1845–47: Gustav Karsten 1847–78: Emil Du Bois-Reymond 1878–95: Hermann von Helmholtz 1895–97: Wilhelm von Bezold 1897–99: Emil Warburg 1899–1905: Emil Warburg 1905–06: Max Planck 1906: Paul Drude 1906–07: Max Planck 1907–08: Heinrich Rubens 1908–09: Max Planck 1909–10: Heinrich Rubens 1910–12: Ferdinand Kurlbaum 1912–14: Heinrich Rubens 1914–15: Fritz Haber 1915–16: Max Planck 1916–18: Albert Einstein [26] 1918–19: Max Wien 1919–20: Arnold Sommerfeld [27][28] 1920–22: Wilhelm Wien 1922–24: Franz Himstedt 1924–25: Max Wien 1925–27: Friedrich Paschen 1927–29: Heinrich Konen 1929–31: Egon von Schweidler 1931–33: Max von Laue 1933–35: Karl Mey 1935–37: Jonathan Zenneck 1937–39: Peter Debye 1939–40: Jonathan Zenneck 1940–45: Carl Ramsauer 1950–51: Jonathan Zenneck 1952–54: Karl A. Wolf 1954: Richard Becker 1955: Karl A. Wolf 1956–57: Walter Gerlach [29] 1958–59: Ferdinand Trendelenburg 1960–61: Wilhelm Walcher 1962–63: Konrad Ruthardt 1964–65: Friedrich Bopp 1966–67: Wolfgang Finkelnburg [30] 1968–69: Martin Kersten 1970–71: Karl Ganzhorn 1972–73: Werner Buckel 1974–75: Otto Koch 1976–77: Hans-Joachim Queisser 1978–79: Heinrich Welker 1980–81: Horst Rollnik 1982–83: Hans-Joachim Schmidt-Tiedemann 1984–86: Joachim Treusch 1986: Joachim Trümper 1988–90: Otto G. Folberth 1990–92: Theo Mayer-Kuckuk 1992–94: Herwig Schopper 1994–96: Hans-Günter Danielmeyer 1996–98: Markus Schwoerer 1998–2000: Alexander Bradshaw 2000–02: Dirk Basting 2002–04: Roland Sauerbrey 2004–06: Knut Urban 2006–08: Eberhard Umbach 2008–10: Gerd Litfin 2010–12: Wolfgang Sandner 2012–14: Johanna Stachel 2014–16: Edward Kubrasik 2016–18: Rolf-Dieter Heuer 2018–20: Dieter Meschede (president-elect)[31]