Reissner (Eric) papers

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Box 2, Folder 13

[Correspondence] 1927 February 9-1931 March 2

Box 2, Folder 12

[Empty envelopes] 1928 December 13-1929 April 29

Box 1, Folder 1

[Correspondence] 1935 April 5

Scope and Contents

Folder contains one letter from V. Levin regarding Reissner's scientific work.

Box 1, Folder 2

[Correspondence] 1936 September 2-October 31

Scope and Contents

Folder includes correspondence with Rolf Gran Olsson (scientist and mathematician working in Trondheim), Else Petersen, his wife Johanna (Hanni), his parents, Anne Marie Jacobsthal (wife of German mathematician Ernst Jacobsthal), as well as the Eldridge Reeves Johnson Foundation for Medical Physics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Box 1, Folder 3

[Correspondence] 1936 November 2-December 31

Scope and Contents

Folder contains correspondence with his wife Johanna (Hanni), Carl Zegher (of the Schweizerische Bauzeitung, Zurich), his parents, Elsa Braendstroem-Ulich (a Swedish nurse and philanthropist known for her nursing work in World War I and for giving help to refugees in World War II), Erich's sister Thea, and Rolf Gran Olsson.

Box 1, Folder 4

[Correspondence] 1937 January 2-28

Scope and Contents

Folder contains correspondence with his wife Johanna (Hanni) and his parents.

Box 1, Folder 5

[Correspondence] 1937 February 1-25

Scope and Contents

Folder contains correspondence with his wife Johanna (Hanni), his parents, Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs, and his uncle William Reissner.

Box 1, Folder 6

[Correspondence] 1937 March 3-April 28

Scope and Contents

Folder contains correspondence with his wife Johanna (Hanni), his parents, his sister Thea, Anne Marie Jacobsthal (wife of German mathematician Ernst Jacobsthal), and Erich's uncle William Reissner.

Box 1, Folder 7

[Correspondence] 1937 May 5-29

Scope and Contents

Folder contains correspondence with Elsa Braendstroem-Ulich, Erich's parents, Dr. (Franz?) Herzfeld Wuesthoff (a German chemist and husband of Freda Herzfeld Wuesthoff?), Erich's wife Johanna (Hanni), and Helmut Gutmann (of the Eldridge Reeves Johnson Foundation for Medical Physics).

Box 1, Folder 8

[Correspondence] 1937 June 4-July 26

Scope and Contents

Folder includes correspondence with his sister Thea, his parents, and his wife Johanna (Hanni).

Box 1, Folder 9

[Correspondence] 1937 August 2-31

Scope and Contents

Folder includes correspondence with his wife Johanna (Hanni), his parents, Doris E. Kauffmann, and Gerti Ascher.

Box 1, Folder 10

[Correspondence] 1937 September 5-28

Scope and Contents

Folder includes correspondence with his parents, his wife Johanna (Hanni), and Doris E. Kauffmann.

Box 1, Folder 11

[Correspondence] 1937 October 2-31

Scope and Contents

Folder includes correspondence with his wife Johanna (Hanni), Rolf Gran Olsson, Erich's parents, and his cousin.

Box 1, Folder 12

[Correspondence] 1937 November 2-30

Scope and Contents

Folder includes correspondence with his wife Johanna (Hanni), his parents, and Rolf Gran Olsson.

Box 1, Folder 13

[Correspondence] 1937 December 1-29

Scope and Contents

Folder includes correspondence with his parents, his wife Johanna (Hanni), Gerti Ascher, Max Lemke, and Erich's sister Thea.

Box 2, Folder 1

[Correspondence] 1938 January 2-31

Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence with his parents, his wife Johanna (Hanni), Max Lemke, Dr. R. Fuchs of Berlin, Bernhard Hermann Neumann (a German-born mathematician known for his developments on group theory), Doris Kauffmann, Erich's uncle William Reissner, and Mr. and Mrs. Siegel (his wife Johanna's parents).

Box 2, Folder 2

[Correspondence] 1938 February 1-26

Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence with his wife Johanna (Hanni), his parents, and his sister Thea.

Box 2, Folder 3

[Correspondence] 1938 March 2-31

Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence with his parents, his wife Johanna (Hanni), and his sister Thea.

Box 2, Folder 4

[Correspondence] 1938 April 1-30

Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence with his parents, his wife Johanna (Hanni), and his sister Thea.

Box 2, Folder 5

[Correspondence] 1938 May 5-31

Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence with his wife Johanna (Hanni), his sister Thea, his parents, Rolf Gran Olsson, Gerti Ascher, and Nicolaus Hoff (Hungarian astronautical and aeronautical engineer).

Box 2, Folder 6

[Correspondence] 1938 June 3-29

Scope and Contents

Folder includes correspondence with his parents and Rolf Gran Olsson.

Box 2, Folder 7

[Correspondence] 1938 July 5-23

Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence with his sister Thea and his parents.

Box 2, Folder 8

[Correspondence] 1938 August 1-October 31

Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence with his parents, William Prager (a German-born mathematician known for the Drucker-Prager yield criterion), and Harold Pikler.

Box 2, Folder 9

[Correspondence] 1938 November 4-December 22

Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence with Reissner's parents.

Box 2, Folder 10

[Correspondence] 1939 January 13-1940 August 13

Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence with his parents, Ernst Jacobsthal, and Erich's sister Thea.

Box 2, Folder 11

[Correspondence] 1940 September 27-1945 July 31

Scope and Contents

Includes mostly correspondence with his wife Johanna (Hanni).

Box 2, Folder 14

[Correspondence] undated

Scope and Contents

Assorted undated correspondence, predominantly from Reissner's family.

Box 2, Folder 15

[Correspondence with Rolf Landshoff] 1936 November 17-1938 January 3

Scope and Contents

Correspondence with Rolf Landshoff, who contacted Reissner for support as he worked to stay in the U.S. He was able to find his way to the University of Minnesota through a Jewish student organization, and eventually was one of the scientists at the nuclear testing site at Los Alamos, later working in applied physics.

Box 2, Folder 16

[Correspondence with the National Student Federation of the U.S.A.] 1936 December 11-1937 June 3

Box 2, Folder 17

[Correspondence with the Harvard Graduate School of Engineering] 1937 February 19-1937 April 10

Box 2, Folder 18

[Correspondence with the American Committee for Christian German Refugees] 1937 August 20-1938 July 19

Box 2, Folder 19

[Correspondence with the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences Inc.] 1938 May 11-1938 October 5

Box 2, Folder 20

[Correspondence with Sylvain Fleischer] 1938 August 21

Scope and Contents

Correspondence with scientist Sylvain Fleischer of Cottbus, who sent a letter and an accompanying curriculum vitae appealing for help from the Reissners; he is now listed in the JewishGen Necrology database as a holocaust martyr.

Box 2, Folder 22

[Miscellaneous ephemera] ca. 1936-1938

Box 2, Folder 21

Zentralblatt fuer Geophysik, Meteorologie und Geodaesie (Berlin) ca. 1937

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