The Institute was restructured as a Geneva corporation by February 1933

Evidence

In February 1933 the Society for Social Research had already been replaced by the Société Internationale de Recherches Sociales, which had its headquarters in Geneva. The Geneva branch thus became the official administrative headquarters. For academic purposes, however, it could only serve as a provisional head officenot only because of the threatening proximity of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, but also because of the Swiss attitude to emigrants. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 533

Categorization

• SEED: A potential essay angle: how institutional legal re-incorporation abroad functioned as early resistance infrastructure — the pre-history of the exile disguise.
• XREF: connects to: The Institute’s Geneva branch was directed by a Dutch socialist after 1934. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 550; Adorno was left uninformed by the Institute during its relocation to Geneva — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 514; Horkheimer planned exile preparation by establishing Geneva and Holland outposts before 1933 — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 149

Broader Connections

• The Institute’s Geneva branch was directed by a Dutch socialist after 1934. #expands (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 550
• Adorno was left uninformed by the Institute during its relocation to Geneva #complicates (0.70) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 514