DARC elects new Board members

During the annual Deutscher Amateur Radio Club membership meeting in Bad Lippspringe on 24 October, Dr. Walter Schlink, DL3OAP was elected Chairman of the DARC Executive Board. He succeeds Jochen Hindrichs, DL9KCX, Chairman since May, 2001, who no longer ran for office.

Also elected to the Executive Board are Steffen Schöppe, DL7ATE, Dr. Jürgen Sturhahn, DL8LE, Mitch Wolfson, DJ0QN, as well as Martin Köhler, DL1DCT.

Rudolf Schwenger, DJ3WE, decided not to run for office again..

Re-elected as Speaker of the division Directors (Amateurrat) is Thomas Beiderwieden, DL3EL, as well as his deputy Johann Peter Ritter, DH2BAO

Deutscher Amateur Radio Club website

• Editor's comment:
The appointment of Mitch Wolfson, DJ0QN to the DARC Board represents something of a milestone for Germany's national society, as he is the first-ever non-German to be elected to the Board.

Originally from Los Angeles in California, where he holds the callsign K7DX, Mitch has lived in Munich since 1977, and holds the German callsign DJ0QN, which he acquired soon after his arrival there.

His responsibilities as a DARC board member include marketing and PR, international relations and emergency communications.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish him every success in his new role.

Richard - G4TUT
Editor