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Karl August Wittfogel

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  1. Wiggershaus Frankfurt Governance Reconstruction Rolf Wiggershaus. 1995.
Complete existing research record

Frankfurt founding-circle dossier

Full-time researcher from 1925. Documented USPD, VKPD, and KPD memberships are recorded separately. His Stalinist commitments led to an open 1938 rupture with Horkheimer's circle; he later became anti-communist.

Geography

Frankfurt, England, and New York. Locations are recorded only at the precision supported by the sources.

Assessment boundary

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Why this person matters

Full-time Institute research associate from 1925 who joined the New York group in 1934.

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