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Ernst Feder Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 7040 / MF 497

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence of Feder and his wife, Erna Feder (nee Zobel), with individuals and institutions, including Julius Bab, Moritz Julius Bonn, Erich Dombrowski, Manfred George, Kurt Grossmann, Ernst Hamburger, Gustav Heinemann, Theodor Heuss, Alfred Hirschberg, Bernhard Kahn, Kindler Verlag, Guido Kisch, Paul Loebe, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Ina Seidel, Ernst Simon, Fritz von Unruh, Bruno Weil, Robert Weltsch, Alfred Wiener, Theodor Wolff, Egmont Zechlin, Leon Zeitlin, Frederike Zweig, and Stefan Zweig.

Diaries by Feder recording his experiences from 1913 to 1962.

Manuscripts, photos of Feder and his wife, and clippings by and about Feder and his work.

Material on immigration to Brazil and on Nazi activities there; transcripts of the restitution case brought by Norbert Wollheim against I.G. Farben.

Addenda: Correspondence between Ernst Feder and Hans Wilhelm Arnold; curriculum vitae by H.W. Arnold

See Inventory list

The following individuals are mentioned in this collection:

Ackermann, Charlotte ; Afranho de Mello Franco ; Alemann, Else ; Altmann, Therese ; Appelbaum, Helena ; Arens, Hans ; Arnold, Hans Wilhelm ; Ascher, Fred ; Aschheim, S. ; Atcon, Rudolph ; Auras, Dora ; Bab, Julius ; Baconm Henry Selden ; Baeumlin, Klaus ; Baldus, Herbert ; Bamberger, Ludwig ; Baptista, Pereira ; Barth, Margret ; Bartmann, Ferdinand ; Bauer, Lothar ; Bayer, Hans ; Bechtle, Otto Wolfgang ; Benjamin, Ella ; Berley, Lilian ; Beyme, Werner von ; Bielschowsky, Rudolf ; Birkenfeld, Guenther ; Bitaon Publishing Co. ; Blairon, Erna ; Bloch, Camille ; Bloch, Rita ; Bonin, Renee von ; Bonn, Moritz Julius ; Borghardt, Robert ; Boveri, Margret ; Bowne, Raoul ; Brandt, Siegbert ; Brandt, Willy ; Brauer, Max ; Breal, August ; Brentano, Sopie ; Chen, Chieh ; Cieplik, Helene ; Clark, Charles ; Dahlheim, Luiz ; Das Parlament ; Dombrowski, Erich ; Donig, Arturo ; Donig, Else ; Dovifat, Emil ; Dyck, Richard ; Ebert, Carl ; Ebert, Christa ; Ebert, Louise ; Eilitz, Trudhild ; Elkins, Else ; Eyck, Erich ; Feder, Erna ; Feder, Ernst ; Fels, Walter ; Fernandez, Alzira ; Fiedler, Grete ; Fischer, Martin ; Fitzbacher, Erich ; Fleiuss, Max ; Foerder, Ludwig ; Fortner, Wolfgang ; Freund, Gunter ; Friedensburg, Ferdinand ; Friedenthal Richard ; Friedlaender, Fritz ; Friedler, Grete ; Fuhrmann, Hans ; Furcht, Brigitte ; Gaertner, Charlotte ; Garnier, Charles ; Geiger, Dietrich ; George, Manfred ; George, Manfred ; Gerschler, Karl ; Goetsch, Christian ; Goldstein, Erich ; Gollwitzer, Helmut ; Graeter, Karl Heinz ; Grassmann, Siegfried ; Grimme, Adolf ; Grossmann, Kurt ; Gruenbaum, Alfredo ; Grumach, Ernst ; Gufler, Bernard ; Guimaraes de Almeida, Carlos ; Gumpert, Heinrich ; Gurau, Kurt ; Haas, Karl ; Hahn, Adolf ; Hamburger, Charlotte ; Hamburger, Ernst ; Hammer, Franci ; Hartmann, Heinz ; Hehl-Neiva, Artur ; Heinemann, Gustav ; Heinig, Kurt ; Heppner, Charlotte ; Heuss, Theodor ; Hiller, Kurt ;

