Five of eight postwar German sociology chairs went to Nazi-era careerists

Evidence

The other five sociology professors had all had a more or less normal academic career under Nazism: Arnold Gehlen, Helmut Schelsky, Gerhard Mackenroth, Max Graf Solms and Werner Ziegenfuss. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1914

Categorization

• XREF: Direct institutional evidence of denazification failure — connects to broader scholarship on West German elites’ continuity from the Nazi regime. — connects to: Only three of eight postwar West German sociology chairs went to anti-fascists — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1914; German postwar sociologists accused each other of totalitarian tendencies; Frankfurt theorists fought Nazi-linked sociologists through academic politics, not public critique — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2316 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Frankfurt theorists fought Nazi-linked sociologists through academic politics, not public critique #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2316
• German postwar sociologists accused each other of totalitarian tendencies #complicates (0.80)
• Postwar German social science had fallen behind other industrial nations #qualifies (0.70) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1852