The Institute served as a way station for political refugees from European repression

Evidence

In parallel research projects in Vienna and Paris, the Institute’s European branches were to collaborate with the institutes of Marie Jahoda and Otto Neurath. Jahoda, who had been an assistant of Lazarsfeld’s in Vienna and was his first wife, was the main author of The Unemployed in Marienthal, and an active Social Democrat. After Lazarsfeld’s departure, she had become director of the Vienna Economic and Psychological Research Group. Horkheimer hoped to maintain the international character of the Institute’s work, without undue expense, through the co-operation planned with the Vienna group. But the parallel European research never came about. In 1936 Marie Jahoda was arrested for working illegally for the Socialists, and in 1937 she was expelled from Austria. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 691 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Political repression destroyed the Institute’s planned European comparative research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 691; The Institute financed emigrants’ affidavits and passages out of Nazi Europe.

Broader Connections

• The Institute financed emigrants’ affidavits and passages out of Nazi Europe. #expands (0.90)
• Political repression destroyed the Institute’s planned European comparative research #complicates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 691