Guide to the Papers of Wolfgang Sievers
MS Acc08.070; MS Acc17.001
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Collection Summary
- Creator
- NLA Pictures
- Title
- Papers of Wolfgang Sievers
- Date Range
- 1834-1998
- Collection Number
- MS Acc08.070; MS Acc17.001
- Extent
- 3 metres (12 boxes + 1 folio box + 1 tube containing elephant folios + 3 sound/av carriers)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn4494165).
Conditions Governing Use
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Wolfgang Sievers, National Library of Australia, MS Acc08.070, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Finding Aid Source(s)
Please note: This finding aid may comprise or contain descriptive information provided by donors, researchers and/or volunteers.
Item Descriptions
Class MS Acc08.070. Original consignment received 2008
War criminals in Australia - work of Wolfgang Sievers and its history from 1989-1998 (Includes clippings, letters, copies of articles, English and German language) (File) - Box 1
Prof. Dr. Johannes Sievers - father of Wolfgang Sievers - recollections of his time in the Royal Prussian Ministry of Culture 1912-1918 - originals in State Archive, Berlin (File) - Box 2
Newspaper articles - some pre WW1 and post WW2 but mainly about the important cultural life in Germany from 1918-1933 - also materials relating to the cultural activities related to that time when my father Prof. Dr. Johannes Sievers was in charge of cultural relations in the German foreign office, Berlin - originals in the State Archive, Berlin (File) - Box 2
Prof. Dr. Johannes Sievers - father of Wolfgang Sievers - papers on his activity in the department of cultural affairs of the German foreign office from 1918 until his dismissal by the Nazis in 1933 - originals in State Archive, Berlin (File) - Box 2
Prof. Dr. Johannes Sievers - father of Wolfgang Sievers - re. reduction of his art collection, book etc. - auction houses in Berlin - mostly 1950s - originals (File) - Box 3
Prof. Dr. Johannes Sievers - father of Wolfgang Sievers - correspondence - letters from victims of national socialism - most executed by behading in 1944-1945 - Ambassador Ulrich von Hassel - finance minister Prof. Dr. Popitz (who heped Wolfgang's emigration) - Count von Guttenberg von Mumm, my father's secretary - Kep, director, foreign office, Jagow, Archivar (shot himself 1945), Lewy-Lingen, Judge in Court of Justice - originals in the State Archive, Berlin (File) - Box 3
Prof. Dr. Johannes Sievers - father of Wolfgang Sievers - almost all post 1945 correspondence with foreign diplomats, dormer members of the foreign office, the present government (then still in Bonn), writers and artists friends - most well known - originals in State Archive, Berlin (File) - Box 3
Prof. Dr. Johannes Sievers - father of Wolfgang Sievers - his career and activities in charge of cultural affairs in the German foreign office 1918-1933 - also: artists, diplomats and cultural events, World War II, Hitler and the Nazis post war from 1945 - originals in State Archive, Berlin (File) - Box 3
Political - Aust. Government and embassies, Keating, Parliament House, German embassy and German F.O. Bonn + Canberra 01 (correspondence) (File) - Box 4
Gesangbuch zum gottesdienstlichen Gebrauch (German hymn book) - 'Carl Sievers' embossed on cover (File) - Box 4
Photos: Herma Sievers - und ihre kinder Hans Gerhardt and Wolfgang auch Eltekn Johannes Herma - Familie Schiffer (File) - Box 4
Photos: Meine Eltern: Carl und Luise Sievers, Meine Schweter Elisabeth - Verwandstchaft (File) - Box 4
Johannes Sievers and family - glass slide, tapes, family papers (marriage certificates etc) (File) - Box 12
Letters by my mother Herma Sievers mostly to her son Wolfgang Sievers and to her husband and letters by Wolfgang Sievers to his mother from journeys - Italy, France, Germany 1930-1932 (File) - Box 13
Album containing black and white photographs, signed by Johannes and Hanna Sievers, 1955 (File) - Box 14
Class 1. Consignment received 2017, 1909-1910 - Box Shared, Volume 1 (MS Acc17.001)
0.03 metresThe collection comprises the handwritten travel diary of Johannes and Herma Sievers (Wolfgang Sievers' parents) from 1909-1910. Professor Johannes Sievers was an art and architectural historian with the German Foreign Office (until his dismissal by the Nazi government in 1933), and author of the first four volumes of a monograph on the neo-classical architect Karl Schinkel. Wolfgang's mother was Herma Schiffer, a writer and educator of Jewish background who was Director of the Institute for Educational Films.The diary documents their study trip the United States, Japan, China and India.
Biographical / Historical
Sievers is one of Australia's most significant and influential photographers. Born in Germany in 1913, he trained at the Contemporary School for the Applied Arts in Berlin (an off shoot of the famous Bauhaus School) and took architectural photographs for his father's books on Berlin's historical buildings before emigrating to Australia in 1938. He opened his own studio in Melbourne and carried on a commercial practice for some years, gradually coming to specialise in industry and architecture.