The German Research Foundation 1920-1970

Funding Poised between Science and Politics

edited by Mark Walker, Ulrich Herbert, Rudiger vom Bruch, Karin Orth, translated by Ann M. Hentschel

Book cover: The German Research Foundation 1920-1970

Extent: 515 pages

Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag

Subjects: Social Sciences 

Series: Beitrage zur Geschichte der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft

Series volume number: 6

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(April 2013)

ISBN: 9783515101950

6.65 x 9.45 inches

Price: $113.00

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Similar to the German enterprise of science as a whole, the German Research Foundation (DFG) – originally conceived as an “Emergency Association for German Science” (Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft) in 1920 – for decades considered itself as the politically authorized agency for the promotion of a patriotically accentuated science. The authors delineate the course followed by this research foundation in the fields of science and technology, in the humanities and social sciences, medicine, and the biosciences. Initially this path was revisionistic, after 1933 racist and politically expansionistic, and finally, westernized and conservative. Additional surveys on the history of the foundation as an organization and interdisciplinary overviews by the editors raise the issues of the liberalization of German research and its extragovernmental funding during the 1960s.

  • Edited by Rudiger vom Bruch
  • Edited by Ulrich Herbert
  • Edited by Karin Orth
  • Edited by Mark Walker
  • Translated by Ann M. Hentschel