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Description: Heinrich Billstein, former deputy, last resident at Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 101. 2.5 hundredweight books, 3 albums and 19 files from the daughter Mariette Becker and her husband were handed over to the Historical Archive on 13.03.1974. IntroductionWith this publication, a collection is made accessible which, due to its poor state of development, had previously only been available to a limited number of users. The documents possess only to a limited extent the characteristics of a genuine hand-file collection; rather, their structure also makes them closely related to collections and documentations. BiographischesHeinrich Billstein was born on 23 January 1883 in Cologne. His father Michael Billstein was a brewer and innkeeper; he belonged to the Centre Party and was a member of the City Council from 1894 to 1905. Shortly after his re-election in November 1905, he died on 21 December. He represented the interests of the commercial middle class in the centre faction and was a not unimportant member for the Catholic party, through which it gained access to the important clientele of brewers and innkeepers, a social group belonging to the 2nd electoral class. Heinrich Billstein completed his legal studies in Freiburg, Münster and Bonn in 1902 after obtaining his Abitur at the Städtisches Gymnasium Kreuzgasse, passed the 1st state examination in 1905 and the 2nd in 1911, both with the grade "good" by the way. In the meantime he had received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1908. After temporary employment as a court assessor and assistant judge at the criminal and civil chambers of the Regional Court of Cologne, he joined the administrative service of the City of Cologne as a city assessor on 12 June 1912: He was appointed to the tax department to relieve the First Deputy Konrad Adenauer. In this function Billstein succeeded Paul Berndorff, who was elected deputy a few days later. Both belonged to the Centre Party, which since its stable majority in 1908 had sought to replenish the higher administrative apparatus with its party supporters and to eliminate the disadvantage created by decades of liberal supremacy. On 12 June 1914 Billstein was elected as a deputy; but before the election confirmation from Berlin arrived on 13 August and the planned inauguration could take place on 3 September, he had already been drafted for military service. After being discharged from military service on 4 November 1918 - Billstein was last captain of the reserve and battery leader in an artillery battalion - he took up his administrative duties three days later, on 7 November 1918; in the following period he managed various departments. He was re-elected on 20 May 1926 at the end of his twelve-year term of office. On 18 June 1933, the National Socialists removed him from office. After the end of the Second World War, the 62-year-old Billstein refused, for health reasons, to comply with the request to return to the administrative service. Persecutions and harassment by the local NSDAP local group, especially in the last days of March 1945, had so physically afflicted him that he was not in a position to participate in the community's new beginning and reconstruction. He died on 28 June 1956 in Cologne. Billstein had been married to Frieda nee Eigel since March 6, 1909; two children resulted from this marriage.administrative activities and scope of businessAccording to the business distribution plan of 1914, Billstein was to assume responsibility for all taxes (departments 5, 6 and 7 at that time) with the commencement of his assistant activities, continue to supervise the Cologne Association for Further Education in Law and Political Science, control the compensation of school, poor and police costs with the neighbouring communities, and supervise the management of the City School Register Office. With his return from the war he was given a large part of the war economy, i.e. the deficiency management that was organised during the First World War and took on an ever larger business volume in order to be gradually dismantled after the war and in accordance with the requirements of the Reich. While Heinrich Schäfer (SPD) organized the food management and supply, Billstein's activities extended to the clothing department, the coal office, the price inspection office, the brand headquarters, the economic department, the substitute means office and the police inspectorates set up for monitoring purposes. Finally, with the supervision of the city committee and the registry office, he was given responsibility for two classic administrative fields. These areas of responsibility were completely changed as early as 1921: Billstein now has powers over Office 12 - Police (Building, Road and Construction Police), Office 2 (Vehicle Fleet, Street Cleaning, Waste Collection and Fire Extinguishing), Department 14 (Trade, Commerce, Chamber of Commerce, Crafts and Guilds, Commercial Court, Commercial Court, Local Sewing Committee) and Office 26 (Commercial and Commercial Training Schools, Commercial Schools, Vocational Private Schools). Two years later his business circle changed again completely. Instead of the previous tasks in the area of promoting trade and commerce, Billstein was now entrusted with the supervision of social administration, such as welfare administration, especially welfare institutions and institutions, orphan and youth welfare. In addition, there was the supervision of youth care and the promotion of physical exercises, the supervision of sports clubs and the organisation of sports events. Billstein was to keep this area as a department until the end of his service; so he was also remembered for this decade from 1923 to 1933 as the city's sports department head. Furthermore, he again took over the supervision of the City Committee and the responsibility for the Cologne Association for Further Education in Law and Political Science, which had already been assigned to him in 1914. While he lost the City Committee again in 1926, the training facility for civil servants remained in place until he was dismissed. 1926 was another year in which a deep cut was made. Billstein lost the competence for the welfare and youth care, received again for some years (until 1931) the police supervision, then the competence for the management of the city halls and economies, here particularly the Gürzenich, and the allotment garden administration. Five years later, in 1931, Billstein undertook the last far-reaching reorganization of his business. He relinquished his authority over the police, the management of the city halls and the allotment gardens, and in return was supervised by the economic department, i.e. the tasks he had already temporarily performed in 1921 to promote trade and industry. In addition, responsibility was assumed for the ports and shipyards, the hydraulic engineering department and aviation matters with Butzweiler Hof Airport. With these fields of activity, he inherited the deputy August Haas (SPD), who had taken up his new post in Kassel in 1930 as chief president of Hessen-Nassau. With these responsibilities, Billstein was given the position of Head of Economic Affairs for the remaining two years. The constant changes in business organisation and distribution, as was typical for Adenauer's time as Lord Mayor, and the unstable responsibilities are reflected in the structure and content of the papers and documentary documents left by Billstein. They are sporadically enriched with documents that arose during the representation for absent co-ordinates. However, since the system of representation was not rigid, but constantly changed, documents from almost all administrative areas were preserved, such as the administration of health care and hospitals (deputies Peter Krautwig and Karl Coerper, both centres), culture (deputies Johann Meerfeld, SPD), the department business of economy, traffic and broadcasting (deputies August Haas, SPD) and the social administration, gardens and baths as well as the slaughterhouse (deputies Johannes Bergmann, centre).Structure of the documentsThe content of the inventory comprises approx. 30
us administrative processes, including extracts from the minutes of the meetings of the Administrative Conference, from internal processes of the offices and services subordinated to Billstein; financial matters in particular, including the questions of the structure of income and expenditure of these administrative bodies, the budget and the constraints on savings, then processes relating to personal data such as promotions, documents relating to the meetings of the City Assembly, so many reprints, often with attachments to the agendas, and to the various committees. Most of the present material is not original in nature, but consists to a large extent of copies and reprints, some of which Billstein used as memorial and memorial aids; occasionally, discussion notes are also preserved. To a limited extent, the collection also includes letters and reports by Billstein, also in typewritten form after dictation, as well as invitation and thank-you letters. The scope of Billstein's elaborations and concepts for speeches at receptions, conferences and club anniversaries is not insignificant, and newspaper articles make up a considerable part of the documents. Billstein had an anteroom officer in his department office cut out articles from newspapers he had previously marked with a cross. This collection of articles only considers the Kölner Zeitungen, namely the Kölnische Zeitung with its local edition, the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, the Kölnische Volkszeitung with the Kölner Lokal-Anzeiger, the Rheinischer Beobachter as temporary successor of the Lokal Anzeiger, the Kölner Tageblatt, the Rheinische Zeitung and the Socialist Republic. According to a report dated 24 May 1929 (see No. A 678. BI. 227), the Rheinische Zeitung, the Kölner Stadtanzeiger and the Sozialistische Republik became official, while the Kölnische Volkszeitung and the Lokalanzeiger were purchased privately by Billstein. The other editions are not reported. Then the material filled at that time "3 medium-sized cabinets". It covered all areas of local government and dates back to the war and pre-war period. Only with regard to the war economy and food supply were articles, mostly in hektographed form, from economic services, so-called economic daily reports, consulted in addition to newspapers, and the content of the newspaper articles was predominantly based on local Cologne topics. Only in the great issues of the time, such as the reparations negotiations, the elections, the resignations and new formations of Reich Cabinets, then especially the economic crisis and the financial and budget crisis of the Reich, the Länder and the municipalities, did one go beyond local references and collect articles with supralocal, partly regional, partly national themes; but here, too, almost exclusively articles from newspapers of Cologne provenance were taken into account. The reference to the offices and agencies administered by Billstein is sometimes quite far-reaching. On the other hand, issues such as weather and climate, which appear to be remote, are more closely intertwined with Billstein's tasks, for example with regard to his responsibility for measures against the Rhine flooding and for the settlement of flood damage. Billstein apparently took over some of these documents from his predecessor in this administrative area, the deputy Hermann Best (liberal). In the context of the administrative reorganisation of 31 January 1928, which summarised the entire public relations work in a press and advertising department at the newly established Transport and Economic Office, and in connection with the press and the increased interest of the administration, especially Konrad Adenauer, in press and newspaper issues, a press and newspaper archive was set up. An exact date is not known; the archive seems to have fully developed its activity in a gradual process in 1930/1931. (See organisational decree of 31 January 1928. in: Administrative Gazette of the City of Cologne. Vol. 5 (1928). No. 5; Administrative Report of the City of Cologne 1929/30 (Cologne 1930). P. 56: cf. 1930/31 (Cologne 1931). S.39 f, pp. 1931/32 (Cologne 1932). p. 39f.) In this context of the reorganization of the administration and the efforts to simplify business, the office director August Lentzen of the Departmental Office Billstein in the above-mentioned report of May 1929 recommended the submission of the documents to the new archive. In his report, he also referred to the newspaper archive of the Fair and Exhibition Office, which would have to be combined with the new press archive. (According to the administrative report 1930/31 (Cologne 1931), p. 39, this newspaper archive was here called "Literarische Abteilung-genannt, aufgelös und deren Aufgaben von der Presse- und Werbeabteilung übernommen) He also mentions the excerpts already "collected before the war in an exemplary way by the University and City Library". By bringing together the various collections of articles, Lentzen explained, the material could be used by the entire administration. In order to deliver the documents of the Billstein department office, an antechamber officer has now drawn up a list of about 380 files by topic and duration. By the end of 1929 these files had not yet been handed over. (See No. A 678: The negotiations end with the note (BI. 228 v) of 30 October 1929 that Miss Volk would probably "take over the collection for the archives of the Lord Mayor"; she wanted to discuss the matter further with Billstein, but did not know about the tent where the archives should be accommodated. Accordingly, the press archive had not yet been set up at that time.) They were, however, handed over in any case; for many of the files existing in the Billstein holdings are preceded by a form on which the delivery to "the newspaper archive to be newly established at A 1" was noted with the name of the corresponding predecessor file as well as the subject and the duration. (E.g. file concerning coal supply 21.12. 