Metadata: Guardianship and Probate Court of the city of Grabow i. M.
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Grabow City Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stadtarchiv Grabow
- Postal address:
- Am Markt 1, 19300 Grabow
- Phone number:
- + 49 38756 503-26
- Email:
- s.pries@grabow.de
- Reference number:
- Guardianship and Estate Court
- Title:
- Guardianship and Probate Court of the city of Grabow i. M.
- Title (official language):
- Vormundschafts- und Nachlaßgericht der Stadt Grabow i. M.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Guardianship and Probate Court of the city of Grabow i. M.
- Date(s):
- 1818/1952
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 27 folders
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection comprises files on estates, wills and guardianship matters, including those of Jewish residents in Grabow. It covers the surnames alphabetically from ‘Dreyer’ to ‘Wolff’.
D 194: estate of the deceased master weaver Ernst Joachim Dreyer;
D 195: Joachim Dreyer, inventiry of his household;
D 196: appointment of someone to care for the blind widow Dreyer, Sophia, née Blatterspiel;
D 197 Cura absentis Carl Christian Dreyer, estate arrangement;
D 198 estate of wife of pointsman Dreyer, Maria née Vollus;
D 199 estate of wife of master shoemaker Carl Dreyer, Sophie née. Dähling and her husband, the master shoemaker Karl Dreyer;
D 200 (1923-1931) estate of the master shoemaker Marie Dreyer née. Lange, widowed Szczypkowski in Grabow ;
D 201 guardianship for the illegitimate child of the unmarried housekeeper Elise Dreyer in Grabow (1926);
202 (1930) estate of Heinrich Dreyer and his wife Minna Dreyer née Lange;
H 515: guardianship for the estate of the Jewish Woman Gertrud Sara Hoffmann née Cohn in Grabow: letter of Secret State Police to the Probate Court in Grabow on the death of Clara Hoffmann, born in Verchen on 14 April 1887, died in the Ravensbrück concentration camp on 2 June 1942; correspondence: letter from the office of Pastor Grüber, Berlin due to possible emigration to Shanghai (Dutch Refugee Committee); Jewish Religious Association Hamburg; Israelitische Landesgemeinde Rostock; also contains photos, identity card;
I 32 conflict of Elisabeth Jacob married [...] Carstadt and Jastram, née Lüdert with her son from her second marriage Friedrich Jastram;
J 30: estate of Herm. Jacob, list of minor children (5), list of guardians, list of property;
J 31: last will of Käthchen Jacob née. Wirtheim in Grabow;
L 60: David Levy;
L 61: estate of the protected Jew Samuel Levy;
L 62 estate of Moses Levy (also Lewin);
L 63: estate regulation Abraham Levy;
L 64a: last will of David Samuel Levy, Ludwigslust;
L 64: last will Daniel Levy from Rostock;
L 66: estate of the merchant Grenadier Viktor Lichtenstein, killed in action at Chateau Esternay;
L 67: (1924) estate of Simon Lichtenstein and his wife Sophie née Rubensohn;
L 68: estate Siegmund Lichtenstein;
S 99 bequest S.M. Simon;
S 100 estate of Bertha Emilie Simon née Wiener;
S 101: estate of Hedwig Simon, née Plaut, and his second wife Gertrud Simon, née Hirschfeld;
T 226: estate of Theodor Israel Tobias;
W 373: estate of Emil Wolff;
W 467: guardianship of the estate of the Jew Alfred Israel Wolff in Grabow, correspondence with Gestapo of Schwerin on inheritance matters, letter from South Africa 1934.
- Archival history:
- In 1951 an administrative archive was established and the city archive in 1955. In 2005 the country and city of Grabow merged to form the Grabow office. The historical archive is located in the town hall. The archive looks after the historical files of the city and the Grabow office. The archive's holdings are currently recorded digitally; changes are possible. Supplementary sources include civil status and building files.
- Access points: locations:
- Grabow
- Ludwigslust
- Mecklenburg
- Schwerin
- Warin
- Subject terms:
- Children
- Marriage and divorce
- People with disabilities
- Photographs
- Wills
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged in alphabetical order.
- Finding aids:
- Integration into the archive portal Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is planned, currently an inventory is avaible: Findbuch für Judaica in den Kreis- und Stadtarchiven Westmecklenburgs, published by Verein für jüdische Geschichte in Mecklenburg und Vorpommern e.V., edited by Norbert Francke, Schwerin 2001 (partially obsolete)
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Christine Schatz, Hamburg
