Elite patronage and royal founding constrained the Kiel Institute’s ideological range.

Evidence

But a tradition was created by the fact that it had been founded as a Royal Institute of Marine Transport and World Economy at the Christian Albrecht University of Kiel', and through the patronage of people such as Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, who made it possible for the institute to acquire a complex of buildings on the Kiel Firth in 1918, that fateful year’ (as the Kiel Institute’s founder, Bernhard Harms, put it). Together with the close collaboration between the Kiel Institute and leading figures from business, the Civil Service and politics, this tradition ensured that the range of acceptable world-views at the Kiel Institute never went beyond the norms usual for a German university. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 69

Categorization

• XREF: This mechanism of funding constraining ideological range parallels discussions of corporate funding shaping academic discourse. — connects to: The Kiel Institute’s private sponsor financed it without controlling how funds were spent. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 69

Broader Connections

• The Kiel Institute’s private sponsor financed it without controlling how funds were spent. #qualifies (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 69