Carl Albert Helmecke Papers 1898-1984 1937-1938

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Carl Albert Helmecke Papers 1898-1984 1937-1938

This collection deals mainly with Carl A. Helmecke's sabatical in Germany during 1937 and 1938. The collection includes correspondence with his family, souvenirs including maps and tour guide books, tickets and receipts from places to which he traveled in Germany along with school calendars and schedules from his experiences teaching in Germany. There is also some correspondence from later in Helmecke's life along with an oral history interview completed in 1984 shortly before his death.

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Helmecke, Carl Albert

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Carl Albert Helmecke was born in Braunschweig, Germany on January 30, 1890. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1902 and lived briefly in Norwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati. The Helmecke family then moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan. Helmecke attended the University of Michigan graduating in 1912. He began work on his Ph.D. at Syracuse University, and later completed his degree at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1915, he accepted his first full-time teaching ap...