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Language of Description: English
Country: Germany

  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. Concentration Camp Esterwegen

    The collection includes: Report by the commander’s office of Concentration Camp Esterwegen to the Inspector of the Concentration Camps in Berlin, Prinz-Albrechtstr. 8, and record of the interrogation of the post responsible for the shooting of a prisoner on protective custody who had tried to escape on 8.5.1935, Prisoner registration card created in Concentration Camp Esterwegen for Mr Charles Weise For the history of Concentration Camp Esterwegen 1933-1945 cf.:http://www.gedenkstaette-esterwegen.de/

  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. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. Bequest Margarethe Weber

    Margarethe, also known as Martha, Weber was born in Leverkusen-Wiesdorf on September 11, 1900. She graduated from the Volksschule on March 31, 1914. Starting in 1939, she worked as a commercial clerk for the I.G. Farben Industry at the plant in Leverkusen. The bequest Margarethe Weber covers personal documents of Margarethe and her family — especially of her younger sister Ilse Weber who also worked for the I.G. Farben. The holding covers numerous documents regarding the I.G. Farben since apart from Margarethe and Ilse Weber other family members also worked there. The bequest Margarethe Web...

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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).

  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 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...

  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 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...

  20. 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...