Metadata: Church Matters
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Bremen State Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Staatsarchiv Bremen
- Postal address:
- Am Staatsarchiv 1, 28203 Bremen
- Phone number:
- +49 421 361 6221
- Web address:
- https://www.staatsarchiv.bremen.de/
- Reference number:
- 3-K.1
- Title:
- Church Matters
- Title (official language):
- Kirchensachen
- Creator/accumulator:
- Bremen Senate
- Date(s):
- 1880/1955
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- approx. 1.3 linear metres (36 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
Collection 3-K.1 collection was established by Bremen senate during the German Empire, gathering material about all religious concerns. The collection contains sections for each individual Protestant church congregation in Bremen. It also includes a section about Catholicism in Bremen as well as a section about Jewish religious life. These 36 relevant files are held in section 3-K.1.d.3. They are arranged in chronological order, with the topics ranging from congregation life, the economic situation of Jews to the election of rabbis to discrimination and persecution, as well as restitution and the rebuilding of Jewish religious life in Bremen after 1945.
Files 1 to 7 comprise material from the time of the German Empire. They contain material about the elections of congregation wardens, investigations about the financial situation of the Jewish congregation in Aumund and requests for financial support by Jewish individuals or congregations to state institutions.
Files 8 to 19 date from the time of the Weimar Republic. The files deal with the passing of the rabbi of the Bremen congregation and the election of his successor, material about Jewish burials, Jewish congregation administration and the 50th anniversary celebration in the Jewish congregation of Bremen.
Files 20 to 30 consist of material from the time of National Socialism. The records document the public handling of Jewish religious life, its suppression, financial discrimination of Jewish congregations executed by the financial authorities and the liquidation of Jewish clubs and associations.
Files 31 to 36 are from the postwar-period and the early years of the Federal Republic of Germany. The early material deals with restitution of Jewish belongings and the rehabilitation of congregation life. The material from the early 1950s contains publications of local and foreign Jewish congregations and lists of Jews living in Bremen in 1939 and 1950, trying to clarify the fate of missing persons and the numbers of local casualties of the Holocaust.
- Archival history:
- The records in this collection came to the archive as part of the regular document transfer process.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Abraham, Nathan
- Eskau, Robert
- Freund, Ismar
- Kunath, A
- Markreich, Max
- Meyer, Siegfried
- Rosenack, Leopold
- Weil, A
- Wolff, A
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged in chronological order with the material in each file also being arranged chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- A printed finding aid is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Matthias Loeber, Bremen