Contains among other things: Situation in Poznan, West Prussia, East Prussia, Upper Silesia; service conditions with volunteer formations, 1st Jan. 1919; border protection East; foundation of the German People's Council Gdansk, 3rd Jan. 1919; special position of the Bavarian army; appeal of the Reich government for the provision of volunteers, 9th Jan. 1919; German government of the German Reich for the provision of volunteers, 9th Jan. 1919; German government of the German Reich Gdansk, 3rd Jan. 1919. Jan. 1919; formation of voluntary associations, Jan. 10, 1919; situation in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; strikes and demonstrations in the Ruhr area, Jan. 11, 1919; relocation of the Supreme Army Command to the east, division of East Border Guard and subordination 8. Army and General Commands, 11 Jan. 1919; Dissolution of the Oberost Command Authority, 12 Jan. 1919; Miners' strike in Senftenberg, 15 Jan. 1919; Establishment of regulated service operations in barracks, 15 Jan. 1919; Dissolution of the Oberost Command Authority, 12 Jan. 1919; Strike of the miners in Senftenberg, 15 Jan. 1919; Establishment of regulated service operations in barracks, 15 Jan. 1919. 1919; Excerpt from Reich Minister Matthias Erzberger's speech during negotiations on the extension of the armistice on 15 January 1919; Report on Pozna? Uprising, 16 Jan 1919; Resolutions of the members of the Provinziallandtag Ostpreußens 10 Jan 1919. 1919; Strengths of the border troops in the east 20. Jan. 1919; protests of soldiers' councils and protests of officers against provisional regulations; corps order of the commanding general Walther von Lüttwitz for the suppression of the Bremen Räterepublik by Freikorps Gerstenberg, 26. Jan. 1919; Structure of the East Border Guard, Jan. 27, 1919; Regulation on the Dissolution of the Republican Protection Force, Jan. 31, 1919; Mobile General Commands and Divisions in the East Border Guard, Jan. 31, 1919; Call for Volunteer Corps Silesia, Jan. 1919

Biography: Willy Hugo Hellpach (pseudonym Ernst Gystrow) was born on 26 February 1877 in Oels (Silesia) as son of the district court calculator Hugo Hellpach. After studying medicine, psychology and philosophy at the Universities of Greifswald and Leipzig, he received his doctorate (Dr. phil.) from Wilhelm Wundt at the University of Leipzig with his dissertation "Colour perception in indirect vision" and at the University of Heidelberg with his doctorate (Dr. med.) from Franz Nissel on the subject of "Analytical investigations on the psychology of hysteria". He received his psychiatric and neurological training at the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin. Since 1911 he was professor for "Psychology on medical-scientific basis" at the Technical University Karlsruhe, after the end of World War I professor for "General and applied social and people psychology" in Heidelberg. His political career began in 1922 when he was appointed Minister of Culture and Education in Baden. From 1923 to 1925 he was President of the State of Baden, a member of the German Reich Council, and from 1928 to 1930 Member of the Reichstag of the German Democratic Party. In 1942 Hellpach was appointed Director of the Psychological Institute at the University of Heidelberg. Hellpach died on July 6, 1955 in Heidelberg. Holdings: The estate contains personal papers as well as documents from his professional and scientific activities. He was partly ordered by Willy Hellpach himself, partly by his pupils Wilhelm Witte and Monika Oels. In 1972 Wilhelm Witte sold the estate to the General State Archives, in 1975 Hellpach's cousin Hilda Otto supplemented the material mainly with correspondence from the publishing house, photos, medals and the like. Marie Salaba undertook the indexing in 1974, and when she indexed the later accesses in 1995, she maintained the first part'siederung.The following online finding aid was generated in 2006 as a shortened version from the aforementioned finding aids for the Kalliope portal, the central index of autographs in libraries, archives and museums. Categories that are not archive-specific, such as "life document", "letter" or "collection", are predefined by the portal.