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Ernest G. Liebold (March 16, 1884 – March 4, 1956) was the business representative and personal secretary of Henry Ford. A fervent antisemite, he took an active part in the antisemitic campaign conducted by the industrialist's weekly newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, from 1920 to 1927.
Summary. Ernest Liebold served as Henry Ford's executive secretary from 1913 to 1933. He administered nearly all of Mr. Ford's personal business outside of Ford Motor Company. Liebold handled Mr. Ford's correspondence, paid his bills, and managed many of his special projects.
The papers are comprised of copied documents that Liebold offered the Ford Motor Company Archives after he was interviewed by Ford Archives staff as part of an oral history program conducted in the 1950s. The only original material in the collection are bank books dated 1918-1927 which Liebold kept as treasurer of the Dearborn Publishing Company.
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In 1918, Ford’s private secretary Ernest G. Liebold bought the Independent from Woodruff for the Dearborn Publishing Company, of which Ford was president. The Independent became the official organ of the Ford Motor Company.
Ernest G. Liebold was interviewed in 1951 by Ford Archives staff member Owen Bombard as part of the Archives' oral history program. At that time he permitted copies to be made of several groups of his personal papers dating from 1906 through 1951. Other papers were offered but not copied.
Sep 20, 2020 · Between 1920 and 1927, Ford and his aide Ernest G. Liebold published The Dearborn Independent, a newspaper that they used principally to expound anti-Semitic views and conspiracy theories; many of Ford’s writings in that paper were published in Germany as a four-volume collection entitled The International Jew, the World’s Foremost Problem ...
At the beginning of 1920, Ford's personal newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, was languishing in subscriptions and losing money. Ford and his personal secretary, Ernest G. Liebold, began to discuss a series of articles on the Jewish question.
