Kaiser Wilhelm Institute

Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (in German Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft) was the name of a number of scientific institutes in Germany before World War II. After 1945 they were re-organised and renamed as Max Planck Institutes.

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German - Germany - World War II - 1945 - Max Planck Institute

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Founded on January 11, 1911 by Prussian Secretary of Cultural Affairs, August von Trott zu Solz, and funded by public subscription, the institute was intended to further Prussian prestige as a research establishment independent both of universities and the state. Its founding president was theologian Adolf von Harnack and vice president, Gustav Krupp.

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January 11 - 1911 - Prussian - August von Trott zu Solz - Theologian - Adolf von Harnack - Gustav Krupp

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They provided the scenes of much scientific work of lasting value, including, in 1938, the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in Berlin. However, several of the biomedical institutes achieved infamy through their participation in National Socialist (Nazi) racial science, particularly in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics.

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1938 - Nuclear fission - Otto Hahn - Fritz Strassmann - Berlin - National Socialist (Nazi) - Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics

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