Background
He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and was the son of the wealthy grain merchant Hermann Weil and his wife Rosa Weil.
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He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and was the son of the wealthy grain merchant Hermann Weil and his wife Rosa Weil.
At the age of 9 he was sent to attend school in Germany at the Goethe-Gymnasium, Frankfurt. He attended the University of Tübingen and the University of Frankfurt, where he graduated with a doctoral degree in political science. His thesis topic was "Socialization: An Attempt at a Conceptual Foundation, with a Critique of the Plans for Socialization".
In 1923 he financed the Erste Marxistische Arbeitswoche ("First Marxist Work Week"), a conference in the German town of Ilmenau.
The event was attended by various leftist figures such as Georg Lukács, Karl Korsch, Richard Sorge, Friedrich Pollock, and Karl August Wittfogel.
While at these universities he became increasingly interested in socialism and Marxism.