Closure of the Reading Room from 17 March 2020

Owing to the current health policy situation, the Archive's Reading Room is closed until further notice. We endeavour to maintain regular business operations as far as possible and to ensure basic accessibility by email. Please find the contact addresses on our homepage. We ask for your understanding that there may be restrictions owing to special measures when processing inquiries.

The Max Planck Society’s Archives in Berlin-Dahlem were established in 1975 in order to safeguard the files of the Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Societies for the Advancement of Science (mainly files, photographs, audio records and film) in one central place and to make them accessible to users (currently more than 5,000 metres of shelf space).

Our collection focuses on the personal papers of outstanding personalities who conducted research at either the Kaiser Wilhelm Society or the Max Planck Society. These include Nobel laureates Carl Bosch, Walther Bothe, Adolf Butenandt, Paul J. Crutzen, Peter Debye, Gerhard Ertl, Fritz Haber,

Otto Hahn, Werner Heisenberg, Georges Köhler, Richard Kuhn, Max von Laue, Feodor Lynen, Ernst Ruska, Bert Sakmann and Otto Warburg, supplemented by collections on Albert Einstein, Fritz Haber and Max Planck, among others.

In addition, the library of the Archives contains scholarly literature on the twentieth-century history of science (40,100 volumes, 150 subscriptions to journals, literature without clearly identifiable authors, 200,000 special editions).

Address

Archives of the Max Planck Society
Boltzmannstraße 14
14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Germany

mpg-archiv[at]archiv-berlin.mpg.de

Telephone: (030) 8413-3701
Telefax: (030) 8413-3700

(How to get there)

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Opening hours
Monday through Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Friday 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Closure dates due to public holidays

Use of the Archives only possible by prior registration