Metadata: The Hollander Companies: Documents left by Jacob Ettlinger
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/740105/Ö_3
- Title:
- The Hollander Companies: Documents left by Jacob Ettlinger
- Title (official language):
- Hollanderbolagen: Jacob Ettlingers efterlämnade handlingar
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ettlinger, Jacob
- Date(s):
- 1914/1968
- Language:
- Swedish
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 13 volumes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection consists of 13 volumes, related to German-born Jacob Ettlinger, Fritz Hollander’s father-in-law. It includes material related to both Jacob Ettlinger’s private life as well as his business concerns from 1914 to 1968. The first volume holds, for example, brochures from Israel, private correspondence in Swedish and German, and invoices, particularly related to the ritual bath, from 1914 to 1924. The correspondence is both to and from Jacob Ettlinger and his wife Jeanette Ettlinger. The second volume also holds private correspondence, documents from banks and invoices, as well as the celebratory pamphlet of the washing and bath institution that housed the ritual bath in Stockholm. The material in the second volume concerns the time between 1914 and 1926. The third volume holds correspondence related to Jacob Ettlinger and Jeanette Ettlinger to and from Jewish individuals in both Stockholm and Europe between 1923 and 1938. The volume also holds information and brochures from WIZO (Women’s International Zionist Organisation). The fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eight volumes hold private correspondence from 1920 to 1931. The sixth volume also includes passports. Volume nine holds a manuscript for a book on Jewish history. The manuscript, written on a typewriter, is close to 200 pages long. The tenth, eleventh and twelfth volumes hold, for example, annual accounts and reports on tax returns from 1935 to 1941. The last volume holds material on Jacob Ettlinger’s company AB Metall- och bergproduktion, as well as legal documents related to Jacob Ettlinger’s estate. They also include invoices and reports from Germany.
- Archival history:
- The archive was donated to the State Archive in 1997.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
This collection belongs to the business archive related to the so-called Hollander Companies. The Hollander Companies were run by Friedrich (Fritz) Hollander, who was born in Germany in 1915 to the merchant Julius Jeshajahu Hollander and his wife Paula (née Gutmann). Fritz Hollander died in Stockholm in 2004. He grew up working within the family business F. Hollander & Co, founded in 1862. He emigrated to Sweden in 1933, where he became the CEO of the family business, as well as the company AB Baltiska Skinnkompaniet that traded furs and leather. The Hollander company had local branches in, for example, Stockholm, Tel Aviv, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Montreal and Bulawayo. Fritz Hollander married Camilla (née Ettlinger), who was daughter to Jacob Ettlinger, the chairman of the orthodox synagogue Adat Jisrael in Stockholm (see archive SE/RA/720483 at the Swedish State Archive). Fritz Hollander was also the lay leader of the Jewish community in Stockholm from 1962 and leader of the Swedish Zionist Bund from 1968. He was an important figure in setting up, for example, the Jewish Hillel school in Stockholm.
Jacob Ettlinger established the company AB Metall & Bergsprodukter in 1917 and settled 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. He was married to Danish-born Jeanette Ettlinger and they had three children: Camilla Hollander, Ruth Ettlinger and Joseph Ettlinger. Jacob Ettlinger died in 1952. For more material related to Jacob Ettlinger and his family, see archive SE/RA/720483 (Jacob Ettlinger’s personal archive) at the Swedish State Archive.
- Access points: locations:
- Stockholm
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to the collection is restricted to academic research. Permission is required and should be obtained in advance from the Hollander family. Their contact details can be requested from the National Archives by e-mail: riksarkivet@riksarkivet.se.
- 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
