Schelsky drove the postwar return of ex-Nazis to university posts.
Evidence
According to René König, in his autobiography Living in Contradiction, Schelsky was the driving force behind the return of proven Nazis to posts as university teachers, while at the same time presenting himself as an advocate of the young, empirical, `anti-ideological’ sociologists. 88 Adorno’s allusion to Hofstätter’s pro-fascist past, in his reply to the latter’s criticism of Group Experimentcriticism in which Hofstätter had supported the idea of repressionwas a rare example during the 1950s of an open reference to something that was being universally repressed. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 571
Categorization
- DEFINE: Identifies Schelsky specifically as the institutional agent of Nazi restoration in West German sociology, while posing as an anti-ideological empiricist.
- XREF: connects to: Postwar German academia forced returning émigrés and Nazi-era careerists into mutual calculation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 431; Postwar German university appointments reproduced the conservative professoriate of the Weimar Republic. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 472; Schelsky actively returned proven Nazis to university posts while posing as anti-ideological. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2316 (+1 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Postwar German academia forced returning émigrés and Nazi-era careerists into mutual calculation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 431; Postwar German university appointments reproduced the conservative professoriate of the Weimar Republic. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 472; Schelsky actively returned proven Nazis to university posts while posing as anti-ideological. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2316 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Schelsky actively returned proven Nazis to university posts while posing as anti-ideological.
#expands(0.97) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2316