The 1933 Civil Service Law purged Jewish and leftist academics from German universities

Evidence

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

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, 147

Categorization

• XREF: Directly links to the reader’s prior knowledge of Mannheim, Tillich, and Horkheimer; a headcount of the Frankfurt School’s diaspora. — connects to: Nazi purges removed a third of Frankfurt’s university teachers; The Nazi regime legally confiscated the Frankfurt Institute as Communist property — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 516; Nazi decrees stripped Jewish academics of teaching rights step by step — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 634 (+6 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 520; Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 147

Broader Connections

• Nazi decrees stripped Jewish academics of teaching rights step by step #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 634
• Postwar Frankfurt had been purged of left-wing Jewish intellectuals #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1845
• Nazi purges targeted academia out of ideological hatred, not political necessity #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 522
• Socialist academics were rare and stigmatized in German universities #corroborates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 26
• Nazi-period civil servants were legally preferred over regime victims for university chairs #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1897
• Assimilation erases the Jewish difference Nazis then must bureaucratically reconstruct #contradicts (0.70) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 164