Until the death of Hegel in 1831, there was a united front of Hegelians against other philosophical trends. Hegel supported, by various means, the establishment of a philosophical school and its bolstering against conceptions which differed from his own theories, and was aided in his endeavours by the Prussian Minister of Religion and Culture, von Altenstein. This did not escape the attention of von Humboldt, who wrote in 1828: “Hegel is maintaining a school and is doing this work deliberately.”1 But this unity, which lasted during the lifetime of the philosopher, came to an end shortly after his death. The speaker, who at his funeral cited the precedent of the dividing up of Alexander the Great’s empire by the satraps,2 could not have dreamed that the “war of the Diadochs” would break out so soon.