Advokatfirman Julius Hepners arkiv
- Law firm Julius Hepner's archive
Extent and Medium
12,7 linear meters of textual records, organized in 141 volumes.
Biographical History
The German-Jewish lawyer Dr. Julius Hepner (1886-1973) headed a working committee on legal aid for Nazi victims in the Jewish self-help organization Emigranten-Selbsthilfe in Stockholm.
Acquisition
The archive was handed over in 1973 and March 1976 (Dnr 667/J1) by the estate administrator jur.kand. Björn A. Marklund and the law firm Kron & Arve AB.
Scope and Content
The archive of Law firm Julius Hepner contains client files from victims of Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews and the Holocaust whom the firm assisted in seeking reparations, known as Wiedergutmachung, from West Germany. There is no index or catalog, but the client files are in alphabetical order A-Z. The archive contains series of correspondence concerning Wiedergutmachung and other documents relating to legal aid for victims of Nazi persecution.
System of Arrangement
There is no original catalog or detailed index of the archive but the files are organized and numbered:
Alphabetical files A-Z (volumes 1-103)
Remaining files A-Z, correspondence ca. 1950-1970 (volumes 104-111)
Documents from Hepner's German period from the 1920s (volume 109)
Correspondence 1950s (volumes 112-124)
Current affairs 1950s (volumes 125-129)
Correspondence 1948-1950 (volumes 130-131)
'Alte Sachen' (volumes 132-133)
The 1976 archive delivery contains the following documents in a total of 8 volumes:
Documents concerning the estate of Dr. Helmut Citron 1938-1967
Files on the estate of Dr. Rudolf Conrad 1946-1949
Papers of Walter Koerfer 1960-1970
Papers of Georg Witt
Financial records of Julius Hepner 1950s-1970s
Conditions Governing Access
Access to the archive requires permission from the National Archives.
Finding Aids
There is no index or catalog on the item level, but the client files are in alphabetical order A-Z. On the series level, there is an inventory in the National Archives database (NAD): https://sok.riksarkivet.se/arkiv/jfVYFecRrH6d0G02H087k3
Sources
National Archives database (NAD): https://sok.riksarkivet.se/arkiv/jfVYFecRrH6d0G02H087k3
Müssener, Helmut. Exil in Schweden. Politische und kulturelle Emigration nach 1933. München: Hanser, 1974, p. 114--115.
Rules and Conventions
EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0