Metadata: Documents related to the Mannheimer family
Collection
- Country:
- Sweden
- Holding institution (official language):
- Göteborgs Universitetsbibliotek
- Postal address:
- Box 222, SE 405 30 Gothenburg
- Phone number:
- + 46 (0)31-786 00 00
- Web address:
- https://www.ub.gu.se/en/contact-us
- Email:
- ubkansli@ub.gu.se;
- Reference number:
- H 210
- Title:
- Documents related to the Mannheimer family
- Title (official language):
- Handlingar rörande släkten Mannheimer
- Creator/accumulator:
- Mannheimer family
- Date(s):
- 1850/1992
- Language:
- Swedish
- English
- Extent:
- 43 volumes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection comprises documents, correspondence and letters related to the extended Mannheimer family in Gothenburg. The collection consists of 43 volumes.
The first three volumes contain documents that are related to Theodor and Hanne Mannheimer. The volumes contain biographical documents, such as travelling passport, burgher letter, Magistrate protocol, marriage license, diaries, stock certificates, fund letters, texts, songs and speeches related to birthdays and new year’s celebrations, as well as private letters from family members, artists, politicians and lawyers, and documents related to the couple’s estate after their death.
Volumes four and five contain documents related to Herman and Lisa Mannheimer. They include economic documents related to financial gifts, contracts and wills, biographical documents such as birthday poems, chronicles and table menus from parties, letters to and from family members, financial magnates and artists, photographs, and albums with drawings.
Volumes 6 to 25 contain documents related to Carl and Maja Mannheimer. The volumes include biographical documents like educational records, marriage license, manuscripts, poems for birthdays and celebrations, card of thanks, watercolours, postcards, locks of hair and newspaper cuttings, manuscripts from authors Karl-Erik Forsslund, Axel Hertz and Aron Jonason, documents and correspondence related to hospitals, gardens and sheep breeding, memorial cards and words for deceased individuals, private almanacs and notebooks, economic documents such as inventories, accounts, cash books, letters to family members and other relatives, local institutions, artists, intellectuals, merchants, publicists, lawyers, doctors and politicians.
Volumes 26, 27 and 28 contain documents related to Love and Irma Mannheimer. The volumes include manuscripts on Jewish influence on Gothenburg’s musical scene, family history and genealogies, educational records, inventories of estate, poems and speeches related to birthdays, celebrations and deceased individuals, letters from artists, composers, authors and intellectuals, private diaries and poems, photographs of family, relatives and friends, and cuttings from newspapers.
Volumes 29 to 40 contain photo albums and portrait photographs related to the Jewish families Mannheimer, Fürstenberg, Magnus, Meyer and Rubensson. The 14 photo albums are from 1859 to 1950. The volumes contain over 330 portrait photographs, as well as published books and booklets related to concerts, celebrations and political events.
Volume 41 contains a scrapbook with newspaper cuttings from Swedish and Danish newspapers from 1909 to 1942, mainly related to Mannheimer family members, religion, art and education. Volume 42 contains further newspaper cuttings about family members, the end of the Second World War, while volume 43 contains genealogies and copies of testaments.
- Archival history:
- The collection was donated to Gothenburg University Library in 2006 and 2011.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Mannheimers moved from Denmark to Sweden in the middle of the 19th century and were important figures in financial, industrial and municipal developments in both Gothenburg and larger Sweden. The family also had multiple cultural interests and invested in Gothenburg’s cultural arena of theatre, music and art. The collections specifically concern Theodor and Hanne (née Meyer) Mannheimer, their sons Otto and Charlotte (née Abrahamson) Mannheimer, Herman and Lisa (née Magnus) Mannheimer, Carl and Maja (née de Maré) Mannheimer, and Carl Mannheimer’s son Love and Irma (née Nordvall) Mannheimer. They held important functions within the financial sphere, but were also philanthropists, patrons of art, donor, artists, lawyers, bank directors, pianists, doctors, nurses, musicians and intellectuals. They were heavily involved in the local cultural, financial, political and educational developments in Gothenburg.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Mannheimer
- Subject terms:
- Art
- Genealogy
- Music
- Personal records
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum in Stockholm
- Author of the description:
- Maja Hultman