gb-003348-wl3000 9 1-468
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biographical history: Prof. Dr. Ernst Fraenkel (1891-1971) was a German economist and historian of Jewish descent. A veteran of World War I he had been elected a representative in the provincial parliament of Silesia in the 1920s. In 1939 he fled to England but returned in 1947 already. He settled in Frankfurt am Main and was appointed professor at the city’s university. See Walk, J., <a href"http://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/1957">Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918-1945, Munich et. al., K. G. Saur, 1988, pp. 94-95.
related material: See also Collection 828 - <a href"https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/7074">Prof. Ernst Fraenkel: correspondence and personal papers.
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has beginning date: 1954-01-07
has end date: 1958-09-06
has or had holder: gb-003348
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: deu
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identifier: WL3000/9/1/468
is or was included in: gb-003348-wl3000 9 1
record resource extent: 17 letters
scope and content: The correspondence focuses on a non-public talk on Jewish life in postwar Germany Fraenkel was invited to give at The Wiener Library (1956). Other subjects are Karl Bornhausen, a former Nazi professor from Breslau, the sending of a lexicon, and another upcoming lecture of Fraenkel at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, East Germany. The correspondence comprises handwritten and typewritten letters, and contains a list of people to be invited to Fraenkels talk at the Library.
title: Correspondence with Fraenkel, Ernst