Hollanderbolagen

Identifier
Hollanderbolagen
Language of Description
English
Dates
1862 - 1996
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Hebrew
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
Scripts
  • Hebrew
  • Latin
Source
EHRI

Web Source

https://sok.riksarkivet.se/arkiv/UoNY1f7Lxq66sZjCI44gk0

Extent and Medium

36,1 linear meters of textual records, financial reports, print material, and photographs.

Biographical History

This collection belongs to the business archive related to Hollanderbolagen (the Hollander Companies). The Hollander Companies were run by Friedrich (Fritz) Hollander, born in Germany in 1915 to the merchant Julius Jeshajahu Hollander and his wife Paula (née Gutmann). Fritz Hollander died in Stockholm in 2004. He grew up working within the family business F. Hollander & Co was founded in 1862. In 1933, he emigrated to Sweden, where he became the CEO of the family business, as well as the company AB Baltiska Skinnkompaniet, which traded fur and leather. The Hollander company had local branches in, for example, Stockholm, Tel Aviv, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Montreal and Bulawayo. Fritz Hollander married Camilla (née Ettlinger), daughter of Jacob Ettlinger, the chairman of the orthodox synagogue Adat Jisrael in Stockholm. Hollander was also the chairman of the Jewish community board in Stockholm from 1962 and leader of the Swedish Zionist Bund from 1968. He was influential in establishing the Jewish Hillel school in Stockholm. The records in the business archive are related to business matters, but the archive also holds private correspondence with family members.

Hollander was involved in the Swedish Section of the World Jewish Congress and participated in sending a large number of food shipments to Jewish prisoners in concentration camps during the final stages of the war. Hollander was also involved in the reception of the Danish Jews who fled to Sweden in 1943 and in the reception and care of the surviving Jews who came to Sweden in 1945.

Archival History

The archive originates in Fritz Hollander's legacy, deposited in the National Archives under the name Baltiska Skinnkompaniet (Baltic Hides Company), and contains documents of Baltiska Skinnkompaniet, A.J. Hollander, Fritz Hollander and successors for the period 1862-1996.

Acquisition

Fritz Hollander handed over the Hollander companies' archive as a deposit to the National Archives in 1997 (the accession is registered dnr. 54-3551-97). The archive was organized and cataloged by Benito Peix Geldart in the spring of 2017.

Scope and Content

The archive originates in Fritz Hollander's documents which were deposited with the National Archives, and contains documents after Baltiska Skinnkompaniet, A.J. Hollander, Fritz Hollander and successors for the period 1862-1996. Hollander, Fritz Hollander and successors for the period 1862-1996.

The archive also contains documents relating to Swedish and foreign Jewish organizations, documents relating to the Mosaic congregation in Stockholm, Zionist organizations, as well Hollander's father-in-law, Jacob Ettlinger's, surviving documents.

The archive consists of two main parts: The first is a corporate archive, consisting of documents relating to the various companies of "the Hollander Organization" as the group was usually referred to internally. The provenance is CEO Fritz Hollander's own collection of correspondence between him and various partners and directors of the Hollander companies abroad.

The second part is the private documents of Fritz Hollander and his wife Camilla (both personal and family-related documents), mainly consisting of correspondence with Jewish organizations. The archive contains extensive correspondence with organizations like World Jewish Congress, Jewish Agency, (World) Zionist Organization, the Zionist Federation (Zionistfederationen) in Sweden, Keren Hajesod, the United Israel Appeal, the Solidarity Committee for Israel. There are also documents concenring the Orthodox Synagogue association Adas Jisrael.

There is also correspondence and various documents concerning different cooperation councils (the European Council of Jewish Community Services, which Fritz Hollander headed for a long time), the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, etc.

The archive also includes both corporate and private photographs as well as documents of, Hollander's father in law, Jacob Ettlinger, mainly correspondence and documents for financial statements.

Conditions Governing Access

Access to the collection is restricted to academic research. Permission is required and should be obtained in advance from the Hollander family. Their contact details can be requested from the National Archives by e-mail: riksarkivet@riksarkivet.se.

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