German Society for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine

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German Society for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine
(DGZMK)
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legal form registered association
founding 1859
Seat Düsseldorf ( ⊙ coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 31.9 ″  N , 6 ° 47 ′ 11.2 ″  E )
Chair Roland Frankenberger
Managing directors Guido Wucherpfennig (General Secretary)
Members 22,784 (2018)
Website www.dgzmk.de

The German Society for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine eV ( DGZMK ) is the scientific umbrella organization of German dentistry. It unites 40 specialized societies, working groups and working groups in Germany and has around 23,000 members (as of 2018). This corresponds to a share of almost 32% of all dentists working in Germany. This makes it one of the largest scientific and medical societies in Europe.

In addition to the German Dental Association , an association of the national dental associations, which mainly represents as civil and public health aspects of German dentists and dentists' National Association, which advocates for the interests of dentists, is the DGZMK primarily for scientific positions of Dentistry . Membership is voluntary.

history

In 1859 the Central Association of German Dentists (CVdZ) was founded. His founding fathers pursued the goal of establishing standardized training for dentists throughout Germany. In addition, the CVdZ should serve as a professional representative.

The founding initiative came from the Lüneburg dentist David Fricke, who, together with 21 other colleagues from northern Germany, contacted all colleagues of the German Confederation in 1859 via the magazine “Der Zahnarzt” with an appeal to join. As early as April 1859, the CVdZ registered 38 additional additions of dentists from all over Germany, including the chairman of the Association of Saxon Dentists , court dentist Hering.

In the period from 1859 to 1890, the Centralverein took on a double function. In addition to his scientific tasks, he also took on professional political tasks. His goal at that time was to raise the dental status in social and scientific relationships.

Since the career-political successes of the CVdZ remained rather limited in contrast to the scientific ones, the Centralverein focused exclusively on the promotion of dental science from 1890 onwards. From then on, the Association of German Dentists (VbDZ), founded on April 2, 1891, took over the representation of professional interests . During the 31st annual conference in 1925, the mutual decision was made that the CVdZ should merge with the VbDZ and henceforth, as the German Society for Dentistry and Maxillofacial Medicine (DGZK), protect the primarily scientific interests of its members. Professional-political questions no longer played an essential role. This was taken over by the Reich Association of Dentists in Germany . The merger of CVdZ and VBDZ took place in the following year. At that time, the newly founded DGZK had 2,750 members.

time of the nationalsocialism

On March 25, 1933, Ernst Stuck , who had joined the NSDAP in 1930 , was elected as its new chairman at the general assembly of the Reich Association of Dentists in Germany . It was thanks to his close connection to the Reich leadership of the NSDAP that he was awarded the title of "Reich Dentist Leader". On August 6, 1933, Stuck finally demanded at the board meeting of the DGZK the recognition of the political leadership of the Reichszahnärzteführer and his involvement in all negotiations. In the autumn of 1933 he finally called for the establishment of a dental umbrella organization, which was to bear the name of the German Society for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine (DGZMK). One of the consequences of the restructuring was that the newly founded DGZMK suddenly had around 16,000 members.

The DGZMK should therefore take on the following tasks:

  1. Advice to the Reich Dental Guide
  2. Enlivening and regulating the scientific life of the entire area, as far as it is expressed in lectures, in advanced training and in literature. For this purpose the DGZMK maintained
    • a central library
    • a collection of scientific teaching materials
    • a movie point and
    • a cultural-historical collection
  3. Deepening and expansion of the entire area of ​​the subject

In addition, Stuck demanded that the DGZMK should train a scientific leader tribe whose task it should be "to penetrate the younger generation with the spirit of real science and a real priestly doctorate" . The dental press system was also rebuilt. The German monthly for dentistry was discontinued in 1933 and replaced in 1934 by the German dentistry, oral and maxillofacial medicine . In addition, Stuck subordinated the field of dental training to the Reich Association of Dentists in Germany and set up the academy for dental training especially for this purpose .

