Toni and Gustav Stolper Collection

The Toni Stolper and Gustav Stolper Collection attests to the Stolpers' rich political and intellectual work in Germany and the United States. The materials provide an intimate account of Toni Stolper's life and career. In many respect they complement the papers of her husband Gustav Stolper, which are located at the Bundesarchiv in Koblenz, Germany.

The collection came to the Leo Baeck Institute in two parts, which were processed separately and not integrated. Both parts contain overlapping materials.

Of particular interest is Toni Stolper's correspondence with leading politicans, economists, historians, and other individuals, including Willy Brandt, Julius Braunthal, Julie Braun-Vogelstein, Heinrich Bruening, Gerd Bucerius, Margaret Chapman (Storm Jameson), Fritz Demuth, Allen Dulles, Ernst Hamburger, Hildegard Hamm-Bruecher, Paul Hertz, Theodor Heuss and members of the Heuss family, Herbert Hoover, Carl Landauer, Lilo Linke, Oscar Meyer, Robert Moses, Martin Niemoeller, Ilona Polanyi, Hans Schaeffer, Else Staudinger, Hans Staudinger, Adlai Stevenson, Dorothy Thompson, Paul Tillich, Ernst Toch, and Gottfried Reinhard Treviranus.

Her correspondence with Else Staudinger and Paul Tillich provides an insight into the work of Selfhelp. In her correspondence with Alvin Johnson, Carl Landauer, and her sister Anna Jerusalem and others the issue of Jewish identity and the role of Jews in the secular world are addressed.

The collection also contains manuscripts and clippings by Toni Stolper on economics, contemporary Germany, and international affairs, and journalistic manuscripts with related correspondence, as well as the diaries of Toni and Gustav Stolper, and of other family members.

The following individuals are also mentioned in this collection: Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Arnold Brecht, Georg Katona, Erich Koch-Weser, Rudolf Olden, Eberhard Pikart, and Erich Welter.

There is also genealogical information about the Kassowitz family.

Photos of the Stolpers, family members, friends, and associates, including photos of Heuss, his paintings, and his family have been removed to the photograph collection.