Title: The unfree professions : German lawyers, teachers, and engineers, 1900-1950 /
Authors: Jarausch, Konrad Hugo.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1990
Subjects: Professional employees Government policy Germany History; Professions Government policy Germany History; Lawyers Germany History; Teachers Legal status, laws, etc. Germany History; Engineers Legal status, laws, etc. Germany History; Germany Politics and government
Abstract: How could educated professionals have supported the Nazi movement? This fascinating subject is explored by tracing the social, ideological, and political development of three representative German professions in this period.
Contents: Professionalization German style -- The German concept of profession -- Professions in Imperial Germany -- Neocorporate professionalism -- Professions in crisis. Democratizing the professions -- The challenge of reform -- Structural and ideological constraints -- Interest group professionalism -- Regaining professional stability. The price of normalcy -- Professions and politics -- Toward republican professionalism -- The breakdown of liberal professionalism -- The impact of the Great Depression -- The rise of Nazi alternatives -- Collapse of interest republicanism -- Professionals as accomplices. The illusion of reprofessionalization -- Compulsion of self-coordination? -- Restoring professional authority -- From nationalist to Nazi professionalism -- "Germanizing" the professions -- Nazification of personnel and practice -- The spoils of collaboration -- Abnormal Nazi normality -- Deprofessionalization in the Third Reich -- Professions at war -- The warping of professionalism -- Professionalism instrumentalized -- Perils of professionalism -- Rebuilding the professions -- The travails of German practitioners -- Professionals and liberty -- Appendix A. Statistical tables with Eric John Yonke -- Appendix B.A note on sources with Ingrid Rehm Richards.