Collection of Source Works on National Socialism / Völkische Literatur

Alexander von Bormann (1936-2009) was born on June 7, 1936 in Menzlin in Western Pomerania. He studied German, Philosophy and Classical Philology in Tübingen, Göttingen and Berlin. Since 1971 he was a professor of modern German Literature at the University of Amsterdam and a member of the presidium of the Erich Fried Society, as well as the administrator of Fried's estate. In addition to 20th-century literature, his fields of interest were Romantic Studies and poetry. He died in Worpswede on September 16, 2009.

In 2002, von Bormann gave the Moses Mendelssohn Center a collection of approximately 1,000 volumes of völkisch and fascist literature in epics, drama and poetry, as well as original documents of Nazi ideology and research literature on National Socialism.