The Biographical series is composed of photographs and memorabilia mounted on pages in approximately chronological order. The pages document Widenmann's travels, attendance at conferences, and informal interactions with colleagues and friends, and also include a smaller amount of material on Loeb, Rhoades & Company and United States financial conditions. The photographs include formal group photographs, head shots and candid shots of event attendees at receptions, images of tourist attractions, and images of individuals at parties and on the beach. Some photographs include captions with the names of the individuals in the images. The memorabilia include clippings of articles and political cartoons, event programs, travel itineraries, invitations to events, Widenmann's name tags, and travel brochures. In addition, there are three bound volumes with similar content.
Arranged chronologically.
1948, 1948
1952, 1952
1953, 1953
1954, 1954
1955, 1955
1956, 1956
1957, 1957
1958, 1958
1959, 1959
1960, 1960
1961 March-May, 1961 March-May
1961 May-December, 1961 May-December
1962, 1962
1963, 1963
1964, 1964
1965, 1965
1966, 1966
1967 January-May, 1967 January-May
1968, 1968
1969, 1969
1970, 1970
1971, 1971
1972, 1972
1973, 1973
1974, 1974
1975-1977, 1975-1977
undated, undated
Series 2: Correspondence, 1921-1976
The Correspondence series contains Widenmann's professional correspondence with bankers, businessmen, government officials, and academics. The majority of the letters are in response to Widenmann's requests for copies of articles or speeches, often with the requested item and sometimes with Widenmann's comments on the item. The series also includes correspondence between Widenmann and United States government officials regarding his views of financial policies, Widenmann writing colleagues about the state of the stock market and United States financial conditions more generally, correspondence in relation to his involvement with professional organizations and conferences, and invitations to events.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent or subject.
General, 1936-1974
Abs, Hermann J, 1962
Agfa Ansco Corporation, 1936
Anderson, Robb, 1966
Aschinger, E, 1969-1971
Bache, Harold L, 1968
Balance of Payments, 1959-1968
Banque Nationale Suisse, 1972
Barbour, W. Warren, 1941
Barnard, Abner I., Reverend, 1935
Basch, Hermann, 1937
Bendix, Ludwig, 1928-1929
Bennet, Jack F, 1972
Berliner Privatbankfirmen, 1928
Bernhard, George, 1929
Bernstein, T. F, 1937
Bolton, George, 1960-1964
Bond Interest Bill, 1959
Braden, Spruille, 1953
Brayman, Harold, 1969
Brimmer, Andrew, 1972
Brouwer, E. A, 1973-1976
Brown, J. Douglas, 1954
Buell, Raymond Leslie, 1936
Bunn, Edward B, 1958
Burgess, W. Randolph, 1954
Burns, Arthur F, 1969
Byrd, Harry Ford, 1942
Capital Gains Tax, 1945-1956
Carlson, Frank, 1942
Chapmann, John M, 1937
Coker, Elizabeth B, 1962
Colean, Miles L, 1974
Columbia University, 1936
Commodity Club of New York, 1941
Commodity Exchange, Inc, 1934
Conklin, George T., Jr, 1972
Cortney, Philip, 1957-1963
Cumberland, William W, 1953
Daane, J. Dewey, 1976
d'Almeida, A, 1935
Davenport, John, 1969
Dawson, Oliver, 1966
DeNunzio, Ralph, 1972
Dewey, Thomas E, 1956
Dixon, Palmer, 1940
Dodds, Harold W, 1950-1954
Dollar, 1961
Dulles, John Foster, 1954
Eccles, Marriner S, 1945
Economic Predictions, 1973
Egbert, George W, 1937
Eisenhower, Dwight D, 1960
Englehardt, George W, 1973
Etherington, Edwin D, 1970
Eurodollars, 1964
Falantiere, Lewis, 1933
Faulkner, Bayard H, 1939-1947
Foreign Aid, 1959
Fowler, Henry H, 1968
Freundt, A, 1929
Froy, Henri L, 1973
Fulbright Committee, 1955
Gaitskell, Hugh, 1956
Gardner, Walter E, 1961
German Mark, 1969
Gilbert, Milton, 1968
Gold, 1933-1960
Gold, 1961-1971
Goldsmith, Raymond W, 1952
