Metadata: University Court
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Göttingen University Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Universitätsarchiv Göttingen
- Postal address:
- Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Universitätsarchiv Göttingen, Papendiek 14, 37073 Göttingen
- Phone number:
- +49 551 39-5309
- Email:
- archiv@sub.uni-goettingen.de
- Reference number:
- Ger.
- Title:
- University Court
- Title (official language):
- Universitätsgericht
- Creator/accumulator:
- Göttingen University Court
- Date(s):
- 1733/1933
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 80 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes various legal cases of the university court, including a large number in which Jewish individuals were involved. In most cases the files document lawsuits against customers (university students or employees) of Jewish traders who did not pay their debts. Besides this there are also cases of antisemitism amongst members of the university, including insults and physical violence.
- Archival history:
- As an old registry of the university administration the archive has existed since 1772, as a historical university archive since 1925. The first university archivist, who was appointed with the merger, was Götz von Selle. He directed the archive as an honorary professor until 1956. Since 1986 the archive has been run by a full-time member of staff. Since 2017, it has been fully integrated into the SUB Göttingen.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The jurisdiction of the Göttingen university court included the teachers and staff of the university, students, their spouses and children, as well as widows and surviving children (heirs-at-law) of the associate professors, of the staff of the university court and the library officials. The Judicature Act of 1877 abolished academic judicature to a large extent, with only disciplinary measures remaining at the university courts.
The University of Göttingen was founded at the instigation of the sovereign Kurfürst Georg August of Hannover, as George II at the same time King of Great Britain (personal union since 1714), after whom the university was also named. In 1734, the university began teaching, the official inauguration followed in 1737. The Göttingen Academy of Sciences, founded in 1751, played a major role in the rise of Göttingen to become a scientific centre of European importance. During National Socialist rule the university's Jewish professors and lecturers - including world-famous scholars such as Max Born, James Franck and Emmy Noether - were dismissed and exiled. After the Second World War the Georgia Augusta was the first German university to begin teaching again, on 17 September 1945, with the permission of the British occupying forces.
- Access points: locations:
- Göttingen
- Access points: persons/families:
- Abraham, Levi
- Alexander, Herz
- Arnemann, Justus
- Aschenbach
- Ayrer, Johann Heinrich
- Bauersaz
- Beckmann, Christoph
- Elias, Meyer
- Joseph, Meyer
- Meyninger
- System of arrangement:
- The holdings of the Göttingen University Archive are mostly organised according to the institutional provenance of the material (faculties, administrative bodies, university court, etc.) and is therefore separated by institution. Within each file the system of arrangement can vary between chronological and thematical organisation.
- Access, restrictions:
- No access restrictions, but data protection regulations apply.
- Finding aids:
- An old alphabetical card index exists, but is not publicly accessible.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Matthias Springborn, 2018