The Frankfurt Institute realized an earlier Vienna social-research plan

Evidence

Grünberg had suggested to Otto Glöckel in 1919 the creation in Vienna of a `study and research institute on the model of the Paris Musée Social’, with Karl Kautsky to be appointed as its director. But the Austrian Social Democrats felt that their position was too weak to carry the project through. When Felix Weil offered him the post of director of the Frankfurt Institute, Grünberg saw a chance to carry out his plans after all, under his own directorship, while escaping the excessive burden of official and unofficial duties which he had in Vienna. For his part, Weil had found in Grünberg a director for the Institute who was both a convinced Marxist and a recognized scholar. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 79

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Musée Social lineage and to how institutions travel when political conditions block them at home — parallels how the Institute later relocated to the US.