Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie

What Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie does

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie e. V. (DGPs) is Germany's principal learned society for psychologists active in research and teaching, organized as a non-profit registered association (eingetragener Verein) under German civil law and headquartered at Marienstraße 30, 10117 Berlin. Founded in 1904 in Gießen as the "Gesellschaft für experimentelle Psychologie" and subsequently renamed, the DGPs serves more than 5,800–6,000 individual members plus institutional members (university faculties and institutes offering psychology degree programs), organized into 16 specialized Fachgruppen and a Jungmitglieder early-career network. Its core proposition is serving as the unified scientific voice for psychology in Germany across research, teaching, policy, and public discourse, anchored by the biennial DGPs-Kongress, the quarterly Psychologische Rundschau journal published in cooperation with Hogrefe Verlag, the DGPs Qualitätssiegel for degree programs, and an active Stellungnahmen practice across federal legislation.

Revenue is generated entirely from member-funded channels: tiered annual membership dues (€160 ordinary, €70 associate with reduced first-5-years rate, €25 student with time-bound reductions, €500 institutional, plus a €15 surcharge per Fachgruppe), reduced registration fees at the biennial DGPs-Kongress and Fachgruppen tagungen, free academic job-market access via the Hogrefe PsychJob portal, and modest fee-based Wissenschaftlich-psychologische Dienstleistungen. Distribution is direct: online self-service applications through dgps.de, the Geschäftsstelle phone/email channel (030 28445960), and direct outreach to university faculties with the Fakultätentag Psychologie as institutional counterpart. The technology stack is conventional and German-hosted: TYPO3 CMS hosted by Mittwald CM Service, Sewobe AG's VereinsMANAGER integrated via IFRAME for member administration, cookie-free Matomo analytics, DFN-hosted mailing lists, and YouTube embeds in extended privacy mode under GDPR. Key partnerships include Hogrefe Verlag (flagship publishing and PsychJob cooperation), unith (co-organizer of the Deutscher Psychotherapie Kongress and joint Stellungnahmen), Sewobe AG and Mittwald (technology vendors), CoARA (research assessment reform), the Fakultätentag Psychologie (institutional counterpart), and the Diagnostik- und Testkuratorium (test quality assurance).

Name

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie

Legal name

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie e. V. (DGPs)

Website

https://dgps.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1904

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie e. V. (DGPs) is Germany's 120-year-old learned society for psychologists in research and teaching, serving 5,800–6,000+ members across 16 Fachgruppen through membership dues, the biennial DGPs-Kongress, the Psychologische Rundschau journal, policy Stellungnahmen, and the Qualitätssiegel for psychology degree programs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Berlin

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Ordentliche Mitgliedschaft (Ordinary Membership): Recurring annual membership fees from qualified psychologists (PhD holders with at least one additional scientific publication). Standard annual fee €160; discounted to €144 if member also belongs to BDP, BÖP, SGP, or a state psychotherapist chamber.
2. Assoziierte Mitgliedschaft (Associate Membership): Recurring annual membership fees from non-PhD psychologists (M.Sc./Diploma holders active in research). Reduced annual fee of €70 for the first 5 years of membership, then €160 thereafter. Assoziiert-Institutionelle: €250/year.
3. Studentische Mitgliedschaft (Student Membership): Recurring annual membership fees from M.Sc. psychology students. Reduced annual fee of €25 for the first 3 years, then €70 for 5 more years, then €160 thereafter.
4. Institutionelle Mitgliedschaft (Institutional Membership): Recurring annual fees from university faculties, departments, and institutes offering psychology degree programs. Annual fee €500 per institution.
5. Fachgruppenbeitrag (Section Fees): Annual surcharge of €15 per membership in each Fachgruppe (specialized section), added on top of base membership fees.
6. Event/Congress Registration Fees: Reduced registration fees for members at the biennial DGPs-Kongress, Fachgruppen tagungen, and workshops (the standard member benefit discount is a key membership driver).
7. Wissenschaftlich-psychologische Dienstleistungen (Scientific-Psychological Services): Fee-based scientific-psychological services offered to institutional and external clients under the 'Angebote' section of the website.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) operates as Germany's principal scholarly society for psychologists, selling tiered membership subscriptions (Ordentliche, Assoziierte, Studentische, Institutionelle and 16 Fachgruppen) to over 6,000 members and providing associated benefits including the quarterly Psychologische Rundschau journal, reduced congress fees, the DGPs Qualitätssiegel for psychology degree programs, Expertendatenbank media referrals, and formal policy Stellungnahmen on federal legislation.

