Karl W. Bümming: Key figure in movement of looted works of art between Germany and Switzerland.

"Key figure in movement of looted works of art between Germany and Switzerland."

Question for provenance researchers: Who was Karl W. Bümming?

ALIU CIR 4

(14) C. W. Bümming (Darmstadt)

German representative of FISCHER of Lucerne. HABERSTOCK exchanged pictures with FISCHER through him. BÜMMING was the most important of WOLFFHARDT's agents in Switzerland. (For details, see Chapter V, Section F, and Attachments 71-A and 71-B.)

VOSS bought directly from him a Zumbusch Boy in a Sweater (#3551), which reached Munich on 5 July 1944.

VOSS thinks BÜMMING is now at Erbach (Sienwald)

-ALIU CIR 4

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Chapter V Section F

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Report Type: 

Consolidated Interrogation Reports (CIR)

Report Number: 

4

Report Name: 

Linz: Hitler's Museum And Library

Conflict Period: 

World War II

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WWII OSS Art Looting Investigation Reports

Publication Title: 

OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit Reports, 1945-46

Content Source:

The National Archives

Publication Number: 

M1782

Content Source: 

NARA

Content Partner: 

NARA

Source Publication Year: 

2001

Language: 

English, German

Country: 

Germany, United States

Footnote Job: 

09-017

Footnote Publication Year: 

2009

Record Group: 

RG 239

Roll: 

M1782_10F1

Buemming, Karl W. Erbach (Odenwald). Bookseller and antique dealer in Darmstadt. Chief representative in Germany for Fischer. An important intermediary in Hofer-Fischer exchanges, as well as many of Wolff-Hardt’s transactions for the Linz Library. Travelled frequently to Switzerland during the war. Key figure in movement of looted works of art between Germany and Switzerland.

- ALIU Final Report

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