Geissler and Arp: British military court case material

<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access a digital version of this archive.</strong></span></p><p>This microfilm collection of papers relates to the activities of 2 anti-nazi activists, Arthur Geissler and Erich Arp, who, at the end of the war, were indicted by a British Military Court for "the unlawful appropriation of authority" by arresting the former <em> Ortsgruppenleiter Krömer</em>, Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein, at gun point. In addition to material relating to the court case, there are personal papers of Arp, born 1909 in Hamburg, former SPD member and leading member of the Berlin University Group of the <em> Sozialistische Studenenschaft</em></p><p><em><span style="font-style: normal;">Court case material and other papers including:</span><br style="font-style: normal;" /><br style="font-style: normal;" /><span style="font-style: normal;">Personal papers of Erich Arp mainly concerning his membership of political and student organisations, frames1-6</span><br style="font-style: normal;" /><br style="font-style: normal;" /><span style="font-style: normal;">Military Government Court indictments of Geissler and Arp and notes re indictments, 31 May 1945, frames 7-17</span><br style="font-style: normal;" /><br style="font-style: normal;" /><span style="font-style: normal;">Enclosures including reports re the history of Nazi support and ant-nazi activity in Elmshorn; pamphlets produced at the end of the war by the Antifaschistisches Deutsches Kampf Komitee, Hamburg, frames 19-39</span><br /></em></p> Despite being regarded as ideal material for a position as lecturer at the <i>Reichspresseschule</i>, and being nominally included on the staff of that organisation in 1937, he never took up the post. It is thought that this may have been because he was fired by Goebbels from his post on <i>Der Angriff</i> for stealing from the petty cash. Use R:\Document collections\MF54\Working Images\11\Wiener Docs frames 497-537 Open