Sociology in National Socialism / Appointments of West German sociology professors in the post-war period

This list of appointments includes sociologists who took up a professorship in West Germany from 1947 to 1962 . It ends in 1962, the year in which, with Hans Linde , the last sociologist to be appointed to a chair who had already worked in research during the time of National Socialist rule. Hans Freyer and Gunther Ipsen , who were sociology professors in the “Third Reich” and taught as emeriti at the University of Münster in the Federal Republic of Germany, are not listed .

Year of vocation	Surname	University	title	Scientific activity in the time of National Socialism
1947	Arnold Gehlen	University of Administrative Sciences Speyer	Professor of Psychology and Sociology	Professor of Philosophy in Leipzig (1934), Königsberg (1938), Vienna (1940).
1947	Alfred von Martin	University of Munich	Associate Professor of Sociology	Since 1932 private scholar, internal emigration .
1948	Gerhard Mackenroth	University of Kiel	Professor of Sociology and Social Science	Associate Professor for Theoretical Economics, Economic Policy and Statistics in Kiel (1934), University of Strasbourg (1941).
1948	Herbert Sultan	University of Heidelberg	Associate professor of finance	Population-based commissioned work in exile in England.
1949	Max Horkheimer	University of Frankfurt am Main	Professor of Philosophy and Sociology	Head of the Institute for Social Research in Exile in America.
1949	René König	University of Cologne	Professor of Sociology	Private lecturer and associate professor for sociology in exile in Switzerland.
1949	Helmut Schelsky	Academy for Community Economy , Hamburg	Professor of Sociology	Assistant to Arnold Gehlen in Leipzig and Königsberg and Hans Freyers in Budapest, Professor of Sociology at the University of Strasbourg (1943), teaching could no longer be started.
1949	Max Ernst zu Solms-Rödelheim	University of Work, Politics and Economics , Wilhelmshaven	Professor of Sociology	"War-important research" for the Reich Working Group for Spatial Research .
1951	Otto Stammer	Free University of Berlin	Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology	No scientific activity (manager in various positions in the pharmaceutical industry).
1951	Werner Ziegenfuß	Nuremberg University of Economics and Social Sciences	Professor of Sociology	From 1942 he qualified as a lecturer in business education at the Berlin Business School .
1953	Theodor W. Adorno	University of Frankfurt am Main	Associate professor of philosophy and sociology	Employee of the Institute for Social Research in Exile in America.
1953	Carl Jantke	Academy for Community Economy, Hamburg	Professor of Sociology	Since 1939 lecturer at the University of Königsberg, the East Prussian Administration Academy and the Königsberg Commercial College .
1954	Arnold Bergstraesser	University of Freiburg im Breisgau	Professor of Sociology and Political Science	1933 to 1934 professor at the Faculty of Economics and Politics at the University of Heidelberg. After emigration (1937) until 1954 teaching at various American universities, most recently as professor of German literature and history at the University of Chicago .
1955	Hans-Joachim Lieber	Free University of Berlin	Professor of Philosophy and Sociology	No academic activity (student, doctorate in 1945).
1955	Karl Valentin Müller	Nuremberg University of Economics and Social Sciences	Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology	Since 1938 he has been a professor at the University of Leipzig and the University of Prague Racial Research .
1956	Walter Sulzbach	University of Frankfurt am Main	Professor of Sociology and Political Science	Exile: Professor of Sociology at a college in Claremont, California .
1956	Gerhard Wurzbacher	University of Kiel	Professor of Sociology	Population studies as a district officer in the border region of Posen-West Prussia , doctorate in 1939.
1957	Eduard Baumgarten	Mannheim Business School	Professor of Sociology	Habilitation in 1936, since 1940 professor of philosophy at the University of Königsberg
1957	Julius Kraft	University of Frankfurt am Main	Professor of Social Science	Exile: 1939 private lecturer at the University of Utrecht , later lecturer at American universities.
1957	Wilhelm Emil Mühlmann	University of Mainz	Professor of Ethnology and with a Venia for "Sociology, especially Ethnic Psychology"	Habilitation in 1938, from 1939 private lecturer in ethnology and national psychology at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute , Berlin.
1958	Ralf Dahrendorf	Academy for Community Economy, Hamburg	Professor of Sociology	None, started studying after 1945.
1958	Emerich K. Francis	University of Munich	Professor of Sociology	None in English and Canadian exile.
1959	Hans Paul Bahrdt	Technical University of Hanover	associate professor of sociology	None, started studying after 1945.
1959	Karl Gustav Specht	Nuremberg University of Economics and Social Sciences	Professor of Sociology	Assistant to Leopold von Wiese .
1960	Heinz Maus	University of Marburg	Professor of Sociology	None, imprisoned several times.
1961	Karl Martin Bolte	Academy for Community Economy, Hamburg	Professor of Sociology	None, started studying after 1945.
1961	Heinz Kluth	University of Hamburg	Professor of Sociology	None, started studying after 1945.
1961	Walter Rüegg	University of Frankfurt am Main	Professor of Sociology	None, Swiss citizen, high school teacher in Zurich
1962	Dieter Claessens	University of Munster	Professor of Sociology	None, started studying after 1945.
1962	Gottfried Eisermann	University of Bonn	Professor of Sociology	None, graduation only in 1945.
1962	Christian von Ferber	Technical University of Hanover	Professor of Sociology	None, graduation only in 1945.
1962	Ludwig von Friedeburg	Free University of Berlin	Professor of Sociology	None, graduation only in 1945.
1962	Hans Linde	Technical University of Karlsruhe	Professor of Sociology	Research for the Reich Office for Spatial Planning .
1962	Ernst Topitsch	University of Heidelberg	Professor of Sociology	None, end of studies only after the end of the war.

See also

• Sociology in National Socialism

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Basis of the information is: Nicole Holzhauser, Andrea Ploder, Stephan Moebius , Oliver Römer, Handbuch Geschichte der Deutschensprachigen Sociologie . Volume 3, timetable. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-19986-9 .
2. ↑ Later: "Emeritus Acting Full Professor"
3. ↑ Is listed as a sociologist, see: Nicole Holzhauser, Andrea Ploder, Stephan Moebius , Oliver Römer, Handbuch Geschichte der Deutschensprachigen Sociologie . Volume 3, timetable. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2019, p. 45; also with Wilhelm Bernsdorf , Horst Knospe (Ed.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon. Volume 1: Articles on sociologists who died by the end of 1969. 2nd revised edition. Enke, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-432-82652-4 , p. 420.
4. ↑ Substitute professor since November 1, 1948, see Volker Kempf , Wider die Reality denial. Helmut Schelsky. Life, work, topicality . Olzog, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7892-8335-2 , p. 196 (time table).
5. ↑ 1953 change to the University of Hamburg .
6. ^ Carsten Klingemann : Sociology and Politics. Social science expert knowledge in the Third Reich and in the early West German post-war period . VS, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 3-531-15064-2 , p. 18.
7. ↑ Full professor from 1954.
8. ^ Full professor from 1956.
9. ↑ From 1957 professor for "Economic and Social History including Sociology", University of Hamburg.