The Institute moved its assets abroad well before the Nazi seizure of power

Evidence

From 1931 onwards, the Institute’s directors withdrew its endowment capital from Germany and invested it in the Netherlands. `At the Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt we kept only a letter of credit that barely covered the Institute’s monthly requirements.’ The rights of ownership in the Institute’s library were transferred first to the Society for Sociological Studies in Zurich, a subsidiary of the Institute, and then at the end of 1932 or the beginning of 1933 to the London School of Economics. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 452

Categorization

• XREF: Parallel to Jewish cultural/intellectual institutions shielding assets via Dutch and Swiss shell entities during this period. — connects to: The Institute moved its endowment and library abroad well before the Nazi takeover — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 452; The Institute quietly moved its endowment abroad before the Nazis took power — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 149; The 1930 Reichstag election immediately triggered the Institute’s emigration planning — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 258 (+1 more)
• SEED: Potential article: ‘Paper Trails of Intellectual Flight’ — how scholars transfer libraries and endowments across borders as a precursor to physical emigration.

Broader Connections

• The Institute quietly moved its endowment abroad before the Nazis took power #corroborates (1.00) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 149
• The 1930 Reichstag election immediately triggered the Institute’s emigration planning #qualifies (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 258