The Nazi regime legally confiscated the Frankfurt Institute as Communist property

Evidence

On 13 March the Institute was searched by the police and closed. In May, the rooms on the ground floor were opened up and put at the disposal of the Nazi Student League. The Secret State Police (Gestapo) office in Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse, Berlin, sent the following note on 14 July 1933: … In accordance with clauses 1 and 3 of the Act of 26 May 1933 (RGBI I, p. 293) confiscating Communist property, the Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt am Main is hereby seized and confiscated in favour of the Free State of Prussia, as the aforementioned Institute has encouraged activities hostile to the state. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 516

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Gestapo confiscated the Institute under an anti-Communist property law — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 518; The 1933 Civil Service Law purged Jewish and leftist academics from German universities — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 520; The term Frankfurt School emerged only after the Institut’s exile — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 2144 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The 1933 Civil Service Law purged Jewish and leftist academics from German universities #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 520
• The term Frankfurt School emerged only after the Institut’s exile #corroborates (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 2144