Winfried Maier Collection

Winfried Maier is a German fan who first met Louis in Berlin in 1959 and became his friend, exchanging correspondence with the trumpeter and spending time with him during his future trips to German. Maier spent the following decades collecting materials related to all of Armstrong’s German tours from 1952-1965 and donated his entire collection on the occasion of his 80th birthday in 2015. Search the digital collections here.