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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Finnish
Country: Germany
  1. Pressesammlung

  2. Stadt Dachau

    • Dachau
    • City of Dachau
  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. Bequest Hermann Weinkauff

    The Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the bequest of Hermann Weinkauff from his granddaughter in June 2023. Hermann Weinkauff (1894-1981) was born in Trippstadt in Rhenish Palatinate on February 10, 1984. Until his Abitur in 1912, he attended the classical language high school in Speyer. He then studied law in Munich, Heidelberg and Würzburg. In Munich, he became a member of the fraternity Corps Hubertia Munich. Weinkauff participated in the First World War as a Bavarian field artillery volunteer at the Western Front and since 1917 as a reserve lieutenant. In 1920, he passed his first juridica...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. Bequest Jan Sehn

    Jan Sehn (1909-1965) was born in Tuszów Maly in former Austria-Hungary on April 22, 1909. He graduated high school in Mielec and became involved in the youth organization Legion Mlodych (Legion of the Youth) of President Józef Pilsudski. He then studied law at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. After graduating in 1933, Sehn obtained a position first as a judicial clerk and later as an assessor at Kraków District Court. During the German invasion in September 1939, Sehn participated in the defence of Poland. To avoid collaborating with the judicial apparatus of the new rulers, he then c...

  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. Bequest Theo Berger

    The Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the bequest of Theo Berger from one of Berger's nieces in 2008. Theo Berger was born on January 8, 1925. His parents were Theo Berger senior and Margarete Berger. The family lived in Frankfurt (Main), initially in the district Rödelheim, then after the Second World War shortly in the district Sachsenhausen and later in the district Bornheim. Theo Berger trained to be a precision engineer at Hartmann & Braun AG. In 1942, he was conscripted into the Reich Labor Service. On March 15, 1943, he became a member of the Waffen-SS. He then stayed at the SS case...

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...