The NSDDB emerged in 1935 from the National Socialist Teachers League and was established on the basis of an order of the Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess;[1] its purpose being, the exertion of influence on the universities and the political control of higher education.
With his inauguration speech for the Reichsuniversität Straßburg, in November 1941, Schultze declared the highest aim of the college to be: "to eradicate" everything "un-German" from "our people's world of thought".
[4] The NSDDB's so-called "training camp" was a special kind of scientific education that was supposed to take the place of old-style conventions, and aimed at bringing the participants into line with the Nazi ideology.
[5]: 72 The effectiveness of the Lecturers League was limited, for one thing, by the "office-holder confusion" typical of Nazism: the imprecise differentiation of the jurisdiction and competence of a position.
[5]: 13 The NSDDB most frequently clashed with the Amt Rosenberg, which laid equal claim on higher education policy as its domain.