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  • Title: Robert Holtzmann papers
    Date (inclusive): 1912-1943
    Collection Number: 49015
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: German
    Physical Description: 8 manuscript boxes, 3 microfilm reels, 4 envelopes (4.2 Linear Feet)
    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.
    Creator: Holtzmann, Robert, 1883-
    Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

    Access

    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.

    Use

    For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives

    Acquisition Information

    Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1949.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Robert Holtzmann papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    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

    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.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933
    Germany -- History -- 1918-1933
    Nationalism -- Germany
    Ludendorff, Erich, 1865-1937
    Tannenbergbund