IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 835
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: von Dohnanyi, Hans (1902-1945): Mischling status
Date(s): 1939
Level of description: collection
Extent: 1 item
Name of creator(s): Bormann | Martin | 1900-[1945] | private secretary to Adolf Hitler
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Hans von Dohnanyi was a Jewish 'Mischling', a term used during the Third Reich for a person deemed to have partial Jewish ancestry. He was born in Vienna, Jan 1902 and was a lawyer from 1929-1938. He worked in the Reichsjustizministerium, 1938 and as Reichsgerichtsrat at the Reichsgericht, Leipzig, 1939-1943. Whilst he was head of the political section of the Abwehr des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht he was implicated in the resistance movement and on 5 Apr 1943 was arrested, and is reported to have died in Sachsenhausen concentration camp on 8 Apr 1945.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Copy of a letter from Hitler's deputy, Martin Bormann, reporting Hitler's decision to continue employing Hans von Dohnanyi as Reichsgerichtsrat despite being a 2nd class Mischling, 17 Jan 1939. However, Dohnanyi was not allowed to join the Nazi party.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German
System of arrangement:
N/A
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Detailed description on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Jewish Central Information Office
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
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: Mar 2008