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  1. Bequest Wilhelm Boger

    The bequest Wilhelm Boger was given to the Fritz Bauer Institute by his granddaughter in 2012. Wilhelm Boger was born in Stuttgart on December 19, 1906. His father was a businessman and Boger also completed a commercial traineeship after graduating from high school. Starting in 1925, he worked for the Deutschnationaler Handlungsgehilfenverband in Stuttgart. During his school years, he became an active member of the Nazi youth (NS-Jugend), later the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend), and the Artamanenbund. In 1929, Boger joined the NSDAP and the SA. A year later, he changed to the SS. At the begin...

  2. Collection Pfungst family

    Mile Braach, born Emilie Marie Auguste Hirschfeld, a Frankfurt annalist and entrepreneur studied the feminist Marie Eleonore Pfungst in the 1990s. To do so, she collected documents regarding the life of the Pfungst family. The Jewish entrepreneurial family owned the Naxos Union, one of the first producers of sanding machines. The family was persecuted during National Socialism. Braach's biography of Marie Eleonore Pfungst was published by the Fritz Bauer Institute in 1995. The records used to write the biography were then transferred to the Institute's archive. The collection Pfungst family...

  3. Bequest Brunner family

    The Brunner family was a German-speaking Jewish-Czech family from Saaz or Žatec, northwest of Prague. Hilde Brunner, born in Saaz on November 20, 1904, as Hildegard Lang, was a successful violinist. She was musically trained since her childhood. Later, she studied at the Deutsche Musikakademie in Prague and was instructed among others by Henri Marteau and Otakar Ševcik. She completed the academy's masterclass in 1924. During and after her education, she gave many concerts, sometimes together with her sister Margit Lang who played the piano. In 1929, Hilde married Hanno or Hans Brunner. Thei...

  4. Pre-death legacy Heimo Moßbauer

    Heimo Moßbauer was born in Judenburg, Austria on May 28, 1941. He lived in Frankfurt (Main) for a long time and worked as a cellist. The pre-death legacy Heimo Moßbauer covers after description, demetallization, and filing six archival units with a total extent of 0.15 running meters. Since the record group did not have an inner structure upon the acquisition the processor Inga Steinhauser completely reorganized the holding during indexing in December 2022. It follows the “rules for the description of personal papers and autographs” (RNA, Regeln zur Erschließung von Nachlässen und Autograph...

  5. Bequest Thomas Harlan

    The bequest Thomas Harlan was given to the Fritz Bauer Institute in 2014 by Harlan's executor and his brother-in-law. The holding originally contained correspondence between Fritz Bauer and Thomas Harlan. Immediately after accession, these documents were separated from the rest of the material and are now part of the bequest Fritz Bauer. Also in 2014, the Fritz Bauer Institute was offered correspondence between Thomas Harlan and his partner Krystyna Zywulska as a deposit by the author Liane Dirks. This deposit became part of the bequest Thomas Harlan. Thomas Harlan (1929-2010) was born in B...

  6. Bequest Klaus Dylewski

    The bequest Klaus Dylewski was given to the Fritz Bauer Institute by his daughter in 2013. Klaus Dylewski was born in Finkenwalde in the district of Stettin in Upper Silesia on May 11, 1916. His family self-identified as Polish. His father was a miner. After graduating from high school in 1935, he began studying aircraft engineering at Gdansk Technical University but quickly changed to mechanical engineering. For the time being, he did not complete his studies. During the increasing tensions between the German Reich and Poland, he joined the SS-Heimwehr Danzig in 1939. After its incorporati...

  7. Bequest Ernst Bürgin

    The Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the bequest of Ernst Bürgin from the historian Dr. Florian Schmaltz in March 2007. Ernst Bürgin was born in Wyhlen on July 31, 1885. After attending school in Basel, he studied chemistry and electrochemistry there and in Berlin. In 1911, he earned his doctorate. Subsequently and only interrupted by his deployment in World War I, he worked as a chemist for various companies in Berlin and the Rhineland. In 1924, he became the procurator and head of the plant Rheinfelden of the Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron (CFGE), which became part of the I.G. Farben i...

