Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1930-1940 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
0.15 Cubic Feet
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 24 March 1900, presumably in East or West Prussia. Parents were Robert van Bergen and Marie Fast. In 1933 he was a teacher in Frankenau/Gutfeld, East Prussia. He published the family genealogical periodical Der Berg 1933-1941. (MLA has this on microfilm.) He died in combat June 22, 1941, on the first day of the German invastion of the Soviet Union. (James Irvin Lichti, “The Response to National Socialism by Denominations with Teachings against Bearing Arms,” Ph. D. dissertation, University of California-Los Angeles, 2000, p. 353 note 4, also see p. 123f.).
Archival history
This collection apparently was in the hands of Hermann Thiessen (MLS.MS.485) before coming into the possession of Hermann Schirmacher.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The papers consist of photocopies of Bergen’s genealogy notes and correspondence. The location of the originals is unknown.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
open for research
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- German