: Mark Walker, Karin Orth, Ulrich Herbert, Rüdiger Bruch
: The German Research Foundation 1920–1970 Funding Poised between Science and Politics
: Franz Steiner Verlag
: 9783515104166
: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft
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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.
CONTENTS6
HISTORY, ISSUES, AND STRUCTURE OF THE ENTIRE PROJECT10
FOREWORD: THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM18
I. OUTLINING THE PROBLEM22
“PRESERVE OF FULL PROFESSORS” –ON THE HISTORY OF THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION BETWEEN 1920 AND 197024
II. HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTION40
FROM “EMERGENCY” TO “ALLIANCE” – RESEARCHING THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION AS AN INSTITUTION42
“TOOL OF GERMAN WAR STRATEGY” – THE SCIENCE POLICY OF THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION AND THE REICH RESEARCH COUNCIL BETWEEN 1920 AND 194554
POISED BETWEEN SCIENCE ORGANIZATIONS – THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION, THE KAISER WILHELM SOCIETY, AND THE ACADEMIES OF SCIENCE 1920–197270
FROM EMERGENCY ASSOCIATION TO SERVICE ORGANIZATION – GUIDELINES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION 1949–197386
THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION AS A TOPIC IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE – A COMMENTARY98
III. NATURAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES104
THE SYNDROME OF FALLING BEHIND – RESOURCE CONSTELLATIONS AND EPISTEMIC ORIENTATIONS IN THE NATURAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES106
ON THE PATH TO TECHNICAL DESIGN – DFG-FUNDED RESEARCH IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 1920–1970120
COMPUTERS FOR SCIENCE – SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE IN THE GERMAN SCIENTIFIC SYSTEM 1870–1970136
THRIFT MATERIALS, DOMESTIC MATERIALS, AND SUBSTITUTES – METALS RESEARCH IN GERMANY 1920–1970152
THE “FOUR-YEAR PLAN FOR CHEMISTRY” AND “POLYMER SCIENCE” – THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH FROM THE 1920s INTO THE 1960s170
CIVILIAN MILITARY RESEARCH AND THE RESPONSIBILITY OF SCIENCE – A COMMENTARY188
NATURAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES – A COMMENTARY194
IV. HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND THE BIOSCIENCES200
INSTRUMENTAL MODERNITY AND THE DICTATE OF POLITICS – SPONSORSHIP OF MEDICAL RESEARCH BY THE EMERGENCY ASSOCIATION/GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION 1920–1970202
FASTER, HIGHER, MIGHTIER – PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH SUPPORT BY THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION 1920–1970222
THE PLANNABLE HUMAN –THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION AND THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HEREDITY 1920–1970242
FEVERISH RESEARCH? – GERMAN TROPICAL MEDICINE AS REFLECTED IN ITS FUNDING BY THE EMERGENCY ASSOCIATION/GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION 1920–1970256
FRAGMENTATION, COOPERATION, INSTITUTIONALIZATION – GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH WITHIN THE FUNDING HORIZONS OF THE EMERGENCY ASSOCIATION/GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION 1920–1970270
CLOSE TO THE STATE AND ORIENTED TOWARD THE FUNDAMENTALS – RESEARCH ON RADIATION AND RADIOACTIVITY IN THE BIOSCIENCES 1920–1970284
ENZYMES, HORMONES, VITAMINS – BIOCATALYTIC RESEARCH FUNDED BY THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION 1920–1970300
HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND THE BIOSCIENCES –A COMMENTARY316
V. THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES320
BORDER GUARD AND BORDER CROSSER OF SCIENCE – THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION AND THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 1920–1970322
THE WILL FOR RELEVANCY – STATE-SUPPORTED RESEARCH ON LINGUISTICS 1920–1970336
SURVEYING GERMAN VOLKSKULTUR – THE “ATLAS OF GERMAN FOLKLORE” AND THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION 1928–1980348
A MIDWIFE FOR SCIENCE – THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION AND GERMAN ETHNOLOGY362
TRANSMITTALS AND TRANSFORMATIONS – RESEARCH ON THE EUROPEAN EAST AND THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION 1945–1975378
AGRARIAN SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND RURAL ORDER – GERMAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 1920–1960396
VI. SCIENCE, SCIENCE POLICY, AND THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION404
SPONSORSHIP OF SCIENCE UNDER NATIONAL SOCIALISM – AN ALMOST EVERYDAY STORY? A COMMENTARY ON THE RESEARCH PROGRAM “THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION 1920–1970”406
“MR. DFG” WALTHER GERLACH (1889–1979) – PHYSICIST, SCIENCE FUNCTIONARY, AND PUBLIC REPRESENTATIVE414
THE RULES OF SCIENCE – SCIENCE UNDER NATIONAL SOCIALISM AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE432
CONDITIONAL UPHEAVALS – THOUGHTS ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCIENCE AND POLITICS IN THE WEST GERMAN POSTWAR PERIOD440
THE GERMAN PROFESSOR IN THE THIRD REICH – FOUR BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES450
INSTITUTIONAL ABBREVIATIONS470
BIBLIOGRAPHY472
LIST OF AUTHORS514