Research under National Socialism
Academies and Institutions in Vienna and Prague
The annexation (“Anschluss”) of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938 had drastic consequences not only for the Academy of Sciences in Vienna, but also for the academies of the “old empire”. Their academy statutes were redrafted and standardised according to the Viennese model. Conversely, the unification and centralisation (in Nazi terminology, Verreichlichung) of science and research in the German Reich gave rise to the ongoing “provincialisation” of Austrian research. This project aims to investigate how the Anschluss (1938) and the break-up of Czechoslovakia (1939) affected Nazi research policy as well as institutional research in Austria and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Core team: Johannes Feichtinger (OeAW); Martin Franc (Masaryk Institute and Archive of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic); Siegfried Göllner (OeAW); Vlasta Mádlová (Masaryk Institute and Archive of the Czech Academy of Sciences); Michal Šimůnek (Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences); Heidemarie Uhl (OeAW)
Duration: 2022/01/07 – 2026/31/12
Photo: Academy of Sciences in Vienna, (c) OeAW