Nazi-period civil servants were legally preferred over regime victims for university chairs

Evidence

Since university professors are also civil servants in Germany, a check had to be made against a list supplied by the Ministry of the Interior whenever an appointment to a professorial post was made, to see whether there was not a suitable candidate with a preferential claim to the post among these article 131' professors. The Loyalty Law’ (Treuepflichtgesetz) of 1952 ensured in addition that members of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime were excluded from the Civil Service. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1897

Categorization

• QUESTION: This directly constrained who could be hired as professors in 1950s West Germany — did the Frankfurt School’s own appointments face explicit article-131 challenges?
• XREF: connects to: West Germany’s restitution laws reinstated former Nazi civil servants over anti-fascist ones — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1897; The 1933 Civil Service Law purged Jewish and leftist academics from German universities — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 520; West German law restored Nazi civil servants to office with hiring preference — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1897 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• West German law restored Nazi civil servants to office with hiring preference #corroborates (0.96) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1897
• Institutionalized denazification rewarded Nazi sympathizers and punished resisters #exemplifies (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 424