Gould, Edson, 1962
Govindram, Seksaris, 1934
Grede, William J, 1953
Hamburg Stock Exchange, 1958
Hamm, Wilfried, 1975-1976
Hauge, Gabriel, 1958
Hawkes, Albert W, 1943-1946
Holtrop, M. W, 1966
Hoover, Herbert C, 1930
Humphrey, George, 1953
Humphrey, Hubert H, 1968
Inflation, 1932, 1951-1963
Interest Equalization Tax, 1964
International Finance, 1964
Johnson, Hugh S, 1935
Johnson, Norris O, 1961
Journal of Commerce, 1967
Juda, Felix M, 1963
Kean, Robert W, 1941-1946
Kemmerer, Donald L, 1970-1974
Kemmerer, Edwin Walter, 1933-1946
Kempner, Thomas L, 1964
Kennedy, John F, 1963
Kiplinger Agency, 1934
Kirbyshire, John A, 1966
Landon, Alfred M, 1940-1944
Lanston, Aubrey G, 1955-1960
Lee, Higginson & Company, 1931-1932
Lester, Richard A, 1954
Loeb, Carl M, 1945
Loeb, Carl M. & Company, 1935-1938
Loeb, Henry A, 1943-1944
Loeb, John L, 1976
Loeb, Rhodes & Company, 1940-1976
Lummis, Leslie A, 1972
MacPherson, Ian, 1952-1957
Martin, Joseph, 1939
Martin, William McChesney, Jr, 1960
Mauritzen, Kai, 1936-1937
McGraw, James H., Jr, 1947
Michel, C. W, 1962
Monasterio, Juan O, 1972
Money and Credit, 1961
Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, 1967
Morton, W. F, 1971
Munn, Glen G, 1943-1959
Mutual Security Agency, 1952-1953
Mutual Security Agency, 1953
Nathan, Otto, 1931-1932
Newsweek, 1947
New York Stock Exchange, 1942-1959
Nixon, Richard M, 1959-1960
Nye, Joseph S, 1968
Overby, Andrew N, 1960-1971
Patman, Wright Report, 1952
Paulsen, G. H. Christian, 1935
Pension Funds, 1965
Per Jacobsson Foundation, 1970
Post, Hans-Joachim, 1967-1971
Post, Hans-Joachim, 1972-1976
Princeton University, 1921-1976
Public Debt, 1959
Recession, 1958
Reichs-Kundit Gesellschaft, 1933
Reischauer, Edwin O, 1969
Ribicoff, Abe, 1972
Riefler, Winfield, 1960-1974
Robertson, Walter F, 1953
Robey, Ralph, 1947-1956
Roosa, Robert V, 1973
Rossant, Al J, 1962
Sachs, Alexander, 1955-1956, 1973
Samuel, J. A, 1960
Schaeffer, Berhard K, 1959
Schönemann, F, 1923-1937
Schram, Emil, 1945
Schreder, Harold X, 1967
Shields, Murray, 1964-1968
Silver, 1934-1939, 1957-1972
Simon, William E, 1975
Smith, Bradford B, 1966-1971
Smith, H. Alexander, 1946-1952
Sommer, R. L, 1962
Spahr, Walter E, 1957-1961
Special Credit Study Group, 1953
Stahl, Charles R, 1958
Stamp, Maxwell, 1956
Stark, Bud, 1935-1936
Stassen, Harold, 1954
Stockholm's Enskilda Bank, 1969
Swiss Bank Corporation, 1972
Thomas, Woodlief, 1935-1936
Treasury Department, 1934-1958
Triffin, Robert, 1962
Tucker, Rufus A, 1945
Tyson, R. C, 1968
United Kingdom, 1956
United States Patent Office, 1935
Van Den Toorn, William A, 1967-1971
Vogel, Kurt M, 1937
Volcker, Paul A., Jr, 1973
Von Tucker, Freiherr, 1968
Wagener, Heinz-Adolf, 1970
Waldeman, N. E, 1965-1970
Wallich, Henry C, 1965
Warburg, Eric M, 1973-1976
Wednesday Lunch Group, 1964-1974
Weiss, George, 1953
Wentholt, W, 1954-1960
Werdman, Don, 1963
Wheeler, Burton K, 1943
Widenmann, Dorothy, 1948
Widenmann, Elizabeth A, 1948
Widenmann, Carl, 1957
Wilson, Julie, 1940
Wormser, Felix Edgar, 1971
Wright, Wilson, 1955-1971
Wriston, Walter, 1970
Young, John Parke, 1967-1972
Young, Ralph A, 1962-1972
Youngdahl, C. R, 1965
Youngman, William S, 1956
Zijlstra, J, 1970
Series 3: Topical Files, 1921-1976
The Topical Files series contains copies of articles, speeches, testimonies before Congress, press releases, memoranda, and publications collected by Widenmann on a variety of subjects. The subjects include monetary, financial, and economic conditions in the United States and internationally, United States government financial and economic policies, gold, the stock market, business, and reports on the performance of individual businesses. The materials were produced by banks and businesses, professional organizations, scholars, and businessmen.
