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Florian Schmaltz was the Research Program Coordinator of the Research Program History of the Max Planck Society (Forschungsprogramm Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft). The program investigated the history of the Max Planck Society based on primary research and its scientific historical contexts. It encompassed the history of the Society as such as well as its individual institutions including, for example, their academic programs and working methods, structures and results, successes and failures, as well as their links to economy, society, politics and culture.
In his research Florian Schmaltz focuses on the historical epistemology of scientific institutions. He investigates the history of the relations between science, the military, and industry.
Besides the history of the Max Planck Society his current work is committed to an institutional study focusing on research in fluid dynamics at the Aerodynamic Research Establishment (Aerodynamische Versuchsanstalt - AVA) in Göttingen and its predecessor organizations (1907–1950). His research topics have included the history of chemical warfare research, the IG Farben trust in the Nazi era, its factory and concentration camp at Auschwitz, criminal human experimentation in German concentration camps and the history of aeronautical research in the 20th century.
He received his MA at the Free University of Berlin in 2000 and subsequently worked as doctoral candidate in the research program of the Presidential Commission of the Max Planck Society on the "History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism" (2000–2004). He received his doctor' degree at the University of Bremen in 2004. His dissertation was entitled: Kampfstoff-Forschung im Nationalsozialismus. Zur Kooperation von Kaiser-Wilhelm-Instituten, Militär und Industrie (Chemical Warfare Research in National Socialism: The Cooperation of Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes, Military and Industry). Subsequently, he was a research fellow in the History of Science Working Group at the Historical Department of the Goethe University Frankfurt (2004–2009), Scholar in Residence at the Research Institute of the Deutsches Museum in Munich (2010) and Research Assistant at the University Regensburg (2011).
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Projekte
Fluid Mechanics in Times of War: Research Practices Interacting Politics, Industry, and the Military
Selected Publications
Schmaltz, Florian (2023). “Brain Research on Nazi ‘Euthanasia’ Victims: Legal Conflicts Surrounding Scientology’s Instrumentalization of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society’s History against the Max Planck Society.” Journal of the History of the…
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Schmaltz, Florian, Frank W. Stahnisch, and Sascha Topp, eds. (2023). The History of the Neurosciences at the Max Planck Institute, 1948–2002. Special issue, Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 32 (2). London: Routledge. https://www…
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Schmaltz, Florian, Frank W. Stahnisch, and Sascha Topp (2023). “On the History of Neuroscience Research in the Max Planck Society, 1948–2002 — German, European, and Transatlantic Perspectives: Introduction.” Journal of the History of the…
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Bonah, Christian, Florian Schmaltz, and Paul Weindling, eds. (2022). La faculté de médecine de la Reichsuniversität Straßburg et l’hôpital civil sous l’annexion de fait nationale-socialiste 1940-1945. Strasbourg: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg…
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Presentations, Talk and Teaching Acitivities
European Society for the History Science (ESHS), Brussels
Workshop: Windkanäle. Wissen, Politik und Ästhetik bewegter Luft. Campus Leuphana, Lüneburg
Workshop: Science, Occupation, War: 1939–1945, National Technical Museum Prague
Öffentliche Ringvorlesung: Forschung im "Zeitalter der Extreme", Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Topographie des Terrors Auditorium, Berlin
Medical Ethics in the 70 Years after the Nuremberg Code, 1947 to the Present
Medical Ethics in the 70 Years after the Nuremberg Code, 1947 to the Present
Institut des sciences de la communication du CNRS (ISCC), Paris
Universität Bremen
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Forum am Mittag - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Generalverwaltung
Ausstellungseröffnung: Die IG Farben und das Konzentrationslager Monowitz - Celler Synagoge, Im Kreise 24
Workshop Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Nationalsozialismus. Stand und perspektiven der Forschung / Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
Wissenschaftspolitik, Forschungspraxis und Ressourcenmobilisierung im NS-Herrschaftssystem - Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (Potsdam) und Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Institutionalisation of Sciences in Early Modern Europe / Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Research Within Bounds Protecting Human Participants in Modern Medicine and the Declaration of Helsinki, 1964-2014. International Symposium, Brocher Foundation, Geneva
BiCoDa conference: “The States’ Stakes in Science” July 10-12, 2013, ZiF, Bielefeld
Oxford - Wadham College - Reassessing Nazi Human Experiments and Coerced Research, 1933-1945: New Findings, Interpretations and Problems
Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für die Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaften und Technik, Jena
University of Strasbourg
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science - Berlin: Symposium: Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zwischen Wissenschafts- und Zeitgeschichte
Tel Aviv University - Cohen Institute - Minerva Center
Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal
Ruhr University Bochum
Centre Alexandre Koyre Paris - EHESS
NS Dokumentationszentrum Muenchen
Deutsches Museum, Munich
University Muenster
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Mathematical Resarch Institute Oberwolfach
DFG-Schwerpunktprogramm 1143 / Harnack House Berlin
Technische Universität Berlin