Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling collection

Identifier
irn45019
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.85.1
Dates
1 Jan 1900 - 31 Dec 2011
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling (1902-1939) was born on February 12, 1902 near Leipzig, Germany to Karl Schilling (1874-1958) and Luise Schilling (née Augustin, 1879-1953). He was a member of the anti-Nazi resistance. He was arrested in 1939 and imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he died on November 4, 1939 of supposedly natural causes.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Peter Anders

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Peter Anders donated the Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011. Peter Anders is the great-nephew of Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling.

Scope and Content

The Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling collection consists of copies of documents and photographs, in German and English, related to Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling, who was born in 1902 near Leipzig, Germany, and was a member of the anti-Nazi resistance. Schilling was arrested in 1939 and imprisoned in Sachsenhausen, where he died in November 1939, supposedly of natural causes. Copies include pre-war Schilling family information, copies of letters Schilling wrote from Sachsenhausen, and post-war material memorializing his life and resistance work. Collection compiled and biography written by Schilling's nephew, Volker Anders, in 2007, and translated by his great-nephew, Peter Anders.

People

Subjects

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.