Max Freiherr von Waldberg

Max Freiherr von Waldberg
Born	(1858-01-01)January 1, 1858 Czernowitz, Austrian Empire
Died	November 6, 1938(1938-11-06) (aged 80) Heidelberg, Nazi Germany

Max Freiherr von Waldberg (January 1, 1858 — November 6, 1938) was a professor of modern literature at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. After World War I, one of his students was Joseph Goebbels, later the Nazi's propaganda minister. Nevertheless, because of his Jewish ancestry, von Waldberg was one of several Heidelberg professors forced to retire in April 1933, when the Third Reich passed a Civil Service Law to remove university faculty members of "non-Aryan" descent.[1]

References

1. Carmon, Arye. "The Impact of the Nazi Racial Decrees on the University of Heidelberg". Yad Vashem Studies XI (Jerusalem, 1976), pp. 131-141.