Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft

C. Neuberg, in Handbuch der Biochemie, (C. Oppenheimer, Editor), Gustav Fischer, Jena, Erganzungsband, p. 669 (1913) Festschrift der Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft, Verlag Julius Springer, Berlin, p. 170 (1921) Ber., 66, 3635 (1922). 

The talk is cited by Polanyi as Festschrift der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft, 1921, 171, in M. Polanyi, Grundlagen der Potentialtheorie der Adsorption," Zeitschrift fur Elektroche-mie 35 (1929) 431-432, on 431. 

It was only recently that a presidential commission of the Max Planck Society examined the behavior of the predecessor of the Max Planck Society, the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft, druing the Nazi era. This commission says in a preliminary report that some intolerable experiments were made under the responsibility of some members of the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft. 

See the references dted in note 27 and note 29 above on the military work of the KWl for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, see Lothar Burchardt, Die Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft im Ersten Weltkrieg (1914-1918) , in Vierhaus and vom Brocke (eds.), op. cit. note 11, 164-167. 

Herzog, R. O., and Jancke, W., "Festschrift der Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft, ... 

Duisberg to Adolf v. Harnack (26 Feb 1920), in BAL, 46/9.1 (Nr. 148) Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft, Besetzung der Emil-Fischer Professur an der Berliner Univer-sitat. 

Cf. Heike Reishaus-Etzold, Die Einflussnahme der Chemiemonopole auf die "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft z. F. d. W. e. V." wahrend der Weimarer Republik,"... 

The history of this initiative, from the early stages to the foundation of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft and the inauguration of this society s Chemical Institute, has been well described, especially by J.A. Johnson, who examined very particularly these important events of the history of natural science in Germany in the last hundred years. Duisberg s main part was to find promoters in industry and to convince them to spend considerable amounts of money. In a letter to Fischer he wrote that "It is important to drum together as much money as possible." ... 

During the foundation period of these new institutes between 1917 and 1922, industrialists, scientists, and bureaucrats looked upon earlier Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes (for chemistry, physical chemistry, coal research) as exemplars and hoped to achieve similiar success. Their perception was that the German chemical firms had been successful because they had internally elaborated research and development structures as well as research institutions within the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft. Moreover, the close... 

Kabanox, V. 149 Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft 70 Kaiser Wilhelm Institut 146 Kaiser Wilhelm Institute 20 Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry 96... 

Ebbinghaus, A., and K.-H. Roth, Vernichtungsforschung Der Nobelpreistrager Richard Kuhn, die Kaiser Wilhelm-Gesellschaft und die Entwicklung von... 

During the National Socialist Period , in D. Kaufmann (ed.) Geschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft im Nationalsozialismus Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven der Forschung, Gottingen Wallstein, 398-410. 

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