Otto Kirchheimer

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Otto Kirchheimer (German: [ˈkɪʁçˌhaɪmɐ]; 11 November 1905, Heilbronn – 22 November 1965, Silver Springs, Maryland) was a German jurist of Jewish ancestry and political scientist of the Frankfurt School whose work essentially covered the state and its constitution.[1][2]

Kirchheimer worked as a research analyst at the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA, starting in World War II and continuing to 1952.[3]

  1. ^ Arzt, Donna E. (1993). "Otto Kirchheimer: Critic of the Administration of Justice". In Lutter, Marcus (ed.). Der Einfluß deutscher Emigranten auf die Rechtsentwicklung in den USA und in Deutschland. Tübingen: Mohr. pp. 33–56. ISBN 978-3-16-146080-7.
  2. ^ Breiner, Peter (2024), Norman, Ludvig; Lebow, Richard Ned (eds.), "The Paradigmatic Example of Weimar and Postwar Political Science: The Case of Otto Kirchheimer", Weimar's Long Shadow, Cambridge University Press, pp. 84–118, doi:10.1017/9781009484329.005, ISBN 978-1-009-48434-3
  3. ^ Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort. Princeton University Press. 14 July 2013. ISBN 9780691134130. Retrieved September 3, 2013.