Germany - Social life and customs

Date: 1808, 1840-1841, 1844

From: Dominion Museum : Historical material

Reference: MS-Papers-9863-10

Description: Comprises four baptismal certificates for Johann Gottfried Rolle (1808), Fr Johanna [?] Eleonozor [?] Herswig (1808) and two people with illegible names (1840, 1844); also letter (incomplete) from Konigsbsurg (1841); and letter from donor, A H Krause, describing the custom of baptismal certificates (1894) Language - The four certificates and letter from Konigsburg are in German Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1892-1893

From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8670-154

Description: Cuttings of articles by Frederick Revans Chapman printed in the `Otago Witness'. Includes articles on life in a German village, his experiences of the Franco-Prussian War, British naval history, the history of the Australian Ballot and ont the authority of judges. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1926-1984, 1985

By: Embury, Ruth Elfriede, 1926-

Reference: MS-Papers-4305

Description: A frank autobiographical account of life in Germany during and after the war, immigration to Australia, visits to family in East Germany, immigration to New Zealand. Also provides details of employment as waitress, caterer, and as housewife, together with details of her marriages and family. Comprises 20 chapters accompanied by 45 photographs Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Transfers: To Photographic Archive - PA Series 14:102.

Date: 1893

From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers

Reference: MSX-7937

Description: Lengthy article by F R Chapman, published in the Otago Witness for 1893 Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: Oct 1953-May 1954

From: Miller, S M, fl 1953 : Travel journals and letter

Reference: MSX-9144

Description: Travel journal relating S M Miller's travels in Italy, Austria, and Germany between October 1953 and May 1954. Contains impressions of places visited, including Rome, Naples, Pompeii, Sorrento, Capri, Venice, Austria, Zurich, Basel, The Black Forest, Frankfurt and Rhine River. Specific subjects and activities written about include churches, fountains, baths, ruins, viaducts, mosaic flooring, hostels, Italian people and Smith's impressions their customs and attitudes, art, agriculture, treatment of animals, food, hiking and the landscape, train travel, the weather, and the post-war rebuilding and social effects in Germany. Includes loose piece of card with information regarding Eleanor Quantity: 1 volume(s) with one enclosure of loose materials. 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss

Date: Nov 1953-Apr 1954

From: Miller, S M, fl 1953 : Travel journals and letter

Reference: MSX-9145

Description: Journal relating S M Miller's travels in Germany, Belgium, France, and England between November 1953 to April 1954. Contains impressions of locations visited including Rhine River surroundings, Cologne, Aachen, Liege, Brussels, Paris, London and Stratford. Particular subjects and activities include vineyards, agriculture, hiking, destruction of buildings by bombing in World War II and the ongoing social effects of the war in Germany (food, shelter, attitudes), churches and other buildings, shopping, prices and costs, hostels, seeing Hitler's custom Mercedes, weather, art and art galleries, gardens, and monuments. Contains loose card with Scarlet Mistletoe illustration Quantity: 1 volume(s) with one enclosure of loose materials. 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, printed matter

Date: 1800 - 1968

By: Porritt, Arthur Espie (Sir), 1900-1994

Reference: B-182-003

Description: Sketch shows the costume of a wedding director in Germany in about 1800. Three different views are shown: in the left foreground is a three-quarter length view of a man in a collarless charcoal jakcet, open to reveal a red waistcoat, black cravat, and a belt with a large buckle. He holds a stick with a bunch of foliage at the top of it, and there is a sprig of the same foliage in the band of his broad-brimmed black hat. At the right is a full length sketch of the same man, showing his blue leggings, and at centre back a very preliminary outline sketch with the red waistcoat being the only coloured part. Other Titles - Wedding director from Aschau around 1800 Inscriptions: Mat recto - bottom right - To His Excellency The Governor General, Sir Arthur Porrit, with compliments of V [?] Tovis[?] Grepl [?], President NHF, 19-9-1968 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of pencil and watercolour sketch, 248 x 191 mm. Provenance: Previously presented to Sir Arthur Porrit by the President of the NHF in 1968. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1812 - Other material of the same provenance is house at MS-Group-1812.

Date: 1988

From: McNeish, James Henry Peter, 1931-2016: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-7811-177

Description: Notes and printed matter, mainly in German, about the German athlete Werner Seelenbinder, and about the background, political and social, in which the Berlin Olympics of 1936 was held. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1938-1980]

From: Strewe, Friedrich Georg Theodor (Odo), 1910-1986 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5921-063

Description: Includes articles `Some children behind the "Iron" curtain', `A Caribbean midas; money, blood, sex, and lots more money - a true story ? Indeed', `Monstrous Uncle Bernhard', `Giant killers; the East Germans take on the world', `What is the secret behind the East-German Olympic success?', `Berlin, a divided city', `Farming in East Germany', `Youth without purpose' and `Historical background to German history which shows some relationship'; flyers re Vietnam protest and Strewe's business; clippings and letters to the editor; a visit to a children's home in East Germany; letters; notes; Auckland Council on Vietnam newsletter (8 Apr 1970) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1940-1960]

From: Strewe, Friedrich Georg Theodor (Odo), 1910-1986 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5921-003

Description: Mostly comprises letters between Strewe and his family in Germany; includes letters to and from Hildegard a Brassard. Also includes copies of letters re Strewe's campaign to have himself officially classified as anti-Nazi in order to ensure his residence in New Zealand or the country of his choice, and refutation of accusations by `Truth' that Strewe was a Nazi. Paper also, `Bericht uber Munsterlager (auszugsweise) Kriegsgefa...bericht'. Language - Many of the letters are in German Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter