Weil secured control of Institute appointments amid growing conservative attacks on its communist students

Evidence

Specific to the Frankfurt Institute was an institutional structure ensuring that the political spectrum represented at Kiel and Cologne could be extended towards the left. By analogy with the Society for the Support of the Institute of World Economy and Marine Transport at the University of Kiel, a registered Society for Social Research was created to sponsor the Weil family’s foundation. But apart from the two Weils, who had the chairmanship, the society’s members comprised only a few people who were either friends or acquaintances of the Weils, such as Gerlach, Sorge, Horkheimer and Käte Weil. Since the director of the Institute was to be appointed by the Minister of Culture with the agreement of the Society for Social Research, Felix Weil was able to decide who the director would be. And, since the director had practically dictatorial control over the Institute, Weil was able, through his power over the appointment, to determine the dominant ideological line at the Institute as far as it was humanly possible to do so. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 72 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Undisturbed by all the misunderstandings and hostility, the Institutethe only one of its sort in the world'would in the future continue consistently in its efforts to apply and extend Marxist theory in unconditional political neutrality. … Weil succeeded in getting the ministry to alter the 1923 decree on the establishment of the Institute to the effect that the appointment of the director would not be made in consultation with’ but rather with the agreement of' the Society for Social Research. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 135</cite> (#expands`, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Felix Weil controlled the Frankfurt Institute’s ideological direction through his power over director appointments. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 72; Weil secured donor veto power over Institute director appointments — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 135

Broader Connections

• Felix Weil controlled the Frankfurt Institute’s ideological direction through his power over director appointments. #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 72
• Weil secured donor veto power over Institute director appointments #expands (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 135