Germar Rudolf, Resistance Is Obligatory (2012; PDF-Datei

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
tion of one “g” and under the influence of relativistic dilatation of time.
Apparently I had been insufficiently challenged in high school.
For me, my university studies were not a mere gauntlet to a steep career,
but rather an adventurous voyage into the world of knowledge. I
had always wanted to know what forces held the world together, in the
Faustian sense.
While the structure of undergraduate studies in chemistry is rather
rigid, as one has to follow a rather strictly prescribed program, the curriculum
during graduate studies opens up elective options. With my
initial enthusiasm I made excessive use of these options. Instead of
choosing a single required elective as is customary, I began with four:
biochemistry, electro-chemistry, nuclear chemistry and theoretical
chemistry, which in principle is applied quantum mechanics. Please
note that I was studying these elective subjects in addition to the required
subjects of organic, inorganic and physical Chemistry. In addition
to these, I occasionally attended lectures on nuclear physics at the
physics institute, lectures on information technologies at the institute for
mathematics, and since I at that time was residing in a student dormitory
immediately adjoining the meteorological institute, I could not resist
visiting lectures there as well.
It goes without saying that by doing so I severely overloaded myself.
I developed serious symptoms of stress, and so after a year I had to drop
some of the electives. I finally chose as my two elective subjects nuclear
chemistry and electro-chemistry, which presented a problem with the
faculty administration, since there was room on the diploma for only
one single elective subject.
Thanks to my straight “A” on my master’s certificate, every door
stood open to me in my choice of institutions for my PhD dissertation.
The options of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in
Stuttgart and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz
were especially attractive because of the reputation of the Max Planck
Society as the pinnacle of German science. Thus I was rather disappointed
to learn that most of the PhD candidates considered the Max
Planck Institute in Stuttgart, where I eventually ended up, as nothing
more than just a means to further their career for a future with high
prestige and material wealth. It seemed as though the mildew of public
service had infected the entire Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart. Not
only the staff, but many researchers shared a bureaucratic mentality. No
trace had remained of that scientific pioneering spirit which I had
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