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Walther Rathenau Fond 634: Walther Rathenau 1845-1945 Findbücher 1-2, 911 Akten Vorbemerkung Die Akten 1-206, 269, 272, 274, 285, 294, 296, 325, 347-348, 357-359, 376, 430, 488, 519, 584, 628, 650, 699, 706, 738, 742, 758-762, 768, 774, 777-779, 781, 800, 820, 852 und 858 (Opis 1) sowie 33 (Opis 2) wurden einzeln durchgesehen und erfaßt. Die übrigen Aktentitel wurden dem offiziellen Findbuch entnommen und übersetzt. Den größten Teil der Übersetzung von Opis 1 stellte freundlicherweise Christian Schölzel ( www.cultureandmore.com ) zur Verfügung. Es sei darauf hingewiesen, daß die Angaben in den sowjetischen Findbüchern nicht immer vollständig und fehlerfrei sind und somit nicht immer dem eigentlichen Akteninhalt entsprechen. Außerdem lassen sich bei Eigennamen von Personen, Organisationen und Institutionen, die zunächst ins Russische und dann zurück ins Deutsche übertragen wurden, Verfälschungen nicht vollständig ausschließen. Neun Akten des Bestandes wurden 1958 an das Außenministerium der UdSSR abgegeben. Es ist bislang nicht gelungen, sie in den heutigen russischen Archiven ausfindig zu machen. Stand: 29.06.2013 Opis 1 001 Zeitungsartikel über die Familie Rathenau, 13 Bl.; 1845-1913. 002 Photographien Walther Rathenaus (Kindheit, Jugend, spätere Jahre), 13 Stück; 1868-1921. 003 Entwürfe und -abschriften von Briefen an seine Eltern sowie an Hrn. Schmidt (Erster Bürgermeister von Bitterfeld), Prof. Dr. Heinz Rubens (Physikalisches Institut, Univ. Berlin), Graf Ernst Erich zu Rantzau, Herrn von Bode, August Thyssen (Generaldirektor), zudem ein Brief Erich Rathenaus an seine Mutter, 9 Bl.; 1872 und 1922. 004 Schulzeugnisse, 1877-1884. 005 Briefe an Eltern und Bruder (teilweise Originale, teilweise Abschriften) 208 Bl.; 1874-1889. 006 Briefe an Mutter, Bruder und andere (Abschriften); Korrespondenz Bruno Leuschners mit der Schwester Rathenaus, Edith Andreae, über die Herausgabe von Rathenau-Schriften, 259 Bl.; 1880-1930. 007 Abschriften von Gedichten und Briefen Rathenaus, Sammlung von Aphorismen Rathenaus, 20 Bl.; 1881-1921. 008 Zeichnungen Rathenaus, 8 Bl.; o. D. 009 2 Schulzeugnisse (einschließlich Reifezeugnis), 3 Bl.; 1882 und 1885. 010 8 Schulhefte mit Aufsätzen in deutscher und lateinischer Sprache; 1882-1883. 011 Universitätszeugnisse und Studienbücher der Universität Berlin, 22 Bl.; 1885-1890. 012 Immatrikulationsurkunden der Universität Berlin 1885 und 1885, Gedicht vom Klassentreffen 1910, Listen der Konabiturienten Ostern 1885, Zeitschrift zum Abschiedscommers der Abiturienten des Kgl. Wilhelmsgymnasiums, 11 Bl.; 1885-1910. 013 Immatrikulationsurkunde der Universität Straßburg 05.05.1886, 1 Bl.; 1886. 014 Militärpaß 1890, Manuskripte „Probleme“ (31.12.1886), „Anthropologie“ und „Metaphysik“, 5 Bl.; 1886-1890. 015 Briefe an Eltern und Bruder aus München und Straßburg (Originale und Abschriften), 133 Bl.; 1886-1890. 016 2 Briefe an die Mutter (eine Farbzeichnung), Briefumschlag an Rathenau (mit Skizzen), 3 Bl.; 1886-1890. 017 Briefe an Mutter aus Straßburg, 102 Bl.; 1886. 018 Heft mit Mitschriften der Vorlesungen Prof. E. Cohns über Optik, Mechanische Wärmetheorie, Elektrizität und Magnetismus sowie Methode der kleinsten Quadrate, 182 Bl.; 1886-1888. 