Cologne’s von Wiese dominated German sociology and received gestures of non-competition from Horkheimer.

Evidence

Leopold von Wiese was at this time director of the Sociology Department in Cologne, the first social science research institute in Germany, and editor of its academic journal, which was entirely devoted to sociology, and he had published the Communications of the German Society for Sociology since 1923. As chairman of this society, he was in a key position with regard to the development of the German sociology of the period. Horkheimer sent Leo Lowenthal to him in order to make it clear that the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung did not intend in any way to compete with his Kölner Vierteljahreshefte für Soziologie (Cologne Sociological Quarterly). — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 461

Categorization

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