Hans Schäffer Family Collection

This collection contains a wide variety of materials by and about Hans Schäffer and his family.

Material about Hans Schäffer includes World War One correspondence; a few clippings; fragments of writings; employment papers from his work in the Weimar government (1919); and 80th birthday telegrams from Konrad Adenauer and German diplomat Gustav von Schmoller. Materials also include a certificate awarding the German Knight Commander's Cross (Großes Verdienstkreuz mit Stern), and various diplomas. Also found in the collection are obituaries and dozens of condolence cards and letters to Marianne Breslauer after Schäffer's death.

Photographs in the collection include six small, mounted photographs of members of a Jewish student dueling organization (schlagende Verbindung) in Breslau, circa 1904-1906, inscribed to Hans Schäffer; photo postcards and snapshots of Hans Schäffer during World War One (circa 1917-1918); Schäffer family photos (snapshots and portraits), 1903-1950, most well-labeled; and World War One era portrait photographs of Hans's brother Moritz Friedrich Schäffer in uniform.

Other materials relate to Renate Schäffer (obituaries, a memorial service program, a photocopy of a clipping about her career), Charlotte Schäffer (documents relating to her burial plot; an undated letter from her to Herbert Dom), Eva Schäffer (photocopies of obituaries, and a large collage of photos and poems made for her 80th birthday), and Adolf Heilberg (obituaries, a sketch, a typescript of a eulogy, a diploma from the University of Breslau, and a photocopy of volume 1, issue 1 of "Der Beobachter an der Weida," a newspaper founded by Heilberg's father).

The collection also contains typescripts of Schäffer family poems and plays made for various family occasions. The Various folder includes an essay about and photo of Cora Berliner and a death notice for Adda Curtius née Carp (1967).