Register of the Robert Holtzmann Papers, 1912-1943

Processed by Terrence Brown; machine-readable finding aid created by James Lake

Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, California 94305-6010

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Email: archives@hoover.stanford.edu

Register of the Robert Holtzmann Papers, 1912-1943

Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, California

Contact Information

Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Phone: (650) 723-3563
Fax: (650) 725-3445
Email: archives@hoover.stanford.edu

Processed by:: Terrence Brown
Date Completed:: 1975
Encoded by:: James Lake

Descriptive Summary

Title: Robert Holtzmann Papers,

Date (inclusive): 1912-1943

Collection Number: 49015

Creator: Holtzmann, Robert, 1883-

Collection Size: 8 manuscript boxes, 3 microfilm reels, 4 envelopes (4.2 linear feet)

Repository: Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford, California 94305-6010

Abstract: Correspondence, writings, pamphlets, leaflets, newspaper issues, clippings, and photographs, relating primarily to the activities of the Tannenbergbund, a right-wing German political organization, active from 1926 to 1933, founded by General Erich Ludendorff. Includes correspondence with E. Ludendorff.

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives

Language: German.

Administrative Information

Access

Collection is open for research.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Robert Holtzmann papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1949.

Accruals

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Access Points

Ludendorff, Erich, 1865-1937.

Tannenbergbund.

Nationalism--Germany.

Germany.

Germany--History--1918-1933.

Germany--Politics and government--1918-1933.

Scope and Content of Collection

Correspondence, writings, pamphlets, leaflets, newspaper issues, clippings, and photographs, relating primarily to the activities of the Tannenbergbund, a right-wing German political organization, active from 1926 to 1933, founded by General Erich Ludendorff. Includes correspondence with E. Ludendorff.

Biographical Note

1883	Born in Duerrheim/Baden
1904	Became a lieutenant in the Imperial German Army. Later transferred to the Infantry Regiment Grossherzog v. Baden Nr-126 in Strassburg
1913	Promoted to First-Lieutenant, Imperial German Army
1916	From November until the end of the war was commander of Flying Division I on the Western Front, and of Flying Division 16 in the East and in Serbia
1920	In January resigned his commission in the armed service. In the same month took a position with the firm Starck-Michael & Co., Berlin, as a commercial employee responsible for the purchasing of coal tar and tar products
1922	In January took a position with the firm Herrmann C. Starck, a stock brockerage in Berlin
1963	Died

Container List

Boxes: 1-2

Correspondence of Robert Holtzmann, 1920-1941

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Includes letters sent to and received from General Erich Ludendorff.

Box 1

Adermann, 1932 (First name unknown)

Aero Club von Deutschland, 1924

Ahlemann, Georg, 1926-1927, 1929

Box 1

Alsleben, Kurt, 1933

Altmann, Martin, 1932

Aplos, 1932 (First name unknown)

Arnswalder, Landrat der, 1933 (District Magistrate of Arnswalde)

Arnim, V., Co., 1925

Box 1

Bahr, Max, 1932

Basler Nachrichten, 1933

Beer, 1935 (First name unknown)

Bennewitz, Georg, 1930

Berlin

Heer Generalstaatsanwalt beim Landgericht, 1937

Kriegervereinhaus, 1928

Der Polizeipraesident, 1932

Tannerbergbund e.d., Landesleitung Gross-Berlin, 1927

Box 1

Berliner Staedtische Elektrizitaetswerke A.G.-Rechnungsbueuro, 1933

Biermann, Wilhelm, 1929, 1930, 1932

Blomberg, General Werner von, 1935, 1936

Blockelberg, von, 1932 (First name unknown)

Bonin, Doktor von, 1930 (First name unknown)

Box 1

Borman, Martin, 1935

Bueba, 1925 (First name unknown)

Buecheler, Anton, 1922

Buehler, Wilhelm, 1936

Burr, Hermann, 1933-1934

Box 1

Cecile von Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Frau Kronprizessin des Deutschen Reiches und Preussen, 1920

