The Institute’s Geneva branch was directed by a Dutch socialist after 1934.

Evidence

A footnote to a report by Andries Sternheim on Recent Literature on Unemployment and the Family' in the third issue of the ZfS in 1933 read: The problem of the extent to which long-term unemployment produces fundamental changes (in particular, mental and psychological ones) in the relations between the individual members of a family is currently being investigated by the Institute of Social Research through the organization of an inquiry in various countries into this complex of questions.’ Sternheim was a Dutch socialist, described by Horkheimer as an `upright, hard-working man’, who had been recommended to Horkheimer by an official of the International Labour Office in Geneva. In 1934, when Pollock moved to the USA, Sternheim became director of the Institute’s Geneva branch. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 550

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what actually became of Sternheim’s unemployment-and-family study across countries? Did the Institute’s collective project produce publishable findings from the Geneva branch?
• XREF: connects to: The Institute was restructured as a Geneva corporation by February 1933 — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 533; Horkheimer planned exile preparation by establishing Geneva and Holland outposts before 1933 — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 149