On May 17, 1923, Adolf Hitler gave the first of five speeches in Erlangen, some of them exclusively for members of the university. He was enormously well received. In this volume, Andreas Jakob shows the extent to which the National Socialist ideology was able to tie in with a national-conservative and anti-Semitic attitude, particularly in university circles. He emphasizes the role of university teachers in the development of Erlangen into the "first National Socialist university in the Reich" and rejects the myth of a "National Socialist takeover" of the universities. The continuities at the university were by far the most important.
Richly illustrated and with extensive source citations, the statements and actions of those involved at the university are presented. Part 1 begins with the history of the university between 1918 and 1933, with a look back at its history since the 19th century. A further volume will be devoted to the history of the FAU during the National Socialist era.
Procession of professors through the castle garden on the occasion of the foundation of the Reich, around 1927, Erlangen City Archive (photo S. Katz)
Erlangen in the Weimar Republic and under National Socialism
DIE FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN 1918-1945, Part 2,1
Andreas Jakob:
"The first National Socialist university in the Reich. The University of Erlangen under the shadow of Julius Streicher
(Research and Sources on the History of Erlangen, Volume 2,1
published by the Erlangen City Archive
790 pages, approx. 480 illustrations, hardcover
Printed by Schmidt Publishers Neustadt/Aisch 2024
ISBN 978-3-944452-16-6
Price: 39,90 €
From the table of contents:
Introduction
- Key points of early National Socialism at the Friedrich-Alexander University
- The co-responsibility of the intellectual elites for the rise of National Socialism
- The fear of contemporary witnesses of the Nestbeschmutzung
- The reappraisal of the university's history since 1993
- Further milestones in the reappraisal of Nazi university history
- Questions and structure
1. the World War as a precursor to National Socialism
- The university as a paramilitary community of fate
- Post-war turmoil and the burden of the first democracy - the radicalization of thought at Friedrich Alexander University
2. the university teachers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in the Weimar Republic as intellectual leaders of the students and enemies of democracy
- University and teaching staff
- The intellectual rearmament by the Friedrich Alexander University
- Party political activities of members of Friedrich Alexander University during the Weimar Republic
- The rejection of the state by professors at Friedrich Alexander University
- Jews between assimilation and exclusion. The development of anti-Semitism at Friedrich Alexander University
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität before the transition to the Third Reich: We academic teachers also went through all the reservations
3. the students of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in the Weimar Republic as pioneers of National Socialism
- The development of student numbers in the Reich and at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität until 1933
- Jewish students during the Weimar Republic
- The renaissance of corporations in the Weimar Republic
- Other academic associations and working groups in the Weimar Republic
- The founding of the General Students' Committee (AStA) in Erlangen
- The development of elections to the AStA
- The development of the political self-organization of the student body
- Erlangen in the German student body: the struggle for the racial-ethnic principle
- The rise of National Socialism at the University of Erlangen
- The years of stagnation until the breakthrough of the NSDAP
- The AStA under the absolute majority of the NSDStB
- The rise of the NSDAP to become the People's Party on its way into the Third Reich
- The Friedrich Alexander University in the last days of the Weimar Republic