Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science
The President's Commission „History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the National Socialist Era"
The research program "History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the National Socialist era (1933-45)" of the Max Planck Society in Berlin with the objective of an extensive investigation of the relation between the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Society and its scientists to the National Socialist system, announces for July 1, 2002
two postdoctoral fellowships
for the period of one year for historians or historians of science (extension perhaps possible).
Projects in the following fields are in particular welcome:
– research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Silicate and the institute's collaboration with the Organization Todt, the Reichsamt für Wirtschaftsausbau and other institutions of the Nazi regime,
– research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes for Labor Physiology, Medical Research and Agricultural Labor Science as well as at the Sengbusch Research Station with its interrelated subjects "Nutrition and Performance Enhancement".
– international scientific relations of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society/Max Planck Society during National Socialism and the immediate post-war era
– Adolf Butenandt and his role as a science politician during the postwar era
Other topic suggestions in the research context of "Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the National Socialist era" are welcome. Information about the general goals, central issues and former research projects of the research program are available under http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/kwg.
Outstanding junior scholars (Ph.D. awarded no earlier than 1997) are invited to apply. Candidates are requested to send a curriculum vitae, publication list, research prospectus (maximum 1000 words), and two letters of recommendation no later than May 6, 2002 to:
Research program „History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the National Socialist era", Glinkastr. 5-7, 10117 Berlin, GERMANY.
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