The Kiel Institute’s private sponsor financed it without controlling how funds were spent.

Evidence

Finance for the Kiel Institute was at first provided entirely by a sponsoring society which had been founded in 1913. The society, which had 200 members at the beginning of the First World War, and 2500 at the end of the 1920s, did not exercise any influence on the way in which the institute used its funds. These were paid into the university’s treasury, which put them at the disposal of the institute’s director. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 69

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the Milgrom/Root note on separation of private funding from operational control in institutional design. — connects to: Elite patronage and royal founding constrained the Kiel Institute’s ideological range. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 69; Kiel Institute’s private sponsor society scaled from 200 to 2500 members without controlling funds.