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Holding Institution: Fritz Bauer Institut

  1. Pre-death legacy Jürgen Hess

    The Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the holding from Jürgen Hess himself. Jürgen Hess was a state prosecutor and worked in the political department of the prosecution at Frankfurt (Main) from 1964 to 1996. He was especially concerned with Nazi violent crimes. Representing the prosecution, he conducted numerous proceedings concerning Nazi violent crimes (NSG-Verfahren) at the Landgericht Frankfurt (Main), for example, the fifth and sixth Frankfurt Auschwitz trial against Alois Frey and Willi Rudolf Sawatzki (4 Ks 2/73) and against Josef Schmidt and Horst Czerwinski (50/4 Js 773/70). During hi...

  2. Collection NSDAP Auslandsorganisation Chile

    The NSDAP-Auslandsorganisation Chile was founded in 1931 and existed until 1945. The NSDAP-Auslandsorganisation Chile was one of the foreign organizations of the National Socialist Party, the NSDAP/AO. Citizens of the German Reich living in foreign countries organized themselves in the NSDAP/AO. The organization was especially occupied with the ideological indoctrination of its members. The collection's provenance is unclear. A document accompanying the collection attests that the records were purchased in the region around Valdivia in 1989 or 1990. The previous owner apparently disposed of...

  3. NSG trials collection

    The collection Nationalsozialistische Gewaltverbrechen (NSG)-Verfahren (Nazi violent crimes trials) has continuously been assembled, extended and maintained since the establishment of the Fritz Bauer Institute in 1995. It contains records of various investigation and penal proceedings regarding Nazi violent crimes (NSG-Verfahren) in the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic and the Peoples' Republic of Poland. The documents come from diverse holdings, including the private property of former judges and prosecutors, defense attorneys and representatives of the accessory...

  4. Bequest Heinz Friedrich Meyer-Velde

    In 2017, the Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the bequest of Heinz Friedrich Meyer-Velde (1926-2015) from his daughter. In September 2018, an addition was made. Heinz Friedrich Meyer-Velde grew up in Brunswick where he worked as a court reporter for the local newspaper of Brunswick in the late 1940s. This way he came to know the then presiding judge of the Landgericht and later Attorney General of the Oberlandesgericht Braunschweig, Fritz Bauer in 1949. This first encounter soon resulted in a close friendship between them and from 1961 onwards, a friendship between Bauer and Meyer-Velde's wif...

  5. Bequest Walter Hotz

    Walter Hotz (1917-1974) was born in 1917. He studied law and worked as a court official (Amtsgerichtsrat). He was an associate judge at the First Frankfurt Auschwitz trial. He died in 1974. The bequest contains documents originating from Hotz's time as a judge at the Landgericht Frankfurt (Main). The records mainly regard his participation at the proceedings against Mulka and others (4 Ks 2/63). As associate judge, he was entrusted with the preparation, the conduct and the protocolling of the local inspection of Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp in December 1964. The bequest co...

  6. Bequest Alisa Fuss

    The Fritz Bauer Institute was given the bequest of Alisa Fuss in 2008 by the lecturer and translator Barbara Heber-Schäfer. She used the documents of the bequest for her book "Solidarität und Eigensinn. Das tätige Leben der Alisa Fuss" published in 2009. Alisa Fuss (1919-1997) was born in Berlin on April 7, 1919. In 1933, she lived in Breslau with her family, but emigrated to Palestine in 1935. She initially lived in a kibbutz organized by the Youth Aliyah, which she left between 1936 and 1939 because she rejected the attitude of the Zionist movement concerning preemptive attacks against Ar...

  7. Bequest Hanns Großmann

    Hanns Großmann (1912-1999) was born in Kamenz on October 28, 1912. After studying law, he earned his doctorate. He subsequently held the position of senior prosecutor at the Landgericht Frankfurt (Main). There, he oversaw the so called "political division" (Politische Abteilung). Later, he worked for the Hessian Ministry of Justice and as a senior prosecutor in Wiesbaden. Hanns Großmann died in 1999. The bequest is constituted of records originating from Großmann's time as senior prosecutor at the Landgericht Frankfurt (Main). The documents mainly concern his contribution to the proceedings...