1920 --21.8.1922: No. A 521; affairs of A 2 19.6.1920 - 5.3.1925: No. A 536; dismantling of war economy enterprises and forced economy 8.7.1920 - 11.7.1921: No. A 531; identity card affairs, welfare office for expellees 20.3.1923 - 27.3.1925: No. A 491; war-affected persons welfare, war survivors welfare 12.3.1923 - 12.3.1925: No. A 492; Verein für Volkswohl, Volksküche 18.5.1923 - 14.12.1923: No. A 524. Afterwards the files were probably handed over via A 1 (Organisation- und Personalamt. Department Dr. Berndorff) to the newspaper and press archive which was in the process of being founded.) These files, which can be clearly determined from the list attached to the report, coincide with the documents of the present collection with regard to the subject matter and extend from 1919 to approx. 1922 - 1923 in individual cases, such as series up to 1929. Such series were present above all in the area of war economy and food management (coal supply, fight against traffickers and usury, food supply such as fruit and vegetables), can also be proven in files of classical administrative action (city council with eleven volumes, police inspection, municipal railways, statistics, civil servant pay, welfare, housing affairs). However, they were also created for processes that do not directly affect local self-government, but are nevertheless not insignificant for the municipality, such as individual parties such as the Centre, the KPD and the SPD, or negotiations concerning reparations. In addition to the series, the list also included individual files on all questions of the Cologne city administration, including trade unions, associations, trade and commerce, the economy and transport. All files handed over to the administrative archive at that time are no longer available and must be regarded as a loss during the war. With today's lack of municipal administrative files and documentation from these years of the Weimar Republic, the loss of tradition is very much to be lamented. The surviving holdings, catalogued in this publication, were transferred to the archive in 1938 by the Assistant Heringhaus, as he informed his colleague, the Head of the Department of Culture, Ludwig, on 7 July (cf. Best. 8900 (Alte Repertorien), A 164). He instructed Billstein to keep the "approximately 500 hand-files" he had collected there until they could be used in the preparation of a planned chronicle of the city of Cologne and until a suitable office had been appointed to manage the chronicle of the city of Cologne. a few files and documents for professional training as well as a larger batch of books and magazines were handed over to the archive in 1974 by Billstein's daughter, Marietta Becker. The scarcely 20 files were integrated into the existence. until into the eighties the existence was registered only to the half and also only by a keyword-like file subject without running times according to list. As part of the investigation of sources on the history of National Socialism in Cologne, Friedrich Kröhnke and Werner Jung, as staff members of the former NS Documentation Centre, the NS Documentation Centre of the City of Cologne, which had become independent a few years ago, sifted through all files on Nazi issues, including those not yet recorded in the titles. The previously unrecorded files with the short meetings and durations noted on the file covers were recorded in the form of a card. In the following years, attempts were made to make the files more accessible by student assistants, to specify the subjects by more extensive titles and to make them accessible by more detailed notes on content, and also to structure the result of the indexing for the first time. A finding aid book planned at that time had to be postponed after first attempts, since the result was completely unsatisfactory. Finally nothing helped more than to undertake the entire inventory again and to sight sheet by sheet. Since the files are usually organized after commercial filing, the listing follows this order and names the file contents after the chronological sequence, thus depending upon case beginning with the last sheet of the file. With regard to the indexing of the contents of the individual file units, first the actual file processes are named, then the newspaper articles are listed, and finally the official and other printed matters are mentioned. In order to make the character of the individual files easier for the user to recognize, they were marked with the abbreviations A (mainly file processes), Z (mainly newspaper articles), M (mixed form). (This identifier was transferred to the comments field during the retroconversion of the holdings.)Source value of the reference files Due to the high war losses, the once existing serial character of the holdings has not been preserved. Thus the traditional picture now gives a fragmentary, somewhat incoherent impression. Thus, the hand file collection is of very limited informative value for in-depth structural investigations of Cologne's urban and administrative history. Its value lies rather in the multitude of persons, events, associations, events and administrative processes mentioned, which are often only occasionally documented and can hardly be followed in their genesis and further development. In view of the great loss that the City of Cologne suffered in its administrative documents, collections and documentations as a result of the war destruction, the collection has a certain significance for the history of the city and its citizens during the Weimar Republic. Whether the object was worthy of this intensive treatment, that can ultimately only decide the user. The finding aid was created by Dr. Everhard Kleinertz.references: Kleinertz, Everhard: Handakten Heinrich Billsteins (Mitteilungen aus dem Stadtarchiv von Köln, vol. 90), Cologne 2000.

Description:1. history of the associationsIn Prussia there was no municipal or state school for girls until 1909, which led to the higher education entrance qualification. The daughter schools had both different curricula and different goals from the boys' grammar schools. Although all universities had admitted women as listeners since 1899, Prussia could hardly decide to give the girls the same school education as the boys. Helene Lange was the first to set up courses leading to university entrance qualifications. They were attended by women who had completed the daughter's school or private lessons. The pupils had to make up for the lack of knowledge in 3 - 4 years, i.e. the school-leavers were often older than 20 years. The Cologne association Mädchengymnasium had set itself the goal of establishing a complete, nine-class girls' grammar school in order to give the girls the opportunity to obtain the university entrance qualification at the same time as the boys. The model was the Mädchengymnasium in Karlsruhe, founded by the women's association Reform. After preliminary discussions, the association members began their activities in 1899 to found a girls' grammar school: they collected money, won friends and sponsors and contacted the responsible authorities. After several unsuccessful submissions, the Prussian Minister of Education finally allowed the Cologne Association to establish a six-class grammar school in 1903, which could accommodate girls from the age of 12. The Cologne school was thus the first girls' grammar school in Prussia. The associations in other Prussian cities had been satisfied with the establishment of "courses", because they had considered the resistance of the state insurmountable. 1905 the first pupils of the Mädchengymnasium were able to graduate from the school as the Kölner Verein had prepared some girls in a family school. Mathilde von Mevissen was the driving force behind the Madchengymnasium association, and one could say that without her and her colleague, archive director Joseph Hansen, the Gymnasium would not have come into being. Mathilde von Mevissen also donated considerable sums to the school and rented the first school building at the Apostles' Monastery.After consultation with the other members of the association, Josef Hansen not only wrote the submissions to the ministry, but also, like Mathilde von Mevissen, held personal talks with the responsible authorities in Koblenz and Berlin.1908 after the school reform of 1908, the city of Cologne took over the school after fierce debates in the city council.1909, after the association had reached its goal, it changed into the association Frauenstudium (formerly Mädchengymnasium) and devoted itself to new tasks. Thought up the promotion of women's studies to the program and awarded scholarships. He benefited from an inheritance from Pauline Christmann, but other patrons also financed study grants. However, inflation later destroyed the association's assets. It is not clear from the files available when exactly the association ceased its activities. Both the Mädchengymnasium association and the Frauenstudium association that emerged from it have always had very good relations with the city archives; in fact, they were founded in the archive building at the Gereonskloster 12. Archive Director Joseph Hansen was a member of the Executive Board. His wife, Johanna Hansen, was chairman of the association Frauenstudium for many years. City archivist Hermann Keussen was co-founder of the association Frauenstudium, archive secretary Philipp Nottbrock produced the fair copies of the submissions to the ministry (the editor knows his handwriting).2. Registry and order procedureMost of the files were stored as stock 1067, Cologne association Frauenstudium (formerly Mädchengymnasium) in 8 overfilled boxes in the magazine.When exactly they reached the archive can no longer be determined. Possibly some files of the association Madchengymnasium were stored here from the beginning - no wonder with the good relations. However, a finding list only shows 14 files of the association Frauenstudium, 8 files of the Pauline-Christmann-Stiftung as well as 1 file "Feierliche Begebenheiten 1924/25 ". Except for this list, there was no directory. Only issue 47 of the Mitteilungen aus dem Stadtarchiv von Köln (1963) contains a brief overview of the holdings: some files were already neatly bound (thread-stitching), but most of them were found in the most varied formations: they lay in folders or envelopes, loosely in a large subfolder or tied with silk ribbons. Sometimes bound files were enriched with loose documents. Often files had to be created first. The first review revealed that the collection contained not only the files of the associations Mädchengymnasium and Frauenstudium, respectively, but was also enriched with correspondence from Mathilde von Mevissens on various women's issues as well as with documents from other association members, who were often active in several associations at the same time. Therefore, the files were first roughly presorted and divided into 3 groups (girls' grammar school, women's studies, other associations etc.). It was recommended not to divide the files into several smaller holdings, as some of them were kept continuously (the members of the associations Mädchengymnasium and Frauenstudium were for the most part the same). Some of the files were only added to the collection in 1989 and 1990. 