Stuttmann, Ferdinand

Date born: 1897

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Date died: 1968

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Director of the art gallery at the Landesmuseum in Hanover, 1937-1962. After the Nazi's rise to power, Stuttmann served as an appraiser for some of the art looted from Jewish collections by various Reich groups, including the infamous Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg. Even after the war, Stuttmann purchased 100 objects from the Doebbeke Collection in 1949, a collection of Nazi-era objects confiscated Jewish collections.

Home Country: Germany

Sources: "Raub und Restitution." [website]. Jüdisches Museum Berlin. http://www.jmberlin.de/raub-und-restitution/en/home.php

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