Die Brücke (institute)

As The Bridge ( International Institute for the organization of intellectual work The Bridge ) called himself an institution founded in 1911 by Karl Wilhelm Buehrer and Adolf Saager, supported primarily by the Nobel laureate Wilhelm Ostwald. The bridge should take practical measures to tackle problems of internationalization of Sciences theoretically and organizationally. These Ostwald assured the cooperation of famous contemporaries such as William Mitchell Ramsay, Rudolf Diesel, Selma Lagerlof, Marie Curie, Ernest Rutherford, JWS Rayleigh or Georg Kerschensteinerschule. The plan was to set up a museum, " to unite in itself all clear what created in all fields of human activity, conceived and has been rehearsing to promote the mental work and to facilitate. " Which were used, among other things, the Dewey Decimal Classification and index cards. In 1913 the bridge was, however, dissolved and liquidated again. The ambitious project failed, due to its chairman, Karl Wilhelm Buehrer, who got caught in trivia.