Metadata: State government of Schaumburg-Lippe
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- State Archives of Lower Saxony - Bückeburg Branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv - Standort Bückeburg
- Postal address:
- Schlossplatz 2, 31675 Bückeburg
- Phone number:
- +49 5722 9677-30
- Reference number:
- L 4
- Title:
- State government of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Title (official language):
- Schaumburg-Lippische Landesregierung
- Creator/accumulator:
- State government of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Date(s):
- 1701/1957
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 187.46 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection comprises the complete range of the internal administration of the Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe (personal files see collection L 4a), including correspondence with the Reich authorities. The following items are relevant to Jewish history: L 4a B No. 60 Personal file of the teacher Jacob Bonwitt in Bückeburg: questionnaire with details of former activities at the Jewish schools in Münder and Bückeburg, 1905-1942; L 4a G No. 46 Personal file of the court clerk Gustav Gumpel at the District Court of Stadthagen, 1911-1914; L 4a M No. 25 Request of the Judge Josef Meyersberg in Bückeburg for discharge from the Schaumburg-Lippe judicial service and his admission as a lawyer at the Wattenscheid district court in 1921.
- Archival history:
- The so-called "Ongoing government registration" established in 1909 was continued by the Schaumburg-Lippe state government beyond the revolutionary year 1918 until the repeal and incorporation of the Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe into the state of Lower Saxony in 1946. The registry is classified according to subject areas, which have been extended over time in order to include newly added subject categories. The collection is of some importance also for supra-regional questions because it contains the correspondence of an independent state government with the imperial authorities in the first half of the 20th century. For various motives, files from the period after 1933 were destroyed: by Germans before the invasion of the Americans, by American occupation soldiers after their invasion. The remaining files were handed over to the State Archive of Hannover in 1949 and came back to their place of origin with the establishment of the State Archives in Bückeburg in 1961. Files indispensable for the current administration that had gone to the responsible administrative authority in Hannover were transferred from the State Archive Hannover to the State Archive Bückeburg.
- Access points: locations:
- Bückeburg
- Münder
- Stadthagen
- Wattenscheid
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bonwitt, Jacob
- Gumpel, Gustav
- Meyersberg, Josef
- System of arrangement:
- There is no system or arrangement. The material is kept in order of accession.
- Finding aids:
- A database is available.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.arcinsys.niedersachsen.de/arcinsys/start.action?oldNodeid=
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Meike Buck