Philipps-Universität Marburg und Erich Frank

 
The Institut für Philosophie of Philipps-Universität Marburg an der Lahn has a curious flaw: their history page lacks a photo of Erich Frank, who replaced Heidegger.

A PDF of a Frank relative restitution claim can be found here.

Frank died in Amsterdam in 1949 on his way to reclaim his chair of philosophy in Marburg.

A book by Frank in English:

Philosophical Understanding and Religious Truth, Oxford University Press, New York, 1966. Pp. xii + 182 + index. 9s (other ed: 1949, 1963)

You need not search for an Erich-Frank Strasse or Weg or Platz in Marburg.  But is there now a plaque at the old University in the tourist core of Marburg?  I spent many delightful hours in the philosophy library of the old Uni in 1985.

Vol 18 of Social Research should have the Karl Löwith memorium to Erich Frank.

Currently there is no Erich Frank article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

I will add an Aule page on Frank to phil.aule-browser.com

Martin Niemöller speaking at Uni-Marburg, 1946

In 1946 Martin Niemöller spoke before Uni-Marburg students.
Harold Marcuse offers this citation:

Die politische Verantwortung des Christen im akademischen Stand : Vortrag gehalten auf Einladung der evangelischen Studentengemeinde vor Studierenden der Philipps-Universität zu Marburg an der Lahn am 4. Mai 1946 / Martin Niemöller. Giessen : W. Schmitz, 1946. 23 p. [RLIN: Yale, Harvard] Also in Reden 45-54, 87ff.

This was one occasion for his famous lament, which he preached, now repeated as verse which I choose to render as:

First they arrested the X, but I was not an X, so I did not speak up.
Then they crudely rounded up the Y, but I was not a Y, so I did nothing.
Then we heard they were murdering transported Z's, but we were not Z's, so we kept quiet.

It is my understanding that Niemöller was heckled by the students - but was it only when he spoke of collective guilt?

Sehe: Martin Niemoeller Stiftung as referenced by Harold Marcuse.

Frage: Who were these students of 1946?  How many had been SA?  How many had been in youth troops or knew of the slaughter of youth troops by Allied forces at various sites (or had survived the incidents where Allied forced failed to take prisoners - crimes soon to be repeated in Korea a few years after) ?  Were any from fire-bombed Wuerzburg or other fire-bombed cities north and south of Marburg?  It is essential to know who these students were and that informations should be in the Uni archives.