Register of the Robert Holtzmann papers

Finding aid prepared by Terrence Brown
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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

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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

 

Correspondence of Robert Holtzmann 1920-1941

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Includes letters sent to and received from General Erich Ludendorff.
box 1

Adermann, (First name unknown) 1932

 

Aero Club von Deutschland 1924

 

Ahlemann, Georg 1926-1927, 1929

box 1

Alsleben, Kurt 1933

 

Altmann, Martin 1932

 

Aplos, (First name unknown) 1932

 

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

 

Arnim, V., Co. 1925

box 1

Bahr, Max 1932

 

Basler Nachrichten 1933

 

Beer, (First name unknown) 1935

 

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, (First name unknown) 1932

 

Bonin, Doktor von, (First name unknown) 1930

box 1

Borman, Martin 1935

 

Bueba, (First name unknown) 1925

 

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, (First name unknown) 1928

box 1

Falk, Wilhelm 1929

 

Finking, Ernst 1926

 

Foertsch, Hermann 1935

 

Frank, Herbert 1934

 

Frankfurt Regierungs - Praesident 1933

box 1

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

 

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, (First name unknown) 1926

 

Geserick, Paul 1923-1924

 

Geyer, Kurt 1926

 

Gieren, G. 1925

box 1

Goebbels, Dr. Joseph 1933

 

Goehring, (First name unknown) 1933

 

Goering, Hermann 1933

 

Goldbeck-Lowe, (German Consul in Helsinki) 1925

 

Golz, Karl 1932

box 1

Goltz, (First name unknown) 1932

 

Gossrau, (First name unknown) 1936

 

Graff, Georg 1924, 1926

 

Greifenberg/Pommern 1932, 1933

 

Guertner, Franz 1936

box 1

Hass, A. 1926

 

Handtmann, (First name unknown) 1933

 

Harms, (First name unknown) 1925

 

Hausmann, Arno 1925

 

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

box 1

Hemper, (First name unknown) 1931

 

Hess, Alizabeth 1933

 

Hess, Rudolf 1935

 

Heun, C., (First name unknown) 1929

 

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

 

Der Jungdeutsche 1924

box 1

Junkermann, (First name unknown) 1933

 

Keunecke, F., (First name unknown) 1943

 

Kiersten, (First name unknown) 1930

 

Kingel, Max 1926

 

Knauer, B. 1926

box 1

Koenenkamp, Helmuth 1936

 

Kogge, (First name unknown) 1929

 

Koenig, S., (First name unknown) 1929

 

Koenig, Marga 1930

 

Krach, (First name unknown) 1929

box 1

Kraeger, Professor, (First name unknown) 1929

 

Krasigk, Schwerin von 1935

 

Kuke, Wilhelm 1933

 

Kummer, Georg 1936

 

Kurth, Hans 1929

box 1

Lassig, (first name unknown) 1929

 

Last, (First name unknown) 1932

 

Leder, Fritz 1926

 

Lehmann, Otto 1924, 1925

 

Lehwald, Hans-Rolf 1925

box 1

Lemcke, Friedrich 1928

 

Liebel, Ludwig 1926

 

Lippert, Dr. Julius 1930

 

Loehde, (First name unknown) 1935

 

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., (First name unknown) 1936

 

Mueffling, von, (First name unknown) 1927

box 2

Muencheberg Der Buergeimeister als ortspolizeibehoerde 1933

 

Niederlausitz West, Tannenbergbund representative 1933

 

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

 

Neuruppin, Der Landrat in 1933

 

Der Ostmaerker 1933

box 2

Partay, Georg 1925, 1936

 

Pertz, F., (First name unknown) 1936

 

Petzinger, Rudolf 1932

 

Pfeifer, (First name unknown) 1931, 1933

 

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, (First name unknown) 1929

 

Roemisch, Bruno 1926

 

Roter Adler 1931

box 2

Roth, Dr. Armin 1933, 1936

 

Roeklin, (First name unknown) 1932

 

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, (First name unknown) 1929

 

Schwerin, Graf, (First name unknown) 1929

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, (First name unknown) 1926

 

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

 

Stissel, (First name unknown) 1936,

 

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, (First name unknown) 1932

 

Wedemann, R., (First name unknown) 1934

 

Wiest, (First name unknown) 1936

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 Contents 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, (First name unknown) 1936

 

Berlin Stadt/Bezirksamt Schoeneberg 1927, 1936

 

Bonsell, (First name unknown) 1927

box 3

Bovenschen, (First name unknown) 1926

 

Braune, Hans 1925

 

Breitenfeldt, J. 1936

 

Budenbender, (First name unknown) 1929

 

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, (First name unknown) 1933

 

Das Freie Wort

 

Fritzsche, Georg 1930-1933

 

Fuegner, Kurt 1936

box 3

Funk, K., (First name unknown) 1936

 

Geck, (First name unknown) 1926

 

Hagemeher, Hans 1935

 

Hall, (First name unknown) 1933

 

Heimburg, von, (First name unknown) 1935

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, (First name unknown) 1933

 

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, (First name unknown) 1933

 

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., (First name unknown) 1926

box 3

Schedensack, Ernst Albrecht 1936

 

Schellendorff, Bonsart von 1932-1933

 

Schemmel, (First name unknown) 1926

 

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., (First name unknown) 1912, 1914

 

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

 

Subject File 1923-1939

Scope and Contents 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

box 5

Tannenbergbund

box 6

Tannenbergbund

box 6

"Folkish Movement"

box 7

"Folkish Movement"

 

Miscellaneous 1912-1941

Scope and Contents note

Album of miscellaneous letters, clippings, leaflets, articles, money, maps.
box 7

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

box 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

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