Ernst Klee's Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich

The University of Minnesota has its own Holocaust documents but the state of Minnesota has no copy of Ernst Klee's Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich in any of its libraries listed on the internet.

In the Martin and Elfride Heidegger letters there is his 19450614 in which he mentions Hugo Friedrich in connection with Paul Valéry (who died later that summer in Paris on July 20, 1945.)

Documents on Hugo Friedrich tend to pass over his 1937 appointment and his arrest by the occupying French. If you have a comment to clarify, please post it.  It was not until 1957 that he was called to the Academy.

The journalist Ernst Klee's publications made it impossible to continue the "whitewash" of the 1950's particularly in regard to the medical profession and the NSDAP.  Re-examination of the reopening of German universities and the reestablishment of their autonomy has only occurred later.  Those teaching law,  political science and history may have been more of a concern in 1945 and 1946. The international reputation of an institution out-weighed issues of individual culpability. Compare the reestablishment of medical careers and academic careers and the role of secondary centers such as Tubingen and Marburg. Compare the initial assignment to Ricoeur in France.

Hugo Friedrich was very close to Hannah Arendt and Benno von Wiese during their student days in Heidelberg.  Benno von Wiese was allowed to continue teaching based on a written declaration which he was required to submit.

On Hugo Friedrich: his arrest is mentioned by both Hugo Ott and Rüdiger Safranski.

See records on requisitioning of homes of collaborators by the French military occupation authority.

Cf: Steven P. Remy, The Heidelberg Myth