Bequest Carl Bringer

Carl Bringer was born in Dusseldorf in 1929. From 1962 to 1994, he worked as an editor for the Hessischer Rundfunk, the Hessian state radio. From 1994 to 2006, he volunteered for the psychological services of the "Fritz Bauer Haus", a detention center in Darmstadt-Eberstadt. He was friends with Fritz Bauer. Carl Bringer passed away in 2017. The bequest mostly consists of papers, linked to his friendship with Fritz Bauer and connected to Bauer's work. The bequest Carl Bringer covers after description, demetallization, and filing nine archival units with a total extent of 0.3 running meters. During indexing from October to November 2021, the processor Sophia Steinmetz completely reorganized the holding. The archives group is now structured in two sections: "correspondence" ("Korrespondenzen") and "collections" ("Sammlungen"). The section "correspondence" ("Korrespondenzen") contains the private correspondence of Carl Bringer, especially with or about Fritz Bauer. The section "collections" ("Sammlungen") mostly consists of writings and manuscripts of Fritz Bauer as well as a collection of newspaper clippings.