Register of the Karl Boromäus Frank papers
1893 May 31 | Born, Vienna, Austria |
1918 | Author, Ueber Volks - und Rassenaberglauben (The Bias of those who Believe in National and Racial Prejudices and Superstition), Vienna & Leipzig, Suschitzky |
Received Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Vienna; thesis, "Contributions to the Psychology of the Lie" | |
1919 | Joined the Austrian communist party |
1920 | Joined the German communist party |
1923 | Became a member of the right-wing of the communist party |
1929 | Left the communist party |
1937 | Married Anna Caples |
1932 | Joined the Social Democratic Party / SAP |
1944 | Author, Germany After Hitler, Farrar Rinehart |
1942 | Author, Will Germany Crack?, Harper |
1961 | Died, New York City, New York |
1946 | Author, Erobert, Nicht Befreit; das Deutsche Volk im Ersten Jahre der Okkupation, Research Bureau, American Association for a Democratic Germany |
Scope and Content of Collection
Subjects and Indexing Terms
ARTICLES, BOOK MANUSCRIPTS, AND OTHER WRITINGS
Articles, book manuscripts, and other writings, arranged chronologically 1939-1945
"What Not to Do with Germany; a Critical Review of Our Present Peace Plans"
Germany After Hitler (1944), Farrar & Rinehart, manuscript (also comments and reviews)
Will Germany Crack? (1942), Harper (comments and reviews)
Clippings for proposed studies
"Psychoanalytical Interpretation of History"
"The Archaic: 1. West; 2. East"
"German Psychology"
Published articles
Reviews
LECTURES AND SPEECHES
Speakers' engagements 1939-1942
Lectures 1943
Lectures 1944
Lectures 1945
Newspaper clippings on lecture subjects (Dorothy Thompson, etc.) 1945-1946
Speeches 1944
Lectures on "Political Irrationality," 1958-1960
SUBJECT FILE
Formation of the Council for a Democratic Germany (letters of or to Thomas Mann, Louis Lochner, etc.)
Society for the Prevention of World War III, Inc., New York
"Neu Beginnen"
Writers' War Board (Chairman: Rex Stout)
Germany (American Association for a Democratic Germany)
Selected credentials, etc.
Autobiographical notes and projects presented to the OSS (Office of Strategic Services)
Department of Justice. Foreign Agents Registration Section
The trip to Germany ("which never came off")
Passport
Visa question and Congressional action (re lecture trip to Canada)
Immigration and Naturalization Service (regarding trip to Europe)
Attacks on Karl Frank
Attacks against Hagen in the Press
Güunther Reinhardt and Walter Winchell attacks (official letter to Neue Volkszeitung, N.Y., 1945)
More slanderous accusations (Ruth Fischer and The Network)
Hagen defenders (statements, letters) 1937 1940-1941 1961
Investigation of Paul Hagen 1940
Ruth Fischer and The Network
A plan to make contact with the German underground movement (Lt. Col. Julius Klein) 1942
Knox College, Galesburg, Ill. (two courses taught by Frank) 1945
Applications for a teaching position in social psychology 1946-1947
A - L
Adamec, Charles J. (Dean of Knox College)
Adelphi College (New York)
Adler, Friederich (letters to Dr. Mara Loewenstein and Dr. Wilhelm Ellenbogen)
Almond, Gabriel (Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York)
American Association for International Law (New York)
American College Bureau (Chicago, Illinois)
American Friends Service Committee Program in Austria
American Platform Guild (New York)
American Political Science Association
Das Andere Deutschland; Der Beauftragte in Süudhilfe (Osorno, Chile)
Anderson, Mrs. Evelyn (The Tribune, London)
Anglemeyer, Mary (Post Librarian, New York)
D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc. (London)
Arnhold, Erna
Ascoli, Max
Asher, Robert
Auerbach, Carl (Office of Economic Stabilization)
Baerensprung, H. W.
Baldwin, Roger (American Civil Liberties Union)
Bauer, Fritz
Beaty, Lt. Col. John O.
The Bell Syndicate, Inc. (New York)
Bernenko, Herbert (Men's Club of the Church in the Gardens, New York)
Biemiller, Andrew J. (Congress of the United States, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.)
Binder, Carroll (Foreign Editor of The Chicago Daily News)
Bingham, Alfred M.
