Metadata: Collection of personal estates
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Greifswald Town Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stadtarchiv Greifswald
- Postal address:
- Arndtstraße 2, 17489 Greifswald
- Phone number:
- +49 3834 8536 3311
- Email:
- stadtarchiv@greifswald.de
- Reference number:
- 02.59.
- Title:
- Collection of personal estates
- Title (official language):
- Nachlässe, Vorlässe
- Creator/accumulator:
- Greifswald Town Archive
- Date(s):
- 1920/1949
- Date note:
- 1920s/1940s
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- approx. 0.02 linear metres (1 relevant file)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection comprises documents created by individuals in or from Greifswald. It includes the estate of local historian Otto Wobbe. His personal papers contain one file (Rep. 59 A Nr. 9) of miscellaneous items, including documents about local religious minorities, which includes material about Jewish history in Greifswald.
- Archival history:
- The material was donated to the archive after the creators’ death.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Otto Wobbe (1868-1945) was an author of books on local history and also active in journalism and museums. He was the local leader of the German National People's Party (Deutschnationale Volkspartei) before 1933, thus getting involved in National Socialist cultural activities.
- Access points: locations:
- Greifswald
- Stralsund
- Access points: persons/families:
- Wobbe, Otto
- Subject terms:
- Historical research
- Nazism
- Personal records
- System of arrangement:
- The material is roughly arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- A digital finding aid and a printed finding aid are available.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://ariadne-portal.uni-greifswald.de
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Matthias Loeber, Bremen