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The two multiferroic skyrmion host materials, namely the lacunar spinels GaV4S8 and GaV4Se8, were investigated via an extensive NMR study. The polar properties were probed via the quadrupolar interaction of the 71Ga nuclei, while magnetic properties are studied via the hyperfine fields at the magnetic 51V nuclei. The multiferroic order parameters (polarization and magnetization) are correlated with the local order parameters (quadrupolar splitting and hyperfine shift, respectively), which are obtained in the NMR study . The local order parameters differ between domains for arbitrary magnetic field directions due to anisotropy effects, and multiferroic domain populations are therefore obtained from NMR spectra. Further control of the domain population via electric and magnetic poling fields is accompanied by the NMR study, tracking the evolution of the domain population. Furthermore, the spin distribution over the V4S4 cluster is reconstructed via measurements of the anisotropy of the hyperfine coupling for different field rotation planes. Atomic d orbitals are placed on each atomic site, and the orbital parameters are fitted to the NMR data by calculating the dipole contribution of the hyperfine field and comparing it with the experiments.

Im Jahr 2023 besteht das Statistische Bundesamt seit 75 Jahren. Dieser Beitrag soll an die ehemaligen Leitungen des Statistischen Bundesamtes in den verschiedenen Epochen erinnern, ihre Persönlichkeit und die jeweiligen Schwerpunkte ihres Wirkens. Getragen wurden die ehemaligen Amtsleitungen dabei immer von sehr engagierten und gut ausgebildeten Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern. Zudem soll der Beitrag die umfangreiche Literatur, die die ehemalige Präsidentin und die ehemaligen Präsidenten hinterlassen haben, zumindest in den wichtigsten Teilen dokumentieren. The Federal Statistical Office will celebrate its 75th anniversary in 2023. This article aims to remember the former heads of the Federal Statistical Office in the different periods, looking back on their personalities and the focuses of their work. The former heads of office were always supported by very committed and well trained staff. In addition, the article is intended to document at least the most important parts of the wide range of literature left behind by the former presidents.

Die informationelle Infrastruktur in Deutschland hat sich seit Ende der 1990er-Jahre beträchtlich fortentwickelt, wenngleich zuletzt die Coronakrise gezeigt hat, dass sie noch erhebliche Defizite aufweist. Die Erkenntnis, dass Einzeldaten einen Wert haben, und die Nachfrage der empirischen Forschung nach amtlichen Mikrodaten führten im Jahr 2001 zur Einrichtung des Forschungsdatenzentrums des Statistischen Bundesamtes. Der Beitrag zeichnet dessen Entwicklung in den letzten gut 20 Jahren nach und erläutert das künftig vorgesehene Remote-Access-System, das Datennutzenden einen verbesserten Datenzugang bieten wird. The information infrastructure in Germany has progressed significantly since the end of the 1990s although the Covid-19 crisis has shown recently that it still has considerable deficits. The insight that individual data have a value and the demand for official microdata on the part of empirical economic researchers led to the establishment of the Research Data Centre of the Federal Statistical Office in 2001. The article describes its development over the past 20 years and explains the envisaged remote access system, which will provide improved data access for data users.

Das Bewusstsein um die Relevanz von Datenkompetenzen (Data Literacy) ist für die Zukunftsfähigkeit einer Gesellschaft mittlerweile an vielen Stellen vorhanden. Doch besteht derzeit nur unzureichend Transparenz im Hinblick auf die zahlreichen Projekte, Initiativen und Angebote zur Förderung von Datenkompetenz in Deutschland, die in den vergangenen Jahren initiiert wurden. Aus diesem Grund wird die Etablierung eines nationalen Datenkompetenzzentrums / Kompetenzzentrums für Data Literacy dringend empfohlen. Dieses soll im Weiteren für einen abgestimmten Auf- und Ausbau der Maßnahmen und Angebote zur Förderung von Datenkompetenzen Sorge tragen. Der Aufsatz beschreibt sowohl das Aufgabenspektrum als auch die Anforderungen an eine solche koordinierende und informierende nationale Institution. There is widespread awareness now of how important data literacy is for a society's future viability. However, transparency is still insufficient regarding the multitude of projects, initiatives and offers that have been initiated in the last few years and that are aimed at promoting data literacy in Germany. This is why establishing a national data competence centre / data literacy competence centre is urgently recommended. The purpose of that centre would be to ensure coordinated establishment and extension of the measures and offers aimed at promoting data literacy. The article describes both the range of tasks and the requirements to be met by such a national institution with coordination and information functions.

In the fast-changing environment, the amount of available data is exploding and transforming it quickly into actionable information is not easy. Thus, reliable and comparable statistics are in increasingly high demand by the public, even more so in troubled times such as financial crisis and pandemics. However, crisis is also an exciting opportunity to tap into the interest of young people and harness their talent for working with official statistics. Two initiatives at the European level are already in place to advance education in official statistics. As production environment started to change with increasingly rapid evolution of technologies and new data sources, Eurostat together with the European Statistical System (ESS) brought to life European Statistical Training Programme (ESTP) and European Master in Official Statistics (EMOS). This papers briefly describes the origin and the main characteristics of both models of training, the bridges that they build, and discusses the way ahead.