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Abels Brothers, Hermann

Cologne, Komoedienstrasse 26

Dealers

Specialists in 16th to 19th century painting and graphic arts

Active in Paris

In touch with Wuester, who was advised on purchases for Ribbentrop

Bammann, Hans

Dusseldorf, Blumenstrasse 11

Dealer, drafted into the army in 1942 and transferred to the ERR in Paris in December 1943 at the request of Lohse and Wuester

Believed to have acted as agent for art purchases in France for museums of Dusseldorf, Cologne, Aachen and Bonn

Contact of Rochlitz and Manteau

Introduced Lohse to important German museum directors and dealers

Blot

Paris

Dealer, dealt with Wuester

Breker, Prof Arno

Starnberg (Buchhof uber Pocha), Bavaria

Celebrated Nazi sculptor, often in Paris during the war

Took part in arranging tour of French artists through Germany

Active as buyer

Advised Goering through Bunjes

In touch with Wuester, Adrion, Fabre, Jansen and other French dealers

Cailleux, Paul

Paris, 136 rue du Fbg St Honore

Dealer in contact with Rochlitz, Wuester, Frau Dietrich, Haberstock

Knew Lohse, who claims to have freed his wife from a concentration camp

Authority on 18th century French art

President of the Art Dealers Association, Paris

Cloots, F G

Paris, 14 rue de l’Abbaye

Small dealer specialising in 17th century Dutch painting

In contact with Wuester and Hofer

Husband of Alice Manteau

Haucke, Cesar Monge de

Paris, 14 rue du Cherche-Midi

Dealer active in Paris and New York before the war

Active in Paris during the occupation; in contact with Wuester, Haberstock and Hofer; documentary evidence in Unit files

Trevise, Duc de

Paris

Pre-war sponsor and friend of Rochlitz and Wuester

Gairac, Georges

Paris, 17 rue de Seine

French art dealer who sold to Wuester and Bornheim

Gerard, Raphael Louis Felix

Paris, 4 ave de Messine

Dealt in confiscated pictures; main source of supply to Wuester and other German buyers

Indicted by French Government (Seine Tribunal, Judge Frapier)

Goepel, Dr Erhard

Leipzig, Stieghtstrasse 76

Official Linz agent and buyer in Holland under Posse and Voss

Bought extensively in Holland and also travelled frequently in Belgium and France

Negotiated the forced sale of the Schloss Collection in Paris

Chief contacts: Vitale Bloch (Holland), Wuester, Wandl and Holzapfel (Paris)

Kalebjian, Irene

Paris, 52 bis ave d’Iena

Schenker documents indicate sales to German buyers

One of Wuester’s chief sources

Knothe, Dr

Secretary of the German Embassy, Paris and reported to have worked with Wuester on art matters for von Ribbentrop and possibly Goebbels

Kuetgens, Dr Felix

Aachen, Heinrichsallee 18

Member of Kunstschutz, Paris

Mentioned as also in charge of Kunstschutz in Serbia and Greece

Assisted by Wuester in art purchases in Paris

Leegenhoek, M O

Paris, 1 rue de Rennes/230 blvd Raspail

Belgian national

Prominent restorer and subsequent dealer who sold extensively to Hofer, Lohse, Wendland, Wuester, Dietrich, Haberstock, Miedl, Goepel and the great majority of important German purchasers

Formerly associated with Lagrand, and connected with van der Veken and Renders in Belgium

Believed still to be in Paris

Possibly active in Wendland’s behalf

Loewenisch, Albert

Cologne Paris, 8 ave Victor Massel

Purchasing agent for the Gauleitung Dusseldorf-Koln-Aachen-Bonn, and one of the official representatives of German museums in France

Contact of Hermssen, Wuester, Weinmueller and Lange

Partner of Toulinot and agent for Bornheim

Mandl, Victor

Paris, 9 rue du Boetie

German refugee dealer, formerly active in Berlin

Highly important figure in German art purchases in Paris

Close contact of Wendland, Dietrich, Voss, Goepel, Muehlmann, Lohse, Loebl, Perdoux, Birtschansky and Wuester

