A class-detached civil service was the Reformers’ institutional base for Jewish emancipation

Evidence

The education of a civil service whose loyalty belonged to the state and was independent of change in government, and which had severed its class ties, was one of the outstanding achievements of the old Prussian state. These officials were a decisive group in eighteenth-century Prussia, and the actual predecessors of the Reformers; they remained the backbone of the state machine all through the nineteenth century, although they lost much of their influence to the aristocracy after the Congress of Vienna. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 128

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Weber’s rational bureaucracy theme that the reader may know; the state machine whose officials sever class ties prefigures Arendt’s fear of a purely functional bureaucracy in totalitarianism.