The Board of the Association will consist of a President, Vice-President, Secretary/Treasurer and one or two members in order to:Ĭonduct all business of the Association in the interval between two General Assembly meetingsĮxecute the decisions of the previous General Assembly meeting, while reporting the results to the next meeting This became effective after the General Assembly Meeting in Munich in September 1998.ĭuring the General Assembly Meeting (GAM) at Munich in September 1997, the proposal was adopted to reconstitute the WAHVM Board in order to involve all member societies and individual members more actively in the current and future affairs of the WAHVM. At the General Assembly Meeting of 1997 in Córdoba it was decided to establish a Liaison Committee, instead of the Extended Board, with a representative of each of the member societies, plus one member to represent the personal members.

The new Constitution was adopted in 1994. The main activity of the WAHVM is the organization of a biennial international congress.ĭuring the 26th congress, in 1993, it was decided to revise the Constitution of the WAHVM and to transform the association into a federation of national societies concerned with the promotion and study of veterinary history. The Association received observer status of the World Veterinary Association in 1970 and became an associate member in 1976. In the same year, the ‘World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine’ (WAHVM) was founded. The symposium was organized under the auspices of the German Veterinary Medical Association (DVG) by the Institute (Fachgebiet) for the History of Veterinary Medicine, which was established in 1963 within the Veterinary College, Hanover.įrom 1969 onwards the symposia were announced as “International Symposia” as delegates were attending from outside Germany.

In 1964, German veterinarians and others interested in veterinary history were invited to a symposium on the history of veterinary medicine in Hanover, Germany.

The WAHVM encourages, promotes, and coordinates research and education in the history of veterinary medicine.

The association of personal historians