Metadata: Old Rectorate
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Greifswald University Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Universitätsarchiv Greifswald
- Postal address:
- Baderstraße 4/5, 17489 Greifswald
- Phone number:
- +49 3834 420 1156
- Email:
- archiv@uni-greifswald.de
- Reference number:
- 0.1
- Title:
- Old Rectorate
- Title (official language):
- Altes Rektorat
- Creator/accumulator:
- University of Greifswald Rectorate
- Date(s):
- 1695/1944
- Language:
- German
- Latin
- Extent:
- approx. 0.2 linear metres (5 relevant files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
Collection 0.1 comprises documents from the university's old rectorate. The material includes the rectorate's correspondence concerning legal issues of Jewish students.
File Hbg 64 contains statements of various members of the rectorate about the baptism of local Jews (1727).
File R 274 comprises correspondence about the state of protection of local Jew Moses Helstedt (1695). Moses Helstedt, officially enjoying the state of being a royal “Schutzjude“ (protected Jew), sends a complaint to the town's magistrate. According to his description he suffered a nocturnal attack by various students from the University of Greifswald, who forcefully entered his house, damaged his belongings and injured him. The magistrate thus forwards his letter to the university's rectorate. Further correspondence does not exist. The collection also contains material from the 1930s and 1940s.
File R 376 comprises material about Jewish students and professors from the National Socialist time. This includes correspondence about the further admission of Jewish students (ending with the general ban in 1937) and about the dismissal of Jewish professors following the “Gesetz zur Wiederhestellung des Berufsbeamtentums“ (Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service).
File R 478 contains general decrees and bills concerning university politics, including regulations about the admission of students counted as Jewish “Mischlinge“ (“mixed bloods”).
File R 982 contains material about illegal academic activities. This involves a decree forbidding academics to work for Jewish publishers.
- Archival history:
- The records in this collection came to the archive as part of the regular document transfer process.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The University Archive was established in the 17th century. A professional system of arrangement was established in the 18th century. From 1814 onwards the archive existed as an independent facility with professional staff. It holds archival material from the University of Greifswald and its individual faculties.
- Access points: locations:
- Greifswald
- Access points: persons/families:
- Helstedt, Moses
- System of arrangement:
- The material in each file is arranged chronologically.
- 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