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What is the original paper in which Erich Hecke had first introduced the Hecke operators?

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    $\begingroup$ To be fair, Mordell had used "Hecke operators" in proving the weak multiplicativity of Ramanujan's tau-function, that is, of the Fourier coefficients of the holomorphic cuspform of weight 12. $\endgroup$ Jun 3, 2019 at 17:46

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Über Modulfunktionen und die Dirichletschen Reihen mit Eulerscher Produktentwicklung. I, Math. Ann. 114 (1937), 1-28; II, ibid., 316-351. These two papers are available here and here.

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