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It is now in the Zurich Central Library

It is now in the Zurich Central Library

A hundred years after Willes Death has to be given a look: she has to hand over the archive of the Swiss Committee on Committee of the Central Library in Zurich in the First World War.

Representation by Ulrich Wille, um 1900.

Representation by Ulrich Wille, um 1900.

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Was long lasted, the intestine is finally: a hundred years of death of the private estate of Ulrich Wille (1848–1925) of the Zurich Central Library (e.g.). The family of the Swiss army commander -in -chief in the First World War has to bequaded their archive about the library, which was recently swied in a media division. All documents of the estate are therefore available for knowledge chapion research.

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In addition to photographs, letters from Richard Wagner, Heinrich Heine, Gottfried Keller and the British-German writer Houston Stewart Chamberlain have also been preserved. Willees’s own letter to his wife Clara, a Geboreboreen Bismarck. Also diew

The Willes had fought for this step for a long time. Only after the experience with the journalist Niklaus Mienberg and Dess Knüler from 1987.

His pamphlet “Die Welt as Wille & Wahn” showed the general from its worst side: dominant, impatient, merciless with everyone with whom he had to deal with, whether Federal Councilor, chief of staff or president of the United States, about whom he funny Made (“poor Wilson!”).

Jürg Wille, a grandson of the generals, commented in May 1987 against Haler “DRS Aktuell” by Niklaus Mienberg.

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He was thinking and brilliantly thinking of his wife Schreitil will. This can now be analyzered and classified: will, the general. Will, the private individual. Will, the Polterer. Will, the meek (he was too). Now historians can combine all sides.

“General Wille is pure Swiss history,” says Christoph Meyer, Director Ad Interim of the ZB, in the library. Mann expects with each other and the impulse for research. Some documents in Willes have to become a restaurateur. These AREBENTE will Annen the year, such as the, for example. Selected archives should later digitize and on the platform E-manuscripta Be uploaded.

Clara Wille-Bismarck, the later general wife in an expression of 1870.

Clara Wille-Bismarck, the wife of the later general in an admission from 1870.

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