German Zoological Society

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German Zoological Society
(DZG)
legal form registered association
founding May 28, 1890 in Frankfurt am Main
Seat Munich
Office Munich
purpose zoology
Chair Jacob Engelmann
Website www.dzg-ev.de

The German Zoological Society (DZG) is a scientific specialist society . It was founded in Frankfurt am Main in 1890 . It has the legal form of a registered association with its seat and office in Munich .

The DZG represents all German-speaking zoologists and corresponds with other regional or national zoological societies. It represents the interests of zoology in the scientific associations and may also be consulted by politicians. Every zoologist and zoology student can become a member of society. The society organizes an annual meeting. Until 2004, this traditionally took place in the week of Pentecost. Since Pentecost week has not been lecture-free at all universities for a number of years, the search for conference venues became more and more difficult, so the company decided to negotiate the conference date with the host university from 2005 onwards.

Since 2004 the DZG has published its own scientific journal for the first time in its history : Frontiers in Zoology . The English-language online magazine of the DZG is published by the online publisher BioMed Central . Former publication organs of the DZG are the Zoological Gazette and the Zoological Yearbooks.

The DZG awards various prizes for the promotion or appreciation of scientific work.

Karl-Ritter-von-Frisch-Medal

The Karl-Ritter-von-Frisch- Medal is a science award of the German Zoological Society (DZG). The prize has been awarded every two years since 1980 to scientists whose work is characterized by excellent zoological achievements, which represent an integration of the findings of several individual biological disciplines. It is the most important science award in zoology in Germany and is endowed with 10,000 euros.

Prize winners:

Walther Arndt Research Prize

Research award for young scientists.

Horst Wiehe Dissertation Prize

The dissertation award of the Horst Wiehe Foundation is a science award of the DZG that has been awarded every two years since 1991. It is endowed with 2000 euros (previously 4000 DM) and is awarded at the respective DZG annual conference for an outstanding scientific dissertation on an exclusively zoological topic to young scientists between the doctorate and habilitation.

Werner Rathmayer Prize

The Werner Rathmayer Prize is a special prize for an original work from zoology as part of the Jugend forscht competition . It has been awarded annually to a finalist in the competition since 2004 and is rewarded with 500 euros and free participation in the following DZG annual conference.

President of the DZG

Honorary members

Networking

The society is a member of the German National Biology Committee (DNK) , which represents the interests of bioscientists in international organizations. The society is a member of the Association of Biology, Biosciences and Biomedicine in Germany eV (VBIO) , which is committed to the biosciences in Germany.

Jena Declaration

At its annual meeting in September 2019, the society under Martin S. Fischer , Uwe Hoßfeld , Johannes Krause and Stefan Richter adopted the Jena Declaration, according to which the concept of human races is "the result of racism and not its prerequisite". The division of people into races is referred to as social and political type formation, followed and supported by an anthropological construction on the basis of arbitrarily chosen properties such as hair and skin color. This construction serves precisely to justify open and latent racism with alleged natural conditions and thus to create a moral justification. Other prominent members such as the forensic biologist Mark Benecke welcomed the decision and called for Article 3 of the Basic Law to be amended . An article in Die Zeit evaluated the declaration primarily as a political symbol at a time when racist ideas were increasingly moving into the center of society. The fact that race ideology was very present in Jena during National Socialism is what makes the Jena Declaration so special.

Individual evidence

  1. DZG website
  2. ^ Karl-Ritter-von-Frisch-Medal. In: dzg-ev.de. German Zoological Society, accessed June 1, 2020 .
  3. Great honor for neurobiologist. Press release from September 16, 2014 at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de).
  4. German Zoological Society: Jena Declaration. The concept of race is the result of racism, not its premise. In: Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Friedrich Schiller University Jena, German Zoological Society, September 2019, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
  5. Mark Benecke: Jena declaration on the abolition of the term "race". In: Dr. Mark Benecke. International Forensics & Consulting =. September 11, 2019, accessed September 15, 2019 .
  6. Andreas Sentker: Racism: It's not the same! In: The time . September 12, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed October 8, 2019]).

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