Hans Wagner., 12/07/1947-12/07/1947

File — Box: 1, Folder: 80

Identifier: 91073

Series-level Scope and Content Note

From the Series:

Correspondence written mostly to Michael Richey from personal friends. Also includes photographs and manuscripts.

Dates

12/07/1947-12/07/1947

Conditions Governing Access

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Extent

From the Collection: 1.04 Linear Feet (3 Hollinger boxes (2 Document Cases, 1 Slim Document Case))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Shelf Location

08/19/07

Container Summary

1 ALS Hans Wagner to Michael Richey regarding his prospects of getting on a ship, also signed by Dr. Th. Wagner. *from Richey's notes: "At the end of the European War my last seagoing appointment was as flotilla navigator to a destroyer flotilla based on Sheerness whose principal task was providing the guardship at Cuxhaven, near Hamburg. It was a hard period for German civilians with widespread food shortages and I used to help Hans's family with , e.g. coffee, butter and so on from the ship's galley and later food parcels from friends in England. Hans I had first found - then a schoolboy- gazing longingly out to sea through a telescope. He desperately wanted to go to sea - an ambition I was able one way and another to help him with. He became Master of a freighter and then a Kiel Canal pilot. We only met once after those days but he kept in touch."