Past Politicalization in Its Consequences & Implications for the Future By Randolph Riemschneider, B.Fel. In
1969, something incredible, something outrageous, monstrous happened in Berlin
(WEST) without any veto from the Berlin Control Council of the four Allied
Forces (which did not function because of the discord among them): A new
university law came into force in August 1969; more details in this essay. It
was written at the suggestion of the editor who had heard of this mess only by
chance. Unfortunately, the people of LLB Fellow, R.R., Berlin has reported his research in various fields of
chemistry in this publication, embedded into the eventful history from 1937
until today. The resulting correspondence and questions raised regarding past
and current events are reason enough to write a special paper entitled
"Past Politicalization in Even during the Third
Reich under Hitler, the author had to "do battle" for his interest in
chemistry[i].
This battle continued in the post-war years in Thuringia ( At first, there was only
one university located in the Soviet sector where the author completed his
post-doctoral studies and obtained his habilitation in February 1948. In
January 1950, the author and about 15 collaborators moved from the Humboldt
University (HU) in East Berlin to the Free University (FU) in West Berlin which
had been founded with the aid of At this point, let me
add a few explanations on the division of a) the Federal Republic
of Germany (FRG) (supervised by the three Western forces), b) the
Soviet-dominated so-called German Democrat Republic (GDR), c) In 1948, there were three universities in a) the Humboldt University (HU) in Berlin
(EAST), the successor of b) the Free University (FU) situated in c) the The new Universities Act
applicable in Berlin (WEST) which came into effect in 1969 and was initiated
during the socialist Brandt era[ii]
and the student movement of 1968 and 1969 caused drastic changes in the German
university system with irreparable consequences: A so-called democratisation of
the two universities, i.e. the Free University and the Technical University,
was put into motion and resulted in the creation of a mass university based on
the Communist role model of Peking. Even during the Third Reich, the powers
that were did not succeed with such serious interference! Moreover the Here a few details on
the All of these groups --
university lecturers of the old and new class, assistants, students and other service staff spent time in
endless meetings of committees, commissions and assemblies. All votes were
decided by majorities, i.e. incompetents
included. Role model: FU colleagues affected, reactions from colleagues, burglary: Prof.Dr. A. Dinghas, a
former director of the 1st Mathematical Institute of the FU, told
the author (whom he was very close to) at the beginning of the 1970s "that
it's all over now, because the ratio will always be 8:7[vi]
or even less favourable in all votes taken at the Department of
Mathematics". The number of those "acting against reason" is
growing even further. Prof.Dr.Dinghas, a close friend of Einstein, was the only
member of the faculty who was able to counter the arguments of Senator Prof.
Stein, the author of this law, when the draft was discussed on the occasion of
a faculty meeting a few years before 1969, as Dinghas was able to foresee the
science-destroying consequences of this law. Unfortunately, we were in the
minority. A few Nays (including those of Dinghas and Riemschneider) against 20
Ayes. On this occasion, the author was unfortunately in those hard discussions
no help for Dinghas, because he failed to foresee the implications of the law. Prof.Dr.Büchi, former
director of the Chart 1: Emergency community for a free university - Free
University under hammer and sickle – 13 pages of text
follow this title page. Board of
directors: Büchi (12), Domes, Geisler, Verteiler: Mitglieder und
Interessenten der Notgemeinschaft; die Mitglieder des Abgeordnetenhauses und
der Senat von Berlin, die Mitglieder des Ausschusses für Wissenschaft und
Bildung des Deutschen Bundestages, Mitglieder der Bundesregierung, der
Länderregierungen und der Landtage, die Rektoren der westdeutschen
Universitäten, die Presse sowie sonstige Persönlichkeiten des öffentlichen
Lebens. Since he was in fear of
the leftists; Prof.Dr. H. Gerhartz, head of the Oncology Department in Ward V
at the Westend Teaching Hospital, did not dare cooperate openly with the author
on the issues of "thalidomide/cancer treatment" and "vitamin C
injections/cancer treatment", cf. Part I of “Re-Reading” pages 191/2 (1). In the 1970s: A burglary
occurred at the Institute Building No. IV of the Central Prof.Dr. A.
