EURO Newsletter #4 (February 15, 2006)

Institutional Operations Research in Germany can look back at a remarkably long history,which started with the Arbeitskreis Operations Research (AKOR, founded in 1956) and theDeutsche Gesellschaft für Unternehmensforschung (DGU, 1961). In 1972 AKOR and DGUwere merged to form the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Operations Research (DGOR). From 1979onwards, when the Gesellschaft für Mathematik, Ökonometrie und Operations Research(GMÖOR) was established, two societies for the promotion of Operations Research inGermany existed in parallel, of which DGOR was considered to be more practically /management-oriented, while GMÖOR represented the more theoretically / mathematicallyoriented branch of Operations Research. In 1998, GMÖOR and DGOR decided to join forcesin order to establish a more powerful and influential, unified society, the Gesellschaft fürOperations Research (GOR)....