Correspondence with Bundesministerium des Innern (BMI)
Extent and Medium
232 letters
Biographical History
Established in 1949 in Bonn the (BMI) is the German Ministry of Interior. Today its headquarters are in Berlin.
Scope and Content
The correspondence, primarily with representatives of the BMI’s cultural department, centres on various issues including: the search for an author for a planned compendium on (German) Jewry; a workshop on the fight of Antisemitism and issues regarding a planned edition of documents on the persecution of Jews in the Nazi era (); financial assistance for the Library by the BMI; an antisemitic pamphlet by Swedish fascist Einar Aberg.
Contained are a memo on the murder of Anti-Nazi resistance fighter Herbert von Bose, internal memos of meetings, a hotel guide for Bonn, payment receipts, and several lists and overviews of the institutional and legal structure, activities, and annual expenses of The Wiener Library.
Conditions Governing Access
closed
People
- Aberg, Einar
- Gussone, Carl
- Hübinger, Paul Egon
- Lüders, Carl-Heinz
Corporate Bodies
- The Wiener Library
- Bundesministerium des Inneren
Subjects
- Libraries and Archives
- Antisemitism, defence against
- German-Jewish dialogue
- Jewish history
- Ministry of the Interior
Places
- West Germany [1949-1990]