Albert F. HirschCollection 1880-1991 bulk 1930s-1960s

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Albert F. HirschCollection 1880-1991 bulk 1930s-1960s

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This collectioncontains documents related to Albert Friedrich Hirsch, his family and thePhilanthropin School in Frankfurt am Main, at which Hirsch was headmaster. Prominenttopics are emigration and the school's fate under the Nazi regime as well as theattempts of its former pupils and faculty to stay in touch after 1945. The papers inthis collection include some original material from the late 19th century throughWorld War I and the "Third Reich" as well as several typescripts from the 1950s and1960s that are related to a memorial book, which was eventually published in1964.

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Philanthropin (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

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Hirsch family

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Driesen, Otto.

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Galliner, Arthur

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Hirsch, Leopold

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Baer, Fanny

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Hirsch, Albert, 1888-

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Albert Hirsch was born on August 9th, 1888, in Frankfurt am Main. After his Abitur in 1908, Hirsch went to the University of Munich. In 1912, he left the University with a PhD in literature. After World War I, Hirsch passed the examination for higher teaching (French, German and Latin). From 1919 to 1933 he was a teacher at the Woehler Realgymnasium in Frankfurt. He had to give up this post in 1933 due to the Nazi regime’s new laws on Jewish civil servants. In 1925, Albe...