Metadata: State Department for Restitution
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:
- 4
- Title:
- State Department for Restitution
- Title (official language):
- Landesamt für Wiedergutmachung
- Creator/accumulator:
- Bremen State Department for Restitution
- Date(s):
- 1945/1989
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- approx. 160 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains every case file of the State Department for Restitution in Bremen with most of the applicants being Jews or of Jewish origin.
- Archival history:
- The records in this collection came to the archive as part of the regular document transfer process.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- After the Second World War the US military government of Bremen demanded a state authority responsible for the restitution of goods and estates that had been taken from their rightful owners due to National Socialist legislation, e.g. Jews, political opponents etc. It was originally part of the financial administration, but became part of the responsibility of the inner administration in 1950 based on the Law of Restitution as issued in 1949. The new department of restitution was responsible both for the financial restitution of economic goods and compensation for personal damage connected to the National Socialist dictatorship. Individuals could apply for restitution or compensation, starting a trial that would most often last for various years.
- Access points: locations:
- Bremen
- Subject terms:
- Nazism
- Restitution and compensation
- World War II
- System of arrangement:
- Case files are arranged in alphabetical order with the material in each file arranged chronologically. In some cases of lengthy trials files are divided into two or more sub-files.
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to single files may restricted, depending on the age of the material.
- Finding aids:
- A digital name register exists which can be searched by archive staff.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Matthias Loeber, Bremen