Joining nations 1947-1990

JOINING NATIONS

1-1 E Jaeger, The Netherlands, Founder Vice-President and President, 1951-4.

A Portevin, France, Founder Vice – President.

but two of the prestigious honours bestowed upon him. There is no doubt that his support for the foundation of the IIW and his subse– quent association with it conferred upon the Institute in its formative years an intellectual status which it would otherwise have lacked and without which it would have been the poorer. The second of the Founder Vice -Presidents was Professor Ir H E Jaeger who, after an early career in shipbuilding, was appointed to the chair of naval architecture at the Technical University of Delft. In the IIW he went on to hold the offices of President and Treasurer before succeeding Professor Portevin as Founder Vice-President with a permanent seat on the Executive Council which he occupied until his death in 1984. For 19 years Chairman of the Commission on Arc Welding, Professor Jaeger also took a lead in promoting the IIW in international scientific circles, in particular UNESCO and the Union of International Technical Associations, as President of which he served for six years. Unlike the other original members of the Executive Council, Hans Jaeger was an excellent linguist, a gift which he fully exploited both in his academic work and as a member of nume rous international organisations.