DChG Presidents

Presidents of the German Chemical Society (DChG)

In chronological order

Term of office	president
1868-1869	August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892)
1870	Karl Friedrich Rammelsberg (1813-1899)
1871	Adolf Johann Friedrich von Baeyer (1835-1917)
1872-1873	August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892)
1874	Karl Friedrich Rammelsberg (1813-1899)
1875-1876	August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892)
1877	Friedrich Wöhler (1800 - 1882)
1878	August Kekulé (1829-1896)
1879	August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892)
1880	Hermann Kopp (1817-1892)
1881	Adolf Johann Friedrich von Baeyer (1835-1917)
1882-1883	August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892)
1884	Emil Erlenmeyer (1825-1909)
1885	August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892)
1886	August Kekulé (1829-1896)
1887-1888	August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892)
1889	Johannes Wislicenus (1835-1902)
1890	August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892)
1891	August Kekulé (1829-1896)
1892	August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892)
1893	Adolf Johann Friedrich von Baeyer (1835-1917)
1894-1895	Emil Fischer (1852-1919)
1896	Hans Heinrich Landolt (1831-1910)
1897	Victor Meyer (1848-1897)
1898	Carl Theodor Liebermann (1842-1914)
1899	Hans Heinrich Landolt (1831-1910)
1900	Jacob Volhard (1834-1910)
1901	Jacobus Hendricus van't Hoff (1852-1911)
1902	Emil Fischer (1852-1919)
1903	Adolf Johann Friedrich von Baeyer (1835-1917)
1904	Eduard Buchner (1860-1917)
1905	Jacobus Hendricus van't Hoff (1852-1911)
1906	Emil Fischer (1852-1919)
1907	Carl Graebe (1841-1927)
1908	Walther Nernst (1864-1941)
1909	Otto Nikolaus Witt (1853-1915)
1910	Otto Wallach (1847-1931)
1911	Carl Theodor Liebermann (1842-1914)
1912-1914	Wilhelm Will (1854-1919)
1915-1916	Ludwig Knorr (1859-1921)
1916-1918	Hermann Wichelhaus (1842-1927)
1918-1920	Theodor Curtius (1857-1928)
1920-1922	Carl Dietrich Harries (1865-1923)
1922-1924	Fritz Haber (1868-1934)
1924-1926	Richard Willstätter (1872-1942)
1924-1928	Wilhelm Schlenk (1879-1943)
1928-1930	Heinrich Wieland (1877-1957)
1930-1932	Max Bodenstein (1871-1942)
1932-1933	Alfred Wohl (1863-1939)
1933-1936	Karl Andreas Hofmann (1870-1940)
1936-1938	Alfred Stock (1876-1946)
1938-1945	Richard Kuhn (1900-1967)
1949-1960	Emergency board: Franz Arndt (1884 - 1968)

In alphabetic order

Adolf Johann Friedrich von Baeyer
(1835-1917)

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1905
DChG President of the Years
1871, 1881, 1893, 1903

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Ernst August Max Bodenstein
(1871--1942)

DChG President of the Years
1930, 1931, 1932

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Eduard Buchner
(1860-1917)

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1907
DChG President of the Year
1904
Photo: Nobel Foundation

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Theodor Curtius
(1857-1928)

DChG President of the Years
1918, 1919, 1920

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Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer
(1825-1909)

DChG President of the Year
1884

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Hermann Emil Fischer
(1852-1919)

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1902
DChG President of the Years
1894, 1895, 1902, 1906

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Carl Graebe
(1841-1927)

DChG President of the Year
1907

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Fritz Haber
(1868-1934)

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1918
DChG President of the Years
1922, 1923, 1924
Photo: Nobel Foundation

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Carl Dietrich Harries
(1865-1923)

DChG President of the Years
1920, 1921, 1922

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Jacobus Hendricus van't Hoff
(1852-1911)

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1901
DChG President of the Year
1901, 1905

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August Wilhelm von Hofmann
(1818-1892)

DChG President of the Years
1868, 1869, 1872, 1873, 1875, 1876, 1879, 1882, 1883, 1885, 1887, 1888, 1890, 1892

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Karl Andreas Hofmann
(1870-1940)

DChG President of the Years
1933, 1934, 1935, 1936
Photo: BBAW

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Friedrich August Kekulé
(1829-1896)

DChG President of the Years
1878, 1886, 1891

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Ludwig Knorr
(1859-1921)

DChG President of the Years
1915, 1916
Photo: Wikidata

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Herrmann Kopp
(1817-1892)

DChG President of the Year
1880

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Richard Johann Kuhn
(1900-1967)

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1938
DChG President of the Years
1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945,
1960 Emergency Board of the DChG
(Successor to Franz Arndt)
Photo: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg

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