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Germany -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbuerger Juedischen Glaubens

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3965
Abstract

The collection contains bylaws, circulars, guiding principles, lectures, minutes, newspaper articles, and proclamations pertaining to the German representative organization “Centralverein”.

Dates: 1884-1937, 1972

Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbuerger Juedischen Glaubens - Alfred Hirschberg Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MF 582
Abstract

Circulars, pamphlets, clippings, reports concerning the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbuerger Juedischen Glaubens, and Eugen Fuchs, its cofounder.

Dates: 1894-1953

Ernst Kantorowicz Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 7216 / MF 561
Abstract

Correspondence on various topics, including emigration to the United States and Cuba; relocation in academic jobs; denazification and conditions in Germany after the war; and Kantorowicz's scholarship. Unpublished manuscripts, and offprints of articles and reviews by Kantorowicz, largely on medieval cultural history; a brief biography of him by Ralph Giesey. Manuscripts, correspondence, legal briefs, clippings, and other material on the loyalty-oath controversy; material on Kantorowicz's tenure at the University of Frankfurt, and on his dismissal. Manuscripts, correspondence, and other papers of family members; an art history essay by Gertrude Kantorowicz and a pamphlet of poetry from Theresienstadt; genealogies; and a manuscript on Simon Kaliphari of Posen; manuscript by Kaete Ledermann, A Memorial of Angi ("Esther") Kantorowicz, c. 1904-1944, 1954, including transcript compiled by Guenther Roth. Photos of Kantorowicz and of family members. Papers of Richard Kandt (1867-1918), an African explorer and, from 1908-1914, administrator of Ruanda: poems, letters, maps, and obituaries. Addenda: Original lectures by Kantorowicz. Photocopies for reader service.

Dates: 1918-1991

Hans Eltzbacher Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3623 / MF 649
Abstract

Financial, business, and personal papers of the Eltzbacher family and related families, including correspondence, architectural plans, financial ledgers, wills and testaments, clippings, and eulogies; of particular interest is the business correspondence of Count Aloys zu Kaunitz-Rietberg with the banker Jacob Loeb Eltzbacher (1758-1825), who was based in Neuenkirchen, Westphalia, along with supporting documents and records; material on the career of the lawyer Carl Eltzbacher (1854-1936), including clippings on his candidacy to the Cologne city council in 1903 and correspondence, including a letter from Konrad Adenauer.

Dates: 1781-1971

Julie Braun-Vogelstein Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25034 / MF 473
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence and other materials related to the Braun-Vogelstein family.

Dates: 1743-1971

Moritz von Cohn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 1120 / AR 1120 / MF 527 / MF 172
Abstract

Financial and personal correspondence of Cohn, along with supporting documents, including letters from German nobles and court officials.

Dates: 1810-1902

Siegfried Guggenheim Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 180 / MF 612
Abstract

This collection contains records of the Guggenheim family, including family tree, family history, vital records, obituaries, papers of family members who emigrated to Chile, and other papers of family members.

Dates: 1791-1969

Siegfried Seligmann Mühsam Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 7112
Abstract

This collection documents the life of Siegfried Seligmann Mühsam. It contains material about his education, military service, career as a pharmacist, public service in Lübeck, as well as some writings. It contains also materials by and about Mühsam's ancestors and descendants, both original correspondence and genealogical research.

Dates: 1801-1988; Majority of material found within 1853-1915