Otto Kirchheimer was a German jurist of Jewish ancestry and political scientist of the Frankfurt School whose work essentially covered the state and its constitution.
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13 Facts About Otto Kirchheimer
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Otto Kirchheimer worked as a research analyst at the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA, starting in World War II and continuing to 1952.
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Otto Kirchheimer attended school in Heilbronn and Heidelberg from 1912 to 1924.
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From 1930 to 1933, Otto Kirchheimer was an employee of the social democratic journal Die Gesellschaft and lecturer in political science.
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Otto Kirchheimer was together with Ernst Fraenkel and Franz Leopold Neumann close to Carl Schmitt.
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In 1932 Otto Kirchheimer published an essay entitled Legalitat und Legitimitat in the socialist journal Die Gesellschaft .
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In New York, Otto Kirchheimer continued from 1937 to 1942 his work for the Institute of Social Research as a research assistant in law and social sciences.
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In 1943, Kirchheimer moved with his second wife, Anne Rosenthal, to Washington, D C, where their son Peter was born in 1945.
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From 1952 to 1956 Otto Kirchheimer was head of the Central Europe Section in the State Department.
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Otto Kirchheimer left the OSS and accepted a visiting professorship at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research .
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From 1960 to 1965 Otto Kirchheimer was Professor of Political Science at Columbia University.
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On 22 November 1965 Otto Kirchheimer died of a heart attack while trying to board a plane at Dulles Airport.
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Otto Kirchheimer shared with Carl Schmitt the rejection of parliamentarism and the criticism of pluralism.
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