Wolfram Sievers: Documents regarding his SS membership

Identifier
WL511
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 70488
Dates
1 Jan 1937 - 31 Jan 1944
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Biographical History

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Wolfram Sievers, who became the Reichsgeschäftsführer der Forschungsgemeinschaft Deutschen Ahnenerbe (the director of the society for Research into the Spiritual Roots of Germany's Ancestral Heritage), was born in 1905 the son of an evangelical church musician in Hildesheim. His Gymnasium schooling was aborted not, as he claimed on the witness stand at the Nuremberg Trials, because he had to find a practical occupation on account of the difficulties caused by the separation of his parents, but, as he states in his SS- Personalfragebogen, because of his desire to be more actively involved in the ‘deutsch-völkisch' Schutz und Trutzbund. Thus demonstrating from early on his fascination for German ethnicity and pre-Christian culture.

Archival History

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Scope and Content

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Microfilm file of documents on Wolfram Sievers concerning his SS membership, including Lebenslauf, SS muster roll extract; personnel questionnaire; service career; examination certificates 

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Conditions Governing Reproduction

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Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Microfilm

People

Subjects

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