The Görres Society (German: Görres-Gesellschaft) is a German learned society, whose goal is to foster interdisciplinarity and apply scientific principles to different disciplines, based in the Catholic tradition. The Gorres society is divided into 20 sections, in which members meet at the annual general meeting.
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History
The Görres Society was founded on 25 January 1876 in Koblenz by Catholic scientists and writers as the Görres-Gesellschaft zur Pflege der katholischen Wissenschaften (Görres Society for the Cultivation of Catholic Sciences) in honour of Joseph Görres to advance Catholic studies. Its co-founder, initiator and first president was Georg von Hertling, who was later Reich Chancellor of Germany.
It was dissolved by the Nazis in 1941 and founded anew in 1948 in Cologne.
Presidents
Georg von Hertling (1877-1919), politician and philosopher
Hermann von Grauert (1920–1924), historian
Heinrich Finke (1924–1938), church historian and medievalist
Hans Peters (legal scholar) (1940–1941, 1948-1966), legal scholar and politician
Paul Mikat (1967–2007), legal scholar and politician
Wolfgang Bergsdorf (2007–present), political scientist