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Country: Germany
Holding Institution: Fritz Bauer Institut

  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  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. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

  16. 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 ...

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. 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...

  20. 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...