West Germany’s 1951 civil service law restored ex-Nazi officials with preferential hiring.

Evidence

Philip Müller, a member of the Free German Youth, 13 was shot dead by West German police during a banned demonstration in Essen. By contrast, Adenauer, who had been elected Chancellor by a majority of one vote (his own), had demanded in his inaugural speech that the distinction between two classes of people in Germany'those who were politically impeccable and those who were notshould be abolished as soon as possible. The law relating to article 131 of the Basic Law, the West German constitution, which was passed in May 1951 with SPD approval, recognized the social security rights of those people, previously regarded as incriminated’, who had belonged to the Civil Service at the end of the Third Reich. The law made it possible for those who were still incriminated to return to the Civil Service. `Incriminated’ persons were even given preferential consideration for vacant posts. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 468

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the chapter’s broader denazification-and-restoration theme and the Frankfurt School’s postwar return to a still-Nazi-staffed academy. — connects to: West Germany barred Nazi-regime victims from the civil service while preferring ex-officials. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 468; West German law restored Nazi civil servants to office with hiring preference — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1897; West Germany’s restitution laws reinstated former Nazi civil servants over anti-fascist ones — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1897
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: West Germany barred Nazi-regime victims from the civil service while preferring ex-officials. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 468; West German law restored Nazi civil servants to office with hiring preference — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1897; West Germany’s restitution laws reinstated former Nazi civil servants over anti-fascist ones — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1897

Broader Connections

• West German law restored Nazi civil servants to office with hiring preference #corroborates (1.00) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1897
• West Germany’s restitution laws reinstated former Nazi civil servants over anti-fascist ones #expands (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1897