© Hanover City Library
Left: Salomon Wolf, ca. 1941 (Israel State Archives, Government of Palestine, Dpt. of Immigration, 6871/42 – מ ). Right: stamp SALOMON WOLF / COLOGNE. Found in: Wilhelm Ostwald: Introduction to Chemistry, Stuttgart 1910 (StB Hannover, Sign. 9/1720)
Since 2021, the ownership stamp of “SALOMON WOLF / KÖLN” has been discovered in six books. The Hanover City Library had bought them in August 1944 from the Bonn antiquarian bookshop Ludwig Röhrscheid. After a long search, the trail led to the rightful owner of the book: the teacher Dr. Salomon Wolf (1906-1986).
Was Salomon Wolf persecuted during the Nazi era? How did his books end up in the Röhrscheid antiquarian bookshop? And how could the stamp found in the city library be attributed to Wolf?
These questions are explored in a cabinet exhibition that is currently on display in the foyer of the Hanover City Library.
The exhibition on Salomon Wolf is the second part of the series ‘Searching for Traces’, in which an open case of Nazi looted goods from the city library’s provenance research is presented in loose sequence.
© Hanover City Library
Exhibition
Searching for clues: News from research into Nazi looted art
# 1 Dr. med. Joseph Loewenstein
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Further information on the City Library’s Nazi provenance research:
www.hannover.de/stadtbibliothek/Provenienzforschung
Supported by:
© German Lost Cultural Property Foundation
German Lost Cultural Property Centre
