We are delighted to report that historians now access have to Vertreibungen aus den deutschen Universitäten im Nationalsozialismus = Expulsions from German Universities during National Socialism via SOLO or Databases A-Z.
This database provides short biographical descriptions of German academics that were forced to leave their academic jobs during the Nazi regime. The expulsion of numerous scientists by the Nazi regime’s brutal policy of exclusion, and the international refugee movements it caused, can be regarded as a significant turning point in the history of science. The “cleansing” of the German universities that began in 1933 led to a considerable loss in Germany’s intellectual milieu.
The text is in German.
The database covers 1,300 persons who were affected by the dismissals, covering all German universities in detail. The short biographies provide information on academic status and disciplines, religious affiliation, membership in political parties, reasons of expulsion, and also (if applicable) on concentration camp imprisonment, countries of emigration and remigration.
Links are provided to other biographical resources such as Deutsche Biographie.
You can search by person, university, academic displine, birth and death dates. You can also browse by person or academic discipline.
Other related resources (SSO required):
- Diaries of Joseph Goebbels Online/ Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels Online
- Exilpresse digital: Deutsche Exilzeitschriften 1933-1945
- Economy and War in the Third Reich, 1933-1944, The (Archives Unbound)
- Hitler. Quellen 1924-45
- Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950 (Archives Unbound)