Neumann trained under Sinzheimer and Austrian Marxists as a legal reformist

Evidence

Neumann began the curriculum vitae accompanying his 1923 doctoral dissertation in law with the words: `I, Franz Leopold Neumann, was born on 23 May 1900 in Kattowitz. I am a Jew.’ He was born the son of a Jewish manual worker and shopkeeper in Kattowitz in Silesia [now Katowice in Poland], which at that time was part of Germany. He studied law, philosophy and economics in Berlin, Leipzig (where he fought on the barricades with the soldiers and workers in 1918), Rostock and Frankfurt (where he was one of the founders of the Socialist Student Group, along with Leo Lowenthal). During his legal training as an articled clerk in Frankfurt, he worked with the Social Democrat Hugo Sinzheimer, who was the founder of German employment law and one of the fathers of the Weimar constitution. Neumann, influenced mainly by Sinzheimer and by the Austrian Marxists Karl Renner and Otto Bauer, supported Social Democratic reformism, and published articles on topics in employment law. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 921

Categorization

• XREF: Establishes the biographical grounding for The Dual State, the major Nazi-state analysis Neumann later wrote — relevant to the Institute’s state theory lineage. — connects to: Neumann’s Marxism coexisted with reformist hopes for constitutional restoration — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 934

Broader Connections

• Neumann’s Marxism coexisted with reformist hopes for constitutional restoration #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 934