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...Protest. When his appointment was announced, the rector and his entire senate (some 20 professors) at the University of Göttingen resigned in shocked protest. Then followed one of the most heartfelt outbursts of democratic feeling in West Germany's brief history. Students all over Germany protested; Göttingen's 5,000 students remained off campus, educators and scientists flooded the state government with protests. The West German press blasted him with editorials, devoting more space to his case than to Khrushchev's visit to Belgrade. Said the respected Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "Schl...
...half-Jewish, but somehow even this did not handicap him too much. While some of his relatives were killed in concentration camps, young Schlüter went into Hitler's Wehrmacht, won a decoration in France, was wounded and discharged, then entered the University of Göttingen as a law student...
When to Shift. When the British occupied Lower Saxony, Schlüter presented himself as a victim who had suffered for his trace of Jewish blood, got a job as a high-ranking police officer in the Göttingen Allied Military Government. He proved a tough cop, efficient at rounding up local Nazis, but just as rough on others, too. But when his administration was involved in accusations of bribery, embezzlement and maltreatment, the British fired...
...became an organizer of extreme right political parties in the British zone, won a seat in the Göttingen town council, and headed a publishing house whose favorite authors were old Nazis justifying their pasts. In 1949 the British banned him from politics. But with the end of military government, he was back with a new party that he called the National Right, and got elected to the Lower Saxony parliament. Two weeks later he abandoned his own party, jumped over to the more respected Free Democrats, the right wing of Chancellor Adenauer's four-party federal coalition...
...stepson go there, and that Alexander Hamilton was an alumnus. But by 1814 the trustees were branding Columbia as "a spectacle, mortifying to its friends, humiliating to the city." In the 18503, Trustee Samuel Ruggles ruefully pointed out that of two universities that George III chartered, Göttingen had 89 professors and 1,545 students, while Columbia still languished with six professors and 140 students...