Collections : [German and Jewish Intellectual Émigré Collections]

This series consists of typescripts by Neugass, photographs and clippings on art genres and individual artists.

Contains diaries and memoirs, passport, certificates, curriculum vitae, photographs, newspaper clippings (biographical and obituaries).

This series contains a complete life story and family history of the Kühnel/Knight family, illustrated with old photographs, documents, and correspondence. Also included in this series are short biographical statements and publications lists.

The first twenty-four folders of this series contain curriculum vitae and publication lists, several early recommendations from Germany, materials by and about Ludwig (father), Else Henschel (mother), and John Bendix (son), and autobiographical statements by Reinhard Bendix, in particular materials pertaining to the autobiography of Reinhard and his father, From Berlin to Berkeley. The remaining folders in the series contain reviews of Bendix' major works.

Contains application for employment and personal history statement, list of publications, curriculum vitae, power of attorney and obituaries. Also includes a bibliography of Kirchheimer's personal library.

This series contains biographical information regarding Greta Hartwig and Kurt Manschinger, including important legal documents surrounding their flight from Austria, brief autobiographical profiles of Kurt and Greta, Greta's daily calendars, legal materials related to Mela Hartwig and Robert Spira, plus many photographs of the Manschinger and Hartwig families.

This series contains autobiographical essays by Pachter, both in manuscript and published form, as well as writings about Pachter, including memorials by colleagues after his death in 1980. Also included in this series is a small amount of correspondence dealing with employment, and a few letters from contemporaries, including Thomas Mann and Martin Jay.

This series contains only a small amount of materials, but includes a short autobiographical sketch, written by Werner shortly after coming to the United States, as well as lexicon and other articles describing Werner's work as an art historian.

The materials in this series document Brecht's life and career, both in Germany before 1933, as well as after his arrival in the United States. This series contains a number of documents relating to Brecht's career as Counsellor in the Reich Ministries of Justice (1910-1917) and Economics (1918), and the Reich Chancellry (1918-1921), as well as Ministerial Director in the Reich Ministry of the Interior (1921-1927) and various other ministries including the Prussian State Ministry and Finance Ministry (1927-1933), until his final dismissal by Hitler in 1933. Also included in this series are materials related to Brecht's activities as Expert to the Secretary of the Army (1948), as well as materials pertaining to HICOG (High Commissioner for Germany).

This series contains autobiographical and biographical materials, including documents, curriculum vitae, appointment books, membership cards and awards, as well as documents concerning Friedländer's position at the Deutsche Zentrale für freie Jugendwohlfahrt in Berlin, as well as later teaching appointments at the University of Chicago, University of California, Berkeley, and Michigan State University. Included in the early documents from Berlin are his dismissal papers from the Deutsche Zentrale für freie Jugendwohlfahrt in 1933, documentation of his years in Switzerland and France, 1933-1936, affidavits and letters of support in preparation for his immigration to the U.S. in 1937. Also included in this series are several autobiographical statements, which document the development of social welfare and social welfare education in Germany and the United States.