E-Mail A recently published study entitled Notgemeinschaften der Wissenschaft ("Emergency Associations of Science") takes a comprehensive and critical look at the history of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), examining science-driven research funding in Germany in the first half of the organisation's 100-year existence. Historian Professor Dr. Patrick Wagner traces the development of the DFG from the founding of its predecessor organisation in 1920, through the Weimar Republic and the National Socialist era to its re-establishment after the Second World War and its development in the Federal Republic of Germany up until the early 1970s. Spanning a historical arc of five decades and three political systems, the study sheds light on the roots of the DFG's role in research funding and the research system - in which it continues to be a defining force - as well as examining the relationship between science and the humanities and politics in Germany during this period.