The elder Weil funded the Institute partly seeking an honorary doctorate and social peace.

Evidence

1 A wealthy father who wanted to go down in Frankfurt’s history as a great benefactor, and who was hoping for an honorary doctorate. In 1920 he had already made an unsuccessful attempt to endow a foundation to promote (as its statutes described it) research and teaching in the field of social science, particularly on employment law', to promote social science institutes and support qualified students and young academics who were striving to resolve social problems scientifically in the spirit of social peace’. The elder Weil was even prepared to finance a left-wing social science institute on the model of the Moscow Marx-Engels Institute. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 54 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Institute’s research succeeded only through private Weil family funding independent of universities. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 67; Hermann Weil’s wealth financed the founding of the Institute of Social Research; The elder Weil sought an honorary doctorate via a social science foundation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 54

Broader Connections

• The elder Weil sought an honorary doctorate via a social science foundation #corroborates (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 54