Political and personal estrangement drove Grossmann to resettle in East Germany.

Evidence

Grossmann’s continued support for Stalinist Russia did little to endear him to the others. In addition, according to Alice Maier, he began to fear that his former countrymen, the Poles, were intent on hurting him. Ill health brought on by a stroke compounded his general unhappiness. Finally, after the war he decided to try to resettle in Europe. Unlike some of the other Institut members who returned to Frankfurt, Grossmann went to Leipzig, where the East German government offered him a chair in 1949. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 479

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• XREF: connects to: Pilsudski’s government drove socialist economist Grossmann out of Poland — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 125