Metadata: Jewish Emigration und Transfer, Restitution Matters
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. E
- Title:
- Jewish Emigration und Transfer, Restitution Matters
- Title (official language):
- Jüdische Auswanderung und Transfer, Restitutionsfragen
- Creator/accumulator:
- Warburg Bank; Warburg Archive Foundation
- Date(s):
- 1933/2020
- Date note:
- 1933/present
- Language:
- German
- English
- French
- Extent:
- 280.4 metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- M. M. Warburg & Co. was a shareholder of "Paltreu" (Palestine Treuhand-Stelle der Juden in Deutschland GmbH) and a shareholder of "Alltreu" (Allgemeine Treuhandstelle für die jüdische Auswanderung GmbH), which granted Jews favourable conditions for the transfer of currencies to other countries. Accordingly, the files of these two companies can be found in this collection. There are also files on individuals, financial transactions and correspondence on the subject.
- 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.
- System of arrangement:
- The material is arranged in thematical 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