Lüttringhaus, That and how the
science-destroying machinations of leftist, so-called democratising forces and
the representatives of the 1969 movement can be countered has been shown in
various instances in the author’s “Re-Reading” (1) and can also be inferred
from the documents[vii] copied in Part Va, Vb.
In this respect, however, the prerequisites were favourable, because the
monographs printed in four editions at the end of the 1940s gave the author a
good start resulting in important foreign contacts which (unless done already
anyway) merely needed to be intensified after 1969. This means contacts to the It is also to be found
in the above-mentioned “Re-Reading” (1) segment how a number of talented
collaborators fared at the democratized "Free" University after 1969
without the author as the dissertation supervisor being able to intervene. Under
the secret motto: "Get rid of the old sods", employee contracts were
not renewed as a result of secret ballots based on majority resolutions so that
current dissertations could not be completed, such as those of Nolde,
Schönfelder, and Hein. In the case of Ms.Taneja, the students demanded the room
she worked in so that this thesis could not be completed either. For details,
please refer to Part IV, pages 51-52, 329-333, Part II, 706,
712-713 In the course of a
six-year battle, the author succeeded in achieving the dissolution of the
Central Institute for Biochemistry and Biophysics established against his will,
at the end with the help of Congresswoman Dr.Besser and a number of colleagues.
However, this did not mean that the old status of a well-functioning From 1975 to 1987, the
author "worked by the book" and successfully continued most of his
research outside the FU, both abroad and in Reformation efforts concerning the Act of
1969: The "Reforms of the
1969-Act"and later
following "Reforms of the Reforms" prove the misguided development,
but they were without the expected success: No holding up the described
negative features. About 30 years later: Under European influences further
errors were added, i.e. introducing "Bachelor" and "Master"
(instead of "Diploma") promoting even more "mass
universities". List I: Example of a university career in 1: Brief
des Rektors der Wilhelms Universität Berlin vom 18.7.1947: Lehrauftrag (teachingassignment) 2: Brief
des Rektors der Wilhelms Universität Berlin vom 2.4.1946: Lehrauftrag, fortgesetzt 3: Bescheinigung(attestation) des
Physiologisch-chemischen Instituts der Wilhelms Universität, Prof. Dr. K.
Lohmann, vom 3.3.1948: venialegendi 4: Bescheinigung
der Math.-Nat. Fakultät der Wilhelms Universität Berlin vom 5.3.1949: venialegendi 5: Bescheinigung
des Physiologisch-chemischen Instituts der Wilhelms Universität Berlin vom
18.9.1949: Stellvertreter Lohmanns in
Vorlesungen und Prüfungen 6: Ernennungsurkunde
(documentofappointment ) 7.9.1949: Dozent für Organische Chemie in der
Math.-Nat. Fakultät der Humboldt Universität Berlin (WANDEL-Ministerium) 7: Ernennungsurkunde
vom 7.9.1949: Dozent für Physiologische
Chemie in der Medizinischen Fakultät der Humboldt Universität Berlin
(WANDEL-Ministerium) 8: Umhabilitierungsurkunde
(documentofhabilitationtransfer ) vom 25.10.1950, ausgestellt von der
Philosophischen Fakultät der Freien Universität Berlin 9: Ernennungsurkunde
vom Senator für Volksbildung Berlin vom 11.6.1954: Ernennung zum außerplanmäßigen (extraordinary) Professor 10: Ernennungsurkunde
zum außerplanmäßigen Professor (beamtet) vom 16.5.1956 11: Schreiben
des Rektors der Freien Universität Berlin vom 13.6.1962: Institutsdirektor 12: Ernennungsurkunde
zum ordentlichen(full)Professor vom
Senat der Freien Universität Berlin vom 30.3.1966 The
documents regarding the call of the author to the chair for Biochemistry on 1
April 1958 and his simultaneous appointment to the position of professor
extraordinary have not been included in this list, because document 12 concerns
