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
Division into the Max Planck Institute for System Physiology and the newly founded Institute for Occupational Physiology at the University of Dortmund – IfADo with the sponsorship of the Research Society for Occupational Physiology and Occupational Safety e.V. (founded in 1969)
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 (1987-2020)
Renamed into “Leibniz Institut für Arbeitsforschung an der TU Dortmund”, in English: Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors
