The 1972 Radikalenerlass tried to block critical students’ march through institutions

Evidence

At the beginning of 1972 the Social Democratic Chancellor, Willy Brandt, together with the prime ministers of the Federal German states, passed a ban on radical teachers and civil servants. 1 The ban was intended to prevent extremist' representatives of a critical generation of students from engaging in a long march through the institutions’, but it soon led to practices of screening and exclusion from Civil Service professions that went out of control. The term `Frankfurt School’ continued to be a familiar concept in Germany, and was used as a handy label from the years of student revolt onwards by those who liked to attribute dissatisfaction, protest, efforts towards radical reform and terrorist activity to incitement by the intellectual seducers of youth. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 691

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Institute’s earlier analysis of the state’s administrative expansion producing legitimation problems — here the West German state screened its own civil service instead.