Metadata: Fraenkel, Ernst: correspondence and personal papers
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- The Wiener Holocaust Library
- Holding institution (official language):
- The Wiener Holocaust Library
- Postal address:
- 29 Russell SquareLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC1B 5DP
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7636 7247
- Web address:
- https://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/
- Reference number:
- 828
- Title:
- Fraenkel, Ernst: correspondence and personal papers
- Title (official language):
- Fraenkel, Ernst: correspondence and personal papers
- Creator/accumulator:
- Fraenkel, Ernst, d 1971, Professor of Economics and Social History
- Date(s):
- 1919/1961
- Language:
- English
- German
- Extent:
- 1 folder
- Scope and content:
- Papers of Ernst Fraenkel comprising personal papers, 1919-1939, including First World War army record, and British registration card and correspondence between Kapitänleutnant Kraus of the press office of the German Ministry of Defence and Fraenkel regarding Jewish soldiers who fought for Germany during the two World Wars, 14 Apr 1961-26 Apr 1961.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Ernst Fraenkel was a Jewish Professor of Economics and Social History, who was born in Breslau, Lower Silesia; served as an officer in the German army in the First World War; was a representative of the Silesian provincial Landtag in the 1930s; secretary of the Gesellschaft für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin; emigrated to UK in 1939; returned to Germany in 1947 and became Director of the Institut für Wirtschafts und Sozialgeschichte at University of Frankfurt a. M.; died Frankfurt, 1971.
- Access points: locations:
- Germany
- Great Britain
- Access points: persons/families:
- Fraenkel, Ernst
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Military
- Personal records
- World War I
- Access, restrictions:
- Open
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/70740
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
- Wiener Library
