Senckenberg German Entomological Institute


The Senckenberg German Entomological Institute is a German entomological research institute devoted to the study of insects. Founded in 1886, the institute has an extraordinary insect collection and a world-class entomological library. Since 2009, the SDEI has been part of the Senckenberg Nature Research Society.

Insect collections

The department of Phylogenetic Systematics and Taxonomy of Insects maintains about 3 million pinned insects and uncounted specimens in the wet collection, among others the collections of:
  • Rudolf von Bennigsen
  • Karl Bleyl
  • Carl Julius Bernhard Börner
  • Peter Friedrich Bouché
  • Gustav Breddin
  • Adolf Willy Lothar Dieckmann
  • Karl Friedrich Ermisch
  • Karl Flach
  • Gerrit Friese
  • Johann Georg Haag-Rutenberg
  • Lucas Friedrich Julius Dominikus von Heyden
  • Walther Hermann Richard Horn
  • Carl Friedrich Ketel
  • Hermann Kläger
  • Hermann Albert Friedrich Köller
  • Wilhelm Koltze
  • Ernst Gustav Kraatz
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Konow
  • Karl Friedrich Lange
  • Otto Leonhard
  • Karl Wilhelm Letzner
  • Bernhardt Lichtwardt
  • Walter Liebmann
  • Gustav Adolf Lohse
  • Axel Leonard Melander
  • Julius Melzer
  • Wilhelm Mink
  • Karl-Heinz Mohr
  • Julius Neresheimer
  • Heinrich von Oettingen
  • Lorenz Oldenberg
  • Carl Robert Osten-Sacken
  • Gustav Paganetti-Hummler
  • Paul Pape
  • Helmuth Patzak
  • Ernst Pietsch
  • Karl Ritter
  • William Henry Rolph
  • Arthur Leopold Albert Maria Rottenberg
  • Max Saalmüller
  • Johann Christian Rudolf Sachse
  • Hans Sauter
  • Ludwig Wilhelm Schaufuss
  • Karl Gotthilf Schenkling
  • Sigmund Schenkling

    Entomological Information Center

The Entomology Information Center keeps:
  • 24,000 monographies, anthologies
  • 48,000 volumes of periodicals of about 2.400 journals and series, among them 850 current serial journals
  • 118,000 separata
  • 1,500 further media
The archives are also associated here, which comprise:
  • 120 bequests of entomologists
  • A collection of 6,000 portraits including photographs, engravings, prints, and press clippings of entomologists
  • A collection of objects related to entomology, such as postcards, small figurines, or costume jewellery