About us - History

There is a long history of engineers and technicians engaged in geodesy. Zagreb is the city where the Association of Surveyors was founded on February 11, 1919. After World War II, in 1946, surveyors operated as a section of the Society of Engineers and Technicians Zagreb. The same sections were founded in Split, Rijeka and Osijek, which in 1953 outgrew these frameworks and participated in the founding of the Croatian Society of Surveyors. Although surveyors were members of the Croatian Engineering Association founded on March 2, 1878 as the Club of Engineers and Architects, 1953 is still considered the beginning of the independent work of surveyors in the Croatian Society of Surveyors (Paar, R. (2022): "70 years of the Croatian Geodetic Society"). The Croatian Geodetic Society is a voluntary, independent and non-profit association of graduated engineers, engineers and technicians of geodesy and geoinformatics and other professions related to the activities of geodesy and geoinformatics, or equivalent to them academic and professional titles and degrees of education in the geodetic profession, students of geodesy and geoinformatics in the first and higher years of graduate studies, or in the first and higher years of undergraduate studies, and legal entities engaged in geodesy and geoinformatics.

HGD is a legal entity whose rights and duties arise from the Associations Act and other positive regulations of the Republic of Croatia and the Statute of HGD.

The full name of the Association is: Hrvatsko geodetsko društvo

The abbreviated name of the Association is: HGD.

The name in English is: Croatian Geodetic Society and is used in conjunction with the name in Croatian.

The headquarters of HGD is in: Zagreb, Berislavićeva 6.

HGD operates in: the territory of the Republic of Croatia, and establishes professional cooperation and exchange of scientific and experiential knowledge with similar societies and organizations from the country and abroad.

HGD is a member of: the Croatian Engineering Association (HIS) and is a member of the International Association of Surveyors (FIG), and may also join other international associations of related activities.

HGD represents and is represented by the President, and in his absence by the Deputy President of the HGD.

In accordance with its goals, the HGD operates in the fields of education, science and research - professional associations in the fields of science, professional work and research, and the economy.

The HGD, in accordance with the law, also performs the following economic activities:

• publishing the Geodetic Journal (Geodetski list), the official, scientific, professional and professional journal of the HGD and other scientific and professional publications,

• organizing professional lectures, symposia, workshops, consultations, etc. in the field of geodesy and geoinformatics and marketing activities.

• The work of the HGD is public. The publicity of the HGD's activities is ensured by:

• the public nature of the sessions of the HGD bodies, except in exceptional cases when the sessions are closed to the public,

• publishing data on the work of the HGD through the HGD's journal, the "Geodetski list",

• using information and communication technologies (websites, e-mail, etc.), by public announcement and in other appropriate ways.

The members of the HGD are: geodetic associations in the territory of the Republic of Croatia. Other legal entities with headquarters in the Republic of Croatia that support the activities of the society may also be members of the HGD.

A regular member of the HGD may be an association of surveyors whose membership includes natural persons with business capacity: graduated engineers, engineers and technicians of geodesy and geoinformatics and other professions if they work in geodesy and geoinformatics, or equivalent academic and professional titles and degrees of education in the geodesy and geoinformatics profession, students of geodesy and geoinformatics in the first and higher years of graduate studies, or the first and higher years of undergraduate studies, and legal entities engaged in geodesy and geoinformatics.

A supporting member of the HGD may be a legal entity that supports the work morally, professionally, materially or in some other way.