Chef des Generalstabes des Heeres, 1936

Demmin, Landrat des Kreises, 1933

Deutsche Tageszeitung, 1924

Deutscher Treubund, 1921

Box 1

Deutschvoelkische Freiheitspartei, 1924

Diels, Geheime Staatspolizei Z.H. des Herrn Ober-Regierungsrat, 1933

Drawerk, Alexander, Dr., 1925

Eberstein, Freiherr Karl von, 1925

Elsner, 1928 (First name unknown)

Box 1

Falk, Wilhelm, 1929

Finking, Ernst, 1926

Foertsch, Hermann, 1935

Frank, Herbert, 1934

Frankfurt Regierungs - Praesident, 1933

Box 1

Frink, Dr., 1925, 1933 (First name unknown)

Fritsch, Freiherr, Werner von, 1932, 1934

Fritzsche, Georg, 1930-1933

Fuegner, Kurt, 1936

Fuerstlich - Hohenzollenschen Domaene und Forstverwaltung Sigmaringen, Der Praesident, 1933

Box 1

Gansser, Emil, 1930

Geck, 1926 (First name unknown)

Geserick, Paul, 1923-1924

Geyer, Kurt, 1926

Gieren, G., 1925

Box 1

Goebbels, Dr. Joseph, 1933

Goehring, 1933 (First name unknown)

Goering, Hermann, 1933

Goldbeck-Lowe, 1925 (German Consul in Helsinki)

Golz, Karl, 1932

Box 1

Goltz, 1932 (First name unknown)

Gossrau, 1936 (First name unknown)

Graff, Georg, 1924, 1926

Greifenberg/Pommern, 1932, 1933

Guertner, Franz, 1936

Box 1

Hass, A., 1926

Handtmann, 1933 (First name unknown)

Harms, 1925 (First name unknown)

Hausmann, Arno, 1925

Heltge, Dr., 1932, 1933 (First name unknown)

Box 1

Hemper, 1931 (First name unknown)

Hess, Alizabeth, 1933

Hess, Rudolf, 1935

Heun, C., 1929 (First name unknown)

Heyden, Helmuth von, 1932

Box 1

Heydrich, Reinhard, 1934

Himmler, Heinrich, 1936

Hindenburg, Paul von, 1933

Hitler, Adolf, 1933

Hitler Jugend Reichsjugendfuehrung, 1939

Box 1

Hoevels, Paul, 1932

Holtzmann, Otto, 1929

Illing, Oscar (editor of Die Neue Zeit, Chicago, U.S.A.), 1926, 1927

Jaeckel, 1933 (editor of the Kirchenblatt des Kirchenkreises Demmin) (First name unknown)

Der Jungdeutsche, 1924

Box 1

Junkermann, 1933 (First name unknown)

Keunecke, F., 1943 (First name unknown)

Kiersten, 1930 (First name unknown)

Kingel, Max, 1926

Knauer, B., 1926

Box 1

Koenenkamp, Helmuth, 1936

Kogge, 1929 (First name unknown)

Koenig, S., 1929 (First name unknown)

Koenig, Marga, 1930

Krach, 1929 (First name unknown)

Box 1

Kraeger, Professor, 1929 (First name unknown)

Krasigk, Schwerin von, 1935

Kuke, Wilhelm, 1933

Kummer, Georg, 1936

Kurth, Hans, 1929

Box 1

Lassig, 1929 (first name unknown)

Last, 1932 (First name unknown)

Leder, Fritz, 1926

Lehmann, Otto, 1924, 1925

Lehwald, Hans-Rolf, 1925

Box 1

Lemcke, Friedrich, 1928

Liebel, Ludwig, 1926

Lippert, Dr. Julius, 1930

Loehde, 1935 (First name unknown)

Luck, von, 1926

Box 2

Ludendorff, General Erich, 1923-1937

Maier, Eugene, 1928

Maier, Theodore, 1936

Markel, O., 1926

Marx, Robert, 1931-1932

Box 2

Mecklenburger, Warte, 1924

Medem, Herold von (Graf), 1925, 1926

Miething, Hilde, 1938

Mosich, Dr., 1936 (First name unknown)

Mueffling, von, 1927 (First name unknown)

Box 2

Muencheberg Der Buergeimeister als ortspolizeibehoerde, 1933

Niederlausitz West, Tannenbergbund representative, 1933

Neuhaus, G., 1920, 1929 (First name unkown)

