Göttinger 18


Göttinger 18 (Göttinger Achtzehn) - A group of eighteen leading German nuclear physicists from the Federal Republic of Germany, who jointly issued a manifesto against the government on April 12, 1957 (Göttingen Manifesto), opposing the supply of the German Army with tactical nuclear weapons. The plan was set up by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Defense Secretary Franz Josef Strauss. The Manifests were Fritz Bopp, Max Born, Rudolf Fleischmann, Walther Gerlach, Otto Hahn, Otto Haxel, Werner Heisenberg, Hans Kopfermann, Max von Laue, Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, Josef Mattauch, Friedrich Adolf Paneth, Wolfgang Pauli, Wolfgang Riezler , Fritz Straßmann, Wilhelm Walcher, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and Karl Wirtz.

These people were the most respected scientists and members of public nuclear research and technology in the Federal Republic of Germany at the time.

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