Detached from the task of dental training, the promotion of scientific research in all dental fields was now the exclusive task of the DGZMK. In 1935 the DGZMK already comprised six working groups as a scientific umbrella company. These included the working groups for dental, oral and maxillofacial surgery, for orthodontics , for dental anatomy and pathology, for periodontal research (German Arpa ), for prosthetics and materials science, and for dental conservation studies.

In April 1935, Stuck then pushed through the designations " specialist dentist for orthodontics" and "specialist dentist for oral surgery " against numerous opposition .

In 1938 the DGZMK played a major role in the revocation of the license to practice medicine for Jewish dentists.

With the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, the scientific activities of the DGZMK initially decreased significantly. Instead, the professional exchange on the special needs of the war moved more into focus. As the war progressed, the DGZMK finally returned more and more to its originally intended main task, dental research. This took place primarily in the field of prosthetics and materials science and achieved great success with jaw and facial injuries.

From 1940 onwards there were no more annual meetings. The journal Deutsche Zahn-, Oral- und Kieferheilkunde was published until the turn of the year 1943/44 and then also discontinued.

Among the presidents of the DGZMK in the period 1906–1981, the following presidents were members of the NSDAP : After the end of the “ Third Reich ”, their affiliation was kept a secret before, during and after their terms of office.

  • Otto Walkhoff (1860–1934) term of office 1906–1926; (Joined the NSDAP in 1929)
  • Wilhelm Herrenknecht (1865–1941) term of office 1926–1928
  • Hermann Euler (1878–1961) term of office 1928–1945 and 1949–1954; (Joined the NSDAP in 1933)
  • Hermann Wolf (1889–1978) term of office 1954–1957; (Joined the NSDAP in 1938)
  • Gerhard Steinhardt (1904–1995) term of office 1965–1969; (Joined the NSDAP in 1938)
  • Eugen Fröhlich (1910–1971) term of office 1969–1971
  • Werner Ketterl (1925–2010) term of office 1977–1981; (Joined the NSDAP in 1943)

1945 to 1999

Due to the ban on associations imposed by the Allies after the end of the war , the DGZMK was also initially dissolved. But already in May 1946 the "German Dental Journal" (DZZ) was published. Initially, the DZZ appeared as a chamber organ of the Bavarian State Dental Association, but the dental associations of the provinces of North Rhine , Lower Saxony, North Baden, South Baden and Hesse soon followed , whereby the DZZ quickly achieved supra-regional status.

In order to circumvent the ban on associations imposed by the Allies, the first exchange of views between dental professionals from West Germany took place on January 12 and 13, 1946, under the direction of Fritz Linnert in Nuremberg. On June 2 and 3, 1946, an interzone committee of dentists was founded in Heidelberg , each consisting of three delegates from the three western occupation zones and one representative from Berlin. In January 1948 the Association of Dentists in the American Sector of Greater Berlin was founded with the permission of the military government . The association was founded only a little later in the British sector of Greater Berlin . From June 23 to 25, 1948, the Association of German Dental Professional Representatives (VDZB) was finally established in Rothenburg . Fritz Linnert took over the chairmanship.

On March 13, 1949, the resolution was finally passed to reconstruct the German Society for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine (DGZMK). Hermann Euler was elected first chairman of the DGZMK. Gustav Korkhaus (Bonn) and Karl Winter (Düsseldorf) took over the functions of deputy chairman and editor-in-chief, respectively. At that time, 250 dentists had already expressed their interest in becoming a member of the newly founded DGZMK. The constituent meeting took place as “77. Conference of the DGZMK "finally in July 1949 - so only two months after the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany - in Wiesbaden as part of the" 10. German Dental Conference ”.

In 1950 the DGZMK had only 480 members. In order to achieve rapid growth in membership, it was decided to allow corporations to join the DGZMK. The "Deutsche Zahnärztliche Zeitschrift" (DZZ), sometimes the journal of the Bavarian Dental Association, was henceforth the official scientific organ of the DGZMK.

