Albrecht Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Collection 1923-1969

The collection contains letters from Albrecht Mendelssoh-Bartholdy to Alfred Vagts, his assistant at the Institut für Auswärtige Politik; Vagts' notes on Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's life, career, and politics; correspondence of Vagts regarding Mendelssohn-Bartholdy; biographical notes on Mendelssohn-Bartholdy; and letters regarding a trip taken by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and his wife to the United States in 1927.Alfred VagtsThe grandson of the composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Albrecht Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was born in Karlsruhe in 1874. He was a professor of law at the University of Hamburg from 1920 to 1933, and the founder of the Institut für Auswärtige Politik in Hamburg. He emigrated from Germany to Great Britain in 1933 and died in Oxford in 1936.The original German-language inventory is available in the folderProcessed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize