Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pneumologie und Beatmungsmedizin e.V.

What Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pneumologie und Beatmungsmedizin e.V. does

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pneumologie und Beatmungsmedizin e.V. (DGP) is a non-profit registered association (eingetragener Verein) founded in 1910 and headquartered at Robert-Koch-Platz 9 in Berlin-Mitte. As Germany's leading scientific medical society for respiratory medicine, the DGP serves over 5,000 members, including specialist physicians, healthcare professionals, researchers, and trainees in pulmonology. The society operates as a platform organization whose core function is to convene, credential, and disseminate knowledge across the German respiratory medicine community, coordinating more than 30 medical guidelines, position papers, and recommendations.

The DGP's product surface consists of five core assets: (1) the DGP-Kongress, a four-day annual congress held in rotating German cities (e.g., 2027 in Cologne) attracting approximately 4,000 attendees and 500+ speakers; (2) the DGP-Akademie, a continuing education program delivering bronchoscopy courses, respiratory therapy certification, and exam preparation; (3) Pneumobörse, a free online career marketplace for trainees and young specialists; (4) WeanNet, a certified network of mechanical ventilation weaning centers; and (5) Zeitschrift Pneumologie, the society's monthly peer-reviewed journal published in partnership with Thieme. The society runs its day-to-day operations with a small staff of approximately 14 employees coordinated through its Berlin office.

The DGP is funded through tiered membership subscriptions (€0 for students, €45 for allied health professionals, €70 for trainees and retirees, and €170-€210 for specialist physicians depending on seniority), annual congress registration fees, Academy course fees, and industry-supported educational events. Growth is community-led, attracting members through YoungDGP mentorship programs, certification pathways, research collaboration, and reduced-rate European Respiratory Society (ERS) memberships. Notably, in 2021 the DGP adopted an ethical code formally excluding any financial or material contributions from the tobacco industry — a positioning move that distinguishes it within German medical societies.

Name

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pneumologie und Beatmungsmedizin e.V.

Legal name

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pneumologie und Beatmungsmedizin e.V.

Website

https://pneumologie.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1910

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The DGP is Germany's leading non-profit medical society for pulmonology and respiratory medicine, founded in 1910 and serving over 5,000 physician and healthcare professional members through annual congresses, continuing education, clinical guidelines, and peer-reviewed publications.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Medical Society / Respiratory Medicine

NAICS

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (541)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Home Ventilation, Oxygen Therapy & Respiratory DME Clinical Management (HLAKANAM)

Keywords

• Respiratory medicine society
• Pulmonology professional membership
• Medical continuing education
• Clinical guidelines publishing
• Scientific medical congress

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, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Fees: Annual membership fees from physicians, healthcare professionals, and supporting members. Tiers include free student membership, reduced rates for trainees (€70/year), and standard rates for specialists (€170-210/year).
2. Congress Participation Fees: Revenue from annual congress registration fees. Student attendance is free; professional attendance fees apply. Travel scholarships available for students.
3. Academy Course Fees: Revenue from continuing education courses through the DGP Academy, including bronchoscopy courses, specialty training, and certification programs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

The DGP is a non-profit scientific medical society that provides professional membership, scientific exchange, and continuing education services to pulmonologists, respiratory medicine physicians, researchers, and non-physician healthcare professionals in Germany. Its core offerings are the annual DGP-Kongress, the DGP-Akademie continuing education programs, the monthly peer-reviewed Zeitschrift Pneumologie journal, clinical guidelines in respiratory medicine, the WeanNet network of certified weaning centers, and the free Pneumobörse career platform.

