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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Dutch
Country: Germany

  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  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 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...

  9. Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Landesflüchtlingsverwaltungen

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 373
    • German, English
    • 1953
    • 11,4 laufende Meter, 158 Aufbewahrungseinheiten

    Organisation und Geschäftsverkehr, Kassensachen, allgemeiner Schriftwechsel (1952-1990, 11), Tagungen der ArgeFlü, Durchführung und Protokolle (1952-1978, 1987-1990, 23), Ausschüsse (1951-1990, 55), Zusammenarbeit mit Behörden und Institutionen von Bund und Ländern (1952-1990, 18), Kulturarbeit, Sprachförderung, Schülerwettbewerb (1952-1990, 11); Verschiedenes (1952-1989, 11).

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. 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...

  20. 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...