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His major influences while studying philosophy were Hans Driesch, Nicolai Hartmann and especially Max Scheler.
He joined the NSDAP in 1933 and had a shining carreer as a member of the ' Leipzig School' under Hans Freyer . He replaced Paul Tillich, who emigrated to the USA, at the University of FrankfurtUniversity of Frankfurt is the name of two German universities: the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main ("Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main") in Frankfurt am Main the Viadrina European University Frankfurt (Oder) ("Europ. In 1938Events January -June January 3 The March of Dimes is established by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. January 11 Frances Moulton is the first woman to become president of a US national bank. January 20 Wedding of king Farouk I of Egypt and Farida Zulficar in Cai he accepted a teaching position at the University of Königsberg (today's KaliningradKaliningrad ( Russian: , seaport city, capital and main city of the Kaliningrad Oblast, a small Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania with access to the Baltic Sea. As Konigsberg (Polish Krolewiec Lithuanian Karaliaucius Latin Regiomontium it was t) and then taught at the University of ViennaThe University of Vienna ( German: Universitat Wien was founded in 1365 by Rudolph IV and hence named Alma mater Rudolphina''. It is the largest university in Austria and the oldest German-speaking university in the world. Nobel-prize winners who taught a in 1940Events January-February January 5 FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time. January 6 World War II: Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the Poznan, Warthegau. January 12 World War II: Russia bombs cities in Finland. February 2 F until he was drafted into the WehrmachtThe Wehrmacht (literally defence force or means/power of resistance was the name of the armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It replaced the old Reichswehr and was succeded by the former West German Bundeswehr, and the East German Nationale Vol in 19431943 is the common year starting on Friday. Events January January 4 End of term for Culbert Olson, 29th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Earl Warren. January 11 The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China. January 1. After his ' denazification' he taught at the administrative college in Speyer. He went on to teach at the Aachen University of Technology between 1962 and 1969. Gehlen became a sharp critic of the protest movements that developed in the late 1960s.
Gehlen's philosophy has been influential for many contemporary neoconservative German thinkers. Many terms from his work, like Reizüberfluting ("overabundance of stimuli"), deinstitutionalization or post- history, have gained popular currency in Germany.