Metadata: Health department of Bentheim
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- State Archives of Lower Saxony - Osnabrück Branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv - Standort Osnabrück
- Postal address:
- Schlossstraße 29, 49074 Osnabrück
- Phone number:
- +49 531 33162 0
- Reference number:
- Rep. 630 Bent
- Title:
- Health department of Bentheim
- Title (official language):
- Gesundheitsamt Bentheim
- Creator/accumulator:
- Health department of Bentheim
- Date(s):
- 1878/1971
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 300 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains, among others, case files of the Erbgesundheitsgericht (“hereditary health court”), concerning medical tests. It includes Jewish individuals.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The health authorities and the health and nursing homes became the organs of National Socialist “racial hygiene”. The hereditary health courts (Erbgesundheitsgerichte) were created on the basis of the Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring of 14 July 1933 (RGBL 1933 I, p. 529). It defined precisely who suffered from a hereditary disease for the purposes of this law and thus had to be sterilised. At the Osnabrück district court, a hereditary health court was established with a judge as chairman and two doctors as assessors. This body made the decisions concerning sterilisation. It was possible to launch an appeal to the superior hereditary health court (Erbgesundheitsobergericht) against a decision of the hereditary health court. Legal decisions of these courts were, if necessary, also carried out against the will of the person concerned. Furthermore, the hereditary health courts formed the complaints authority against the refusal of marriages by the health authorities on the basis of Sec. 1 of the Marriage Health Law of 18 October 1935.
- Access points: locations:
- Bentheim
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Racial laws
- Health and medical matters
- Nazism
- System of arrangement:
- There is no system or arrangement. The material is kept in order of accession.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is partially closed.
- 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
