Encompasses, but is not limited to, correspondence with professional colleagues about each other's research, narratives of projects, requests for critical analyses, as well as solicitations for articles, speeches and papers. Includes letters of recommendation, job offers, and petitions for research ideas from colleagues and students. Contains critical exchanges about the new German government, German elections, and the emerging political parties.
Includes handwritten notes by Kirchheimer on Constitutional Law, Parliamentarianism, Comparative Government, and European Political Institutions, as well as lecture notes taken by his students.
Contains annotated constitutions and laws, newspaper clippings, legal briefs and other publications, many of which are heavily annotated by Kirchheimer. These include the 1963 German "Spiegel" case and the Morton Sobell case. There are also annotated Marxist-Leninist pamphlets.
Political, economic and social issues addressed by Kirchheimer's colleagues. Includes typescripts and offprints, arranged alphabetically by author.
"Syndicats et action politique aus Etats-Unis" (offprint, 1963); "Working-Class Politics and Economic Development in Western Europe" (offprint, 1958); 2 reviews (typescripts).
"Der Einfluß der deutschen Staats- und Verwaltungsrechtslehre des 19. Jahrhunderts auf das Leben in Verfassung und Verwaltung" (offprint, 1939); "Politisches Erlebnis und Staatsdenken seit dem 18. Jahrhundert" (offprint, 1943).
Contains pamphlets authored by colleagues of Kirchheimer, as well as a number of speech texts.