Horkheimer descended from a self-made textile-industrialist family.

Evidence

So began the curriculum vitae which Horkheimer enclosed in 1924 with his application for admission to the examination procedure for his Habilitation. His father, Moses (called Moritz) Horkheimer, was a businessman, as his grandfather had been as well. Moritz Horkheimer had worked his way up to become the owner of several textile factories in Zuffenhausen, near Stuttgart. Stuttgart was at that time the capital of the Kingdom of Württemberg. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 162

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• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer was born into an industrialist family with textile factories near Stuttgart