Scientific Institute of the Alsace-Lorraine in the Empire

The Scientific Institute of the Alsace-Lorraine in the Reich was a research institute that existed from 1920 to 1945 at the new Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

meaning

The purpose of this institute was “to look after the common scientific and cultural interests of those displaced or more or less voluntarily emigrated from Alsace-Lorraine after the First World War. In addition, the institute should keep alive and expand the understanding of the importance of Alsace-Lorraine for German culture throughout Germany. Political aspirations were excluded ”.

The institute was located in a building at Bockenheimer Landstrasse 127 in Frankfurt am Main .

The general secretaries of the institute were:

• 1920–1935: Professor Dr. phil. Georg Wolfram (1858–1940)
• 1935–1945: Professor Dr. phil. Paul Wentzcke (1879–1960)

The library of the former institute, comprising around 25,000 volumes, is now incorporated into the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library in Frankfurt.

See also

• Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine
• Western research

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Burkhard Dietz, Helmut Gabel, Ulrich Tiedau (eds.): Reach for the West. The "West Research" of the ethnic-national sciences on the north-western European area 1919-1960. 2 vol. Waxmann, Münster 2003, ISBN 978-3-8309-1144-9 [5]
2. ↑ http://gesellschaft-elsass-und-lothringen.de/11.html
3. ↑ http://gesellschaft-elsass-und-lothringen.de/11.html
4. ↑ https://www.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/archive/institut.html

literature

• Burkhard Dietz, Helmut Gabel, Ulrich Tiedau (eds.): Reach to the West. The "West Research" of the ethnic-national sciences on the north-western European area 1919-1960. 2 vol. Waxmann, Münster 2003, ISBN 978-3-8309-1144-9 [5]