Hans Pfeiffer papers Nachlass Hans Pfeiffer (1910-1998)

Hans Pfeiffer (July 20, 1910 – Dec.11, 1998), was born in Zürich, Switzerland. He was an insurance agent, inspector for the Eidgenössische Zentralstelle der Heime und Lager (Swiss Central Administration of Asylums and Camps). The co-founder of several youth organizations against the frontist movement and national-socialist infiltration in Switzerland; 1938 to 1939 involved with the Tatgemeinschaft der Schweizer Jugend (Action Community of Swiss Youth); 1942 the deputy head of the work camp for emigrants in Thalheim; June to Oct. 1942 the head of the camp for political refugees in Gordola; September to Nov. 1942 stationed in Les Ponts-de-Martel; Nov. 1942 to Jan. 1943 compulsory military service (“Aktivdienst”); Feb. 1943 to July 1944 head of the Russian-Yugoslav internment camp Andelfingen; beginning in Aug. 1944 regional inspector for the Tessin and other Swiss regions with approx. 250 staffers and responsibility for ca. 25 camps with 2,500 inhabitants; after May 1945 responsible for the care of Swiss returnees who were housed temporarily in former refugee asylums; 1947 to 1949 administrator for the return by the Swiss Government of rental properties to their private owners; 1949 to 1971 Secretary of the VPOD. Dies in 1998 in Zürich, Switzerland.

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte - Archivleitung

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte (AfZ), Switzerland; the signature: NL Hans Pfeiffer. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in Nov. 2011.