Trial of David Frankfurter Prozess David Frankfurter Bestand

Identifier
irn47979
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.283
  • RG-58.023
Dates
1 Jan 1936 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn47979

Extent and Medium

3,557 digital images, PDF

Archival History

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte - Archivleitung

Acquisition

Source of acquisition is the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte (AfZ), Switzerland. The records in this collection were originally part of the the Schweizer Israelitischer Gemeindebund Archiv (SIG), and later in 1994 acquired by the Archiv für Zeitgeschichte (AfZ). Over the years, additional materials were added to the collection. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in Oct. 2012.

Scope and Content

Contains records of the trial of David Frankfurter in Chur, Switzerland, 1936. Includes personal documents of Frankfurter, correspondence, press articles, reports and protocols. The Jewish student David Frankfurter, shot to death the German Nazi official, NSDAP state party leader for Switzerland, Wilhelm Gustloff, on February 4, 1936, in Davos in the canton of Grisons, Switzerland. He was sentenced to a long prison term; pardoned in August 1945 and released.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte - Archivleitung

People

  • Gustloff, Wilhelm, 1895-1936--Assassination.
  • Frankfurter, David, 1909---Trials, litigation, etc.

Subjects

  • Switzerland--Foreign relations--Germany.
  • Political crimes and offenses--Switzerland--Davos.
  • Trials (Assassination)--Switzerland.
  • Jews--Persecutions--Switzerland.
  • Trials (Political crimes and offenses)--.Switzerland.
  • Nazi propaganda--Switzerland.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

Copies

  • Archiv für Zeitgeschichte

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte