InstitutionClaim Cited
Zeiss
Zeiss links scientific optics, specialist production, employee commitments, and science funding through foundation ownership. Its changing history also exposes ownership's limits: the statute was altered under National Socialism, Zeiss made military instruments and used forced labor, the Jena operations were expropriated, and later reunification required institutional reconstruction.
Can ownership be designed to preserve a scientific-industrial community across generations, and what prevents durable purpose from becoming durable self-preservation or accommodation to destructive power?