The Geraberg 1922 meeting was the Institute of Social Research’s first theory seminar

Evidence

Sorge, who was an active underground Communist Party member and research assistant for the economics professor Kurt Albert Gerlach, was already a Communist Party member whose intellectual activities only served as a cover for party work. Almost half of the participants in the Geraberg meeting were later to be connected with the Institute of Social Research in one way or another. In fact, the meeting was clearly the `first seminar on theory’ held by the Institute of Social Research, the most astonishing and momentous of Felix Weil’s undertakings as a patron of the left. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 51

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the Geraberg meeting’s place in the Institute’s lineage as its inaugural theory seminar — a useful reference anchor.
• XREF: connects to: The Geraberg meeting presaged the rupture between socialist intellectuals and the Communist Party. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 50