Metadata: Guilds – Grocers’ Company
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Kiel City Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stadtarchiv Kiel
- Postal address:
- Stadtarchiv Kiel, Fleethörn 9, 24103 Kiel
- Phone number:
- +49 431 901 3422
- Email:
- stadtarchiv@kiel.de
- Reference number:
- VIII c.15
- Title:
- Guilds – Grocers’ Company
- Title (official language):
- Zünfte – Kramerkompagnie
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kiel city administration
- Date(s):
- 1816/1825
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- approx. 0.02 linear metres (1 relevant file)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Subsection VIII c.15 of the guilds collection comprises material about the grocers’ company. It includes one file (No. 868), dating from 1816 to 1817 but also including later material from 1825, which concerns the Grocers' Guild's business conflicts with local Jewish merchants. The grocers complain about the “Schutzjuden” (protected Jews) Levin Aaron Samson and Joseph Aaron Samson and their shop on the outskirts of Kiel, as well as about their activities as door-to-door merchants. The file contains an extensive report about the Samson brothers' activities and related correspondence. In the course of the events the brothers apply to the Royal Court in Gottorf for full citizenship, including full economic rights. The material from 1825 concerns the “Schutzjude“ (protected Jew) Hirsch Wolff, accused of running an illegal sales business, including a report about Wolff's activities.
- Archival history:
- The records in this collection came to the archive as part of the regular document transfer process.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Samson, Joseph Aaron
- Samson, Levin Aaron
- Wulff, Hirsch
- Subject terms:
- Citizenship
- Guilds
- Legal status of Jews
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The material is arranged chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- A digital finding aid is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Matthias Loeber, Bremen
