| Contents | Warburg's considerations on the call by Frankfurt university to E. Cassirer; mentions Kurt Riezler, of Frankfurt university, oo to Käthe Liebermann, the philosopher Max Scheler, Cornelius; Cassirer has not been elected Dean of the Philosophy Faculty in Hamburg, G. Thilenius had been elected; mentions [Walther] Schubring's intrigues; should Cassirer be made Vice Chancellor ['Rektor']?; there is only one question for Warburg: how can he and like-minded men manage it that Cassirer gets an acceptable number of votes?; Richard Salomon and G. Thilenius compete for the post; mentions [Ludolf] Brauer, [Bernhard] Nocht, Vice Chancellor [Rudolf] Laun, Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Heinz Sieveking, Wilhelm Blaschke; Warburg visited Thilenius, talked about the young Dr. Otto [Wilhelm] Samson, son of Martin Samson who helped Warburg, Panconcelli-Calzia and Thilenius with 'Rivista', Arthur Byhan, Th. W. Danzel; mentions 'Bernhardiner', the 'desperadoes of ideas' as personified by Bernhard in G. Freytag's 'Soll und Haben'; on antisemitic tendencies in Thilenius's museum, mentions [Oskar] Hagen, Dr. Walter Scheidt, S. Passarge; at long last he mentioned that Cassirer was invited to go to Frankfurt, that Saxl will accept a professorship elsewhere sooner or later, and that Hamburg University needed to keep Cassirer in Hamburg; Thilenius asked whether Cassirer would want to succeed him as dean of the faculty; on the ensuing discussion that the faculty has not elected Richard Salomon because he is Jewish and that the faculty would be unlikely to elect Ernst Cassirer for the same reason; Thilenius then suggested to raise the topic as a matter of urgency at the conference of former Vice Chancellors G. Thilenius, Otto Lauffer, Herm. Kümmell, Bernhard Nocht, [Rudolf] Laun, Wilhelm Blaschke, [Emil] Wolff on 12/07/1928; notes what Max Warburg sad, that he can influence Kümmell, but that he did not want to expose Cassirer to the office of Vice Chancellor; Cassirer was 'too precious' |