 In 1943, Elisabeth Schiemann took over management of an independent crop history department at the newly founded Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Kulturpflanzenforschung (Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute of Crop Plant Research; now the , a division of the Leibniz Association) in the Tuttenhof section of Vienna; her department remained in Berlin.In 1946 she received a professorship at the reopened Berlin University, teaching genetics and crop history there until 1949.She was able to continue her research in makeshift premises.