Editing DESY (section)

== Chairpersons of the DESY Directorate ==
DESY is headed by a Directorate consisting of the directors of the four divisions (Accelerators, Photon Science, Particle Physics and Astroparticle Physics) and the administration as well as the delegate of the Directorate for innovation. Chairpersons of the Directorate so far have been:<ref name=" Lohrmann_Söding_CC " />
* 1959 to 1970: [[Willibald Jentschke]], Founding Director
* 1971 to 1972: [[Wolfgang Paul]]
* 1973 to 1980: [[Herwig Schopper]]<ref>{{Citation |last1=Schopper |first1=Herwig |title=To DESY via CERN |date=2024 |work=Herwig Schopper |pages=95–117 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-031-51042-7_6 |isbn=978-3-031-51041-0 |last2=Gillies |first2=James|doi-access=free }}</ref>
* 1981 to 1993: Volker Soergel
* 1993 to 1999: [[Bjørn Wiik|Bjørn H. Wiik]]
* 1999 to early 2009: Albrecht Wagner
* 2009 to March 2025: Helmut Dosch
* since 1 April 2025: [[Beate Heinemann|Beate Heinemann]]<ref>DESY press release from 31 March 2025 [https://www.desy.de/news/news_search/index_eng.html?openDirectAnchor=3724&two_columns=0/ "Beate Heinemann to lead DESY’s Board of Directors"]</ref>