The role of mathematical and scientific student clubs and corporations in knowledge production and scientific culture, 1850-1935

While students and socialization in student institutions have been considered by social, political, gender and cultural history since long, in the history of science the questions about scientific socialization and learning of epistemic forms of acting that determine practices and research cultures of scientists still need to be addressed. The current research project on mathematical and scientific student clubs and corporations shall demonstrate on the basis of a broad range of sources which role for production and culture of science scientific student groups played from the middle of the 19th century until their dissolution in the years after 1933. In addition to the main clubs and associations that were organized in the Arnst?dter Verband mathematischer und naturwissenschaftlicher Vereine sind 1868 and in the Deutschen Wissenschafter Verband since 1910 also less formal student working groups are considered that started in the yeas before World War I and fully flourished in Weimar Germany, both have also to be integrated in the background of general corporation culture and group experience and activities that influence many scientists individually.