3 larger boxes of files were stored as an estate of Mathilde von Mevissen in the university library. Further files were later found by Dr. Quarg during clearing work and were also handed over to the archive (acc. 1792 and 1877). I had looked through the then still disordered appendix of the estate of Gustav von Mevissen and added those files to the holdings of 1067 which belong to the association files. Two further files were handed over in December 1990 by Dr. Groten, the processor of the Mevissen estate. The list shows the former storage location of the files in question and the form of recording varies. In most cases, analysis has been chosen, particularly because of the numerous letters in the collection. The bundles were occasionally labelled, but the description did not always correspond to the actual content. The old file title - marked by quotation marks - has only been retained if it makes a statement about the actual content. Apart from content and date, the scope of the file is indicated. Most documents are handwritten, written in ink on good paper, duplicates and prints are the exception. The paper formats, especially the numerous private letters, are of great diversity - usually smaller than A4 - and do not correspond to today's standards. The archives date mainly from the period between 1899 and about 1924, when the associations Mädchengymnasium and Frauenstudium were active. Only a few earlier or later documents can be found in the files. The collection comprises 343 files in 14 boxes as well as 1 folder with four pictures. In this folder (black with silver overprint "Erinnerungen an meinen Theuern Vater, geboren 20. Mai 1815, died 13. Aug. 1899") the archives no. 315-320 were found, which were taken out for reasons of storage technology. not preserved are pupils' lists or school report lists of the girls' high school. these files were possibly handed over after the takeover of the school by the city and must, like the files of the school, be counted as war losses. The names of the schoolgirls who paid school fees in the period 1903-1908 are preserved in the "Kassenbuch" (1067/91). Johannes Kreutzer has listed the names of the high school graduates in his school history, and the indexing work begun in 1986 took several years. An initial interruption of several months took place to await the progress of the clean-up work in the university library and possible access to files. In 1988 the production of the finding aid book had to be stopped completely because of another work. In 1989 Monika Voigt was able to write most of the finding aid book. The amendments and corrections were not completed until 1993. The final work (introduction, register, concordance) could finally be done with PC and software of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Cologne, May 10, 1994, M. Fäuster3. Sources on the history of the associations and the schoolThe files of the Studienanstalt, the Merlo-Schule and also those of the Kaiserin-Augusta-Schule before 1945 were - as far as they had not already been lost before - almost completely destroyed in the World War.a) Historical archive of the city of Cologne:Chronicles and representations 511 and 511aBestand 551 (some few, very thin files)b) Hauptstaatsarchiv Düsseldorf: Regierung Köln, Nr. 7404c) Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz: fonds 405. under the designation "Merlo-Mevissenschule" also the files about the girls' high school before 1924 are filed there.d) It has not yet been checked whether files of the responsible Prussian ministry have been preserved.references:Apel, Hans-Jürgen, Sonderwege der Mädchen zum Abitur im Deutschen Kaiserreich, in: Zeitschrift für Pädagogik, 34. Jg., 1988, No. 2, p. 171-189.Braun, Lily, The Women's Question, its Historical Development and its Economic Side. With an introduction by Beatrix W. Bouvier. Reprint of the first edition published in 1901 by Verlag Hirzel, Leipzig, Berlin, Bonn 1979.Centralblatt für die gesamte Unterrichtsverwaltung in Preußen, 1899, pp. 371-404.Dertinger, Antje, Die bessere Hälfte fights for her right. The women's claim to employment and other self-evidences, Cologne 1980 - The article about Hildegard Wegscheider shows, among other things, very nicely how difficult it was for girls to obtain a grammar school education and the right to study.Eckert, Li, Mathilde von Mevissen. Memorial speech held in the Gürzenich on 12 October 1924, edited by the Association of Cologne Women's Associations (Stadtverband). Festschrift zum 25 jährenten Bestehen der gymnasialen Studienanstalt 1903-1928, Köln 1928.Greven-Aschoff, Die bürgerliche Frauenbewegung in Deutschland 1894-1933, Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft 46, Göttingen, 1981.Gymnasialklassen für Mädchen in Köln, in: Praktische Sozialpolitiker aus allen Ständen vom Throne bis zur Werkstätte, Cöln (1909).Hundred Jahre Hildegard-von-Bingen-Schule, Köln (1988).Hundred Jahre Mädchen-Gymnasium in Deutschland. Published by: City of Karlsruhe, G. Braun. (Karlsruhe 1993)Annual reports of the municipal Merlo-Mevissen-Schule, Lyzeum with a secondary school in Cologne on the Rhine, school years, 1926/27,- 1929/30, presented by the director of the institution, headmaster Carola Barth, Cologne 1927 ff.Kailer, Gerhard, girls' education and women's studies. The founding of the first German girls' grammar school in Karlsruhe and the beginnings of women's studies at Baden universities (1890-1910), in: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins, edited by the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg, 140th volume, Stuttgart 1992, pp. 361 - 375.Kettler, Johanna, "Die Wettbewerb der Frau", 1890, "Gleiche Bildung für Mann und Frau", 1891, in : Die Frau ist freigeboren, Texte zur Frauenemanzipation, hg and commented by Hannelore Schröder, vol. 2, 1870 - 1918. Beck'sehe Schwarze Reihe, vol. 231, Munich 1981. The introduction to this text reads as follows: "In 1893 the association Frauenbildungsreform, which was led by her, founded the first German girls' high school in Karlsruhe. Despite bitter counter-reactions and slander, girls' high schools were founded in Berlin, Cologne, Wroclaw, Hanover, Leipzig and Bremen until 1900. This representation is not correct. There was no girls' grammar school in Cologne, only grammar courses in Berlin and other places in Prussia. Kindheit in Köln, Die Bestände des Kölnischen Stadtmuseums, bearbeitet von Helmut Hane, Köln, 1989.Kleinertz, Everhard, Joseph Hansen, in: Joseph Hansen, Preußen und Rheinland von 1815-1915, Dokumente und Darstellungen zur Geschichte der Rheinischen Provinzialverwaltung und des Landschaftsverbandes Rheinland, 4, Köln, 1990.Kleinertz, Everhard, Joseph Hansen (1862-1943), in: Rheinische Lebensbilder, Bd. 13, Köln 1993.Schenk, Herrad, Die feministische Herausforderung. 150 Years of the Women's Movement in Germany: Beck's Black Row 213, Munich 1983, Negotiations of the City Assembly of Cologne, 1902 and 1908, Vogt, Helmut, Zur Geschichte des Höheren Schulwesens m Köln-Kalk von 1896-1938, in: Rechtsrheinisches Köln. Vol. 15. 1989. S. 101-128.Voss, Ludwig, History of the Higher Girls' School. General school development in Germany and history of the higher schools for girls in Cologne, Opladen, 1952.Wagner, Rita, Cöln. The Social Conditions around 1900, Cologne 1989.Weber-Kellermann, Ingeborg, Die deutsche Familie, Versuch einer Sozialgeschichte. Frankfurt 1974 Weiland, Daniela, History of Women's Emancipation in Germany and Austria. Hermes Handlexikon, Düsseldorf, 1983.

Contains: Länderkundliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft, Ortsgruppe Leverkusen-Küppersteg Führung, 1937; Landesstelle der Reichsvereinigung Deutscher Lichtspielstellen, Cologne "Questionnaire for the future members of the Reichsvereinigung Deutscher Lichtspielstellen e. V., Berlin und ihrer Landesverbände" for the purpose of obtaining membership, o.D.; Rheinische Landesbildstelle, Cologne Loan of ethnological films for the promotion of the Winterhilfswerk, 1934; Lepper, W., Honnef Taxation of an amphora; Lettow-Vorbeck, Ada von, Neckargemünd Photos of crosshairs from the works of Willi Foy, 1937; Lieverwirth, O.H., Kaiserslautern Acquisition of ethnographic collections from Dutch East India; Lippmann, Martin, Frankfurt Collection activity for the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum on his expedition to South Nigeria, 1935; Lohbeck, Ernst, Wesel Acquisition of ethnological photos; Lübbert, Konteradmiral, Berlin Acquisition of a "Neumecklenburg-Schnitzerei, 1936; Ludwig, Julius, städt. Deputy, Cologne planned special exhibition for the year 1936 on the occasion of the Olympic Games, 1936; 1st "Wajang", shadow play, batik and magnificent weapons from Java 2. bark fabrics from all over the world 3. ikat and other fabrics from Indonesia. Zöhrer, Dr. Ludwig G.A., Vienna Lecture in Cologne about his trip to the Tuareg in 1935, 1937; Mexican Consulate, Cologne (Consul Leopold Kiel) Special exhibition "Arts and Crafts of the Mexican Indians", 1935; National Socialist German Workers' Party, local group Köln-Zollstock Dienstbefreiung für den Pg. Josef Kessel sen. für Wahlvorbereitungen, 1936; Baumgarten, Letterhead: Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (N.S.D.St.B.)), Cologne Leave of absence from the museum service for the management of training camps of the N.S.D.St.B. from May to August 1934; Neuerburg, Heinrich "Haus Neuerburg", Cologne Loan of 5 ship models for the exhibition "Schiff und Schiffahrt", 1935; Neuss, Waler, Honnef Donation of a Finnish wedding ring, 1937; Nordische Gesellschaft Köln Lecture events of the Westkontor; therein: Lecture programme for the Kontore, 2 p., 1934; founding of an association to support the Düsseldorf museums; information about the association to support the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum regarding its founding. Number and social status of the members, use of membership funds, 1933; Chief President of the Rhine Province (Haake, Chairman of the Association of Rhineland Local Museums), reorganization of the association in organizational and statutory terms, 1934; Pressler, C.W., Berlin, purchase of an Indonesian collection, 1934; Kameradschaft 1. Oberrh. Infantrie-Regiment 97, Cologne, leadership; therein: Invitation of the comradeship to the monthly compulsory meeting on March 14.1936; theme of the lecture by Captain Schröder: Own experiences in war and peace in our former colony Deutsch-Ost-Afrika; 1936; Reichsarbeitsdienst, Dienstabteilung 3/212 Kevelaer Dienstabteilung 3/212 Radevormwald, provision of ethnographics for the decoration of the team rooms, 1936; Reichs- und Preußischer Minister für Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung, Berlin Runderlaß wegen unentgeltlichen Eintritts für Provinzialkonservatoren und selbständige Kunstwissenschaftler zu den Museen, 1935; Reichsnährstand, Landesbauernschaft Rheinland, Bonn Description of the traditional costumes in the district of Cologne, 1935; Reichspostdirektion Köln Establishment of a special post office in the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum on the occasion of a stamp exhibition and the special show: "Ethnology and Stamps", 1937; Reichs-Rundfunk G.m.b.H., Reichssender Köln Radio report on the 30th anniversary of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum on 12.11.1936; Giant, Günther, Lord Mayor, Cologne Invitations to exhibitions of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, 1933-1936; Rodens, Franz, Cologne Agreement with Andreas Scheller on a report in the Westdeutscher Beobachter on Cologne museums and especially on the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, 1933; Söderström, Jan, Furuberg, Sweden Information on Ethnographika, 1934-1936; Scheller, Maria, Cologne Replacement of two by their deceased spouse (Andreas S., Cologne); The German writer, Günther, and the German writer, Günther, are the first to be informed about the history of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum.), 1932-1933; Schoeller, Mrs. Hugo, Düren, acknowledgement of receipt for the donation of the New Guinea collection of her mother Mrs. Geheimrat Peill, 1933; Pater Schüttler, Missionshaus Knechtsteden, loan of ethnographics for an Angola exhibition, 1937; Stagma (Staatlich genehmigte Gesellschaft zur Verwertung musikalischer Urheberrechte), Cologne, copyright claims for the works of art lent out on 2 January 1933; Pater Schüttler, Missionshaus Knechtsteden, 1933; and the collection of the works of art lent on 2 December 1933.3.Works performed in a concert in 1932, lawsuit, court summons; 1933-1934 Stollenwerk, Karl, Monschau Literatur zur Rassenforschung, 1935; Stotzenbrug, Liese, Essen Ankauf Peruischer Trinkgefäße, 1936; Väth, Felix, Mainz Ankauf Südamerikanischer Ethnographika, 1934; Haake, Heinz, Landeshauptmann (Chairman of the Verband der rheinischen Heimatmuseen) Dissolution of the association and its organs in its present form, scheduling of a constituent meeting of the association in its new form, 20.6.1934; West German Observer G.m.b.H., Gauverlag der NSDAP Köln-Aachen darin: Die Völker der deutschen Kolonien in Afrika - Special exhibition in the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, 1 p., maschrftl., copy; Die Völker der deutschen Kolonien in Afrika - Visits the special exhibition in the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, 1 p., maschrftl., copy; A life as a researcher in New Guinea. Lecture: Pater Franz J. Kirschbaum "Sprachen, Kulturen und Geisterkult bei den Eingeborenen Nord-Neuguineas", 3 p., maschrftl., copy, 1936; Reichsrundfunk-Gesellschaft, Reichssender Köln u.a. Lectures by Andreas Scheller about sports competitions of non-European peoples (during the Olympic Games) 1936; Zollamt Köln duty free import of ethnographics, 1937 old signatures: 35.

