Sources
Works and records cited in this dossier. Numbered references in the account lead to entries here.
- Wiggershaus Frankfurt Governance Reconstruction Rolf Wiggershaus. 1995.
Complete existing research record
Frankfurt founding-circle dossier
Joined as an assistant and research associate in 1926, taught at Frankfurt University, and entered the New York group in 1938. His accumulation and breakdown theory is a distinct political-economic program.
Geography
Kraków, Warsaw, Frankfurt, Paris, London, and New York. Locations are recorded only at the precision supported by the sources.
Assessment boundary
Formal membership, employment, funding, collaboration, political affiliation, and intellectual influence remain separate relations. Open the full evidence memo
Why this person matters
Research associate from 1926 who later joined the Institute's New York group.
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
memberOfInstitute: Institute for Social Research
Evidence basis
Research Memo: Frankfurt Institute to Columbia