019 Gedicht, 1 Bl.; 1886. Quelle: www.sonderarchiv.de Sonderarchiv Moskau, Fond 634: Walther Rathenau 020 Meldekarte für Straßburg (1887), Ausweise als Mitglied und Beauftragter des Soldatenrates (1918), Ausweis als Beauftragter der neuen Reichsregierung (1918), Passierschein des Arbeiter- und Soldatenrates (1918), Jagdschein (1919), Reisepaß (1919), Schreiben des niederländischen Gesandten in Berlin (1921), Freibrief des französischen Botschafters (1921), 23 Bl.; 1887-1921. 021 Briefe an verschiedene Personen (Abschriften und Durchschläge), 61 Bl., 1887-1921. 022 Briefe aus Straßburg an die Mutter, 132 Bl.; 1887-1888. 023 Heft mit Aufsatz „Anwendungen der gewöhnlichen Differentialgleichungen auf Probleme der Mechanik und der mathematischen Physik, 21 Bl.; 1887. 024 Blanche Trocard. Schauspiel in 2 Akten, 31 Bl.; 1887. 025 Schauspielfragment „Saul“ (1887), Schauspiel „Die sieben Raben. Für Ediths Theater“ (Fragment?, o. D.), Schauspiel „Ein Silvesterabend“ (31.12.1901), Schauspiel in 2 Akten „Blanche Trocard“ (1887), Fragment eines Schauspiels am „Hof des Königshauses von Gibea“ (o. D.), 93 Bl.; 1887-1901. 026 Liste „Literatur über Widerstände und elektromagnetische Kräfte“, 26. Bericht von Adams an die Royal Society 17.06.1875, Auflistung „Reaktionen auf Säuren“, zwei Gedichte vom 22.10.1887, verfaßt auf der „Bahnfahrt nach Berlin“, weitere Literaturlisten, Exzerpte, Notizblätter, 23 Bl.; 1887. 027 Manuskripte und Druckexemplar der Dissertation „Die Absorption des Lichtes in Metallen“ (Druck bei H. S. Hermann Berlin 1889, 21 Seiten), 59 Bl.; 1889. 028 Familienbriefe, 169 Bl.; 1890-1898. 029 Briefe (Abschriften), 41 Bl.; 1890-1918. 030 Geburtsattest (1867), Militär-Führungszeugnis (1891) 3 Bl.; 1867 und 1891. 030a Tagebuch vom Manöver 28.08.-22.09.1891, 20 Bl.; 1891. 031 Briefe und Bildpostkarten, vor allem an Mutter, vor allem aus dem Urlaub, 151 Bl.; 1892-1913. 032 Korrespondenz mit Familienmitgliedern, 56 Bl.; 1892-1900, 1919. 033 Korrespondenz mit Erich Rathenau (Abschriften), 55 Bl.; 1892-1896 034 „Eine Streitschrift vom Glauben“, Vortrag, gehalten in der „Deutschen Gesellschaft 1914“ im Dezember 1915, Publikation bei S. Fischer Berlin 1917 sowie Brief vom 16.05.1894, 14 Bl.; 1894 und 1917. 035 Programmzettel zum Schauspiel „Des Alchimisten Bekehrung“, 2 Bl.; 1894. 036 Gedicht „Réponse“ (auf Französisch), Text auf Hebräisch, 3 Bl.; 1894. 037 Schauspiel „Des Alchimisten Bekehrung“ mit Programmzettel, 18 Bl.; 1894. 038 Sonderabdruck aus der Elektrotechnischen Zeitschrift, Jg. 1894, Heft 45, S. 1-4 (= Erich Rathenau: Telegraphie ohne metallische Leitung), Aufsatz Erich Rathenaus „Versuche betreffend Telegraphie ohne metallische Leitung“, Gedicht Gustav Richters „An Walther Rathenau“ (30.12.1918), 14 Bl.; 1894-1918. 039 Widmung Georg Reickes an Rathenau und Rathenaus an Reicke, 2 Bl.; 1896. 040 Unterlagen (Briefe, Exposé, Informationssammlungen) zu Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika und Rathenaus Reise dorthin, 25 Bl.; 1897-1909. 041 Briefe Rathenaus an Maximilian Harden, 191 Bl.; 1897-1920. 042 Manuskriptfragment „Höre Israel!“, 26 Bl.; 1897. 043 Manuskript „Ignorabimus. Von den Schranken der Erkenntnis“, 56 Bl.; 1897. 044 Briefe Rathenaus an Maximilian Harden, 118 Bl.; 1898-1910. 