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"There was a heated public and scientific controversy regarding the legitimacy of “scientific occultism,” culminating in the mid-1920s, in which two antagonistic centers can be distinguished: Munich, dominated by Schrenck-Notzing and his circle, and Berlin, dominated by Dessoir, the influential academic representative of the “skeptical wing.” Between 1926 and 1928, there appeared under the editorship of Richard Baerwald (1867-1929) the Zeitschrift für Kritischen Okkultismus, meant as an attempt to organize an exchange between “critics” and “proponents.”

"Some prominent university professors of philosophy (psychology), such as Hans Driesch (1867-1941) from Leipzig and Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich (1880-1949) from Tübingen, supported the idea of integrating parapsychology within an academic framework and favored the foundation of a German parapsychological society after the model of the British SPR.

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