Abstract
The idea of GOOS, the Global Ocean Observing System, was first launched by IOC in 1989 1 . The second World Climate Conference in 1990 took up this idea and urged its establishment to provide the oceanographic data needed by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) initiated in 1992. In the same year, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro called for the development of a global system of ocean observation to help understand and monitor changes. In all these international bodies German representatives were present and they started a process to support the idea of GOOS in Germany. The following report is a compilation of activities on the governmental, academic and industrial side. It is by far not complete and represents the personal view of the author only.
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