Robert Wolfers Family Collection

The collection contains extensive personal documents including correspondence and biographical material, of members of the Wolfers family from the early 19th century until mid 20th century. There is also significant documentation concerning the Berlin road construction firm of the Wolfers in the early 20th century.

Most of the folders in Series I contain genealogical documents including birth, marriage, death certificates and testaments relating to the individuals in the folder name. Folder 3 contains letters from such prominent figures as Hermann Struck, Otto Gebühr, Hans Goslar. Two etchings by Hermann Struck are also included and a certificate with medal which Flora Wolfers received for her volunteer service as a nurse during war-time.

The printed family tree in folder 4 entitled "Stammbaum der Familien Itzig und Feibes," edited by J. Feibes and published in Munich in 1887 includes family names: Itzig, Mathe, Alsberg, Harff, Romberg, Weyl, Grünebaum, Moses, Blumenfeld, Rothschild, Joseph, Ascher, Rosenstein, Wolfers, Cramer, Beerman, Lewin, Hertz, Löwenstein, Hamburger, Stern, Feibes, Wolf, Rosenbaum, Flechtheim, Ransohoff, Schwabe, Steinberg, Reifenberg, Gaudchaux, Egers, Sutheim, Jonas, Aschaffenburg, KOenigsberger, Goldschmidt, Ems, Frank, Abel, Hirschland, Katzenstein, Heidenheim, Heymann, Bielefeld, Rosenberger, Stein, Schönbeck, Kaufmann, Cohen, Paradies, Heilbrunn, Arnold, Bing, Abraham, Levi, Levison, Mey.

The Gustav Stresemann material in folder 11 includes a postcard to Max Reiner (a Wolfers relative) and draft of a speech. The letters of Robert Wolfers to LBI in folder 9 provide outlines of family history including genealogical information.