Blankinship, Rex, M.D. (letter to Mrs. M.W. Barrett, Norfolk, Virginia re Mrs. Frank)
Blatt, Max
Blencke, E. Elizabeth
Bliven, Bruce (The New Republic)
Blumenthal, H. Walter (Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Washington, D.C.)
Boeker, Alexander (Human Events)
Boenheim, Felix, M.D. (letter to Mr. Tillich)
Books, New York Herald Tribune
Borgess, Elizabeth Mann (University of Chicago)
Brandstrom-Ulic, Elsa
Brandt, Karl (Economist, Food Research Institute, Stanford University)
Brandt, Willy (Mayor of Berlin)
Braun, Hans
Brill, Major
Brody, Sylvia
Brunauer, Mrs. Esther Caukin
Brunner, Robert (Psychiatric Books, New York)
Bry, Gerhard
Burger, Mrs. Richard (Dorothy S.)
Buttinger, Joseph
Cantril, Hadley (Princeton University)
Carter, Edward C.
Churchill, Frank Spooner, M.D.
The Church-in-the-Gardens, New York
Cohen, Carl
Cohen, Felix
Colclough, Elizabeth
Colgate University (signed Charles A. Choquette)
The Cooperative League of the United States of America, New York
Coser, Lewis A.
Cowling, Elizabeth
Cripps, Lady
Currie, Lauchlin (The White House, Washington, D.C.)
Davis, Elmer (Office of War Information)
Davis, Mrs. Rodney
Denison, W. H.
Denny, George V., Jr.
Department of Justice
Department of State, press release
Deutsch, Hermann
Donaldson, Henry H.
Dorn, Walter M.
Dorner, Lydia
Downing, George E.
Doyle, James
Drechsler, Hanno (Institut fuer wissenschaftliche Politik, Marburg a.L., Germany)
Drob, Judah (Socialist Party of Michigan)
Dufty, Bill (Americans for Democratic Action)
Duncker, Hermann
Eckardt, H. von
Eckardt, Ursula von (Foreign Policy Association, Speakers Bureau)
Edinger, Lewis J.
Ehrmann, Henry W.
Eisler-Pleuchot, Elfriede
Elder, Arthur A. (Workers Educational Service, University of Michigan)
Eliasberg, George (and Vera)
Emerson, William
Enderle, August
Erler, Fritz
Farrar and Rinehart (Publishers, New York)
Farren, Harry D. ("Wake Up, America!" Debate-in-Print; American Economic Foundation, New York)
Feakins, William B.
Ferber, Martin
Filley, Walter, Jr.
Fischer, George
Fischer, Louis
Fischer, Ruth and Adolf Weingarten (The Network, New York)
Fowler, Henry H. (Foreign Economic Administration)
Fox, Dixon Ryan (New York State Citizens Council for a Durable Peace)
Fox, Mary (League for Industrial Democracy, New York)
France, Ethel
France, Prof. Royal W. (Rollins College)
Frank, Hans (Karl Frank's brother)
Frank, Mrs. Karl (letters signed "Bi")
Frank, Peter (Karl Frank's nephew)
Franke, Vera
Frankel, Mrs. Hilde
Fredrikson, Mrs. Hildegard
Freedland, Jean
Freedman, Abraham L.
Free World
Friedman, Samuel H. (The Call)
Fry, Varian (American Labor Conference on International Affairs, New York)
Gardiner, Arthur Z.
Gattis, C. H. (Seaboard Air Line Railroad Co.)
Gauss, Christian (Princeton University)
Gerth, H. H. (University of Wisconsin)
Gezork, Herbert (letter to Miss Hartog)
Giddens, Josephine
Ginsburg, David
Godell, Mrs. Charles (American College Bureau, Chicago)
Gold, Mary Jayne
Goldbloom, Maurice J.
Gordon, J. King (The Nation)
Graham, Bess F. (Young Women's Christian Association, Alton, Illinois)
Greyl, Eva Toni
Gross, Murray
Grossman, Kurt R. (letter to Heinrich Dietz)
Grzesinski, Albert C.
Guggenheim, John Simon (Memorial Foundation, New York)
Guttentag, Werner
Hafkerbrick, Hanna (Connecticut College)
Haldemann (Julius) Publications
Hall, Helen
Hanna, Prof. John
Hannemann, Maria
Harvard University
Hasche, Paul
Haskell, Gen. William N. (Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe, Inc., New York)
Heckert, Robert
Heermance, Edgar L.
