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Himmler, an employee of the District Office (
Bezirksamt
), was also registered as living at this address. In 1900 and 1901 the family lived on the second floor of Hildegardstrasse 6, from the 1 April 1901 on the third floor of Liebigstrasse 5, k (
Adressbuch für München 1900
und 1901
). Cf. Smith,
Himmler
, 39.
     
18 . Smith,
Himmler
, 50.
     
19 . The correspondence is contained in BAK, NL 1126/1. Katrin Himmler describes the visits in
Brüder Himmler
, 39, based on the manuscript of the memoirs of her great-uncle, Gerhard Himmler, which are in the possession of the family.
     
20 . On the cultural changes during the period of the Prince Regent and on the decline of Munich as an artistic centre see above all David Clay Large,
Hitlers München. Aufstieg und Fall der Hauptstadt der Bewegung
(Munich, 1998), as well as the collection of essays edited by Friedrich Prinz and Marita Krauss,
München—Musenstadt mit Hinterhöfen. Die Prinzregentenzeit 1886–1912
(Munich, 1988), in particular Roger Engelmann, ‘Öffentlichkeit und Zensur. Literatur und Theater als Provokation’, 267–76. For a general account of this period see Karl Möckl,
Die Prinzregentenzeit. Gesellschaft und Politik während der Ära des Prinzregenten Luitpold in Bayern
(Munich and Vienna, 1972).
     
21 .
Blätter für das Gymnasial-Schulwesen
, 38, 9/10 (September–October 1902), 665.
     
22 . BAK, NL 1126/1, correspondence between Gebhard Himmler and the family doctor, Quernstedt (15 July 1903), as well as with Prince Heinrich (the prince’s enquiry about Heinrich’s state of health, 25 June 1903, and Himmler’s replies of 30 August and 20 December 1903); Smith,
Himmler
, 40 ff.
     
23 .
Blätter für das Gymnasial-Schulwesen
, 40, 9/10 (September–October 1904), 684;
Adressbuch für München 1905
; see Smith,
Himmler
, 42.
     
24 . Smith,
Himmler
, 42 f.; BAK, NL 1126/1, School reports. Himmler’s father mentions here five different occasions when Gebhard was ill during this year, which led to 147 days off school.
     
25 . See in particular the reflections on this in Himmler,
Brüder Himmler
, 66 f., BAK, NL 1126/1, Schulnotizen.
     
26 . BAK, NL 1126/1, Schulnotizen.
     
27 . Smith,
Himmler
, 44 f.
     
28 . See the holiday diaries for 1910 und 1911 (Lenggries), 1912 (Lindau), and 1913 (Brixlegg) in Nachlass Himmler, BAK, NL 1126/6.
     
29 . TB, 1911, Landaufenthalt in Lenggries; cf. Smith,
Himmler
, 44 ff.
     
30 . Smith,
Himmler
, 51.
     
31 . BAK, NL 1126/1, Schulnotizen.
     
32 . George W. F. Hallgarten, ‘Mein Mitschüler Heinrich Himmler’, in
Germanica Judaica
, 1/2 (1960–1), 4–7.
     
33 . Smith,
Himmler
, 52; Himmler,
Brüder Himmler
, 49.
     
34 . BAB, NS 19/3667. On Zipperer see Smith,
Himmler
, 53 f.
     
35 . Falk Zipperer, ‘Eschwege. Eine siedlungs- und verfassungsgeschichtliche Untersuchung’, in
Festgabe für Heinrich Himmler
(Darmstadt, 1941), 215–92. Zipperer’s dissertation, which appeared in a series of the SS academic organization, Ahnenerbe, was concerned with the customs of Upper Bavaria:
Das Haberfeldtreiben. Seine Geschichte und seine Bedeutung
(Weimar, 1938); see also BAB, BDC, SS-O Zipperer.
     
36 . BAB, NS 19/3535.
     
37 . Alfons Beckenbauer, ‘Eine Landshuter Jugendfreundschaft und ihre Verwick-lung in die NS-Politik. Der Arzt Dr. Karl Gebhardt und der Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler’, in
Verhandlungen des Historischen Vereins für Niederbayern
, 100 (1974), 5–22.
     
38 . Smith,
Himmler
, 48.
     
39 . Alfons Beckenbauer, ‘Musterschüler und Massenmörder. Heinrich Himmlers Landshuter Jugendjahre’, in
Verhandlungen des Historischen Vereins für Niederbayern
, 95 (1969), 93–106.
     
40 . TB, 28 July 1915.
     
41 . TB, 4 September 1915.
     
42 . TB, 16 February 1915.
     
43 . TB, 29 July1915.
     
44 . On the war youth generation see in particular: Ulrich Herbert,
Best. Biographische Studien über Radikalismus, Weltanschauung und Vernunft, 1903–1989
(Bonn, 1996), 42 ff. Herbert believes that