The Fritz Bauer Institute archive’s holdings can be divided into five main departments: Fritz Bauer Institute archive, Collections, Legacies, Select materials and Printed material and grey literature.
The Fritz Bauer Institute is an independent interdisciplinary research and education centre with a focus on contemporary history. It studies and documents the history of National Socialism’s mass crimes – particularly of the Holocaust – and their impact until the present. One…
Fritz Bauer was born on 16 July 1903 to a Jewish businessman’s family in Stuttgart, where he grew up and attended school. He studied law and economics in Heidelberg, Munich and Tübingen, earning his doctorate. In 1930, he was appointed as a local district judge in his hometown,…
Fritz Bauer Institut
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1 60323 Frankfurt am Main
+49 (0)69 798 322-40 info@fritz-bauer-institut.de
Staff
The Fritz Bauer Institute was inaugurated by the State of Hesse, the City of Frankfurt am Main and the friends’ association Fritz Bauer Institut e.V. as a foundation under German public law with registered office in Frankfurt am Main on 11 January 1995 – 50 years after the…
Sybille Steinbacher has been director of the Fritz Bauer Institute and has held the newly established Chair for Research on the History and Impact of the Holocaust since May 2017.
Hannah Hecker
Hannah Hecker
Hannah Hecker has been Assistant to the Fritz Bauer Institute’s Director since 2017. She supports the Institute’s directorate as well as the Chair for Research on the History and Impact of the Holocaust in organizational and conceptual matters. She is also active…
Jörg Osterloh hat an der Universität Hannover Geschichte und Politikwissenschaft studiert. Anschließend war er wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Hannah-Arendt-Institut an der Technischen Universität (TU) Dresden und Stipendiat der Volkswagen-Stiftung an der Ruhr-Universität…
Katharina Rauschenberger studied history, philosophy and Spanish at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. She earned her doctorate in 2001 at Technical University Berlin with a dissertation entitled Jüdische Tradition im Kaiserreich und in der Weimarer Republik.
Andrea Rudorff studied modern and contemporary history and Polish studies at Humboldt University of Berlin and the Technical University of Berlin.
Dr. Niklas Krawinkel
Niklas Krawinkel studied modern and contemporary history, medieval history and sociology in Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Potsdam.
After her apprenticeship in sign and illuminated advertising manufacturing and as restaurant specialist, Manuela Ritzheim studied project management economy and business administration at the Administration and Business Academy (VWA) Frankfurt am Main.
After training as an engraver at the graphic art company Albert Horn Söhne in Hattersheim and studying at the design school Gutenbergschule für Gestaltung in Frankfurt am Main, Werner Lott studied sociology, political science and economics at the Goethe University in Frankfurt.
Johannes Klaas Beermann studied history, religious studies and sociology at Bielefeld and Bremen universities. Beermann administered the archive of the Foundation for 20th Century Social History in Bremen during his studies.
Josefine Ruhe studied information and library science at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt. After completing her degree in 2013, she was employed by the Library for the Medical Faculty of Mannheim with responsibility for media processing and user support. Ruhe joined…
Martina Sichelschmidt obtained a graduate degree as librarian for higher service at academic libraries from Cologne University of Applied Sciences. Sichelschmidt studied history, Russian and education at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and sat the state examination for…
Gottfried Kößler
Gottfried Kößler is a secondary school teacher of German language and literature, history and political science.
Martin Liepach studied history and mathematics at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. He was awarded his PhD in political science in 1994 from the Freie Universität Berlin on the political orientation of Jews in the Weimar Republic.
The recording is preserved in the Fritz Bauer Institute archive on 366 audio CDs as well as in mp3 format.
The Fritz Bauer Institute library is a specialised academic library, serving research, education and study, as well as professional and other types of training, and in particular the Fritz Bauer Institute employees and students of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.
The archive of the Fritz Bauer Institute was created when the Institute was founded. It documents the history and work of the research and education centre;
Knowledge Transfer
Zeitzeugeninterviews auf DVD
Margarethe Eichberger: »Heim ins Reich« Ausschnitte aus einem Interview 2001 Frankfurt am Main 2013, 39 Min., 5 €
Ruth Lion: Ein Leben zwischen Konzentrationslager und Dorfgemeinschaft Interview mit Ruth Lion aus Momberg …
Elimination of Jews from cultural life in the »Third Reich«
The object of the research project is the elimination of Jews from cultural life in National-Socialist Germany.
Elimination of Jews from cultural life in the »Third Reich«
Researcher: Dr. Jörg Osterloh
The history of Katzbach concentration camp in Frankfurt am Main
Researcher: Jason Polhammer M.A.
Resercher: Prof. Dr. Raphael Gross, Prof. Dr. Martin van Gelderen
Fritz Bauer: Collected essays
As a state prosecutor, Fritz Bauer went down in the history of the German Federal Republic as the man who initiated the Auschwitz trials and was responsible in a large number of other cases for bringing about prosecution of Nazi crimes.
History of research on anti-Semitism
The aim of this project is to make little known or forgotten late 18th to early 20th century German-language texts that theoretically examined the phenomenon of hostility toward Jews, again accessible. These texts will be presented as the history of anti-Semitism theory, in a…
Biographische Skizzen über Spieler und Funktionäre von Eintracht Frankfurt in der NS-Zeit und der frühen Nachkriegszeit
Researcher: Maximilian Aigner M.A.
Jewish debate in exile during the 1920s:
The »Jewish-Bolshevism« stereotype plays a special role in Nazi anti-Semitism. Use of this canard enabled the National Socialists to combine the fears of a Socialist revolution with those of liberal capitalist growth of a modern democratic state and to exploit these fears for…
