Nazi purges of universities stemmed from ideological hatred of intellectual autonomy, not political disloyalty.

Evidence

The fact that a particularly nationalistic and conservative institution like the German university system was subjected to such an extensive purge can only be explained in terms of the hatred of Hitler and the Nazis for everything intellectual, for every academic activity not directly in the service of Nazi ideology and strategy. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 522 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung reported on 14 April the first measures undertaken in Prussia to implement the Act of 7 April on the Reconstruction of the Professional Civil Service'. The Act was intended above all to provide for the dismissal of Jewish, Communist and Social Democratic civil servants. Among the victims of the first batch of suspensions’ (dismissal from state service and discontinuation of salary payments were to follow in the course of the year) were the Frankfurt professors Heller, Horkheimer, Löwe, Mannheim, Sinzheimer and Tillich. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 520 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Nazi purges targeted academia out of ideological hatred, not political necessity — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 522; The 1933 Civil Service Law purged Jewish and leftist academics from German universities — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 520

Broader Connections

• Nazi purges targeted academia out of ideological hatred, not political necessity #corroborates (1.00) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 522
• The 1933 Civil Service Law purged Jewish and leftist academics from German universities #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 520