Erich Pechmann Papers

Period 1914-1958
Total size   0.12 m.
ConsultationNot restricted

Biography

Born in Berlin 1900, died in Amsterdam (?) 1978; photographer in Kassel, also plaster modeller; in prison because of his candidature for the city council of Kassel on the KPD list 1933; discharged 1934 but in spite of this in concentration camp Breitenau 1934; emigrated to the Netherlands 1936; stayed there illegally and participated under the pseudonyms K. Wagner and Klaas 3373 in committees supporting the communist radio station '29, 8'; during the German occupation of the Netherlands active in the resistance; participated after the liberation in the Vereinigung Deutscher und Staatenloser Antifaschisten in den Niederlanden (VDSA); expelled from the Netherlands 1954, but returned after his marriage with Catharina Sara Noach 1954-1956.

Content

Personal documents 1914-1958; correspondence 1946-1948; file on his support for the communist radio station '29, 8' 1937-1940; file on the Dutch aliens policy and the expulsion of German anti-fascists from the Netherlands 1937-1938; file on the expulsion of Pechmann from the Netherlands and his return after marriage 1954-1956.

Processing information

List by Götz Langkau 2007