Metadata: Personal files A-Z
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Schwerin City Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stadtarchiv Schwerin
- Postal address:
- Johannes-Stelling-Str. 2, 19055 Schwerin
- Phone number:
- +49 385 593 6243
- Email:
- bkasten@Schwerin.de
- Reference number:
- MV
- Title:
- Personal files A-Z
- Title (official language):
- Personalakten A/Z
- Creator/accumulator:
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Guardianship and Probate Court
- Date(s):
- 1800/1900
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 13 folders
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection VM 04. " Vormundschafts- und Nachlaßgericht" (guardianship and probate court) comprises approx. 2.000 individual files, including 13 personal files on Jewish inhabitants, to be found under the letters A (Ascher) B (Braunschweig); D (Dohrenkampt); G (Gabriel); H (Heymann); I (Israel); J (Jonas); L (Levi; Lehmann; Leib); M (Moses); R (Ruben); S (Salomon); St (Steinhäuser); W (Wolff)
- Archival history:
-
The archive was founded in medieval times and some documents and files have been lost through fire, wars, sieges and fungal infestation. The collections comprise almost 200 linear metres and more than 90% are listed. They include the files of the magistrate until approx. 1945, the files of the Schwerin city council from approx. 1945 to approx. 1990, the files of the state capital Schwerin / departments from approx. 1990, files on schools, businesses; associations and federations, land registers and newspapers.
The material is arranged in different groups. Some of them are chronological, e.g. all holdings whose signature begins with the letter M belong to the period before 1945, all holdings from the time of the GDR have a signature R. The files are located at two locations: Johannes-Stelling-Str. 2 and Willy-Bredel-Str. 18 (signatures B, EK, R – request the inventory list on site).
Numerous land registers were closed in the GDR in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. These land registers and the related files concerning Schwerin were taken over by the City Archives in the early 1990s. A total of 20 linear metres of files and books, which are accessible through a database, are kept at the Willi-Bredel-Straße 18 branch office. The founding acts and building files form a complementary source.
- Access points: locations:
- Mecklenburg
- Schwerin
- Access points: persons/families:
- Ascher
- Braunschweig, Calmer
- Dohrenkampt, Christian Zacharias
- Gabriel, Moses
- Hirsch, Heymann Moses
- Israel, Joseph Elias
- Israel, Julius Ruben
- Israel, Moses Michael
- Israel, Ruben Elias
- Israel, Wulff Elias
- Jonas
- Lehmann, Meyer
- Leib, Moses Samuel
- Levy, Naham
- Male
- Marcus
- Seelig, J J Israel
- Steinhäuser
- Wolff, Moses Aaron
- Subject terms:
- Legal matters
- Legal records
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged in alphabetical order.
- Finding aids:
- The following finding aids are available: inventory (in parts printed, typed and hand-written), archive database, online portal of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Ariadne; published inventory: 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.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Christine Schatz, Hamburg
