Cases / The American Landing / Max Horkheimer
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Filed as person, standing in seven authored connections inside The American Landing.
1944 report attribution
The Frankfurt archive catalog attributes Ten Years on Morningside Heights to Max Horkheimer. The original title page and any internal drafting record remain pending.
Limit
Catalog attribution does not establish sole authorship of every section or appendix.
Columbia 1934 role
After legal caution, accepted Columbia's offer of 429 West 117th Street in mid-July for an intended three-to-four-year period, with necessary repairs at Institute expense.
Limit
The exact acceptance letter, heating costs, renewal terms, and later property terms remain pending.
Evidence
Research Memo: Columbia's 1934 Housing and Affiliation of the Institute for Social Research. Claim-level source records are linked from the event and task.
Governance role
University professor of social philosophy, director under the October 1930 Society contract, and reported Society member. Wiggershaus quotes paragraph 3 making him director immediately, subject to the Grünberg contingency.
Evidence
Wiggershaus primary-lane passages _00028, _00046, and _00047; UBA Ffm Na 1, 1247, XX 17; UBA Ffm Na 1, 748.
Limit
Society membership, university employment, and Institute directorship are separate relations. The full contract and member register remain pending.
Full governance memo
Frankfurt founding-circle dossier
Effective director by August 1930 and publicly inaugurated in January 1931. Organized interdisciplinary social philosophy and empirical research, then led the Institute's planned exile. His archive is Goethe University <code>Na 1</code>.
Geography
Frankfurt, Geneva, and New York. Locations are recorded only at the precision supported by the sources.
Evidence and locators
Horkheimer, 'Present Situation' (1931); Wiggershaus passages _00048, _00139, _00533.
Assessment boundary
Formal membership, employment, funding, collaboration, political affiliation, and intellectual influence remain separate relations. Open the full evidence memo
Why this person matters
Became director in 1930 and led the Institute's planned exit from Germany and establishment in New York.
Evidence basis
Research Memo: Frankfurt Institute to Columbia
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
directedInstitute: Institute for Social Research
The archive holds seven authored connections for this record inside The American Landing. Each row below states the claim, its tier, its confidence, and the dates the record gives. Open a row for the full account, or open it on the case canvas to see the connection drawn.
REL-000059Catalog-attributed author of 1944-12 Account not writtenMax Horkheimer catalog-attributed author of Work: Ten Years on Morningside Heights (December 1944).
documented confidence · high this record is the subject
This connection is recorded. Its account has not been written. Work: Ten Years on Morningside Heights (December 1944) →
REL-000307Relationship wording unavailable October 1930 Account not writtenMax Horkheimer · Relationship wording unavailable · Source: Society-Horkheimer Contracts 1930-1933 (UBA Ffm Na 1, 1247, XX 17).
documented confidence · high this record is the subject
This connection is recorded. Its account has not been written. Source: Society-Horkheimer Contracts 1930-1933 (UBA Ffm Na 1, 1247, XX 17) →
REL-000308Relationship wording unavailable From October 1930 Account not writtenMax Horkheimer · Relationship wording unavailable · Institute for Social Research.
documented confidence · high this record is the subject
This connection is recorded. Its account has not been written. Institute for Social Research →
REL-000309Relationship wording unavailable By 1930 Account not writtenMax Horkheimer · Relationship wording unavailable · Society for Social Research.
documented confidence · medium self-description this record is the subject
This connection is recorded. Its account has not been written. Society for Social Research →
REL-000337Relationship wording unavailable mid-July 1934 Account not writtenMax Horkheimer · Relationship wording unavailable · Institute for Social Research.
documented confidence · high this record is the subject
This connection is recorded. Its account has not been written. Institute for Social Research →
REL-000551Directed Effective 1930-08; publicly inaugurated 1931-01 Account not writtenMax Horkheimer directed Institute for Social Research.
documented confidence · high this record is the subject
This connection is recorded. Its account has not been written. Institute for Social Research →
REL-000552Member of By the 1930 succession Account not writtenMax Horkheimer member of Society for Social Research.
documented confidence · medium this record is the subject
This connection is recorded. Its account has not been written. Society for Social Research →