THE RUDOLF REPORT

11. HUNTING GERMAR RUDOLFthat an employer could dismiss an employee anytime who held suchviews as the plaintiff Germar Rudolf. This amounts to the principlethat Rudolf and others who think like him are outlaws with respect tothe labor law. For reasons of social concern, the Max-Planck-Instituteoffered to make an agreement with the plaintiff out of court, by whichthe termination without notice would be revoked and at the same timereplaced by a mutual agreement that the employment contract wouldbe terminated, barring further recourse. 658Despite this dispute between Rudolf and his now former employer,his doctoral supervisor Prof. H. G. von Schnering continued tosupport his doctoral candidate and in July 1993 certified that Rudolfpossessed the necessary professional and ethical qualification to takethe next step, the final examination called the Rigorosum. In thatmonth, Rudolf submitted to the University of Stuttgart his doctoral thesiswith all necessary supporting documents and applied for admissionto the Rigorosum. By fall 1993, however, permission for the promotionhad still not been granted. On inquiry at the University, Rudolf wastold that his application had been put on hold because of the criminalinvestigation initiated against Rudolf for incitement to racial hatred aswell as that against O. E. Remer for distribution of Remer’s version ofthe Rudolf Report. The University of Stuttgart maintained that it wasquestionable whether the candidate possessed the necessary ethicalqualification.The grounds for this decision was section 4 of the Law On AcademicDegrees, enacted by Adolf Hitler in 1939 and still in force inGermany today. By this provision, an academic degree can be revokedor withheld, if one does not possess the necessary ethical qualification.According to a decision of the Administrative Court of Baden-Württemberg, an academic title can only be withheld when there hasbeen a judicial sentence for a serious crime that has been entered onthe person’s police record of conduct. 659658 Labor Court of Stuttgart, ref. 14 Ca 6663/93. A detailed description of the events in the Max-Planck-Institute and elsewhere about the Rudolf report during the year 1993, with a series ofreproduced documents, can be found in the brochure W. Schlesiger, The Rudolf Case, op. cit.(note 91).659 Ref. IX 1496/79, decision on March 18, 1981. At that time, a person who had been convictedto five years imprisonment for a drug offense which was entered in his police record, was certifiedas having the necessary ethical qualification, and the University was ordered to admithim to the Rigorosum. In this decision, it was held that this Hitler law is still in effect becauseit does not contain National Socialist thinking and should be considered as having been legally409