Kurt Zielenziger Papers

Period 1908-1938
Total size   0.9 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Potsdam, Germany 1890, died in Bergen-Belsen, Germany 1944; journalist; 1913 chairman of the famous `Waldeck' democratic society in Berlin; political-economic contributor of the Vossische Zeitung; public information officer in Berlin; emigrated to Amsterdam in 1934; active in the Jewish Central Information Office; arrested in 1943, died in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.

Content

Manuscripts, notes, correspondence and printed material relating to his book `Die alten deutschen Kameralisten. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Nationalökonomie und zum Problem des Merkantilismus' and to articles on this subject 1915-1926; manuscripts, notes, correspondence and printed material on the life and works of Gerhart von Schulze-Gävernitz, in particular on his book `Gerhart von Schulze-Gävernitz. Eine Darstellung seines Werkens und seiner Werke nebst Porträt', with many press clippings of articles by Von Schulze-Gävernitz 1910-1934; documents, press clippings and other printed material relating to many aspects of the economical, political and social situation in Germany 1908-1938.