Rolf Hofmann Collection
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains manuscripts, genealogical tables, photographs, clippings, and correspondence originating from Rolf Hofmann's genealogical research on Jewish communities in southern Germany, including extensive materials from his Harburg Project.
The first series contains various fragments, and notes on the Eppstein, Liebmann, and Guldmann families, as well as on the individuals Löb Michael Weinbach and Theodor Harburg. There are also several photographs of Jewish cemeteries in Wallerstein and Harburg. A second series designates materials which Hofmann created under the title of The Harburg Project. Within this series, there are short typescript narrative sketches of events and episodes from several individual families' histories, as well as "family sheets," genealogical tables (family trees), and transcriptions of gravestones in Nördlingen and Oettingen. The family trees are standard in format and presentation, and the family sheets contain vital statistics, family data, and various other facts and and brief information on individuals; not every individual who has a family sheet is listed in the family trees, and vice versa. This second series contains data stretching back to the 17th century.
A small addendum in Series II includes a letter written in 1934 concerning the Harburg synagogue as an artistic landmark.
Dates
- Creation: 1999-2005
- Creation: 1934
Creator
- Hofmann, Rolf (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is in German and English.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
Use Restrictions
There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org
Extent
11 Folders
Abstract
This collection contains manuscripts, genealogical tables, photographs, clippings, and correspondence originating from Rolf Hofmann's genealogical research on Jewish communities in southern Germany from the 17th century to the present, including extensive materials from his Harburg Project.
Separated Material
Photographs have been removed to the LBI Photograph Collection.
Subject
- Rheingold Breweries, Inc (Organization)
- Eppstein, David, 1807-1885 (Person)
- Guldmann, Leopold, 1852-1936 (Person)
- Guldmann, Salomon, 1831-1892 (Person)
- Harburger, Theodor, 1887-1949 (Person)
- Hausmann, Sal (Person)
- Lippmann, Joseph (Person)
- Löw, Alexander (Person)
- Loewenstein, Leopold (Person)
- Mai, Raphael (Person)
- Model, Abraham Elias (Person)
- Saenger Brothers (Person)
- Schülein, Hermann, 1884-1970 (Person)
- Stein Isaac (Person)
- Löb Michael Weinbach (Person)
- Weinbach, Ludwig Michael (Person)
- Giehse family (Family)
- Altmayer family (Family)
- Ascher family (Family)
- Aufhausen family (Family)
- Aufhauser family (Family)
- Badmann family (Family)
- Baer family (Family)
- Baumgart family (Family)
- Bettmann family (Family)
- Blumgart family (Family)
- Eppstein family (Family)
- Ettenheimer family (Family)
- Ettmann family (Family)
- Essinger family (Family)
- Feuchtwang family (Family)
- Fuchs family (Family)
- Geiger family (Family)
- Goldbacher family (Family)
- Guggenheimer family (Family)
- Guldmann family (Family)
- Guttmann family (Family)
- Harburger family (Family)
- Hechinger family (Family)
- Heilbronner family (Family)
- Jung family (Family)
- Katzenellenbogen family (Family)
- Lebrecht family (Family)
- Liebmann family (Family)
- Loewenstein family (Family)
- Michelbacher family (Family)
- Moos family (Family)
- Mühlhauser family (Family)
- Nauburg family (Family)
- Naumburg family (Family)
- Nebel family (Family)
- Nördlinger family (Family)
- Oberdorfer family (Family)
- Oettinger family (Family)
- Pflaum family (Family)
- Rosenstein family (Family)
- Schweisheimer family (Family)
- Selz family (Family)
- Stein family (Family)
- Thalmaessinger family (Family)
- Ulrich family (Family)
- Waitzfelder family (Family)
- Waldmann family (Family)
- Watzfelder family (Family)
- Weil family (Family)
- Weisskopf family (Family)
Genre / Form
- clippings (information artifacts)
- Color photographs
- Correspondence
- Genealogical tables
- manuscripts (documents)
Geographic
- Aufhausen (Forheim, Germany)
- Baden-Württemberg (Germany)
- Baumberg (Monheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
- Bavaria (Germany)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Dennenlohe
- Donauwörth (Germany)
- Ederheim (Germany)
- Ellingen (Germany)
- Gunzenhausen (Germany)
- Hainsfarth (Germany)
- Harburg (Schwaben, Germany)
- Ichenhausen (Germany)
- Kleinerdlingen (Germany)
- Ludwigsburg (Germany)
- Mönchsroth (Germany)
- Munich (Germany)
- Nuremberg (Germany)
- Oettingen i. Bay. (Germany)
- Palestine -- Emigration and immigration
- Papenheim
- Pflaumloch
- Regensburg (Germany)
- Swabia (Germany)
- Thaleischweiler-Fröschen (Germany)
- Treuchtlingen (Germany)
- United States -- Emigration and immigration
- Wallerstein (Germany)
- Wankheim (Kusterdingen, Germany)
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Rolf Hofmann Collection, 1934, 1999-2005 AR 10913
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by LBI Staff and Timothy Ryan Mendenhall
- Date
- © 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- November 29, 2011 : Links to digital objects added in Container List.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository