Frankfurt University invited the Institute back within two years of the war’s end

Evidence

In October 1946 the acting chairman of Frankfurt University’s senate, Assistant Secretary Klingelhöfer, had, on behalf of the university, officially invited the Institute of Social Research to return to Frankfurt. A further invitation from the Mayor of Frankfurt, the Social Democrat Walter Kolb, had been enclosed with Klingelhöfer’s letter. In his reply, Felix Weil enquired whether the Society for Social Research had been automatically re-entered in the Register of Societies; whether ownership of the land on the site of the old Institute had been automatically restored to the Society; and whether the remnants of the Institute’s library would be returned to it. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1709

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: German students’ warm reception confirmed the Institute’s decision to return — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 848; American occupation officials helped lure the Frankfurt School back to Germany — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 847; The same academics who persecuted the Institute now invited it to return — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1710

Broader Connections

• German students’ warm reception confirmed the Institute’s decision to return #responds-to (0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 848
• American occupation officials helped lure the Frankfurt School back to Germany #corroborates (0.80) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 847