Metadata: Estate of Leopold Leng
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 Leopold Leng
- Title:
- Estate of Leopold Leng
- Title (official language):
- Einzelbestand Leopold Leng
- Creator/accumulator:
- Leng, Leopold
- Date(s):
- 1930s/1980s
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 0.03 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection mainly contains biographical material concerning Leopold Leng.
- Archival history:
- The collection was transferred to the AfZ in 2009.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Leopold Leng was born in Vienna on 17 January 1900 and died on 14 March 1984 in Wettingen. His father was Arthur, an engineer, and his mother Paula, née Horn. In 1928 the family moved to Berlin, in 1935 to Madrid and in 1936 to Paris. In 1941 Leng married Anna Kruger with whom he fled to Switzerland in 1942. The couple was interned in Birmenstorf, Zuchwil and Sierre. In 1966, Leng married Lilly Häuseler, née Rademacher.
- Subject terms:
- Personal records
- Access, restrictions:
- No open access. Subject to application.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2020