  8. Bequest Benno Erhard

    Benno Erhard (1923-2011) was born in Bad Schwalbach on February 22, 1923. Following his Abitur, he was drafted into military service and taken prisoner of war by France. After an agricultural education, Erhard studied law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz from 1949 to 1956. Thereafter, Benno Erhard worked as a lawyer and a notary from 1964 onwards. He defended Hans Stark in the First Frankfurt Auschwitz trial. Benno Erhard was also active in politics. He was a member of the Hessian Landtag (Parliament) and the German Bundestag. From 1983 to 1987, he was parliamentary undersecret...

  9. Bequest Hermann Rössler

    Hermann Rössler (1895-1976) was born in Bohemia in 1895 and grew up in Neustrelitz in the former Free State Mecklenburg-Strelitz. He was the son of the author and actor Carl Rössler. Hermann Rössler himself was an author and translator and published, among other things, the crime novel "Expresszug des Teufels" in 1921. After the National Socialists' rise to power, Hermann Rössler emigrated to Norway and subsequently in 1940 to Great Britain. He then migrated to Canada in 1945. Hermann Rössler died in 1976. The bequest Hermann Rössler contains after description, demetallization and filing 12...

  10. Bequest Henry Ormond

    In 2012, the Fritz Bauer Institute obtained a part of the bequest of Henry Ormond (1901-1973) with extensive records regarding his time as a soldier in the British Army and as a representative of the accessory prosecution and attorney in various proceedings concerning Nazi violent crimes (NSG-Verfahren) as a deposit from his son Thomas Ormond. Between 2016 and 2018, Thomas Ormond handed over further records of his father to the Fritz Bauer Institute, as well as documents regarding the business activities of Ormond's law firm. Parts of Henry Ormond's bequest are also archived in Munich at th...

  11. District attorney of the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court collection

    From 2002 to 2005, the prosecution Frankfurt (Main) offered the Fritz Bauer Institute some files of their non-current records regarding the prosecution of Nazi perpetrators, especially the complex Auschwitz. These files were selected and released for cassation at a previous transfer of the creator of records to the Hessian main state archives Wiesbaden (HHStAW). Corresponding with the Hessian Archive Act, the Fritz Bauer Institute took in the files and has preserved them since. The collection district attorney of the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court encompasses after description, demetalliz...

  12. Pre-death legacy Jürgen Glanz

    The pre-death legacy of Jürgen Glanz (1932-2019), the associate judge of the Third Frankfurt Auschwitz trial (criminal case against Erich Grönke, Bernard Bonitz and Josef Windeck (4 Ks 1/67)), was transferred to the Fritz Bauer Institute by his wife in November 2018. Jürgen Glanz studied law and worked as an assistant judge at the Amtsgericht Frankfurt (Main) since November 1963. In December of the same year, he was transferred to the Landgericht Frankfurt (Main). On January 1, 1964, he became the assistant judge for the investigation proceedings and later associate judge for the criminal c...

  13. Buthner trial collection

    Stefan Buthner (1913-1994), named Stefan Budziaszek until 1950, was born on April 24, 1913. He studied medicine at the university of Krakow and subsequently worked there as a resident. During the German occupation of Poland, Budziaszek was arrested and was committed to Auschwitz concentration camp on February 10, 1942. Via different work detachments and satellite camps, he was then transferred to Auschwitz III-Monowitz on July 20, 1943. Here, Budziaszek was deployed as prisoner physician (Häftlingsarzt) and camp elder of the prisoner infirmary. As such, he conducted pre-selections and was r...

