Metadata: District Office Duderstadt
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Göttingen District Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Kreisarchiv Landkreis Göttingen
- Postal address:
- Herzberger Straße 5, 37520 Osterode
- Phone number:
- +49-551-525-62510; +49-5522-960-4190
- Reference number:
- LA DUD
- Title:
- District Office Duderstadt
- Title (official language):
- Landratsamt Duderstadt
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Office Duderstadt
- Date(s):
- 1800/1972
- Date note:
- 19th century/1972
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- The specific extent is not known for the deposit LA DUD. Together with KA DUD it consists of around 51.3 linear metres (in 2016). For the time to 1945 the deposit LA DUD consists of around 1423 files.
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection includes among others files about the exclusion of Jews from the Reichstag [parliamentary] elections of 1936 (no. 24); suicides and serious personal accidents from 1929 to 1937 (no. 71); the transit of Russian emigrants through German territory to the US (no. 101); the company Raab-Katzenstein from Kassel (no. 182); immigration and emigration (no. 215); political activities, including the murder of Jewish minister Walther Rathenau by Nazi terrorists (no. 278); "Judensachen" ("matters regarding Jews"), e.g. laws regarding Jews, registers of synagogues, Jewish inhabitants, shops and assets in Hannover and Duderstadt, the "aryanisation" of shops etc. (no. 549-550); Jewish cemeteries and funerals, as well as a planned Jewish cemetery in Lindau (no. 551); members of a Jewish family in Bovenden and Duderstadt (no. 569); children with parents of different religions (no. 1039); racial segregation in schools by National Socialists (no. 1057); the Israelite School Congregation of Duderstadt (no. 1119); the "overflow" of Russian Jews into the interior of Germany, with many name lists (no. 1182); agricultural and forest land owned by Jews (no. 1297); marking of passports of Jewish persons under Nazi law (no. 1342); issue of passports and the passport application of a Jewish textile trader (no. 170; 1332). In a related context it also includes documents on the search for escaped Polish forced labourers and their repatriation (no. 1353).
The thread stitching on some documents in this collection is destroyed. A flood during the the registration led to water damage of about 50 volumes and a number of individual sheets.
- Archival history:
- The archival tradition of the district office Duderstadt is divided into two holdings of two archives: the present holdings LA DUD at the District Archives of Göttingen and the complementary inventory "Hann 174 Duderstadt" at the Main State Archives of Lower Saxony in Hannover. The Hannover inventory was largely discarded in 1935 from the current district office registry. The rest of the registry was handed down to the Duderstadt district administration, in 1974, in the course of the move of the district administration to Göttingen and the evacuation of the Duderstadt District House by the district archives, it was brought by curator Erwin Steinmetz to Varmissen to the former store of the Göttingen District Archives. In 1979, the district archives official Wilhelm Höpel condensed the inventory and summarised thereby partially multi-volume archives. In the 1980s, several rearrangements of the files followed. In 1990-91, an electronic inventory was recorded using the programs SACHAV and WORKS. After the last district reform, which led to the merger of the districts of Göttingen and Osterode in 2016, the Göttingen District Archives and thus also the holdings of the District Office Duderstadt were transferred to Osterode.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The district of Duderstadt was established on 1 April 1885 from the Office ("Amt") Gieboldehausen and the district-free town of Duderstadt. The two administrative units taken over from the time of the Kingdom of Hanover and maintained by Prussia for almost twenty years included the areas of the city of Duderstadt, the municipalities of Gieboldehausen and Lindau, and a few villages. The area's status remained almost unchanged over the time of the District Office until the dissolution of the district. In 1972, the former districts of Hannoversch Münden and Duderstadt joined the district of Göttingen. In 2016 the districts of Göttingen and Osterode am Harz were merged.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Rathenau, Walter
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic legislation
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic measures
- Antisemitism--Racial laws
- Cemeteries
- Education--Schools and universities
- Land
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Nazism
- Nazism--Nazis
- Passports and visas
- Plunder
- Plunder--Aryanisation
- Suicide
- Vital records
- System of arrangement:
- The main structure of the collection mostly arranged by communal office, thus in thematical order. The substructure is following the order of the collections Hann 174 Duderstadt and Hann 74 Gieboldehausen.
- Finding aids:
- A printed finding aid is available for records up to 1945 – "Landratsamt Duderstadt (LA DUD)" (1991). For the period 1945-1972 archivists have access to an internal catalogue using AUGIAS software.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Matthias Springborn; 2018
