Prof. Ernst Fraenkel: correspondence and personal papers

Identifier
WL828
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 70740
Dates
1 Jan 1919 - 31 Jan 1961
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Biographical History

Ernst Fraenkel was a Jewish professor of economics and social history, who was born in Breslau, Lower Silesia; served as an officer in the German army in the First World war; was a representative of the Silesian provincial Landtag in the 1930s; secretary of the Gesellschaft für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin; emigrated to UK in 1939; returned to Germany in 1947 and became director of Institut für Wirtschafts und Sozialgeschichte at University of Frankfurt a. M.; died Frankfurt, 1971.

Acquisition

Documents Prof E Fraenkel

Donated February 1990

Donor: Ernst Fraenkel (junior?)

Scope and Content

This collection consists of some personal papers of professor Ernst Fraenkel and correspondence between him and Kapitän Leutnant Kraus of the German Defence Ministry press office regarding Jews who fought for Germany in the two World Wars.

System of Arrangement

The papers are arranged into Ernst Fraenkel's personal papers and his correspondence.

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Related Units of Description

  • See collection 2169 for letter to Fraenkel on his article “Der Beitrag der deutschen Juden auf wirtschaftlichem Gebiet".

People

  • Fraenkel, Ernst

Subjects

  • World War Two
  • World War One
  • Letters
  • Jews
  • Documents

Places

  • Great Britain
  • Frankfurt am Main
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