SA intimidation at Frankfurt University in 1930 prompted student self-defense organizing.

Evidence

One day, following the September elections, hundreds of uniformed SA men appeared in front of the university’s main entrance and sang the Horst Wessel song, the anthem to which the Nazis were marching throughout Germany. For one of the Institute’s stipendees, Joseph Dünner, this represented sufficient grounds for the setting up of a self-defence group for members of the Red Student Group (Rote Studentengruppe), Jewish and Catholic student clubs, the Academy of Labour and the trade unions. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 462

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to accounts of Nazi political violence in university settings during the early 1930s; resonates with scholarship on fascism and everyday life. — connects to: Frankfurt University resisted Nazi infiltration longer than most German universities. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 463

Broader Connections

• Frankfurt University resisted Nazi infiltration longer than most German universities. #corroborates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 463