Contains: Report on a ten-day school excursion from Weinheim to Weinsberg, hand-written, bound, with steel engraving: View of Weinsberg, (c. 1858); application forms for the exhibition of women's clothing in Karlsruhe, 1903; honorary doctorate by the Technical University of Braunschweig, (1903); admission to the Academy of Building and Construction in Berlin, 1909; application lists for the accommodation of Viennese children in Karlsruhe; petition action by the Reichsverband der Kolonialdeutschen: Recall of German Colonies, 1919; List of Publications, (1922); List of Building Projects, n.d.; Newspaper clippings with articles about the person, 1911-1935; Congratulatory telegram of the former Grand Duke Friedrich II. of Baden, 1928

About the person: Adolf ten Hompel *15.6.1874 in Recklinghausen, 5.12.1943; brother of the centre politician Rudolf ten Hompel; parents: August ten Hompel and Henriette Wicking (Wicking-Zementwerke!). Education at the Humanistische Gymnasium Recklinghausen, Universities of Freiburg, Würzburg, Berlin, Göttingen; Dr. jur.; lawyer and notary in Münster; married to Maria Strunk, children: Adolf, Maria, Elisabeth, Carl-Gregor. Writer and journalist activity, also under the pseudonyms Wahroder ten Hompel, Hermann Wahroder, Dr. Alpha, Athanasius, Wicking ten Hompel. Cf. Kürschners German Literature Calendar.1925. Degener "Wer ist's" VII Edition (1914). The collection: Most of the written material dates from the years 1900-1940, in addition to correspondence and manuscripts, these are mostly collections of magazines and newspapers (Deutsche Bergwerks-Zeitung, Kölnische Volkszeitung, Der Tag, Germania, Münstersche Zeitung, Westfälische Landeszeitung, Münsterischer Anzeiger and others). Existing file formations were retained, some boxes of loose sheets were either re-formed or reassigned. Loose adjacent posters are now in the poster collection under the signatures SP 962-968. The collection comprises the numbers 1-493 (No. 179 is not documented). Zgg. 32/1942 vom 22.6.1942 Münster, in October 1981 Kiessling The finding aid book was transferred to VERA in 2006.

Included are lectures 1954-1974, lectures, essays and newspaper articles 1940-1996, working materials from edition projects, publications 1937-1999 (specimen copies of monographs, essays, newspaper articles), sermons and sermon concepts 1938-1996, Reviews of own writings as well as reports on lectures and events, Separata with dedications, biographical documents (1917-1997), literary (1973-1995), general correspondence as well as family correspondence, Varia. Not recorded: Letters of the wife and the children, agendas and calendars without personal notes, invoices and payment receipts of all kinds, accounts and receipts of house and flat property and holiday flat, card catalogue of the own library comprising several thousand volumes, card catalogue of the own pictures and engravings, slides and directory of the private slides, audio cassettes of sermons and church services, brochures, maps and art guides of journeys, newspaper cuttings on different topics, the entire library and other collections.

Built in 1890 and sold in 1917, see also RMG 1.240; correspondence concerning education and upbringing of children, administration, behaviour of teachers; land deeds, cadastre extract; newspaper articles: The Johanneum in Moers, 1917; index of the missionary sons educated in Moers, 1928