Frankfurt’s mayor framed Horkheimer’s rectorship as restitution for Nazi-era wrongs

Evidence

The Mayor of Frankfurt, Leiske, deputizing for the Lord Mayor, addressed your Magnificence', namely Horkheimer, with the words: You have returned to your fatherland in an exemplary gesture of reconciliation, and have taken up your chair at this university again. Such loyalty demands loyalty in return. We all, therefore, feel that your election to the highest academic office at our Johann Wolfgang Goethe University has been the climax of our own duty to provide restitution and compensation.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1909

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The language of restitution and loyalty speaks to the same themes of public atonement and institutional repair that surface in the sacrifice article about socially stabilizing rituals.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno’s first Frankfurt professorship was created explicitly as restitution for Nazi injustice — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1996

Broader Connections

• Adorno’s first Frankfurt professorship was created explicitly as restitution for Nazi injustice #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1996