Arranged alphabetically by subject, author, or document type.
Agriculture, 1959-1968
Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1974
Balance of Payments, 1936, 1959-1974
Bendix, Ludwig Company, 1928
Capital Gains Tax, 1942
Club 21, 1968
Communism in Latin America, 1958
Cortney, Philip, 1958-1964
Daane, J. Dewey, 1964-1971
Dollar, 1959
Eccles, Marriner S, 1947-1948
Erpf, Armand G, 1956-1969
Eurodollars, 1967-1970
European Payments Union, 1953
Federal Reserve, "Board of Governors Quarterly Supplement to Review of Periodicals", 1936-1937
Foreign Aid, 1965-1968
Frankfurt Stock Exchange, 1957
Germany, 1959
Gold, 1924-1955
Gold, 1956-1974
Gold, 1976
Group of Ten, 1964-1966
Hauge, Gabriel, 1959
Hayes, Alfred, 1957-1971
Income Tax, 1963
Inflation, 1936-1973
Interest Rates, 1964
International Finance, 1959-1965
International Liquidity, 1963-1965
International Monetary Fund and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1952-1970
International Monetary Fund and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1971
International Monetary Reform, 1974
International Monetary System, 1961-1973
Jacobsson, Per, 1963
Johnson, Lyndon B, 1965
Johnson, Norris O, 1959-1965
Kemmerer, Edwin Walter, 1934-1943
Keynes, John Maynard, 1937
Krock, Arthur, 1940
Lanston, Aubrey G, 1944-1948
Liquidity, 1965
Loeb, Carl M, 1936
Loeb, Carl M. & Company, 1933-1935
Loeb, Rhodes & Company, 1937-1976
Martin, William McChesney, Jr, 1956-1968
Mitchell, George W, 1964-1965
Monetary Crisis of 1971, 1972
Monetary Reform, 1947
Mutual Security Agency, 1953
New Deal Analysis, 1936
New York Stock Exchange, 1972
News Clippings, 1935-1975
1935, 1935
1936-1963, 1936-1963
1964-1972, 1964-1972
1973-1975, 1973-1975
Patman, Wright, 1964
Printed Materials, 1921-1974
1921-1934, 1921-1934
1935-1941, 1935-1941
1942-1958, 1942-1958
1959-1965, 1959-1965
1965-1969, 1965-1969
1969-1974, undated, 1969-1974
Riefler, Winfield W, 1958-1959
Robey, Ralph, undated
Roosa, Robert V, 1961-1973
Rueff, Jacques, 1961
Sachs, Alexander, 1937
Sauliner, Raymond J, 1959-1965, 1976
Shields, Murray, 1968
Silver, 1934
Silver and Gold, 1932
Slichter, Sumner H, 1957-1959
Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1944
Smith, Bradford B, 1953-1964
Soviet Union, 1959-1961
Special Drawing Rights, 1972
Sproul, Allen, 1947-1956
Stamp, Maxwell, 1966
Steel Crisis, 1952
Sterling, 1968
Thomas, Woodlilef, 1956-1960
Trade, 1953-1962
Treasury Department, 1959-1972
Truslow, Francis Q, 1951
United Kingdom, 1953
United States Credit Policy, 1964
United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, "The Middle East: Between War and Peace", 1974
Volcker, Paul A., Jr, 1969
Warren, R. B, 1947-1948
Wentholt, W, 1958-1960
World Bank, 1976
World Trade, 1955
Wright, Wilson, 1955-1957
Wright, Wilson, 1958-1964
Writings, 1929-1974
1929-1951, 1929-1951
1952-1964, 1952-1964
1964-1968, 1964-1968
1969-1974, 1969-1974
Young, Ralph A, 1959-1963
Series 4: Writings, 1915-1976
The Writings series includes Widenmann's writings for use within Loeb, Rhoades & Company and drafts of articles and speeches presented to the financial, economic, and business communities. The subjects of his writings include monetary problems, gold and the gold standard, the United States economy, and the money and stock markets. The reports for Loeb, Rhoades & Company include analysis of these same subjects, as well as discussions about the performance and strategies of the company. The series also includes a few reports written while Widenmann was an executive at Ludwig Bendix's firm, and a few of Widenmann's student papers.
Arranged chronologically.
