Correspondence with Mueller, Ernst
Extent and Medium
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Biographical History
Dr Ernst Mueller (1885-1968) was a Jewish-German lawyer and liberal politician in the Weimar Republic. He had further campaigned for the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (C.V.), the Jewish Kartell-Convent (K.C.) student fraternities, and B’nai B‘rith. When the Nazis came to power he emigrated to London.
See Walk, J., Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918-1945, Munich et. al., K. G. Saur, 1988, p. 273.
Scope and Content
Beside the exchange of materials on historical as well as current affairs the correspondence focuses on research Mueller conducted for the Library, issues related to the postwar activities of some Kartell-Convent (K.C.) branches and the person of Bruno Weil, and an eyewitness account by Mueller for The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project. Contained are some press cuttings and an invitation for a public talk in London.
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People
- Mueller, Ernst
- Weil, Bruno
Subjects
- Student fraternities
- Refugees
- Personal narratives
- Jewish organisations
- German-Jewish organisations
Places
- Great Britain