Dr. Hans Wollenberg: correspondence

This is a collection of letters received by Dr. Hans Werner Wollenberg from his family, mainly his grandmother in Berlin and his parents in Königsberg, but also brothers and cousins. The volume also includes some letters he wrote to his parents as a student in Munich.

The correspondence begins with a few letters congratulating him on his success at school and on passing his final school exam in 1910. The bulk of the letters were written in 1911 when he was studying medicine at Munich. There is quite a lot of correspondence about money and the necessity to be very careful with it. The highlight is Wollenberg's account of a journey to Italy, which he had undertaken with a few friends. Later he had to spend a few weeks in hospital in Copenhagen, unable to shake off an infection.

There is a gap in 1912 when he apparently lived with his parents and studied at Königsberg. The volume concludes with some letters from his parents written in 1913 during a semester which he spent at Berlin University, continuing his medical studies and becoming a member of a student corporation.

The letters have been bound chronologically into a hardback volume.