Some are of the opinion that there never was such a period in which Husserl was a realist with regard to the real world and that only certain of his Göttingen pupils interpreted Husserl's opinions realistically.¹ These were the pupils from the period before the first world war influenced by A. Reinach who was originally Th. Lipps's pupil and was brought up in the Munich group of phenomenologists who adopted a definitely realist point of view.