German Mineralogical Society

The German Mineralogical Society (DMG) is a non-profit German society for the promotion of mineralogy . It has about 1300 members (2011) and belongs to the International Mineralogical Association . It was founded at the meeting of German natural scientists and doctors in Cologne in 1908 on the basis of a motion by Friedrich Martin Berwerth at the 1907 meeting in Dresden.

The current (2011) board member is Rainer Altherr .

The DMG has the following sections:

• Applied mineralogy in environment and technology
• Chemistry, physics and crystallography of minerals
• geochemistry
• Petrology and Petrophysics

and the working groups on archaeometry and monument preservation, deposit research and mineralogical museums and collections. There are also the mineralogy and geosciences in schools and cosmochemistry project groups. Annual meetings are held.

They award the:

• Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal in silver and gold
• the Victor Moritz Goldschmidt Prize for young scientists
• the Georg Agricola Medal in Applied Mineralogy
• the Paul Ramdohr Prize for Young Scientists.

They also award honorary memberships.

Together with the Italian and French Mineralogical Societies, you publish the European Journal of Mineralogy . For member information you have the geoscientific communications with the other German geoscientific societies.

Honorary members

• 1924 Max von Laue (1879–1960), Friedrich Becke (1855–1931), Waldemar Christofer Brøgger (1851–1940)
• 1925 Gustav Tschermak (1836–1927)
• 1927 Henry Alexander Miers (1858–1942), Leonard James Spencer (1870–1959), Jakob Johannes Sederholm (1863–1934)
• 1931 Gottlob Linck (1858–1947), Reinhard Brauns (1861–1937)
• 1932 Edward H. Kraus (1875–1973), Charles Palache (1869–1954)
• 1932 Friedrich Rinne (1863–1933)
• 1935 Gustav Klemm (1858–1938)
• 1938 Josef Emanuel Hibsch (1852–1940)
• 1947 Ludwig Ferdinand von Wolff (1874–1952), Otto Erdmannsdörffer (1876–1955)
• 1948 Hermann Steinmetz (1879–1964)
• 1949 Paul Niggli (1888–1953)
• 1950 Pentti Eskola (1883–1964), Percy Dudgeon Quensel (1881–1966), Karl-Hermann Scheumann (1881–1964)
• 1953 Hermann Tertsch (1880–1962), Walther Kossel (1888–1956), Iwan Stranski (1897–1979)
• 1957 Martin J. Buerger (1903–1986)
• 1958 Paul Peter Ewald (1888–1985)
• 1962 Carl Wilhelm Correns (1893–1980)
• 1963 Felix Machatschki (1895–1970)
• 1968 John Frank Schairer (1904–1970)
• 1970 Thomas FW Barth (1899–1971)
• 1971 Emil Lehmann (1881–1981), Adolf Pabst (1899–1990)
• 1972 Hermann Rose (mineralogist) (1883–1976)
• 1973 George T. Faust (1908–1985)
• 1975 Theodor Ernst (1904–1983)
• 1976 Fritz Laves (1906–1978)
• 1980 Heinz Meixner (1908–1981)
• 1980 Werner Nowacki (1909–1988)
• 1981 Walter Noll (1907–1987), Doris Schachner (1904–1988)
• 1982 Karl Hugo Strunz (1910–2006), Georges Deicha (1917–2011)
• 1988 Hans Ulrich Bambauer (* 1929)
• 1991 Josef Zemann (* 1923)
• 1992 Heinz Jagodzinski (1916–2012)
• 1995 Horst Saalfeld (* 1920)
• 2000 Werner Schreyer (1930-2006)
• 2002 Volkmar Trommsdorff (1936-2005)
• 2004 Egon Althaus (* 1933)
• 2005 Karl Hans Wedepohl (1925–2016), Friedrich Liebau (1926–2011)
• 2006 Peter Paufler (* 1940)
• 2015 Hans A. Seck (1935–2016), Friedrich Seifert (* 1941), Martin Okrusch (* 1934), Jochen Hoefs (* 1939)
• 2016 Herbert Kroll (* 1940), Herbert Palme (* 1943)

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Honors
2. ↑ Hans Ulrich Bambauer: Honorary Members. (PDF; 7.2 MB) In: Geologische Mitteilungen March 67 , 2017, pp. 44 ff. , Accessed on May 5, 2020 .