The imperial period, he conducted research - towards the Habsburgs friendly disposed - ober the dominions, after the collapse of the monarchy, he published essays, which suggested a closeness to social democracy. The passage of time can be seen in his attitude. Henry Knight of Srbik: (1878-1951), whose ancestors had been poor Czech peasants in spite of his proud name, which throughout his life he tried to hide, was up in the sixties considered as one of the most important Austrian historians. What the German historian Hans-Ulrich Wehler noted for society as a whole, was especially valid for the circle of top scholars: "Not Hitler's individual psychopathology is the real problem but the condition of a society that had him ascended and ruled till April 1945". Even an SS-Sturmbannführer was recorded "resting" after a few years of membership. A denazification was practically non-existent. When the war ended in 1945, more than half of the members of the Academy of Sciences were National Socialist Party members. Only the mounting of a Hitler Bust, the Academy offered, she refused. For the "racial science" and measurement of prisoners of war, the scientists had even actively applied. Among them three Nobel Prize winners.Ībsolutely thrilled, anthropologists, historians, geographers, biologists, medical physicists put themselves into the service of the Nazis, wanted the racial fanatism, the conquests, the enslavement of the "Easterners" "scientifically substantiate". The Vienna Academy had 21 of their most respected members excluded. Under its new president, the historian and admirer of Adolf Hitler Heinrich Srbik, in 1939 they were "free of Jews", as noted in a log. Just a year before, in 1937, they had discussed in a joint meeting with the German Academies on the exclusion of Jewish colleagues. ![]() Their high level of education put the men assiduously in the service of Nazi policies. The highest administrative staff of the Academy, in which all the threads of the learned society came together, had been as "Old Fighter" since 1933 in the NSDAP. Many Academy members had for years offered their servises as illegal Nazis the new rulers. ("The Academy of Sciences in Vienna from 1938 to 1945," edited by Feichtinger/ Matis/ Sienell/ Uhl, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2013, the exhibition catalog) profile there has present the as yet unpublished study, which will be presented on 11th March 2013. As the scholars the "leader" five days after the German invasion insured their loyalty in the noble halls of their Vienna's city palace, SA, SS and Gestapo had already begun mass arrests.įor the 75th Anniversary of the so-called "Anschluss" is the Austrian Academy of Sciences for the first time based keeping track its history in the National Socialism. On 18 March they sent Hitler a telegram of submissivity. With the end of the monarchy became the illustrious circle, who had been appointed by the Emperor, the Republic of Scholars, which chose its members.Īll this abandoned the professors in 1938. Here worldwide the first institute was established to study the radioactivity. The Oriental Studies and the Natural Sciences soon acquired a reputation beyond the borders of the Habsburg empire. ![]() ![]() The complete independence the imperial family had guaranteed. More than half of its members were party members.Īt its inception in 1847, the Academy of Sciences should be a haven of free thought, research and publishing. Late turned the Austrian Academy of Sciences itself to its Nazi history: The Learned Society was more deeply involved than it seemed. Bezirk, Academia de las Ciencias, Academy of Sciences, Académie des Sciences, Accademia delle Scienze, Akademia Nauk (Akademie der Wissenschaften), Bäckerstraße/Dr.-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz
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