Correspondence with Lüth, Erich

Identifier
WL3000/9/1/934
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 110668
Dates
2 Jan 1962 - 31 Oct 1963
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Biographical History

Erich Lüth (1902-1989) was a German journalist. After the Second World War he was one of the initiators of the Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit (Society for Jewish-Christian Cooperation) in Hamburg, and director of the city’s press office. He is most prominent for his postwar campaign against former Nazi director Veit Harlan. See Heinsohn, K., ‘Lüth, Erich’, in: Kopitzsch, F. And D. Brietzke (eds.), Hamburgische Biografie, Vol. 6, Göttingen, Wallstein, 2012, pp. 199-201.

Scope and Content

Documenting the close association between Lüth and Alfred Wiener the correspondence centres on the exchange of published and unpublished material on different subjects including the establishment of the Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden (Institute for the History of German Jews) in Hamburg (1963). Beside letters the correspondence contains a transcript of an article by Lüth on a certain letter of Theodor Herzl’s, and a press cutting.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

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Related Units of Description

  • See also the correspondence with Lüth on the Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit Hamburg within the Pre-1963 Correspondence collection.

People

  • Herzl, Theodor
  • Lüth, Erich

Subjects

  • Vergangenheitsbewältigung
  • Judeo-Christian relations
  • German-Jewish dialogue

Places

  • Hamburg
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