Fraunhofer Chronicle
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The research organization was founded in 1949, in the same year as the Federal Republic of Germany, and started out as a small office with just three employees. As it stands today, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft has attained a size and influence that makes it an undisputedly vital element in Germany’s industrial and scientific landscape. The impressive march of progress as seen and experienced by the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is documented in the Chronicle.