Prussia’s durable Weimar coalition cabinet produced political stability unmatched elsewhere in Germany.

Evidence

It was not only Frankfurt’s Social Democratic and middle-class democratic spirit which was to be thanked for this, but also the cultural policy of Carl Heinrich Becker, a middle-class liberal who had been Minister of Culture since 1925 in the Prussian Government, led by the Social Democratic Prime Minister Otto Braun and consisting of representatives of the so-called Weimar coalition (SPD, Centre and Democrats). Since the Weimar coalition lasted longer in Prussia than in any other part of Germany, conditions there were more stable than in the rest of the country. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 130

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s institutional history of the Frankfurt School as an explanation of why Frankfurt proved the fertile ground for the Institute.