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The Friedrich Ebert Institute in Bonn
Karl SCHRÖDER and Henry JACOBY deposits: very few documents and letters, relating to council
communism.
Paul LEVI archives: sworn enemy of left communism and of the KAPD, Levi’s archives are nonetheless of great
importance. Deposited at Friedrich Ebert Institute (and at the ‘Buttinger-Library’ in New York), they may shed
light on the relationship between the right and the left of the KPD, before and after the split.
Other archives
The KAP members do not seem to have kept and handed over important archives to institutes or libraries. Except
for the publications (papers, brochures), these remain quite sparse in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, USA, etc.
Alfred WEILAND archives: important archives of this German council communist militant at the Freie
Universität of West Berlin. He has sold an impressive quantity of documents and books to the University library,
on: judaica, freemasonry, KPD, council communism. See: Sylvia Kubina, Die Bibliothek des Berliner
Rätekommunisten Alfred Weiland (1906-1978) (Berlin: Freie Universität, 1995).
Harald ANDERSEN-HARILD archives: important archives concerning the Dutch, German, Danish and
American councils’ movement in the Thirties. Many reviews and booklets of the GIC, the KAPD, the KAU, etc.
ABA in Copenhagen. [See: Straede (Therkel), ’Lektor, raadskommunist Harald Andersen-Harild Jr. 1906-1980’,
København: Arbejderbevaegelsens Bibliotek og Arkiv, 1982.]
German State archives concerning the KAPD and the Union movement.
Bundesarchiv Koblenz:
AAU (KAP): 1-68/1 fol. 1-216;
Organisation ‚Rote Kämpfer’: R 58/448;
Linksradikale Organisationen (1924-1929): 403/13369-13793;
Generalakten des Justizministeriums:135/214 P; 135/8466 P; 135/8472 P; 135/8476 P;
Reichssicherheitshauptamt: R58/530; R58/532: R58/552: R58/607: R58/763.
Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv in München:
Abteilung II, Geheimes Staatsarchiv München:
Polizeiberichte über Bolschewismus, Kommunismus, Spartakusbewegung, 1919 bis 1932: MA 100 412-417;
Lageberichte der Polizeidirektionen München und Nürnberg über radikale Bewegungen 1924: MA 101 235;
Die Entwicklung der politischen Organisationen und wichtigsten Vereine (police headquarters in Munich, 1925):
MA 106 562.
Hauptstaatsarchiv Düsseldorf (Zweigarchiv Kalkum):
AAU 1921-1922: 15 536;
KAPD 1921-1922: 15 681;
Kommunistische Arbeiter-Jugend 1921-1922: 15 680;
Kommunistische Arbeiter-Jugend 1926-1928: 16 949;
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