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The second is the text of the
Articles of Incorporation of
the company “Institut Paul
Langevin - Max von Laue”, which
was also signed on 19 January
1967 by the representatives of the
three partners the GfK, the CNRS
and the CEA. These statutes define
the structure of the company, the
Steering Committee (coming from
the partners), the Director, and the
Accounting Control Board. They also create a Scientific Council. The functions of each are specified here. For the Germans the Director has full powers. It was essential for the Germans that the Council had a purely consultative role. A compromise was found removing the casting vote of the Director, and the veto of the Council. In reality throughout the life of the ILL there has never been, to my knowledge, any conflict between successive directors and the Scientific Council. Originally the Council was chaired by the Director. Since the 90s the chairman has been appointed from one of its members named by the directors of the ILL; William (Bill) Stirling was the first president named.
The first meeting of the Steering committee was held from 6 January 1967 in Bad Godesberg, that is even before the Institut was officially established. The following were appointed at this meeting: the president (Dr Pretsch), the vice-president (Néel), the first secretary (Balligand), the second secretary (Hasenclever), the Director (Maier-Leibnitz), the Deputy Director (Jacrot),
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Chapter 4 - The negotiations
Fig. 4.5: Wolfgang HASENCLEVER