Fraenkel, Ernst: correspondence and personal papers

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1556 WL 828
Held at	: Wiener Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/ ›
Full title	: Fraenkel, Ernst: correspondence and personal papers
Date(s)	: 1919-1961
Level of description	: collection
Extent	: 1 folder
Name of creator(s)	: Fraenkel | Ernst | d 1971 | Professor of Economics and Social History

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Ernst Fraenkel was a Jewish Professor of Economics and Social History, who was born in Breslau, Lower Silesia; served as an officer in the German army in the First World War; was a representative of the Silesian provincial Landtag in the 1930s; secretary of the Gesellschaft für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin; emigrated to UK in 1939; returned to Germany in 1947 and became Director of the Institut für Wirtschafts und Sozialgeschichte at University of Frankfurt a. M.; died Frankfurt, 1971.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Ernst Fraenkel comprising personal papers, 1919-1939, including First World War army record, and British registration card and correspondence between Kapitänleutnant Kraus of the press office of the German Ministry of Defence and Fraenkel regarding Jewish soldiers who fought for Germany during the two World Wars, 14 Apr 1961-26 Apr 1961.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
Mostly German

System of arrangement:

Arranged in sections as follows: personal papers; correspondence.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Finding aids:

Detailed description on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received Feb 1990.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

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