Fritz Linnenbuerger FBI file

Dr. Fritz Linnenbuerger (1873-1967) was born on April 20, 1873 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany to Hanna Friedrike Fohrmann (1876-1936) and Friedrich Wilhelm Linnenbuerger. Fritz immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1896. In 1900, he married Amalie Mathilde Anna Bernhardt. They had five children, Charlotte Gertrude (1901-1964), Karl Fritz Bernhard (1902-1973), Margaret Bertha E. (1903-1986), Irma Johanna Minna (1907-1988), Frieda Maria Friederike (1909-1980). In 1933, Fritz married Paulina Schenk (1882-1955). In 1939 Linnenbuerger was among nearly 70 German-Americans who were invited by the German Teacher’s Association to tour Germany. Among the tours and meetings, the group was brought to view the Buchenwald concentration camp. This encounter was recorded in the report and is also featured in a November 1939 article in the Dakorta Freie Presse (Dakota Free Press), a paper which Linnenbuerger contributed too. In 1967, Fritz Linnenbuerger died in Freeman, South Dakota.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Daryl Smith

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2020 by Daryl Smith, nephew of Fritz Linnenbuerger. Mr. Smith received a copy of the file through a FOIA request with the U.S. National Archives.