Sources
Works and records cited in this dossier. Numbered references in the account lead to entries here.
- Ten Years on Morningside Heights Public Transcription, 2025 James Crane, transcriber. 2025-06-09.
- 22 August 1922 IfS Founding Memorandum
- IfS Centenary Account of Weil Funding and Governance
- Wiggershaus Frankfurt Governance Reconstruction Rolf Wiggershaus. 1995.
Complete existing research record
Affiliation finding
Frankfurt University supplied the academic affiliation and the professorial chair connected to the directorship. Faculty and state appointment processes remained distinct from the Society's consent power.
What is not established
The University did not thereby own the Institute, control its endowment, employ every Institute researcher, or adopt every Institute intellectual position.
Frankfurt founding-circle dossier
Academic affiliate and home of the chair connected to the directorship. It provided public academic standing and faculty relationships but did not own or financially absorb the Institute.
Geography
Frankfurt am Main, Germany. No coordinates or exact sites are inferred.
Evidence and locators
Full claim-level memo
Assessment boundary
Governance, financing, affiliation, hosting, publishing, and influence are not interchangeable.
Why this organization matters
University partner of the independently financed Institute for Social Research. It supplied the academic affiliation and professorial chair but did not own the Institute.
Verification boundary
This record represents documented organization, unit, affiliation, or employment context. It does not by itself establish ideological adoption, control, or influence.
Evidence basis
Research Memo: Frankfurt Institute to Columbia