Founded in 1951: See, e.g., page 2 of the minutes of the Executive Board meeting on 18 Sep 1951 in Karlsruhe. The "Verband Deutscher Physikalischer Gesellschaften" ("Union of German Physical Societies"), founded on 13 October 1950 in Bad Nauheim, during its Karlsruhe meeting in September 1951 installed eight divisions ("Fachausschüsse", now "Fachverbände"), namely: Acoustics, Semiconductor Physics, High Frequency Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmic Rays, Crystallography, Gas Discharges, Polymer Physics, and Low Temperature Physics. Details can be found in a special issue of "Physikalische Blätter", vol. 51, no. 1 (1995), devoted to "150 Years German Physical Society". In particular, the article by Wilhelm Walcher (pp. F-107 - F-133) gives an insightful account of the situation from 1945 to 1963 (when the "Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft" was re-founded).

Vorsitzender/Chair:

Prof. Dr. Christian Enss (4.2018 - 3.2021)

Former TT Chairs

Reinhold Kleiner, U Tübingen	2015 - 2018
Ulrich Eckern, U Augsburg	2012 - 2015
Rudolf Gross, WMI & TU München	2009 - 2012
Michael Siegel, U Karlsruhe	2006 - 2009
Gerd Schön, U Karlsruhe	2003 - 2006
Hans Koch, PTB, Institut Berlin	2001 - 2003
Herbert C. Freyhardt, GAU Göttingen	1999 - 2001
Paul Ziemann, U Ulm	1997 - 1999
Hermann Rietschel, FZ Karlsruhe	1995 - 1997
Helmut Krauth, Vacuumschmelze, Hanau	1993 - 1995
Kurt Scharnberg, U Hamburg	1990 - 1993
Bernd Stritzker, FZ Jülich	1988 - 1990
Eckhardt Hoenig, Siemens, Erlangen	1986 - 1988
Christoph Heiden, JLU Giessen	1984 - 1986
Georg Saemann-Ischenko, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg	1982 - 1984
Helmut Wühl, U Karlsruhe/FZ Karlsruhe	1980 - 1982
Gert Eilenberger, FZ Jülich	1978 - 1980
Albert Schmid, U Dortmund/U Karlsruhe	1976 - 1978
Joachim Appel, U Hamburg	1974 - 1976
Rolf Gremmelmaier, Siemens, Erlangen	1972 - 1974
Wolfgang Klose, U Saarbrücken	1967 - 1972
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Walther Meißner, TU München	1951 - ????

Chairs of the Working Group "Kryotechnik"
(sub-group of TT, only 1969 - 1995)

Peter Komarek, FZ Karlsruhe	1986 - 1995
Klaus Lüders, FU Berlin	1977 - 1986
Gustav Klipping, FHI Berlin	1969 - 1977