Archive of the Max Planck Society

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Archive of the Max Planck Society

Dahlem Boltzmannstrasse Archive of the Max Planck Society.JPG
place Berlin (branch in Munich)
Visitor address Berlin: Boltzmannstrasse 14
founding 1975
scope approx. 4 km
ISIL DE-B1518
carrier Max Planck Society
Website www.archiv-berlin.mpg.de

The archive of the Max Planck Society (name until 2006: Archive for the History of the Max Planck Society ) is an archive founded in 1975 in the Berlin district of Dahlem . Its task is to centrally secure, collect and access the files of two research organizations : those of the Max Planck Society (MPG) founded in 1948 and its predecessor, the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG) founded in 1911 .

Collection focus

A central task is to take over and secure the materials from scientific institutes, departments, research centers or working groups that are no longer being continued. In addition to the materials from the two research organizations, the collection also focuses on the estates of outstanding personalities who worked in one of the two institutions. These include Nobel Prize winners such as Carl Bosch , Walther Bothe , Adolf Butenandt , Peter Debye , Otto Hahn , Richard Kuhn , Max von Laue , Feodor Lynen , Ernst Ruska and Otto Warburg . This inventory is supplemented by collections on Albert Einstein , Fritz Haber and Max Planck . The archive also contains historical scientific materials and legacies from the National Socialist era , such as the legacy of Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer . The archive library also collects literature on the general history of science from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Departments

The archive is divided into the following departments:

I. Files of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science
II. Files of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science
III. Legacies
IV. Maps and plans
V. Archives collections and selections
VI. Picture collection
VII. Film and sound archive
IX. documentation

Publications

The archive publishes several series, including since 1988 the publications from the archive of the Max Planck Society , which until 2011 comprised 21 volumes. Between 1996 and 2007 the Dahlem Archive Talks , the documentation of a symposium on topics from the history of science, organized in the archive every year , was published in 13 volumes .

Among other things, three extensive documentations on the history of the Max Planck Society were developed at the archive:

  • Eckart Henning , Marion Kazemi : Chronicle of the Kaiser Wilhelm, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science: 1911–2011; Data and sources. (= 100 years of the Kaiser Wilhelm, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science. Part 1). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-428-13623-0 .
  • Eckart Henning, Marion Kazemi: Chronicle of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science: 1948–1998. (= 50 years of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science. Part 1). with a foreword by the President of the Max Planck Society Hubert Markl. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-428-09068-3 .
  • Scientific members of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science in the picture. (= 50 years of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science. Part 2). (Compiled by Eckart Henning and Dirk Ullmann, with the assistance of Marion Kazemi. With a foreword by the chairman of the Scientific Council Wolf Singer.) Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-428-09068-3 .

Locations

Emil Fischer's monument in front of the Otto Warburg House, now the MPG archive

The archive is located at the founding place of the KWG in Berlin, today's science location Dahlem . There it is housed in the Otto Warburg House directly opposite the Henry Ford Building and the University Library of the Free University of Berlin . Here it houses over 3,500 meters of archival material and the library holdings of 30,000 volumes as well as 200 periodicals. A statue of the chemist and co-founder of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, Emil Fischer, is placed in front of the archive .

A smaller branch of the archive is located in Munich . The historical archive of the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry collects there on questions related to the history of psychiatry.

See also

literature

  • Eckart Henning , Marion Kazemi : Sources on the history of the institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Society in their Berlin archive. In: Bernhard vom Brocke, Hubert Laitko (ed.): The Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Society and its institutes: The Harnack principle. deGruyter, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-11-015483-8 .
  • Eckart Henning: The "Haber Collection" in the archive for the history of the Max Planck Society in Berlin , reports on the history of science 13 (1): 34-37 (1990).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dahlem Archive Talks.