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The German Society for Sociology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, DGS) has been founded January 3rd, 1909 at Berlin by its initiator Rudolf Goldscheid (1870-1931), Ferdinand Tönnies, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, et al. First president was Tönnies, forced out of office by the Nazis, 1933.
The DGS is still flourishing, with about 1600 members (2007).
Presidents and chairpersons of the DGS
- Presidents
- 1909-1933 Ferdinand Tönnies
- 1933-[1946] Hans Freyer - keeping the Society dormant since 1934
- Chairpersons
- 1946-1955 Leopold von Wiese
- 1955-1959 Helmuth Plessner
- 1959-1963 Otto Stammer
- 1963-1967 Theodor W. Adorno
- 1967-1970 Ralf Dahrendorf
- 1970 Erwin K. Scheuch
- 1971-1974 M. Rainer Lepsius
- 1974-1978 Karl Martin Bolte
- 1979-1982 Joachim Matthes
- 1983-1986 Burkart Lutz
- 1987-1990 Wolfgang Zapf
- 1991-1992 Bernhard Schäfers
- 1993-1994 Lars Clausen
- 1995-1998 Stefan Hradil
- 1999-2002 Jutta Allmendinger
- 2003-2006 Karl-Siegbert Rehberg
- 2007- Hans-Georg Soeffner