Best. 1825 contains files from the estate of Peter Faecke (born 1940) - writer, editor, composer, journalist, reporter, screenwriter, editor and publisher - which form the basis of his work as an author, especially manuscripts and material collections. The estate covers a term from 1961 to 2010.I. Takeover and useThe Peter Faecke of Cologne, who was elected, handed over his estate together with the list of papers to the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne on 29 November 2009. This was acquired under inventory number 2009/52. On 30.06.2010 he added further documents, which were registered under the access number 2010/20. Further taxes remain to be seen. In the tectonics of the archives, the estate is classified under the inventory number 1825 in the department of bequests and collections. six moving boxes filled with standing files, which contained perforated and stapled documents, were taken over. The files showed only minimal damage such as slight wrinkles, compression and dusting. After order and distortion at the end of 2011, the material worthy of archiving was removed from the standing files, cleaned, demetallized, re-bedded for archiving purposes and provided with the assigned signatures. Since January 2012, the original version of the Writers' Legacy has been available in the analogue reading room of the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne and is not subject to any restrictions on use. When citing, the form HAStK, order 1825, no. [] must be observed.II. Order and DistortionFirst of all, the stock was roughly sifted and compared with the list. Accordingly, with a few exceptions, the existing order of files was retained and only repealed where it was possible to create independent contexts or where it could be clearly seen that there had been an erroneous sorting on the part of the predecessor. Following the Bärschen principle, each standing folder and each extracted unit was then assigned a temporary number. After a thorough examination, a comprehensive description of the contents of each file unit was then made. As a result of this and in accordance with the rules for the indexing of estates and autographs, a basic thematic division of the holdings into general documents and documents relating to the work was carried out. In addition, a more specific subdivision of the manuscripts and material collections was made, oriented to the genre, and the units were pre-sorted accordingly. Afterwards an order was operated according to chronological principle and the order after final, sequential numbers was added. Subsequently the data base distortion took place in the archive software ActaPro. The two overarching classification points General, Correspondence and Criticism as well as Works and Collections of Materials were compiled, and the latter was subdivided into novels, radio contributions, screenplays and non-fiction texts. The units were then recorded and assigned to the respective classification points in the same way as the presorting, with the title field usually corresponding to the specific publication title and the exact content being made accessible by means of content and thesaurus notes. The formulation deliberately did not distinguish between manuscripts and typoscripts in the literal sense of the word, but referred to any draft text or concept, whether handwritten or typewritten, as manuscripts. Finally, cross-continuance indexes of objects, locations and persons were carried out and the inventory information was displayed on the meta level. Via an EAD-compliant interface, the data records of the holdings were exported to the archive portal of North Rhine-Westphalia, which guarantees Internet research.The indexing of Peter Faecke's estate was carried out as part of a practical indexing work for the master's degree in archive science at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences in November and December 2011 in the indexing rooms of the Restoration and Digitisation Centre of the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne by the editor Nancy Nowik under the guidance of Dr. Gisela Fleckenstein, Head of Department 3 - Bequests and Collections.III. BiographyPeter Faecke was born on 3 October 1940 in Grundwald in Silesia. In the course of his expulsion from his homeland, the family moved to Hannoversch Münden in Lower Saxony in 1946. From 1961 to 1965 he studied Romance Languages, German and Philosophy in Göttingen, Berlin, Hamburg and Paris. In 1965 Faecke became the youngest editor to date of Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne and remained loyal to WDR until 1990 as an editor in the Department of Culture and Science. His main role was that of rapporteur on Third World culture. He was significantly involved in the development and expansion of the literary program in radio at all. From 1982 to 1985, he also managed a media development project for German Development Aid in Peru, which was intended to serve the expansion of the state broadcasting system there, but had to be discontinued prematurely due to a worsening civil war. Peter Faecke also worked as a novelist during his studies and continues to do so successfully today. Since 1969 he has been a member of the Writers' Association P.E.N. Centre Germany and the Association of German Writers (VS). In 1971 he was even appointed guest lecturer for German literature at the University of Texas/USA in Austin. 1991 to 2003 he worked as a freelance journalist and writer at the WDR, travelled to Latin America and Africa for longer periods of time for research purposes and took action as a reporter from crisis areas.a. 1965 the Lower Saxony Prize for the Promotion of Literature for Young Artists, 1966 the NRW Prize, 1967 the City of Cologne Prize, 1978 a Villa Massimo Scholarship in Rome and 1991 as well as 1994 scholarships from the German Literature Fund e. V. Darmstadt. At the turn of the millennium he began publishing his own books within the BoD Norderstedt publishing house. With the founding of his publishing house Edition Köln in 2002/2003, Faecke established himself as a publisher of German and international fiction, crime literature and non-fiction. Edition Köln also serves its readers with eBooks.IV, among other things. Bibliography in selection (partly unpublished)The following list is intended to provide an overview of Peter Faecke's audio, literary and editorial oeuvre and thus of the diversity of his media work:a) Novels:1963 Die Brandstifter (former: Die Muschel), first published by Walter-Verlag, Olten und Freiburg;1965 Der rote Milan, first published by Walter-Verlag, Olten und Freiburg;1970-1973 Postversand-Roman - 11 regelmäßige Lieferungen, mit Wolf Vostell, first published by Luchterhand-Verlag, Neuwied/Darmstadt/Berlin;1982 Das unaufstostoppame Glück der Kowalskis. Prehistory, first published by Claassen Verlag, Düsseldorf;1988 Flug ins Leben, first published by Unionsverlag, Zurich;1991 Der Mann mit den besonderen Eigenschaften, unpublished (the manuscript was later completely discarded); after a new beginning this led to the novel Hochzeitvorbereitungen auf dem Lande, in the final version the second volume of the Kowalski project);1995 When Elizabeth Arden was nineteen, first published by Elster-Verlag, Baden-Baden and Zurich (revised version appeared as Landschaft mit Gärtner, first volume of the definitive Kowalski tetralogy);Die Zwei Bücher von der Heimat: I The lost years, and II The livestock dealer, the fool and the writer, publication unclear (precursor of the arrival of a shy man in heaven);2000 Arrival of a shy man in heaven, first published by Edition Köln at BoD, Norderstedt;2003 Wedding preparations in the countryside. The Kowalski Project II, Schelmenroman, first published by Edition Köln, Cologne (revised version of Arrival of a Shy One in Heaven); 2004 The Secret Videos of Mr. Vladimiro. Criminal pictures. The Kowalski Project (third volume of the Kowalski tetralogy), first published by Edition Köln, Cologne;2007 Die Geschichte meiner schönen Mama. The Kowalski Project IV, first published by Edition Köln, Cologne; 2007 Landschaft mit Gärtner. The Kowalski Project I, published by Edition Köln, Cologne (revised version of Als Elizabeth Arden neunzehn war);2007 Der Kardinal, ganz in Rot und frischbügelt (Kommissar Kleefisch-Serie I), first published by Edition Köln, Cologne;2008 Die Tango-Sängerin (Kommissar Kleefisch-Serie II), first published by Edition Köln, Cologne;2010 Fragment Wer getötete Kiki Diamant? (Der dritte Fall für Kleefisch), ebook reading sample published;b) Radio contributions:1965 Preface to the reading Der rote Milan (production: DLF);1966 Book criticism of Dieter Wellershof's Ein schöner Tag (production: WDR, Kulturelles Wort);1966 Criticism of Jacov Lind's Post Scriptum (production: WDR, Literarisches Studio);1966-1967 Kulturkommentare (production: WDR);1967 Erlebte Zeit - Die goldenen Jahre, aus der Sendereihe Wissenschaft und Bildung (Production: WDR);1967 Die Wiener Gruppe: Texte, Gemeinschaftsarbeiten und Chansons vorgestellt von Gerhard Rühm (Production: WDR, Kulturelles Wort);1968 Beitrag Kritisches Tagebuch (Production: WDR);1969 Hörspiel lesen sehen (Produktion: WDR);1969 Sendereihe Dokumente und Collagen (Production: WDR III. Programme, main department radio play);1970 programme Deutsche Wochenschau (production: SWF/SDR);1972 radio play Köln, Hohe Straße (production: WDR);1972 programme Literatur und Wahlkampf: Berichte und Analysen zur Beteiligung von Autoren am Bundestagswahllkampf 1972 mit Jürgen Alberts (production: WDR, Kulturelles Wort);1972 Lang-Gedicht Sätze für zwei und mehr, aus der Sendereihe Literarisches Studio (production: German long poem, sentences for two and more, from the series Literarisches Studio (production: German literary studio): WDR, Kulturelles Wort);1972 Moderationtext Deutsch in Texas - Berichte, Texte, Tonbänder zu einem Arbeitsauf Aufenthalt in den USA (Production: WDR3);1973 Radio play Hier ist das Deutsche Fernsehen mit der Tagessschau mit Rainer Ostendorf und Hein Brühl - Versuch einer alternativen Tagesschau in Zusammenarbeit mit Schülern der Hauptschule Köln-Kalk (Production: WDR III. Programme, main department radio play);1973 programme Die Biographie der Dinge - das Handschuhfach mit Rainer Ostendorf, from the series Literarisches Studio (production: WDR, Kulturelles Wort);1973-1974 radio series Die Fred Kowalski-Show (production: WDR, Kulturelles Wort);1976 radio play 48 PS - Zur Biografie der Autos mit Rainer Ostendorf (production: WDR);1976 programme Kein Fressen für die Banken! - The citizens' initiative Rheinpreußen-Siedlung in Duisburg-Homberg (3), from the series Bürger- und Arbeiterinitiativen in Nordrhein-Westfalen (Production: WDR, Kultur und Wissenschaft, published as audio book in the Studio für Strategische Kommunikation, Reithofen [1980]); 1977 Broadcast "Mit Prozessen überziehen... - Peter Faecke on proceedings against the citizens' initiative Rheinpreußen-Siedlung in Duisburg-Homberg Part 2 (9), from the series Autoren als Gerichtsreporter (production: WDR, Kultur und Wissenschaft);[1977-1979] Langzeit-Reihe Landprojekt (production: WDR, Kultur und Wissenschaft, as editor);[1978] Das Gummersbacher Testament - Zur Geschichte des Niedergangs der oberbergischen Textilindustrie. Materials, Memories, Conversations with Gerd Haag;1979 reportage by Klaus Wildenhahn and Gerd Haag "Da wo die Kamine smäu, da müssen später hin (1), aus der Reihe Leben und Arbeiten in Südwestfalen - ten approaches to the province;1979 Report by Gerd Haag and Heiner Taubert Every cow I put more in the stable has to be abolished by another farmer (2), from the series Life and work in South Westphalia - ten approaches to the province;1979 Report Komm her, was brauchst Du die Gewerkschaft, ein Bier kriest Du von mir (6), from the series Life and work in South Westphalia - ten approaches to the province;1979 Report by Friedhelm Melder Komm schon mal zum Wochenende - Die Bedeutung der Region als Naherholungsgebiet am Beispiel des Biggeseeses (8), from the series Leben und Arbeiten in Südwestfalen - ten approaches to the province;1979 Report by Dirk Gerhard Das Vergangene ist nicht tot, es ist nicht einmal vergangen (10), from the series Leben und Arbeiten in Südwestfalen - ten approaches to the province;1979 Resolut, with headscarf, basket, red cheeks, and something stupid in his head? - Women in the country. Prejudices - judgments, worked out with rural women from the Olpe/Sauerland district in encounter with women from Cologne and Gummersbach, recording and compilation by Mechthild Buschmann and Peter Faecke;1981 Patria o Muerte - Eine Westdeutsche Journalistengruppe in Kuba (production: RB/WDR/SFB);1981 show Guantanamera;1981 We say so openly, the bourgeoisie does not ...