Metadata: Fifth Registry
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Emden Municipal Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stadtarchiv Emden
- Postal address:
- Kirchstrasse 18, 26721 Emden
- Phone number:
- +49 4921 87 - 14 01
- Web address:
- https://www.emden.de/kultur/stadtarchiv/
- Reference number:
- V
- Title:
- Fifth Registry
- Title (official language):
- Fünfte Registratur
- Creator/accumulator:
- Emden City Council
- Date(s):
- 1919/1939
- Language:
- German
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection includes, among others:
lawsuit of the General Local Health Insurance in Emden against a Jewish person in Emden, criminal complaint because of the non-registration of a woman with the insurance (no. 779);
lawsuit of the General Local Health Insurance in Emden against a Jewish cattle dealer because of costs for accommodation and food of a housemaid in the municipal hospital, 1933 (No. 786);
lawsuit of a Jewish woman in Emden against the General Local Health Insurance for further insurance, 1927 (no. 823);
lawsuit of a Jewish man in Emden against the Special Local Health Insurance for Handicraft Enterprises in Emden because of cash benefits, 1929 (no. 864);
(insurance) liberation notice of a Jewish cattle dealer, 1929 (no. 899);
complaint by a Jewish livestock dealer in Emden against the State Insurance Institute (Landesversicherungsanstalt) Hannover for failure to provide insurance for two men, 1922 (no. 923; 932);
file on milk concessions, no. 5 refers to a Jewish person, 1932 (no. 1252);
request for permission to sell meat products from a Jewish butcher (no. 1260);
assessment of the business tax of the company of a Jewish man, cattle trade, 1920-22 (no. 2222);
assessment of trade tax for the mail order business of a Jewish man, 1924 (no. 2223);
business tax assessment for a Jewish brush maker, 1924, 3 Bl. (no. 2278);
business tax assessment for the widow of a Jewish man, flea market, 1924 (no. 2667);
business tax assessment for a Jewish man, grocery store (Kolonialwarenhandlung) 1920-24 (no. 2672);
business tax assessment for a Jewish man, agency and mail-order business, 1920-1922 (no. 2688);
business tax assessment for a Jewish cattle dealer, 1917-1922 (no. 2689);
tax assessment for a Jewish butcher, 1920-1922 (no. 2690);
business tax assessment for a Jewish butcher, 1920-1922 (no. 2691);
business tax assessment for a Jewish baker, 1920-1922 (no. 2692);
business tax assessment for a Jewish butcher, 1921-1922 (no. 2693);
business tax assessment for a Jewish butcher, 1920-1921 (no. 2694);
business tax assessment for the widow of a Jewish man, slaughterhouse, 1920-1922 (no. 2701);
business tax assessment for a Jewish man, butchery and cattle trade, 1920-1922 (no. 2777);
business tax assessment for a Jewish man, cattle trade, 1920-1922 (no. 2778);
business tax assessment for a Jewish cattle dealer, 1920-1922 (no. 2779);
business tax assessment for a Jewish cattle dealer in Oldersum, 1922 (no. 2784);
business tax assessment for a Jewish-owned company, livestock trade, 1920-1922 (no. 2799);
business tax assessment, negotiations concerning the investment of a Jewish family in Emden, cattle trade, 1916-1922 (no. 2800);
business tax assessment for a Jewish butcher and cattle dealer, 1920-1922 (no. 2801);
business tax assessment for a Jewish owned company, cattle trade, 1920-1922 (no. 2844);
business tax assessment for a Jewish owned company in Emden, department store (Kaufhaus), 1916-1927 (no. 2845);
business tax assessment for a Jewish butcher, 1920-1922 (no. 2846);
business tax assessment for a Jewish butcher and cattle dealer, 1920-1922 (no. 2847);
business tax assessment for a Jewish cattle dealer and butcher, 1921-1922 (no. 2852);
business tax assessment for a Jewish grocer, 1920-1922 (no. 2853);
business tax assessment for Jewish siblings, grocery store, 1920-1922 (no. 2854);
business tax assessment for a Jewish butcher and horse dealer, 1920-1922 (no. 2855);
business tax assessment for a Jewish butcher, 1920-1922 (no. 2856);
business tax assessment, negotiations concerning a Jewish family, horse and cattle trade, 1920-1922 (no. 2857);
business tax assessment for a Jewish butcher, 1920-1922 (no. 2858);
business tax assessment for a Jewish man, coal trade, 1924 (no. 2859);
business tax assessment for a Jewish salesman for poultry, 1933-1934 (no. 2912);
business tax assessment for a Jewish butcher, 1920 (no. 2913);
antisemitic “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service“ (“Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums“) of 7 April 71933 (no. 3025).
