German Cactus Society
The German Cactus Society eV (DKG) was founded on December 5, 1892 under the name Society for Cactus Friends . The constituent meeting took place in the Schultheiss restaurant in Berlin at Behrenstrasse 49. The first chairman was the curator at the time at the Botanical Garden in Berlin-Dahlem, Karl Moritz Schumann . The name was changed to Deutsche Kakteen-Gesellschaft on February 28, 1898.
The association is an association of German cactus friends and has around 5000 members. Together with the Society of Austrian Cactus Friends and the Swiss Cactus Society, he publishes, among other things, the monthly magazine Kakteen und Other Succulents .
1st chairman or president of the DKG
- 1892–1904 Karl Moritz Schumann
- 1904–1904 Hugo Lindemuth
- 1904–1905 Karl Hirscht
- 1905–1910 Maximilian Gürke
- 1910–1927 Friedrich Vaupel
- 1927–1934 Erich Werdermann
- 1934–1945 Bruno Dölz
- 1949–1952 Robert Grasses
- 1952–1955 Wilhelm Simon
- 1955–1965 Wilhelm Fricke
- 1965–1969 Helmut Gerdau
- 1970–1972 Manfred Fiedler
- 1973–1977 Kurt Petersen
- 1977–1985 Hans-Joachim Hilgert
- 1985–1991 Siegfried Janssen
- 1991–1995 Wilhelm Barthlott
- 1995-2000 Diedrich Supthut
- 2000-2008 Barbara Ditsch
- 2008 – to date Andreas Hofacker
Monthly journals
| Period | title | place | editor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1891-1892 | Monthly for cactus science | Berlin | Paul Arendt |
| 1892-1904 | Monthly for cactus science | Berlin | Karl Schumann |
| 1904-1910 | Monthly for cactus science | Berlin | Max Gurke |
| 1911-1921 | Monthly for cactus science | Berlin | Friedrich J. Vaupel |
| 1922-1926 | Journal of succulents | Berlin | Friedrich J. Vaupel |
| 1927-1928 | Journal of succulents | Berlin | Erich Werdermann |
| 1929-1932 | Monthly magazine of the German Cactus Society | Berlin | Erich Werdermann |
| 1933-1934 | Kakteenkunde , organ of the DKG | Neudamm | Wilhelm von Roeder |
| 1935-1939 | Cactus lore united with the cactus friend | Neudamm | Wilhelm von Roeder |
| 1937-1938 | Cacti and other succulents (organ of the DKG) | Berlin | Hanns Oehme |
| 1939-1940 | Kaktenkunde (publication by DKG) | Neudamm | H. Deeß |
| 1941-1943 | Kaktenkunde (publication by DKG) | Neudamm | Bruno Doelz |
| 1949 | News bulletin of the Franconian Cactus Friends | ? | Robert Grasses |
| 1949-1953 | Cacti and other succulents | ? | Erik Haustein |
| 1949-1956 | News bulletin of the German Cactus Society | Nuremberg | Erik Haustein |
| 1953-1954 | Cacti and other succulents | ? | Wilhelm Simon |
| 1954-1955 | Cacti and other succulents | ? | Johannes Endler |
| 1955-1958 | Cacti and other succulents | ? | Hans-Joachim Hilgert |
| 1959-1968 | Cacti and other succulents | ? | Erik Haustein |
| 1968-1969 | Cacti and other succulents | ? | Gert-Wolfram Rohm |
| 1970-1971 | Cacti and other succulents | ? | Jürgen Bosch |
| 1972 | Cacti and other succulents | ? | Horst Holland |
| 1972-1994 | Cacti and other succulents | Titisee-Neustadt | Dieter Hönig |
| 1994-1996 | Cacti and other succulents | ? | Jonas Lüthy |
| 1996-1997 | Cacti and other succulents | ? | Ulrich Meve |
| 1998–2014 (issue 7) | Cacti and other succulents | ? | Gerhard Lauchs |
| 2014 (Issue 8) - 2014 (Issue 9) | Cacti and other succulents | ? | Detlev Metzing |
| 2014 (Issue 10) - | Cacti and other succulents | ? | Thomas Brand |
literature
- Valentin Scholz, Hermann Stützel: Chronicle of the German Cactus Society eV Würzburg 1999.