Hellersberg, Dr. Elisabeth F.
Herling, John
Herling, Mary Fox
Hermens, Ferdinand A.
Hertz, Dr. Paul (Berlin, Germany) (Senator)
Hillebrand, Eric A. (German American Congress for Democracy)
Hiller, Kurt
Hirsch, Helmut (Roosevelt College of Chicago)
Hirsch, Paul
Hirschfeld, Dr. Hans E.
Hochman, Julius
Hoeber, Johannes U.
Hoerlin
Holbrook, Sabra
Hollander, Sidney
Honnold, William L.
Hovde, Bryn J.
Hraswith, Josef
Ingersoll, Julia D. (Rockford College, Illinois)
Isenberg, Gerda
Jeffrey, Newman
Johnson, Maj. Lent C.
Jones, Prof. Howard M.
Juchacz, Marie
Kaskel, Joseph (Deutsche Blätter, Santiago de Chile)
Kaskel, Lilo
Klatt, Werner
Klein, Ernest L.
Klein, Lt. Col. Julius
Kleinman, S., M.D.
Kliem, Kurt (Institut für wissenschaftliche Politik, Marburg a.L., Germany)
Knoeringen, Waldemar von
Kowler, S.
Krahn, Elmer A. (The New Milwaukee Leader)
Kramer, Ernst
Kraus, Dr. Wolfgang H.
Kuh, Edwin J., Jr.
LaFollette, Hon. Charles M. (Congressman) (letter to Reinhold Niebuhr)
Lafrentz, F. W. (American Surety Company, New York)
Lamm, Hans
Lampel, Mrs. Martin
Landau, Dr. Edmund
Lang, Erna and Joseph
Lange, Dr. Victor (Cornell University)
Laumann, Kurt
Lee, Dwight L. (Clark University, Massachusetts)
Lefebre, Marshall
Leighton, Joseph A.
Lengh, Dr. Franz
Lewinski, Eva (International Rescue and Relief Committee, New York)
Lewis, David (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation of Canada)
Littell, Normann M. (Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.
Lochner, Louis P.
Loeb, Ellen
Loeb, James Jr. (Union for Democratic Action, Washington, D.C.)
Lowenthal, Richard
Luft, Dr. Lothar
Luttermann, K.
International LYCEUM Association (Chicago, Illinois)
M - Z
Maencken, Otto
Maley, Alexander B.
Mann, Thomas
Mark, Agathe
"Markoosha" (?)
Marseille, Walter W.
Mason, Edward S.
Matzenauer, Eva
Matzenauer, Friedrich
Matzenauer, Grete
Matzenauer, Lutz
Maurer, Erwin
"Maxwell" (?) (War Department, Office of the Under Secretary, Washington, D.C.)
May, Stacy (McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Inc., New York)
Maynard, William Doby
McClurg, A.C., & Co. (Chicago, Illinois)
McClurg, Miss Peggy (Union for Democratic Action, Chicago, Illinois)
McCullogh, Frank (Union for Democratic Action, Chicago, Illinois)
McGohey, John F. X.
Mead, James M.
Mellen, Sydney L. W.
Mendelsohn-Kirchner, Eva
Mendershausen, Horst
Meyer, Hans B.
Meyer, Richard A.
Minkel, Lester M.
Modern Age Books, Inc., New York
Morrison, Edith G.
Morse (Inspector, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, New York)
Motherwell, Mrs. Hiram
Muller, Henry E. (Unitarian Service Committee, New York)
National Educational Committee for a New Party (New York)
Nehring, A. (Fordham University)
Neuhaus, Dr. F. T.
New Europe (New York)
Niebuhr, Reinhold
Office for Emergency Management, Washington, D.C.
Ogar, Ted (United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, Detroit, Michigan)
Ogden, Urban L. (The First Christian Church, Duncy, Illinois)
Oldenberg, Prof. O.
Ollendorf, E.
Ollendorf, Robert
Open Forum Speakers Bureau, Boston, Massachusetts
Ottman, W. P.
Pactel, Karl Otto
Paige, Maud
Peat (Harold R.) Inc. (New York)
Pepper, Lisl Kallberg
Perry, Bernard B. (Current Books, Inc., New York)
Phillips, William
Piper, Otto A. (Princeton Theological Seminary)
Pinchot, Cornelia Bryce
Pinchot, Gifford
PM Daily (New York)
Poole, DeWitt C.
