# Weber helps found the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie

Date: 1909

## The fact

In 1909 [Max Weber](/people/max-weber) was among the founders of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, an association meant to give German sociology a public address without yet being a faculty. Value-freedom fights started in the same rooms. A society is cohesion among scholars, not a mass party.

## Context

Sociology was a contested label among economists, historians, and philosophers. Simmel’s Berlin and Tönnies’s Gemeinschaft sat at the table. Sharing does not erase Weber’s organising. The 1910 congress quarrels are a neighbouring cost. Do not treat later DGS after 1945 as this 1909 founding.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## Evidence and sources

MWG at https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/max-weber-gesamtausgabe-mwg-alle-baende-9783161595219/ is the official edition for association texts and letters of these years. SEP at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weber/ independently places DGS founding in the pre-war organisational file.

Official or archival record: Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe — Mohr Siebeck (https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/max-weber-gesamtausgabe-mwg-alle-baende-9783161595219/; Mohr Siebeck / MWG).

## Significance

Cohesion path, modest weight. High confidence on 1909 founding participation.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Weber helped found the DGS in 1909. Not established: that he remained a peaceful member through every later congress. Contribution is recorded as He was a founding organiser. Tönnies, Simmel, Sombart and others shared the society. Complex. The impact note is A national sociological society is a cohesion instrument for a discipline still without chairs, modest weight. The dated heading stays Weber helps found the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie on 1909-01-01, not a later statue, UNESCO listing, or school film. Printers, unnamed clerks, and later editors may appear in the same file without becoming this instrument. Later competitions, monuments, and adaptations are refused as extra lifetime acts of this person on this date.

The attached driver is [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. 1909 DGS is not a 1920s department. Mixed effects of Weber helps found the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of Weber helps found the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie. Naming Max Weber does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1909-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Max Weber: https://factrail.ai/people/max-weber

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weber/
- https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/max-weber-gesamtausgabe-mwg-alle-baende-9783161595219/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/weber-dgs-1909