POLITICAL SITUATION AT UNIVERSITY OF JENA

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• Publication Date: November 12, 1947
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COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Political Situation at University of Tena
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!. The University of Jena includes the following faculties and pro-
fessors, with their political affiliations:
a:.a. Direction
1iectora Professor Tucker, non-political (SED), bourgeois
Pro-Rector: Harms, non-political (SED), bourgeois
Professor in Ordinary., Blorneyer, non-political (anti-SED),
bourgeois
Tutor: 3iinkle (SED-KPD)
Curator: B1uhm (SED-KPD), an SEP leader
Dean: Heussi, non-political, bourgeois
C?8dde (CPU)
Students (40): "Reactionary" CPU, 1 SEP
I,arv cult . (283 hours)
Dean: Lange, bourgeois, forr~.er chairman of the advisory Landtag
openly against SET), critic of school and land reform
Professors : Blorneyor, non-political (anti- LP), bourgeois,
strongly for independent university a .dministrtio=11
Draht, assists in economy and social questions
(SED-SPD , a reliable SPD member)
Students : politically active; LDP and CDU very strong., clearly
anti-SED
Medical Faculty (900 hours)
Dean vonSkranlik, ambitious (SE))
Professors: D8derlein (anti -SED)
V.inkle4, SEP (KPD) functionary for professors,
Russian liaison man
Karstens, upper physician (SEP-SPD)
Lindig, physician (SED-SPD)
Kleinsorge, physician, anti-SbD (CDT?)
Students: Small SED group; remainder strong LDP
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lean:-1,eisegang, Cuddle-class reactionary, open critic of 11"arxism
Professors : '.'.esle (sympathizes with S)PD against SET))
Dense, existentialist, bourgeois, helps against SED
r ircbner, full SET) member (SPt'))
Stolte, full "PET) member (SPD)
Students : Strongly p rietru ted by SED
f. Natural Science I'a.culty 25hots
Dean : Harts also Pro-Rector
Students : Pori-political
Social Education Facult; 400 hours),
Dean: Petersen ED, co,{iinL; fror SPD, reliable)
Professors : S ED
Students : SET) (strongest SED group, with fanatical impulses)
Ii. Popular Econorn Faculty 200 hours
Professors-. Pausen SEP-SPD, but SLT) oriented)
Sarow (SEP-,SPD, but SET))
T?upport (LDP, bourgeois)
Students: Strongly SET), but a large percentage SPD without interest
The remaining professors are not politically attached, although secretly
a,;ainst SLP.
Within the university, a number of student and faculty groups of political
nature, both legal arid illegal exists. Legal groups include IMP and Cru
informal organizations, strongly influenced by SET), and an SLD prof essi?na "".
(Betriebs) group. This latter has a r>>enibers,hhi;., of 600, over fifty percent
nominal and a forth SPD who belong only in default of a real. S'FPI) group.
Only about 60 of the r:ernbers are politically active, and this mostly with
registration forms and inforr:iatio., service. The SET) group controls the
theoretically independent rDJ but not the FDGT3 group, which was formed
by :.BPD adherents to counteract SEP. SPD also has an illegal. group af
about twenty. students , and CDL maintains connections with students
through Peter Ccholz, a member of the CPU Tone Executive Committee in
Jena. An illegal group of KPP students and faculty members includes
some SEl) officials and personnel trained in fussia.
S. A special plan was initiated at the University of Jena to change the
political composition of the student group. I'ineteen percent of the
students are classified as worker--students (Arbeiterstudertterr), enrolled
without fulfilling the abitur requirements. The plan was not particularly
successful, since in the student council elections of February 1941 seven
LT)P, four CPU, and tvo non-party candidates were chosen and only six SE),
of whom three were KPD and one SET% originally. Vhen student chairman
Brendel was forced out in June 1947 for I_DP-SPD sympathies, he was
succeeded by another LDP adherent, Reichenbach, in spite of SET) opposition'.
4? For additional control of student group cor:position, enrollment was
limited to worker-students with abiturs,; and SET) preparatory schools
were encouraged to expand. The university, however, in order to
avoid reeeivit:g students with one-sided political training, attempted
influence the preparatory schools towards a broader basic education.
The S aP countered by placing preparatory schools in Erfurt, l isenach,
and (era as well as Jena, where they vv uld be further r.-moved from,
university dor ination. As a result, the university fears for the integ-
rity of its teaching, since the SE!) ideology regards its own dos vatic
treatment of all problems as the his est aim of education and scienco..
Vith the entire weight of the government on the SE) and preparatory
school side, the university efforts are at best ineffectual.
5~ Under former inister of Culture Wolf, the mi~nistry directly controlled
all questions of higher education. After his replacement by '!%,_,.M ".aria
Turhorst,, a sharp combat arose bet\\.een the ministry and the vnivers ity
over the problem of autonomous administration, but,Fran Turhorst appears
to prefer delayin tactics to V.olfts more- insistent and impetuous
approach. Liaison is ,maintained with the SED Land Exeettive Committee
through Fritz E eynarin, vtho conveys special directives to %'rs . Tuncor s
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