Ehemalige Vorsitzende
| Bruno Snell | Hamburg (1950-1954) |
| Kurt Latte | Göttingen (1954-1958) |
| Alfred Heuß | Göttingen (1958-1960) |
| Kurt von Fritz | München (1960-1966) |
| Wolfgang Schmid | Bonn (1966-1970) |
| Hellmut Flashar | Bochum (1970-1976) |
| Richard Kannicht | Tübingen (1976-1978) |
| Walther Ludwig | Hamburg (1978-1983) |
| Carl Joachim Classen | Göttingen (1983-1987) |
| Ernst August Schmidt | Tübingen (1987-1989) |
| Manfred Clauss | Berlin (1989-1993) |
| Ernst-Richard Schwinge | Kiel (1993-1995) |
| Bernd Seidensticker | Berlin (1995-1997) |
| Siegmar Döpp | Göttingen (1997-1999) |
| Gustav Adolf Lehmann | Göttingen (1999-2001) |
| Eckart Lefèvre | Freiburg (2001-2003) |
| Volker Michael Strocka | Freiburg (2003-2005) |
| Martin Dreher | Magdeburg (2005-2007) |
| Christiane Reitz | Rostock (2007-2009) |
| Wulf Raeck | Frankfurt am Main (2009-2011) |
| Tanja Scheer | Göttingen (2011-2013) |
| Michael Erler | Würzburg (2013-2015) |
| Stefan Pfeiffer | Halle (2015-2017) |
| Johanna Fabricius | Berlin (2017-2019) |
| Jürgen Hammerstaedt | Köln (2019-2022) |
| Werner Rieß | Hamburg (2022-2024) |