Ernst Fraenkel: Academic correspondence

Identifier
WL2169
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 72445
Dates
1 Nov 1965 - 31 Dec 1965
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Biographical History

Ernst Fraenkel was a Jewish professor of economics and social history. He was born in Breslau, Lower Silesia, and served as a German officer in the First World war. Fraenkel was elected to the Silesian provincial Landtag in the 1930s and acted as secretary of the Gesellschaft für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin. In 1939 he emigrated to the UK, returning to Germany in 1947. Here he became director of the Institut für Wirtschafts und Sozialgeschichte at the University of Frankfurt am Main, where he died in 1971.

Not to be confused with the lawyer and political scientist of the same name who lived 1898-1975.

Acquisition

Letters re the book ‘Judentum; Schicksal, Wesen, Gegenwart’

Donated 06/2010

Donor: Ernst Fraenkel

Scope and Content

Letters to Ernst Fraenkel on his article “Der Beitrag der deutschen Juden auf wirtschaftlichem Gebiet", Franz Böhm and Walter Dirks (eds.), Judentum: Schicksal, Wesen und Gegenwart (Franz Steiner Verlag: Wiesbaden, 1965), pp. 552-600.

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Related Units of Description

  • See collection 828 for further materials belonging to Fraenkel. 

People

  • Fraenkel, Ernst

Subjects

  • Jewish history
  • Economic history
  • Correspondence
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