Paul Massing

Paul Wilhelm Massing (30 August 1902 – 30 April 1979) was a German sociologist. Born in Grumbach in the Rhine Province, he attended school in Cologne, and later studied economics and social sciences at Frankfurt University, when Franz Neumann was there and at Cologne Handelshochschule (a business college). He graduated in 1926 as a Diplom-Kaufmann (MBA). A year later he studied for one term at the Sorbonne in Paris and prepared his dissertation on agrarian conditions of France in 19th century and the agrarian program of the French socialist parties. In 1928, he returned to Frankfurt University to study with Dr. Wilhelm Gerloff and attained a doctorate with his thesis. From Frankfurt Massing, followed by his future wife Hede (then, Hede...