Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation

Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation
legal form	Foundation, endowment
founding	1958
founder	Ernst von Siemens
Seat	Nymphenburg Castle
purpose	Promotion of science
Managing directors	Heinrich Meier
Website	www.carl-friedrich-von-siemens-stiftung.de

The Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation aims to promote science . The foundation was established in 1958 on the initiative of the entrepreneur Ernst von Siemens . The managing director is currently (2013) the philosopher Heinrich Meier .

Seat of the foundation on the southern roundabout in front of Nymphenburg Palace

history

Carl Friedrich von Siemens before 1916 on a photograph by Jacob Hilsdorf .

Ernst von Siemens , chairman of the supervisory board of Siemens AG from 1956 to 1971 , established the foundation from his private assets and bequeathed his estate to it alongside the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation and the Ernst von Siemens Art Foundation . It bears the name of his father Carl Friedrich von Siemens , who was chairman of the supervisory board of today's Siemens group between 1919 and 1941 . From 1964 the managing director of the foundation was the publicist Armin Mohler , in 1985 Heinrich Meier became Mohler's successor. From 1984 until his death in 2008, Heinz Gumin was the foundation's chairman.

The foundation under Armin Mohler 1964–1985

Mohler used the foundation for political events. One example of this is the cycle on Carl Schmitt that he organized in June / July 1978 , whose lectures, entitled Der Ernstfall, were published as the second volume of the Foundation's series of publications by Propylaeen . Schmitt was academically and journalistically isolated because of his commitment to the Third Reich. Speakers were Horst Albach , Rüdiger Altmann , Knut Borchardt , Paul Carell , Hellmut Diwald , Robert Hepp , Josef Isensee , Christian Meier , Wilhelm E. Mühlmann and Heinz-Dietrich Ortlieb . The series was seen as an homage to Schmitt. Other publications by the foundations also deal with people or topics covered by the New Right . Volume 3 of the series of publications, “Die Deutsche Neurose. About the damaged identity of the Germans ”, edited by Anton Peisl and Mohler, contains u. a. Contributions by Johannes Gross , Peter R. Hofstätter , Hellmut Diwald, Hans-Joachim Arndt and Dieter Blumenwitz . Volume 11, published in 1986, with the title “Reality as Tabu: Comments on the Situation” and the authors Josef Isensee (The Constitution as Fatherland), Helmut Quaritsch (The Basic Right to Asylum and the New Realities), Horst Ehmann leads in the same direction (Loss of legitimacy in the labor dispute?), Dieter Blumenwitz (The legalization of foreign policy), Reinhart Maurer (How real is the ecological crisis?), Martin Gosebruch (“Everything is art”), Gerhard Adler (What do people actually believe in?) Robert Hepp (The ascent into decadence) and Hans-Joachim Arndt (People without a future?) In 1980 the historian Ernst Nolte gave the lecture between historical legend and revisionism at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung , which the FAZ abbreviated on July 24, 1980, whereby the historians' dispute was triggered.

The foundation under Heinrich Meier from 1985

Today the foundation has the following priorities:

• Organization of scientific lecture series with lectures by individual speakers, interdisciplinary lecture series and their publication (since 1958). Speakers who gave lectures at the Siemens Foundation included Jan Assmann , Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde , Jean Bollack , Horst Bredekamp , JM Coetzee , Richard Dawkins , Daniel Dennett , Philippe Descola , Louis Dumont , Ronald Dworkin , Dieter Grimm , Ágnes Heller , Paul Kirchhof , Jean-François Lyotard , Peter von Matt , Ernst Mayr , Ernst Osterkamp , Ilya Prigogine , Martin Rees , Karl Schlögel , Wolf Singer , Rudolf Smend , Andreas Urs Sommer , Michael Theunissen and Helen Vendler . Some of the lectures are published in the series Subjects of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung (since 1985 there have been more than 40 volumes).
• Awarding of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Fellowships to outstanding scientists (since 1993). These grants support the completion of research by outstanding scientists.
• Establishment of an endowed professorship at the TU Dresden .
• Funding program to supplement the urgently needed scientific literature. This includes the supply of university libraries in the new and old federal states. The foundation also supports projects such as the continuation of the collection of the former philosophy special collection at the Bavarian State Library in Munich. The acquisition of print monographs is funded in each case.
• Guest events, especially scientific conferences and international symposia, at which the facilities of the foundation are made available. The topics are interdisciplinary and range from natural science to literature and musicology to philosophical and cultural-historical aspects. Contact between German and foreign scientists is to be particularly encouraged.
• Since 2010 it has been awarding the Heinz Gumin Prize for Mathematics from the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation .

Publications

Since 1961, the foundation has regularly published documentation of the lectures in the foundation in its "Themes" series. Almost 100 volumes have been published since 1961.

criticism

Numerous experts on right-wing extremism such as Wolfgang Purtscheller , Peter Glotz , Thomas Assheuer and Hans Sarkowicz , Astrid Lange , Claus Leggewie , Thomas Willms , Margret Feit , Susanne Mantino Franziska Hundseder , rated the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung at the end of the 1980s under the management of Armin Mohlers as a think tank or cadre forge of the New Right or assign the Foundation to the New Right.

literature

• Armin Mohler : Twenty-five years of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation . Munich 1985.

Web links

• Foundation website
• Literature by and about Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Homepage Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung , accessed on February 8, 2013
2. ↑ Carl Schmitt, Armin Mohler, Irmgard Huhn, Piet Tommissen: Carl Schmitt - correspondence with one of his students. Akademie Verlag, 1995 p. 422, footnote 518
3. ↑ [1]
4. ^ Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung supports LMU - LMU Munich. Retrieved October 30, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Promotion of the collecting field philosophy. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on October 30, 2018 . 
6. ↑ see holdings of the series in the German National Library at https://d-nb.info/011468696
7. ↑ Wolfgang Purtscheller, Heribert Schiedel : Theories of the »New Right«. In: Wolfgang Purtscheller (ed.): The order they mean. »New rights« in Austria. Picus Verlag, Vienna 1994, p. 19
8. ^ Peter Glotz: The German Right. A polemic. 1989 p. 137
9. ^ Thomas Assheuer, Hans Sarkowicz: right-wing radicals in Germany. The old and the new right, Beck Verlag 1990, p. 139
10. ↑ Astrid Lange: What the Right Read. Fifty right-wing extremist magazines - goals, content, tactics, Beck'sche series 1014, Verlag Chr.Beck Munich 1993, ISBN 3-406-37404-2 , p. 61
11. ↑ Leggewie, Claus: The spirit is on the right. Excursions to the think tanks of the Wende, Berlin 1987
12. ↑ Thomas Willms: Armin Mohler. From the CSU to neo-fascism. PapyRossa Verlag Köln Review in the Antifaschistische Nachrichten ( Memento from May 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
13. ↑ Feit, Margret (1989): The “New Right” in the Oswalt, Walter (ed.): The return of the leaders: Right-wing radicalism in Western Europe; Vienna; 31-42
14. ↑ Mantino, Susanne (1992): The 'New Right' in the 'gray area' between right-wing extremism and conservatism. A systematic analysis of the New Rights phenomenon; Frankfurt / M. u. a. (= European University Papers, Series 31, Political Science; Vol. 199)
15. ↑ here, page 8 (PDF; 616 kB)