Horkheimer fled Munich after being arrested and mistaken for Ernst Toller

Evidence

Still his father’s intended successor, Horkheimer took his school-leaving examinations, which had been deferred, together with Pollock in Munich. In the spring of 1919 he started university, studying psychology, philosophy and economics. `Don’t believe the lies about Munich … madness and injustice are not the order of the day,’ he wrote to his girlfriend during the Munich Soviet Republic, which he observed from a rather dignified distance. After one semester, he and Pollock transferred to Frankfurt am Main becauseas he himself explained it in an interview with Gerhard Reinafter the Munich Soviet Republic had been crushed, he had been mistaken for Ernst Toller. He had been arrested, and life in Munich had become too dangerous for him. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 173

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the general pattern of revolutionary-era European intellectuals and the risk of political misidentification; also relevant to Horkheimer’s lifelong caution about political engagement.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 173