Jürg Kramer to be the new President of the German Mathematical Society from January 2025

Berlin, November 15, 2024: Jürg Kramer will become the new President of the German Mathematical Society on January 1, 2025, and Moritz Kaßmann from Bielefeld University will be his Vice President. This was decided by the Executive Committee of the German Mathematical Society (DMV) at the beginning of November. Jürg Kramer was already Treasurer of the DMV (2003-2012) and also its President (2013-2014). He replaces Joachim Escher from Leibniz Universität Hannover, who has been President of the DMV since January 1, 2023. The office of President of the DMV is an honorary position with a two-year term.

Jürg Kramer, born in 1956 and a native of Switzerland, was Professor of Mathematics and its Didactics at Humboldt University in Berlin from 1994 to 2024. He received his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Basel in 1985 and habilitated at ETH Zurich in 1993. After spending time abroad in Germany, the USA and Canada, he became Professor of Mathematics at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1994. From 1998 to 2008, he was deputy director and director of the mathematics institute there. He is an arithmetic geometer and has held leading positions in several major projects: he was spokesperson for the Berlin Mathematical School (BMS) graduate school and two DFG research training groups as well as a board member of the Berlin DFG Cluster of Excellence MATH+. In the field of mathematics didactics, Kramer was particularly committed to promoting young talent and the professionalization of teaching staff. He was spokesman for the Humboldt-ProMINT-Kolleg and director of the German Center for Mathematics Teacher Training (DZLM), an advanced training initiative of the Deutsche Telekom Foundation. The DZLM has since become part of the newly established “Subject-related knowledge transfer” department at the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN) in Kiel. Kramer also supports the student competition “Kangaroo of Mathematics” in Germany and is chairman of the advisory board of the nationwide mathematics competitions.
The new Vice President will be DMV Executive Committee member Moritz Kaßmann from Bielefeld University. He succeeds the previous Vice President Dorothea Bahns from the University of Göttingen.

“I am delighted that the DMV Executive Committee has once again placed its trust in me on behalf of its 4,000 members and elected me President,” said Kramer after the election. “I wish my successor in office a successful and fulfilling presidency. I am firmly convinced that he will lead the DMV with a great deal of experience and foresight,” commented outgoing DMV President Escher on the election result.

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