Jürg Kramer will be the next president of the German Mathematical Society (DMV) effective 1 January 2013. The chairs of the society elected Kramer, who is currently the treasurer of DMV. He replaces Christian Bär, who served his two-year term as president from 2011. The presidency of the DMV is an honorary appointment.

Jürg Kramer was born in 1956 in Switzerland. He is a professor of mathematics and mathematics education. He received his doctorate in mathematics at Basel University in 1985 and his Habilitation at ETH Zürich in 1993. He has held positions in Germany and abroad in the USA and Canada. He became a professor of mathematics at HU Berlin in 1994.

He is an arithmetic geometer and holds leading positions in several major projects. He is the co-chair of the BMS, the chair of a DFG research training group "Moduli and                                                                            ©WISTA
Automorphic Forms: Arithmetic and Geometric Aspects", and a board member of the DFG research center Matheon.

In the area of mathematics education, Kramer is especially active in the promotion of young scientists and the professionalization of teacher training. He is the deputy chair of the "Humboldt-ProMINT-Kolleg", promoting STEM education and is the director of the German Center for Teacher Training in Mathematics (DZLM), a training initiative of the Telekom Foundation. 

The DMV was founded in 1890 and has 5,000 members in various professions.

For more information and to contact the new president of DMV, Prof. Dr. Jürg Kramer, visit http://www.math.hu-berlin.de/~kramer

Press release of the DMV in German can be found at: https://dmv.mathematik.de/component/content/article/1225.html