The German Research Foundation 1920–1970
Funding Poised between Science and Politics
Edited by Mark Walker Edited by Karin Orth Edited by Ulrich Herbert Edited by Rüdiger vom Bruch Translated by Ann M. Hentschel
Paperback (Published)
(April 2013)
ISBN: 9783515101950
6.69 x 9.49 inches
Price: $128.00
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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.
Karin Orth ist Privatdozentin fur Neuere und Neueste Geschichte; seit 1997 Akademische Mitarbeiterin der Universitat Freiburg. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Nationalsozialismus und Gewaltgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Biografieforschung, Oral History, Sozialgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts.
- Edited by Mark Walker
- Edited by Karin Orth
- Edited by Ulrich Herbert
- Edited by Rüdiger vom Bruch
- Translated by Ann M. Hentschel
Other Titles in this Series
Physics and Politics
Research and Research Support in Twentieth Century Germany in International Perspective
Zwischen Erziehung und Vernichtung
Zigeunerpolitik und Zigeunerforschung im Europa des 20. Jahrhunderts
Vertreibung aus dem Wissenschaftssystem
Gedenkbuch für die im Nationalsozialismus vertriebenen Gremienmitglieder der DFG
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