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

Kramer, who previously served as both Treasurer (2003-2012) and President (2013-2014) of the DMV, will succeed Joachim Escher (Leibniz Universität Hannover). The office of President of the DMV is an honorary position with a two-year term. Moritz Kaßmann will succeed Dorothea Bahns of the University of Göttingen as Vice President.

Jürg Kramer, born in 1956 in 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.

Kramer is an arithmetic geometer who has held several key leadership roles, including spokesperson for the Berlin Mathematical School and 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. In mathematics education, he directed the German Center for Mathematics Teacher Training (DZLM) and chairs the advisory board for nationwide mathematics competitions, including the 'Kangaroo of Mathematics' competition for schoolchildren.

«I am delighted that the DMV Executive Committee has once again placed its trust in me on behalf of its 4000 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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