The Institute’s founding director insisted on single-director ideological uniformity

Evidence

For Weil, however, sympathetic collaboration' towards a common goal’ between the sponsor and the director of the Institute was a precondition for the foundation to be able to fulfil its purpose. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 73 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Life together should find expression in the mutual joys and worries of everyday life, not just in concerns about larger problems. For example, the attitude to the Institute, its work and its associates. Institute, not a firm', not an institution’, but a group with shared attitudes and goals. Necessity of watching out together to see that the core of the Institute remains as homogeneous as possible, great care to be taken in the choice of closer associates. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 435 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Frankfurt Institute’s founder-controlled structure let one patron set its ideological direction; The Institute’s benefactor required ideological alignment with its director — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 73; Horkheimer conceived the Institute as a homogeneous group defined by shared attitudes — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 435

Broader Connections

• The Institute’s benefactor required ideological alignment with its director #corroborates (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 73
• Horkheimer conceived the Institute as a homogeneous group defined by shared attitudes #qualifies (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 435