Metadata: Family files, legacies, correspondence
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Warburg Archive Foundation
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stiftung Warburg Archiv
- Postal address:
- on request
- Phone number:
- on request
- Web address:
- www.swa-hamburg.org
- Email:
- info@swa-harmburg.org
- Reference number:
- Rep. F
- Title:
- Family files, legacies, correspondence
- Title (official language):
- Familienakten- Nach- und Vorlässe, Korrespondenz
- Creator/accumulator:
- Warburg family
- Date(s):
- 1559/2020
- Date note:
- 1559/present
- Language:
- German
- English
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 472 metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Graphic material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains genealogical material about the Warburg family. This includes private correspondence, diaries, personal documents, public and institutional engagements, primarily from the late 19th century. Furthermore this collection contains orders, doctors' certificates, birth certificates and passports, all related to the family's history.
- Archival history:
- It was not until around 1939 that a company and family archive was systematically set up by the bank company Warburg; however, shortly before 1900 a systematic storage was begun of files that were considered important. In addition to Max Warburg Sr., the 100th anniversary of the bank in 1898 was probably the decisive factor for this. From 1940 to 1945 historical files were destroyed. The titles of the 6,000 files in total were registered in a list of discarded files (the selection criteria are not comprehensible). In 1939, files that might otherwise have fallen victim to removal were sent to Max Warburg Sr. in the USA for the purpose of drafting his memoirs and finally returned to Hamburg in the late 1970s, where they formed the core of Eric Warburg's private archive. Further files were stored from the 1950s to the 1990s in poor conditions at a shipping company. Finally, the decision was made to keep the old archive at its current address. This was institutionally anchored in 2006 with the establishment of the Warburg Archive Foundation.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- M.M. Warburg & Co. was founded in 1798 by the brothers Moses Marcus Warburg and Gerson Warburg. During the National Socialist era, the bank was "aryanised" and operated under the name Brinckmann, Wirtz & Co from 1941. In 1949, the Warburg family again became shareholders of the bank, represented by Eric M Warburg, who was a general partner (Gesellschafter) of Brinckmann, Wirtz & Co. from 1956. In 1969, the bank was renamed M.M. Warburg-Brinckmann, Wirtz & Co. and finally reverted to the original name of M.M. Warburg & Co. in 1991.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Ginzburg
- Loeb, James
- Melchior, Carl
- Thorsch
- Warburg
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged by generation [of the family]. Within these there are sub-categories which are in thematic order.
- Access, restrictions:
- Access is by appointment only.
- Finding aids:
- The following finding aids are available for this collection: electronic finding aids; Emigrant Data Base; Verlustliste [“list of losses”] 43/45.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Esther Yen