Max Wurzweiler papers
Extent and Medium
box
oversize folders
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Creator(s)
- Max Wurzweiler
Biographical History
Max Wurzweiler (1899-1944) was born on 31 October 1899 in Schwabach, Germany to Johann Georg Wurzweiler and Anna Margaretha Wurzweiler (née Rühl, 1872-1941). His father worked as a silversmith. Wurzweiler served with the German infantry during World War I. He married Kunigund Spang (b. 1895) in 1920, and they had one daughter, Ilse. He joined the Nazi party in Schwabach in 1930 and was active in the Sturmabteilung (S.A.) throughout the 1930s in Sturm 24/21. After the start of World War II, he was attached to the 6. Wachkom./Inf.Regt. 319 Bayreuth. He was promoted to sergeant major (Oberfeldwebel) in 1940, and may have been stationed at Stalag XIIIB (Stalag 334). Wurzweiler was killed in action on the Eastern Front in 1944. His daughter Ilse later married an American serviceman she met after the war.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Franklin family
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
The Franklin family, the grandchildren of Max Wurzweiler, donated the Max Wurzweiler collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016.
Scope and Content
The collection documents the activities of Max Wurzweiler, an active member of Sturmabteilung (S.A.) branch of the Nazi Party in Schwabach, Germany. Included is Nazi Party and S.A. correspondence and memorandums, notebooks, photographs, biographical material, clippings, an architectural drawing, and ephemera related to a Nationalsozialistische Gemeinschaft "Kraft durch Freude" organized cruise aboard the Robert Ley in spring 1939. Biographical material includes birth, marriage, and death certificates and an obituary for Wurzweiler, who was killed in 1944. Photographs include depictions of Nazi Party social functions including a dinner and a cruise.
System of Arrangement
The Max Wurzweiler collection is arranged in a single series.
People
- Max Wurzweiler
- Wurzweiler, Max, 1899-1944.
Corporate Bodies
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Sturmabteilung
- Nazi Party
- Stalag 344
Subjects
- Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- Propaganda, German--Germany.
- Soldiers--German.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Letters.
- Document