Envelope 4/34 ; microfilm reel 054 ; Frames 1774 - 1782
5 newspaper clippings and 1 page of biographical information
Ernst Buchner was a German art historian and the director of the Bavarian State Painting Collections. During World War II he assisted the Gestapo in the confiscation of Jewish collections. He played a crucial role in the removal of the Ghent altarpiece to Germany. as a result of these he was dismissed from his position in 1945, but was reinstalled in 1953 -- (from Jewish Museum Berlin)
Buchner, Ernst, 1892-1962