the promotion from professor extraordinary to full professor and 11 shows the
appointment to the position of director of the Institute of Biochemistry. List
II: Example of a
university career in 13: Schreiben
des Rektors der UFSM, Professor Dr Jose Mariano da Rocha Filho,
unterdemMinisterium da Educacao e Cultura, from 25 August 1964, with the order
to plan, to organize, and to realize a Chemical Central Institute with all
chemical depts, based on the old well-tried German university system 14: Titelblatt des
Entwurfs über den Aufbau eines Chemischen Zentralinstituts 1966/67: Projekt
Riemschneider, 136 Seiten; vgl. auch Part I, p 136 15: Titelblatt der Druckschrift „ Organizacao e
Estabelecimento do Institito Central de Quimica Universidade Federal de Santa
Maria", Impresso na Imprensa Universitaria UFSM 1970, 17 Seiten 16: Schreiben des
Rektors der UFSM: jährliche Einladung (annualinvitation) from 1965 zur
Durchführung des Auftrages vom
25.Aug.1964 (Urkunde 13): Organisation und Aufbau eines chemischen
Zentralinstituts und der entsprechenden Lehrveranstaltungen(teachingarrangements);
hier als Beispiel die Einladung vom Nov 1971. Diese offiziellen Einladungen
waren notwendig, um in Brasilia die notwendigen Mittel für Reisekosten,
Aufenthalt ecc zu beantragen. 17: Druckschrift (booklet)
„ Inauguração do Instituto Central de Química, Universidade Federal de Santa
Maria (UFSM), Convenio UFSM / AlemanhaOcidental", S.Maria 24.8.1973 containing also the author’s lectures receiving the honorary doctor award from 24.8.1973; cf. also Part I,
p. 161: ISBN 978-1-882292-28-8 Documents
1 to 12 and 13 to 17 in APPENDIX. Unfortunately, what was
feared has come to pass. Today, our country has a deficit of thinkers and
leaders in the fields of politics[viii],
banking, economy and science. This, of course, also applies to universities.
Examples: "Fiascos in connection with awarding doctorates" (1),
"Taking the wrong track in the Euro crisis" (2). The so-called
"green party" and its followers whose role models were
Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and Rosa Luxemburg according
to Helmers (3) are increasingly gaining ground. Today's green party is headed
by von Claudia Roth, Jürgen Trettin, H.Ströbele and can be characterised by the motto "green on the outside, red on the
inside", e.g. B. Six (4) "Das grüneIrrlicht - Fall
Ströbele” (The green will-o'-the-wisp – the Ströbelecase)
as well as revealing bulletins from “Die DeutschenKonservativen". Remarkto “Die Deutschen Konservativen”: The group "Citizens
for Strauss"(BürgeraktionDemokratenfürStrauß) which was founded by chancellor candidate Franz Josef Strauss and
Heinrich Hellwege, the former prime minister of the Deutsche Partei (DP) became
"Die DeutschenKonservativene.V." With the aid of the DP, Konrad
Adenauer had been elected German chancellor. Konrad Adenauer encouraged Kurt
Ziesel from If Adenauer was the
"godfather" of "Die DeutschenKonservativen", Strauss was
the "father". President Ronald Reagan, without whom there would have
been no German reunification, was a true friend of the German conservatives and
helped them often. He received the youth organization of the group in the As already mentioned, in consequence of the 1969 beginning science-destroying development at German universities there is today a deficit of competent leaders in Europa. So, after “Past Politicalization and Consequences", the author cannot help writing the note "European Politicalization and EURO-crisis". In this case, the consequences will affect all of us. European Politicalization and EURO-crisisThe governments in Former Thyssen director
Dieter Spethmann (9) is warning against the time bomb national debt. "To
save the common currency, indebted countries should be given a chance to leave
the Euro zone. Then they could reintroduce their former currencies, devalue
them and thus pay back the major part of their national debt."
