Article ID: CBB272683827

The Social Politics of Karl Escherich’s 1933 Inaugural Presidential Lecture (2023)

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The essay offers a close reading of the inaugural address Termite Craze by the entomologist Karl Escherich, the first German university president to be appointed by the Nazis. Faced with a divided audience and under pressure to politically align the university, Escherich, a former member of the NSDAP, discusses how and to what extent the new regime can recreate the egalitarian perfection and sacrificial predisposition of a termite colony. The paper pays particular attention to the ways in which Escherich tries to appease the various factions in his audience (faculty, students and the Nazi party); in doing so, it also discusses how Escherich depicts his address in the altered versions of his later memoirs.

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Authors & Contributors
Gross, Dominik
Westemeier, Jens
Dinçkal, Noyan
Dipper, Christof
Düppe, Till
Franzel, Sean
Journals
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
History of the Human Sciences
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
HOPOS
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Publishers
Princeton University
Bloomsbury Academic
Böhlau
Franz Steiner Verlag
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft
Göttingen Wallstein Verlag
Concepts
Science and politics
Universities and colleges
Nazism
National Socialism
Lectures
Eugenics
People
Kant, Immanuel
Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard
Weber, Max
Wüst, Fritz
Kähler, Wilhelm
Rothacker, Erich
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
18th century
Places
Germany
Austria
Japan
Norway
Switzerland
United States
Institutions
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Royal Society of London
Technische Hochschule Aachen
Göttingen. Universität
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