INDEX President's Letter Stuttgart---An Information Center for Germans from Russia .............................……………………………1 Fred Grosskopf's Hobby ......................................………………………… 14 Fresno State College Library Bibliography. ....................………………… 15 Archives....................................................... ……………………………… 17 Hoover Institute Library Bibliography.........................……………………. 18 Guidelines for Yearbook. .....................................…………………………. 28 List of Members..............................................…………………………….. 29 Greeley Public Library Archives...............................………………………. 38 Times , 1902................................................………………………………… 42 IMPORTANT ! ! ! ! ! The World Conference on Records at Salt Lake City. Utah, August 15, 1969, will be reported on by Mrs. Gerda S. Walker and Ruth Stoll at the Windsor Membership Meeting August 15. The map on the cover page is taken from "Der Deutsche im Auslande -Banat-" by Professor Josef Mischbach. On the back cover is a map taken from "Grunau und die Mariupoler Kolonien" by Jakob Stach. Our thanks to those concerned. AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GERMANS FROM RUSSIA 1004 A Ninth Ave. P. 0. Box 749, Greeley, Colorado, 80631 July 29, 1969 Fellow Members: Work Paper No. 2 was made possible by the contributions of Mrs. Emma Schwabenland Haynes, Arthur E. Flegel, Mrs. Gerda S. Walker, and Esther Fromm. Ruth Stoli assumed the task of completing the work paper. She cut the mimeograph stencils on the Flegel bibliography. Esther Fromm, Chairman of the Bibliography Committee, listed the books which have been received by the Greeley Public Library on loan from our society and cut the stencil on the list of books deposited. Reverend Elmer T. Wilhelm did the offset on Mrs. Haynes' article and his daughter, Yvonne Wilhelm, helped her father prepare the plates and helped assemble the work paper. Our office staff helped, too. Mrs. Gerda S. Walker has worked untold hours as membership chairman. I estimate that she has sent out over 2,000 membership letters, She has been appointed chairman of the Genealogy Committee. Mrs. Rachel Amen is now membership chairman, We need your help in expanding membership. We have enclosed membership application cards and membership solicitation letters. Please mail these to your friends and relatives, if possible. Jerry Lehr has agreed to serve as Chairman of the Finance Committee. He needs the help of each one of us. William P. Urbach is Chairman of the By-Laws Committee assisted by Daniel Walker. Tenative by-laws have been written and will go to the committee for study and later adoption. Mrs. Haynes is working with Dr. Karl Stumpp, president of the comparable organization in Germany, which she so well describes in her article. Through her efforts we obtained invaluable books from Dr. Stumpp and Dekan Schwab. The rare and most valuable books are Bauer, Beratz, Bonwetsch and Riffel (see page 38). These are being zeroxed. The zerox copies and the other books will be available on inter-library loan through your local library from the Greeley Public Library. These books are in German and can be of value to you only if you read German well. Each of these books should be translated to English. Who will volunteer? Dr. Stumpp is working on a new edition of his bibliography. Mrs. Haynes is acting as a liaison to Dr. Stumpp. We urge you to send Esther Fromm, librarian, Greeley Public Library, Greeley, Colorado, 80631, all references relating to Germans from Russia, Include books, magazine articles, theses, newspaper articles, family biographies, letters from Russia, pictures and other materials. i Material from the members has made the work papers possible. We have now established an economical offset reproduction method through Rev. Elmer T. Wilhelm. We seek contributions for future work papers and the yearbook. We urge each member to prepare articles for publication. It will save reproduction costs if you will prepare clear-cut copies. The material presented should be clearly typed. Sharp, dark letters reproduce well. The light, blurry letters and erasures will not reproduce well. Do not let this suggestion keep you from doing whatever you can. Any material-typed, handwritten, German, English and even Russian-is earnestly solicited and appreciated. The yearbook guidelines have not yet been established. We solicit your suggestions. John H. Werner, Vice-president, has suggested guidelines (see page 28). Read them carefully and contribute your own ideas. It was suggested that the Publications Committee include members who have researched, written or published on the subject of Germans from Russia. Pending the establishment of the Publications Committee, Ruth Stoll has agreed to