Metadata: Magistrate
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Local Authority Archive Gadebusch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Amtsarchiv Gadebusch
- Postal address:
- Am Markt 1, 19205 Gadebusch
- Phone number:
- +49 3886 712032
- Email:
- museumsanlage@gadebusch.info
- Reference number:
- Magistrate
- Title:
- Magistrate
- Title (official language):
- Magistrat
- Creator/accumulator:
- Magistrate
- Date(s):
- 1920/1947
- Extent:
- 5 folders
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection "Magistratsakten bis 1947" includes five files, which mainly contain circulars of ministries and the ordinances and new laws after 1933 with their effects on the Jewish population. In detail:
Sig. 404 (1933/1947) contains copies or circulars of the political police Schwerin concerning a “Judenkartei" [index of Jews] (1935); invitation to report "Jews to the political police Schwerin with name, first name, date of birth, occupation, place of birth, nationality and current place of residence” (1935); circular of the Reichsministerium des Innern (Reich Ministry of the Interior) on the transfer of residence of the Jewish woman Jahn, ("secret") transport of the Jewish woman Jahn to the Greko Rostock 1944, sale of the property and transfer to the tax office Execution (1944), order that signs of the districts, communities and inns should indicate that "Jews are undesirable"; Jewish card; letter on the employment of "German-blooded" housemaids in Jewish households; circulars on individual topics such as ancestor passports, spa guests in spas and health resorts, employment of Jews, "Reichsfluchsteuer", permission to acquire Jewish businesses, legal relationships of Jewish cultural associations, ruins of synagogues, tenancies with Jews, obligation to wear a sign, list of Jewish cultural associations to be incorporated into the Reich Association of Jews in Germany (Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland) (Beverstedt, Brüel, Bützow, Crivitz, Cuxhaven, Dargun, Dömitz, Fackenburg, Friedland, Fürstenberg, Gadebusch, Grabow), expatriation of Jewish "half-Jews" and relatives of Jews, deportation of Jews to Theresienstadt, list of furnishings of the deported Martha Sara Jahn (1944), return of property and trusteeship (1947); letter to the council of the city of Gadebusch on the restitution of property (from the Preparatory Committee for the Formation of the Jewish Cultural Association of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania).
Sig. 770 A (1920/1941) contains copies of the circulars of the Reich Ministry of the Interior on emigration agents, emigration of Jews (1939); promotion of Jewish emigration through work certificates by the Chambers of Crafts as well as the Chambers of Industry and Commerce (p. 122); circulars of the Secret State Police with instructions to record and report emigrating Jews: name, place of birth and date of birth, occupation; place of residence; passport issuing authority, destination country; emigration day (page 123); transcript of security police concerning the Reich headquarters for Jewish emigration (1939) (page 124); circular on the emigration of Jews (page 125); ban on the emigration of Jews via the former territory of Czechoslovakia (1939) (page 126); Jewish travel agencies and emigration files (1939) (page 127).
Sig. 1001 contains inter alia circulars of the Mecklenburg State Ministry Department I and concerns the order that applications of Jewish entrepreneurs should be suspended until further notice (1938) (p. 84); applications of Jewish entrepreneurs for approval of long-distance goods traffic by motor vehicles or otherwise should be suspended until further notice.
D 20 (1938/1943) contains, among other things, the list of Jews and "Mischlinge" ("mixed-bloods") who are politically registered in Gadebusch: surname, first name, date of birth, place of residence (1941) (p. 224); the list of forbidden books and printed matter, among others. "Exodus Judaiorum" by Emil Meyer ; "det jödiske folk" by Ernst Sinding, Oslo (sheet 105); similar lists repeated and supplemented annually; circular of the Secret State Police 1942 concerning "außerehelicher Verkehr jüdischer Mischlinge 1. Grades mit Deutschblütigen" (extramarital intercourse of Jewish first-grade “mixed-bloods” with “German-blooded” persons) (p. 266);
Sig. D 5 (1935/1940) contains copies of circulars to the chief president, regional presidents, councillors, local police authorities concerning "Befreiung von Vorschrift des § 3 zum Schutz des deutschen Blutes" (exemption from the provision of § 3 for the protection of German blood); Instructions on the law on expulsion from the Reich, on "außerehelichen Verkehr zwischen Juden und Staatsbürger deutschen oder artverwandten Blutes" (extramarital sexual intercourse between Jews and citizens of German or related blood); copy of the circular of the Reich Ministry of the Interior concerning marriage license contracts (confidential), 1940; report on the Jewish Lindenberg family in Gadebusch 1936 (Political Police).
- Archival history:
- The foundation of the archive cannot be precisely determined. From 1947 it was run on an honorary basis, since 1967 it has had full-time staff. The archive is responsible for the management of the historical and official documents of the town of Gadebusch and the incorporated villages of Jarmstorf and Amtsbauhof as well as the districts of Neubauhof, Wakenstädt, Buchholz, Möllin, Ganzow and Ganzow Dorf. The official records of the congregations of the former Gadebusch-Land office are also administered by it.
- Access points: locations:
- Beverstedt
- Brüel
- Bützow
- Crivitz
- Cuxhaven
- Czarnikau
- Dargun
- Dömitz
- Fackenburg
- Friedland
- Gadebusch
- Grabow
- Mecklenburg
- Rostock
- Schwaan
- Schwerin
- Theresienstadt
- Access points: persons/families:
- Frantz
- Jahn, Martha Sara
- Josephy
- Lindenberg
- System of arrangement:
- The collection consists of single sheets arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Index cards; overview of the City Archive, in: Arndt, Gabriele et al.: Einblicke zwischen Schaalsee und Salzhaff 10. Von Wappen, Notgeld, Konsumverein, Dem Hühn'schen Erbe und Lenins Vorfahren. Erlebte Geschichte aus den Archiven Nordwestmecklenburgs 2004, pp. 33-52.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Christine Schatz, Hamburg