The elder Weil sought an honorary doctorate via a social science foundation

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

Categorization

• CANDY: A rich capitalist underwriting radical Marxism partly to buy an honorary doctorate — a neat reversal of the usual left-institution story.
• XREF: connects to: Felix Weil’s socialist activism got him expelled from Tübingen and banned from Württemberg — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 33; Horkheimer treated the Weil Foundation as his personal vehicle for social theory — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1087; Felix Weil controlled the Frankfurt Institute’s ideological direction through his power over director appointments. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 72 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer treated the Weil Foundation as his personal vehicle for social theory #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1087
• Felix Weil controlled the Frankfurt Institute’s ideological direction through his power over director appointments. #corroborates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 72