Carl Herz Papers

Period (1896-) 1905-1951 (-1966)
Total size   1.15 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Anhalt, Germany 1877, died in Haifa, Israel 1951; politician, lawyer; member of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) from 1905; chairman of the local SPD in Altona in 1909; member of the district council and deputy mayor of Berlin-Spandau from 1921, Mayor of Berlin-Kreuzberg from 1926; leading SPD politician on municipal affairs, published in many journals including Die Gemeinde; in 1933 fired and publicly mistreated by the Nazi Sturmabteilung (SA); emigrated to England in 1939; member of the SPD group `Deutschland und Europa nach dem Kriege'; supported the declaration on the responsibility of the German Labour movement for the rise of National Socialism; one of the founders of the publishing company Fight-For-Freedom (FFF); associated with the Freie Deutsche Bewegung in 1944/1945; chairman of the Vereinigung demokratischer deutscher Juristen in Grossbritannien in 1945; emigrated to Israel in 1946.

Content

Correspondence with Otto Lehmann-Russbüldt 1940-1951, Walter Loeb 1941-1943, Otto Neurath 1930-1944 and others; university certificates 1896-1901; some personal documents 1939; files relating to his function as member of the local council in Altona 1908-1919, member of the local council and Deputy Mayor in Spandau 1921-1926, Mayor of the Berlin town district Kreuzberg 1926-1933; files concerning lectures given at meetings of the Allgemeine Deutsche Beamtenbund 1927-1930, the Verwaltungs-Akademie Berlin 1931-1932, etc.; files on the settlement Kuklia at Cyprus 1939, on his stay in Great Britain 1939-1947, in particular on organizations of Germans in Great Britain, and on bills relating to the reconstruction of the German state; manuscripts and articles by Herz, including `Die politische Neuordnung Deutschlands' [1944] and `Selbstverwaltung und Polizei' [1945], and by Lehmann-Russbüldt; press clippings; some documents from his wife Else Herz 1954-1966.

Processing information

List made by G.R. van der Ham in 1972, accrual by G.Langkau in 1994