Frieda Wunderlich Collection
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, including letters from Alvin Johnson and Thomas Mann.
Manuscripts of lectures, speeches, articles on labor relations, trade union policies, labor and economy in Nazi Germany, social insurance, women and politics; course outlines and notes; diary of 1936-1937; clippings and offprints by and about Wunderlich.
Photos of Wunderlich and of the faculty of the New School.
See inventory list
Dates
- Creation: 1919-1969
Creator
- Wunderlich, Frieda, 1884-1965 (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is in German, English
Access Restrictions
Collection is microfilmed, use MF 480.
Use Restrictions
There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org
Biographical Note
Born in Berlin on November 8, 1884, Frieda Wunderlich received a doctorate in economics at the University of Freiburg in 1919, held academic and state positions, and was a member of the Berlin City Council and Prussian Landtag for the Deutsche Demokratische Partei (DDP). She emigrated to the United States in 1933, where she taught at the New School for Social Research, and died in East Orange, New Jersey, on December 29, 1965.
Extent
4 Linear Feet (4 boxes)
Abstract
Correspondence, including letters from Alvin Johnson and Thomas Mann.
Other Finding Aid
3-page typewritten inventory
Finding Aid for the paper collection is more detailed than this Finding Aid for digitized material.
Microfilm
Collection is available on 14 reels of microfilm (MF 480).
- Reel 1: 1/1 - 1/14
- Reel 2: 1/15 - 1/25
- Reel 3: 1/26 - 1/29
- Reel 4: 2/1 - 2/3
- Reel 5: 2/4 - 2/7
- Reel 6: 2/8 - 2/11
- Reel 7: 2/12 - 2/14
- Reel 8: 3/1 - 3/4
- Reel 9: 3/5 - 3/8
- Reel 10: 3/9 - 3/13
- Reel 11: 3/14 - 3/17
- Reel 12: 3/18; 4/1 - 4/2
- Reel 13: 4/3 - 4/7
- Reel 14: 4/8 - 4/21
Separated Material
Photographs removed to Photograph Collection
Subject
- Wunderlich, Frieda, 1884-1965 (Person)
- New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997) (Organization)
- Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 (Person)
- Johnson, Alvin Saunders, 1874-1971 (Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933
- United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
Occupation
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Frieda Wunderlich Collection (Digital), 1919-1969 AR 3230 / MF 480
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid created by LBI Staff
- Date
- © 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
Revision Statements
- 2010-06-10 : Encoding of linking to digital objects from finding aid was changed from <extref> to <dao> through dao_conv.xsl
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
