North and East German Research Association

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The North and East German Research Association ( NOFG ) was the main body of research on the East . It was founded in 1933 (initially under the name Nordostdeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ) and was a sub-organization of the Volksdeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (VFG). This was based primarily on three regional institutes, each specialized in a section of the "border area".

history

The NOFG was the largest of the “VFG” that “came into being around 1930 with the task of promoting research into regional and folk history and regional and folklore issues in the German border regions and the representatives of the research that was then flourishing To bring together subjects with representatives of the ethnic groups concerned and the competent Reich authorities . The research community was formed immediately after the National Socialists came to power , in the development phase of research capacities in the field of Eastern research. It was shaped by national-conservative and ethnic ideas about history and politics. Its director was Albert Brackmann (1871–1952), medieval historian and general director of the Prussian State Archives . The aim of the research community was the "scientific" defense "of the Polish territorial claims" and the scientific foundation of German political concepts in the East. To this end, she translated Polish specialist literature as well as maps and statistics on population conditions in East Central Europe and produced her own studies and memoranda.

See also

literature

  • Martin Burkert: The Eastern Sciences in the Third Reich. Part 1: Between prohibition and tolerance. The difficult tightrope walk of the Eastern sciences between 1933 and 1939. Wiesbaden 2000 (Research on Eastern European History 55).
  • Michael Burleigh: Germany Turns Eastwards. A Study of Ostforschung in the Third Reich. Cambridge et al. 1988.
  • Gabriele Camphausen: The scientific historical research on Russia in the Third Reich 1933-1945. Frankfurt / M. 1990 (European University Writings, Series 3: History and its Auxiliary Sciences 418), pp. 182–212.
  • Michael Fahlbusch: Science in the Service of National Socialist Politics? The “Volksdeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft” from 1931–1945. Baden-Baden 1999, pp. 178-247, 547-590.
  • Ingo Haar: Historian under National Socialism. German history and the “national struggle” in the east. Göttingen 2000 (Critical Studies in History 143), pp. 150–306.
  • Ingo Haar: North and East German Research Association. In: Ingo Haar, Michael Fahlbusch, Matthias Berg (Hrsg.): Handbook of the national sciences. People - institutions - research programs - foundations. Munich 2008, pp. 432–443.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irmtraut Eder-Stein, Kristin Hartisch: Introduction. In: Dies .: Publication Office Berlin-Dahlem 1931–1945. Holdings R 153. Koblenz 2003 (finding aids on holdings of the Federal Archives 92). URL: Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (09.12.2014) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / startext.net-build.de
  2. ^ Corinna Unger: Ostforschung in Westdeutschland. The exploration of the European East and the German Research Foundation 1945–1957. Stuttgart 2007 (Studies on the History of the German Research Foundation 1), p. 54.