List of researchers from the University of Halle who were expelled by the Nazi regime

The list of scientists from the University of Halle expelled by the Nazi regime includes, as far as is known, scientists from the University of Halle who were deposed or removed by the Nazi regime , arrested, forced to emigrate, driven to suicide or murdered. The first version of this list is based on the information in Maximilian Scheer's book Das deutsche Volk anklagt , which was written in 1936 while in exile in Paris.

Quotes

“After it came to power, the Hitler government not only chased the Jewish scholars out of German universities and colleges. It has deposed or arrested the pacifists, removed or imprisoned the Social Democrats, it has expelled all those who think freely from the German chairs. The most famous researchers and thinkers had to give way to the booming military boots of Hitler's Garden. "

- The German people accuse : Reprint from 2012, Hamburg: Laika-Verlag, page 55

“Also at the universities: in 1945 there was no 'zero hour'. Not in the west, not in the east. In 1954, around 31 to 46 percent of the professors employed at the GDR universities were former NSDAP members. In 1962 it was up to 37 percent in medicine and technical subjects, 'just like the doctors in East and West were the front runners', writes the science historian Rüdiger vom Bruch in the documentary published on Monday' Excluded. In memory of the professors who were dismissed from the University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1933 to 1945 '"

- Christian Eger : : Excluded professors , Central German newspaper , November 20, 2013

numbers

The research of Michael Grüttner and Sven Kinas shows the following picture regarding the University of Halle:

• Layoffs (including layoff-like cases): 38 (out of 245)
  • including victims of Nazi racial ideology: 34, dismissed for other reasons: 4
  • of these: 20 emigrated, 18 not emigrated
• Voluntary resignation with a political background: 3 (none of them have emigrated)
• Total displacement loss: 41
• Victims of National Socialist extermination policy: 2, suicides: 4

List of names

University of Halle
Surname	subject	born	further life path
Philosophical Faculty
Gustav Aubin	Economist and economic historian	March 13, 1881 in Reichenberg	Died September 15, 1938
Reinhold Baer	mathematician	July 22, 1902 in Berlin	Emigrated to England, 1935 to the USA
Clemens Bosch	Ancient historian, numismatist	October 6, 1899 in Cologne	Emigration to Turkey
Paul Frankl	Art historian	January 2, 1878 in Prague	Emigration to the USA
Adhémar yellow	psychologist	November 18, 1887 in Moscow	Emigrated to the Netherlands, died of tuberculosis in the Black Forest
Betty Heimann	Indologist	March 29, 1888 in Wandsbek	Emigration to England
Karl Heldmann [1]	historian	September 19, 1869 in Viermünden	Died on March 12, 1943 in Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe
Friedrich Hertz	Sociologist, economist, cultural historian	March 26, 1878 in Vienna	Return to Austria, 1938 emigration to England
Arnold Japha	Zoologist, anthropologist	September 12, 1877 in Koenigsberg	Suicide on May 16, 1943 to avoid deportation
Emil Utitz	Philosopher, psychologist, art theorist	May 27, 1883 in Roztoky	Survived the Theresienstadt ghetto , taught in Prague from 1945
Ernst Wertheimer en	biochemist	August 24, 1893 in Bühl	Emigration to Palestine
Mojzis Woskin-Nahartabi	Hebraist	December 16, 1884 in Russia	Emigrated to Prague, Theresienstadt ghetto , murdered on October 19, 1944 in Auschwitz
Law Faculty
Georg Brodnitz	Political scientist	November 18, 1876 in Berlin	Deported to the Litzmannstadt ghetto on October 18, 1941 , murdered there on December 4, 1941
Max Fleischmann	Legal scholar	October 5, 1872 in Breslau	Refused to wear the Star of David, escaped arrest by the Gestapo in 1943 by suicide
Ernst Grünfeld	economist	September 11, 1883 in Brno	After his adopted daughter was withdrawn, suicide in 1938
Rudolf Joerges	Legal scholar	June 19, 1868 in Altenkirchen	Temporary retirement, 1945 returned to his chair
Guido Kisch	Legal historian	January 22, 1889 in Prague	Emigration to the USA
Friedrich Kitzinger	Criminal lawyer	November 8, 1872 in Fürth	Emigration to England, return to Dachau concentration camp, emigration to Palestine
Arthur Wegner	Criminal lawyer	February 25, 1900 in Berlin	Temporary retirement in June 1937, emigrated to England in 1938, then to Canada in 1940; 1945 return to Germany and again professor at German universities, most recently before his retirement from 1963 to 1965 professor with chair for criminal law and history of criminal law at the law faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Faculty of Theology
Günther Dehn	theologian	April 18, 1882 in Schwerin	14 months imprisonment for prohibited teaching and examination activities
Unknown faculty
Martin Kochmann	Pharmacologist and toxicologist	February 7, 1878 in Breslau	Suicide on September 11, 1936 after being arrested by the Gestapo

Sources for layoffs and evictions:

Scientists related to Halle

Furthermore, the following academics were hindered in their teaching activities by the Nazi regime, expelled from academic operations, deported, murdered, driven into exile or suicide:

• Walter Anderssen (1882–1965), lecturer in public law, no longer on the list of lecturers at the University of Halle in the winter semester of 1932/33
• Adolph Goldschmidt (1863–1944), one of the most famous art historians in Germany, was a full professor in Halle an der Saale from 1904 to 1912 until he was called to Berlin. The Prussian Academy of Sciences elected him to its full member in 1914. He also taught at Harvard and was awarded an honorary doctorate from this university in 1936 . He was forced to leave the academy in 1938 and had to emigrate to Switzerland in 1939.
• Heinrich Grell (1903–1974), mathematician, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• Waldemar Mitscherlich (1877–1961), political scientist, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Arthur Wegner (1900–1989), lawyer, University of Breslau .

Source for layoffs and evictions:

Commemoration

• 

  Stumbling block for Max Fleischmann in Halle

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  Stumbling block for Martin Kochmann in Halle

literature

• Friedemann Stengel (Ed.): Excluded. In memory of the professors who were dismissed from the University of Halle-Wittenberg between 1933 and 1945 . Halle: Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg, 2016 ISBN 978-3-86977-146-5 (not viewed)
• Sven Kinas: Academic Exodus. The expulsion of university professors from the universities of Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Greifswald and Halle 1933-1945 , Heidelberg 2018.
• Henrik Eberle : The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mdv, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Maximilian Scheer (Ed.): Das deutsche Volk anklagt , 1936, Reprint: Laika, Hamburg, 2012, ISBN 9783942281201 , p. 63.
2. ^ Christian Eger: University of Halle excluded professors , Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , November 20, 2013, accessed on December 3, 2016
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Michael Grüttner and Sven Kinas: The expulsion of scientists from German universities 1933–1945 , p. 170, accessed on December 5, 2016.
4. ↑ Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences : Expelled for racist reasons. The Academy of Sciences 1933-1945 , exhibition as part of the Berlin theme year 2013 Destroyed Diversity. Berlin 1933-1938-1945. , P. 35, accessed December 18, 2016