Reich Research Council
The Reich Research (RFR) in 1937 at the suggestion of Erich Schumann launched and initially the Reich Ministry of Education allocated (REM) to the centralized planning of all basic research and applied research, with the exception of aeronautics implement, under the supervision of the Reich Minister of Aviation , Hermann Goering was . In 1942 the council was reorganized and subordinated to the Reich Ministry for Armaments and Ammunition . General Karl Heinrich Emil Becker , head of the Research Center of the Army Weapons Office (HWA) and teacher at the Defense Technology Faculty of the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg, was President of the Reich Research Council from 1937 to 1940. After Becker's death in 1940, Bernhard Rust became President. Vice-President was Otto Wacker from the Reich Ministry of Education. However, the actual management was incumbent on Rudolf Mentzel , President of the German Research Foundation (DFG). Support for research projects was decided by the heads of the 18 specialist divisions.
The RFR worked closely with the NS four-year plan authority. Well-known members of the Reich Research Council:
- Karl Becker , President of the Reich Research Council
- Karl Beurlen Head of the Soil Science Division (geology, mineralogy, geophysics)
- Rudolf Beyschlag , head of the mining and metallurgy division
- Kurt Blome , division manager for genetic and racial maintenance in the Reich Research Council
- Hermann August Eidmann , head of the Colonial Zoology division
- Abraham Robert Esau , Head of the Physics Division in the Reich Research Council
- Walther Gerlach , from 1943 he headed the physics department and the working group for nuclear physics
- Friedrich Gladenbeck , authorized representative for remote control research
- Wilhelm Mantel , consultant for forest and wood industry research
- Erwin Marx , head of the electrical engineering division since 1937
- Theodor Mayer , head of the history department within the program Use of the humanities in war
- Werner Osenberg , head of the planning department in the Reich Research Council
- Ferdinand Sauerbruch , head of the medical division
- Otto Scherzer , head of the radio measurement technology division
- Albert Wolfgang Schmidt Head of the Fuels Division
- Walter Paul Schreiber , German doctor, department head in the Reich Research Council
- Otto Schulz-Kampfhenkel , special commissioner for geographic questions in the Reich Research Council
- Wilhelm Süss , from 1943 representative for mathematics in the Reich Research Council
- Peter Adolf Thiessen , from 1937 head of the chemistry department of the Reich Research Council
- Karl Witzell , member of the Presidential Council of the Reich Research Council
literature
- Klaus Hentschel (Ed.), Ann M. Hentschel (Ed. & Transl.): Physics and National Socialism. An Anthology of Primary Sources. Birkhäuser, Basel et al. 1996, ISBN 0-8176-5312-0 ( Science Networks, historical Studies 18).
- Kristie Macrakis: Surviving the Swastika. Scientific Research in Nazi Germany. Oxford University Press, New York NY et al. 1993, ISBN 0-19-507010-0 .
- Research for the people and freedom of food. Work report of the research service and overview of the work done in the Reich Research Council in the field of agriculture. 2 volumes. Berlin 1934 / 37-1938 / 41, ZDB ID 13519-7 .
- Sören Flachowsky: From the emergency community to the Reich Research Council. Science Policy in the Context of Autarky, Armament and War , Stuttgart 2008 ( Studies on the History of the German Research Foundation 3).
Works by individual members
- E. Schumann and G. Hinrichs: Increase in performance of hollow explosive devices through special ignition guidance (lenses) . Report of the Reich Research Council 1943/44
Web links
- Online (PDF; 126 kB) Susanne Heim : Research for autarky . The contribution of scientist to Nazi rule in Germany. Results. Preprints from the research program “History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism” # 4. MPG, Berlin 2001 (in English)