The lecture offers an overview of the most important institutions of the German science system. It is aimed at all those interested in gaining an in-depth understanding of our science system in its interrelationships between university and non-university institutions of research and teaching, science funding and science policy.

Germany offers an unusually differentiated landscape of research and teaching institutions. In addition, research funding and science policy institutions have a strong influence on these institutions. For a deep understanding of the science system, the principle of academic freedom and the ideas of "New Public Management" must also be taken into account.

The lecture aims to provide an overview of this complex system and a presentation of its systemic interrelationships. By presenting the historical differentiation of the German science system since 1945, the special situation and unusual diversity of institutions in the context of federalism will be presented in an easily comprehensible and exciting way.