University community of Germany in the week of the Weymar Republic: discourse strategies of the german profession
The article focuses on the issue of an uneasy relationship between the government of the Weimar Republic, on the one hand, and the German university community, on the other. The piece tackles the reasons behind the hostility of university professors towards the democratic political system, in general, and the educational and research policy of the Republic, in particular. Additionally, the text will analyze the discursive strategies that the university elite of the time used in order to defend its privileged position in the German society.