Heidegger blocked Marcuse’s Habilitation, not merely anti-Semitic university policy.

Evidence

It was after this that he began to see his plan for a Habilitation as unrealistic, and published his book on Hegel independently. According to Marcuse’s own statement, this came about because in 1932 there was no longer any point in a Jew and a Marxist taking a Habilitation. On the evidence of a letter from Husserl to Riezler, howeveron the basis of which Marcuse was later accepted in the West German restitution procedure as someone who would in the normal course of events have taken his Habilitation and become a professorMarcuse’s Habilitation was in reality, or in addition, blocked by Heidegger. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 424

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Heidegger blocked Marcuse’s Habilitation while Marcuse believed antisemitism was the bar — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 424; Political differences with Heidegger blocked Marcuse’s academic appointment at Freiburg — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 154; Heidegger blocked Marcuse’s Habilitation before the Nazis forced him into exile

Broader Connections

• Political differences with Heidegger blocked Marcuse’s academic appointment at Freiburg #corroborates (0.90) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 154