Editing Max Horkheimer (section)

===Early life===
On 14 February 1895, Horkheimer was born the only son of Moritz and Babetta Horkheimer. Horkheimer was born into a conservative, wealthy [[Orthodox Jewish]] family. His father was a successful businessman who owned several textile factories in the Zuffenhausen district of [[Stuttgart]], where Max was born.<ref name="plato.stanford.edu">{{cite web | last=Berendzen | first=J.C. |editor-last=Zalta|editor-first=Edward N. | title=Max Horkheimer | website=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy | date=24 June 2009 |others=Fall 2013 | url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2013/entries/horkheimer/ | access-date=14 May 2022}}</ref> Moritz expected his son to follow in his footsteps and own the family business.<ref name="plato.stanford.edu"/>

Max was taken out of school in 1910 to work in the family business, where he eventually became a junior manager. During this period he would begin two relationships that would last for the rest of his life. First, he met [[Friedrich Pollock]], who would later become a close academic colleague, and who would remain Max's closest friend. He also met Rose Riekher, his father's personal secretary. Eight years Max's senior, a Christian, and from a lower economic class, Riekher (whom Max called "Maidon") was not considered a suitable match by Moritz Horkheimer. Despite this, Max and Maidon would marry in 1926 and remain together until her death in 1969.<ref name="plato.stanford.edu" />

In 1917, his manufacturing career ended and his chances of taking over his family business were interrupted when he was drafted into [[World War I]].<ref name="Reason, Nostalgia 1985 pp. 160-181">Reason, Nostalgia, and Eschatology in the Critical Theory of Max Horkheimer Brian J. Shaw The Journal of Politics, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Feb. 1985), pp. 160–181.</ref> However, Horkheimer avoided service, being rejected on medical grounds.