List of senators of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society

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The list of senators of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society includes all senators of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG).

The Senate was the supervisory body of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. The first statute of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society names him as one of the three organs of the society (in addition to the administrative committee and the general meeting). According to the first statute, its members were partly elected by the general assembly, and partly appointed by the "Protector", i.e. the German Emperor. According to the statutes, the duties of the Senate included drawing up the budget, resolving the use of KWG funds and supervising the activities of the administrative committee; it should meet twice a year. The Senate elected the President of the KWG, two treasurers and two secretaries from among its members, who together formed the administrative committee. The size of the Senate and the mode of election of the Senators were changed several times until 1945.

The Senate of the KWG was 1911 to 1918, first from 20 senators (as already mentioned) were ever elected half by the general meeting of members to five years and half by the "protector" (ie, the German Emperor Wilhelm II.) Appointed have been. After an amendment to the statutes in 1921, the senators were partly elected by the general assembly and partly appointed by the Prussian Minister for Science, Art and Education and the Reich Minister of the Interior. The tenure since 1921 was six years. Since 1922, two directors from Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes have also been elected to the Senate. Since 1929, the two directors were replaced by the chairmen of the three "sections" of the KWG (roughly: chemistry, physics, technology, biology and medicine, humanities). Since 1930 the executive member of the board of directors (first Friedrich Glum ) was a member of the Senate.

The Senate gradually increased to a total of 44 Senators in 1930. The last term of office before the Nazi rule ran from April 1929 to March 1934. Due to political pressure, however, the entire Senate resigned on May 18, 1933, and became elected at a general meeting on May 23, 1933 and also reduced from 44 to 32 senators. 20 senators lost their Senate seat due to this "reorganization".

A.

  • Ernst Ammer (1877–1963), leather manufacturer, head of the leather industry economic group, senator 1930–1943
  • Eduard Arnhold , member of the Senate 1911–1925, Privy Councilor of Commerce, owner of the Caesar Wollheim coal merchant, MdH 1913–1918

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E.

  • Gustav Ebbinghaus (1864–1946), Privy Higher Government Council, Member of the State Parliament 1913–1918, Curator of the University of Bonn, Senate 1912–1921
  • Paul Ehrlich , Senator from founding in 1911 until his death in 1915
  • Albert Einstein , Senate 1923–1933
  • Joseph Ersing (1882–1956), trade union secretary, Senate 1930–1933

F.

  • Karl Fiehler , Mayor of Munich, 1934–1946
  • Emil Fischer , chemist and Nobel Prize winner, Senate 1911–1919
  • Eugen Fischer , KWI for Anthropology (...), Senate 1933–1946
  • Otto Fitzner (1888–1945 (?)), President of the Wroclaw Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Senator from 1937–1945

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N

  • Walther Nernst , Senator 1919–1933
  • Herman Nilsson-Ehle (1873–1949), botanist, head of the Institute for Plant Breeding in Svalöv, Sweden, Senate 1937–1946 (appointed by the President outside of the statutes)

O

  • Oscar Ostersetzer (born June 6, 1867 in Vienna; † April 4, 1945 in London), general director of Deutsche Wollwaren-Manufaktur AG, Grünberg (Silesia), member of the main committee of the Reich Association of German Industry, Senate 1925–1930

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R.

  • Gustav Radbruch , Senate 1931–1933
  • Walther vom Rath , member of the supervisory board of IG Farbenindustrie AG , 1921–1933 senator, then honorary senator 1933–1940
  • Richard Remy (1859–1919), Secret Bergrat, MdH 1910–1918, General Director of the Schlesische AG for Mining and Zinc Works (company founded by Guido Henckel von Donnersmark), Senate 1916–1919
  • Hermann Röchling , Senate 1933–1936

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T

  • Ernst Telschow , executive member of the administrative committee, Senate 1937–1946
  • Georg von Thaer , Senate 1931–1933
  • Peter Adolf Thiessen , Senator 1939–1942
  • Fritz Thyssen , Senator 1933–1939
  • Hellmut Toepffer (born September 1, 1876; † after 1930), Under Secretary of State a. D., managing director of the Portland cement factory "Stern" Toepffer, Grawitz & Co. GmbH in Finkenwalde near Stettin, numerous supervisory board mandates, president of the Stettin Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Senate 1919–1921
  • Ernst Trendelenburg , Senate 1922–1933
  • August von Trott zu Solz , Senate 1917–1933

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literature

  • Rudolf Vierhaus , Bernhard vom Brocke (ed.): Research in the field of tension between politics and society. History and structure of the Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Society. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-421-02744-7 , pp. 45ff., 158 ff., 217 ff. 349 ff. 403 ff. (Author: Bernhard vom Brocke, p. 403ff. Helmuth Albrecht and Bernhard from the Brocke)
  • Statutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. In: Eckart Henning , Marion Kazemi : Chronicle of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science. Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-927579-00-9 , p. 127ff. (= Publications from the archive of the Max Planck Society. Volume 1.)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biographical information on Oscar Ostersetzer in the article about his daughter Marie-Luise Bechert in the dictionary of persecuted musicians from the Nazi era , last accessed on April 22, 2011
  2. ↑ Harald Sandner: Hitler's Duke. Carl Eduard of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The biography. Shaker Media, Aachen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86858-598-8 , p. 338.
  3. ^ Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft , Volume 2. Berlin 1931, p. 1916.
  4. ^ Annual report 1931 of Deutsche Bank and Disconto-Gesellschaft AG