15 Facts About Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann was a German political scientist.

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann earned her Abitur in 1935 in Gottingen and then studied philosophy, history, journalism, and American studies at the Friedrich Wilhelm University, and the Konigsberg Albertina University.

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann claimed countless times that she studied journalism for one year.

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann then worked for the Frankfurter Zeitung until it was banned in 1943.

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann was the president of the World Association for Public Opinion Research from 1978 to 1980 and worked as a guest professor at the University of Chicago from 1978 to 1991.

In 1991, Leo Bogart criticized Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, accusing her of anti-Semitic passages in her dissertation and articles she wrote for Nazi newspapers.

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann declined, having fallen ill, which angered Goebbels; she later became a newspaper journalist with Nazi publications where she wrote some articles on Jewish influence over US news and elite opinion.

Bogart's article appeared just weeks before Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann took up a visiting position in the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago, where she had held similar appointments since 1978.

Some at the university claimed Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann was being slandered, and Mearsheimer's colleagues were not of one opinion about the case.

In private letters and in written responses, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann acknowledged being in a Nazi student organization but denied being a Nazi.

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann completed her visiting position in Chicago in mid-December 1991 and returned to Germany.

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann has admitted she was not hostile to the Nazis before 1940.

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann says she was anti-Nazi after 1940, but has produced no evidence that she criticized the Nazis then.

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann was married to the Christian Democratic politician Erich Peter Neumann from 1946 until his death.

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann was married to the physicist Heinz Maier-Leibnitz from 1979 until his death.