Indicted by French Government for collaborationist activity

May, Frau Wismer

Zurich, Seefeldstrasse 90

Colleague of Wuester in the art section of the German Embassy, Paris

Ardent Nazi and well connected in high Party circles

Considered harmless by a British art looting investigation officer

Mohnen, Wilhelm Jacob

German national

Captured in Rome, 5 February 1945, after taking refuge in the Vatican

Minor Embassy official and espionage agent

Attached informally 1941-43 to the staff of Wuester in Paris

Some activity as intermediary in German art purchases and looting

Montag, Charles

Sevres Meudon Val Fleury, 72 rue de Paris

Swiss; naturalised French

Artist and dealer

Strongly implicated in German activity in Paris

Associate of Dequoy

Close contact of Wuester and Wendland

Muthmann, Dr

Director of Museum of Krefeld

In contact with Wuester, Paul Cailleux, Dr Kurt Martin and Dr Hopp

Pfannstiel, Arthur

Paris

German painter and dealer, resident in Paris before the war

Member of staff of ERR, Bordeaux and of GIS

Friend of von Behr, for whom he is said to have acted as an informer

In touch with Wuester

Believed under indictment for espionage

Rademacher, Dr Bernard

Bonn

Assistant at the Landesmuseum, Bonn

Agent for art purchases in France

Dealt with Leegenhoek, Postma and Rochlitz

In touch with Wuester and Plietzsch

Raeber, Dr Willi

Basle, St Albans Anlage 68

Prominent art dealer

Vice president of the Swiss syndicate of art dealers and its most active member

Involved in various looted art transactions

Possessed certain paintings on the Allied List

Contact of Hofer and Wuester

Renand, Georges

Paris, 30 quai de Bethune

Sold to Ribbentrop through Wuester

Schenker documents indicate sales to German buyers

Schmit, Jean

Paris, 22 rue de Charonne

Important antique dealer and decorating concern

Dealt with Bornheim, Angerer, Haberstock and other Germans brought to him by Wuester

Schenker documents indicate sales to German buyers

Schoeller, Andre

Paris, 13 rue de Teheran

Well known expert in French 19th century painting

President of the Art Editors Syndicate and appraiser for the Hotel Drouot

Appraised paintings confiscated by the ERR

Sold extensively to Wuester, Brueschwiller and Lohse

Possibly involved in the Schloss Collection confiscation, as informer

Toulinot (Toulino)

Paris, 8 ave Victor Massel

Small dealer

Partner of Loewenisch

Occasionally agent for Bornheim

In contact with Wuester and Hofer

Trotti, Count Rene Avogli

Paris, 1/88 rue de Grenelle

Well known art dealer of Italian birth; in touch with many German art agents during the war, particularly Wuester, an old friend

Also did business with Haberstock

Indicted by French Government (Seine Tribunal, Judge Frapier)

von Waldthausen

In charge of interior decoration of the German Embassy, Paris, 1940

Assisted by Wuester, 1942

Wendland, Dr Hans

Versoix/Geneva

German national

Art dealer, resident alternately in France, Switzerland, Italy and Germany since World War I

Partner of Reber until about 1930

Probably the most important individual engaged in quasi-official looted art transactions in France, Germany and Switzerland in World War II

Acted as intermediary between Hofer and Fischer, and as Fischer’s chief purchasing agent

Wuester, Adolf

Bernau, Bavaria Bonn Schloesel

Painter and amateur dealer, long-time pre-war resident of Paris

Chief agent in France for acquisition of works of art for Ribbentrop

Intimate contacts with von Behr and Lohse

Acted as expert for ERR on French 19th century painting

Appointed art adviser to the German Embassy on 16 July 1942, with the rank of Consul