Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache
50°5′7.7″N 8°14′31.6″E / 50.085472°N 8.242111°E
| Predecessor | Allgemeiner Deutscher Sprachverein |
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| Founded | 1947 |
| Founder | Max Wachler |
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Area served | Worldwide |
Chairman | Peter Schlobinski |
| Website | gfds |
The Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (German pronunciation: [ɡəˈzɛlʃaft fyːɐ̯ ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈʃpʁaːxə], Association for the German Language), or GfdS, is Germany's most important government-sponsored language society. Its headquarters are in Wiesbaden. Re-founded shortly after the Second World War in 1947, the GfdS is politically independent and the declared successor of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Sprachverein (ADSV), the General Association for the German Language, which had been founded in 1885 in Brunswick. Its aim is to research and cultivate the German language; to critically evaluate the current German language change; and to give recommendations concerning the current usage of German.