 In 1948 the crop history department together with its counterpart in Berlin-Dahlem, still called Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute, was transferred to the newly founded Deutsche Forschungshochschule (German Research University); after this was dissolved in 1953, Schiemann continued to direct the department as an independent research centre for the Max Planck Society until her retirement in 1956, when the department was disbanded.Elisabeth Schiemann received several awards for her scientific work.In 1953 she became a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society (as the first scientist since 1945).