The Heinz Bluhm papers document the professor’s personal life and academic work. They include his professional materials, such as correspondence with archives, universities, and other scholars; his publishers, Bergland Verlag and Peter Lang Verlag; and journals where Bluhm’s reviews appeared. The bulk of Bluhm's correspondence dates from 1942 to 1993. This collection also features texts about Goethe, Nietzsche, Herder, and Schiller, as well as speeches from 1929 to 1989. It contains a Biblical Quotation Index which lists New and Old Testament citations from the Bible and the Weimar Ausgabe. Bluhm’s "fictional writings” consist of stories in which he describes parts of his life but with a fictional character as the central figure.

Other material includes Bluhm’s diaries, notes from lectures he attended at the University of Wisconsin, class schedules, exams, and course evaluation reports of his own classes. The cassettes and reel-to-reel magnetic tapes are recordings of lectures and speeches. The photographs in the collection are of Heinz Bluhm and his family.

Less information is available regarding Professor Bluhm's work as Chairman and professor of Germanic Studies at Boston College.