Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft

The Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft (Emergency Association of German Science) or NG was founded on 30 October 1920 on the initiative of leading members of the

The objective of the NG was to provide the regional, disciplinary, and political factions of the academic community with a central institution to facilitate raising and distributing funds for the totality of German sciences and humanities. Originally, it was to alleviate especially the increased financial needs after World War I due to monetary inflation and generally higher costs in research. As presiding secretary of the PAW, Planck briefly headed the NG until Schmidt-Ott was installed as president. The NG was successful in raising funds and support from the central German government as well as financial contributions from corporate sources in Germany and abroad.[4]

Presidents of the NG/DFG

Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office
	Friedrich Schmidt-Ott	1920	1934[6]
	Johannes Stark	1934	1936
	Rudolf Mentzel	1936	1945

From 1949 to 1951,

Walter Gerlach was a vice-president of the NG.^[7]

Bibliography

• Flachowsky, Sören Von der Notgemeinschaft zum Reichsforschungsrat. Wissenschaftspolitik im Kontext von Autarkie, Aufrüstung und Krieg (Steiner, 2008)
• Heilbron, J. L. The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science (Harvard, 2000)
  ISBN 0-674-00439-6
• Hentschel, Klaus, editor and Ann M. Hentschel, editorial assistant and Translator Physics and National Socialism: An Anthology of Primary Sources (Birkhäuser, 1996)
• Zierold, Kurt Forschungsförderung in drei Epochen. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: Geschichte, Arbeitsweise, Kommentar (Steiner, 1968)

Notes

1. ^ Geschäftsordnung der Deutschen Gemeinschaft zur Erhaltung und Förderung der Forschung (Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft) vom 9. September 1929, rep. in Zierold, 1968, pp. 592-595.
2. ^ The official title of the REM was Reichsministerium für Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung.
3. ^ Hentschel, 1996, Appendix A; see the entry for NG.
4. ^ ^{a b} Heilbron, 2000, pp. 90-92.
5. ^ Hentschel, 1996, Appendix F; see the entry for Konen.
6. ^ Hentschel and Hentschel, 1996, Appendix A; see the entry for DFG, Flachowsky, 2008, pp. 134-154.
7. ^ Flachowsky, 2008, Appendix I; see the entry for Gerlach, p. 8.

External links

• Documents and clippings about Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW