Hochschule für Politik

   a technical school for the study of political science, founded in 1920 by the publisher Ernst Jackh with support from the Carnegie Foundation. Successor to Friedrich Naumann's* Staatsburger-schule, it was outspokenly committed to the Republic. Jackh, a Naumann dis-ciple with ties to the DDP, was assisted by the Prussian Cultural Ministry. Deviating from tradition, the Hochschule admitted students who had not com-pleted Gymnasium and thereby attracted many individuals, including trade-union* officials, who would not otherwise have attended a university. Among the school s better known lecturers and graduates were Moritz Julius Bonn,* Arnold Brecht,* Max Scheler,* Eckart Kehr,* Hajo Holborn, and Sigmund Neu-mann. It was never considered a center for advanced study; its importance rested in a determination to provide broad access to education. Established while Kon-rad Haenisch was Prussian Cultural Minister, it hoped to achieve Haenisch s dream of instituting an educational system wherein students from all social classes might receive objective and equal instruction in politics and citizen-ship. Although those associated with the Hochschule—for example, Theodor Heuss*—were often strongly committed to Germany, the school was censured by the Right as a bastion of internationalists.

   REFERENCES:Frye, Liberal Democrats;Jackh and Suhr, Geschichte; Laqueur, Weimar.