The SA seized the Institute’s Kronberg house the day Hitler took power

Evidence

On Monday, 30 January 1933, President Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor. Up to that point he had refused to do so, referring explicitly to the danger of a Nazi one-party dictatorship. On the very same day, apparently, the house in which Horkheimer and Pollock lived in Kronberg was occupied by the SA (Nazi storm-troops) and converted into a barracks. Horkheimer and his wife had been warned, and at this point were already living in a hotel near the railway station in Frankfurt. For the remainder of the semester, Horkheimer arranged to be chauffeured from his apartment in Geneva once a week to his lectures at the university in Frankfurt. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 510 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The SA seized Horkheimer’s house the day Hitler became Chancellor — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 510

Broader Connections

• The SA seized Horkheimer’s house the day Hitler became Chancellor #corroborates (1.00) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 510