Collection Pfungst family

Mile Braach, born Emilie Marie Auguste Hirschfeld, a Frankfurt annalist and entrepreneur studied the feminist Marie Eleonore Pfungst in the 1990s. To do so, she collected documents regarding the life of the Pfungst family. The Jewish entrepreneurial family owned the Naxos Union, one of the first producers of sanding machines. The family was persecuted during National Socialism. Braach's biography of Marie Eleonore Pfungst was published by the Fritz Bauer Institute in 1995. The records used to write the biography were then transferred to the Institute's archive. The collection Pfungst family covers after description, demetallization, and filing two archival units with a total extent of 0.15 running meters. Since the record group did not have an inner structure upon the acquisition the processor Inga Steinhauser completely reorganized the holding during indexing in January 2023. The archives group solely consists of records regarding the Pfungst family. It covers some family shots and document copies regarding the family's life, especially the life of Marie Eleonore Pfungst. Further documents concern the family's enterprise, the Naxos-Union, and the Dr. Arthur Pfungst Foundation. Apart from that the holding contains correspondence and typescripts from Mile Braach's work on the biography of Marie Eleonore Pfungst.