The Institute for Social Research was founded via a 1922 memorandum from Felix Weil.

Evidence

Archives Prospectuses of the Institute of Social Research in Brochures, Memoranda, Reports, Letters (A Selection, Primarily of Longer or More Significant Texts, in Chronological Order) Denkschrift über die Begründung eines Instituts für Sozialforschung. 5 pp. Enclosure with letter from Felix Weil to Kuratorium der Universität Frankfurt a.M., 22 September 1922 (MHA: IX 50a. 2; extract printed in the following pamphlet). — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 754

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the institute’s founding history the reader is tracking elsewhere in the Critical Theory literature. — connects to: Hermann Weil’s wealth financed the founding of the Institute of Social Research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 30; Carl Grünberg inaugurated the Institute for Social Research in 1924 — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 780; The Geraberg 1922 meeting was the Institute of Social Research’s first theory seminar — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 51 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Hermann Weil’s wealth financed the founding of the Institute of Social Research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 30; Carl Grünberg inaugurated the Institute for Social Research in 1924 — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 780; The Geraberg 1922 meeting was the Institute of Social Research’s first theory seminar — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 51 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The Frankfurt Institute realized an earlier Vienna social-research plan #complicates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 79