  8. Bequest Peter Gingold

    Peter Gingold was born in Aschaffenburg on March 8, 1919. His family was Polish and Jewish and he grew up in Frankfurt (Main). There, he completed a commercial apprenticeship at a big music retail business in 1930. He joined the union Zentralverband Deutscher Angestellter (ZDA) (Central Association of German Employees) and in 1931, the Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands (KJVD) (Communist Youth League Germany). In 1933, Gingold was arrested in a SA raid. With the help of friends, he fled via the Saarland to Paris where his family had already emigrated some months before. He proceeded...

  9. Pre-death legacy Johannes Warlo

    In 2013, the Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the pre-death legacy of chief prosecutor Johannes Warlo including comprehensive records from his work at the attorney general's office in Frankfurt (Main). The pre-death legacy mostly documents Warlo's investigation into Nazi violent crimes, especially into the so-called euthanasia. Johannes Warlo was born in Gleiwitz in Upper Silesia in 1927. Before finishing school, he was conscripted to the Kriegsmarine as an officer candidate. In 1945, he was a British prisoner of war for a few months. Then, he took an extra course for high-school graduates an...

  10. Pre-death legacy Heinz Düx

    Heinz Düx transferred documents of his professional and personal life one by one to the Fritz Bauer Institute in the late 2000s. Heinz Düx was born in Marburg on April 24, 1924. After his Abitur, he studied law at the Philipps University in Marburg from 1942 to 1948. His studies were intermitted in 1944 and 1945 when he was obligated to work for the railway yard Marburg and when he stayed at the Vogelsberg to avoid being drafted into the Volkssturm. After the end of the war, Düx joined the KPD and was a member of the denazification committee of the Marburg University's law faculty. In 1946 ...

  11. Pre-death legacy Jürgen Pieplow

    Jürgen Pieplow was born in Rostock in 1935. After his Abitur, he started working for the regional press as a drawer, graphic designer, and journalist. Since he was denied to study in the GDR, he moved to West Berlin in 1956 and studied there at the Academy for Visual Arts. Starting in 1962, he worked as a publishing and advertising graphic designer in Hamburg. He worked for several companies including Springer and the Jahreszeiten-Verlag. From 1971 to 1977, he worked as a designer and a public relations consultant for Aktion Sühnezeichen and other Christian peace services. In the late 1970s...

  12. Bequest Hans Kugler

    The Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the bequest of Hans Kugler from his granddaughter in July 2021. Hans Kugler was born in Frankfurt (Main) on December 12, 1900. After completing a commercial apprenticeship, he studied economics. Starting in 1921, he worked as a manager in the administration department Farben of the Farbwerke Hoechst. In 1924, he earned his doctorate. The same year, he became a procurator for the Farbwerke Hoechst and in 1928 for the I.G. Farben. As an I.G. Farben's representative Kugler co-founded the "Drei-Sparten-Farbstoff-Kartell" (three-branch-dye-cartel) in 1929. In 1...

  13. Collection Lagergemeinschaft Auschwitz - Freundeskreis der Auschwitzer e.V.

    Werner Renz, the former archivist of the Fritz Bauer Institute transferred the collection "Lagergemeinschaft Auschwitz — Freundeskreis der Auschwitzer e. V." (Camp Community Auschwitz — friends of the Auschwitzers e. V.) to the Institute in February 2018. Werner Renz was an active member of the camp community from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. The collection Lagergemeinschaft Auschwitz — Freundeskreis der Auschwitzer e. V. covers after description, demetallization, and filing three archival units with a total extent of 0.25 running meters. It provides an insight into the internal conflict...

  14. Pre-death legacy Gerhard Wiese

    Gerhard Wiese was born in Berlin on August 26, 1928. Deployed as an anti-aircraft assistant, he was taken as a prisoner of war by the Soviets. He was released in 1946. Subsequently, he studied law in Berlin and Frankfurt (Main). He passed his state examination and then worked as a state prosecutor, first in Fulda and as of 1961 in Frankfurt. Starting in 1962, Gerhard Wiese participated in the preparation and the conduct of the proceedings against Mulka and others (4 Ks 2/63), the so called First Frankfurt Auschwitz trial. With the prosecutors Vogel and Kügler, he pressed charges and drafted...

