National Socialist German Lecturers League
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Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Dozentenbund | |
| Predecessor | National Socialist Teachers League |
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| Founded | 1935 |
| Dissolved | 1944 |
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The National Socialist German Lecturers League (Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Dozentenbund, also called NS-Dozentenbund , or abbreviated NSDDB), was a party organization under the
Origin and purpose
The NSDDB emerged in 1935 from the
Leadership
In 1938 about a quarter of the German higher education faculty was associated with the Lecturers League. The share of Lecturer League members was particularly high in the humanities faculties. The leadership ranks in the Lecturers League were strikingly often members (or graduates) of the medical faculty.
Like all Nazi organizations, the NSDDB was set up according to the "
Schultze made clear how he intended to carry out his authority, after taking office in 1935. First, he caused all party members among the higher education teachers to register. For senior positions, he let it be known, it was not enough only to wear a party badge on the lapel, one must also be capable of "forcing the opposition to the wall". Besides the partisan feelings, the recognizable determination and talent to educate the youth in the Nazi spirit, the "
Effectiveness
To anchor the national socialist ideology among the lecturers, four NS-Lecturer League scientific academies had already been set up. They were located at the Universities of
The effectiveness of the Lecturers League was limited, for one thing, by the "office-holder confusion" typical of Nazism: the imprecise differentiation of the jurisdiction and competence of a position.[5]: 13 The NSDDB most frequently clashed with the Amt Rosenberg, which laid equal claim on higher education policy as its domain. Deputy-Führer Hess was an ally of the NSDDB in these conflicts.
Another factor limiting the effectiveness of the NSDDB was the often low regard for its leaders at the universities. Many had a reputation of wanting to compensate for their lack of scientific standing and expertise by means of excessive partisan zeal.[6]
Many educators and lecturers evaded the pressure to alter their work; so that overall, the League was largely ineffective.[1][5]: 13 [7]: 303 However, in the strongholds of Nazi teaching and research, such as Jena, Kiel and Königsberg, the League was more potent.[7]: 305
Literature
- Wolfgang Benz; Hermann Graml; Hermann Weiß, eds. (2007). Enzyklopädie des Nationalsozialismus. Klett-Cotta. ISBN 9783423344081.
- ISBN 3-598-22628-4.
- Anne Christine Nagel; Ulrich Sieg (2000). Die Philipps-Universität Marburg im Nationalsozialismus: Dokumente zu ihrer Geschichte. Franz Steiner Verlag. pp. 46–55, 247–251, 326–327. ISBN 978-3-515-07653-1.
- Hentschel, Klaus, editor and Ann M. Hentschel, editorial assistant and Translator Physics and National Socialism: An Anthology of Primary Sources (Birkhäuser, 1996) ISBN 0-8176-5312-0
- John Connelly; Michael Grüttner, eds. (2005). Universities under dictatorship. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 9780271026954.
- Trott, Eckart (2007). Logic's lost genius : the life of Gerhard Gentzen. Providence, RI London: American Mathematical Society London Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0821835500.
References
- ^ ISBN 0415040868.
- ^ Hentschel, 1996, Appendix C; see the entry for the NSDDB
- ^ Hentschel, 1996, Introduction p. xxxvi ff.
- ISBN 9783896464590.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-674-00933-2.
- ISBN 3455092195.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4406-4930-1.
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