Metadata: Jacob Ettlinger: Documents relating to the Ettlinger family
Collection
- Country:
- Sweden
- Holding institution:
- Swedish National Archives in Marieberg
- Holding institution (official language):
- Riksarkivet Marieberg
- Postal address:
- Box 12541, 102 29 Stockholm
- Phone number:
- 010-476 70 00
- Web address:
- https://riksarkivet.se/startpage
- Email:
- riksarkivet@riksarkivet.se
- Reference number:
- SE/RA/720483/6
- Title:
- Jacob Ettlinger: Documents relating to the Ettlinger family
- Title (official language):
- Jacob Ettlinger: Handlingar rörande familjen Ettlinger
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ettlinger, Jacob
- Date(s):
- 1936/1986
- Language:
- Swedish
- German
- Extent:
- 6 volumes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Moving images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection is part of the personal archive of the Jewish, German-born businessman and chairman of the Orthodox community Adat Jisrael, Jacob Ettlinger. The collection comprises six volumes which contain documents from 1936 to 1986 that concern matters within the extended Ettlinger family. The first volume contains documents from 1951 to 1958 related to Jacob Ettlinger’s company AB Metall & Bergsprodukter (Metal and Rock Products), organised chronologically. The second volume also contains documents linked to the company AB Metall & Bergsprodukter, dating from 1951 to 1962.
The third volume contains documents that are linked to Jacob Ettlinger’s extended family in Germany. It contains copies of the religious history of Jacob Ettlinger’s relatives, including their importance for the development of Neo-Orthodoxy. It contains reports from the estate of Jacob Ettlinger, completed in 1956, documents linked to the sale of the family’s properties in Frankfurt am Main in 1958, and the inventory of the estate by Jeannette Ettlinger from 1957. The volume also contains correspondence between Jacob Ettlinger’s daughter Ruth Ettlinger, Jaocb Ettlinger’s cousin Max Ettlinger, the Jewish Community of Stockholm (Mosaiska församlingen i Stockholm), Jacob Ettlinger’s son Joseph Ettlinger, and a certain “Onkel [uncle] Kisse”. Some photographs and a family tree from the 1950s are also included in the volume.
The fourth volume includes condolences sent to the family before the funeral of Jacob Ettlinger in 1952. The fifth volume include documents related to family members, and the sixth volume contains a recorded film from the bar mitzvah of Jacob Ettlinger’s son Joseph Ettlinger, as well as film clips from weddings and trips the family attended from 1936 to 1982. The final volume contains documents related to Joseph Ettlinger and his role in the orthodox synagogue Adat Jisrael, the Jewish Community of Stockholm (Mosaiska församlingen i Stockholm) and AB Metall & Bergsprodukter from 1952 to 1986.
- Archival history:
- The archive was originally part of the Hollander Companies archive (SE/RA/740105) but was split from the rest, donated to the National Archives, and made accessible to the public in 2012.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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Jacob Ettlinger was born in Mannheim in Germany in 1880 to the merchant Mayer Ettlinger and his wife Mathilde (née Michael). The family moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1888 and at 14, Jacob Ettlinger began his mercantile training in the family business. In 1899, he was employed by the gravel and metal company Beer, Sondheim & Co and worked in Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States and Italy. Due to the First World War, Jacob Ettlinger was stuck in Sweden during a business trip in 1915. He established the company AB Metall & Bergsprodukter in 1917 and established a life in Stockholm. He became the chairman of the Orthodox community Adat Jisrael and was also involved in matters of the Jewish afternoon school and the poor relief in the Jewish community of Stockholm.
AB Metall & Bergsprodukter (Metal and Rock Products) was established in Stockholm in 1917 in close relationship with the German company Beer, Sondheim & Co. It was an international company with links to other companies or subsidiary companies in European countries, such as Denmark, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, Russia, Czechoslovakia and Norway. After Jacob Ettlinger’s death in 1952, his son Joseph Ettlinger became CEO of AB Metall & Bergsprodukter.
- Access points: locations:
- Stockholm
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Personal records
- Trade and commerce
- Finding aids:
- The index can be found in a folder in the archive and in the archive’s online database, NAD (Nationell Arkivdatabas).
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum in Stockholm
- Author of the description:
- Maja Hultman