membership meeting as well, dealing with a few
changes of the bylaws forced upon us by rules about the tax-exempt status. For
the evening we went to nearby Corvey (ancient former abbey) for a guided tour
and a very entertaining special dinner with monks and maids.
The former
board members stood for re-election and after some persuasion, Jörg Majewski
(already member of the board in charge of the Flaggenkurier and the website)
agreed to run as candidate for DGF president. All candidates were elected
without any dissentient votes. See below for the full list of board members. The
location for our 2010 meeting was decided to be Dresden. After a short break
there were two additional talks, by Rüdiger Dreyhaupt (Flags of German scouting)
and Marcus Schmöger (Flags of small parties in Germany). After closing our
meeting at about 1pm the new board held its first meeting.
The meeting
flag shows the central emblem from the Höxter city arms (gate with towers) on
the generic DGF background.
M. Schmöger, 18 October 2009
Two of the meetings were together with foreign vexillological organizations:
The one at Münster (1997) together with the Dutch NVvV, the one at Ústí nad Labem together with the Czech VK.
For these joint meetings there were also special flags:
Flag of the German-Dutch Joint Meeting
by M. Schmöger
The one for the German-Dutch meeting joining together the German and Dutch national flags with the knot in white and orange colour.
Flag of the German-Czech Joint Meeting
by M. Schmöger
The one for the Czech-German meeting joining together the Czech national flag and the DGF flag, with a blue lozenge (fimbriated yellow) with a yellow knot in the centre.
M. Schmöger, 28-29 October 2002