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Building on ideas of Aleksander Zinoviev, Berlin logician Horst Wessel further developed a conception of so-called complex logic in his research group at the Humboldt University of Berlin in the 1970s. That new orientation within philosophical logic included a theory of logical consequences, a non-traditional theory of predication and a logical theory of terms. The logic group at Humboldt University disintegrated during the reorientation of higher education policy in the wake of German unification. By then, the school had produced some recognized logicians and it had educated a few highly talented young researchers among graduate students. In our paper we try to answer the question of whether the Berlin group would have had the potential to become a school of science under more favourable circumstances.