Max Freiherr von Waldberg (January 1, 1858 — November 6, 1938) was a professor of modern literature at the

University of Heidelberg Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (; ), is a public university, public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1386 on instruction of Pope Urban VI, Heidelberg is List ...

in Germany. After

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, one of his students was

Joseph Goebbels Paul Joseph Goebbels (; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazism, Nazi politician and philologist who was the ''Gauleiter'' (district leader) of Berlin, chief Propaganda in Nazi Germany, propagandist for the Nazi Party, and ...

, later the Nazi's propaganda minister. Nevertheless, because of his

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ancestry, von Waldberg was one of several Heidelberg professors forced to retire in April 1933, when the

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passed a Civil Service Law to remove university faculty members of "non-Aryan" descent.Carmon, Arye.
The Impact of the Nazi Racial Decrees on the University of Heidelberg
. ''Yad Vashem Studies XI'' (Jerusalem, 1976), pp. 131-141.

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