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Functional benefit

Brands

• Psychologische Rundschau: Official journal/news organ of the DGPs, distributed quarterly to all members.
• psychologische-coronahilfe.de
• PsychJob (Hogrefe)

Products and services

• Psychologische Rundschau Official news organ of the DGPs. All DGPs members receive this peer-reviewed journal four times per year. It offers a discussion forum for current research topics, professional developments, and questions on study and teaching, and contains scientific original articles and comments. The journal is included in the membership fee.
• DGPs-Kongress DGPs's flagship biennial congress covering the full thematic spectrum of psychology and interdisciplinary approaches, featuring current research presentations through lectures and posters, state-of-the-art talks by internationally recognized experts, and position papers. Members receive reduced registration fees.
• PsychJob Online-Stellenmarkt Online job market for psychologists operated in cooperation between Hogrefe Verlag and DGPs. Members can post job advertisements free of charge (for non-commercial research and teaching positions) and access the market.
• Expertendatenbank DGPs expert database containing information on members' research focus areas who can be referred to the press as experts. Members may opt in to be listed.
• Fachgruppen (Sections) Subdisciplinary sections of the DGPs representing the various branches of psychology (e.g., Allgemeine Psychologie, Entwicklungspsychologie, Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, Arbeits-, Organisations- und Wirtschaftspsychologie, Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie, Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie und psychologische Diagnostik, Gesundheitspsychologie, Ingenieurpsychologie, Medienpsychologie, Methoden & Evaluation, Pädagogische Psychologie, Rechtspsychologie, Sozialpsychologie, Sportpsychologie, Umweltpsychologie, Verkehrspsychologie, Geschichte der Psychologie). Sections provide discussion forums, conferences, workshops, mentoring programs, dissertation competitions, and newsletters.
• Ordentliche Mitgliedschaft (Ordinary Membership) Recurring annual membership subscription for qualified psychologists (PhD holders with at least one additional scientific publication). Annual fee €160; discounted to €144 with joint membership in BDP, BÖP, SGP or a state psychotherapist chamber.
• Assoziierte Mitgliedschaft (Associate Membership) Recurring annual membership subscription for non-PhD psychologists (M.Sc./Diploma holders active in research). Reduced annual fee €70 for the first 5 years, then €160. Assoziiert-Institutionelle: €250/year.
• Studentische Mitgliedschaft (Student Membership) Recurring annual membership subscription for M.Sc. psychology students. Reduced annual fee €25 for the first 3 years, then €70 for 5 more years, then €160.
• Institutionelle Mitgliedschaft (Institutional Membership) Recurring annual subscription for university faculties, departments, and institutes offering psychology degree programs. Annual fee €500 per institution.
• Wissenschaftlich-psychologische Dienstleistungen (Scientific-Psychological Services) Fee-based scientific-psychological services offered to institutional and external clients under the 'Angebote' section of the website.
• DGPs Qualitätssiegel for Psychology Degree Programs DGPs quality seal issued to psychology degree programs (B.Sc./M.Sc.) at German universities that meet DGPs recommendations. Referenced in the Studienorte listing where programs are flagged with 'm. Qualitätssiegel DGPs'. Operated as a brand-identity / certification mark.

Quantifiable outcome

• More than 6,000 members across all psychological sub-disciplines
• +4 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