  15. Bequest Eduard Wirths

    The Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the bequest of Eduard Wirths from his wife and children in July 2005. Eduard Wirths was born in Geroldshausen near Würzburg on September 4, 1909. He studied medicine at the University of Würzburg from 1930 to 1935 and earned his doctoral degree in 1936. Subsequently, he worked for the Thuringian Landesamt für Rassewesen, the public health office in Sonneberg, the University gynecological clinic in Jena, and the Reichsärztekammer. He joined the NSDAP and the SA as early as 1933. In 1934, he switched from the SA to the SS and became a member of the Waffen-SS...

  16. Kaiserliche Admiralität und Vorgängerbehörden in Preußen

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die im Kurfürstentum Brandenburg und später im Königreich Preußen aufgebaute Flotte geriet im späten 18. Jahrhundert in Verfall. Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts war Preußen keine Seemacht. Erst ab 1811/13 wurden wieder konsequent Seefahrzeuge zur Küstenverteidigung angeschafft und darüber hinausgehende Pläne entwickelt. Mit Schreiben vom 14.11.1817 wurden die anderen Seemächte über die neue preußische Kriegsflagge in Kenntnis gesetzt. Die Zuständigkeit für Marineangelegenheiten lag beim Preußischen Kriegsministerium, in welchem schließlich ab 1848 eine Abteilung ...

  17. OKH / Generalinspekteur der Panzertruppen

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners 1.) Herkunft, Ordnung und Verzeichnung der Akten Die Masse des jetzt im Bestand RH 10 verzeichneten Archivgutes war nach "Kriegsende in die USA verbracht und dort in der US-Reihe H 16 zusammengefaßt worden. Eine Veröffentlichung dieser Verzeichnung in einem Guide erfolgte bisher allerdings nicht.Die Rückführung der H 16-Reihe erfolgte in zwei Sendungen im Jahre 1962 sowie in einer Nachsendung im Mai 1967 an die Dokumenten-Zentrale des Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamtes in Freiburg (vgl. Az.: 6105). Nach Inkrafttreten der "Vereinbarung zur Zusammenfassung ...

  18. General der Pioniere und Festungen im OKH

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Akten mit den Signaturen RH 11-III / 450 - 730 sind digitalisiert. Bestandsbeschreibung Nach der Kapitulation der deutschen Wehrmacht wurden die Akten, die in den deutschen Stäben noch vorhanden waren, den Alliierten übergeben und in die jeweiligen Staaten zur Auswertung verbracht. So gelangten diese Unterlagen in die USA und erhielten dort die Signaturen H 20 (old) und H 21. Die Unterlagen kamen dann 1967 aus der World War II Records Division, Alexandria, Virginia, USA, in das Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv zurück. Nach Rückführung der Unterlagen wurden sie ...

  19. General der Artillerie im OKH

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die ersten Waffengenerale wurden 1939 eingesetzt. Sie unterstanden dem Chef des Generalstabs des Heeres, waren Berater des Oberbefehlshabers des Heeres in allen Fragen ihrer Waffe und sorgten in Verbindung mit den zuständigen Abteilungen des Generalstabs für die praktische Auswertung der Kriegserfahrungen für Kampfführung, Ausbildung, Gliederung, Bewaffnung und Ausrüstung. Weitergehende Kompetenzen besaßen sie anfangs nur hinsichtlich ihrer Lehr- und Heerestruppen. In der Dienstanweisung der Organisationsabteilung des Generalstabs des Heeres vom 27. September...

  20. General der Nebeltruppen im OKH

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Der General der Nebeltruppen beim OKH wurde mit Verfügung vom 31. August 1940 aufgestellt (siehe RH 15/89). Er war höchster Waffenvorgesetzter der Nebeltruppe und war verantwortlich für die Organisation, Ausbildung und Ausrüstung der Nebeltruppen und Gasabwehr aller Waffen. Darüber hinaus hatte er den Chef des Generalstabes des Heeres in Fragen des Einsatzes der Nebeltruppe zu beraten. Die Dienststelle gliederte sich in Gruppen mit folgenden Aufgaben: Ia ¿ Gasabwehr aller Truppen; Ic ¿ Auswertung der Feindnachrichten über Gaskampf und Gasschutzausrüstung; IIa...