- radio stations in Cuba or Radio Reloj: Das Radio mit der Uhr;1983 series Leben und Arbeiten in Dortmund - nine approaches to the Ruhr area with Lothar Romain (production: WDR, Kultur und Wissenschaft);1985 reportage Lima die Schreckliche - report about a working stay in Peru (production: WDR/RB/SFB);1985 Report Lima the Terrible - II Report about a little man with a hat;1985 Report Lima the Terrible - III Report about Presidents;1985 About the Overflowing of the Andes;1985 The Long March of the Miners - Self Testimony of a Peruvian Miner's Woman (Production: WDR, Culture and Science);1986 Living you took her from us... - The Teatro Vivo from Guatemala. Reports on and from Central America on the occasion of a theatre performance (production: RB);1987 Report Das Kreuz des Südens (production: RB/SFB/SWF);1987 Programme Back to the Rio de la Plata - Zur Lage exilierter Rückkehrer nach Lateinamerika mit Hein Bruehl;1988 Report Nicht ich bin der Fremde, die Fremden sind die anderen - Portrait of the songwriter Daniel Viglietti from Uruguay (production: WDR3/RB);1989 reportage Chapinlandia - Ein Reisebericht aus Mittelamerika (Production: WDR1, Kultur und Wissenschaft);1993 broadcast Comrade Führer - Baghdad, two years after the 'Operation Desert Storm': Monitored Observations in Iraq (Production: SFB);1994 reportage Welcome, by my Eyes! - Journey through the autonomous region Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) (Production: SFB/WDR/SWF);1995 Documentation Petrified Forests, Dry Water - Journey through the Republic of Namibia (Southwest Africa) in the 5th Year of Independence (Production: SFB3);1996 Report The Elephant Bull and the Writers - Comments on Cocoa Land in Namibia, the Dying Himba Tribe and the German-Born Romancier Giselher W. Hoffmann, taking into account my own bias as an author (production: WDR/SFB);2000 broadcast Wenn bei uns ein Greis stirbt, dann burnt an entire library, from the series Forum Literatur, a.o. episode Amadou Hampaté Ba, the narrator and cultural archivist of the Sahel countries (production: WDR);2001 radio play Die geheimen Videos des Herrn Vladimiro (production: WDR);o. D. Funkerzählung Ein Fisch zuiel;c) Screenplays:1994 Documentary film screenplay Fritz lebt. Secret offender and Viehlosoph (production: Tiger TV GmbH, director: Elke Baur);1994 feature film script Eine Liebe zum Land (working title);d) factual texts:1964 Krebs und Katze;1967 essay clatch as clatch can;1971 text For example Cologne: Hohe Straße;1972 Excerpt from Als Elizabeth Arden neunzehn war, in: Akzente;Essay Köln: Bahnhofsvorplatz;Article Arbeiterpathos und literarische Sonntagsmalerei;1973 Gefahr ging eigentlich nur von Linksaußen Volkert aus dem Arbeitstitel: About the chancellor election '72 in the FRG;1974 essay Hohe Straße, in: Notebook - Neun Autoren, Wohnsitz Köln, Kiepenheuer

Hospelt, Familien- und FirmenarchivIn 1964, Adolf von Lauff donated the estate of his father, the Rhenish poet Joseph von Lauff (1855-1933), to the city of Cologne. He had married the daughter of the Cologne factory owner and city councillor Wilhelm Anton Hospelt (1820-1893) Josephine Hospelt in 1882. Therefore, the company and family archive Hospelt, which had fallen to the family through inheritance (via Artur Hospelt?), was also part of the Lauff estate. This was separated from the Lauff estate (Order 1170) when it was taken over and set up as a separate portfolio (Order 1175). On the occasion of the review and order of the Lauff estate, the Hospelt estate was also rearranged. Some of the documents still in the Lauff estate on the Hospelt ink works (original minutes of shareholders' meetings; managing director correspondence Adolf v. Lauff) were incorporated into this collection. In the Lauff estate only those files remained which had arisen as a result of Lauff's share as a shareholder of Farbwerke. The archives of the Hospelt collection comprise four archive cartons. They were arranged roughly, the company files according to subject groups, the family papers according to persons. The order found was maintained - even if it mixed the provenances in various ways - but more strongly structured. The individual pieces were summarized and briefly characterized under Subject resulting from the respective existing material. The descendants' tables attached to the index are intended to clarify the family relationships and the inheritance of the company shares of Farbwerke Hospelt. On July 2, 1844, Wilhelm Anton Hospelt opened a colonial material and paint shop in the house at Apostelstr. 9 in Cologne. 1879/80 Acquisition of the bankrupt Aktiengesellschaft für chemische Bleiprodukte und Farben in Ehrenfeld - 1893 Conversion of the company into a GmbH (limited liability company), in which the heirs of W.A. Hospelt, who died in 1893, became partners with a certain share in the share capital. 1893-19o4 Jean Hospelt sole managing director - financial difficulties at the end of the twenties which forced the reduction of the share capital (1932 and 1936) - almost complete destruction in the 2nd world war - 1944 centenary of the company - 1946-1955 reconstruction under the managing directors Adolf v. Lauff, Paul du Mont and Max Fackeldey - 1946-1955 reconstruction of the company by the managing directors Adolf v. Lauff, Paul du Mont and Max Fackeldey 1973 The company ceases to exist. Wilhelm Anton Hospelt (1820-1893); Jean (Johann Hubert) Hospelt (1852-1904), factory owner; Emeline Hospelt née de Ball (1862-1940), women's politician, social politician. includes among othersWilhelm Anton Hospelt: marriage and birth certificates, certificates; private cash books (1881-1893), honorary offices and memberships in associations (1851-1880), invitations (1861-1884), correspondence with Vincenz Statz (1861-1879), his wife Elisabeth Breiderhoff (1883-1884) and others; political appeals (1856, 1963, n. d.).Jean (Johann Hubert) Hospelt: documents (1881-1904), professional certificates (1873-1904), memberships in associations, invitations (1872-1904), family celebrations; correspondence with relatives and acquaintances (1872-1893); marriage process of the son Wilhelm Anton Hospelt before the S. R. Rota, Rome (1913) Emeline Hospelt: personal documents; activities in associations: Catholic German Women's Association - Zweigverein Köln (1913-1937), Sozial-Karitative Gemeinschaft St. Georgshaus (1927-1930), Frauenbund der Deutschen Kolonialgesellschaft, Dep. Cologne (1913-1940), war aids (1915-1917), memberships in associations; correspondence with parents and siblings (1876-1939), friends (1882-1926); letters, personal documents of parents Felix de Ball and Sophia Hedding as well as their siblings Felice, Alwin, Lothar and Rudolf; collection of genealogy material; book of the dead of the Hospelt family. Hospelt: transformation into a GmbH, later AG (1893-1902), correspondence with the partners, partnership agreement (1899-1944); minutes of the general meeting (1904-1945), balance sheets (1893-1943), monthly reports (1905-1945), appointment of a managing director (1921-1946), managing director correspondence (1891-1946); collection of materials on the history of the company.The files remaining in the Lauff estate relating to the Farbwerke Hospelt as well as the documents and letters of members of the Hospelt family in the possession of Josephine v. Lauff are to be used as additions to the holdings: Johann Scherer: Wilhelm Anton Hospelt (1820-1893), Cologne 1956, 23 pages.

Includes: Körner, Theo Editing of the Japan Bibliography for the Ethnologische Anzeiger, 1941; Dammann, Ernst Lecture at the University of Cologne on Languages of Communication in Tropical Africa, 1942; Editing of a Bibliography of Bantus Languages, 1942; Draws-Tychsen, Hellmut Publication of his article "Gedenkblatt für Hjalmar Stolpe" in the Ethnologische Anzeiger, 1941; Eberhard, W., Ankara Mangelahfte Form of the publication of his China bibliography; editing of a Turkey bibliography; 1940 - 1943; Grau, Rudolf, Leipzig, Feldpostbriefe u. Herne Delivery of the manuscripts for the bibliography "Allgemeine Völkerkunde"; vacant custodian post at the Museums for Animal and Ethnology in Dresden, 1941; destruction of his ethnological documents, books, card indexes and the manuscript of the bibliography "Allgemeine Völkerkunde" by a bomb hit on his flat in Leipzig, 1944; compensation for the loss by the Reichskriegsschädenamt, 1944; release from American war captivity, job search, 1945; arrest of Gs. 25.9.1945 in Herne and imprisonment in an internment camp; imprisonment of Eugen Fischer and Otto Reche, 1946; foundation of an interim editorial committee for the Ethnological Anzeiger zur Erhaltung der Lizenz, 1946; work at the Volkshochschule in Herne, 1948; exhibition of references, 1948; recruitment to the Volksschuldienst, 1948; 1939 - 1948; Helbig, Karl, Hamburg Free provision of 3 copies of the Ethnological Anzeiger (Eth.A.) Collaboration on the bibliography of the Eth.A.; 1941; Hilgers-Hesse, Irene, Köln-Braunsfeld Termination of her position at the Auslandsbrief-Prüfstelle Köln, 1942; Application for an assistant position at the Ethnological Institute of the University of Cologne; Collaboration on the Eth.A.; 1942 - 1948; Kroll, Hubert, Essen Mrs. Kroll Participation in seminar exercises with Julius Lips, 1928; Obituary for Kr. in the Eth.A.., 1941, submission of manuscripts for publication in the Eth.A., 1941; Meyer, Emmi, Hamburg Lectures at the University of Cologne; collaboration on the bibliography for the Eth.A.; possibility of re-habilitation to Cologne; bomb damage at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, at the Institute for Ethnology at the University of Cologne, at Heydrich's apartment, 1943; processing of her Bali grammar, missing report about Dammann in Tunisia, 1943, capture and transport of Damann to the USA, Texas, 1944; death of Meinhof in Greifswald on 10. September 1944; death of Meinhof in Greifswald on 10. September 1944; possibility of re-habilitation to Cologne; bomb damage at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, at the Institute for Ethnology at the University of Cologne, at Heydrich's apartment, 1943; work on her Bali grammar, missing report about Dammann in Tunisia, capture and transport of Dammann to the USA, Texas, 1944; death of Meinhof in Greifswald.2.1944; 1942 - 1946; Reichskolonialbund, Berlin 1939 - 1948 Subscription to the periodical "Deutsche Kolonial-Zeitung" and acquisition of other periodicals; takeover of an ethnographic collection from Knechtsteden by the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum; 1932 - 1943; Schilde, W., Feldpostbriefe und Plauen Erforschung des Nilgebiets im Auftrag des kolonial-politischen Amtes, 1941; habilitation project with Otto Reche and his topic "Orakel und Gottesurteile in Afrika, 1941; application for the custodian position at the Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Dresden (Nachfolge Heydrich), 1941; collaboration on the bibliography for the Eth.A.; Tod Schildes 1942; wife Charlotte S., Plauen, purchase of the scientific library of her husband; 1940 - 1944; von Stackelberg, Maria, Baroness, Vienna, editing of the bibliography on Japan and Korea for the Eth.A.; 1942 - 1944; Waehner, Siegfried, Dresden, publication of the results of his research trip to the Tikuna and Katukino, 1941; 1941.old signatures: 217.

