Heinrich Popitz (14 May 1925 – 1 April 2002) was a German sociologist who worked towards a general sociological theory.
 Alongside thinkers like Helmut Schelsky, Hans Paul Bahrdt, Dieter Claessens, and others he was one of those sociologists in post-war Germany who founded their sociological reflections on insights from Philosophical Anthropology, thus creating an alternative to the then dominant paradigms of the Frankfurt School and Cologne School (around René König).
 His work revolves around the four central concepts power, norms, technology, and creativity.
Theodor W. Adorno ( ; ] ; born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German philosopher, sociologist, and composer known for his critical theory of society.
Wolfgang Abendroth (2 May 1906 – 15 September 1985) was a socialist German jurist and political scientist.
 He was born in Elberfeld, now a part of Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia.
 Abendroth was an important contributor to the constitutional foundation of postwar West Germany.
 He briefly held a professorship in law in East Germany.
 As he was opposed to Stalinism, he left for West Germany, where he was appointed professor in political science at Marburg in 1950.
 Abendroth also served as a senior judge in the state court of Hesse.
Culture Industry Reconsidered (German: "Résumé über Kulturindustrie" ), was written in 1963 by Theodor W. Adorno, a German philosopher who belonged to the Frankfurt School of social theory.
 The term "cultural industry" first appeared in "Dialectic of Enlightenment" (1947), written by Adorno and Max Horkheimer.
The term culture industry (German: "Kulturindustrie" ) was coined by the critical theorists Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) and Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), and was presented as critical vocabulary in the chapter "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception", of the book "Dialectic of Enlightenment" (1944), wherein they proposed that popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods—films, radio programmes, magazines, etc.—that are used to manipulate mass society into passivity.
 Consumption of the easy pleasures of popular culture, made available by the mass communications media, renders people docile and content, no matter how difficult their economic circumstances.
 The inherent danger of the culture industry is the cultivation of false psychological needs that can only be met and satisfied by the products of capitalism; thus Adorno and Horkheimer especially perceived mass-produced culture as dangerous to the more technically and intellectually difficult high arts.
 In contrast, true psychological needs are freedom, creativity, and genuine happiness, which refer to an earlier demarcation of human needs, established by Herbert Marcuse.
 (See "Eros and Civilization", 1955).
Leo Kofler (also known by the pseudonyms "Stanislaw Warynski" or "Jules Dévérité"; 26 April 1907 – 29 July 1995) was an Austrian-German Marxist sociologist.
 He ranks with the Marburg politicologist Wolfgang Abendroth and the Frankfurt school theoreticians Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno among the few well-known Marxist intellectuals in post-war Germany.
 However, almost nothing of his work was ever translated into English, and he is therefore little known in the English-speaking world.
 Kofler had his own, distinctive interpretation of Marxism, which connected sociology and history with aesthetics and anthropology.
Bernd Polster (born 22 June 1952) is an author.
 He spent the first eleven years of his life in the village Winsen an der Aller in Northern Germany.
 As he was visiting secondary school in Celle he cofounded and designed the prize winning school magazine "bi"; 1970 its second issue was illegelized because of an educational "sex supplement".
 He studied in Bochum, where he listened to the lectures of the marxist philosopher Leo Kofler, and in Bonn.
 His main field of interest was „Kritik der bürgerlichen Wissenschaft“ (Critique of bourgeois science).
 He was awarded his diploma in psychology - instead of the required experiment - for a philosophical thesis on the topic „Wissen als Vorraussetzung wissenschaftlichen Lernens" (Knowledge as a requirement for scientific learning), an examination of the incompetences of academical psychology.
Anton Costache Bacalbașa (] , commonly known as Toni or Tony Bacalbașa, pen names Rigolo, Wunderkind, Inot , Jus., Wus., Zig.
 etc.; February 21, 1865 – October 1, 1899) was a Romanian political journalist, humorist and politician, chiefly remembered for his antimilitaristic series "Moș Teacă".
 Together with his brothers Ioan and Constantin, he entered public life as a republican and socialist militant.
 For a while, his career was intertwined with that of Marxist doyen Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea, who inspired in him the idea of a socialist art addressed to the masses.
 He was himself a popularizer of Marxist ideas, and one of the first Marxist intellectuals in Romanian political history.
Arnold Bergstraesser (July 14, 1896 in Darmstadt - February 24, 1964 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German political scientist.
 Along with Wolfgang Abendroth, Theodor Eschenburg,  and Eric Voegelin, he was one of the founders of political science in West Germany after World War II.
Max Horkheimer (February 14, 1895 – July 7, 1973) was a German philosopher and sociologist who was famous for his work in critical theory as a member of the 'Frankfurt School' of social research.
 Horkheimer addressed authoritarianism, militarism, economic disruption, environmental crisis, and the poverty of mass culture using the philosophy of history as a framework.
 This became the foundation of critical theory.
 His most important works include "Eclipse of Reason" (1947), "Between Philosophy and Social Science" (1930–1938) and, in collaboration with Theodor Adorno, "Dialectic of Enlightenment" (1947).
 Through the Frankfurt School, Horkheimer planned, supported and made other significant works possible.

Question: What is this German philosopher, sociologist, and composer known for who was one of the few well-known Marxist intellectuals in post-war Germany alongside Leo Kofler, Max Horkheimer and Wolfgang Abendroth?
Answer: critical theory of society