"Cotton Futures", 1917
Notebook, 1920
Ludwig Bendix Company Report, 1927
Ludwig Bendix Company Reports, 1929
"Wither are We Going", 1929
"Bond Prices and Easy Money", 1930
Ludwig Bendix Company Reports, 1930
Reports, 1930
"The German Crisis", 1931
Ludwig Bendix Company Reports, 1931
Notes, 1931
"Stillhaltung Agreement", 1931
Reports, 1932 January
"Germany in March 1932", 1932 March
Reports, 1933 February
Report, 1933 October 16
"Cotton", 1933 December 30
"Is it Fun to be Fooled?", 1933
Outlook for 1935, 1934 December 27
Advertising Club Speech, 1934
Notes, 1934
Reports, 1935 January
Memorandum on Silver, 1935 March 26
Reports, 1935 April
"The Building Outlook", 1935 May 21
Reports, 1935 May
Reports, 1935 November
"TVA Case", 1935 December 20
Notes and Reports, 1935
"Washington Impressions", 1935
Notes, 1936 January
Portfolios, 1936 January
Notes and Reports, 1936 February
"The French Devaluation", 1936 April
Reports, 1936 April
"The Monetary Outlook", 1936 May 20
Reports, 1936 May
Notes, 1936 September
Notes and Reports, 1936
Notes and Reports, 1937 February
Notes, 1937 April-June
"Labor Movement", 1937 June 22
Reports, 1937 July-September
Notes, 1937 October
Notes, 1937
"Notes on Meeting of the American Statistical and American Economic Association", 1938 January 6
Reports, 1938
Reports, 1941
Reports, 1943 March
Reports, 1943 April
"New Deal Patterns", 1944 December 4
"Notes on Remarks of Mr. E. A. Goldwater, Economist of the Federal Reserve System", 1945 April 4
Reports, 1946 September
Notes, 1946
Gold Speech, 1947 October 27
"Outlook for 1948", 1947
Market Situation, 1948 November 19
Report, 1949 June
"Business Outlook", 1950 March 27
Report, 1950 July
"German Impressions", 1950
Reports, 1950
"Washington Impressions on the Probable Course of Federal Reserve Open Market Policy", 1951 April 26
Reports, 1951 April
"The Business Outlook", 1951 June 11
"Prince Controls", 1951 October 27
Report, 1951
Foreign Policy, 1952 February 14
"Gold", 1952 March 6
Gold Notes, 1952
Mutual Security Agency, 1952
Notes and Reports, 1952
"The Money Market", 1953 March 30
International Trade, 1953 June 22
"The Reduction in Reserve Requirements: The End of a Chapter in Debt Management", 1953 June 26
Draft for Speech, 1953 August 13
"Interest Rates", 1953 December 30
Reports, 1953
"Convertibility", 1954 January 5
"Interest Rates", 1954 January
Memorandum, 1954 April
Notes and Reports, 1954
"The American Public Rediscovers the Stock Market: Temporary Business Peak Ahead?", 1955 January 21
Speech, 1955 March
"The Significance of the Fourth Increase in the Rediscount Rate of 2 1/2%", 1955 November 26
"Monetary Policy", 1955
Notes and Reports, 1955
"The Job is Done", 1956 June 8
Gold, 1956
Notes, 1956
"—Flation", 1957 March 21
"Sputnik", 1957 October 17
Notes and Reports, 1957
"The Pound Sterling", 1957
"The Indian Rope Trick", 1958 July 1
British Pound Sterling, 1958
Notes and Reports, 1958
"The Radcliffe Report", 1958
"Still in Orbit", 1959 June 4
Notes and Reports, 1959
"The Reappraisal", 1960 February 8
Gold, 1960
Riefler, Winfield Speech, 1960
Balance of Payments, 1961
"Business and Politics" Speech, 1961
"1962 – The Year of Decision", 1961
Population Memorandum, 1961
"An Interlude", 1962 March 23
"The Aftermath", 1962 June 12
"Higher Interest Rates in a Recession and How This Would Affect the Stock Market", 1962 July 30
Notes and Reports, 1962
Press Conference of Board of Directors, International Monetary Fund, Tokyo, Japan, 1963 September 7
"Operation Twist", 1963 September 16
Press Conference of Board of Directors, International Monetary Fund, Tokyo, Japan, 1964 September
Notes and Reports, 1964
Notes and Reports, 1965
Notes and Reports, 1966
Economic Problems, 1967
Notes and Reports, 1967
Washington Notes, 1968 March
"Machu Picchu", 1968 April
Notes and Reports, 1968
Speech, Executive Committee, E. I. DuPont deNemours & Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1969 December 1
Notes and Reports, 1969
"Money Market", 1970 January 30
"Sterling", 1970 February 19
"Money Rates", 1970 June 12
Notes and Reports, 1970
"Euro-Dollars", 1971 January 29
Gold, 1971 August 15
Notes and Reports, 1971
"Sterling", 1972 June 19
Notes and Reports, 1972
Notes and Reports, 1973
American Foreign Policy, 1975
Gold Speech Draft, 1976
Notebook, undated
Notes and Reports, undated
- Scope and Contents
Widenmann's papers document his career at Loeb, Rhoades & Company and include his correspondence and writings, topical files, and biographical files. His writings include reports prepared for Loeb, Rhoades & Company. The biographical files document his business travels and participation at conferences.
