Foreign Science and Technology Office

The Office for Foreign Science and Technology (abbreviation BINT) was a Soviet organization for the exchange of scientific and technical experience between the Soviet Union and Germany .

General

It was founded in January 1921 by the Supreme Economic Council . On January 27, 1921, the establishment was announced in the Izvestia newspaper . The head was Nikolai Mikhailovich Fyodorovsky .

Together with the Association of German Engineers , BINT published a magazine entitled “Industry and Technology”. In her published u. a. Heinrich Dubbel and Professor E. Konrad Zehme.

The BINT selected the most interesting articles from 40 German, 17 English and American and 9 French scientific and technical journals, translated them and sent them to the Soviet Union in the form of scientific and technical documentation. In return, she published the Soviet "Communications on Scientific and Technical Work of the Republic" in German.

It organized the purchase of books, bought equipment and instruments and arranged contacts between Soviet researchers and researchers from Germany, Austria, Holland, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland, as well as from the USA and England.

The BINT had a patent department. On December 5, 1921, BINT founded the German-Soviet publishing house "Kniga".

At the end of 1922 the BINT was dissolved.

When it was founded, the press of numerous Russian emigrants in Germany led a campaign against the office. Here, put Albert Einstein publicly for a BINT.

See also

• Arplan , a study society of German scientists founded in 1932 to research the planned economy in the Soviet Union
• Soviet-German Society "Culture and Technology"

literature

• Ivan K. Kobljakov: To the beginning of the scientific-cultural cooperation between the Soviet Union and Germany . In: Heinz Sanke (Ed.): Germany, Soviet Union. From five decades of cultural cooperation. Humboldt University, Berlin 1966, DNB 456445161 , pp. 49-51.