Paul Hertz Papers

Period 1903-1963 (-1991)
Total size   5.75 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Worms, Germany 1888, died in Berlin 1961; social democratic politician, economic expert; from 1905 member of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD); staff member of the Leipziger Volkszeitung in 1914; became member of the Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (USPD) during the First World War, editor of Die Freiheit in November 1918; returned to the SPD in 1922; member of the Reichstag 1920-1933; emigrated to Prague in 1933, member of the `SPD-Executive in banishment' (SOPADE); led the periodical Sozialistische Aktion 1933-1938; one of the leaders of the Neu Beginnen group; supported the formation of a German Volksfront; broke with the SOPADE in 1938; lived in the USA at the end of 1939; member of the Council for a Democratic Germany; returned to Germany in 1949 to work as a financial advisor for the Greater Berlin Council and as a senator for economy and credit.

Content

Personal documents; correspondence with Friedrich Adler, Otto Bauer, August Bebel, Eduard Bernstein, Léon Blum, Julius Braunthal, Rudolf Breitscheid, Georg Dietrich, Wilhelm Dittmann, Otto Friedlaender, Willy Friedlaender, Albert Grzesinski, Paul Hagen, Rudolf Hilferding, Marie Juchacz, Benedikt Kautsky, Karl and Luise Kautsky, Paul Löbe, Erich Ollenhauer, Nicolaas W. Posthumus, Ernst Reuter, Friedrich Salomon, Carl Severing, Philipp Scheidemann, Wilhelm Sollmann, Friedrich Stampfer, Hans Stein, Rudolf Wissel, Clara Zetkin and others, and family correspondence, for the most part consisting of correspondence by Paul and Hanna Hertz with Hilda Hertz; manuscripts and texts of speeches; notes; files on the SPD before and after 1945, the group Neu Beginnen, the conflict with SOPADE, the Ernst Reuter-Gesellschaft and other subjects; memoranda, circular letters, proceedings and reports; manuscripts written by Karl Kautsky, P. Sering and O. Strasser and others; texts of some commemorative speeches and clippings; printed material consisting of books, pamphlets, copies of periodicals, separate prints, leaflets and press clippings.

Arrangement

Die nachstehend verzeichnete Ergänzung zum Nachlaß von Paul Hertz erhielt das IISG 1991 und 1998 von dessen Tochter Hilda Hertz Golden in Amherst, MA., Vereinigte Staaten. Eine Reihe von Fotografien von Paul Hertz aus den Berliner Jahren wurde an das Bildarchiv abgegeben. Ein autobiografisches Manuskript von Hilda Hertz Golden `On becoming an American', daß sich mit ihrer Korrespondenz mit den Eltern vielfältig inhaltlich berührt und gleichzeitig für die Biographie von Paul Hertz von Interesse sein dürfte, wurde in den Katalog der Bibliothek aufgenommen.

Processing information

List of the supplement only, made by Götz Langkau in 1998