Otto Vollbehr

Otto Heinrich Friedrich Vollbehr (April 24, 1869-May 18, 1946) was a German chemist, book collector, and Nazi propagandist.

[3] In 1897, he travelled to San Francisco, where he was described as "a noted pharmacist"[4] Here Vollbehr claimed to have met Adolph Sutro, who advised him on building a rare book collection.

[8] As a result of these sales to Huntington and the Library of Congress, Vollbehr has been described as "the most important source of fifteenth-century books now in America".

[11] (Perlstein eventually sold the books to Gimbel Brothers department store, for a fraction of their original price).

[13] The hearings revealed that Vollbehr had spent most of the money from the Library of Congress on Nazi and anti-Semitic propaganda and he was accused by John W. McCormack of attempting "to incite American against American"[14] In 1940, Burton Rascoe published an article in the Saturday Review titled "Uncle Sam Has a Book", criticizing the Library's purchase of the incunabula collection because of Vollbehr's work as a propagandist.