- Archival history:
-
This collection was essentially determined by the “numerus-currens” principle of the individual offices of the material's origin. The short titles on the folders probably come from the respective department heads. They were used by the Municipal Archive in the original or in abbreviated form for the catalogue. A first transfer of the folder titles took place later in the “single sheet procedure” (Einzelblattverfahren). The structure of the content was codified in an expanded system with a large number of subdivisions, so that specific files can be found more quickly. It was not until 1997 that a corrected fair copy of the this finding aid was completed and bound in photocopied form to be used by visitors to the archive. The register has the character of a directory, provides information about the location and is also a verifiable inventory list.
The Municipal Archive Emden dates back to the collection of municipal documents and privileges which were kept in the secretary chamber of the old town hall in the 16th century. During the tenure of city alderman Johannes Althusius in the 17th century the archive was of particular importance, as it was the source of his arguments in his fight for the political independence of Emden. In this context the first file directory of the Municipal Archive was created in 1618. From 1576 to 1942 the archive was located at the town hall on the Delft. After the transition of Emden to Prussia in 1744 and the abolition of some of the existing city rights Emden's archive lost its previous importance as an "arsenal" in the struggle for the independence of the city and was redesigned after the Prussian model. From 1763 to 1794 the archive was managed by the registrar Scipio Nellner, who created further extensive file directories. The files of the Dutch-French reign were arranged and listed by his successor in the system of the French decimal classification. In the years of Hanoverian rule the Municipal Archive fell into disarray, so that in 1859 the archive provided "the picture of a complete confusion for which the memory of two persons provided the only key.” In 1861, therefore, at the instigation of the Hannover district administration (Landdrostei) in Aurich, the registrar Ernst August Gebest took over the management of the archive. This brought the extensive files back in order. Gebest remained in post until 1914. In the years 1934-1945, under National Socialist rule, Dr Louis Hahn became the head of the archive after it had been neglected for 20 years. He brought the archive into a new order. In the years 1939-1945 the archive was moved several times to different places, which caused the largest part of the file directories as well as a number of files to be lost. The municipal archive's location in the old town hall on the Delft was destroyed in the bombing of 6 September 1944, when 90% of Emden’s city centre was lost to fire. In 1952, the director of the Museum of the East Frisian Region (“Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum“) Wolfgang Schöningh was entrusted with the reorganisation of the archive and created several directories. From 1962 the archive was stored in two storage rooms of the museum. Between 1967 and 1997 Dr Helmut Eichhorn was in charge of the Municipal Archive. In 1995-6 the archive moved from the town hall at the Delft to new, larger premises in Kirchstrasse. Since then, the archive has been stored in a former World War bunker, which was prepared as a storage unit. Documents arde housed on shelves that meet modern storage requirements, the rooms are air-conditioned and there is room for growth. The files were packaged in archive boxes and rearranged. Since 2001 Dr Rolf Uphoff is the head of the Emden Municipal Archive. Since then, an inventory of all files has taken place. All archival materials are re-recorded with the help of EDP. Today the archive contains about 500 documents, 150 manuscripts, 8,000 printed publications, 10,000 books and 70,000 files.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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From 1464 to 1806 the region East Frisia (Ostfriesland) formed the county of East Frisia, becoming the Principality of East Frisia in 1667. During this time it was a part of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1744 the area fell to Prussia, from 1806 to 1810 it was a part of the Napoleonic satellite state "Kingdom of Holland", from 1810 to 1813 a part of Napoleonic France, until finally from 1815 to 1866 Prussia again became a part of the kingdom of Hannover. With the annexation of Hannover by Prussia, the area was again administered by Prussia and in 1871 also became part of the Prussian-dominated German Empire. This remained the case beyond the time of the Weimar Republic. During National Socialism from 1939 to 1945 it formed part of the so-called “Gau Weser-Ems“. After the Second World War it became in 1946 a part of the newly formed federal state of Lower Saxony in the administrative district Aurich. Since then it has been a part of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The city of Emden already existed as a harbour settlement in the early Middle Ages. Trade was the main factor in the growth and prosperity of the city, making the settlement the largest city in East Frisia. Since 1885 it is district-free. According to a legend, Jews are said to have settled in East Frisia as early as the 14th century, but evidence exists only from the middle of the 16th century for the port cities of the region. In Emden it is attested for the year 1530. From 1842 Emden was the seat of a district rabbinate (“Landrabbinat“). From 1933 on a large part of the East Frisian Jews emigrated, those who remained were persecuted and murdered in the Holocaust. After the Second World War, only 13 Jews returned. They founded a new synagogue association in 1949, which lasted until 1984. Today only a few Jews live in East Frisia; they are part of the Jewish congregation of Oldenburg.
- System of arrangement:
- The material is arranged in thematic order.
- Finding aids:
- Printed finding aid: “V. Registratur 'Ära Fürbringer'“ (vol. 1 – 3, Helmut Eichhorn, Emden 1997)
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Matthias Springborn, 2019