Neuruppin, Der Landrat in, 1933

Der Ostmaerker, 1933

Box 2

Partay, Georg, 1925, 1936

Pertz, F., 1936 (First name unknown)

Petzinger, Rudolf, 1932

Pfeifer, 1931, 1933 (First name unknown)

Der Politische Polizeikommandeur der Laender, 1936

Box 2

Die Pommersche Zeitung, 1933

Raab, Luise, 1932

Reichs und Preussiche Minister fuer Wissenschaft, Erziehnung und Volkbildung, 1936

Der Regierungspraesident, 1933

Reichsschrifttumskammer Gruppe Ruchhandel, 1937

Box 2

Richter, Wilhelm, 1935

Rippler, Heinrich, 1926

Rode, von, 1929 (First name unknown)

Roemisch, Bruno, 1926

Roter Adler, 1931

Box 2

Roth, Dr. Armin, 1933, 1936

Roeklin, 1932 (First name unknown)

Roethke, Heinrich, 1930, 1933

Ruegenwalder Zeithung, 1933

Rust, Wilhelm, 1936

Box 2

Schellendorff, Bonsart von, 1928-1932

Schmidt, Rudolf, 1936

Schneider, Edmund, 1935, 1936

Schneider, Robert, 1936

Schriewer, Dr., 1936

Box 2

Schroeder, Paul, 1936

Schulz, Authur, 1933

Schultz, Richard, 1930

Schumacher, 1929 (First name unknown)

Schwerin, Graf, 1929 (First name unknown)

Box 2

Siekendorff, von (Freiherr), 1927, 1928

Seelow, Landrat der, 1933

Das Schwarze Korps, 1936

Speromus, Carl, 1927

Der Stahlhelm, 1924-1925

Box 2

Stephens, von, 1926 (First name unknown)

Stern, W. G., 1935 (First name unknown)

Stissel, 1936, (First name unknown)

Stolte, Georg, 1932

Stoessell, Harold, 1927

Box 2

Stralsund in Pommern. Regierungspraesident, 1933

Stettin Die Regierungspraesidenten, 1933

Thiede, Syndikus K., 1924, 1925

Thormaehlen, Herbert, 1930

Treu, Walter, 1932

Box 2

Tschmaler, Herbert, 1936

Tyron, Wilhelm, 1933

Box 3

Unruh, Walter von, 1933

Voelkisches Echo, 1924

Wedelstaedt, Wolff von, 1932

Box 3

Wegerer, Alfred von, 1926

Weiss, Carl, 1932

Wentzel, 1932 (First name unknown)

Wedemann, R., 1934 (First name unknown)

Wiest, 1936 (First name unknown)

Box 3

Witte, Gerhard, 1932

Wuerttemberg Politisches Landespolizeiamt, 1935

Wulle, R., 1924

Zehlendorfer Kirchenblatt, 1931

Ziegenruedberg, E., 1929

Box 3

Ziegesar, Freiherr Ralf Berhard, 1926

Zitzwitz, Max von, 1929, 1930

Correspondence of Tannenbergbund Members, 1923-1939

Scope and Content Note

Letters of various members of the Tannenbergbund, a right-wing German political organization founded by General Erich Lundendorff. Collected by Robert Holtzmann and arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

Box 3

Ahlemann, Georg, 1928

Alsleben, Kurt, 1933

Arminuis, 1926

Box 3

Arnhould, Richard, 1928

Bannke, A., 1926

Beck, 1936 (First name unknown)

Berlin Stadt/Bezirksamt Schoeneberg, 1927, 1936

Bonsell, 1927 (First name unknown)

Box 3

Bovenschen, 1926 (First name unknown)

Braune, Hans, 1925

Breitenfeldt, J., 1936

Budenbender, 1929 (First name unknown)

Buehler, Anton, 1932, 1936

Box 3

Burr, Hermann, 1933-1934

Deutscher Kolonialverein Gesellschaft feur Nationale Siedlungs und Auslandspolitik, 1925

