German Mathematical Society

The German Mathematical Society (German: Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung, DMV) is the main professional society of German mathematicians and represents German mathematics within the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and the International Mathematical Union (IMU). It was founded in 1890 in Bremen with the set theorist Georg Cantor as first president. Founding members included Georg Cantor, Felix Klein, Walther von Dyck, David Hilbert, Hermann Minkowski, Carl Runge, Rudolf Sturm, Hermann Schubert, and Heinrich Weber.[1]

The current president of the DMV is Friedrich Götze (2019-2020).

Activities

In honour of its founding president, Georg Cantor, the society awards the Cantor Medal. The DMV publishes two scientific journals, the Jahresbericht der DMV and Documenta Mathematica. It also publishes a quarterly magazine for its membership the Mitteilungen der DMV.[2] The annual meeting of the DMV is called the Jahrestagung; the DMV traditionally meets every four years together with the Austrian Mathematical Society (ÖMG) and every four years together with the Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik (GDM). It sometimes organises its meetings jointly with other societies (e.g., 2014 with the Polish Mathematical Society, PTM, or 2016 with the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, GAMM). Twice annually, it organises the Gauß Lecture, a public audience lecture by well-known mathematicians.[3]
Cantor Medal

The Cantor Medal was awarded to the following mathematicians: 1990: Karl Stein, 1992: Jürgen Moser, 1994: Erhard Heinz, 1996: Jacques Tits, 1999: Volker Strassen, 2002: Yuri Ivanovitch Manin, 2004: Friedrich Hirzebruch, 2006: Hans Föllmer, 2008: Hans Grauert, 2010: Matthias Kreck, 2014: Herbert Spohn, 2017: Gerd Faltings, 2019: Hélène Esnault.[4][5]
Governance

Since 1995, the DMV is led by a president, before that by a chairperson.[6]

1890–1893: Georg Cantor
1894: Paul Gordan
1895, 1904: Heinrich Weber
1896, 1907: Alexander von Brill
1897, 1903 und 1908: Felix Klein
1898: Aurel Voss
1899: Max Noether
1900: David Hilbert
1901, 1912: Walther von Dyck
1902: Wilhelm Franz Meyer
1905: Paul Stäckel
1906: Alfred Pringsheim
1909: Martin Krause, Dresden
1910: Friedrich Engel
1911: Friedrich Schur
1913: Karl Rohn
1914: Carl Runge
1915: Sebastian Finsterwalder
1916: Ludwig Kiepert
1917: Kurt Hensel
1918: Otto Hölder
1919: Hans von Mangoldt
1920: Robert Fricke
1921: Edmund Landau
1922: Arthur Moritz Schoenflies
1923: Erich Hecke
1924: Otto Blumenthal
1925: Heinrich Tietze
1926: Hans Hahn
1927: Friedrich Schilling, Danzig
1928, 1936: Erhard Schmidt
1929: Adolf Kneser
1930: Rudolf Rothe, Berlin
1931: Ernst Sigismund Fischer
1932: Hermann Weyl
1933: Richard Baldus
1934: Oskar Perron
1935: Georg Hamel
1937: Walther Lietzmann
1938–1945: Wilhelm Süss
1946: Kurt Reidemeister
1948–1952: Erich Kamke
1953, 1955: Georg Nöbeling
1954: Hellmuth Kneser
1956: Karl Heinrich Weise
1957: Emanuel Sperner
1958: Gottfried Köthe
1959: Willi Rinow
1960: Wilhelm Maak
1961: Ott-Heinrich Keller
1962: Friedrich Hirzebruch
1963: Wolfgang Haack
1964–1965: Heinrich Behnke
1966: Karl Stein
1967: Wolfgang Franz
1968–1977: Martin Barner
1977: Heinz Bauer
1978, 1979: Hermann Witting
1980–1981: Gerd Fischer
1982–1983: Helmut Werner, Bonn
1984–1985: Albrecht Dold
1986–1987: Wolfgang Schwarz
1988–1989: Willi Törnig
1990: Friedrich Hirzebruch
1991–1992: Winfried Scharlau
1993–1994: Martin Grötschel
1995–1997: Ina Kersten
1998–1999: Karl-Heinz Hoffmann
2000–2001: Gernot Stroth
2002–2003: Peter Gritzmann
2004–2005: Günther Wildenhain
2006–2008: Günter M. Ziegler
2009–2010: Wolfgang Lück
2011–2012: Christian Bär
2013–2014: Jürg Kramer
2015–2016: Volker Bach
2017–2018: Michael Röckner
2019–2020: Friedrich Götze
2020–2022: Ilka Agricola