Metadata: Commercial Court
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Hamburg State Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Staatsarchiv Hamburg
- Postal address:
- Kattunbleiche 19, 22041 Hamburg
- Phone number:
- +49 (0)40 428313209
- Web address:
- www.hamburg.de/staatsarchiv
- Reference number:
- 222-3
- Title:
- Commercial Court
- Title (official language):
- Handelsgericht
- Creator/accumulator:
- Commercial Court of Hamburg
- Date(s):
- 1754/1921
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 25.3 m
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The Commercial Court dealt with all matters trade and business. As a result, the files cover all cases related to merchants within the term and thus provide information about Jewish citizens, as long as they have come into contact with the judiciary. Thus, court records, unlike the relevant address books, provide information about the traded goods. Particularly interesting are the files about "Fallissments" (bankruptices), since they documented the personal circumstances of the insolvent.
- Archival history:
- The material was reduced due to water damage during the Second World War and later due to processes of file destruction. A large part was preserved on microfilm.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Commercial Court was founded in Hamburg in 1816 . The "Commerzdeputation" had already demanded such a facility In 1750, as until then Hamburg's merchants had to turn to mayors and praetors in bankruptcy cases and protests. In other matters the lower and upper court were responsible; "Seesachen" (matters of the sea) were a task for the Admiralty Court. The court existed until it was abolished by the Reich Justice Reform (Reichsjustizreform) in 1879 and the cases were assigned to the Local, State and Higher Regional Courts and prosecuted there.
- Access points: locations:
- Hamburg
- Subject terms:
- Financial matters
- Legal matters
- Legal records
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is partially arranged thematically. Within the subject groups the material is partly in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Overview, register, essay by Ernst Baasch, Handelsgericht, Handels- und Börsengesetzgebung, in: Die Handelskammer, vol. 2, Hamburg 1915, pp. 556-632.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://recherche.staatsarchiv.hamburg.de/ScopeQuery5.2/detail.aspx?id=870
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Esther Yen