Correspondence with Auerbach, Walter

Identifier
3000/9/1/96
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
File
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

5 letters

Biographical History

Dr. Walter Auerbach (born Siegmund Selig Auerbach; 1905-1975) was a German centre-left politician and anti-Nazi resistance fighter. He had turned away from Judaism when he turned full age. After being briefly imprisoned by the Nazis he fled to The Netherlands (1933) and later to England (1939). He returned to Germany after the war and served as high ranking state official. See Röder, W. and H. Strauss (ed.), , Munich, Saur, 1980, p. 24

Scope and Content

Correspondence regarding an information request by Auerbach on economist and former NSDAP politician Heinrich Hunke, who was about to start a career as state official in Lower Saxony in the early 1950s.

Conditions Governing Access

open

People

  • Hunke, Heinrich August Johann
  • Auerbach, Walter

Subjects

Places

  • Lower Saxony
  • West Germany [1949-1990]
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