TheLeipzig school was a branch ofsociology developed by a group of academics led by philosopher and sociologistHans Freyer at theUniversity of Leipzig,Germany in the 1930s.
Freyer sawNazism as an opportunity; many of his followers were politically activeNazis. They includedArnold Gehlen, Gunter Ipsen, Karl Heinz Pfeffer, andHelmut Schelsky.
TheNational Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) did not allow any competingideologies to develop in universities; however, some of the Leipzig School group remained at the university until 1945. Their numbers declined as some emigrated (Günther) or made a career in theThird Reich (Gehlen, Ipsen, Pfeffer), and before the war ended, Freyer himself left to take up a teaching position at theUniversity of Budapest.
In Indo-Germanic studies, the Leipzig School also refers to the researchers around Karl Brugmann and August Leskien in the last third of the 19th century, who were called Junggrammatists.[1]
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