Hanfstaengl Erika

HANFSTAENGL, ERIKA (Munich, 1912 - Munich, 2003)

Assistant of Walter Frodl for the German Office for the Protection of Artistic Heritage of the Adriatic Littoral, Art historian

The Art historian Erika Hanfstaengl, after having studied between Berlin, Munich and Vienna, in 1940 worked in Bolzano at the Cultural Commission at the Official German Immigration and Return Center (ADERst) and later, under the direction of the Cultural Commission of the SS Ahnenerbe at the German resettlement authorized for the province of Ljubljana, documented the cultural heritage of the local museums. From the end of 1943 to April 1945, she resided in Udine as the chief assistant of Frodl, and she was responsible for all practical matters connected to the activities of the Germanic Office in Friuli and Venezia Giulia. At the end of the war, she began working in Monaco at the Central Art Collecting Point under the direction of Craig Hugh Smyth.

Bibliography:
M. Wedekind, Kunstschutz und Kunstraub im Zeichen von Expansionsstreben und Revanche: Nationalsozialistische Kulturpolitik in den Operationszonen “Alpenvorland” und “Adriatisches Küstenland” 1943–1945, in Christian Fuhrmeister et. al. (a cura di) Kunsthistoriker im Krieg. Deutscher Militärischer Kunstschutz in Italien 1943–1945, Böhlau, Wien – Köln – Weimar, 2012, p. 167.
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