[Margate, Natal im Juni 1938].

Family history reaching back to 18th century; university study in Halle; military service in Austrian army; apprenticeship at Dresdner Bank in Dresden and Hamburg; work at a Bank in New York; travels through United States; return to Germany; work at bank in Berlin; milieu of Jewish bankers and businessmen in Dresden and Berlin; Arnold and Loewe families; marriage to Arnold; move to Leipzig to open branch of Dresdner Bank there; efforts at establishing Leipzig business; birth of daughter; success in Leipzig; birth of son; general consulate awarded to author's father Gustav von Klemperer who was chairman of the board of the Dresdner Bank; award of hereditary nobility to father from Austrian Emperor; transfer to Dresden; outbreak of war, move to Koeniggraetz as officer; life as officer in Habsburg army; birth of third child; war experiences on Eastern Front, Italy; return to Dresden; difficulties at Dresdner Bank leading to collapse in 1931; rebuilding the bank; brief account of last days in Germany; fate of family members after 1933; condition of family in South Africa up to 1942.Victor von Klemperer was born in Dresden in 1876. He was the director of the Dresden branch of the Dresdner Bank and Austrian vice-consul in Dresden. He emigrated to South Africa in 1938 and died there in 1943.BerlinHalleHamburgLeipzigNew YorkRotary Clu