Description:This publication opens up a legacy that has been in the Historical Archive for almost one hundred years now. Until a few years ago, the documents were only accessible via a handwritten find book, the oldest part of which had been laid out by the former head of the city archives, Joseph Hansen. The numerous supplements and additions, the various signature layers and signature changes did not make the handling of the finding aid easy, and probably also deterred from using the estate. This is perhaps one of the reasons why, since Hansen's extensive biography of 1906, no newer, comparably broad investigation of Mevissens' life and work has been presented. Such a biography, however, is all the more urgently desired, as Hansen's biography, despite all its merits, is outdated as an object of research solely because of the author's closeness, not only to the temporal one, and yet continues to shape the judgement of the Rhenish entrepreneur Mevissen to this day. Recent research on individual aspects has revealed shortcomings and contradictions in the biography, and a renewed, comprehensive scientific examination of what was perhaps the most important 19th-century Rhenish entrepreneur is therefore desirable, and certainly fruitful, not least because of the richness of the estate. The extensive correspondence with contemporaries from business, politics, society and culture, which deserves intensive examination and evaluation, is worthy of special mention. If the present publication would set such a discourse on Mevissens' person and work in motion, this would be very welcome beyond the immediate occasion of the publication, namely the return of the 100th anniversary of his death on 13 August 1899. Mevissen was first and foremost an entrepreneur, a dynamic founder and highly competent organiser of banking, insurance, transport and industrial companies, the latter primarily in the textile, mining and mechanical engineering sectors. But his personality was more complex, more versatile. Mevissen was a politically thinking and acting person, on the national level as a member of parliament and undersecretary of state of the Frankfurt Reich government, on the local political level, among other things, as an alderman. He had ambitious concepts and goals for the interests of the community of Cologne as an economic, traffic and educational centre, and his efforts to reform school education led to the foundation of a commercial college, the predecessor of today's Cologne University. The Gesellschaft für Rheinische Geschichtskunde owes its origins in 1881 to his love of science, especially the historical sciences. In connection with its task of editing historical sources, Mevissen financially enabled the Historical Archives to begin organising, cataloguing and publishing the holdings of documents and records. Mevissen supported research into the history of the Rhineland and the city of Cologne. He has supported work projects, some of which have not yet created scientifically outdated foundations. For this promotion, which was continued after his death also by his daughters, first of all by Mathilde von Mevissen, he was able to win over and engage many Cologne and Rhineland entrepreneurs. The present publication is to be understood as a gesture of gratitude with which the archive of the initiator and founder of the Gesellschaft für Rheinische Geschichtskunde would like to commemorate and honour the friend and patron of the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne. to publish the indexing of the Mevissen estate in print was only possible because the arranger Manfred Groten had arranged the estate in the years 1991 - 1992, registered it and indexed it in a finding aid with personal register. He, whom the Historical Archive lost as a result of a call to the University of Cologne in 1998, deserves first and foremost thanks. Mechthild Willmes went to a lot of trouble in order to get it to print quickly and smoothed out the discrepancies that had arisen in the meantime due to extensive file restoration, checked the estate once again for its completeness and determined the size of the file units. The undersigned made some changes to the text necessary for printing and created the company, local and subject index. Special thanks go to the Cologne Chamber of Industry and Commerce and its President Alfred Freiherr von Oppenheim. It, the Chamber, financially supported the publication of the estate of its President from 1856-1860, thus placing the Historical Archive in the fortunate position of commemorating its patron. Volume 86 of the series of announcements presents a publication which is committed to the archival work of Mevissen, both ideally and financially supported, namely the organisation, indexing and publication of archive holdings. Cologne, August 1999Everhard KleinertzDaten zu Person und WerkGustav von Mevissen (1815-1899) played an important role in the economic, political and cultural life of his time. As President of the Rheinische Eisenbahngesellschaft, he played a leading role in the development of the German transport network. He was involved in the textile and mining industry, banking, insurance and shipping. As a liberal politician, he belonged to the united Prussian state parliament of 1847, the Frankfurt National Assembly, the Volkshaus in Erfurt, and later the Herrenhaus. He held various political offices. In Cologne, he acted as deputy. Mevissen promoted and supported a large number of cultural institutions and projects The following list is intended to provide an overview of the economic undertakings initiated and promoted by Mevissen, some of which were significantly shaped, and of his political activities and cultural endeavours:1815 May 20: Birth of Gustav Mevissen in Dülken.1828 Attendance of the Karmelitergymnasium, the later Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne, admission to the Quinta; move to the Quarta of the Marzellengymnasium in Cologne in autumn 1828.1829 In 1830 he joined his father's company in Dülken: yarn production and yarn wholesale business, agricultural property with land product business and oil mill. 1836-1838 Extensive travel activity for the company to the Rhineland and Westphalia, also to Belgium; 1838 travel to the English textile regions, at the suggestion of the Prussian Ministry of Finance. In Holbeck near Leeds he visits Marshall's large flax spinning mill.

Contains:Advertising material of various publishers and companies for books and school utensils, book recommendations of the superior authorities, complaints and petitions of various kinds; distribution of plants to schoolchildren by the Kölner Gartenbaugesellschaft (Cologne Horticultural Society) with the significant participation of the merchant Max Garthe, premiums for the particularly well-tended plants; Kölner und Berliner Tierschutzverein due to distribution of animal welfare calendars, establishment of school celebrations for pupils and parents, preparation of the anniversaries of the head teacher at the seminar in Brühl Konrad Schumacher and the district school inspector Peter Hopstein, collection of material for the Cologne traffic encyclopedia of Damian Gronen, tax assessment of teachers; invitations, calls and brochures of various associations and institutions: Wilhelm Augusta Teachers' Association in Witten for founding recreation homes for old teachers, German Patriots' Association for the erection of a monument to the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig, Central Office for Workers' Welfare Institutions in Berlin, German Colonial Society in Cologne, Chamber of Commerce. Printed publications: Preliminary result of the census on 2 December 1895 in Cologne (1895); compilation of the operating results of the local health insurance funds, company (factory) health insurance funds and guild health insurance funds for the year 1895 (1896) existing in Cologne and in the incorporated suburbs under the supervision of the Lord Mayor; The census on 2 December 1895 (1896); Lease agreement between the City of Cologne and the Waren-Kredit-Anstalt for the construction of a warehouse at the Rheinwerft shipyard (4 December 1895); Lease agreement between the City of Cologne and the Waren-Kredit-Anstalt for the construction of a warehouse at the Rheinwerft shipyard (4 December 1896). September 1897); tables on the employment agency of the Allgemeine Arbeitsnachweis-Anstalt in Cologne from 1 April to 30 June 1898 (1898); statutes of the Preußische Ruhegehaltszuschuss- und Unterstützungskasse für mit Ruhegehaltsberechtigung angestellte Lehrerinnen (1898); evidence of the planned income from municipal income tax and municipal surcharges (June 1895); evidence of the planned income from state and municipal taxes (July 1896); file number: XII-5-1.Old signatures: Order 403, C-185.

I. Introduction1) On the history of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-MuseumWilhelm Joest was born in Cologne on 15 March 1852 as the son of the merchant Eduard Joest. After studying natural sciences in Bonn, Heidelberg and Berlin, he travelled to Africa, America and the South Seas. When he died on 25.11.1897 on the island of Ureparapara in the South Seas, he left behind an ethnographic collection comprising about 3,400 list numbers. This collection, which formed the basis of the museum, was accepted by the City Council on 16 February 1899 as a gift from the married couple Eugen Rautenstrauch and Adele Rautenstrauch at Joest, - she was Wilhelm Joest's sister - for the Natural History Museum. After the death of Eugen Rautenstrauch on 18.5.1900, Adele Rautenstrauch donated 250,000 Marks to the City of Cologne for the construction of a museum and another 25,000 Marks for the appointment of a museum director. The city council adopted these foundations on 9.8.1900. After the death of Adele Rautenstrauch on 30.12.1903, her heirs increased the building capital for the museum by 180,000 Marks. This donation was subject to the condition that the respective head of the Rautenstrauch family or, in his absence, another member of the Rautenstrauch family to be presented to the city by the family should have a seat and vote in the municipal commission of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum. The city council assembly accepted this foundation on 13.5.1904. Joest's collections found their first accommodation in the Bayenturm in 1901. The office was located in a neighbouring harbour building. Later, parts of the collections, which had increased considerably in the meantime due to other donations, as well as the office had to be moved to the old Quatermarktschule. The collections, however, gained such a size in the following years through further donations that the space was soon no longer sufficient here either. This is why the completion of the museum building in 1906, which was begun according to the designs of architect Edwin Crones in the spring of 1904, came just in time. The ceremonial inauguration took place on November 12 of the same year, 1918, when the English occupying forces settled in the building of the State United Mechanical Engineering School Cologne, Ubierring 48. As a result, the mechanical engineering school was relocated to the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum for a short time in 1919. A "quartering", which should last longer, took place by the opening of the Kammerspiele on 24.10.1948. The Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum survived the bombing raids during the Second World War quite lightly, because only the north wing and the rear wing had been destroyed by bomb hits. After provisional repairs after the end of the war (Kammerspiele), the final reconstruction of the destroyed parts began in the spring of 1963. The completion of the shell of the north wing took place in 1964. From 1965 onwards, the museum was closed due to the construction work both in the old building and on the new part until its ceremonial opening on the 7th of July.Since the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum was more dependent on private than public aid at the time of its foundation, the Verein zur Förderung des Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museums was founded on 17.5.1904 on the initiative of Adele Rautenstrauch's heirs. On 28.2.1951 the association was renamed "Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde" (Society for Ethnology). 1909 saw the first publication of its own series, the "Ethnologica", on behalf of the Society for the Promotion of the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum. The respective director of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum acts as editor on behalf of the Association or the Society for Ethnology.2List of museum directors with terms of office - Willi Foy ( 27.11.1873, † 01.03.1929)01.10.1901 - 1925- Fritz Graebner ( 04.04.1877, † 13.07.1934)1925 - 1928- Julius Lips ( 08.09.1895, † 21.01.)1950)1928 - April 1933- Andreas Scheller 1933 - June 1940 ( 08.05.1894, † 25.3.1977 in Schwalmstadt-Ziegenhain)(provisional director (dismissed from the service of the City of Cologne on 31.12.1940)- Martin Heydrich ( 29.12.1889, † 08.02.1969)1. July 1940 - 1945- Friedrich Wilhelm Funke ( 21.06.1921)(director) 1945 - 1948- Martin Heydrich1948 - 31.12.1960- Willy Fröhlich ( 30.10.1906, † 04.09.1971)01.01.1961 - 04.09.1971- Axel Freiherr von Gagern01.12.1971 - 31.12.1978- Gisela Völger ( 28.04.1937)01.10.1979 - 27.04.20003 Sources and LiteratureContent 505, Museum Administration, No. 43Content 47 - 51, Art and Popular Education, No. 5, 53, 54, 56, 248, 250, 251, 252, 285, 286Willy Foy. Guide to the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum. (Museum für Völkerkunde der Stadt Cöln.) Köln, 1908.Verwaltungsberichte der Stadt Köln.4. Aktenübernahme und OrdnungverfahrenThe files of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum reached the archive under Accession 404 on 05.04.1976 with a three-page delivery list The delivery list describes only summarily the subject of the files packed in 11 cartons. After completion of the indexing work and the structuring in January 1984, 108 volumes of files were still found in the heating cellar of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum. This delivery came on 22.02.1984 in the Archivon it received no own Accessionsnummer, but was immediately registered and into the structure already provided worked in. The files date back to the period between 1901 and 1971, with the bulk of the archival material originating between 1950 and 1970. Martin Heydrich's hand-files had been mixed with the "General Correspondence". In July 1940 Heydrich was appointed full professor for the newly established chair of ethnology at the University of Cologne. He also took over the management of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum. These Handakten essentially refer to his activities as Ordinarius for Ethnology and as editor of the journal "Ethnologischer Anzeiger". The reference files were extracted from the "General Correspondence" and placed as a separate group at the end of the index under the number L.Under the "General Correspondence, Series" there is also correspondence relating to the purchase, exchange and donation of ethnographics and literature, as well as vice versa correspondence of general content in the purchase and exchange files. After the removal from the Leitz files and the removal of metal parts, the files were listed according to numerus currens. The filing within the correspondent series with museums, institutes and scientific societies was quite arbitrary. Within a volume, correspondence is filed under the location of the institute or society as well as under the name of the institute. 614 boxes comprise 37 boxes. 13 m; 655 files.

