German Chemical Society

Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker

Formation	1949 (1949) (1867)
Type	Learned society
Headquarters	Frankfurt
Location	Germany
Membership	30,000
Official language	German
President	Prof. Dr. Peter R. Schreiner
Website	www.gdch.de

The German Chemical Society (German: Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, GDCh) is a learned society and professional association founded in 1949 to represent the interests of German chemists in local, national and international contexts. GDCh "brings together people working in chemistry and the molecular sciences and supports their striving for positive, sustainable scientific advance – for the good of humankind and the environment, and a future worth living for."^[1]