  14. Bequest Konrad Morgen

    In 2005, friends and neighbours of the Morgens offered the bequest of Konrad Morgen (1909-1982) as a gift to the Fritz Bauer Institute. Konrad Morgen was a SS judge and witness at the First Frankfurt Auschwitz trial. Before her death, Morgen's wife had transferred her husband's bequest with all rights to the couple living in the neighbourhood of their vacation home in Niedernhausen im Taunus. Konrad Morgen was born on June 8, 1909 in Frankfurt (Main). He studied law at the University of Frankfurt (Main), Rome, Berlin and The Hague. In 1933, he joined the NSDAP and the SS. In the following y...

  15. Bequest Georg Bürger

    Georg Bürger was born in 1926 and studied law at Frankfurt University. Following his studies, he worked as an attorney and notary and had his own law firm in the east of Frankfurt (Main). He was the assigned counsel to the defendant Bruno Schlage during the "proceedings against Mulka and others (4 Ks 2/63)" ("Verfahren gegen Mulka u.a. (4 Ks 2/63)"), the First Frankfurt Auschwitz trial. At the same time, he was in close contact with Hermann Langbein, a representative of the Comité International des Camps and worked towards receiving compensation payments for forced laborers. His bequest fir...

  16. Bequest Walter Witte

    In 2002, the Fritz Bauer Institute obtained the bequest of the lawyer Walter Witte (1928-2020) with extensive records regarding his lawyerly occupation. Walter Witte was born in 1928 und died in 2020. He worked at Henry Ormond's law firm as an employed lawyer and later conducted his own law firm in Frankfurt (Main) with his wife. His bequest mainly consists of records created in the context of compensation proceedings. In 1959, the federal law regarding the compensation of victims of National Socialist persecution (BEG) was passed with retroactive effect to the year 1953, enabling the victi...

  17. Bequest Michael Zimmermann

    In 2005, the historian Michael Zimmermann (1951-2007) offered his pre-death legacy as a gift to the archive of the Fritz Bauer Institute. The documents concern the persecution of Sinti and Roma during the period of National Socialism. Michael Zimmermann was a member of the Fritz Bauer Institute's conception commission and became the founder of the Institute's study group "Sinti and Roma" in 2001. His extensive bequest regarding the history of the genocide of Sinti and Roma originated mainly in the years 1985 to 1993 when he worked as a research associate at the DFG project "Verfolgungserfah...

  18. Josef Mengele collection

    Josef Mengele (1911-1979) was born on March 16, 1911 in Günzburg. He studied medicine and anthropology in Munich and Bonn. Mengele was deployed as camp physician (Lagerarzt) in Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp from May 1943 onwards. He was tasked with the selections and conducted medical experiments on prisoners. He left Auschwitz in January 1945 just before the Red Army liberated the camp. After several months on the run, he decided to escape to South America in 1948. He fled using one of the so-called rat lines (Rattenlinien) via Italy to Argentina. In 1960, he settled perma...

  19. Bequest Fritz Bauer

    Since its establishment in 1995, the Fritz Bauer Institute is eager to gather documents regarding its eponym, the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer (1903-1968). According to Bauer's wishes, his inheritance was dispensed among his relatives and friends after his death. Unfortunately, because of that a large part of the literary bequest — especially Bauer's private correspondence — was lost irretrievably. Exceptions to this are the records obtained by the executor of Bauer's last will and testament. They make up the core of the current collection at the Fritz Bauer Institute. In 1996, Baue...

  20. Pre-death legacy Hans Fertig

    In 2013, the lawyer Hans Fertig (1929-2015) transferred his written pre-death legacy with extensive records regarding his occupation as a counsel at several proceedings regarding Nazi violent crimes (NSG-Verfahren) from the 1960s to the 1980s to the Fritz Bauer Institute. Hans Fertig was born on February 4, 1929 in Amorbach in the Forest of Odes where he passed his Abitur in 1949. He then studied law in Würzburg. In 1959, he passed his first state examination (Referendarexamen) and in 1963 his second state examination (Assessorexamen). During his preparatory service, he earned his doctorate...