Date of foundation: 1st of January 1992 
 
Employees (as of 31.12.2022)
The GFZ currently employs 1514 persons:
972 scientific, technical, and administrative staff,
121 apprentices, student assistants, and (paid) interns, as well as
421 guests (including 148 account guests, primarily scientists).

Annual Budget 2022
€ 67 million institutional funds provided by the Federal Government (90%) and the State of Brandenburg (10%)
€ 30 million from third-party funding
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€ 97 million overall

Joint professorships advance networking with universities (as of November 2022):

Joint appointments: 37

• 14 University of Potsdam
• 8 Freie Universität Berlin
• 1 Humboldt University of Berlin
• 7 Technical University of Berlin
• 2 RTWH Aachen University
• 1 Technical University of Braunschweig
• 2 Leibniz University of Hanover
• 1 Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main
• 1 Technical University of Darmstadt

Extraordinary professorships: 12

• 6 University of Potsdam
• 5 Technical University of Berlin
• 1 Free University of Berlin

Honorary professorships: 3

• 1 Technical University of Berlin
• 1 Bauhaus University Weimar
• 1 University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Visiting professorships: 4

• 1 University of Johannesburg, South Africa
• 2 China University of Geosciences, Wuhan
• 1 Central South University, China

Other appointments: 2

• 1 University of Teheran
• 1 University of Bologna, Italien