Young SPD lawyers fought to enforce the Weimar constitution’s bourgeois-socialist compromise.

Evidence

Borne up by their trust in a strong political and social movement, and spurred on by the crisis in the Weimar Republic, which was becoming more and more obvious, these young lawyers threw the whole of their expertise into bringing the compromise between bourgeois and socialist positions contained in the Weimar constitution to bear against the restriction of socialist elements which was taking place. Neumann’s position was that of a reformist and a legalist. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 924