[2] Based on its charter, the role of the association is “the promotion of the entire ceramic sector regarding technical, scientific and artistic matters“.
The prime objective of the projects is the solution of a basic industrial practice, but the groups also undertake theoretical problems concerning all areas of ceramics and related specialist fields.
A key event is the traditional annual meeting during which speakers from all areas of the ceramic industry give lectures on current issues.
In the course of a reorganization, it was developed from the independent technical-scientific department of a federation of ceramic trades that existed since 1913, the „Verband Keramischer Gewerke“.
The main reason for the spin-off was to maintain the competitiveness of the German industrial companies by combining their different research activities.
The chemical-technical experimental station of the Royal Porcelain Manufacture in Berlin was recognized as a university institute and received the authorization to accept diploma theses and dissertations.
With the support of the society in a short period of time, university institutes for ceramics were opened or reopened in the cities of Aachen, Berlin, Clausthal, and Erlangen.