Product overview

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pneumologie und Beatmungsmedizin (DGP) is a non-profit medical society founded in 1910 serving over 5,000 members. It operates as a platform-plus-services organization offering: the DGP-Kongress (Annual Congress) as its flagship event; the DGP-Akademie (Academy) delivering structured continuing education courses, bronchoscopy training, and SOTA exam prep; the Pneumobörse as a free online career platform for medical students and young pneumologists; WeanNet for certification of ventilation weaning centers; and the monthly Zeitschrift Pneumologie as the official peer-reviewed journal included with membership. The society also coordinates approximately 30 medical guidelines and provides various membership tiers with ERS discount benefits.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• DGP-Kongress (Annual Congress)

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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No

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Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• European Respiratory Society (ERS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-standing cooperation since 2015 with discounted ERS membership available for DGP members. DGP President Prof. Christian Taube encourages ERS member participation in elections and governance. ERS represents the European respiratory medicine community.
• CAPNETZ STIFTUNGcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupports the Clinician Scientist Program enabling physicians to combine clinical work with research through partially funded research leave time. Current stipend holders include Dr. Stephanie Müller, Dr. Eva Pappe, and Dr. Theo Dähne.
• wikonect GmbHcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerProfessional congress organization company managing the annual DGP congress logistics, speaker management, abstract submission, and participant services. Located in Wiesbaden, Germany.
• Bundesverband der Pneumologie, Schlaf- und Beatmungsmedizin e.V. (BdP)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational professional association partner in the pneumology network.
• Deutsches Zentrum für Lungenforschung e.V. (DZL)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGerman Center for Lung Research - major research collaboration partner in pulmonology research.
• Deutsche Interdisziplinäre Vereinigung für Intensiv- und Notfallmedizin e.V. (DIVI)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership in intensive care and emergency medicine as related discipline.
• Thoraxklinik HeidelbergminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHost of YoungDGP Bronchoscopy courses for advanced participants.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Società Italiana di Pneumologia (SIP) / Italian Respiratory Society: Italian national professional society for respiratory medicine. Same archetype of national society focused on pulmonology, with congress, journals, and clinical guidelines for Italian-speaking members.
• American Thoracic Society (ATS): The leading US pulmonology and respiratory medicine professional society, offering a near-identical bundle of annual congress, journals, guidelines, and member CME tracks. Closest functional analogue worldwide.
• European Respiratory Society (ERS): European-level professional society for respiratory medicine. Provides the same membership, congress, guideline, and CME functions as DGP but at pan-European scope; DGP explicitly offers discounted ERS membership as a member benefit, confirming direct substitutability.
• Swiss Society of Pneumology (SGP): Swiss national society for respiratory medicine. Same professional-society model, German-language overlap, and overlapping scientific community as DGP; direct neighbour-country peer.
• Société de Pneumologie de Langue Française (SPLF): French-language counterpart in respiratory medicine. Delivers annual congress, journals (e.g., Revue des Maladies Respiratoires), and guidelines for French-speaking pulmonologists; directly comparable national-society model.
• Japanese Respiratory Society (JRS): Japan's primary professional society for pulmonology. Comparable scale of membership base and congress activity, plus journal and guideline functions; useful international benchmark rather than a direct competitive threat.
• British Thoracic Society (BTS): UK national society for respiratory medicine. Operates the same model of annual congress, clinical guidelines, member CME, and career programs aimed at pulmonologists in a single country.
• Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR): Spain's national society for pulmonology and thoracic surgery. Runs a comparable congress (Congreso Nacional), member CME program, and guideline portfolio, serving a single-language, single-country membership base.
• Österreichische Gesellschaft für Pneumologie (ÖGP): Austrian national pulmonology society. Functions as a smaller-scale, German-language sibling to DGP, offering the same congress/guideline/CME bundle in a neighboring country.

Others

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin (DGIM): Germany's main internal medicine society, the parent specialty society from which DGP was historically carved out. Not a direct competitor (broader scope) but a natural adjacent collaborator and bench-markable national medical-society model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/DeutscheGesellschaftf%C3%BCrPneumologie
• Facebookfacebook.com/DGPneumologie
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/dgpneumologie
• Instagraminstagram.com/dgpneumologie

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Number of profiles

Profiles17 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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