Detached from National Socialism, the association was able to devote itself to its original task of promoting (free) research in the field of dentistry. In addition, knowledge of the research results obtained should be transferred from science to practice. For this purpose, both the DGZMK and the VDZB each provided two delegates, who were primarily to devote themselves to advanced training in dentistry.

The association experienced a significant leap in membership in 1953 through the implementation of the “Law on the Education of Dentistry” passed on March 31, 1952, which put an end to the dual system of dentists and dentists that existed in Germany. By the end of 1953 about 15,000 dentists provided with the visit of a 60-hour training course the legally required proof of qualification and received thereupon the appointment to the dentist.

In addition, the association was very keen to integrate dentists from the GDR into its own research activities. In 1960 the DGZMK had 160 members from the GDR. However, the strict political separation of the GDR from the FRG and the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 brought an abrupt end to efforts to establish close scientific German-German cooperation between dentists. In the GDR, the Society for Stomatology of the GDR emerged as a scientific organization for dentistry. In the years that followed, there was only sparse contact between the two organizations. The official organ of the Society for Stomatology was the "Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine" founded in 1934 as an organ of the DGZMK.

When the chairman of the DGZMK, Rudolf Naujoks , announced the impending establishment of an Academy Practice and Science (APW) at the annual general meeting on October 11, 1973 , he laid the foundation for a new era in advanced dental training. The founding of the APW was officially announced on April 24, 1974 at a press conference during the 100th annual meeting. Naujoks emphasized that the task of the APW is the “ targeted and systematic advanced training of the general practitioner on a scientific basis. ". The “Basic Dentistry Course” represented the forerunner of today's curricular advanced training courses. During the 102nd annual meeting of the DGZMK from October 28th to 30th, 1976, the first successful participants in the course series were ceremoniously appointed members of the Academy.

In 1978 the association introduced an official "Statements of the DGZMK" on current issues in the field of dentistry. These statements meant helpful support for the dental practitioner in everyday treatment issues. Between 1978 and 1991 the DGZMK published a total of 50 official statements.

Although the Turkish dentist Lem'i Belger, an employee of Alfred Kantorowicz , was appointed a corresponding member of the society as early as 1966 , from 1979 and 1980 the internationalization of German dentistry, oral and maxillofacial medicine and thus the transfer of German research results advanced in the international community more and more at the center of the activities of the DGZMK. After intensive discussions, however, an English-language publication was (for the time being) refrained from. The reasons given are u. a. the increasing specialization of scientific dentistry, oral medicine and maxillofacial medicine. Many papers would therefore only be of interest to specialists, which does not justify the effort associated with an English-language publication.

With the collapse of the GDR in 1989 and the reunification of Germany in 1990, the DGZMK also faced major upheavals. Not least because the GDR Society for Stomatology was dissolved on April 7, 1990. The DGZMK then saw it as its great responsibility to be open to scientifically interested dentists in the former GDR. In order to minimize the inhibition threshold of East German dentists about joining the DGZMK, the then board of directors around the chairman Rolf Nolden decided to accommodate East German dentists also with the membership fees.

In April 1997 the association set up a homepage. This should represent a platform that would enable dentists to get quick and targeted access to current information from dentistry outside of the annual meetings. In addition, it is a source of information for the media, which has now been able to inform the public about innovations in dentistry based on scientifically sound information.

Since 2000

A development that could already be observed at the end of the 20th century and continued in the 21st century was the increasing specialization of established dentists in partial areas of dentistry. This development also presented the DGZMK with the great challenge of finding an answer to the question of how it, as a scientific organization, can continue to unite the interests of all dentists working in Germany from practice and science and represent them externally.

More than ten years after reunification, the East German dentists were underrepresented in the membership of the DGZMK. In order to counteract this fact, in 2004 the DGZMK signed cooperation agreements with the “Society for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg ” and the “Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Society for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine at the Universities of Greifswald and Rostock ”.

