#UniversityInExile

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Alvin Johnson Alvin Saunders Johnson was an American economist and editor who co-founded the New School for Social Research and organized the University in Exile for scholars displaced from Germany after 1933.
Hans Simons German jurist and Weimar civil servant who directed the Deutsche Hochschule für Politik, emigrated in 1935, and served as the third president of the New School for Social Research from 1950.
Hans Speier German-American sociologist who analyzed Nazi radio at the New School, ran German analysis at the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service, and from 1948 to 1960 directed the Social Science Division of the RAND Corporation.
Hiram J. Halle Hiram J. Halle was a Cleveland-born businessman, president of Universal Oil Products and part owner of Gulf Oil, who provided principal funding with the Rockefeller Foundation for the New School's University in Exile in 1933.
Kurt Riezler German diplomat and adviser to Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg, head of the Russian section at Stockholm in 1917, acting head of the Moscow mission after the Mirbach assassination, and New School professor from 1939.
Max Ascoli Italian anti-fascist exile, dean of the New School's Graduate Faculty (1940), president of the Mazzini Society, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs official, and editor and co-owner of The Reporter (1949 to 1968).

Institute of World Affairs A research unit of the New School for Social Research from 1943 to 1953 that produced government-commissioned postwar studies, funded in part through Doris Duke's Independent Aid.
New School for Social Research A private New York City university founded in 1919 by Columbia professors who left over the First World War, whose University in Exile sheltered German scholars and whose wartime faculty entered government propaganda work.