Lord Fisher of Camden: documents (1936-1941)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1556 WL 1041
Held at	: Wiener Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/ ›
Full 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 & 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

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

Related material:

Publication note:

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