Category: Club year 2014/2015

Meet our board of directors

Same procedure as every year… This is our board for the 2024/25. We continue to be a home for internationals in Frankfurt, as well as a starting point into the world.

President: Balthasar Wied
Vice-President: Anna Efimova
Past-President & Treasurer: Julia Jäger
Secretary: Julia Guzik
“Clubmeister”: Maximilian Schusser
Relations Officer: Frederik Giese

Looking forward to an exciting year together with our District Speaker Niklas Röhner and his Rotaract 1820 district team!

For pictures, an “Ask-Me-Anything”-Campaign and more information, check out our instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/p/C_dI32csjfx/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

It’s all about personalization!

 

Niels Loeb, telling us about small, fashionable, authentic and individual ADAM.
Niels Loeb is telling us about small, fashionable, authentic and individual Opel ADAM.

The speaker Niels Loeb, chief designer of Adam Opel AG, held a very interesting presentation about one of the car that he worked on and gave us a detailed overview on the ADAM. Niels told us about two principals, on which ADAM is based: “Innovate and not imitate”!

There are 64000 combinations of ADAM that give Opel customers a choice to design their own car, which leads us to the conclusion that ADAM is all about personalization.

Delicious chocolate for everyone!!!

 

The sweetest meeting in our club
The sweetest meeting in our club ever

It was indeed the first meeting in the history of our club, when we could try as many chocolate as we wanted to. Moreover, our guests and members had an opportunity to choose between the variety not only of dark, white and milk chocolate, but also of the latest innovation – caramel chocolate, which some people from our group found even better than the traditional ones.

The history of “Heller Pralinen ” was told by Christian Ruzicka – the owner of this chocolate business, who kindly explained us the way his manufactory works and gave us a chance to enjoy the taste of a well-qualified marzipan, nougat and even of raw cacao beans.

People say “business and finance”, since we are in Frankfurt am Main!

Susanne Bergsträßer explains what a Securities Supervisor do
Susanne Bergsträßer explains what a Securities Supervisor does

Susanne Bergsträßer (Senior Director of the BaFin) gave us a short introduction of the work as a securities supervision. The BaFin is a Federal Financial Supervisory Authority in Germany. Before 1995, there was no such  supervisory organization in Gernany and therefore People sometimes called it a “banana republic”.

This meeting was especially interesting for those, who are working in or studying business and finance. Nevertheless, some of our guests and members that are not related to these topics had an opportunity to learn more about it and had, of course, fun, while doing it.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

In a very efficient way Arthur is introducing us to the Seven Habits in such a short period of time.
In a very efficient way Arthur is introducing us to the Seven Habits of highly effective people.

Arthur Muguet presented to us a short summary of the book “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey. This book deals with personal effectiveness. Here are seven habits of people that want to reach a high level of effectiveness: 1) Be proactive; 2) Begin with the end in mind; 3) Put first things first; 4) Think win/win; 5) Seek first to understand then to be understood; 6) Synergize; 7) Sharpen the saw.

Incredible India and its culture

Miruna told us about her journey to India and about her first and following impressions that she got there during two weeks. A great number of amazing photos were showed to us and we could only wonder what an incredible country it is. Moreover, some of our guests and members started thinking about spending their next vacation in India in order to plunge in its culture. 20150202_213153

Congratulations to the newest club in d1820

Toni & Melina representing our club at the founding charter

It’s official: we are not the youngest club in the district anymore! Yesterday, on October 18th, we celebrated the official founding charter of the Rotaract Club Schwalm-Eder. It was a really nice evening with, yes, again, delicious food, great conversations and awesome people. Thank you again to the RAC Schwalm-Eder for the invitation and we wish you a good start!

If you are ever in the area check out their homepage for more information.

A delicious trip to Mainz

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Homemade Zwiebelkuchen and delicious Federweißer directly from the vineyard

The RAC Mainz invited us to join them for their traditional “Federweißer” meeting with Federweißer and Zwiebelkuchen… and this was an invitation we could not decline! So on October 6th 2014 a group of courageous members went to cross district borders to district 1860. Their courage was rewarded with a great evening: some glasses of delicious Federweißer, homemade Zwiebelkuchen and in general a lot of fun with new friends. 🙂

Thank you very much guys, we are already looking forward to next year…

 

The different faces of terrorism

Constanze, former RDK chairperson

On September 29th, we welcomed a high-ranking guest to our meeting: Constanze, former RDK (Rotaract German Committee) chairperson. With the advances of the IS in Iraq and Syria the topic of the evening could not have been more up-to-date. We learned to distinguish between ethno-nationalistic terrorism (e.g. ETA), social-revolutional terrorism (RAF) and religious motivated terrorism (such as Al-Qaida and their advanced brothers from IS).

Midterm elections in the US

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Tim, a true expert on American politics

On September 15th, we welcomed Tim to our meeting. Although he is German, he has been following American politics with a passion for years. Thus it was a logical conclusion to have him talk about the midterm elections in the US taking place on November 4th this year. It was a witty presentation full of facts and figures and we are excited to see what will happen in November…