About us | History | Kaiser Wilhelm Society

A memorandum with consequences
1909
[more]
Economic boom and upward trend in the sciences
1909
[more]
An imperial speech
1910
[more]
A goddess of war
1911
[more]
Adolf von Harnack
1911
[more]
Clothes make the man
1911
[more]
Establishment of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society
1911
[more]
Rome: The first institute for the human sciences
1912
[more]
The first institutes in Berlin-Dahlem
1912
[more]
First institutes outside Berlin
1914
[more]
Wartime research
1914
[more]
Imperial flag and war fever
1914
[more]
Clara Immerwahr
1915
[more]
The first Nobel Prize
1915
[more]
Haber’s Institute comes under military control
1916
[more]
Science as saviour
1918
[more]
Impounded institutes
1918
[more]
Society retains its name
1919
[more]
The German Reich and Prussia provide financial assistance for the first time
1920
[more]
Society without a patron
1921
[more]
The Administrative Headquarters gets a home
1922
[more]
Friedrich Glum – a modern science manager
1922
[more]
Public marketing
1924
[more]
Annual meeting – a travelling circus
1927
[more]
Magnet for foreign scientists
1929
[more]
Emergence of the Scientific Council and the Sections
1929
[more]
From Harnack to Planck
1930
[more]
Institute numbers rise
1931
[more]
Albert Einstein
1932
[more]
Eastern policy and cross-border activity
1932
[more]
Emigration and escape
1933
[more]
Max Planck meets Hitler
1933
[more]
Haber commemoration
1935
[more]
Involvement with the Nazi State
1937
[more]
Introduction of the Führerprinzip (leadership principle)
1937
[more]
The first Max Planck Institute opens
1937
[more]
Lise Meitner
1938
[more]
Nobel Prizes refused
1939
[more]
Nuclear research
1942
[more]
Institutes move to Southern Germany
1943
[more]
Conquests lead to institute duties
1945
[more]