Himmelreich, Anneliese ; Hirschberg, Alfred ; Hirschberg, Alfred ; Hirschfeld, Eva ; Hirschfeld, Hans ; Hoffmann, Johannes ; Israel, Georg ; Jacob, Heinrich Eduard ; Jacoby, Charlotte ; Janowitz, Mela ; Janz, Friedrich ; Jaratzki, Grete ; Joao, Marinho ; Jonas, Klaus ; Jordan, Max ; Kaestner, Erich ; Kahn, Bernhard, 1876-1955 ; Kahn, Dora ; Katz, Richard ; Kausch, Hans-Joachim ; Kindler Verlag ; Kirszenbaum, J.D. ; Kisch, Guido ; Klabin-Segall, Jenny ; Klages, Victor ; Klee, Eugen ; Klemperer, Otto ; Krauel, Wolfgang ; Krause, Willy ; Landsberg, Otto ; Lasker, Albert ; Lemle, Rabbi ; Lemmer, Ludwig ; Lenneberg, Robert ; Leskoschek, Axel ; Levy, Arthur ; Lewin, Herbert ; Liebmann, Karl Wilhelm ; Loebe, Paul ; Loewe, Walter ; Loewenstein, Konrad ; Lorch, Luiz ; Luckner, Gertrud ; Lueth, Erich ; Maacks, Margarete ; Maltzan, Vollrath ; Mann, Monika ; Marchthaler, Hans Ulrich ; Marinho, Jao ; Marx, Karl ; Mecklenburg, Werner ; Meets, Margarethe ; Merz, Friedrich ; Meyer, Erica ; Mistral, Gabriela ; Mohn, Paul ; Momsen, Richard ; Morgenthau, Henry Jr. ; Moses, Herbert ; Mosich, Ernst ; Mucio, Leao ; Munk, Ricardo ; Munk, Wilhelm ; Neubuerger, Jo ; Oellers, Fritz ; Oppenheim, Cissy ; Oppler, Friedrich ; Osborn, Max ; Ostermann, Ernst von ; Otto, Margret ; Paneth, Else ; Peier, Werner ; Peisser, Werner ; Pellischek, Herta ; Pfau, Erna ; Pliverics, Emil ; Preuss, Hans ; Redslob, Erwin ; Reiter, Julius ; Renan, Noemi ; Reuter, Ernst ; Roeder, Adolph ; Rohden, Tona ; Rosenbauer, Stefan ; Rosenberg, Heinrich ; Rosenstein, Paul ; Rubinstein, Walter ; Ruppert, Hans ; Salomon, Kurt ; Scherck, Alice ; Schiffer, Eugen ; Schiffer, Mieze ; Schlesinger, Armanda ; Schmid, Werner ; Schneider, Ernst ; Scholz, Werner ; Schreiber, Walter ; Schultz, Hans ; Schulze, Elisabeth ; Schwarz, Paul ; Schwarzbart, Ignacy ;

Seelig, Paul ; Segall, Lasar ; Seidel, Ina ; Selby, Ernst ; Sender Freies Berlin ; Shaltiel, David ; Shuster, George ; Simoes, Filho ; Simon, Ernst ; Simon, Hugo ; Simon, James ; Simson, Hilda ; Simson, Mary von ; Sinzig, Pedro ; Spengler, Grete ; Stampfer, Friedrich ; Stauffenberg, Karoline von ; Steinsieck, Lisbeth ; Stern, Anne ; Stern, Gustav Alfred ; Stria, Renate ; Strowaki, Fortunato ; Stuemke, Lalla ; Sulzbacher, Steffi ; Thieme, Karl ; Troppmair, A. ; Twardowski, Fritz ; Unger, Heinz ; Unruh, Fritz von ; Valentin, Bruno ; Vandsburger, Hans ; Wachsmuth, Bruno ; Wadepuhl, Walter ; Waegele, Dr. ; Waldner, Erich ; Warburg, Erich ; Weil, Bruno ; Weil, Bruno ; Weltsch, Robert ; Wendland, Else ; Wertheimer, Fritz ; Westphal, Dorothea ; Wettstein, Oscar ; Wiener, Alfred ; Wiener, Alfred ; Wittenberg, Alfred ; Wittkowski, Victor ; Wolf, Karl ; Wolff, Theodor ; Wollheim, Norbert ; Zach, Erwin ; Zechlin, Egmont ; Zeitlin, Leon ; Ziegler. G. ; Ziertmann, Frieda ; Zweig, Friderike ; Zweig, Stefan

Dates

  • Creation: 1849-1983

Creator

Language of Materials

This collection is in German, Portuguese, English, French.

Access Restrictions

Open to researchers.

Access Information

Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.

Readers may access the collection by visiting the Lillian Goldman Reading Room at the Center for Jewish History. We recommend reserving the collection in advance; please visit the LBI Online Catalog and click on the "Request" button.

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

Born in Berlin on March 18, 1881, Ernst Feder was a journalist and editor of Berliner Tageblatt from 1919 to 1931. Feder emigrated to France in 1933 and to Brazil in 1941. He returned to Germany in 1957 and died in Berlin on March 29, 1964.

Extent

10 Linear Feet

Abstract

Correspondence of Feder and his wife, Erna Feder (nee Zobel), with individuals and institutions, including Julius Bab, Moritz Julius Bonn, Erich Dombrowski, Manfred George, Kurt Grossmann, Ernst Hamburger, Gustav Heinemann, Theodor Heuss, Alfred Hirschberg, Bernhard Kahn, Kindler Verlag, Guido Kisch, Paul Loebe, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Ina Seidel, Ernst Simon, Fritz von Unruh, Bruno Weil, Robert Weltsch, Alfred Wiener, Theodor Wolff, Egmont Zechlin, Leon Zeitlin, Frederike Zweig, and Stefan Zweig.

Other Finding Aid

5-page inventory.

Separated Material

Photographs have been removed to the LBI Photograph Collection.

Title
Guide to the Ernst Feder Collection, 1849-1983 AR 7040 / MF 497
Status
Completed
Author
Processed by LBI Staff
Date
© 2009
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Description is in English.

Revision Statements

  • May 2011: Links to digital objects added in Container List.
  • May 2013: Links to digital objects added in Container List.

Repository Details

Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository

Contact:
15 West 16th Street
New York NY 10011 United States