Alternatively, he says, a return to the status quo ante is possible. "There must be an end to
the Euro before the German real economy, presently the most efficient in According
to M. Brandstetter (10), the large banks have been manipulating interest rates: Libor scandal
(11). There are two factors proving that such an interest manipulation has
taken place. If a bank states a significantly higher interest rate than most
other banks - as Barclays did conspicuously often in 2008 - it will be excluded
form the Libor calculation. However, this will pull down the total average - which
was the whole point of the exercise in the first place. The other reason for
such manipulations is simply that an interest rate just a few basis points
lower could earn Barclays millions over night. Finishing
the author wants to come back once more to the subject “Destruction of German
universities” and to the first trials to fight against: In the “BAYERN
KURIER” from Nov 14th, 1970 H.SCHOLL
wrote that the scientists are forming against the destruction of universities. E.SCHUBBE reported in the “RHEINISCHER KURIER” from
Nov 13th, 1970 on the foundation process of the “Bund Freiheit der
Wissenschaft” which took place in the town-hall of Bonn-Bad Godesberg. Together with Prof.Büchi (cf. Chart 1) the author prepared a documentation of about 60 articles published between Nov
1971 and March 1971. The titles of
some follow in (12). Bibliography:
(1) R.Riemschneider,
"75 Years Chemistry – Re-Reading" Vol III, p 133- 137 (2011): ISBN
978-1-882292-35-6:"Cultural revolution at FU 1969" – call for elites 2004",
there e.g. Daniel Guhr* (2004):
"Warum hat Deutschland keineEliteuniversitätenwie die USA?"(Why does Germany not have universities
comparable to the Ivy League ones in the U.S.A.?) * Daniel Guhr, 36, managing
director of the Illuminate Consulting Group, international scientific
consultants with offices in Can Diego/Cal and Munich/Germany. After studying in
Bonn, Harvard, Brandeis, Oxford/UC, Berkeley as well as the Max Planck
Institute of Education Research in
Berlin, he worked for the Boston Consulting Group. While there he financed
studies with over dozen scholarships, getting his doctorate for his thesis on
"University access in Germany and California". (2) W.Hankel, W.Nölling, K.A.Schachtschneider,
D-Spethmann, J.Starbatty, "Das Euro-Abenteuer geht zu Ende: Wie die
Währungsunion unsere Lebensgrundlagen zerstört", (The Euro
adventureiscomingto an end. How the currency union destroys our
livelihood.)2011, Kopp-Verlag, D-72108
Rottenburg (3) Peter Helmers a) "Die blutigen Ikonen
der Grünen - Terroristen, Kommunisten, Atheisten,
Gesellschaftsveränderer", März 2012, Sonderausgabe des
DEUTSCHLAND-Magazins, D-22083 Hamburg; b) "Die Grünen – Rote Wölfe im
grünen Schafspelz" (The Green Party
- redwolves in sheep'sclothing) (4) Billy Six, "Das grüne
Irrlicht",Juli 2012, wie (3) (5) Unofficial
designation for the support and stabilisation contracts ESFS and ESM: EFSF = European Financial Stability
Facility, for 3 years from 2010, then to be replaced by the ESM = European Stability Mechanism, the
second Euro rescue net which is far more extensive than the EFSF (up to
700 billions for loans to shaky states and banks). (6) ECB
is the first and foremost Euro currency guardian and was supposed to act
independently of political instructions. In the meantime, this rule has been
undermined, for example by buying bad loans which has happened and is still
happening. (7) P. Helmers "Beim Zeus, Ihr Griechen – raus aus mit Euch!" (By
Zeus, you Greeks - get out!"), Deutschland
Magazin, special edition 2012, 79 pages. Just two points from the contents.
