Archiv der Münchner Arbeiterbewegung e.V.
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An overview of the collections and witnesses can be found [https://www.arbeiterarchiv.de/archiv/](here).
The Archive of the Munich Workers' Movement also holds files concerning more than 1500 compensation proceedings of the Munich lawyer Koni Kittl.
Konrad “Koni” Kittl was a Munich lawyer who, in the 1950s and 1960s, conducted these compensation proceedings for “damage to body or health” under the Federal Compensation Act. His clients were mostly Eastern European Jews who had emigrated to Israel or the US in the late 1940s.
They initiated the proceedings through local lawyers, who in turn commissioned Konrad Kittl to handle the cases on site. Although the files contain only a subset of the documents created during the proceedings, their sheer volume provides a very good insight into the course of the compensation proceedings on the one hand and, on the other hand, often provides detailed
descriptions of the persecution with exact dates and descriptions of the experiences. The correspondence between the lawyers is also of particular interest, as it often discusses the problems that arose in a particular case.
Konrad Kittl handed over the files to the archive in 2009, and since 2015 they have been processed by volunteer Steffen Müller. The [website](https://kittl.arbeiterarchiv.de/) based on these files. The website is updated regularly.
Archiv der Münchner Arbeiterbewegung e.V.
Holocaust related data is contained in the files of Konrad Kittl. In 2009, Konrad Kittl handed over the files of 1,500 compensation cases to the archive. See below.
But the main topic is the social history. The Archive of the Munich Workers' Movement was founded in 1987. The impetus for this was provided by the exhibition"Empor zum Licht – Arbeitersänger und Arbeitersportler in München vor 193", organized by the Cultural Department of the City of Munich and the DGB district of Munich. Since then, the archive has taken on the task of securing, archiving and presenting more than 150 years of social history of working people and their organizations. In letters, documents, memoirs, photographs and everyday objects, the history of the"ordinary peopl" in Munich is documented and thus important aspects of the city's and regional history are also illuminated.
Archiv der Münchner Arbeiterbewegung e.V. website: https://www.arbeiterarchiv.de/
Compensation files by Konrad Kittl: https://kittl.arbeiterarchiv.de
Publications can be found and ordered [here](https://www.arbeiterarchiv.de/publikationen/).
Opening hours of the archive depot: Tuesday to Thursday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
By appointment
The archive is supported in its work by the Cultural Department of the City of Munich.
The Archive of the Munich Workers' Movement collects archival material that is related in a broader sense to life and work in Munich and the surrounding area. These include, for example, collections and estates of persons, the archives of organizations of the labor movement, such as trade unions, political parties, associations; as well as traditions of social movements and documents from the everyday life of employees.