Contains:1921 June 3 - Berlin: Minutes of the Establishment of a Committee for Catholic Schools Abroad within the RKA.11/2 S., copy of Masch.-Schreiben.1923 Febr. 17 - Berlin: Marx transmits to the Bishops the Call and the List of Honorary Committees for the Comp. For Faith and Folklore Donation of German Catholics at the Border and Abroad. Eh. Signature.1 S., Vervielf.In the Annex the Call, 1 S., Vervielf., the List of Honorary Committees, 1 S., copy of Masch.-Schreiben und Druck.1923 Febr. 23 - Hans Hartenfels b. Duisburg: Peter Klöckner writes to Marx that he has not signed calls for a long time. After all, his brother has already signed. Due to the blockade of mail, telephone and telegraph, things are going badly in the occupied territory; moreover, all cars were confiscated. But by the way, there is a firm will here to hold out for everyone without exception, and therefore the great displeasures are accepted. The workers are employed, although there can hardly be any talk of dispatch and supply. The unoccupied area must above all ensure the provision of food for the population. As long as I have been active, I have never seen such a strong will of the whole population. Unfortunately, we will have to prepare for a long time. I'm afraid the fight will take longer than half a year. Eh. Signature.P/, S., masch.-schriftl. Ausf., personal head sheets.1923 Febr. 26 - Munich: Min. Present. v. Knilling informs Marx that he has submitted a report to the Honorary Committee on ECR. For Faith and Folklore and transfers 10000 RM. Eh. Signature.1/2 p., mechanical typeface, headbow, Der Bayer. Min.-Präs.'1923 Febr. 28 - Berlin: RK Cuno asks Marx, after consultation with Brauns, for further news about the preparatory work of Slg. Then he will decide whether to join the honorary committee. Eh. Signature.1 S., mach.-typ. edition, head bow 'Der RK'.1923 March 2 - Munich: H. Held notifies Marx that he will gladly join the honorary committee and will transfer 5000,- M. Eh. Signature.1/2 p., mach.-typewritten copy, headed sheet, Der 1. Vors. der Fraktion der Bayer. Volkspartei'.1923 March 12 - Bamberg: Auxiliary Bishop Senger transmits unnamed (light?) files with greetings to Marx. Eh. Signature.1/2 half page, eh. 1923 March 14 - Berlin: Teacher H. Meier transmits a letter from Father Sonnenschein to Cardinal Bertram to Marx. It emphasizes that there is not a single Catholic in the Reich Committee of the VDA and that there must be a front against it. The signature of Cuno is valuable for the soon to be published call. Eh. Signature.2 half pages, eh. Ausf.1923 May 7 ~ Breslau: The prince-bishop informs Marx that the VDA, Landesverband Bayern, on 26. 4. by the university rector of Würzburg at the Würzburg Ordinariat has defended itself against the accusation of imparity of use of its means. Marx is asked to provide material for a detailed reply in order to remove the suspicion that the action brought is unfounded. Eh. Signature: i. A. Blaeschler.1 S., machine-printed version, head bow. Conception paraphe N(egwer?). Receiving stamp of the prince-bishop delegation Berlin of 14. 5. with paraphe D(eitmer).1923 May - Breslau: The prince-bishop curia informs Marx in writing m. d. B. about statement a letter of the ordinariate Passau to cardinal Bertram. After that, the Bayer. In 1922 the VDA sent prayer books to 17 congregations in South Tyrol, and the VDA was informed that Cardinal Schulte, Bishop Berning, Vicar Gen. Buchberger and President Prälat Kreuz were members of its executive board. The Passau Ordinariate asks Cardinal Bertram to inform it of facts which have led to a violation of Catholic interests in recent years and which show the Association's participation in the efforts of the Losvon-Rome Movement at that time. Eh. Signature: Blaeschler.11/2 p., machine-written version, head bow. Date of receipt of the prince-bishop's delegation from Berlin and date of submission from Man: 11. 5. 1923. Eh. Letter from Marx to GS m. d. B. for news about what had happened, enclosing the following two letters:1923 May 3 - Würzburg: Gen.-Vikar Weidinger transmits a letter from Bayer to Cardinal Bertram. VDA Regional Association to the Rector of Würzburg University, Prof. Ruland, on 26 April. Marx may procure the necessary documents for an answer to this and may forward these also to Gen. vicar Budlberger Munich. Gez. Signature.1 S., mach.-typewritten copy.1923 April 26 - Munich: The Bavarian Association of the VDA refers Prof. Dr. Ludwig Ruland-Würzburg, who helped the speaker of the association Hlawna in 1921 and who was himself active for the association, to the Würzburg Diocesan Gazette 14, where he refers to the Collection of the Diocesan Documents of the Würzburg Diocese. The VDA is not only aware of the 'faith and folklore', but at the same time reproaches are made against the VDA. Our point of view towards these accusations is that we are very pleased when other sides also work for the common cause of the German nation abroad. We believe, however, that the best service to this cause will be rendered if the individual associations do not fight each other, but walk quietly side by side. Ruland may the Würzburg Ordinariat point out to the religious neutrality of the association. Gen. vicar Buchberger did not approve of the attacks on the VDA and did not have them printed in the Munich Diözesanblatt. The VDA has been collecting particularly enthusiastically for 2 years; the local groups have risen from 29 to 160 and the number of members from 2300 to 31 000; 30000 pupils have been registered. Card. v. Paulhaber has supported interdenominational charity events that include the protestant. The Church President advocated the necessity of a union of the Christian denominations for charitable purposes. The VDA was founded in 1881 by the Kuraten v. Proweis on the Nonsberge Pranz X. Mitterer and was already co-led 2 decades ago by Prälat Werthmann. Cardinal Schulte, Bishop Berning and Vicar Gen. Buchberger, President Kreutz and P. Sonnenschein are members of the main committee of the VDA. The cath. influence at the VDA (is therefore) very big, especially since no prominent representative of protestant. clubs is represented in the same. The majority of the foreign Germans in Bukovina, Bessarabia, Bohemia, Moravia, South Tyrol, Northern Hungary are Catholics, and these areas are mainly Protestant. Saxony and Thuringia. It would therefore be a great damage for the Catholic cause if our association were to be blown up by the foreign donation of German Catholics to create its own protestant. I would be called to task. A number of Catholic elementary schools received grants from the VDA and a not insignificant number of clergymen received allowances on their salaries; study grants went to boy seminarians, theology and school office candidates in South Tyrol. The state association of Bavaria has burdened itself with 18 million RM in debt through the procurement of kath' prayer books. In view of Mussolini's ruthless approach in South Tyrol, where German is spoken by Italy. If the individual associations have been replaced by clergy and many only German-speaking inhabitants of the congregations have to do without sermon and confession, they should not fight each other but work side by side for the same goal. Gez. Signature: v. Witzleben, deputy chairman 4 pp., machine-written copy, attached: Excerpt from Würzburg Diocesan Gazette No. 14 of 26 March 1923 for 'Faube und Volkstum', 1/2 pp. machine-written copy; also: Advertising address of the Collection of the Holy Sepulchre No. 14 of 26 March 1923 for 'Faith und Volkstum', 1/2 pp. (192)3 May 18: Marx explains to Prelate Kreutz that various national federations of the VDA had agreed on the S1g. They complain and deny that the Catholic interests have been "unequally and unwillingly treated" by the VDA. Marx knows about the old accusation that the VDA favors the Sim(ultan)-8chulen. Kreutz may be helpful with documents that make a special S1g. of Catholics appear justified.1 S., copy of Masch.-Schreiben, without certification. In the bill: Simoniten-Schulen.1923 May 22 - Freiburg: Kreutz means to Marx that from the advertising letter for 'Faith and Volkstum' perhaps an accusation against the VDA can be presumed. An objection has been raised from Munich against a corresponding announcement in the Passauer Verordnungsblatt. In the 4 years of board membership Kreutz had no reason to complain about imparity, but could only attend board meetings regularly while he was living in Berlin. In 1920 and 1921, respectively, Cardinal Schulte and Bishop Berning were elected to the committee with great pleasure; the latter currently participates in the VDA's genealogical slurry in Hamburg. In recent years, the VDA's head office has probably been far away from a tendentious management. The spirit in the rather independent regional associations depended on the influence of the Catholic members. Admittedly, Catholics used to be indifferent to the association and left foreign schools to it. That any clergymen became active is therefore not to be reproached to them. That from that side, in the spirit of Hakatism, German was perhaps often confused with Protestant, we have already experienced elsewhere with the possible clergy. In an interview on 1. and 2. 5. Admiral Seebohm recognized for the central management of the VDA the right of its own cath. 81g. There won't be much penetrating material to gather for full evidence. The VDA has long replaced the leaders of the pre-war era. Kreutz it is inexplicable that as the oldest Catholic board member in the VDA he was not informed of the 81g plan. In the RT he tried to reach Marx in vain. P. Sonnenschein has travelled to Italy and has independently regulated his deputy in the RKA without the board. It would have been better if this association had made the 81g. with an extended action committee. Eh. Signature.21/2 p., masch.-schriftl. Ausf., Kopfbogen 'Der Präs. d. Dt. Caritasverbandes'.1923 May 24: Marx writes to Cardinal Bertram that his statements of 13 May are based on the observations made by P. Sonnenschein in the executive committee of the VDA. Despite his eager efforts, he was unable to gain any insight into the management of the company. He suspected behind it intention, particularly since he was not able to increase the number of the catholic board membersj of 20 board members 2 are catholic; of it prelate Kreutz can hardly become active because of his Freiburg residence. The VDA has asked a board member of the Slg. to provide accounting evidence that the Catholics have been duly taken into account in the distribution of support. The Ordinariates may therefore inform the complainants that the negotiations between the VDA and the Slgs management had led to the expectation of a clarification.11/2 p., copy of Masch.-Schreiben, without certification.(192)3 May 30: Marx writes to Gen.