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| Founded | 2000 |
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| Coordinates | 54°05′43″N13°22′43″E / 54.09528°N 13.37861°E /54.09528; 13.37861 |
TheAlfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study inGreifswald (inGerman:Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald) is aninstitute for advanced study named afterAlfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach.[1] On 20 June 2000, this institute was founded by theAlfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation, the GermanLand (federal state) ofMecklenburg-Vorpommern and theUniversity of Greifswald. These three founders (represented respectively, byBerthold Beitz,Peter Kauffold andJürgen Kohler[2]) co-established and contributed to the Stiftung Alfried Krupp Kolleg Greifswald (Alfried Krupp Kolleg Greifswald Foundation),[3][4] which was entrusted with the task of establishing thisWissenschaftskolleg (institute for advanced study).[5] The Krupp Foundation contributed the plot of land and the building on it, valued at €15.3m, while Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the University of Greifswald contributed the operational funding that initially amounted to €4.1m.[6]
The institute was created by the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation, a German philanthropic foundation created from the holdings of the Krupp family upon the death of Alfried Krupp in 1967. Krupp was convicted after World War II ofcrimes against humanity for thegenocidal manner in which he operated his factories; served three years in prison, and was pardoned, but not acquitted.[9][10] Krupp used almost 100,000 slave labourers, housed in abhorrent conditions where disease, hunger and dehydration was common. These slave labourers were employed across Krupp's factories.[11] One of his companies used slave labor from theAuschwitz concentration camp.[12] Alfried Krupp never admitted wrongdoing and he nor the institute have ever apologised for his crimes.
The main rationale of Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study is to further research through its Alfried Krupp Fellows Program.[13] Among others, the following fellows and scholars worked and delivered talks in the institute:[14]
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