Ernst Nobs Papers

Period 1914-1935
Total size   0.03 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Seedorf 1886, died in Meilen, Switzerland 1957; social democratic politician; active in the Zimmerwald Movement; chairman of the city council of Zurich 1916-1919, 1920-1935, of the Kantonalrat of Zurich 1916-1935, member of the Nationalrat 1919-1943; the first socialist chosen into the Bundesrat; chairman of the financial and customs department 1943-1951; editor of Demokrat Lucern 1912-1913, of the social democratic party organ Volksstimme St. Gall 1914-1915, and of Volksrecht Zurich 1915-1935; one of the founders and editor of Rote Revue 1921-1941.

Content

Letters from Friedrich Adler 1919-1930, Pavel Aksel'rod 1915, Angelica Balabanoff 1917-1925, Giuseppe E. Modigliani 1928-1931, Karl Radek 1915-1917 and n.d., David Rjazanov 1916 and n.d., G. Sacerdote 1921-1924 and others; manuscripts by Angelica Balabanoff n.d., Konrad Haenisch 1914, Fritz Platten n.d., Karl Radek n.d. and others, including a photocopy of a manuscript by Vladimir I. Lenin; a file on the Untersuchungskommission in der Angelegenheit Robert Grimm 1917; some clippings 1920 and n.d.