Sources
Works and records cited in this dossier. Numbered references in the account lead to entries here.
- 22 August 1922 IfS Founding Memorandum
- Wiggershaus Frankfurt Governance Reconstruction Rolf Wiggershaus. 1995.
Complete existing research record
Governance role
Co-authored the founding memorandum, was intended as founding director, and is reported by Wiggershaus as a Society member.
Limit
He died on 19 October 1922 and never directed the opened Institute. Membership admission and voting records remain pending.
Full governance memo
Frankfurt founding-circle dossier
Co-planned the Institute, belonged to the governing Society, and was intended as first director. He died in October 1922 and never directed the opened Institute. His books helped form its library.
Geography
Frankfurt am Main. 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
Co-planned the Institute and was intended as its first director but died before it opened.
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
coPlannedInstitute: Institute for Social Research
Evidence basis
Research Memo: Frankfurt Institute to Columbia