2005
The DPG has got 50.017 members (status quo 19 May 2005)
144 members are institutional members (institutes, libraries, schools, companies). The remaining members (99.7%) are personal members, who subdivide in the following way:
| 30.4% | Students |
| 24.2 % | PhD students, assistents |
| 4.3 % | Professors |
| 10.6 % | Industrial physicists |
| 8.6 % | Physicists working in non-university research (HGF, MPG, FhG, PTB, etc.) |
| 3.3 % | Teachers and teacher trainees |
| 0.7 % | Physicists working in the sector of scientific organisation and administration |
| 18.0 | Members from publicity campaigns |
5.6 % of the personal members live abroad. The portion of women is 11.9 %. The median of the age of the members is 34.4 years, the average 21.5 years.