receive, review and summarize the materials. If you are willing to serve on the Publications Committee, write her at 2150 South Avenue A, Greenwood Village #28, Yuma, Arizona, 85364. The Board is recommending that you undertake the formation of local, county or state chapters of our society. We need to have your help in locating material from our elderly people. Our senior citizens in most cases must dispose of their books and other items as they find it necessary to join a retirement community. At death many things must be disposed of. Contact your local pastor and ask him to advise the relatives of those who pass on of our deep desire to preserve our heritage and of the opportunity they have of contributing to the accumulation of materials for an eventual archive for Germans from Russia in memory of their families. By action of the Board of Directors at a meeting July 28, 1969, the time for becoming a charter member was extended to December .31, 1969. The target date for the yearbook was set at June 30, 1970. The fiscal year for the society, however, will end July 3l, 1969. Mail your dues for 1969-1970 to American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Box 749 Greeley, Colorado, 80631. A general membership meeting will be held at Faith United Church, 2nd and Elm Streets, Windsor, Colorado, August 15, 1969, at 7:30 p.m. The program will include the St. Paul's Congregational Church Orchestra of Greeley, Colorado, a presentation by Henry J. Dietz of a traditional wedding invitation (Hochzeitseinladungen) and color slides on a trip to Russia by Mr. and Mrs. David J. Miller. Very truly yours, David J. Miller, President ii STUTTGART - AN INFORMATION CENTER FOR GERMANS FROM RUSSIA by Emma Schwabenland Haynes The "American Historical Society of Germans from Russia" is still such a new organization, that many of our members may be unfamiliar with the tremendous wealth of material that is available in Stuttgart, Germany, on the history of Russian Germans. For this reason I should like to describe three organizations that can be of great help to any American doing research on this subject. 1. Institute für Auslandsbeziehungen Charlottenplatz 17 7 Stuttgart, Germany 2. Heimatortskartei für Ostumsiedler Stafflenbergstrasse 66 7 Stuttgart-Ost, Germany 3. Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland Diemershalde 48 7 Stuttgart-Ost, Germany The "Institut für Auslandsbezlehungen" (a cultural center for the promotion of foreign relations, with an attached library) is housed in an attractive group of buildings in downtown Stuttgart. Fräulein Gertrud Kuhn, the chief librarian, and her assistant, Fräulein Elvira Pflüger, are both most helpful and kind. Furthermore, they speak English. The library contains 200,000 volumes and subscribes to 4,400 periodicals and newspapers. But what makes it particularly interesting for our purposes is that its collection of volumes on Russian-German history is one of the largest in the entire western world. The Institut's history goes back to January 1917, when it came into existence as a "Museum und Institut zur Kunde des Auslandsdeutschtums und zur Förderung deutscher Interessen im Ausland." For quite obvious reasons this ponderous title was shortly thereafter changed to "Deutsches Auslands-Institut." The primary purpose of the organization was to serve as a cultural medium and as an archive for books and periodicals dealing with the life of Germans in foreign countries of the world. During the 1944 bombing of Stuttgart, when the entire central part of the city was destroyed, the Auslands-Institut also suffered great damage, and all of its documentary material was lost. The books and periodicals, however, had been placed in storage elsewhere and were saved. With the end of the war these volumes were seized by US occupation authorities as enemy property and shipped in 1946 to the Library of 1. Congress, Washington D.C. There they remained for ten years. Back In Germany the Auslands-Institut was re-organized in 1951 as the "Institute für Auslandsbeziehungen." As its revised name indicates, it no longer deals specifically with Germans in foreign lands. It now has the larger goal of promoting cultural relations with all foreign countries including the developing nations of the world. In 1957 the library building was reconstructed with money obtained from the sale of real estate bequeathed by Herr Alexander Rave, a citizen of Hamburg and a former patron of the Auslands-Institut. In that same year, the volumes of the library, which had been returned by the United States in thousands of boxes, were brought to the new Institut and its present attractive home on Charlottenplatz. Within the limits of this paper it is impossible for me to give more than an inkling of the wealth of material which the library