 It was in the summer of 1940 that Finkelnburg became an acting director of the "Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Dozentenbund" (NSDDB, National Socialist German University Lecturers League) at the "Technische Hochschule Darmstadt" (today, the "Technische Universität Darmstadt").As such, he organized the "Münchner Religionsgespräche", which took place on November 15, 1940.The event was an offensive against the "deutsche Physik" movement.