One hundred years of the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (Q2639040)

This is a slightly modified version of the speech delivered by the author at the one-hundredth anniversary meeting on the Union of German Mathematicians (DMV) in September 1990 in Bremen. Being himself a prominent German mathematician and president of the DMV in its centennial year of 1990 the author gives a short history of this scientific union. He emphasizes the importance of scientific and managing achievements of mathematicians such as Alfred Clebsch, Georg Cantor, David Hilbert, Felix Klein, Richard Courant and Wilhelm Süss. The ambivalent, altogether adaptive behaviour of the DMV under the rule of National Socialism is not concealed. Plans of September 1990 to rename the DMV after the German unification into ``German Mathematical Union'' thus taking a part of the name of the dissolved ``Mathematical Society of the GDR'' seem to have become absolete today.