Records related to Maximilian Koessler

Identifier
irn518430
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.74
  • RG-10.435
Dates
1 Jan 1946 - 31 Dec 1961
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn518430

Extent and Medium

folders

5

Creator(s)

  • Maximilian Koessler

Biographical History

Maximillian Koessler (1889-1964) was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and in 1912 graduated from the University of Austria in Czernowitz; immigrated to the United States and earned his American degree at the Columbia University in 1941 (LLB 1945). He became member of the California and New York Bars. Koessler worked as Attorney of the United States Army, and was employed on War Crimes Trials in Germany, and served in 1946-1947 in the Office of Chief of Counsel for War Crimes in Nuremberg. He published articles in the American Bar Association Journal, the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, etc. Later in his life he worked as editor for law book publishing firm Bancroft-Whitney Company in San Francisco.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Roya and Joel Geiderman donated the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Apr. 27, 2006.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of originals of a 1946 letter by Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands to Maximilian Koessler, three 1947 depositions by defendant Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach prior to his trial in Nuremberg, and a 1961 essay written by Maximillian Koessler.

System of Arrangement

Organized into three series: 1: Letter by Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands to Maximilian Koessler, 1946; 2: Depositions of Alfried Krupp, arranged into chronological order, 1947; 3: "A translation fateful to Dr. Servatius̀ Nuremberg client" written by Maximilian Koessler, 1961

People

  • Bernhard, Prince, 1911-2004.
  • Servatius, Robert, 1894-1983.
  • Krupp, Alfried, 1907-1967.
  • Speer, Albert, 1905-1981.
  • Sauckel, Fritz, 1894-1946.
  • Koessler, Maximilian, 1889-1964.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Märisch-Schönberg (Germany)
  • Slave labor--Poland.
  • War crime trials--Jerusalem.
  • Big business--Germany--History--20th century.
  • Crimes against humanity, German.
  • Slave labor--Germany.
  • Essen (Germany)
  • War crime trials--Germany--Nuremberg.
  • Markstädt (Poland)

Genre

  • Document
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