The German Rubber Society presents itself worldwide: From 24 to 28
October 2016, the DKG operated its own booth at the 2016 International Rubber Conference in southern Japan.
The 100th conference of the DKG South regional group attracts
almost 200 participants to Juliusspital in Würzburg.
The DKG takes care of young talents and participates, together with the wdk, in the “Arena for Smart Minds” at the Commerzbank Arena in Frankfurt. Interesting products from the rubber industry were presented to inspire young people for technology and the material rubber, such as natural rubber directly from Malaysia, various raw materials, Formula 1 and DTM tires, baby soothers, condoms, hoses, gloves, David Coulthard’s racing shoe (produced in a member company), diving suits, steel cord conveyor belt section, medicine balls, and more.
Since 1997, Nuremberg has served as the venue for all future DKT conferences.
To cover the increased costs, the DKG decided on a significant increase in membership fees. This had consequences for the number of members. The difficult economic situation also left its mark. In the years to follow, several companies terminated their memberships, and there was a significant decline in individual DKG memberships.
The DKG expanded its collaborations with other European rubber societies. For example, the South and Southwest Germany regional group moved their conference to Lucerne in September 1991, and a German-French rubber symposium took place in Mulhouse in 1993. The Rhineland-Westphalia regional group organised a joint event with the Dutch Society of Plastic and Rubber Technologies (VKRT) in Maastricht.
The number of individual members increased from under 900 to 1,600 during the 1980s, and the number of corporate members increased from 99 to 134. The DKG became a member of the International Rubber Conference Organisation (IRCO).
To secure financial resources, the DKG established initial contacts with the Arbeitsgemeinschaft industrieller Forschungsvereinigungen (AiF) in Cologne, which awards research funding on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economics. In 1982, the DKG becomes a research alliance and member.
The 1965 international conference in Munich was the largest rubber conference held in Europe to date. Sixty presentations were offered to 1,400 participants from 33 countries at the Deutsches Museum. There was a reception by the Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs and special performance of “Der Rosenkavalier” at the National Theater. By that year, the DKG already had 611 individual and 94 corporate members.
The first major event in the history of the DKG took place in the Congress Hall in West Berlin: an international conference with high-profile foreign guests. It was a great success and served as the starting point for the present-day DKT.
The thirtieth year of the DKG’s existence, 600 conference participants gathered in Hamburg. For the first time, fourteen companies showcased their products in an exhibition area of 300 square meters, including testing machines and equipment.
Dr. Erich Konrad, the last chairman of the society before the war, called for the
reinstitution of the DKG in 1951. The DKG was revived and immediately gained international recognition. It received a series of greetings for resuming its activities.
In 1933, the DKG’s statutes had to be adjusted to comply with the “Führerprinzip” (Leader Principle), aligning them with the 15 “Guidelines of the New Reich.” This meant that from then on, the general meeting would only elect the chairman, “who alone takes full responsibility for the society’s activities and determines his employees.” After the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the official activities of the DKG were suspended.
The DKG’s lecture events became increasingly important platforms for the discussion of national and international scientific contributions. In 1936, during one of these events, Dr. Erich Konrad introduced the synthetic rubber BUNA, developed in Germany, for the first time. New approaches to the production of compounds are presented: This includes a shift toward organic vulcanisation accelerators and improved mechanical properties through gas blacks.
The regional groups Hamburg (1927), Berlin (1927), Rhineland-Westphalia (1928), and Southwestern Germany (1930), now known as the North, East, West, and South regional groups , were established in rapid succession.
In September 1926, 38 rubber technicians and researchers published a call for the establishment of a “scientific society of rubber chemists and engineers” for the “exchange of ideas for the benefit of the rubber industry as a whole” in the then very young journal “KAUTSCHUK.”
The DKG was founded at the inaugural meeting in Düsseldorf. Hanover was chosen as the legal seat of the society, and the headquarters were established in Frankfurt am Main, where the first managing board member of the DKG, Prof. Dr. Ernst A. Hauser, was active.
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Deutsche Kautschuk-Gesellschaft e. V.
Zeppelinallee 69
D-60487 Frankfurt am Main
Managing director:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Herbert Baaser
Mail: info@dkg-rubber.de