Nordrhein-Westfälisches Hauptstaatsarchiv records relating to Freemasons

Identifier
irn503744
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1993.A.0054
  • RG-37.001.01
Dates
1 Jan 1935 - 31 Dec 1939
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503744

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Nordheim-Westfa?lisches Hauptstaatsarchiv

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Cite Nordrhein-Westfälisches Hauptstaatsarchiv as custodian of the originals

Various Gestapo offices created the original documents during World War II. The Nordrhein-Westfälisches Hauptstaatsarchiv obtained them in the years after the war. Severin Hochberg, of the Museum staff, acquired photocopies in 1992 and turned the photocopies over to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Aug. 1992.

Scope and Content

Photocopies of documents containing information about Gestapo investigations of pre-World War II activities of German citizens who were members of Freemason organizations.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is chronological

People

  • Kress, Fritz.
  • Dinger, Karl.
  • Plaut, Irene.
  • Pehl, Robert.
  • Bär, Arthur.
  • Plaut, Otto.

Corporate Bodies

  • Germany. Gestapo

Subjects

  • Gelsenkirchen (Germany)
  • Freemasons.
  • Essen (Germany)
  • Jews--Germany.

Genre

  • Document
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