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Jewish intellectual life and German scientific culture during the Weimar period: the case of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2003

HUBERT MARKL
HUBERT MARKL
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Box M612 D-78457 Konstanz, Germany. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Weimar Germany was a great period in scientific development in which Jews played a prominent role. However, Nazi anti-Jewish policies led to the dismissal of many staff members and directors of the institutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, who were forced to go abroad. In their new environment they became major leaders in science – notably in the new branches such as molecular biology – with a continuing loss to Germany.

Type
Research Article
Information
European Review , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , February 2003 , pp. 49 - 55
Copyright
© Academia Europaea 2003

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Footnotes

Lecture on the occasion of the opening ceremonies of a branch of the Leo Baeck Institute, New York, in Berlin, 10 April 2002