Dehomag D11 puncher
Creator(s)
- Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft M.B.H (Manufacturer)
Archival History
The Dehomag D11 puncher was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by the Technische Sammlungen Dresden.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Technische Sammlungen Dresden
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Scope and Content
Dehomag D11 puncher machine of the type used for processing results of the 1933 and 1939 German census during the Nazi regime (1933-1945). Dehomag [Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen] was a German based subsidiary of the US company, IBM. The Hollerith machine was a punch-card system consisting of three components, this punching machine that transmitted information onto punch cards, a sorting machine [1990.48.2] that arranged the punch cards by categories, and the tabulating machine [1990.48.1] that computed the results.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Corporate Bodies
- Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Subjects
- Punched card systems.
- Germany--Census--History--20th century.
- Census--Data processing--Germany--20th century.
- Calculators.
- Tabulating machines--Germany--Lichterfelde (Berlin)
- Population research--Germany--History--20th century.
- Germany--Statistical services--History--20th century.
Genre
- Object
- Tools and Equipment