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Bondy, Otto: Personal papers


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1575

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Bondy, Otto: Personal papers

Date(s): 1927-1941

Level of description: Collection level (fonds)

Extent: 2 boxes

Name of creator(s): Bondy | Otto | 1892-1986 | engineer

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Otto Bondy was born into a Jewish family in Vienna, 5 Aug 1892. He served in the First World War with distinction. He completed his engineering studies in Vienna in 1921 and went to Berlin to become an assistant to the Professor of Engineering structures, German industry (c 1926-1931). He emigrated to London, c 1933 and died in Surrey, May 1986.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Personal correspondence of Otto Bondy, German Jewish immigrant to Great Britain and civil engineer, and that of his wife, Ursula Meyer, 1927-1941.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German and English

System of arrangement:

Chronological by subject matter

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Family

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Emigration | Migration
Jews | Religious groups
Refugees | Migrants
Third Reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines

Personal names
Bondy | Otto | 1892-1986 | engineer

Corporate names

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe