Grunberg’s directorship gave the Institute institutional solidity and Weimar footing
Evidence
In the brief decade since its founding, it had gathered together a group of young intellectuals with diverse talents willing to coordinate them in the service of social research as the Institut conceived it. The first Frankfurt years were dominated by Grunberg’s views, as described earlier, but under his direction the Institut gained structural solidarity and a foothold in Weimar’s intellectual life. Although concentrating on research, it helped train students of the caliber of Paul Baran, who in 1930 worked on a projected second volume of Pollock’s study of the Soviet economy. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 160
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to how pre-1933 institutional structure underwrote the School’s survival in exile — parallels the law-merchant analysis of prior institutions enabling later cooperation. — connects to: The Grunberg-era Institute produced little theoretical innovation before the Frankfurt School turn; Grünberg positioned the Institute against universities as mandarin-training factories — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 85