Description
Correspondence, reports, statistics, and financial records, relating to railway operation, fuel production, and other aspects
of economic reconstruction in Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.
Background
The European Technical Advisers was a private American advisory organization created in the spring and summer of 1919 by Herbert
Hoover, head of the American Relief Administration, in response to concerns that post-peace treaty demobilization of the Central
European network of military advisers would leave a serious vacuum in the coordination of highly-complicated economic and
technical functions. Technological novelty, governmental disorganization and international antagonisms, as well as wartime
disruption of industrial infrastructures, were major problems threatening the rapid re-establishment of economic stability
in the area.
Extent
69 manuscript boxes
(28.7 Linear Feet)
Restrictions
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Availability
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.