Estate of Richard Jakob Seligmann, in the Archive of the City of Munich, 1881-1941

Estate of Richard Jakob Seligmann, in the Archive of the City of Munich, 1881-1941
 
 Richard Seligmann was born in Munich in 1890. Following his service in the German Army during World War I, he was a manufacturer of Spiegelglass (mirror glass). During the Nazi regime he made all efforts to emigrate, but in vain. He was forced to relinquish his business in 1939 and in the same year he was evicted from his apartment and had to rent a smaller one. He was deported to Riga in 1941, from where he did not return.
 
 In the Collection are Seligmann's correspondence regarding, in main, his attempts to emigrate (file 1 and, at the start of the file, there are summaries of the content of his letters); a summary of his life and official documents related to him, from the Nazi period (file 7); his photographs (file 8); a file with photographs and pictures of eagles, as official Nazi symbols (file 9); flyers and announcements regarding the Nazi Party, various official forms and, in most part, there are many newspaper clippings from the period.