Frankfurt University was a uniquely rich intellectual crossroads at its peak

Evidence

It was against this background that a new orientation in the Institute’s research work began. This took place during the heyday of Frankfurt University. At the beginning of the 1930s the professors at Frankfurt included Paul Tillich, the philosopher and theologian; the economist Adolph Löwe; the educationist Carl Mennicke (all three of them religious socialists); the sociologist Karl Mannheim; the sociologist of law Hugo Sinzheimer; the constitutional theorist and sociologist Hermann Heller (from 1932); the financial economist Wilhelm Gerloff; the philosopher of Judaism Martin Buber; the literary historian Max Kommerell; the historian Ernst Kantorowicz (the last two had their roots in the George Circle); the classical philologists Walter Friedrich Otto and Karl Reinhardt; the gestalt psychologist Max Wertheimer; and the social psychologist Hendrik de Man. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 453

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports the reader’s reference-level institutional history goal; catalog of figures connects to separate literatures on each (Buber, Mannheim, Tillich, Wertheimer). — connects to: Frankfurt’s intellectual left of the early 1930s formed a substantial, cooperating bloc — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 458; Frankfurt University in 1928-32 was uniquely modern, liberal, and well-equipped. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 129; Postwar Frankfurt University saw hostile encounters between returnees and émigrés — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1744 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Frankfurt University in 1928-32 was uniquely modern, liberal, and well-equipped. #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 129
• Frankfurt’s intellectual left of the early 1930s formed a substantial, cooperating bloc #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 458
• Postwar Frankfurt University saw hostile encounters between returnees and émigrés #complicates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1744