045 Korrespondenz mit dem Vater, 34 Bl.; 1898-1914. 046 Tagebuchstücke, Reiseerinnerungen, 89 Bl.; 1897. 047 Manuskript „Der Fünfsünder“ (Geschichte nach dem Bar Kochba-Aufstand), 5 Bl.; 1898. 048 Manuskript „Des Königs Sühne“ (Prophet Haggai), 12 Bl.; 1898. 049 Akademische Monatshefte. Organ der Deutschen Corpsstudenten, hg. v. Karl Rügemer, 15. Jg. (1899). 050 Manuskript „Die Ressurection Co.“ über Begräbniswesen in den USA, 31 Bl.; 1898. 051 Briefe an die Eltern, 51 Bl.; 1899-1921. 052 Schreiben zur Verleihung verschiedener Orden und Auszeichnungen, Statuten des Ordens der Württembergischen Krone und des Orange-Hausordens der Niederlande, 42 Bl.; 1900-1923. 053 Korrespondenz, u. a. zu Kunstfragen und zu Publikationen, 88 Bl.; 1900-1910. 054 Aktennotizen, Memoirenstücke, Tagebuchnotizen, 38 Bl.; 1900-1922. 055 Urkunde über Verleihung der Delbrück-Denkmünze des Vereins zur Beförderung des Gewerbfleißes an Emil Rathenau (23.01.1905), Urkunde über Verleihung der Ehrendoktorwürde (Dr. Ing.) der TH Berlin an Emil Rathenau (30.05.1905), Urkunde für Emil Rathenau für seine Seite 2 Quelle: www.sonderarchiv.de Sonderarchiv Moskau, Fond 634: Walther Rathenau Verdienste an den Genueser Elektrizitätswerken (24.11.1906), Urkunde über Verleihung der Ehrendoktorwürde der Phil. Fak. der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin für Emil Rathenau (12.10.1910), Urkunde über Verleihung der Ehrenmitgliedschaft des Vereins der Beamten der AEG und BEW an Walther Rathenau (02.1900), 5 Bl., 1900-1910. 056 Elektrische Alchemie (Elektrochemie und verwandte Gebiete. Vortrag gehalten im Postmuseum am 8.2.1900), 7 Bl.; 1900. 057 Elektrische Alchemie (Elektrochemie und verwandte Gebiete. Vortrag gehalten im Postmuseum am 8.2.1900), 7 Bl.; 1900. 058 Elektrische Alchemie (Elektrochemie und verwandte Gebiete. Vortrag gehalten im Postmuseum am 8.2.1900), 7 Bl.; 1900. 059 Akademische Monatshefte. Organ der Deutschen Corpsstudenten, hg. v. Karl Rügemer, 17. Jg. (1901). 060 Briefe, u. a. mit Messel, zur Tätigkeit im 1. Weltkrieg und als Minister (Abschriften, Durchschläge und Originale), 77 Bl.; 1901-1922. 061 Briefe Theodor Herzls, 8 Bl.; 1901-1902. 062 Briefe Georg Hirzels, 19 Bl.; 1901-1907. 063 Korrespondenz, 110 Bl.; 1901-1921. 064 „Von Geschäften“ (Manuskript und Typoskript), 56 Bl.; 1908. 065 „Ein neues Grundgesetz der Ästhetik“ (Manuskript), „Ein Grundgesetz der Ästhetik“ (Manuskript und Typoskript), „Ein Sylvesterspiel“ (31.12.1901, Manuskript) 134 Bl.; 1901. 066 „Zur Physiologie der Geschäfte“ (Manuskript und Typoskript, Memoiren des russischen Etatrats Nikolaus von der Mühl, Onkel mütterlicherseits, mit kurzem Vorwort Rathenaus), 121 Bl.; 1901. 067 Korrespondenten auf H, 42 Bl.; 1902-1921. 068 Korrespondenz mit Fritz Mauthner (Originale und Abschriften), 52 Bl.; 1902-1919. 069 Korrespondenten auf M, 135 Bl.; 1902-1921. 070 Abschiedsreden, Berlin, den 07.07.1902, Spatenbräu (Verabschiedung Rathenaus als Vorstandsmitglied und Chef der Abteilung K der AEG), 12 Bl.; 1902. 071 Reden anläßlich des Austritts Rathenaus aus der Kriegs-Rohstoff-Abteilung des Preußischen Kriegsministeriums (31.03.1915), Abschiedsreden anläßlich des Ausscheidens Rathenaus
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