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Dossier
Filed as person, standing in four authored connections inside this archive.
Governance role
Wiggershaus identifies Pollock as the Society board representative who signed the October 1930 contract with Horkheimer. He also served in administrative and financial roles and later chaired the Society.
Limit
The exact board office held in October 1930, full delegations, salary terms, and chairmanship dates require the restricted contract file and Society minutes.
Full governance memo
Frankfurt founding-circle dossier
Early assistant and Grünberg deputy; acting director during the succession; later administrative director, financial officer, and Society chairman. Administrative centrality does not make him the sole intellectual director.
Geography
Frankfurt, Geneva, and New York. Locations are recorded only at the precision supported by the sources.
Evidence and locators
Wiggershaus pp. 38, 64, 79-80; IfS director list; Goethe University Pollock papers, Na 2.
Assessment boundary
Formal membership, employment, funding, collaboration, political affiliation, and intellectual influence remain separate relations. Open the full evidence memo
Why this person matters
Early Institute staff member, Grünberg's deputy, and later administrative and financial director.
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
memberOfInstitute: Institute for Social Research
The archive holds four authored connections for this record inside this archive. 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-000314Acting Director At Interwar period; 1930-12-31 (order unresolved) Account not writtenFriedrich Pollock acting Director At Institute for Social Research.
reported confidence · medium this record is the subject
This connection is recorded. Its account has not been written. Institute for Social Research →
REL-000317Represented Society Board In October 1930 Account not writtenFriedrich Pollock represented Society Board In Source: Society-Horkheimer Contracts 1930-1933 (UBA Ffm Na 1, 1247, XX 17).
reported 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-000315Chaired Later interwar period; exact dates unresolved Account not writtenFriedrich Pollock chaired Society for Social Research.
reported confidence · medium this record is the subject
This connection is recorded. Its account has not been written. Society for Social Research →
REL-000316Deputy Director At Interwar period Account not writtenFriedrich Pollock deputy Director At Institute for Social Research.
reported confidence · medium this record is the subject
This connection is recorded. Its account has not been written. Institute for Social Research →