Metadata: Office for Reparation
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 428313231
- Web address:
- www.hamburg.de/staatsarchiv
- Reference number:
- 351-11
- Title:
- Office for Reparation
- Title (official language):
- Amt für Wiedergutmachung
- Creator/accumulator:
- Office for Reparation and Refugee Aid; Office for Reparation
- Date(s):
- 1890/2014
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 922.6 linear metres (58,802 items)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The occupying powers, the municipalities and, later, the federal states established rules for the reimbursement of persons who were victims of National Socialist violence or persecution on the grounds of their origin, faith or ideology, or who suffered damage as a result. In order to obtain compensation, survivors or their heirs and relatives submitted to the office documentation of the suffering and injustice they had suffered in order to substantiate their claims. This enables researchers to access a variety of sources on Jewish life in this collection. Many aspects of daily persecution during National Socialism that were not documented at the time are subsequently recorded in the applications submitted to the offices by the persons concerned.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- As early as 1945, an advisory office for claims for compensation was founded and placed under the control of the legal office. From March 1946, the Amt für Wiedergutmachung und Flüchtlingshilfe (Office for Reparation and Refugee Aid) functioned independently. In February 1947, refugee aid was outsourced. In 1949, the Office for Reparation was dissolved in its form as the Senate Office and its tasks were transferred to the Reparation Office newly formed within the Justice Department and to the Social Welfare Authority. From 1951, the "Social Authority - Office for Reparation" was the responsible authority.
- Access points: locations:
- Hamburg
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Holocaust
- Nazism
- Restitution and compensation
- System of arrangement:
- The material is arranged into individual case files; some families have been combined into one case file.
- Access, restrictions:
- Access depends on the case. The latest closure date is 31 December 2075.
- Finding aids:
- Transfer list; overview.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://recherche.staatsarchiv.hamburg.de/ScopeQuery5.2/detail.aspx?ID=1466
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Esther Yen
