[4] After several months of informal meetings, the DCS was founded in 2004 on the initiative of Thorsten Rogowski as a student group at the University of Stuttgart in the form of a voluntary association.
It was integrated into the Studium generale of the university as well as into the umbrella organisation for German-language debating societies, the VDCH.
In addition, the club regularly organises friendly tournaments and exhibition debates, for example in Stuttgart City Hall in May 2011.
[11] Since 2009, the DCS offers a rhetoric and argumentation training within the key qualifications program of the University of Stuttgart during each semester.
[12] Seminars for, amongst others, other debating societies,[13] companies, youth organisations of parties,[14] scholarship holders of the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung[15] and summer school students at the University of Oxford[16] complement the offers of service.