Metadata: Municipal archive, 20th century (1930-2001) - legal department
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Municipal Archive of Braunschweig
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stadtarchiv Braunschweig
- Postal address:
- Schlossplatz 1, 38100 Braunschweig
- Phone number:
- +49 531 4704719
- Email:
- stadtarchiv@braunschweig.de
- Reference number:
- E 30
- Title:
- Municipal archive, 20th century (1930-2001) - legal department
- Title (official language):
- Magistratsarchiv des 20. Jh. (1930-2001) - Rechtsamt
- Creator/accumulator:
- City of Braunschweig - municipal authorities - legal department
- Date(s):
- 1888/1997
- Date note:
- 1888, 1918/1997
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 3 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection comprises the records of the legal department of the city, which covers all legal matters in the departments of the city administration, including Jewish affairs as well as the denazification after the Second World War. This includes responding to inquiries, issuing expert opinions and dealing with legal and administrative matters (including the elimination of Jewish forced first names (1948).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Before 1930, the handling of all legal matters was left to the individual departments. The more extensive the legislation became, the more obvious was the lack of expertise in clarifying legal matters in the services. Therefore, in 1929, the city secretariat was initially designated as a department for handling all legal issues; with the reorganisation of the administration in 1930, a legal office was established. It was renamed legal department after the Second World War.
- Access points: locations:
- Braunschweig
- Subject terms:
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Denazification
- Legal matters
- World War II
- System of arrangement:
- There is no system or arrangement. The material is kept in order of accession.
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to some of the collection is closed in accordance with the Niedersächsisches Archivgesetz [Archive Regulations of Lower Saxony]. Access may be possible if a reduction of the retention period is requested.
- Finding aids:
- A finding aid and database are available.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.stadtarchiv-braunschweig.findbuch.net/php/main.php?ar_id=3697
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Meike Buck
