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von Dohnanyi, Hans (1902-1945): Mischling status


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

Related material:

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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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Jews | Religious groups
Third Reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
Racial discrimination

Personal names
Bormann | Martin | 1900-[1945] | private secretary to Adolf Hitler
von Dohnanyi | Hans | 1902-1945

Corporate names

Places