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Otto Reimers Papers

Period  1932-1983
Total size   2.4 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Hamburg 1902, died in Laufenburg, Baden 1984; anarchist; became involved in the Allgemeine Arbeiter-Union (AAU) in Hamburg in the early 1920s; member of the group around the antiauthoritarian socialist paper Proletarischer Zeitgeist 1922-1933; became anarchist around 1930; active in the anarchist resistance in the 1930s; one of the most active anarchists after the Second World War; published the German edition of CRIA 1955-1959, partly with André Prudhommeaux; editor of Information 1955-1962; the last paper he edited was Neues Beginnen/Zeitgeist 1969-1978; contributed to many other anarchist periodicals, such as Die Freie Gesellschaft 1949-1953, Der Freie Arbeiter and Befreiung from 1948 onwards; German delegate to the International Anarchist Congress in London in 1958.

Content

Correspondence with Günther Bartsch 1971-1982, Augustin Souchy 1968-1982, Uwe Timm 1955-1982, Alfred Weiland 1967-1972, Kurt Zube (pseudonym K.H.Z. Solneman) and the Mackay-Gesellschaft 1957-1981 and others; manuscripts and notes relating to lectures given at international congresses; press clippings, articles, typescripts and other documents concerning anarchism in European countries, in particular in Germany and documentation concerning Nazism and the Second World War.

Processing information

List made by R. de Jong in 1984, edited by Ed Kool in 2007

LIST


CORRESPONDENCE

1-41
Correspondence A-Z.   1947-1983.  41 folders.
NB. Correspondence ordered alphabetically.
1
A.   1970-1975.
2
Ba.   1972-1980.
3
Günter Bartsch.   1971-1981.
4
Be.   1970-1982.
5
Bi.   1947, 1969, 1971.
6
Bl.   1967-1984.
7
Bo.   1965-1966, 1971-1976, 1981-1984.
8
Br.   1969-1983.
9
Bu.   1973, 1974, 1980-1982.
10
C.   1970, 1973-1980.
11
D.   1969-1976.
12
Eck-Elg.   1970-1982.
13
Ell-Eve.   1969-1980.
14
Fa-Fo.   1968-1983.
15
Ga-Gr.   1966-1982.
16
Ha.   1959-1983.
17
He-Hei.   1968-1976.
18
Hep-Hüp.   1947, 1962-1982.
19
I.   1969, 1972-1973.
20
J.   1969-1983.
21
Ka-Ko.   1969-1983.
22
Kr-Kü.   1968-1982.
23
La-Le.   1969-1983.
24
Li-Lu.   1969-1983.
25
Ma-Me.   1969-1981.
26
Mo-My.   1968-1982.
27
N.   1968-1983.
28
O.   1947, 1971-1982.
29
Pa.   1971-1980.
30
Pe-Pr.   1970-1980.
31
R.   1946-1978.
32
Sa-Schm.   1968-1982.
33
Schn-Soll.   1968-1978.
34
A. Souchy.   1968-1974.
35
Soz-Sta.   1959, 1970-1978.
36
Ste-Sun.   1967-1983.
37
T.   1955-1982.
38
V.   1973-1982.
39
Wa-Wen.   1965-1982.
40
Wes-Wüs.   1970-1979.
41
Zi-Zu.   1973-1974.
42-43
Kurt Zube.   1957-1981.  2 folders.