"During the decisive debate in the German Parliament in 1999, the
Red-Green administration under Schröder, Eichel and Fischer pushed the
acceptance of Greece into the currency union - an inflation intended by the government which would then help get rid
of the national debt - with the consequence of mass poverty." (8) B.-T-Ramb, "Der Zusammenbruch unserer Währung und wie man sich darauf vorbereitet" (The
collapseofourcurrencyandhowtoprepareforit), WPR Wirtschafts- und Verbands-PR
GmbH 2010; ISBN: 978-3-910087-03-3. (9) D. Spethmann, "Zeitbombe
Staatsverschuldung" (Time bomb national debt), Dreesbach Verlag, Munich, 2012, 55 pages. (10) JUNGE FREIHEIT No. 30-31/12
- 20 July 2012. (11) Libor
is the acronym for London Interbank Offered Rate, i.e. the interest rate
banks charge to each other if one bank gives a short-term loan to another
(www.bbalibor.com): Libor interest rates are calculated for ten different
currencies and 15 different terms. The most important one is the three month
Libor on the U.S. dollar. The Libor is determined on each business day at 11
a.m. by a total of 16 banks which then inform the Bank of England what the
interbank rate to be paid by them is. Of the total of 16 quotations, both the
highest and the lowest four rates are disregarded and an average rate
calculated from the remaining quotations which then yields the Libor for that
day (which seems antiquated to the author). (12) DocumentationofR.RiemschneiderandBüchi on
theGründungsprozeß des Bundes „Freiheit der Wissenschaft“ from April 1970;
cf. also: Bund Freiheit der Wissenschaft, Gründungskongreß in Bonn-Bad
Godesberg on 18.Nov.1970, HPI-Schriften, Köln 1970. Heresometitles: a) „Ein böser Vergleich“ aus „DIE WELT“ vom
17.Nov.1970, S.4: Der neue Vorsitzende der Bundesassistentenkonferenz,
Schulmeister, hat sich dazu verstiegen, den „Bund der Freiheit“ mit der NSDAP
von Hitler zu vergleichen. b) Konrektor P.Glotz hält den Zusammenschluß
für eine Seifenblase, er schreibt das unter dem Titel „Die bündnischen
Professoren“ in der SÜDDEUTSCHEN ZEITUNG vom 18.11.70 c) „Antwort der deutschen Professoren auf die
Radikalisierung: Gründungskongreß des Bundes „Freiheit der Wissenschaft“ in
„NEUE ZÜRICHER ZEITUNG“ vom 26. Nov
1970, Fernausgabe Nr.310. d) B.Nellessen,“Freiheit für die
Wissenschaft: Widerstand der Professoren“
(freedomforthescience, resistenceoftheprofessors) in „DIE WELT“
vom 20.11.70, S.4 e) “NotgemeinschaftzurRettung
der Universität” (emergency community
for saving the university) founded simultaneously in Bonn, New York,
Paris, and other capitals - an article
of NIELS von HOLST: “There was nothing comparable in the history of
“Geistesleben”: 100 scientists of 3 continents: WERNER HEISENBERG and 6 not
German nobelpreis winners , as well as 93 other internationally well-known scientists (researchers) of Germany, France,
Italy, England, Netherlands, USA, Australia were speaking with one voice and
presenting the public a memorandum concerning university crisis and founding an
international commitee f) to
e) the „Memorandum zur Hochschulkrise: Internationales Komitee zur Rettung der
Universität gegründet“ in der
SÜDDEUTSCHEN ZEITUNG vom 20.11 70, S.5.,verfaßt von unserer Bonner Redaktion. g)
W.Wolf, „Universität wehrt sich: 1500 Teilnehmer beim Gründungskongreß des
Bundes Freiheit der Wissenschaft“, aus „STUDENT“ Dez.1970, 2 Seiten h).E.Topitsch, „Bonzokraten im Papageienhaus:
Aufstieg der radikalen Linken an den Universitäten hat zu einer Herrschaft der
arroganten Dürftigkeit geführt“, 24.4.1971; vgl. auch die Werke von
Prof.Topitsch „Mythos – Philosophie – Politik“ 1969 und „Die Freiheit
der Wissenschaft und der politische Auftrag der Universität“ 1968. i) H.Schäfer, Prof der Physiologie in Heidelberg „Ich
fühle mich nicht selten an das Jahr 1932 erinnert“ in „Die WELT“ vom 12. Jan 1971, S.7: Er warnt
vor dem Zerfall der Universitäten. APPENDIX: List I and List II. List I: Stages of a university career sketched by documents 1 2 3 4 56 7 8 9 10 11 12 List II:University
career in Brazil 13 14 15 16 17 [i]Award of the doctorate in February 1945, just before the end of World
War II. [ii] By granting the
GDR diplomatic recognition as a sovereign
state, the Brandt administration had made the division of Germany into three
parts official, i.e. they had abandoned the German concept of 1848 (“den
Deutschlandbegriff von 1848”) [iii] by the name of Kreibich who had come from the
German Democrat Republic together with
P. Wunderlich, a pre-graduate in Chemistry, working at the author’s
institute [iv] in the meantime just a kind
of blank staff (Leerkörper) [v] This is not a
criticism of [vi]Fachbereichsrat (council of
department)mathematics had 15 members [vii] see also Lists I and IIin
APPENDIX [viii] see Part IV, p 948, : ISBN 978-1-882292-36-1
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