IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1041
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Lord Fisher of Camden: documents (1936-1941)
Date(s): 1936-1941
Level of description: collection
Extent: 1 folder
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Unknown
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Lord Fisher of Camden, 1936-1941, comprise a Gestapo file of correspondence and reports relating to the political reliability of Heinrich Niemöller, retired clergyman and father of Martin and Wilhelm Niemöller. It contains original correspondence between the Gestapo offices in Düsseldorf, Bielefeld and Wuppertal, the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and the Reichspressekammer, 1936-1941. The collection also includes a report from the commandant of Dachau concentration camp to the Gestapo, Düsseldorf, relating to Leo Lorch, a Jewish inmate, 1938.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German
System of arrangement:
Arranged in original order.
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
Finding aids:
A detailed description exists on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
All that is known about the provenance of this material is that it was in the possession of Lord Fisher of Camden, one time president of the Board of Jewish Deputies. On the death of his wife in the early 1990s (Lord Fisher himself had died some 15 years previously), the material was found by her executor in Lord Fisher's library and subsequently deposited at the Wiener Library.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited in 1992.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Samantha Velumyl.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: March 2008