In 2018, the DGZMK brought together a total of 40 dental societies, working groups and working groups under its roof. It thus acts as a mouthpiece for all of scientific dentistry. In this function, she gives greater weight to the knowledge gained in the individual groups and thus promotes their better perception by the public.

Thanks to its close cooperation with its subject-related specialist groups, the DGZMK is also able to offer dentists a complex range of advanced training courses in the various specialist dental disciplines. For this reason, the training courses offered by the Academy for Practice and Science (APW) are continuously adapted to the constantly changing requirements of the market.

Another task was to strengthen our own positioning in the professional world and the public. The alliance initiated by Wilfried Wagner with the German Dental Association (BZÄK) has revealed new potential for this. The DGZMK has an office in the Berlin premises of the BZÄK, which gives it a better influence on political decisions. In addition, the existing cooperation was and will be strengthened through further joint activities, such as the joint hosting of the “German Dental Conference”, the joint publication of patient information or joint discussions to prepare a new dental license .

During his tenure (2004–2007), Georg Meyer also campaigned for an expansion of the range of scientific statements and a stronger international orientation of the German Dental Journal. The internationalization of the advanced training courses at the Academy for Practice and Science , which he was striving for, was not implemented during his tenure.

When Thomas Hoffmann took over the office of President of the DGZMK in 2007, he named the expansion of the range of services for DGZMK members as well as greater consideration of the interests of the members, who predominantly work as “house dentists”, as key goals of his term of office. Since 2008, the association has therefore been offering its members oral mucosa advice. In 2009 the DGZMK consulting service was supplemented by X-ray consulting. DGZMK members now have the opportunity to forward patient cases that are difficult to diagnose to an association's own expert committee. This advises the submitted treatment cases and gives the dentist treatment tips for the benefit of his patient.

Scientific funding and awards

The promotion of young academics and scientific projects is the core task set out in the statutes. In addition to awarding scientific prizes, the association supports suitable projects through a science fund that is administered by a board of trustees and from which DGZMK members can apply for funding.

The association offers the following scientific prizes to promote science and progress:

  • German Miller Prize, endowed with 10,000 euros
  • DZZ annual best price, endowed with 3,000 euros
  • Kurt Kaltenbach's Dental Education Award, endowed with 13,000 euros
  • DGZMK / BZÄK / Dentsply sponsorship award, endowed with 1,500 euros
  • DGZMK Poster Award, endowed with 1,000 euros

Specialist societies, working groups and working groups

organization chart

Non-independent working groups, working groups and societies

  • German Society for Functional Diagnostics and Therapy (DGFDT)
  • Working group for maxillofacial surgery
  • Working group for radiology
  • Working group for basic research
  • Working group ergonomics in dentistry
  • Working group on epidemiology and public health
  • Working group on psychology and psychosomatics
  • Working group on the history of dentistry
  • Transdisciplinary working group Regenerative Medicine
  • Halitosis working group
  • Military Medicine Working Group
  • Ethics working group
  • Working group dentistry for people with disabilities or special medical support needs (AG ZMB)

Interdisciplinary working groups

Associated professional societies

  • German Society for Geriatric Dentistry (DGAZ)
  • German Society for Aesthetic Dentistry (DGÄZ)
  • German Society for Implantology (DGI)
  • German Society for Laser Dentistry (DGL)
  • German Society for Computer-Aided Dentistry (DGCZ) with the IT section
  • German Society for Periodontology (DG PARO)
  • German Society for Prosthetic Dentistry and Biomaterials (DGPro) [formerly German Society for Dental Prosthetics and Materials Science e. V. (DGZPW)]
  • German Society for Tooth Preservation (DGZ)
  • German Society for Pediatric Dentistry (DGKiZ)

Corporating Companies

Cooperating professional societies

  • German Society for Orthodontics
  • German Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
  • Bergischer Zahnärzteverein
  • Gnathological working group
  • Society for ZMK at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
  • Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Society for ZMK at the Universities of Greifswald and Rostock
  • German Society for Dental Sleep Medicine
  • Friedrich Louis Society of the University of Leipzig
  • Society for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine Dresden e. V.

