Metadata: Estate of Otto Zaugg
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 Otto Zaugg
- Title:
- Estate of Otto Zaugg
- Title (official language):
- Nachlass Otto Zaugg
- Creator/accumulator:
- Zaugg, Otto
- Date(s):
- 1925/1988
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 1.6 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains a variety of personal and official documents such as a biographical sketch, personal files, material on Otto Zaugg’s time at the Technical Labour Service Zurich 1932-1947 and the Office for Labour Colonies of the "Association of Swiss Student Unions". It also includes material on the "Schweizerische Zentralstelle für freiwilligen Arbeitsdienst” (Swiss Central Office for Voluntary Labour Service) 1933-1947 (federal decisions, ordinances, statutes, participation and work regulations, administration, financing, conferences, annual reports, World Congress 1938, publications on the Arbeitsdienst), the "Schweizerische Kommission für archäologischen Arbeitsdienst", the "Gesellschaft Schweizerischer Akademiker" (GESA) 1936-1950 and the "Eidgenössische Zentralleitung der Heime und Lager" 1940-1950 (conferences, meetings, camp reports, lectures, activity reports, disputes in the central management 1943/44, psychological problems of refugee care, return migration, refugee camps in Bavaria and the Red Cross, retraining workshops in Baden-Württemberg, cultural aid organisations for war-damaged foreign countries, controversies after 1945, final report 1950). The collection also includes correspondence with individuals such as Walter-Robert Corti, Robert Faesi, Robert Jezler, Gertrud Kurz, Heinrich Rothmund, Oskar Schürch, Eduard von Steiger and others. There are also files on Swiss refugee policy 1933-1955 and Swiss aid to Europe 1948/49.
- Archival history:
- The collection was transferred to the AfZ (Archives of Contemporary History) in several deliveries between 1995 and 1998.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Otto Zaugg was head of the Swiss Central Office for Voluntary Labour Service from 1933. The Federal Councils decision of 12 of March 1940 to set up labour camps for civilian refugees led to the creation of the "Central Management of Labour Camps" (from 1946 "Federal Central Management of Homes and Camps"), which Zaugg headed until its dissolution in February 1950. The central management was responsible for a total of 112 camps, 161 homes and 10 special operations for around 50,000 people.
- Access points: locations:
- Switzerland
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Refugees
- 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