1. The MGH
  2. The History of the MGH

Past Presidents of the MGH


Georg Heinrich Pertz (1823–1873)

Georg Waitz (1875–1886)

Wilhelm Wattenbach (1886–1888, interim chairman of the central board of directors)

Ernst Dümmler (1888–1902)

Oswald Holder-Egger (1902–1905, elected but not appointed chair of the central board of directors)

Reinhold Koser (1905–1914)

Michael Tangl (1914–1919, deputy chair of the MGH)

Paul Fridolin Kehr (1919–1935)

Wilhelm Engel (1936–1937, commissarial president)

Edmund Ernst Stengel (1937–1942)

Theodor Mayer (1942-1945)

Friedrich Baethgen (1948–1959)

Herbert Grundmann (1959–1970)

Hermann Krause (1970-1971, commissarial president)

Horst Fuhrmann (1971–1994)

Rudolf Schieffer (1994–2012)

Claudia Märtl (2012–2014)

Marc-Aeilko Aris (2014-2018, commissarial president)