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Integration3 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• Hogrefe Verlag GmbH & Co. KGflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-standing publishing and services cooperation. Hogrefe publishes the Psychologische Rundschau (the official DGPs news journal, included in the membership fee and shipped four times per year). Hogrefe also operates the PsychJob online job market for psychologists in cooperation with DGPs; members may post non-commercial research/teaching job advertisements for free. Hogrefe is headquartered at Merkelstraße 3, 37085 Göttingen, Germany.
• unith (Verbund universitärer Ausbildungsgänge für Psychotherapie)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint operator of the Psychologische Corona-Hilfe information and counseling offering (psychologische-coronahilfe.de), and co-author of policy Stellungnahmen including the joint response to the Bundesministerium für Gesundheit's Referentenentwurf for the GKV-Beitragssatz-stabilisierungsgesetz. unith represents German university psychotherapy training programs.
• Sewobe AG (VereinsMANAGER)coreTechnology or IntegrationMember-management technology partner. Sewobe's VereinsMANAGER online association-management software (headquartered Werner-Haas-Straße 8, 86153 Augsburg) is integrated via IFRAME in the DGPs members' area to handle online membership signup, login-protected master-data management, member search, and Fachgruppen-Rundmail broadcasts. Data processing and storage occur exclusively in Germany under a signed Auftragsverarbeitungsvertrag.
• CoARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDGPs participates in CoARA's initiative to reform scientific assessment systems. CoARA is referenced under the Schwerpunkt 'Integrität und Anreizsysteme in der Wissenschaft' as the reform-of-science-evaluation framework the DGPs is engaged in.
• Fakultätentag PsychologiecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInstitutional counterpart organization representing member universities offering psychology degree programs. The Fakultätentag Psychologie's Geschäftsstelle (Dr. Dr. Momme von Sydow) provides the DGPs Studienorte page with up-to-date data on which universities offer which psychology programs (B.Sc./M.Sc.), making it the institutional backbone for the DGPs Qualitätssiegel program.
• Bundesgesundheitsministerin Nina Warken (Schirmherrschaft 5. Deutscher Psychotherapie Kongress)minorOthersThe Federal Minister of Health, Nina Warken, has taken on the Schirmherrschaft (patronage) of the 5. Deutscher Psychotherapie Kongress announced 05.05.2026, lending political visibility to the congress as a co-organized event under DGPs/unith auspices.
• Diagnostik- und Testkuratorium (DTK)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint initiative listed under DGPs Kooperationen for diagnostic and test quality assurance in psychology. The DTK is co-listed under 'Die DGPs > Kooperationen'.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Association for Psychological Science (APS): International scientific society for psychological research with a strong journal portfolio (Psychological Science) and annual convention. Comparable in scientific-society positioning and member-benefit structure, though with a primarily US/North American orientation.
• International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP): The international umbrella organization for applied psychology, affiliated with the International Union of Psychological Science. Comparable as a global counterpart to DGPs in applied-psychology policy, congress organization, and scientific representation.

Others

• Hogrefe Verlag: DGPs' flagship publishing partner and PsychJob operator. Comparable as a psychology-specialist publisher that produces peer-reviewed journals and the job market used by DGPs members — adjacent infrastructure rather than a competing society.
• Fakultätentag Psychologie: DGPs' institutional counterpart organization representing German universities that offer psychology degree programs. Closely interlinked with DGPs via the Qualitätssiegel program and the Studienorte data feed; operates as the institutional backbone rather than as a competing individual-membership body.

Regional players

• European Association of Social Psychology (EASP): European-level scientific society for social psychologists, analogous to DGPs at a regional level. Comparable as a learned society covering a psychology sub-discipline with conferences, journals, and membership tiers, but serving a broader geography.

Direct peers

• American Psychological Association: The principal national scientific and professional society for psychologists in the United States, with comparable membership structure, peer-reviewed journals, advocacy, and continuing-education offerings. It is the closest international analog to the DGPs in scale, mission, and operating model.
• Berufsverband Deutscher Psychologinnen und Psychologen (BDP): The principal German professional (rather than scientific) association for psychologists, with overlapping membership that DGPs explicitly cross-discounts. BDP and DGPs jointly represent the German psychologist ecosystem and compete for the same individual members.
• British Psychological Society: The UK's national membership body for psychologists, with chartered membership grades, member journals, divisions, and a learned-society role similar to DGPs. Directly comparable as a national psychology association in a European peer country.
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und Nervenheilkunde (DGPPN): Germany's leading scientific medical society for psychiatry, psychotherapy, psychosomatics and neurology. Comparable in scale and policy-advocacy footprint to DGPs, with overlapping clinical-psychology territory and joint engagement on legislative Stellungnahmen.

Emerging players

• Gesellschaft für Neuropsychologie (GNP): German scientific society for neuropsychology, smaller and more specialized than DGPs but with comparable structure (membership tiers, journal, annual congress). Comparable as a sub-discipline-specific psychology society that intersects with DGPs' Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie Fachgruppe.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• Xx.com/DGPs_Berlin
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/german-society-for-psychology

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Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

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