German Association for Human Resource Management

70 years for HR management.

Since our foundation over 70 years ago, we have been dealing with one question: How can people in companies work together successfully? Never before has this question been at the centre of social interest as it is today. As the largest HR professional association, we promote dialogue at eye level and provide guidance. We act as ambassadors for our diverse community in politics, business and the media. We are the German Society for Human Resource Management.

We shape the working world of today and tomorrow.

As the largest HR association in Germany, we are preoccupied with one question: How can people in companies work together successfully?

Since our foundation more than 70 years ago, this question has never been as much at the centre of social interest as it is today - never before has its complexity been so evident.

Today, HR management is much more than the distribution of tasks or the optimisation of processes. In the face of global crises, technological change and the new conditions on the labour market, companies are faced with the challenge of redesigning the framework of the working world. This concerns questions of values, leadership and corporate culture as well as issues of automation, digitalisation and competitiveness.

Against this backdrop, we are focussing on companies that are taking action and changing the world of work with their responses.

Our network includes DAX-listed companies as well as small and medium-sized enterprises, renowned scientific organisations and consultancies, and numerous personalities from the world of HR management.

Our community comprises more than 40,000 HR managers from over 1,500 companies. With more than 350 events per year and over 100 experience exchange groups, we promote dialogue at eye level - so that resistance, setbacks and mistakes are discussed just as openly as progress, successes and quantum leaps. In this way, we provide companies with an orientation on how the world of work is changing and which changes work in practice.

We act as ambassadors for our diverse community in politics, business and the media. We provide impetus, ask questions and provide answers. In future, we want to fulfil this role even more and see ourselves as the voice of HR management in Germany.

To this end, we are breaking new ground with science: by integrating innovative technologies into our work, we recognise trends before they become mainstream. In this way, we take the next step and at the same time build on the tried and tested:

We discover the topics of tomorrow for the working world of today.

We are the German Association for Personnel Management.

Weniger anzeigen

The people behind DGFP

Association board

As an association, the DGFP is represented by an honorary board made up of well-known HR management personalities. Get a picture of our board members.

The Executive Board