Graefenberg Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 231

Staff Only

Scope and Content Note

The first folder contains two official documents, attesting to Julius Frankenstein’s military rank as a second lieutenant in 1877, and to his service in the wars of 1870/71 and 1914/18, issued in 1933.

Also included are two copies of a private printing of the family’s genealogy by Prof. Dr. Selly Gräfenberg, “Stammbaumblätter der Familie Gräfenberg”, Frankfurt a.M., 1916, reaching back to 1752. The first copy holds the original 20 pages; a second copy is a revised and enlarged manuscript by Carl H. Grafenberg, 112 pages, San Francisco, 1975.

There also is a clipping with the obituary for Ernst Graefenberg, 1957.

The typescript in folder 2 is a lecture about Ernst Graefenberg by Matthias David, Berlin 2003.

Dates

Creation: 1877-2003

Language of Materials

This collection is in German and English.

Access

The Graefenberg Family Collection may be viewed online.

Use Restrictions

There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:

Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011

email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org

Biographical Note

Ernst Graefenberg was born 1881 in Adelebsen, Germany. He studied medicine and worked as a gynaecologist in Berlin. In 1941 he immigrated via Sibiria to the US, where he worked with Robert Latoux Dickenson as a staff physician at the Margaret Sanger Research Bureau. He died in New York in 1957.

Extent

2 Folders

Additional Description

Abstract

The collection contains military letters for Julius Frankenstein; genealogical tables for the Graefenberg family; and materials about the gynaecologist Ernst Graefenberg.