Socialist academics were rare and stigmatized in German universities

Evidence

The 1918 November Revolution had only just begun in Germany when Robert Wilbrandt travelled to Berlin. Wilbrandt was forty-three, and had been Professor of Political Economy in Tübingen since 1908. One of the few German socialist academics, he was frowned upon by his university colleagues as an extreme leftist. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 26

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The 1933 Civil Service Law purged Jewish and leftist academics from German universities — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 520; Nazi rule and restoration alienated postwar Germans from utopian-social criticism; A Prussian reform minister drove sociology’s introduction against professors who dismissed it as socialism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 65 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Nazi rule and restoration alienated postwar Germans from utopian-social criticism #corroborates (0.78)
• A Prussian reform minister drove sociology’s introduction against professors who dismissed it as socialism #corroborates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 65