Frankfurt School students briefly renamed the university Karl Marx University

Evidence

In Frankfurt, after the rector had responded to a student strike call by closing the university, the university’s main building was occupied on 27 May by 2000 students led by Frankfurt’s counterpart to Dutschke, Hans-Jürgen Krahl, who was a doctoral student of Adorno’s and well versed in theory. In place of its official name, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University', Frankfurt University was renamed Karl Marx University’. In the occupied university, the programme of a political university', developed shortly before, began to be turned into reality and presented as a model of what a critical university ought to be. Habermas's research assistantsNegt, Offe, Oevermann and Wellmertook part, giving seminars on History and Violence’, The Political Theory of the Extra-Parliamentary Opposition', The Non-Political University’ and `The Politicization of Science’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2642

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘political university’ program and Habermas’s assistants’ seminars connect to Critical Theory’s institutional embedding in Frankfurt; the renaming resonates with the symbolic appropriation of the institutional home.
• ADDENDUM: The university as institutional site for political transformation inverts the ‘trees as infrastructure/underused worldbuilding’ theme: here the institution itself is claimed and renamed as a revolutionary act.