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Otto R. Hauser Papers, 1860-1972
Creator: Hauser, Otto R., 1886-1972 Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes), 4 tape recordings, 1 film, and 131 photographs
Call Number: Milwaukee Mss CF; PH 3219; Tape 1210A; CA 665
Abstract: Papers of a former Baptist minister and Milwaukee Socialist leader who served as secretary to Mayor Daniel Hoan; primarily including minutes, reports, organizational materials, speeches, photographs, a film, and other papers of American Relief for Germany, an organization which raised money for German relief after World War II; school notebooks, two 1907 diaries, a lengthy recorded autobiography, and other biographical materials; and fragmentary items concerning Socialists, Milwaukee Blacks, Immanuel Baptist Church, and Roger Williams Hospital.
Summary Information
• ... Otto R. Hauser Papers, ...
• ... : Hauser, Otto R., 1886-1972: : ...
Biography/History
• ... Otto Robert Hauser was born in Tubingen, Germany on May 11, 1886. His father, Christian Jakob Hauser, was a teac ...
• ... Otto Robert Hauser was born in Tubingen, Germany on May 11, 1886. His father, Christian Jakob Hauser, was a teacher and young Hauser grew up in a comfortable, middle class environment. He attend ...
• ...n in Tubingen, Germany on May 11, 1886. His father, Christian Jakob Hauser, was a teacher and young Hauser grew up in a comfortable, middle class environment. He attended the Tubingen Gymnasium and in ...
• ...nasium and in 1904 entered the university of Tubingen, where he studied philosophy and law. In 1906 Hauser ended his studies and emigrated to the United States. In Chicago Hauser found employment with ...
• ...philosophy and law. In 1906 Hauser ended his studies and emigrated to the United States. In Chicago Hauser found employment with Marshall Field and Co. and later in a succession of manual labor positi ...
• ...t with Marshall Field and Co. and later in a succession of manual labor positions. At the same time Hauser experienced a spiritual crisis that eventually led him to the Rochester Theological Seminary ...
• ...m to the Rochester Theological Seminary and the University of Chicago Theological Seminary. In 1912 Hauser became minister of a church in Englewood, a poor area of Chicago, where he helped to establis ...
• ...urch and of the Baptists' Roger Williams Hospital and Home for the Aged. In 1916 Hauser joined the Socialist Party, in whose activities he had become increasingly involved. He held ...
• ...ing for Congress, and although he lost, he finished in a respectable second. Between 1932 and 1940, Hauser was secretary to Milwaukee's Socialist mayor, Daniel W. Hoan. After Hoan's defeat in 1940, Ha ...
• ..., Hauser was secretary to Milwaukee's Socialist mayor, Daniel W. Hoan. After Hoan's defeat in 1940, Hauser turned to real estate, joining his brother in forming Hauser Housing Service. ...
• ... W. Hoan. After Hoan's defeat in 1940, Hauser turned to real estate, joining his brother in forming Hauser Housing Service. In 1945 Hauser helped to organize American Relief for Ger ...
• ...d to real estate, joining his brother in forming Hauser Housing Service. In 1945 Hauser helped to organize American Relief for Germany, and he served as its president throughout its ...
• ... of living conditions helped to arouse popular concern for the necessity of rehabilitating Germany. Hauser's efforts enabled American Relief for Germany to send almost $3.5 million in aid. In apprecia ...
• ...he German Federal Republic awarded him the Cross of Merit, First Class in 1956. Hauser continued in the real estate business until his retirement in 1963. He died in Madison on Feb ...
Scope and Content Note
• ...n Madison on February 24, 1972. The Hauser Papers are divided into three sections: family papers, personal papers, and subject files, th ...
• ...n American Relief for Germany, Inc. The FAMILY PAPERS consist of Christian Jakob Hauser's Franco-Prussian war diary and military service book and a genealogical chart covering four ...
• ...autobiographical reminiscence. This oral history, which provides the most comprehensive coverage of Hauser's life and varied activities, includes many details concerning his early education, his life ...
• ...tes, correspondence with government and relief officials in both the United States and Germany, and Hauser's prepared speeches, reports, and notes of ARG activities and achievements. Also included her ...
• ... Immanuel Baptist Church and the Roger Williams Hospital, a few speeches, and pamphlets dating from Hauser's two political campaigns, his secretaryship to Mayor Hoan, and his opposition to war and fac ...
Administrative/Restriction Information
• ...trative/Restriction Information Presented by Otto R. Hauser, Wauwatosa, Wis., 1966, and O. Robert Hauser, Milwaukee, Wis., 1968-1976. ...
• ... Presented by Otto R. Hauser, Wauwatosa, Wis., 1966, and O. Robert Hauser, Milwaukee, Wis., 1968-1976. M66-1, M66-7-1, M75-38, M76-85 ...
Contents List
Hauser Family Papers, 1870-1871, n.d.
series
• ... 1 Hauser Family Papers, 1870-1871, n.d.: ... |