The Senckenberg German Entomological Institute (German: Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut; SDEI or DEI) 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^[1] maintains about 3 million pinned insects and uncounted specimens in the wet collection, among others the collections of:

• Rudolf von Bennigsen (1824-1902)
• Karl Bleyl (1908-1995)
• Carl Julius Bernhard Börner (1880-1953)
• Peter Friedrich Bouché (1784-1856)
• Gustav Breddin (1864-1909)
• Adolf Willy Lothar Dieckmann (1920-1990)
• Karl Friedrich Ermisch (1898-1970)
• Karl Flach (1856-1920)
• Gerrit Friese (1931-1990)
• Johann Georg Haag-Rutenberg (1830-1880)
• Lucas Friedrich Julius Dominikus von Heyden (1838-1915)
• Walther Hermann Richard Horn (1871-1939)
• Carl Friedrich Ketel (1861-1906)
• Hermann Kläger (1847-1923)
• Hermann Albert Friedrich Köller (1885-1968)
• Wilhelm Koltze (1839-1914)
• Ernst Gustav Kraatz (1831-1909)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Konow (1842-1908)
• Karl Friedrich Lange (1844-1913)
• Otto Leonhard (1853-1929)
• Karl Wilhelm Letzner (1812-1889)
• Bernhardt Lichtwardt (1857-1943)
• Walter Liebmann (1885-1974)
• Gustav Adolf Lohse (1910-1994)
• Axel Leonard Melander (1878-1962)
• Julius Melzer (1878-1934)
• Wilhelm Mink (1807-1883)
• Karl-Heinz Mohr (1925-1989)
• Julius Neresheimer (1880-1943)
• Heinrich von Oettingen (1878-1956)
• Lorenz Oldenberg (1863-1931)
• Carl Robert Osten-Sacken (1828-1906)
• Gustav Paganetti-Hummler (1871-1949)
• Paul Pape (1859-1933)
• Helmuth Patzak (1927-1988)
• Ernst Pietsch (1872-1930)
• Karl Ritter (1909-1998)
• William Henry Rolph (1847-1883)
• Arthur Leopold Albert Maria Rottenberg (1843-1875)
• Max Saalmüller (1832-1890)
• Johann Christian Rudolf Sachse (1802-1891)
• Hans Sauter (1871-1948)
• Ludwig Wilhelm Schaufuss (1833-1890)
• Karl Gotthilf Schenkling (1835-1911)
• Sigmund Schenkling (1865-1946)

Entomological Information Center

The Entomology Information Center^[2] keeps:

• 24,000 monographies, anthologies
• 48,000 volumes of periodicals of about 2.400 journals and series (titles), among them 850 current serial journals
• 118,000 separata
• 1,500 further media (maps, films, CDs, CD-ROMs, DVDs, VHS)

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