Dehomag [Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen] D11 tabulator
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 52.375 inches (133.033 cm) | Width: 79.250 inches (201.295 cm) | Depth: 30.625 inches (77.788 cm)
Creator(s)
- Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft M.B.H (Manufacturer)
Archival History
The Dehomag D11 tabulator was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by the Technische Sammlungen Dresden.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Technische Sammlungen Dresden
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Scope and Content
Dehomag D11 tabulator, with miscellaneous parts, of the type used for processing results of the 1933 and 1939 German census during the Nazi regime (1933-1945). Dehomag [Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen] was a German based subsidiary of the US company, IBM. The Hollerith machine was a punch-card system consisting of three components, a punching machine [1990.48.3] that transmitted information onto punch cards, a sorting machine [1990.48.2] that arranged the punch cards by categories, and this tabulating machine that computed the results.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
a. Large, rectangular, electric powered tabulating machine with a white painted metal outer casing enclosing the mechanism, circuitry and wires. All sides have contoured, removable metal panels to access machinery. At the top are operating dials and the paper roller, punch card holder, and tabulator mechanisms. b. Metal tray c. Metal hook with plastic cover d. Curved metal rod e. Curved metal piece f. Metal screw
exterior, right end, pegboard, red paint : 514 right end, paper label, front, printed, black ink : Vordruck-Leitverlag Berlin / 1125 Berlin, Berliner Strasse 69 / 992024 E3041 / 500 Statze zu 2 Blatt (94) / Bei Reklamationen bitte dieses Etikett einsenden / I/21/3 [In case of complaints please send label] right end, paper label, back, handwritten, black ink: Sleuern(?) / obslummen(?)
Corporate Bodies
- Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Subjects
- Tabulating machines--Germany--Lichterfelde (Berlin)
- Germany--Census--History--20th century.
- Punched card systems.
- Germany--Statistical services--History--20th century.
- Calculators.
- Census--Data processing--Germany--20th century.
- Population research--Germany--History--20th century.
Genre
- Tools and Equipment
- Object