Metadata: J1.153# Wahlen Friedrich Traugott
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- Swiss Federal Archives Bern
- Holding institution (official language):
- Bundesarchiv Bern
- Postal address:
- Archivstrasse 24, CH-3001 Bern
- Phone number:
- +41 58 462 89 89
- Web address:
- https://www.bar.admin.ch/bar/de/home.html
- Email:
- bundesarchiv@bar.admin.ch
- Reference number:
- J1.153#
- Title:
- J1.153# Wahlen Friedrich Traugott
- Title (official language):
- J1.153# Wahlen Friedrich Traugott
- Creator/accumulator:
- Wahlen, Friedrich Traugott
- Date(s):
- 1964
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 9.85 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Section J contains a large number of deposits and donations from 1798 onward, including documents from the Federal Council of the Peasant, Commercial and Citizens' Party Friedrich Traugott Wahlen (1899-1985). From a Jewish perspective, one file is of particular interest. It contains a message of greetings to Swiss Jews in connection with EXPO 1964 in Lausanne. [J1.153#1988/144#177*]
- Archival history:
- Wahlen’s documents were probably transferred to the Federal Archive after his resignation 1965.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Swiss Federal Archive in Bern has the statutory task of safeguarding, indexing, making available and evaluating archival documents of the Swiss Federal Assembly, the Federal Council, the Federal Administration and Swiss representations abroad. In accordance with the Federal Law on Archiving, it thus contributes to legal certainty, continuous and rational administrative management and makes government action comprehensible. The oldest holdings of the archive go back to the Central Archive of the Helvetic Republic, which was founded on 18 December 1798.
- Access points: locations:
- Bern
- Subject terms:
- Jewish political activity
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid is available, although the information is often rudimentary.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.recherche.bar.admin.ch/recherche/#/de/suche/einfach
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2020