Metadata: High Church Counci Schwerin, General files old
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Regional Church Archive of Schwerin and Church District Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Landeskirchliches Archiv Schwerin und Kirchenkreisarchiv
- Postal address:
- Am Dom 2, 19055 Schwerin
- Phone number:
- +49 385 2022 3292
- Reference number:
- 03.01.
- Title:
- High Church Counci Schwerin, General files old
- Title (official language):
- Oberkirchenrat Schwerin, Generalia alt
- Creator/accumulator:
- High Church Court Schwerin
- Date(s):
- 1801/1983
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 20 folders
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
From the extensive collections of "Oberkirchenrat Schwerin", the series "Oberkirchenrat Schwerin, alt" (03.01.01.01) and "Oberkirchenrat Schwerin, Specialia Abteilungen 1/4 A/Z" ( 03.01.02.) are summarised here, as are "Oberkirchenrat Schwerin, Personalia und Examina" (03.01.03.). The series each contain individual relevant files on the relationship between church and church leadership and Jews.
The series "Oberkirchenrat Schwerin, alt" (03.01.01.01) contains 10 files. 01.02. Church affairs and church management covers the following topics: Conversions to the Jewish or Christian faith; baptism of Jews; marriage; mission. Sig. 0413: Conversions of Jews to Christianity and conversions of Christians to Judaism; Sig. 0589 deals with burials of Jews in Protestant cemeteries (1811); Sig. 0590: contributions of Jews to parish and church buildings (1801/1914); Sig. 0591: marriage to a Christian (1851/1937); Sig. 0592: Baptism of Jews (1851/1941), contains requests from pastors of various parishes to be allowed to baptise Jews; circulars of the "Landessuperintendenturen" on the conversion of Jews to the Protestant Church; Sig. 0593: Baptism of children of Jewish parents and their upbringing (1851/1900); Sig. 594: Complaint that the "preacher" Wolff, son of a Jew, used the term "preacher", this was an "arrogance" and "imitation of the ecclesiastical office" (1881/1885); Sig. 0595: "Mission among Jews", statutes of the "Juden-Missionsverein" (Association for Jewish Mission) in Mecklenburg-Schwerin; Mecklenburg political police letter concerning the Judenmission (Jewish mission); list of members of the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mission unter Israel in Mecklenburg" (Work group for the mission among Israel in Mecklenburg); conference "Kirche und Judentum" Darmstadt 1949 with lecture by Leo Baeck (text) (1882/1957); Sig. 0596 "Judenmission und Kollektenberichte", annual meetings; accounts (1957/1972); Sig. 0597 among other things correspondence between "Oberkirchenrat" and various pastors on the topic "Church and Judaism" (1973); correspondence between "Oberkirchenrat" and "Jüdische Landesgemeinde Mecklenburg" (Jewish State Congregation Mecklenburg) (1973); work aid for teaching and congregation work (booklet) for the "Reichskristallnacht" (1972/1983); Sig. 0598: "Die Judenfrage sowie die Rassenfrage und Erblehre allgemein", "Erforschung des Einflusses des Judentums auf das deutsche religiöse Leben", "Leitsätze zur Judenchristlichen Frage"; letter of the president of the University of Tübingen "Zur Frage nach der Stellung der Deutsch-Evangelischen Kirche zu den Judenchristen"; correspondence with "Forschungsabteilung Judenfragen des Reichsinstituts für Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands; newspaper article "Zur Judenfrage"; Mecklenburgische Sippenkanzlei (1933/1958); Sig. 0599: "Research into the influence of Judaism on German religious life" (1939/1945).
The series "Oberkirchenrat Schwerin, Specialia Abteilungen 1/4 A/Z" (03.01.02.) includes 5 files on baptism of Jews, cemetery/burial ground, offering money ordered by parish. In the following, the files in the Specialia A/F subject group, Division 1: A/Friedl, 018: Strelitz-Alt, see also Fürstensee, Groß Quassow, Klein Trebbow, Thurow, Userin; Alt Strelitz, Varia, contain, inter alia, the baptism of a Jew (1849) (Sig. 067); 136: Dargun (the parish was called Röcknitz until 1854) contains Jewish burial ground 1865 (Sig. 080).
The series of section 2 is arranged alphabetically, here relevant F/L, 213: Goldberg, use of the hearse at Jewish funerals 1865/1868 (Sig. 086); section 4 alphabetically: Ru/Zw, 683.: Stavenhagen, s. a.: Jürgenstorf, Pribbenow, Ritzerow; Stavenhagen: "Das von den jüdischen Gemeindemitgliedern zu Stavenhagen an die christliche Geistlichkeit daselbst zu entrichtende Opfergeld" (The offering money to be paid there to the Christian clergy by the Jewish parishioners of Stavenhagen) (1839) (Sig. 025); 712: Tornow, Varia, contains baptism of a Jew (1832) (Sig. 020).
The series "Oberkirchenrat Schwerin, Personalia und Examina" (03.01.03.) contains files on pastors in alphabetical order: Friedrich Carl Otto Hübener 1850/1942 Founder of the Mecklenburg Jewish Mission Association (Sig. H 164); August Friedrich Carl Peter Wiegand (1864/1945) 1890 Jewish missionary in Stanislau (Galicia) (Sig. W 108).
- Archival history:
- The Regional Church Archive of the Lutheran Regional Church of Northern Germany has its headquarters in Kiel and two branch offices in Schwerin and Greifswald. It is part of the Law Department of the Regional Church Office (Landeskirchenamt). The predecessors of the Regional Church Archive were the archives of the Regional Churches of Mecklenburg, Nordelbien and Pommern. The archive includes the documents of the organs of the church, the departments and facilities, as well as the archives of independent facilities (Diakonisches Werk) and private estates.
- Access points: locations:
- Bad Doberan
- Dargun
- Darmstadt
- Güstrow
- Kassel
- Krakow
- Mecklenburg
- Parchim
- Rostock
- Schwerin
- Stanislau
- Stavenhagen
- Tornow
- Waren
- Access points: persons/families:
- Baeck, Leo
- Hübener, Carl Otto
- Silberstein
- Wiegand, August Friedrich Carl Peter
- Wolff
- System of arrangement:
- The collections consist mainly of single sheets in chronological order; names of persons and locations are arranged alphabetically.
- Finding aids:
- Lists and a guide are available for this collection as well as an online resource at the web portal of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Ariadne.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.archivnordkirche.de
- https://archivportal-d.de
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Christine Schatz, Hamburg
