[5] Ernst had an older half-sister, Hanna Weiss, and three younger siblings – Herbert, Ruth, and Daniela.
[9] Because of the student movement and as a protest against the situation at German universities in the 1970s, Tugendhat gave up his position and relocated to Starnberg, where Jürgen Habermas worked at the time.
[1][4] Tugendhat became a honorary professor of the Tübingen University in 1999,[10] and in 2002 a fellow of the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche [de].
[11] He received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2005, and from the University of Zürich in 2009.
[13] Publications by Tugendhat, many of them published by Suhrkamp,[14] are held by the German National Library, including:[15]