West Germany’s restitution laws reinstated former Nazi civil servants over anti-fascist ones

Evidence

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. Since university professors are also civil servants in Germany, a check had to be made against a list supplied by the Ministry of the Interior whenever an appointment to a professorial post was made, to see whether there was not a suitable candidate with a preferential claim to the post among these article 131' professors. The Loyalty Law’ (Treuepflichtgesetz) of 1952 ensured in addition that members of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime were excluded from the Civil Service. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1897

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off the book’s earlier claim (ch59) that institutionalized denazification rewarded Nazi sympathizers and punished resisters; here it becomes concrete legal mechanism. — connects to: West German law restored Nazi civil servants to office with hiring preference — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1897; Nazi-period civil servants were legally preferred over regime victims for university chairs — 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
• Nazi-period civil servants were legally preferred over regime victims for university chairs #expands (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1897