ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the evaluation process that took place in East German universities and research institutes after (re)unification. It discusses some of the ways in which logic of justification was invented to explain the outcomes of the evaluation process and the subsequent (re)structuring of the university system. In spite of the rapid developments surrounding (re)unification, the fact remained that there was a growing sense amongst former East German historians that some type of evaluation and restructuring had to take place. The chapter outlines how former East German historians responded to the evaluation process, the controversies that developed around the process, and how former West German historians invented a logic of justification to legitimate their (re)structuring plans. A former Academy historian, retired but active in the politics of the (re)structuring process, spoke of the uncertain future of his former colleagues. He saw this uncertainty as an inevitable part of the new realities of academic work in (re)unified Germany.