Porter, Paul R.
Pratt, Eliot
Pratt, James
Pratt, Trude
Preisz, Hugo
Pringsheim, Karl
The Progressive (Madison, Wisconsin)
Pusch, Werner
"Raemaker" (?)
Randall, Mrs. Mercedes
Ranke, Hubert
Reich, Ilse Ollendorf
Reich, Wilhelm, M.D.
Reissig, Herman F. (First Union Congregational Church, Quincy, Illinois)
Reizenstein, Mrs. Florence S.
Resek, Judith (Queens College, New York)
Reuther, Victor G. (United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America)
Reventlow, R.
Reynolds, Alice H.
Riesenfeld, Dr. F. D.
Robert, Oscar
Roberts, Elizabeth
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Rosenbaum, Max (East Bronx Community Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A., New York)
Rossi, Florence (International Solidarity Committee and Socialist Party, New York)
Rother, Bruno
Rother, Rudolf (Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, Munich, Germany)
Rothfels, Prof. Hans
The Royal Institute of International Affairs, London
Rutz, Henry (Office of War Information, Washington, D.C.)
Saint Clair, Mrs. Peyton (Michaela, Karl Frank's daughter)
Sarah Lawrence College (New York)
Save Europe Now Committee (South Bend, Indiana)
Scherber, Hans
Schmidt, Duscha
Schmidt, Erich
Schocken, Thomas D.
Schoettle, Erwin
Schonfeld, Otto P.
Schwarz, Dr. Paul
Schwarz, Dr. Rudi
Schweitzer, Arthur
Seidlin, Oskar
Selig, Anna M.
Shaw, David C.
Shuster, George N.
Simons, Hans (The New School, New York)
Sizes, Mrs. W.
Smith, Anthony W. (Congress of Industrial Organizations, Washington, D.C.)
Snevily, Henry M. (The Bell Syndicate, Inc., New York)
Snyder, George M.
Social-Democratic Federation of U.S.A. (New York)
Socialist Party (New York)
Sonnemann, Ulrich
Sprengel, Rita
State Department, Passport Division, Washington, D.C.
Stecher, Ada E.
Steen, Margaret H. (The Masters School, New York)
Stein, Alexander
Steinberg, Karin M.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Stewart, William H. (Saint Mark's Methodist Church, New York)
Stinnes, Edmund H.
The Summer Institute for Social Progress at Wellesley, Massachusetts
Survey Associates, Inc., New York
Survery Graphic (New York)
Tanner, Mrs. Mary F.
Taurer, Bernhard
Taylor, Amos E. (Department of Commerce, Washington)
Thompson, Dorothy
Tillich, Prof. Paul (Council for a Democratic Germany, New York)
True, Mrs. George R.
Tschermerinsky-Maslow, A. (American Friends of German Freedom, New York)
Tumarin, Bertha
Ulich, Prof. Robert (Harvard University)
Victor, Walther
Viking Press
Villard, Oswald Garrison
Vischer, Wilhelmina
Voorhis, Jerry (U.S. Congressman)
Voss, Carl Hermann
"Wake Up, America!" Debate-in-Print, New York
Walker, Patrick Gordon
Walker, Stanley
Walser, Frank
Warburg, James P.
Wasjadnock, Mrs. Otto
Wechsler, James
Weil, Helen
Weiss, Dr. Franziska
Weiss, Hilda (Connecticut College)
Welsh, Dale D. (University of Dubuque, Iowa)
Westermeyer, Prof. H. E.
Wilhide, Dr. Ross (First Methodist Church, Kenton, Ohio)
Willard, Ernst
Willcox, Walter F.
Wille, Werner
Willen, Mrs. Joseph
Williams, Edward Y.
Williams, Dr. H. Franklin
Williams, Howard Y. (Union for Democratic Action, Chicago, Illinois)
Wolf, Herman
Wolff, Hugh W.
Woll, Matthew (American Association for a Democratic Germany, New York)
World Citizens Association (Chicago, Illinois)
Wrightson, Jim
Yost, Charles
Youthbuilders (New York)
Zoller, E.
Zuckmayer, Karl
Zuckmayer, Winnetou
Unidentified correspondence
Originals which have been xeroxed
8 photographs of Karl Frank alone or with wife or friend; 1 portrait of Johann Lenk; 1 portrait of Robert Heckert