Leonhard Schlueter, neo-Nazi publisher and recently appointed Minister of Education and Culture of Lower Saxony, resigned this week-end in the face of continued protests of education authorities, students, newspapers and the public. Last week, after the protests developed, Schlueter went on “leave” pending an official investigation.
The protests against Schlueter were sparked by four institutions of higher education in Goettingen and Brunswick, including world famous Goettingen University, whose rector and faculty senate resigned in protest and whose students went on strike against Schlueter. The minister-designate was well known as the organizer of the precursor party of the Socialist Reich Party, a group which was banned by the Bonn Government for being neo-Nazi.
Two other well-known former Nazis are members of the Lower Saxony government, which is heavily rightist. They are: Minister of Finance Prof. W. Hunke, one-time close aide of Josef Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda chief; and Minister of Economics and Transport Hermann Ahrens, former Nazi State Commissioner for the Watenstedt-Salzgitter area.
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