Correspondence with Mende, Dietrich
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Biographical History
Dr Dietrich Mende (1899-1990) was a German-British state official and publicist who had been appointed to Prussian state service in the late years of the Weimar Republic. In the mid-1930s he got involved in anti-Nazi activities in Berlin and emigrated to London. In exile he worked for the British Foreign Office. Upon his return to Germany in 1951, he founded the Institute for European Politics and Economics, and served as secretary at the German Society for Foreign Affairs.
See Röder, W. and H. Strauss (ed.), Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration nach 1933 [3 Bd.], Band 1: Politik, Wirtschaft, öffentliches Leben, Munich, Saur, 1980, p. 488-89.
Scope and Content
Documenting a familiar and friendly association between the correspondents, the correspondence centres on Mende’s contribution(s) to The Wiener Library’s Bulletin, and on some information requests by the Library on third persons. The latter includes British-German historian and sociologist Ernst Kohn-Bramstedt, whom Alfred Wiener considered for a leading position in The Wiener Library.
Comprising handwritten and typewritten letters, the correspondence additionally contains two postcards and one memo.
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People
- Mende, Dietrich Erich
Subjects
- Exiles
- German
- Libraries and Archives