TY - JOUR A1 - Lepsius, M. Rainer T1 - Die sozialwissenschaftliche Emigration und ihre Folgen [The Emigration of Social Scientists and Its Consequences, JF - Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Suppl. 23, 1981, pp. 461-500. N2 - Sociologists and political scientists were severely attacked by the National Socialist regime in 1933 in Germany and in 1938 in Austria, and many were forced to emigrate; a comprehensive listing of those forced into asylum is provided, and their careers after emigration are traced. The meaning of the emigration-the loss of intellectual traditions, paradigms, and theoretical frameworks as well as qualified personnel-is discussed. The achievements of thinkers such as Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Karl Mannheim, Theodor Geiger, Norbert Elias, Hannah Arendt, Franz Neumann, Ernst Fraenkel, Erich FROMM, Max Horkheimer, and many others were only slowly and partially absorbed by postwar German social sciences, despite the activities of many of these same scholars in the reconstruction of German intellectual traditions. As remarkable as their contribution to sociology and political science in the United States was, the loss created by their absence from German social science was even greater. It was the emigres who tried to incorporate the experiences of Nazism into their frame of reference and social theories, rather than those who remained behind. Y1 - 1981 ER -