German Botanical Society

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The German Botanical Society (DBG) e. V. is one of the oldest active botanical societies in the world. It serves exclusively charitable purposes. The DBG was founded in Eisenach in 1882 (with headquarters in Berlin ). Today it claims to have more than 900 members.

tasks and goals

The DBG represents plant sciences in German-speaking countries, promotes botany on a national and international level and gives the various disciplines of plant sciences a common home: from systematics and ecology to physiology and molecular biology and serves exclusively and directly charitable purposes.

activities

The main activities of the DBG are:

Editing of scientific publications, especially in her journal Plant Biology . This magazine (currently six issues per year and volume) has been published by Wiley-Blackwell-Verlag since January 2008. It is the successor to the reports of the German Botanical Society published by the DBG between 1882 and 1987 and the Botanica Acta published from 1988 to 1998 . Actualia communications have been online since 2007.

Every second year the DBG organizes a one-week scientific conference ("Botanikertagung"), which is organized by a German-speaking university. The conference includes lectures, poster presentations and botanical excursions and is held in conjunction with the general assembly, the “plenum” of the society. In the time between the botanist conferences, the sections hold workshops in their respective fields.

Since 2014, young researchers have been able to apply for financial support to hold an Eduard Strasburger workshop.

Prizes and awards

In order to promote young academics, the DBG regularly awards prizes and grants travel allowances for its conferences. The prizes will be presented to the young scientists during the botanist conference. The DBG supports specialist congresses and scientific conferences financially in order to enable young scientists to participate.

She presented the Wilhelm Pfeffer Prize for important dissertations, a prize for the best publication and the Horst Wiehe Prize for a scientific work. Since 1994 she has also been involved in the awarding of the Eduard Strasburger Prize for outstanding and original achievements of a doctorate in the field of botany.

Since 2014 it has been awarding an annual prize for an outstanding master’s thesis in plant science, which is awarded at each of the participating universities.

In addition to these prizes for the promotion of young scientists, the DBG awards the Simon Schwendener Medal for services to society and / or its goals.

history

The German Botanical Society e. V. (DBG) was founded in September 1882 during a conference in Eisenach and is part of the Regensburg Botanical Society of 1790 e. V. one of the oldest, active botanical societies in the world. The foundation was to take effect at the beginning of 1883; the first president of the DBG was Nathanael Pringsheim .

In 2007 it celebrated its 125th birthday with a conference in Hamburg and a commemorative publication on the history of society.

Organs of the DBG

The organs of the society are the general assembly and the board of directors. Their respective tasks are set out in the statutes of the German Botanical Society. V. laid down.

Organization in other associations

The DBG is a member of the Association of Biology, Biosciences and Biomedicine , the largest umbrella organization for the biological and life sciences in Germany. The society was a founding member of the vbbm (Association of Bioscientific and Biomedical Societies) which merged in May 2007 with the VdBiol ( Association of German Biologists and Bioscientific Societies ) to form VBIO.

Via the German National Biology Committee (DNK), the DBG is internationally networked in the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) and in the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS).

Sections

The German Botanical Society is divided into six sections, which offer their own scientific conferences and workshops in addition to the Botanikertagung:

The speakers of five of the six sections are members of the board.

Honorary members

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ekkehard Höxtermann: The Botanical Association of the Province of Brandenburg and the establishment of the German Botanical Society . In: 125 Years of the German Botanical Society. Anniversary edition on the occasion of the Botanikertagung in Hamburg from 3rd to 7th September 2007 . Basilisken-Presse, Marburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-925347-93-1 , pp. 31-70
  2. ↑ German Botanical Society Eduard Strasburger workshop by young researchers for young scientists
  3. ^ German Botanical Society Wilhelm Pfeffer Prize
  4. ↑ German Botanical Society Prize for the best publication
  5. ^ German Botanical Society Horst Wiehe-Förderpreis
  6. ^ German Botanical Society Eduard Strasburger Prize
  7. ↑ German Botanical Society Prize for Master Theses in Plant Science
  8. ^ Ekkehard Höxtermann: The Botanical Association of the Province of Brandenburg and the establishment of the German Botanical Society . In: 125 Years of the German Botanical Society. Anniversary edition on the occasion of the Botanikertagung in Hamburg from 3rd to 7th September 2007 . Basilisken-Presse, Marburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-925347-93-1 , pp. 31-70