Fritz Salomon Papers

Period 1904-1935
Total size   0.15 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Hirschberg, Germany 1890, date and place of death unknown; studied in Germany and Oxford; worked as bank employee in Breslau 1921-1924; private secretary of Wolfgang Heine 1924-1928; worked at the Party archive of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD); emigrated in 1933 to Prague and became an archive employee for the SOPADE and the Deutsche Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei in der Tschechoslowakischen Republik (DSAP); emigrated to England in 1939; correspondent for the International Institute of Social History (IISH) to collect material for its archive.

Content

Personal documents and correspondence relating to the death and heritage of his mother Rosa Salomon-Hahn and correspondence concerning conflicts with his father Friedrich Salomon 1904-1910; correspondence with Walther Heine 1909-1917, Wolfgang Heine 1908-1910 and others 1908-1928; documents relating to his period as a pupil and to his later activities as an old boy of the Freie Schulgemeinde in Wickersdorf (Saale) 1909-1928; on the Bund für Freie Schulgemeinden, section Breslau, including its financial administration 1921-1923, on his function as `Dezernent' in the committee of the Freie Studentenschaft, Breslau and, in general, on the Freistudentliche Bewegung in Germany 1914; press clippings.