Biologists under Hitler

Part 1 The expulsion and emigration of scientists, 1933-1939 – a brief summary of legal measures “non-Aryan” dismissals and emigrations political dismissals and emigrations the impact of the expulsion of biologists on research in germany Viktor Hamburger and Johannes Holtfreter: the expulsion of two eminent experimental embryologists dismissed biologists able to continue their work in Germany Karl von Frisch, the Mischling, and the solidarity of his colleagues the return of emigre biologists to scientific institutes in germany after 1945 Wiedergutmachung in public and civil service Gerta von Ubisch: the emigration and return of a professor. Part 2 NSDAP membership, careers, and research funding – NSDAP membership the significance of NSDAP membership for habilitation and appointments the chair in zoology in Munster, 1935-1937 “German biology”: the example of Ernst Lehmann the Notgemeinschaft (Emergency Association) of German science, the German research association, and the Reich Research Council under national socialism funding for biological projects by the DFG and the RFR, 1933-1945, and the significance of NSDAP membership research funding for biologists at universities and Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes research funding and the quality of research funding according to individuals and specialities the political and ideological background to research funding. Part 3 The content and result of research at universities – botany zoology Konrad Lorenz, ethology, and national socialist racial doctrine. Part 4 The content and result of research at Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes – the KWI for biology, Berlin-Dahlem the division for virus research of the KWIs for biology and biochemistry, Berlin-Dahlem the KWI for cultivated plant research, Tuttenholf the KWI for breeding research (Erwin Baur Institute), Muncheberg the genetic department of the KWI for brain research, Berlin-Buch the KWI for biophysics, Franfurt the department of hereditary pathology of the KWI for anthropology, human genetics, and eugenics, Berlin-Dahlem: the example of Hans Nachtsheim. Part 5 Scientific research by the SS – the scientific interests of Heinrich Himmler The SS Research and Teaching Society Das Ahnenerbe Heinz Brucher at the Ahnenerbe’s Institute for plant genetic, Lannach Eduard May at the Ahnenerbe’s entomological Institute, Dachau SS research at the University of Jena: Gerhard Heberer, human origins, and the Nordic race. Part 6 Research to develop biological weapons – the working group Blitzableiter biological warfare research under deputy Reich physician Fuhrer Kurt Blome. (Part contents).