The DSW was founded in 1991 by the Hanoverian entrepreneurs Erhard Schreiber and Dirk Roßmann with the aim of contributing to the implementation of human rights on family planning and the slowing down of population growth.
Already in the early years it became clear that young people are the key to future viable population development. Because of their decision whether, when and how many children they get, it depends on how many people in the future live on the earth and how they will live.