Friedrich Pollock: biographical data
| 1894 | Friedrich Pollock was born on 22nd May. His father was a factory owner in Freibug in Br. | ||
| 1911-1915 | Commercial apprenticeship . Beginning of a life-long friendship with Max Horkheimer | ||
| 1923 |
After studying economy, sociology and philosophy in Munich, Freiburg i.Br. and Frankfurt a.M. he
obtained his Ph.D. in Frankfurt on Marx's theory of money.
Participates in founding the Institut für Sozialforschung in Frankfurt am Main. |
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| 1924 | Along with Felix Weill he becomes the manager of the Marx-Engels-Archivgesellschaft mbH to promote the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausabe (MEGA) | ||
| 1927/28 | Travels to the Soviet Union to participate n the celebrations of the October Revolution. A piece of work develops from this trip: Die planwirtschaflliche Versuche in der Sowjetunion 1917-1927 with which he qualifies as a university lecturer. | ||
| 1928 | Becomes a private university lecturer at Frankfurt am Main | ||
| 1928-1930 | Pollock steps in for the director of the Institut für Sozialforschung Grünberg, who falls ill. | ||
| 1929 | Pollocks habilitation thesis appears as the second volume of the series of the Institut für Sozialforschung | ||
| 1930 | The first branch of the Institute abroad is founded in London. | ||
| 1933 | Emigration. Along with Horkhemer he moves to Genf, Paris and then New York. | ||
| 1933-1949 | Seminar leader and managing director in the Institute for Social Research in New York | ||
| 1950 | Pollock returns to Frankfurt am Main and works there in the re-established the Institute for Social Research | ||
| 1951-1958 | The University of Frankfurt offers Pollock the chair of an unscheduled professor for national economy and sociology and seven years later he becomes a scheduled professor | ||
| 1959 | Moves to Montagnola, Tessin with Horkheimer | ||
| 1963 | Emeritus professor | ||
| 1970 | Polock dies in Montagnola | ||
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