List of Ahnenerbe institutes

The following is a list of the various institutes set up as subsidiary bodies of the German "Ahnenerbe" organization.

Social Sciences
  • Indogermanisch-arische Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft (Indogermanic-Aryan Language and Cultural Studies), director: Walther Wüst
  • Indogermanisch-germanische Sprach- und Kullturwissenschaft (Indogermanic-Germanic Language and Cultural Studies)
  • Germanische Kulturwissenschaft und Landschaftskunde (Germanic Cultural Studies and Landscape Science)
  • Germanische Sprachwissenschaft und Landschaftskunde (Germanic Linguistics and Landscape Science), director: Bruno Schweizer
  • Indogermanische Glaubensgeschichte (Indogermanic Faith history), director: Otto Huth
  • Indogermanische Rechtsgeschichte (Indogermanic Historical jurisprudence), director: Wilhelm Ebel
  • Indogermanisch-deutsche Musik (Indogermanic-German Music)
  • Germanisch-deutsche Volkskunde (Germanic-German Folklore)
  • Deutsche Volksforschung und Volkskunde (German Ethnic Research and Folklore)
  • Volkserzählung, Märchen und Sagenkunde (Folktales, Fairytales and Myths)
  • Runen, Schrift und Sinnbildkunde (Runes, Alphabets, and Symbols), director: Wolfgang Krause
  • Hausmarken und Sippenzeichen (House Brands and Family Marks)
  • Ortung und Landschaftssinnbilder (Location and Landscape symbols)
  • Ausgrabungen (Excavations), director: Herbert Jankuhn
  • Germanisches Bauwesen (Germanic Architecture)
  • Wurtenforschung (Dwelling Mound Research), today called Niedersächsisches Institut für historische Küstenforschung
  • Urgeschichte (Prehistory)
  • Keltische Volksforschung (Celtic ethnic research)
  • Indogermanisch-finnische Kulturbeziehungen (Indogermanic-Finnish cultural relations), director: Yrjö von Grönhagen
  • Klassische Archäologie (Classic Archaeology)
  • Klassische Altertumswissenschaft (Classical Antiquity)
  • Alte Geschichte (Ancient History)
  • Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte (Middle and Modern History)
  • Griechische Philologie (Greek Philology)
  • Lateinische Philologie (Latin Philology)
  • Mittellatein (Medieval Latin), director: Paul Lehmann
  • Innerasien und Expeditionen (Inner Asia and Expeditions), director: Ernst Schäfer
  • Vorderer Orient (Near East)
  • Ostasien-Institut (East Asian Institute)
  • Orientalistische Indologie (Oriental Indology)
  • Nordwestafrikanische Kulturwissenschaft (Northwest African Cultural Studies)
  • Philosophie (Philosophy)

Natural Sciences
  • Gesamte Naturwissenschaft ("Natural Science")
  • Darstellende und angewandte Naturkunde ("Descriptive and Applied Natural History"), director: Eduard Paul Tratz
  • Biologie ("Biology")
  • Entomologie ("Entomology")
  • Astronomie ("Astronomy")
  • Pferdezucht ("Horse Breeding")
  • Botanik ("Botany")
  • Pflanzengenetik ("Plant Genetics"), director: Heinz Brücher
  • Karst- und Höhlenkunde ("Speleology")
  • Naturwissenschaftliche Vorgeschichte ("Scientific History")
  • Tiergeographie und Tiergeschichte ("Zoogeography and Animal History")
  • Angewandte Geologie ("Applied Geology")
  • Geologische Zeitmessung ("Geochronology")
  • Geophysik ("Geophysics")
  • Kernphysik ("Nuclear Physics")
  • Volksmedizin ("Folk Medicine")
  • Osteologie ("Osteology")
  • Überprüfung der sogenannten Geheimwissenschaften ("Examination of the so-called secret sciences"), only planned for; the institute was not established
  • Wehrwissenschaftliche Zweckforschung ("Military Scientific Research"), director: Kurt Plötner, cooperated with the professors Alwin Walther and Kurt Walter
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See also

References
  • Epstein, Fritz T., War-Time Activities of the SS-Ahnenerbe (in On the Track of Tyranny: Essays Presented by the Wiener Library to Leonard G. Montefiore, on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. Ayer Publishing. 1971. pp. 79–81.)
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