DEK was founded in 1911 and transferred into DEK e.V legally on 08 May 2008 in Erding/Bavaria.
The founding members of the DEK e.V are: Dr. Wolfgang Schiller, Mr. Ulrich Kraemer, Mrs. Catrin Lewicki, Mr. Bernd Elias, Dr. Andreas Giehl, Mrs. Barbara Hentschel, Mr. Alexander Dietel, Mrs. Hella Riebeck und Mrs. Birgit Gürke-Lang.
Statutes of DEK e.V. in text form can be found here.