The Nazi state confiscated the Institute of Social Research 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: To the Institute of Social Research, Frankfurt am Main. 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, 147

Categorization

• SHARE: The Gestapo’s confiscation order, quoted verbatim with legal citation, is the kind of archival gem a reader working on Weimar intellectual exile would want to see.
• XREF: Connects to the Enabling Act and Civil Service Law material earlier in the same chapter — a continuous legal architecture of seizure. — connects to: The Nazi regime legally confiscated the Frankfurt Institute as Communist property — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 516; The Gestapo confiscated the Institute under an anti-Communist property law — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 518

Broader Connections

• The Nazi regime legally confiscated the Frankfurt Institute as Communist property #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 516
• The Gestapo confiscated the Institute under an anti-Communist property law #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 518