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Otto Kirchheimer

People · 1905–1965

Otto Kirchheimer

Frankfurt School jurist who studied the modern state, then analyzed it for the OSS.

Facts

Years
1905–1965
Birthplace
Heilbronn, Germany
Category
People
Tags
arts

Story

Otto Kirchheimer came from Heilbronn with a lawyer’s mind and a refugee’s timetable. The Frankfurt School was one home; the Office of Strategic Services was another.

He kept writing about how a state uses law to hold people. The academic and the analyst were the same man: someone who believed a constitution is a fact on the ground, not a poem.

Otto Kirchheimer
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