Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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1980
Role in the Historikerstreit
Ernst Nolte's lecture at the foundation on historical legend and revisionism, later published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, helped initiate the historians' dispute over interpretations of National Socialism and the Holocaust. The episode reinforced criticism of the foundation's earlier ideological profile.
1978
Controversial Carl Schmitt lecture series
A foundation-organized series on Carl Schmitt was criticized because Schmitt's intellectual and political involvement with Nazi Germany had made him a controversial figure. The subsequent publication of the lectures was interpreted by critics as an attempt to honor or rehabilitate him and as evidence of the foundation's role in New Right intellectual networks.