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Suppressed, Displaced, Persecuted – Science in the Shadow of the Nazi Regime

"Crime Scene: History" Live at the BAdW

In “Tatort Geschichte – True Crime meets History,” historians Niklas Fischer and Hannes Liebrandt from the Chair of History Didactics & Public History at LMU Munich delve into crimes of the past and ask what relevance they have for us today.

In 1933, the world of science also underwent a fundamental transformation. With the Nazis’ rise to power, the systematic exclusion and expulsion of scientists deemed “non-Aryan” or politically undesirable began. Many lost their positions at universities early on. In the academies, the process took longer, but eventually members and staff were expelled there as well.

This live podcast tells the stories of scientists from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities whose lives and careers were upended by these policies. Some are world-renowned, such as the physicist Albert Einstein or the chemist Richard Willstätter. Others are almost forgotten today, even though they were once among the leading figures in science. Who was the Indologist Lucian Scherman, who, as director of the Munich Museum of Ethnology (today the Museum Fünf Kontinente), was deeply rooted in the city’s cultural life? What happened to the chemist Kasimir Fajans, who was considered a potential Nobel laureate in the 1920s? And how does the case of the English scholar Max Förster fit into this picture—a man who lost his chair but remained a member of the Academy?

Die Historikerin Louisa Mathes hat zum Thema das Buch „Von Erwählten zu Unerwünschten. Die Verdrängung der als „nichtarisch“ oder „jüdisch versippt“ verfolgten Mitglieder aus der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften nach 1933“ veröffentlicht. Zusammen mit ihr folgen die beiden Podcast-Hosts Niklas Fischer und Hannes Liebrandt den Biografien und fragen danach, wie sich eine wissenschaftliche Gemeinschaft im und zum Nationalsozialismus verhielt und welche Spuren diese Geschichte bis heute hinterlassen hat.

„Tatort Geschichte“ ist ein Podcast der Georg-von-Vollmar-Akademie in Zusammenarbeit mit Bayern2.

Es diskutieren

  • Louisa Mathes (LMU München)
  • Niklas Fischer (Tatort Geschichte/LMU München, Lehrstuhl für Didaktik der Geschichte & Public History)
  • Hannes Liebrandt (Tatort Geschichte/LMU München, Lehrstuhl für Didaktik der Geschichte & Public History)

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Lehrstuhl für Didaktik der Geschichte & Public History der LMU München; „Tatort Geschichte“ ist ein Podcast der Georg-von-Vollmar-Akademie in Zusammenarbeit mit Bayern2.

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On site
25.06.2026
6:30 p.m.
–8:30 p.m.
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Alfons-Goppel-Straße 11, 80539 Munich
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