Foundation in Berlin as "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Arbeitsphysiologie"
Relocation to Dortmund in order to be near to the steal- and mining industry
Evacuation and destruction during World War II. After the war transformation into the "Max-Planck-Institut für Arbeitsphysiologie"
Partition into the "Max-Planck-Institut für Systemphysiologie" and the newly founded "Institut für Arbeitsphysiologie at the University of Dortmund" (IfADo)
Laying of the foundation stone at the Ardeystraße
Added on to the "Blaue Liste", today's Leibniz Association
Acceptation as "WHO Collaborating Centre for Occupational Health" of the World Health Organisation
Renamed (in German) into "Leibniz Institut für Arbeitsforschung an der TU Dortmund"