# Weber delivers the Munich lecture Wissenschaft als Beruf

Date: 1917

## The fact

On 7 November 1917 [Max Weber](/people/max-weber) lectured in Munich for the Freistudentischer Bund on Wissenschaft als Beruf, stating the limits of science as a salvation and the duty of value-neutrality in the lecture hall, in the third year of the war. It is not Politik als Beruf of January 1919. Disenchantment is a theme, not a measured secularisation series.

## Context

Students wanted prophets. Weber refused the lectern as a pulpit. Wartime Munich was hungry for meaning. The lecture is a cold answer. The Bund hosted. Sharing the invitation does not erase the speaker. Do not treat later ‘value-free’ slogans in other decades as this night.

The contribution type is direct. The attached driver is edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## Evidence and sources

Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/max-weber-1919-wissenschaft-als-beruf holds the 1919 print of the 1917 lecture. Sociologica at https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/8432 independently reconstructs the 7 November 1917 genesis.

Official or archival record: Wissenschaft als Beruf (1919 print of the 1917 lecture) — Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/max-weber-1919-wissenschaft-als-beruf; Internet Archive / Duncker & Humblot).

## Significance

Education and scientific-ethics path, modest-to-mid weight. High confidence on the 1917 date. Later weaponisation of value-neutrality in faculty fights is not this lecture automatically.

Shared responsibility is part of Weber delivers the Munich lecture Wissenschaft als Beruf. Naming Max Weber does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1917-11-07 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Weber delivered Wissenschaft als Beruf on 7 November 1917 in Munich. Not established: that the 1919 print changed any enrolment series, or that 1917 is 1919 as a new act. Contribution is recorded as He delivered the 7 November 1917 lecture. Freistudentischer Bund hosted; the 1919 print is a later carrier of the same talk, not a new act. The impact note is A public lecture on science as vocation and value-neutrality is an education path, modest-to-mid weight, not a ministry circular. The dated heading stays Weber delivers the Munich lecture Wissenschaft als Beruf on 1917-11-07, not a later statue, UNESCO listing, or school film. Printers, unnamed clerks, and later editors may appear in the same file without becoming this instrument. Later competitions, monuments, and adaptations are refused as extra lifetime acts of this person on this date.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. 7 November 1917 is not 28 January 1919. Mixed effects of Weber delivers the Munich lecture Wissenschaft als Beruf are separate paths.

## People

- Max Weber: https://factrail.ai/people/max-weber

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/8432
- https://archive.org/details/max-weber-1919-wissenschaft-als-beruf

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/weber-wissenschaft-1917