Metadata: Estate of Marcus Wyler
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 Marcus Wyler
- Title:
- Estate of Marcus Wyler
- Title (official language):
- Einzelbestand Marcus Wyler
- Creator/accumulator:
- Wyler, Marcus
- Date(s):
- 1882/1999
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 0.03 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- In addition to biographical material, the collection mainly contains correspondence of Marcus Wyler, Saly Mayer and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. It also includes typescripts and publications by Wyler. There is also an exposé from July 1944 on reports received on the Holocaust in Poland and Hungary as well as two portrait photos of Marcus Wyler in his law office in Zurich (ca. 1955).
- Archival history:
- The estate was transferred to the AfZ (Archives of Contemporary History) in 1999 and 2004 by Reto L Wyler.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Marcus Wyler, an attorney-at-law, was born in St. Gallen on 16 June 1882 and died in Zurich on 3 October 1958. He was the son of Leopold and Stephanie Wyler-Reichenbach and attended schools in St. Gallen. From 1902 he studied at the universities of Zurich, Berlin, Lausanne and earned his doctorate of both laws in 1904. He worked as a teacher in England for two years and returned to Switzerland in 1906. He worked briefly in a law office, then joined the civil service as district clerk. In 1909, he was elected investigative judge and in 1910-11 he passed his bar exam. In 1912, he founded his own law office in St. Gallen (until 1932). He was also the co-founder of the “Vereinigung Kinder und Frauenschutz in St. Gallen” (Association for the Protection of Children and Women in St. Gallen) and member of the commission of the “Gemeinnützige Gesellschaft St. Gallen” (Municipal Charitable Society). He was a member of the "Concordia" lodge in St. Gallen. In 1932, he moved to Zurich and opened his own law office in Zurich (until around 1955). He closely collaborated with Saly Mayer, the president of the SIG (Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities), including in the ransom negotiations of 1944 with SS officer Kurt Becher et al.
- Access points: locations:
- St Gallen
- Switzerland
- 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; 2020
