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The term Stiftung roughly translates to a non-profit or charitable foundation, and the Smidt Foundation is a charitable foundation associated with the Smidt family. According to information found on a German Web site listing this and other Stiftungs, the primary purposes of the Smidt-Stiftung are: a) the promotion of the training of young persons b) the support of needy descendants of the family, and c) promotion of the reputation of the family Smidt. The images below were scanned from a reduced copy of the photocopied Smidt-Stiftung document that was given to me by my grandmother, Jutta GUMPERT SMIDT. Whether Arnold Smidt owned the original document from which the photocopy was made so many years ago is not known. Copied on nineteen 11"x17" sheets of paper, the original document appears to measure 13" x 9 3/4" with a four pages (2, 2a, 9, and 9a) that fold out to a larger size that are not yet adequately reduced and scanned. Although the pages could have been cropped to better emphasize the text, the scanned images are intended to preserve some of the visual and contextual quality of the document itself. Higher resolution images are available by tapping on the images below and again on the images within the individual pages. Finally, I am deeply grateful to Don Watson for the generous translation he provided, which unlocked this document and helped make it accessible to me and others.
Posted March 19, 2006 Updated July 16, 2006 |
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