Erich Fromm’s split from the Institute was settled for $20,000 in 1939

Evidence

There was no attempt to work these positions out together, however, and thus no development which might have reinforced those aspects of Fromm’s position which were critical of society against the conformist views of the neo-analysts. When a number of serious discussions developed at the end of 1939 between Fromm and Horkheimer, the breach had already taken place, and only the arrangements for the separation remained to be dealt with. Fromm had been offended by the way in which Pollock had declared to him, in the spring of 1939, that the Institute would not be able to pay his salary from that October. As he described it, Pollock had not asked him to do without his salary but rather had merely stated plainly that the Institute was not in a position to pay him any further salary after 1 October, nor would it do so. `To my express observation that this implied dismissal, he answered, “Yes, if you choose to call it that!”’ Fromm waived his tenured employment contract for a compensation settlement of $20,000. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1122

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• XREF: connects to: Pollock bluntly ended Fromm’s salary and settled his dismissal for $20,000 — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1122