Diersch, Rose, 1925

Dinter, Artur, 1925

Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, 1925

Box 3

Engels, Willy, 1927

Fintelmann, 1933 (First name unknown)

Das Freie Wort,

Fritzsche, Georg, 1930-1933

Fuegner, Kurt, 1936

Box 3

Funk, K., 1936 (First name unknown)

Geck, 1926 (First name unknown)

Hagemeher, Hans, 1935

Hall, 1933 (First name unknown)

Heimburg, von, 1935 (First name unknown)

Box 3

Hellischer Voerkaempfer, 1925

Hennig, Georg Otto, 1935

Hermann der Deutsche (pseudonym), 1930

Heyden, Helmuth von, 1933

Hoffmann, 1932

Box 3

Jaeger, Wilhelm, 1925

Jenaische Zeitung, 1924

Junkermann, 1933 (First name unknown)

Kurier fuer Niederbayern, 1926

Koch, Erich, 1930

Box 3

Koerber, A.-V. von, 1925

Lehmann, Otto, 1924, 1925

Lenk, Adolf, 1925-1927

Liebmann, 1936

Box 3

Ludendorff, General Erich, 1925-1936

Box 3

Mack, Christian Wilhelm, 1927

Martin, Benno, 1926

Marx, Robert, 1931-1932

Mischke, Ernst, 1932

Medem, Herold von (Graf), 1926

Box 3

Moltke Graf von, 1933 (First name unknown)

Muelheim, L. Mueldner von, 1926

National Nothilse, 1929

Pommern Ost Tannenbergbund representative, 1932

Potsdam Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Bund, 1924

Box 3

Prathmann, Wilhelm, 1936

Prusshke, Max, 1932

Recke von Valmeistein, Friedrich Wilhelm von, n.d.

Roethke, Heinrich, 1930, 1933

Sack, Dr., 1926 (First name unknown)

Box 3

Schedensack, Ernst Albrecht, 1936

Schellendorff, Bonsart von, 1932-1933

Schemmel, 1926 (First name unknown)

Schiebuhr, Fritz, 1925

Schlageter, Albert Leo, 1925

Box 3

Schmidt, Georg, 1924

Schmold, Dr., 1933

Senftenberg, Der Buergermeister als Ortspolizei, 1933

Sonnenheim, Theodore Herrmann von, 1927

Thalacher - Schwarz Verlag, 1925

Box 3

Tiemann, H., 1912, 1914 (First name unknown)

Unruh, Walter von, 1933

Wartmann, Rudolf, Jr., 1926

Weberstedt, Hans von, 1925-1927, 1932-1933

Box 4

Weichart, Kurt, 1929

Weicher, Theodore, 1936

Weidner, Edmund, 1927

Weikerstahal, Fischer von, 1935

Weiss, Carl, 1925, 1932

Weide, Dr., 1926

Box 4

Winter, August, 1927

Witte, Gerhard, 1932

Wulle, R., 1925

Ziegesar, Freiherr Bernhard, 1926

Box 4

Ziegler, F., 1925

Boxes: 4-7

Subject File, 1923-1939

Scope and Content Note

Addresses, letters, speeches, clippings, financial reports, notes, circulars, leaflets, newspapers, testimonials, pamphlets, memorabilia, arranged alphabetically by subject.

Box 4

Anti-political/religious propaganda

Box 4

Free Masons

Box 5

Ludendorff, General Erich

Box 5

Nationalsozialistiche Deutsche Arbeiter Partei

Boxes 5-6

Tannenbergbund

Boxes 6-7

"Folkish Movement"

Boxes 7-8

Miscellaneous, 1912-1941

Scope and Content Note

Album of miscellaneous letters, clippings, leaflets, articles, money, maps.

Boxes: 7-8

Album of miscellaneous letters, clippings, leaflets, articles, money, and maps

Microfilm

Reel 1-3

Negative microfilms of the correspondence series (boxes 1-3).

Photographs, undated

49015 - 10.A-V, Envelope A

11 photos including 2 photos of Adolf Hitler; 4 photos of Erich Ludendorff; 5 photos of members of the Tannenbergbund, undated

Envelope mB

Print of Erich Ludendorff; a photo of Adolf Hitler and World War I German officers, undated

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