Metadata: Estate of Martin Bier
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- Archives of Contemporary History at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiv für Zeitgeschichte der ETH Zürich
- Postal address:
- Hirschengraben 62, CH-8092 Zurich
- Phone number:
- +41 44 632 40 03
- Web address:
- https://www.afz.ethz.ch/
- Email:
- afz@history.gess.ethz.ch
- Reference number:
- NL Martin Bier
- Title:
- Estate of Martin Bier
- Title (official language):
- Kopienbestand Martin Bier
- Creator/accumulator:
- Bier, Martin
- Date(s):
- 1937/1997
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 0.1 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection comprises the estate of Martin Bier. The material illustrates his flight from Germany to Switzerland in 1944.
- Archival history:
- Martin Bier visited the AfZ in 1997 on the occasion of an interview conducted by Claudia Hoerschelmann and Uriel Gast. He personally delivered the written documents to the Archives shortly afterwards.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Martin Bier was born on 19 August 1919 in Tübingen. He attended schools in Freiburg im Breisgau and later served in the Wehrmacht during the 1940 campaign in France. Later that year, he was dismissed from the army because according to the National Socialist “Nuremberg Race Laws“ of 1935, Martin Bier and his brothers Gerhard and Georg were regarded as “first-degree hybrids“. In 1941/42 Bier studied at the Technical University in Stuttgart and worked in Freiburg im Breisgau after having been expelled from university. In March 1944, he fled Germany with his two brothers by jumping off a train near Basel. They were interned at the Bremgarten camp and the Lohnhof prison in Basel among other places. Bier was admitted to ETH Zurich in the winter semester of 1944/45 and returned to Germany in the summer of 1945.
- Access points: locations:
- Switzerland
- Subject terms:
- Refugees
- World War II
- Access, restrictions:
- Partially restricted. Subject to application.
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid is available.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://onlinearchives.ethz.ch/
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2019