The German Entomological Institute (German: Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, 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 is part of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung.
The department of Phylogenetic Systematics and Taxonomy of Insects maintains ca 3 million pinned insects plus 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)
The Entomology Information Center 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, CD's, CD-ROM's, DVD's, VCR).
Also the Archives are associated here, which comprise
120 bequests of entomologists,
a collection of 6000 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.
