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aoe ‘y 1 wg wo on x. ‘ 7 : . _ a me ba ae tea ates ait eee ga te ee Re ce ee tener INSTITUTE OF SOCTAL RESEARCH The following information was dictated in the presence of SA QUEM. , on. October 17, 1950, by HIV fe. The Institute was formed in the early 1920's on the basis of & private grant given by the father of Dr. FELIX J. WEIL, well-to-do wheat broker of Argentina and Germany. b70 The firet Director of the Institute was a young German scholar by the name of Dr. KURT GERLACH. GERLACH, however, died before ] . he actually had taken over, and his successor was Professor KARL \. GRUGNBERG, formerly of the University of Vienna. £ Under CRUENBERG'S leadership, the Institute became officially affilisted with the University of Frankfurt-Mein. GRUENBERG, a historian by training, devoted most of the Institute's funds to the building of a highly specialized library dealing with the history of European labor | movements. He was definitely a Marxist in his scholarly approach, but : definitely not 4 Commmist. If politically affiliated at all, Tt would | venture to say that he belonged to the Austrian Social Democratic Party, , Which had the reputation of being a little more redical than the German counterpart. Around 1930, GRUENBERG had to give up the directorship of the. Institute on account of i11 health and was succeeded by Professor _ MAX \HORKHEIMER. HORKHEIMER hud a full professorship at the University of Frankfurt, the chair of Social Philosophy, which was the only one of its kind in Germany. ; Under HORKHEIMER'S regime, the Institution!s work became less historical, but theoretical and psychological. The Acting Director of the Institute was Dr. FREDERIGK POLLOCK who, at the time, started his academic career as 4 Privat Dozent #360, 247 , 4? ALL INFORKATION CONTAINER TF ya a HEREIN HOLASS dog: i i . DATELOL Ma SO or cO6/A\_! ; A A ee