German Society for Demography
The German Society for Demography (DGD) is a politically independent association of scientists as well as scientifically interested or active persons and institutions who are active in the field of demography or in related subjects. Your seat is Berlin.
The society was created in 2001 from the merger of the German Society for Population Science and the Johann-Peter-Süßmilch Society for Demography .
DGD President has been Gabriele Doblhammer since 2016 , while Vice President Norbert F. Schneider .
history
German Society for Population Science
The German Society for Population Science (DGBW) was founded in Hamburg in 1952 and was a scientific association of doctors, statisticians, sociologists, historians and high-ranking administrative officials who had already been active in the fields of racial hygiene and population science in the Weimar Republic and during the National Socialist regime were. Her academic students were also organized in this association.
In addition to the DGBW, the German Academy for Population Science (DABW) was founded at the University of Hamburg in 1953 . It was the coordination center for university research projects on population science issues.
The Hamburg social hygienist Hans Harmsen was the first chairman of the DGBW and the first president of the DABW . The last chairman was Rainer Mackensen .
Johann-Peter-Süßmilch-Society for Demography
The Johann-Peter-Süßmilch-Gesellschaft für Demographie was founded in Berlin in 1990 on the initiative of demographers from the former GDR . Its chairman was Professor Eckart Elsner from the Berlin State Statistical Office .
Merger to form DGD
Due to the growing public importance of demographic issues and in order to promote synergies, the two scientific societies previously active in Germany in the field of demography - the German Society for Population Science and the Johann Peter Süßmilch Society for Demography - met on June 22nd In 2001 it was merged to form the German Society for Demography (DGD) based in Berlin.
Herwig Birg became the first president , Eckart Elsner became vice-president.
literature
- Josef Ehmer (Ed.): The population challenge: on developments in modern thinking about the population before, during and after the “Third Reich” . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-15556-2 .
- Rainer Mackensen (Ed.): Population research and politics in Germany in the 20th century . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-15121-5 .
- Rainer Mackensen (Hrsg.): Population theory and population policy before 1933 . Leske + Budrich , Opladen 2002, ISBN 3-8100-3285-9 .
Web links
- DGD website
- Foundation of the German Society for Demography , link broken on February 26, 2018
- “Long brown shadows”, Michael Sontheimer in the SPIEGEL Special 8/2006 on the founding and predecessor of DGBW and DABW
Individual evidence
- ↑ DGD website. Retrieved April 13, 2016.