Anti-Semitic resentment surfaced inside the restored German university over Jewish academic appointments

Evidence

At a commission meeting in May 1956 at which the `restitution case’ of Adorno was discussed, along with his claim to a full professorship on the basis of the Third Amendment of the Law on Compensation for National Socialist Injustice, some of those taking part expressed reservations. Hellmut Ritter, Professor of Oriental Studies, mentioned rigging. All anyone needed to make a career in Frankfurt, he said, was to have Mr Horkheimer’s protection and to be a Jew. Ritter later apologized to Horkheimer in writing, and to Adorno as well at the insistence of the dean, who was outraged. But these were neither the first nor the last remarks of this sort that Ritter made, nor was he the only member of staff at the university to make such remarks. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 492

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School’s history of the Institute’s return and denazification in the surrounding chapters — evidence of continuity of personnel and attitudes.
• QUESTION: How widespread were such remarks among Frankfurt faculty, and did they affect the Institute’s institutional standing?