Horkheimer recovered his property and assets through legal means while in exile

Evidence

The conflicts which developed between the Institute, in exile, and Frankfurt University were even more grotesque, since the Society for Social Research wanted to continue to pay Grünberg’s pension but not the salaries for the two professorial posts from which Horkheimer and Löwe had been expelled, which were funded by the Society. Although Horkheimer’s strategy was not heroic, indeed not even cunning, it was successful, and damaged its opponents in its own way by appealing to the civilized sections among them and giving nothing away. As a refugee, Horkheimer would not have managed to bring with him any of his belongings, which remained in Germany. The same was true of the Institute. As well as writing these letters, therefore, Horkheimer hired `straight away a quite outstanding and extremely influential man as my lawyer … who not only succeeded in getting a specific declaration from the authorities that the director of the Institute was not accused of any misdemeanour, but also managed to get my entire property released, along with permission to export a considerable part of my assets’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 532

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer’s 1947 Europe trip aimed at institutional property recovery plus recruiting influence — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1705

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer’s 1947 Europe trip aimed at institutional property recovery plus recruiting influence #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1705