Please see the series descriptions in the contents list for additional information about individual series.
- Arrangement
The Papers have been arranged in four series:
- Collection Creator Biography:
Widenmann, Hans A.
Hans A. Widenmann (1897-1976) was a stockbroker and economist with expertise in national and international monetary affairs. His successful business career was largely spent at Loeb, Rhoades & Company, and he was also frequently called upon to speak about international finance subjects.
Hans Adolf Karl Widenmann was born on December 15, 1897 in Hamburg, Germany to Adolf and Augusta Widenmann. In 1914, soon after the family relocated to the United States, Widenmann enrolled at Princeton University. He graduated with honors in economics in 1918. He earned his M.A. from Columbia University in 1919 and his M.Sc. from Columbia in 1920. Widenmann married Dorothy Hicks on April 2, 1927. They had a son Robert, who died during infancy, and a daughter Elizabeth Alice. Dorothy Hicks Widenmann died in 1949.
From 1919 to 1920, Widenmann was a member of the staff of the Division of Research and Statistics of the Federal Reserve Board in New York City. He then began his career on Wall Street, working for the Columbia Trust Company in the foreign department from 1920 to 1922 and in Europe from 1922 to 1923. In 1924, while still in Europe, Widenmann assisted Dr. Edwin W. Kemmerer, under whom he had studied economics at Princeton University, in developing the Dawes Plan in Berlin.
Widenmann returned to the United States in 1924, working again for a short time on the staff of the Division of Research and Statistics of the Federal Reserve Board, this time in Washington, D.C. He then returned to Wall Street for the duration of his career. From 1925 to 1930, he was an executive at the firm of Ludwig Bendix, an international banking and investment firm. In 1931, Widenmann joined the staff of Carl M. Loeb & Company, a brokerage firm. The firm later became Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Company, and then Loeb, Rhoades & Company. Widenmann was made a partner in 1940 and became a limited partner in 1971.
Widenmann was active in his field. He served as a lecturer on international exchange and foreign banking systems at the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Banking from 1930 to 1935. He was a member of the Pittsburgh Stock Exchange and the New York Cocoa Exchange, a governor of the Association of Stock Exchange Firms, and a member of the board of arbitration of the New York Stock Exchange. Widenmann was a delegate to and spoke at numerous international financial conferences throughout his career, notably the First Hemispheric Stock Exchange Conference in New York (1947) and subsequent conferences in Santiago, Chile (1948) and Santos, Brazil (1950). He also served as president of the Princeton University Class of 1918 from 1964 to 1976, was a member of the Alumni Council from 1963 to 1976, and served as a member of the advisory council of the Princeton University Art Museum from 1973 to 1976. Widenmann died on November 24, 1976, at the age of 78.
- Acquisition:
This collection was donated by Elizabeth A. Widenmann, the daughter of Hans. A. Widenmann, in December 1982 .
- Appraisal
Duplicate materials were separated from this collection.
- Sponsorship:
These papers were processed with the generous support of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the John Foster and Janet Avery Dulles Fund, and an anonymous foundation.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Adriane Hanson and Christopher Shannon in 2006. Finding aid written by Adriane Hanson in January 2007.
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
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- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
- Credit this material:
Hans A. Widenmann Papers; Public Policy Papers, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/4b29b5996
- Location:
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Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library65 Olden StreetPrinceton, NJ 08540, USA
- Storage Note:
- Mudd Manuscript Library (scamudd): Box 1-60
- Bibliography
The following sources were consulted during the preparation of the biographical note: "Hans A. Widenmann, 78; Partner in Loeb, Rhoades Had a Long Fiscal Career," The New York Times, November 26, 1976. Widenmann, Hans A. K. 1918; Undergraduate Alumni Records, Box 492; University Archives, Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
- Subject Terms:
- Brokers -- United States.
Economics -- 20th century.
Finance -- United States.
International finance.
Monetary policy.
Stock exchanges -- United States. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence
Photographs, Original.
Writings. - Names:
- Loeb, Rhoades & Co
Widenmann, Hans A. - Places:
- United States -- Economic policy -- 20th century.