-Vikar Buchberger that the Landesverband Bayern of the VDA is in agreement on the Slg. "For faith and folklore. In recommendations of ordinariates, reference has been made to the unparity of authority of Catholics by the VDA. Marx wants it to appear that the VDA in Bavaria is taking a different path than the Prussian. In any case, before the war, the VDA preferred only the simultaneous school abroad; he was also a leader in the Los von Rome movement. It may not have been the fault of our side that we did not participate enough in the efforts of the association and tried to keep influence on the management. That has undoubtedly changed in recent years. Marx would like a judgment on the attitude of the Landesverband Bayern.P/, S., copy of Masch.-Schreiben, without certification.1923 June 4 - Munich: Buchberger to Marx: "I am very happy to be able to talk to you about caring for foreign dentists. I am a co-founder of the RKA myself. Occasionally, when this association was founded, the president of the VDA came to me and reproached me for having founded a competition. I have very seriously discussed my reasons for this with him, namely the role the club played in the Los-von-Rom movement and in the equation of German and Protestant. The situation has changed since then. In spite of all attempts - so still with the last Katholikentag - the catholic organization does not want to win right strength and life and influence for the care for the foreign Dt. Only a few weeks after the foundation of our association for Catholics abroad, the war took away the soul of Count Preysing, who was killed in Frkr. He did not receive a successor who would have time and sense for the work of the association. On the other hand, at the head of the Bavarian regional association of the VDA, there is a good Catholic who not only takes care of his association, but would also fulfill every wish for me. I have therefore had no reservations about joining the VDA myself under the changed circumstances at the request of Prof. Dr. Deuerling. As the situation in Bavaria is, there really would be no reason to take a stand against the VDA in any way; one can regret that this happened without first examining the situation more closely. Buchberger encloses a letter from Deuerling, to which Marx may find a friendly word to write good. Eh. Signature.2 S., eh. Ausf., head bow 'Das Ordinariat des Erzbistums München-Freysing'.[192]3 June 28: Marx answers Buchberger that the conditions in Bavaria are different than in Prussia. The circular of 'Faith and Folklore' is, however, only from the knowledge of the Prussians. conditions have emerged. Only the prelates Werthmann and Kreutz were able to gain an insight into the VDA's business practices. In the future the cath. interests will be probably better considered there. The VDA has offered to provide proof of sufficient consideration of Catholic interests. From time to time Marx would like to recognize Prof. Deuerling for the achievements of the bayer, VDA. On the Catholic side, everything must be done to be present in the large organizations; in the past, it was probably not always ridiculous in this respect. Much of what is lamented on our part may not have been brought about by ourselves through the development of things without our fault.11/% S., copy of Masch.-Schreiben, without certification.1923 July 9 - Munich: The Bavarian Association of the VDA writes to the Ordinariate in Passau that it is the high kirdll. The body which sent the note complained of has become known in the meantime. Like the Passau Ordinariate, the office repeated the indications of 'faith and folklore' without its own knowledge of the facts in good faith. These have not yet been proven. The VDA, however, has endeavoured to clarify the error in good faith. Among the misleaders are persons who have a precise insight into the activities of the VDA's Board of Directors. The bavarian. Landesverband works almost exclusively for the Catholic Germans abroad; he feels badly damaged by the note spread by the Ordinariates. In the negotiations between VDA and 'faith and folklore' nothing will come out, since the latter is to be denied serious will, 'faith' where they have a young settlement, 3 years ago a benevolent consul v. Lenz officiated, who was soon transferred to Rome. A Jude Neumayer, I believe a wealthy Viennese merchant, now manages the German consulate with his talkative wife. His administration is lamented by the Catholic Germans as lacking understanding. When an elderly German woman in Turin went insane, Neumayer said to the sisters, "Take this person into your house, put a nun's cap on him, and let this person work for you". During the war, the German interests of the Swiss

Contains:1914 Jan. 1 - Berlin: Die Dt. Omitholog. Gesel1schaft asks the RT to prohibit the ruthless shooting of birds of paradise in the German protectorate of New Guinea because of the danger of extinction. Signatures: Heinroth, Reichenow, GS.1 p., print.1916 Febr. 5 - Düsseldorf: submission by Alwine Clason, chairman of the Stadtverband für Frauenbestrebungen, and Maria Bewerunge, deputy chairman of the Vereinigung Düsseldorfer Künstlerinnen und Kunstfreundinnen, to the Abg.Haus wegen Errichtung einer Kunstakademie für Frauen in Düsseldorf.3 S., Drucke1920 Nov. 1 - Cologne: Memorandum for the establishment of a school for physical education in Cologne.21/% S., masch.-schriftl. Absrchrift.o. D. (after 1921 June 29): Memorandum on the founding and establishment of the Catholic Institute of Philosophy planned for Cologne, which is to be named the "Albertus Magnus Academy" in honour of the great Cologne teacher Albertus Magnus. Written by Prof. Dr. Switalski from Braunsberg, currently Köln.4 S., Druck.192(4) Mai 27 - Berlin: Schreiber reminds Marx of the promise to write to Cardinal Bertram about Prof. Steinmann. He urges you to take his rather careful wording literally. Prelate Steinmann - Rome has the same request. Eh. Signature.1 S., Eigenhädig Ausf., Kopfbogen 'RT'.1924 June 2 - Berlin: Cardinal Bertram rejects the promotion of an appointment of Prof. Altons Steinmann - Braunsberg to Breslau vis-à-vis Marx, not for reasons based on his teaching, but in a personal manner. The Archbishop of Cologne would probably also resist the appointment of Professors Wittig and v. Tessen to Bonn. Eh. Signature.21/2 p., masrch.-schriftl. Ausf., Kopfbogen.1925 March 12 - Freiburg: Dr. Sacher, ed. of the Staatslexikon der Görresgesellschaft, writes Marx that he could only start the great work because the employee fees are covered by subsidies a fonds perdu. Contributions were made by the Pope, individual Americans and a German leather factory with a total of 10,000 marks. This amount has been devalued by inflation, while most of the aid promised has been withdrawn. When assigning the keywords he can hardly accommodate the art. if he cannot increase the fee to 8-10 RM per printed page. This lacks about 10,000 RM. Sacher asks Marx to win patrons for the Staatslexikon or to open up support funds. Eh. Signature.2 S., masch.-schriftl. Ausf., Kopfbogen des Staatslexikons.1926 June 26 - Berlin: Following a discussion, Hermann Muckermann sends Marx copies of a memorandum of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science concerning the establishment of an Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics. Marx may for the sake of private business!.. Securing the building of the institute. Eh. Signature.1/2 p., mach.-typewritten copy, personal headband. In the appendix the memorandum,1 p., print.o. D.: Speeches by A. v. Harnack and Marx on a mainslog of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft.5 and 4 p., mach.-schriftl. In Marx' speech improvements by the hand of the Prelate Schreiber. 1928 July 24 - Berlin: Pünder notifies Marx that his own and the Reich Ministry of the Interior's investigations into the composition of the German National Committee for Spiritual Cooperation have been delayed. The two v. Harnack chairmen and the 2nd Planck chairmen; the two v. Harnack chairmen and the other 5 members of the Presidium have not yet been appointed. Min.-Dir. Pellengahr announced that the list of members, which until now had only included university professors, would be extended. Prelate Schreiber is a member of the Commission. Eh.Unterschrift.P/4 S., masch.-schriftl. Ausf., Kopfbogen 'Der StS in der Reichskanzlei'.[1928 act. 31 - Salzburg: Prince Archbishop Ignatius Rieder and Archabbot P. Klotz OSB, President and Vice-President of the University Association, respectively, invite Marx to the Salzburg University Day, which is held on the occasion of the celebration! Opening of the Pope. philos. Institute takes place. The Cardinal Archbishops Pfiffl-Wien and Faulhaber-München as well as the Pope Nuntius Sibilia, Seipel, Min.President Held, the Austrian Min.-Presidents (retired) Hussarek, P. Gemelli, Rector of the Sacred Heart Jesu University Milan, and the Rector of the University of Nymwegen, also representatives of the Görres Society, the Leo Society and the Association of Academics have announced their participation. Ew. Excellency will understand that we attach very special and extraordinary importance to your participation in the planned great festival. The entire German Catholic people should gain the impression from the powerful festive rally that their leaders are convinced of the necessity of a German Catholic university and also believe in the possibility of the re-establishment of such a university. Eh. Signatures.31/. S., masch.-schriftl. Ausf.1928 Nov. 12: Marx answers Rieder that he wishes best success to the excellent and far-sighted plans, ... whose execution are of extraordinary advantage for the Catholic teaching and the reputation of the Catholic science. The coming weeks will be of special importance for the fate of the German people. The possibility of serious conflicts is not excluded. Under these circumstances I must not dare to leave here.P/4 p., copy of Masch.-Schreiben, without authentication.1928 Nov. 21 - Salzburg: Prince Archbishop Rieder thanks Marx for his good wishes and regrets his absence. He's asking for a welcome telegram. Eh. Signature.1 5th, machine-written version, on it draft of the welcoming telegram, by Marx himself.1929 June 27 - Berlin: The German College of Politics invites Marx to a meeting of the Board of Trustees, Eh. Signature: Dr. Simons.1 5th, machine-written copy, head bow. On the back, notes by Marx from the meeting.1931 June 5 - Freiburg: Sacher reports to the staff of the State Dictionary about a longer private audience with Pope Pius XI and a reception at Cardinal-StS Pacelli. Eh. Signature.2 5th, copy. Ausf., head bow of the State Dictionary.

Contains: Foundation of the district Cologne city and country of the German Life-Saving Society (1925), association for the preservation of the art historical institute in Florence, Bode (1925); office Saar-Verein (1925); association of banks and bankers in Rhineland and Westphalia, Robert Pferdmenges, concerning foundation of a local group Cologne (1925), G. Ricordi