Metadata: Stade Department of Public Prosecution (1852-1978)
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Lower Saxony State Archive Stade
- Holding institution (official language):
- Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv Stade
- Postal address:
- Am Staatsarchiv 1, 21680 Stade
- Phone number:
- +49 4141 66060-0
- Email:
- Stade@nla.niedersachsen.de
- Reference number:
- Rep. 171A Stade
- Title:
- Stade Department of Public Prosecution (1852-1978)
- Title (official language):
- Staatsanwaltschaft Stade (1852/1978)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Stade Department of Public Prosecution
- Date(s):
- 1846/1995
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 57.5 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection includes material on the criminal proceedings 1935/61 against SS, SA and HJ members for deprivation of liberty of a pastor, who had criticised antisemitism in his confirmation class (no. 228/1 – 228/4); criminal proceedings against an innkeeper 1935/37 for insulting SS members, the defendant had criticised the policy of the NSDAP against the Jews (no. 240); criminal proceedings 1935/36 against a political protest meeting with a parade of NSDAP and SA members, the meeting was directed against the Stahlhelm organisation and the Jews (no. 248); church and religious communities, 1936/1960 (acc. 2002/028 no. 29); report of a senior prosecutor to the Reich Minister of Justice in Berlin of 10 November 1938 on "measures of the population" against Jews in the night of 9 to 10 November 1938 (“Reichspogromnacht“), etc. (no. 1228); execution of sentences of imprisonment and death, also during the Nazi period (no. 1231; 1254; 1301); termination of state-subsidised Jewish pastoral care in prisons, 1936 (no. 1260); persecution of National Socialist violent crimes, including overview of proceedings, supervision of foreign witnesses in Nazi crime trials, 1965/67 (no. 1303); criminal proceedings against a former SS Hauptsturmführer and active participant in the genocide of the Jews in Poland (extensive, no. 1524-1527 and others); criminal proceedings against the former territorial commissar of the city Zdolbunov, Ukraine, who was supposed to have been responsible for the killing of Jews in the local ghetto in 1942 (extensive, no. 1690 and others); criminal proceedings against a former SS Oberscharführer and guard in several concentration camps (extensive, no. 2332 and others); criminal proceedings against a former SS Sergeant in Buchenwald concentration camp who is charged with the torture and murder of a Jew (no. 774); criminal proceedings against a former Unterscharführer of the SS (now a farmer) for the murder of 13 Jews without trial near Prebensdorf in Austria (no. 776/1 – 776/6); investigation of a former SS and Gestapo official accused of aiding and abetting the murder of Jews in Sokal/Kamionka district in Poland, including testimonies (no. 815); and more cases regarding the murder of Jews during the Holocaust.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- When the Landdrostei Stade was founded as an administrative district within the Kingdom of Hanover in 1823, it included three historical territories: the Duchy of Bremen, the Duchy of Verden and the “Land Hadeln”. After Hanover was annexed by Prussia in 1867, the Landdrostei continued to exist until 1885, when it was reorganised as the new governmental (or administrative) district of Stade. In 1937, the city of Cuxhaven became part of this administrative district and therefore part of the province of Hanover. Other minor territorial changes also took place in the 1920s and 1930s. After the Second World War the district was part of the British zone of occupation and later became part of the state of Lower Saxony within the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1978, following administrative changes in the districts of Lower Saxony during which the Stade district lost larger parts of its territory, the remaining parts were incorporated into the administrative district of Lüneburg. The Lüneburg district was dissolved in 2004 like all other administrative districts of the same level (Regierungsbezirke) in Lower Saxony.
- Access points: locations:
- Austria
- Berlin
- Buchenwald
- Kamionka
- Poland
- Prebensdorf
- Sokal
- Stade
- Ukraine
- Zdolbunov
- System of arrangement:
- The material is arranged in thematic order.
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid (Arcinsys) is available. Internal finding aid: ”Rep. 171A Stade“ (not publicly available); thematical finding aid: "SFB 13. Judaica (NS-Zeit). Übersicht über die Bestände des Niedersächsischen Staatsarchivs Stade zur Judenverfolgung in der NS-Zeit. Erstellt im Auftrag der Holocaust-Gedenk- und Forschungsstätte Yad Vashem (Jerusalem/Israel) Jürgen Rosebrock (Hamburg), Mai 1998".
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.arcinsys.niedersachsen.de/arcinsys/start
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Matthias Springborn, 2019
