Carl Landauer Collection 1934-1955

Photocopies of correspondence concerning assistance for refugee scholars, including correspondence with the Academic Assistance Council (later the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning); American Committee for Refugee Scholars, Writers and Artists; Hilfsverein der deutschen Juden, part of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland; National Student Federation (later the International Student Service); San Francisco Committee for Service to Émigrés; and Selbsthilfe deutscher Ausgewanderter / Selfhelp for German Émigrés, which includes correspondence with Toni Stolper and the 1934 founding minutes. Also included is correspondence with Jewish communal organizations in San Francisco and Oakland, and some offprints of Landauer's articles.Born in Munich on October 15, 1891, Carl Landauer received his doctorate in economics at the University of Heidelberg in 1915, and worked as a journalist and in various academic positions. He immigrated to the United States in 1934, where he became professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and lived in Berkeley, California, after his retirement.4 catalogue cardsProcesseddigitize