Metadata: Box Archive Techen; Estates; Deposits; Manuscripts; Contemporary history collection after May 1945
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- City Archive of the Hanseatic City of Wismar
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stadtarchiv Wismar
- Postal address:
- Altwismarstr. 7-17, 23966 Wismar
- Phone number:
- + 49 3841 251 4081
- Email:
- stadtarchiv@wismar.de
- Reference number:
- Abt. VIII.
- Title:
- Box Archive Techen; Estates; Deposits; Manuscripts; Contemporary history collection after May 1945
- Title (official language):
- Kastenarchiv Techen; Nachlässe; Deposita; Manuskripte; Zeitgeschichtliche Sammlung ab Mai 1945
- Creator/accumulator:
- City Archive
- Date(s):
- 1714/1988
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 1 box
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collections VIII. Rep. 2; Rep. 3 Fa; Rep. 4. B; Rep. 5 and Rep. 6 contain various collections on the history of the Jews in Mecklenburg, excerpts from newspaper articles, correspondence and biographies. The following are relevant to Jewish history:
1. Kastenarchiv Techen (Abt. VIII. Rep. 2) Index of contents; writings on Jews in Mecklenburg by Aarons 1826; Behrend 1843; Barnard 1847; anonymous: "Die Juden in Mecklenburg im Kampffe um ihre bürgerlichen Rechte", 1847; various editions of "Das wiedergeborene Mecklenburg", Marr: Judenspiegel 1862, Zeitschrift für Demographie und Statistik der Juden 1912 8th Jg. H1; Silberstein: Die Stellung Preussens und Mecklenburgs zum Artikel XVI der Deutschen Bundesakte; Article "Aus Mecklenburgs Vergangenheit, die Juden in Mecklenburg", in: Niederdeutscher Beobachter June 10 (1932?); listing of Jewish families, correspondence; transcript of a notification of the refusal of the registrars of the marriage between Helmut Liebenthal and Ella Nilker of 1 August 1935. List of the Jews living in Wismar between 1929 and 1939 for the district administration of the SED Ideological Commission 24 July 1963; Letter with research results to the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem, contains 30 copies of documents on Jews in Mecklenburg 24 June 1958.
2. Collection property from July 1949 (Abt. VIII Rep. 3 Fa) Single sheet indexing; search sheets "Vermißte Bürger der Vereinten Nationen" (Missing Citizens of the United Nations) of the Tracing Service [for missing Germans in the Soviet Occupation Zone Germany (SBZ), Berlin], [from 1949], among others "Stateless" and "Jews".
3. Bequests (Abt. VIII Rep. 4. B) Collections of H.P. Anders and Dr. Crull, elaboration by Crull on Jews in Wismar; literature; printed matter; supplements to newspapers including Gartenlaube; Preußische (Kreuz-) Zeitung.
4. Deposits (Dept. VIII Rep. 5) List of the "world-famous Jew thieves", who were probably vagabonds in Hanover as well as in other countries; exact description of their appearance, origin and crimes.
5. Manuscripts (Abt. VIII Rep. 6) Linneke, Peter (Dr. med.) Municipal hospital; short biographical abstract about the life of Dr. med. Leopold Liebenthal, Wismar and others. Contains correspondence about house ownership in Wismar. Copy of a list of Mecklenburg doctors by Gustav Willgeroth, 1929 as well as copy of the cover page of the dissertation by Liebenthal 1894. Correspondence about assets and estate Dr. Liebenthal, excerpt from address book Wismar 1896; 106: Langusch, Steffen: Zur Geschichte der Juden in Wismar, handwritten and typescript, copy of newspaper article for 9 November (1938); Zeitschrift für Demographie und Statistik der Juden, January 1912 with a treatise by Max Grünfeldt "Die Juden in Mecklenburg-Schwerin von 1810/1910"; individual personalities H/K (78a/123) 1561/1967 Carl Johann Jürgens: "Ein Christliches Bekenntnis und Erkenntnis eines reichen Juden Sohn aus Frankfurt Oder gebürtig, [....] in beyseyn der ganzen christlichen Gemeinde am Freytage den 16. August 1743 öffentlich getauft worden". 091: Individual persons L/M (124/141) 136 J.A. Martens: Treatise on the Jewish Question, on Marital Property Law and on the Legal Status of Women; Wismar (especially History of the City (200/283), "Aus Mecklenburgs Vergangenheit, die Juden in Mecklenburg, in: Niederdeutscher Beobachter 10 June 1932(?).
- Archival history:
- The collections of the City Archive of Wismar are currently being reorganised. Since the Middle Ages, the City Archive kept the documents of the city’s rights and privileges, initially as usual in the town hall, presumably under the direction of the financial department. Some of the originals were lost due to fires. Copies that had been kept elsewhere have been preserved. Both before and after the Reformation the city council of Wismar was responsible for the administration of the church's property, which was maintained even after the separation of state and church. In the 17th century there were the beginnings of a systematically arranged archive depot, but conditions in the various rooms of the town hall were often inadequate and insufficient well into the 20th century. In 1807 the town hall collapsed and files were removed, being returned to the new town hall in 1818. The records of the Magistrate's Court 1750-1872 are missing; Abt. III. Rep. 1 Db 02.1. are missing. Additional sources include civil status books and building files.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Crull
- Grünfeldt, Max
- Jürgens, Carl Johann
- Liebenthal, Helmut
- Liebenthal, Leopold
- Nilken, Ella
- System of arrangement:
- The collection consists of single sheets arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Data on the collection is available at the web portal of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Ariadne. A published finding aid is: 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). Lists of the collection are also available.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://ariadne.uni-greifswald.de/?arc=15
- https://www.archivportal-d.de
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Christine Schatz, Hamburg