578 Notes to pp. 368–373
for compensation. This was an initial ‘compensation for acts of National
Socialist injustice for members of the public service’. This decision declared,
inter alia, ‘The withdrawal of the licence to teach... is an oppressive
measure on the part of the National Socialist regime and an act of persecu-
tion.’ The law required that ‘a Privatdozent who has been dismissed
from university service on account of his Jewish origins be granted the
legal status and salary to which he would have been entitled in the normal
course of his academic career.’ Thus, together with the title of full professor,
he received ‘the appropriate emoluments with effect from 1 January 1954’,
and furthermore, for the period between 1 April 1950 and 31 March 1951,
‘compensation at the rate of the emoluments due to a full professor in
retirement’. Moreover, it was resolved that ‘the period between the with-
drawal of the licence to teach and the reappointment... was to be treated
as a period of service as far as salary and other entitlements were con-
cerned.’ According to the final decision on compensation of 1 February
1957, Adorno received an annual salary of DM 18,424 as from 1 January
1954, and as from 1 January 1956 an annual salary of DM 20,164. The sum
for the one-year compensation amounted to DM 11,600. Archive of the
Dean of the Arts Faculty of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
(Adorno File No. 104/106); Wiedergutmachungs-Teilbescheid, 5 Decem-
ber 1956 and Wiedergutmachung ltd. Bescheid, 1 February 1957 (signed
Dr. Rau).
13 Adorno to Hacker, 30 October 1957, Theodor W. Adorno Archive, Frank-
furt am Main (Br 537/26, 27).
14 Notker Hammerstein, Die Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, p. 801f.
15 Ibid., p. 802.
16 Institute of Social Research, Soziologische Exkurse, p. 18.
17 Adorno, Traumprotokolle, GS, vol. 20.2, p. 578.
18 The present writer is indebted to the account given by Ludwig von
Friedeburg during an interview in May 1999. See also Friedeburg,
‘Anspruch und Schwierigkeiten kritischer Sozialforschung’, p. 71.
19 Ibid.
20 See Alex Demirovic, Der nonkonformistische Intellektuelle, pp. 348ff. and
367ff.
21 Martin Jander, Theo Pirker über ‘Pirker’: Ein Gespräch, p. 57ff.
22 Adorno to Horkheimer, 25 February 1955, Horkheimer–Pollock Archive,
Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main.
23 Ralf Dahrendorf, Über Grenzen: Lebenserinnerungen, p. 169f.
24 Adorno to Horkheimer, 17 August 1954, Horkheimer–Pollock Archive,
Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main.
25 Horkheimer, Briefwechsel, GS, vol. 18, p. 274.
26 See Bernhard Koßmann (ed.), Vertreter der Frankfurter Schule in den
Hörfunkprogrammen 1950–1992; Conrad Lay, ‘Viele Beiträge waren
urspünglich Rundfunkarbeiten’, p. 173ff.; Adorno, Erziehung zur Mündig-
keit: Vorträge und Gespräche mit Hellmut Becker, 1959–1969, p. 8f.
27 Adorno to Andersch, 31 August 1955, Theodor W. Adorno Archive
(Br 24/14). Adorno said that Benn was the living proof that there was
no such thing as ‘the ideal instance of a unified, integral human being’.
His life showed ‘the degree to which the discontinuity of the individual
has become necessary today – and the precondition of all things worthy