The Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation aims to promote science.

Since October 2023, the foundation has had a award-winning politician and administrative official as its managing director, Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen.

The lectures were then published by Propyläen-Verlag under the title Der Ernstfall as the second volume in the Foundation's series of publications, even though Schmitt was academically and journalistically isolated because of his commitment to Nazi Germany.

Speakers were Among others Knut Borchardt, Paul Carell, Hellmut Diwald and Christian Meier.

In 1980, the historian Ernst Nolte gave a lecture at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation entitled Zwischen Geschichtslegende und Revisionismus (Between Historical Legend and Revisionism), which the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published, thus triggering the Historikerstreit, the so-called historians' dispute.