Metadata: Estate of Georges Brunschvig
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 Georges Brunschvig
- Title:
- Estate of Georges Brunschvig
- Title (official language):
- Nachlass Georges Brunschvig
- Creator/accumulator:
- Brunschvig, Georges; Brunschvig, Odette
- Date(s):
- 1914/2005
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 2.6 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains biographical material, including a diary and memos. The activities of Georges Brunschvig as lawyer and SIG president are well documented. It also includes the trial documents concerning “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”. Furthermore, the collection contains documents on the presidency of Georges Brunschvig in the Jewish Community of Bern. The collection is supplemented by a collection of books and press articles, which was continued by Odette Brunschvig until 1998. Further documents on Brunschvig's activities for the SIG can be found in the SIG's historical archive.
- Archival history:
- The estate of Georges Brunschvig was handed over to the AfZ in 1998 by his wife Odette Brunschvig.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Georges Brunschvig was born in Bern on 21 February 1908 and died on 14 October 1973 in Zurich. He studied law at the Universities of Bern and Dijon and became a lawyer in 1933. From 1934, Brunschvig practiced in Bern. From 1935 to 1937, he represented together with Emil Raas the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities (SIG) and the Jewish Community of Bern in the Bern Trial of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”. In 1935, he married Odette Wyler. He was the advisor to the Gustloff assassin David Frankfurter in 1943. Brunschvig played a significant role in Frankfurter’s pardon in 1945. From 1940 to 1948, Brunschvig was president of the Jewish community of Bern and a member of various committees of the SIG, including refugee aid and the “Defence and Reconnaissance” department . From 1946 to 1973, Brunschvig was president of the SIG. In the postwar period, he was the defence lawyer in several spectacular criminal trials.
- Access points: locations:
- Switzerland
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Personal records
- Professions
- Professions--Lawyers
- 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
