After World War II, on 13 September 1947, the first unofficial German Championship in Artistic gymnastics was held in Northeim.

At this event the working committee of German gymnastics (Deutscher Arbeitsausschuss Turnen (DAT)) was founded,[5] which paved the way for the re-establishment of the DTB in Tübingen.

Pauline Schäfer-Betz won the first single event gold medal for the DTB on balance beam at the 2017 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Montreal.

This made her the second German woman to win a single-event gold medal at an international competition after Maxi Gnauck, who won the gold medal on uneven bars for the GDR at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

[9] Since 2016, Dr. Alfons Hölzl has been taking over as president of this association,[10] making him the successor of Rainer Brechtken.

On a national level, it is part of the German Olympic Sports Confederation[11] because of its function as an umbrella Organisation.

In 2004, at the national gymnastics day in Berlin, the DTB published its guidelines which is a statement of the focus of its work: Based on these guidelines, the DTB tries to standardize its work as sports federation while focusing on these main goals and interests.

The German gymnastic festivals include around 100,000 participants and was additionally made an international event in 2005.

The international version of the German gymnastics festival is the biggest competitional and popular sports event worldwide.

The guidelines the DTJ is following are: In 1994, the German Gymnastics Federation created the quality certificate Pluspunkt Gesundheit.DTB.

In December 2024, Tabea Alt alleged that her training environment had been physically and emotionally abusive and that she had competed on fractures during her career.

She said that she had written a letter about these issues to her trainers and the president of the German Gymnastics Federation, among others, in 2021, but she felt that it had been ignored.