page_title: German Physical Society
section_title: Presidents
hierarchical_section_title: German Physical Society / Presidents
caption_attribution_description: Schautafel der Präsidenten der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft im Magnushaus
context_page_description: The German Physical Society is the oldest organisation of physicists. The DPG's worldwide membership is cited as 60,547, as of 2019, making it the largest physics society in the world. It holds an annual conference and multiple spring conferences, which are held at various locations and along topical subjects of given sections of the DPG.
  The DPG serves the fields of pure and applied physics. Main aims are to bring its members and all physicists living in Germany closer together, represent their entirety outwards as well as foster the exchange of ideas between its members and foreign colleagues. The DPG binds itself and its members to advocate for freedom, tolerance, veracity and dignity in science and to be aware about the fact that the people working in science are responsible to a particularly high extent for the configuration of the overall human activity.
context_section_description: 1845–47: Gustav Karsten
  1847–78: Emil Du Bois-Reymond
  1878–95: Hermann von Helmholtz
  1895–97: Wilhelm von Bezold
  1897–99: Emil Warburg
  1899–1905: Emil Warburg
  1905–06: Max Planck
  1906: Paul Drude
  1906–07: Max Planck
  1907–08: Heinrich Rubens
  1908–09: Max Planck
  1909–10: Heinrich Rubens
  1910–12: Ferdinand Kurlbaum
  1912–14: Heinrich Rubens
  1914–15: Fritz Haber
  1915–16: Max Planck
  1916–18: Albert Einstein 
  1918–19: Max Wien
  1919–20: Arnold Sommerfeld 
  1920–22: Wilhelm Wien
  1922–24: Franz Himstedt
  1924–25: Max Wien
  1925–27: Friedrich Paschen
  1927–29: Heinrich Konen
  1929–31: Egon von Schweidler
  1931–33: Max von Laue
  1933–35: Karl Mey
  1935–37: Jonathan Zenneck
  1937–39: Peter Debye
  1939–40: Jonathan Zenneck
  1940–45: Carl Ramsauer
  1950–51: Jonathan Zenneck
  1952–54: Karl A. Wolf
  1954: Richard Becker
  1955: Karl A. Wolf
  1956–57: Walter Gerlach 
  1958–59: Ferdinand Trendelenburg
  1960–61: Wilhelm Walcher
  1962–63: Konrad Ruthardt
  1964–65: Friedrich Bopp
  1966–67: Wolfgang Finkelnburg 
  1968–69: Martin Kersten
  1970–71: Karl Ganzhorn
  1972–73: Werner Buckel
  1974–75: Otto Koch
  1976–77: Hans-Joachim Queisser
  1978–79: Heinrich Welker
  1980–81: Horst Rollnik
  1982–83: Hans-Joachim Schmidt-Tiedemann
  1984–86: Joachim Treusch
  1986: Joachim Trümper
  1988–90: Otto G. Folberth
  1990–92: Theo Mayer-Kuckuk
  1992–94: Herwig Schopper
  1994–96: Hans-Günter Danielmeyer
  1996–98: Markus Schwoerer
  1998–2000: Alexander Bradshaw
  2000–02: Dirk Basting
  2002–04: Roland Sauerbrey
  2004–06: Knut Urban
  2006–08: Eberhard Umbach
  2008–10: Gerd Litfin
  2010–12: Wolfgang Sandner
  2012–14: Johanna Stachel
  2014–16: Edward G. Krubasik
  2016–18: Rolf-Dieter Heuer
  2018–20: Dieter Meschede
caption: Presidents of Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft from 1845 to 1945
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