| Description | Correspondence relating to the Orden Pour le Merite fur Wissenschaften and Kunste (Order of merit for the sciences and art), a federal civilian award limited to no more than 30 Germans and 30 Foreigners at one time. Papers are catalogued at KATZ/G/74-83.
Contents marked 'pour le merite III'. Circulars from the order secretariat re meeting minutes and programmes, member contact lists, brief historical information on the order (in English and German). Also letters sending best wishes to Katz when he was unable to attend meetings, signed by other members of the order, as well as congratulatory correspondence and greeting cards on the occasion of Katz's 85th birthday. All in German. |