Gustav Siewerth Academy
The Gustav-Siewerth Academy (GSA) is a private university with state recognition, based in Weilheim-beer Bronnen in Baden-Wuerttemberg. The Academy is named after the philosopher and pedagogue Gustav Siewerth. With only 16 students, it is the smallest state-recognized institution of higher education in Germany.
The Academy was created in an effort to the neo-Marxism of the Frankfurt School of Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer counteract. The Academy was founded as a "breeding ground of the truth" of Alma von Stockhausen, previously Professor of Philosophy at the University of Education Freiburg was. She is currently Vice-Rector of the Academy with responsibility for science and regularly holds seminars. Founding principal of the academy was the church historian Remigius Bäumer.
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