Martin Heidegger
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Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 – May 26, 1976) was a highly influential German philosopher. His most well-known work is Being and Time (1927).[1] [May 2007]
The relations between Heidegger and Nazism are a controversial subject in philosophy, although no one denies his historical engagement for the NSDAP, which he joined on May 1, 1933, nearly three weeks after being appointed Rector of the University of Freiburg. Heidegger resigned the Rectorship about one year later, in April 1934, but remained a member of the NSDAP until the end of World War II. His first act as Rector was to eliminate all democratic structures, including those that had elected him Rector. There were three book burnings on his campus, as well as some student violence.
