Karl Adler Collection
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence of Karl Adler with individuals, including Theodor Baeuerle, Martin Buber, Alexander Dillmann, Theodor Heuss, Paul Hindemith, Otto Hirsch, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Paul Rieger, and Hans Walz; correspondence with family members, including letters written as a soldier during World War I and the November Revolution.
Material on the career of Karl Adler as musician and music educator in Germany and the United States, including clippings, educational documents, programs, letters of congratulation and condolence, and obituaries.
Records of the Verein zur Foerderung der Volksbildung, including programs, by-laws, memoranda, reports, commemorative publications, and correspondence; material on the Stuttgarter Konservatorium, a division of the Verein, of which Adler was director; material on Adler's dismissal in 1933, and on the operation of the Verein from then until its dissolution in 1936.
Records of the Stuttgarter Juedische Kunstgemeinschaft and of the Juedisches Lehrhaus, Stuttgart, including programs, correspondence, clippings, and statutes; material pertaining to Adler's work as director of the Mittelstelle Stuttgart, the local Jewish emigration agency, including reports to the Nazi administration and individual case histories.
Material on the Jewish community of Buttenhausen in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including decrees, Schutzbriefe, wills, and other documents; clippings and other material on the fate of the community in the Nazi period, including the will of Naphtali Beringer, the town's last rabbi, and on memorials to them after the war.
AR 3734 (Box 1) Letters about Lerchenthal family.
See Inventory List
Addenda: documents from the Bosch Archives, concerning attacks against Karl Adler in 1933 and the liquidation of the Konservatorium fuer Musik (uncatalogues)
The following individuals are mentioned in this collection: Adler, Karl; B“uerle, Theodor; Beringer, Naphtali; Dillmann, Alexander; Hindemith, Paul; Hirsch, Otto; Lerchenthal, Heinz; Buber, Martin; Kiesinger, Kurt Georg; Lerchenthal, Paula; Rieger, Paul; Walz, Hans.
The following locations are mentioned in this collection: Buttenhausen; Stuttgart; Baden; Wuerttemberg
Dates
- 1787-1973
Creator
- Adler, Karl, 1890-1973 (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.
Collection is microfilmed; use MF 572.
Readers may access the collection by visiting the Lillian Goldman Reading Room at the Center for Jewish History. We recommend reserving the collection in advance; please visit the LBI Online Catalog and click on the "Request" button.
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
Biographical Note
Born in Buttenhausen, Wuerttemberg on January 25, 1890, Karl Adler studied music at the Stuttgart Conservatory, of which he became director in 1922. He was a cofounder of the Verein zur Foerderung der Volksbildung, an adult-education organization, and director of its music department. In 1926, he was a director of the Juedisches Lehrhaus Stuttgart. After his dismissal from his other positions in 1933, he became director of the Stuttgarter Juedische Kunstgemeinschaft, as well as leader of the music department of the Mittelstelle fuer juedische Erwachsenenbildung, a division of the Reichsvertretung der deutschen Juden. From 1938 until 1940 when he emigrated to the United States, he directed the local emigration program. He taught music at various institutions, including Yeshiva University, and died in New York on July 10, 1973.
Extent
1.75 Linear Feet
Abstract
Correspondence of Karl Adler with individuals, including Theodor Baeuerle, Martin Buber, Alexander Dillmann, Theodor Heuss, Paul Hindemith, Otto Hirsch, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Paul Rieger, and Hans Walz; correspondence with family members, including letters written as a soldier during World War I and the November Revolution.
Other Finding Aid
9-page inventory.
Microfilm
Collection is available on 4 reels of microfilm (MF 572).
- Reel 1: 1/1-2/2
- Reel 2: 2/3-3/7
- Reel 3: 3/8-4/11
- Reel 4: 4/12-4/20
Separated Material
Photographs have been removed to the LBI Photograph Collection.
- Adler, Karl, 1890-1973
- Artists
- Buber, Martin, 1878-1965
- Decrees
- Germany -- History -- 1789-1900
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945
- Jewish leadership
- Jewish way of life
- Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany
- Jüdischer Kulturbund
- Kristallnacht, 1938
- Lerchenthal family
- Medals
- Mittelstelle Stuttgart
- Mittelstelle für Jüdische Erwachsenenbildung (Frankfurt, Main)
- Music
- Music teachers
- Musicians
- Poetry
- Rabbis
- Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland
- Restitution
- Schutzbriefe (letters of protection)
- Stuttgarter Jüdische Kunstgemeinschaft
- Stuttgarter Konservatorium für Musik
- Synagogues
- United States -- Emigration and immigration
- Verein zur Förderung der Volksbildung
- Wills
- Title
- Guide to the Karl Adler Collection, 1787-1973 AR 7276 / MF 572
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by LBI Staff
- Date
- © 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
Revision Statements
- March 2011: Links to digital objects added in Container List.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
