Jewish Community – Societies and Associations

Collection

Scope and content:: The collection “Jewish community“ is part of the larger collection “HR 01 Glaubensgemeinschaften“ (“faith communities“) and consists of documents of a large variety of administrative backgrounds, including files from the police, the magistrate and various offices of the city council. The series “Vereine“ (societies and associations) includes files regarding the Jüdischer Frauen-Wohltätigkeits-Verein (“Jewish Women’s Welfare Association”) in Einbeck, 1897, including printed statutes (no. 103); and a report by the local police about an assembly of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (“Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith”) in Einbeck, with speaker Ernst Behrendt from Berlin, in 1934 (no. 104).

Archival history:: An older archive of the town of Einbeck was destroyed in a fire in 1540. Newer archival material that has been created since then was sorted for the first time between 1864 and 1866. Since 1962 a reorganisation and new cataloguing have been taken place. The collection “Jewish congregation“ is part of the larger collection “HR 01 Glaubensgemeinschaften“ (“faith communities“) and consists of documents of a large variety of administrative backgrounds, including files from the police, the magistrate and various offices of the city council. The collection “Jewish community“ in its current composition must have been created at some time after 1945. Its structure probably reflects in larger parts the administrative order of the institutional provenance. According to the current archivist there is no documentation about the time or method of the collection's creation, as is unfortunately the case with many other collections of the Einbeck municipal archive, too. Therefore the amount of information about administrative changes and other aspects of the collection's history is limited. The current structure and signatures have remained the same since at least the 1960s, when Erich Plümer compiled a register of the collection in 1965. A more detailed register of HR 01 is to be found online in “Arcinsys Niedersachsen“, created by archivist Susanne Gerdes, as the first collection that has been made available online by Einbeck's archive.

Administrative/biographical history:: The town of Einbeck belonged to the principality of Grubenhagen from 1816 to 1866. Its local Jewish congregation was subordinated to the “Landrabbinat“ (district rabbinate) of Hildesheim. The Grubenhagen principality was part of the kingdom (later province) of Hannover, which was under Prussian rule from 1866. In 1885 the new Einbeck district was founded, which did not join the Northeim district until 1974. The Einbeck district belonged to the “Regierungsbezirk“ (administrative district) of Hildesheim. Since 1974 part of the Northeim district, the district and with it the town of Einbeck were transferred to the administrative district Braunschweig in 1978 and were under its administration till 2004. Since then it has been under direct administration of the Federal State of Lower Saxony of which Einbeck is a part since the former province of Hannover among other smaller territories was reorganised as the State of Lower Saxony in 1946.

Subject terms:: Jewish community; Law enforcement; Law enforcement--Police; Welfare

System of arrangement:: The material is arranged in thematic order by subject and mostly in chronological order within each subject.

Finding aids:: An online finding aid (Arcinsys) is available. Printed finding aid: “BXIV Judensachen“ (Erich Plümer, Einbeck 1965, unpublished).

Links to finding aids:: https://www.arcinsys.niedersachsen.de/arcinsys/start