Sources
Works and records cited in this dossier. Numbered references in the account lead to entries here.
- Wiggershaus Frankfurt Governance Reconstruction Rolf Wiggershaus. 1995.
- 22 August 1922 IfS Founding Memorandum
- IfS Centenary Account of Weil Funding and Governance
Complete existing research record
Governance role
Co-author of the 22 August 1922 memorandum, founder and patron, payer of building and library costs, and negotiator with Frankfurt University. Wiggershaus reports a Society chairmanship role and substantial practical influence over candidate selection.
Limit
The firm record-level proposition is Society consent, not an unsupervised personal appointment power. Exact Society office dates remain pending.
Full governance memo
Frankfurt founding-circle dossier
Co-planned and founded the Institute, chaired the governing Society, managed funding, and supported left scholarship and publishing. Governance is not treated as authorship of every later Institute position.
Geography
Frankfurt am Main; planning links to Berlin and Thuringia. Locations are recorded only at the precision supported by the sources.
Evidence and locators
Wiggershaus pp.
Assessment boundary
Formal membership, employment, funding, collaboration, political affiliation, and intellectual influence remain separate relations. Open the full evidence memo
Why this person matters
Planned, financed, and helped govern the Institute for Social Research from its formation.
Verification boundary
Membership, employment, collaboration, and influence are recorded as different relationship types. Shared membership is preserved as evidence but is not treated as proof of agreement or influence by itself.
Verified relationship
foundedInstitute: Institute for Social Research
Evidence basis
Research Memo: Frankfurt Institute to Columbia