Heidegger’s students secured Habermas a chair before his Habilitation.

Evidence

On the initiative of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Karl Löwith, both students of Heidegger, Habermas was appointed to a chair as Extraordinary Professor of Philosophy at Heidelberg even before completing his Habilitation, an unusual procedure at the time. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2385

Categorization

• XREF: Ironically connects to the Hermeneutics/Critical Theory debates — Habermas’s famous Gadamer dispute came soon after this appointment. — connects to: Husserl’s patronage advanced Heidegger toward Freiburg’s chair — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 187; Heidegger’s lectures moved young philosophers including Horkheimer before he published anything — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 397

Broader Connections

• Husserl’s patronage advanced Heidegger toward Freiburg’s chair #contradicts (0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 187
• Heidegger’s lectures moved young philosophers including Horkheimer before he published anything #corroborates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 397