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

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at the

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. After

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, one of his students was Joseph Goebbels, 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

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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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