Publication organs

  • German Dental Journal (DZZ) as a member journal of the DGZMK; Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, Cologne
  • German dentistry, oral and maxillofacial medicine ; Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, Cologne
  • Journal of Dental Implantology ; Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, Cologne
  • Oral prophylaxis and pediatric dentistry ; Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, Cologne
  • Clinical Oral Investigations ; Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg / New York
  • Dental Video Journal (formerly APW-DVD-Journal); Quintessenz Verlags GmbH, Berlin
  • International Poster Journal of Dentistry and Oral Medicine ; Quintessenz Verlags GmbH, Berlin

Presidents of the DGZMK and its predecessor organizations (1859–2013)

Term of office Surname Life dates Place of employment
1859-1866 Moritz Heider 1816-1866 Vienna
1868-1869 Eduard Leopold 1829-1869 Stuttgart
1871-1876 Gustav Klare 1834-1910 Leipzig
1876-1879 Adolf Hartung 1817-1893 Jena
1879-1885 Gustav Klare 1834-1910 Leipzig
1885-1891 Carl Sauer 1835-1899 Berlin
1891-1900 Friedrich Louis Hesse 1849-1906 Leipzig
1900-1906 Willoughby D. Miller 1853-1907 Berlin / USA
1906-1926 Otto Walkhoff 1860-1934 Munich
1926-1928 Wilhelm Herrenknecht 1865-1941 Freiburg
1928-1945 Hermann Euler 1878-1961 Wroclaw
1949-1954 Hermann Euler 1878-1961 Wroclaw
1954-1957 Hermann Wolf 1889-1988 Wurzburg
1957-1965 Ewald Harndt 1901-1996 Berlin
1965-1969 Gerhard Steinhardt 1904-1995 gain
1969-1971 Eugen Fröhlich 1910-1971 Tübingen
1972-1977 Rudolf Naujoks 1919-2004 Wurzburg
1977-1981 Werner Ketterl 1925-2010 Mainz
1981-1985 Manfred Strasbourg 1930-2014 Dusseldorf
1985-1989 Rudolf Voss 1926– Cologne
1989-1993 Rolf Nolden 1934– Bonn
1993-1997 Gottfried Schmalz 1946– regensburg
1997-2001 Wilfried Wagner 1950– Mainz
2001-2004 Heiner Weber 1950– Tübingen
2004-2007 Georg Meyer 1948– Greifswald
2007-2010 Thomas Hoffmann 1951– Dresden
2010-2013 Henning Schliephake 1960– Goettingen
2013-2016 Bärbel Kahl-Nieke 1958– Hamburg
since 2016 Michael Walter 1955- Dresden

swell

  • "The history of the DGZMK - 1859–2009", anniversary volume, Dominik Groß and Gereon Schäfer, Quintessenz-Verlag, 2009.
    • Julius Parreidt: History of the Central Association of German Dentists (1859–1909). Berlin 1909.
    • Fritz Schaefer-Stuckert: History of the Central Association of German Dentists (1909-1934). Munich 1934.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The board of the DGZMK. In: dgzmk.de. Retrieved December 26, 2019 .
  2. ^ Magdalena Schwarz, Jewish doctors and dentists withdrew their license to practice medicine
  3. ^ Dominik Groß, Karl Frederick Wilms Dossier 2: The presidents of the DGZMK, the honorary members of the dental professional associations and their role in the "Third Reich" . Retrieved December 19, 2019.
  4. ↑ Ali Vicdani Doyum: Alfred Kantorowicz with special reference to his work in İstanbul (A contribution to the history of modern dentistry). Medical dissertation, Würzburg 1985, pp. 227-232, here: p. 230.
  5. ↑ Werner Ketterl | Prof. Dr. med. Dr. med. dent. Werner Ketterl. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , accessed on November 19, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Prof. Dr. Michael Walter new President of the DGZMK. Chance Praxis - The specialist magazine for young dentists, November 21, 2016, accessed on November 19, 2017 .