Otto Kirchheimer
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Otto Kirchheimer (German: [ˈkɪɐ̯çˌhaɪmɐ]; 11 November 1905 in Heilbronn – 22 November 1965 in New York City) was a German jurist of Jewish ancestry and political scientist of the Frankfurt School whose work essentially covered the state and its constitution.[1]
Kircheimer worked as a research analyst at the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA, starting in World War II and continuing to 1952.[2]
Research[edit]
The German Research Fund (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) is funding the research and editorial work for an edition of the ‘Gesammelte Schriften’ (Collected Works) of Otto Kirchheimer The project has started in 2015 at Greifswald University. The edition is supposed to be completed in 2020. For more information see: https://buchstein.wordpress.com/forschung
Works[edit]
- Punishment and Social Structure (1939) (with Georg Rusche).
References[edit]
- ^ Arzt, Donna E. (1993). "Otto Kirchheimer: Critic of the Administration of Justice". In Lutter, Marcus. Der Einfluß deutscher Emigranten auf die Rechtsentwicklung in den USA und in Deutschland. Tübingen: Mohr. pp. 33–56. ISBN 3-16-146080-4.
- ^ "Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort". Princeton University Press. Retrieved September 3, 2013.
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