Memoirs of internee Willi Steiner with accompanying documentation
Date(s): 2000
Creator(s): Steiner, Wilhelm Anton Friedrich Paul
Scope & Content: Typescript transcribed memoirs of Willi Steiner, together with a one page overview of how the memoirs were collated and produced by his children. Willi provides detailed information about his paternal and maternal ancestry, extended family and life in Vienna, Austria. The text concludes in 1938, albeit with comments about later events interspersed within the chronological narrative. Accompanied by photographs, genealogical charts, a copy of an obituary published in 'The Times' and a preface by his brother Franzi (Francis/Franz).
For a fuller biographical profile of the brothers see the description for MS 11882.
Administration / Biographical History: Wilhelm (Willi) Anton Friedrich Paul Steiner, later styled William (Wills) Anthony Frederick Paul Steiner, was born in Vienna, Austria on 16 December 1918. He was the eldest son of Richard (a judge) and Paula (a linguist). Schooled by Benedictine monks at the Schottengymnasium, he went on to read law at the University of Vienna. Concurrently he studied at the Consular Academy which awarded him a Diploma in 1938. This same year he arrived in England as a refugee. After further study, interrupted by six months' internment on the Isle of Man and then mixed with work in a munitions factory and the LSE Library, he was called to the English Bar in Michaelmas Term 1942. During a career spanning nearly fifty years Steiner held several eminent positions as an academic law librarian. He died on 14 May 2003 and was survived by wife Barbara (nee Smith), their son and three daughters.
Language: English
Extent: 276 pages; 1 page
Item name: memoirs; explanatory note
Collection: Manuscript Archive
Level: FONDS
ID number: MS 12001
Record class: Private
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