German Philanthropy in Transatlantic Perspective

1. German Philanthropy in International and Transnational Perspective
Gregory R. Witkowski, Arnd Bauerkämper

Part I. Philanthropy: Theory and Comparison

2. Foundations in Germany and the USA: Comparative Observations
Stefan Toepler

3. Philanthropic Giving: Reasons and Constellations
Frank Adloff

Part II. German Philanthropy in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Dictatorship

4. Philanthropy, Race, and Religion: The Gustav Adolf Association and National Socialism
Kevin Cramer

5. Transnational Asymmetries: US Philanthropic Foundations and the German School of Politics in the 1920s and 1930s
Peter C. Weber

Part III. German Philanthropy in Transatlantic Perspective

6. Reintegrating Germany into the Atlantic Community: The Role of the Big American Foundations
Volker R. Berghahn

7. “America” as an Argument: References to US Foundations in Debates About Scientific Funding in West Germany from 1945 to the mid-1970s
Arnd Bauerkämper

8. Reinhold Schairer and the Revival of the German Philanthropic Tradition from Weimar to the Federal Republic
Malcolm Richardson

Part IV. Philanthropy in Divided Germany

9. Charitable Giving Between the State and the Market: West Germany from 1945 to the 1980s
Gabriele Lingelbach

10. From Restructuring to Dissolution to Rebuilding? Endowments and Foundations in East Germany
Thomas Adam

Part V. International and Transnational German Philanthropy

11. “Germans Against Germans in Africa”: East German Philanthropic Aid in the Context of the Cold War
Gregory R. Witkowski

12. The Biafra Crisis and the Establishment of Humanitarian Aid in West Germany as a New Philanthropic Field
Florian Hannig

13. Contemporary German MONGOs in Diani, Kenya: Two Approaches to Humanitarian Aid
Nina Berman

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Sociology, general, Business Ethics, Political Science