DOCUMENTATION


NB. Folders contain press cuttings, articles, some typescripts, notes and correspondence.
44-45
Anarchism.   1945-1977.  2 folders.
46
Anarchism and the Rote Armee Fraktion .   1968-1981.  1 folder.
47
Commission de Relations Internationales Anarchistes (CRIA) .   1955-1961.  1 folder.
48
FAU-IAA.   1977-1979.  1 folder.
49
Proletarischer Zeitgeist Bewegung .   1932-1933.  1 folder.
50
Föderation Deutschsprachiger Anarchisten.   1950-1960.  1 folder.
51
Organisation Revolutionärer Anarchisten (ORA).   1972.  1 folder.
52
Willy Huppertz and Befreiung .   1951, 1971.  1 folder.
53
Peter Bahn and Info Zentrum. Correspondence on terror.   1972.  1 folder.
54
"Quo Vadis Menscheit", manuscript by Friedrich Fey and manuscript "Quo Vadis" by Otto Reimers.   1980.  1 folder.
55
Franz Pfemfert .   1961.  1 folder.
56
Kongress der Anarchisten, Neviges (FRG).   1-2 August 1959.  1 folder.
57
Typescript "Die Bewegung revolutionärer Arbeiter in Hamburg in den Jahren von 1914 bis 1933", by Klaus Dieter Jassny . With some correspondence.   1974.  1 folder.
58
Günther Bartsch . With some correspondence.   1973-1976.  1 folder.
59
Two letters to the Mad-Verlag.   1971.  1 folder.
60
John Olday .   1975.  1 folder.
61
Paul Rassinier . With correspondence by René Fugler .   1959-1962.  1 folder.
62
Anarchist meeting in Hamburg.   1970.  1 folder.
63
Alfred Weiland , Willy Brandt and the Demokratisches Zentrum Berlin.   1949-1972.  1 bundle.
64
"Bund Freier Sozialisten" . With photographes.   1960.  1 folder.
65
Anarchism.   1958, 1966-1978.  1 folder.
66
Ausserparlamentarische Opposition (APO) and student movement   1968-1969.  1 folder.
67
Kapp-Putsch 1920.   1974.  1 folder.
68
Annemarie Renger , Ernst Toller and Kurt Tucholsky .   1975.  1 folder.
69
Farmers in Germany.   1933.  1 folder.
70
Battle of Stalingrad and Karl Dönitz .   1963.  1 folder.
71
Second World War.   1963-1969.  1 folder.
72
Youth and education.   1946,1960, 1980.  1 folder.
73
Documentation and correspondence with Rudolf de Jong about the collection Otto Reimers.   1955-1984.  1 folder.
74
Documentation concerning the publication " Erich Mühsam Briefe an Zeitgenossen" , published by G.W. Jungblut .   1975, 1981.  1 folder.
75
Ernst Albrecht .   1976.  1 folder.
76
Photocopy of a title page about Paul Schmitz-Kairo with inscriptions of Otto Reimers.   Z.J.  1 folder.
77
Anarchistische Badische Föderation. , Vereinigung Badischer Herrschaftsgegner and anti-militarism.   1975-1977.  1 folder.
78
Various subjects. With a table of contents.   1971-1972.  1 folder.
79
"Das Reich" newspaper articles by Joseph Goebbels .   1941, 1944.  1 folder.
80
Publications by Günter Bartsch .   1975-1977.  1 folder.
81
"Freie Welt", "Der Zeitgeist", "Anarchie" and "Sozialistische Rundbriefe".   1960-1974.  1 folder.
82
" Mitteilungen der Mackay Gesellschaft ", Number 1-18.   1974-1982.  1 folder.
83
"Mackay Gesellschaft" .   1956-1980.  1 folder.
84-85
Speeches and notes by Otto Reimers.   N.d.  2 folder.
86
Bundestagwahl.   1969.  1 folder.
87
Prof. Dr. Pross und A. Küngzli.   1973-1977.  1 folder.
88
Sebastian Haffner .   1973.  1 folder.
89
Neo-nazism.   1969-1970.  1 folder.
90
Lawyers in Germany.   1974.  1 folder.
91
Heinrich Heine.   1956.  1 folder.
92
Various subjects.   1974-1976.  1 folder.
93
Squatters.   1981.  1 folder.
94
Greece during the Junta.   1969-1975.  1 folder.
95
Löwental.   1971.  1 folder.
96
Typescript "Zum Verjährung die Gretchenfrage der Bundesrepublik", by Alfred Weiland.   1944, 1969.  1 folder.
97
Various subjects.   1980.  1 folder.
98
Tucholsky.   1955.  1 folder.
99
Georg Orwell.   1984.  1 folder.
100
Various subjects.   1972.  1 folder.