The Einstein dossiers : science and politics--Einstein's Berlin period with an appendix on Einstein's FBI file /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grundmann, Siegfried, 1938-
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2005]
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Table of Contents:
  • During the Kaiserreich
  • Military power and science - "sturdy pillars of Germany's might"
  • Einstein's path to Berlin
  • World War I
  • Einstein's political stance and activism
  • Appointment as director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics
  • On the board of trustees of the Bureau of Standards
  • Upshot
  • Einstein in private - not quite private
  • During the Weimar Republic
  • Boycott of German science
  • World renown
  • Sponsorship - the Einstein Tower
  • The appeal for the "Einstein Donation Fund"
  • Donations for the Einstein Tower
  • A target for right-wing propaganda and violence
  • Emissary and emigre - Einstein's foreign travels
  • Reasons and purposes of Albert Einstein's travels abroad
  • The first excursions after the war - trips to neutral lands
  • The voyage to the United States and England
  • Visiting the French, 1922
  • Japan, Palestine and Spain
  • Sweden and Holland 1923
  • South America
  • Foreign travels 1929-1933
  • Erstwhile Swiss, henceforth Prussian. Einstein's citizenship
  • Einstein's membership in the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation
  • The founding of the Committee
  • Einstein's appointment to the committee
  • Withdrawal of membership and retraction
  • Einstein's collaboration
  • Einstein's position - an object of desire. Einstein's deputy
  • Einstein's confession
  • The end of Einstein's collaboration - this time irrevocably
  • Albert Einstein/Sigmund Freud: Why war?
  • Parting ways. Einstein and the end of the Weimar Republic
  • Apparently "more tranquil and undisturbed" - Einstein's summer villa
  • Social milieu. Friends and acquaintance
  • Political developments: Republic moves to the right, Einstein to the left
  • The Third Reich
  • Shouts of triumph by a band of murderers
  • Resignation from the Academy of Sciences
  • Expatriation
  • Confiscations
  • Bank account
  • Summer villa
  • Sailboat
  • Any help from Switzerland?
  • Einstein's FBI file - reports on Albert Einstein's Berlin period
  • Fact, fiction and lies
  • Streets, places. Einstein's apartment
  • Institutions. The Club of Intellectual Workers
  • Persons: Richard Grosskopf/Helen Dukas
  • What about Einstein himself?
  • The Informant.