Metadata: Special archives of non-municipal provenance - estates, family and company archives - personal collection Otto Bennemann
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Municipal Archive of Braunschweig
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stadtarchiv Braunschweig
- Postal address:
- Schlossplatz 1, 38100 Braunschweig
- Phone number:
- +49 531 4704719
- Email:
- stadtarchiv@braunschweig.de
- Reference number:
- G IX 76
- Title:
- Special archives of non-municipal provenance - estates, family and company archives - personal collection Otto Bennemann
- Title (official language):
- Sonderarchive nichtstädtischer Provenienz - Nachlässe, Familien- und Firmenarchive - Nachlass Otto Bennemann
- Creator/accumulator:
- Bennemann, Otto
- Date(s):
- 1896/2003
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 12 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection comprises documents concerning the official and political activity of Otto Bennemann. It includes material relating to the remembrance of the Second World War and issues relating to Jews, such as No. 45: Speeches, articles, interviews, 1963, including inauguration of the synagogue in Hannover (Nov. 10, 1963), No. 153 Correspondence with the Philosophical Political Academy, including a report entitled: "The activity of the "Arab-Jewish Center of the University of Haifa in the academic year 1979/80 ," No. 492: Donation certificates for various social activities (file folder), including Jüdisches Nationalfonds e.V. [Jewish National Fund] (1969), No. 371: Anniversary 1973 (greetings cards, telegrams and letters from official sources, including Hans Birnbaum, Egon Franke, Alexander Ginsburg for the Central Council of the Jews)
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Otto Bennemann (1903-2003) was active in the resistance during the era of National Socialism and had to emigrate. In 1945, he returned to Germany and was committed to reconstructing democratic structures. He served as Mayor of Braunschweig for two terms.
- Access points: locations:
- Braunschweig
- Hannover
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bennemann, Otto
- Birnbaum, Hans
- Franke, Egon
- Ginsburg, Alexander
- System of arrangement:
- There is no system or arrangement. The material is kept in order of accession.
- Finding aids:
- A finding aid and database are available.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.stadtarchiv-braunschweig.findbuch.net/php/main.php?ar_id=3697
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Meike Buck
