Metadata: Chief administrative officer of Hannover (1885-1945)
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- State Archives of Lower Saxony – Hannover branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv - Standort Hannover
- Postal address:
- Am Archiv 1, 30169 Hannover
- Phone number:
- + 49 511 1206601
- Reference number:
- Hann. 180 Hannover
- Title:
- Chief administrative officer of Hannover (1885-1945)
- Title (official language):
- Regierungspräsident Hannover (1885-1945)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Chief administrative officer of Hannover
- Date(s):
- 1655/1985
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 226.3 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Of special interest within this collection are: Jewish life in Neustadt/Rübenberge; legal relations of Jews; Jewish schooling and the "Reich Association of Jews," including: information on racial segregation in public schools; legal situation of the Jews; participation of Jews in the formation of school boards of Christian schools; actions against Jews from December 1933 to December 1934; alleged excesses against the Jews in Lemförde; general house collection among Jews in Prussia; forced auction of Jewish property; Polish Jews deported from the city of Hannover on 28 October 1938 (including list of names); civil servants, containing: exemption of the children of senior forestry official Conrad from the provisions applicable to Jewish "mixed-bloods" in 1937; application of Marcus Moses in Liebenau on the assumption of a fixed family name; tax register of Jews of the Hannover state rabbinate district; land transaction notification in Jewish matters; civil servants, containing: officials with Jewish relations in the government district of Hannover 1944; levy on Jewish assets by payment of land; exchange between the Royal Finance Directorate and the Royal Magistrate of the city of Hannover of the plot between Parkstrasse and the “Jewish churchyard" (Judenkirchhof), as well as the sale of it to the master mason Meisegeier; proof of “Aryan descent” and religious affiliation of teachers, including: list of Jewish civil servants; officials; admission of Jewish "mixed-bloods" of the first degree to vocational schools in 1944; cemetery matters, Jewish children in private schools, school and synagogue, private elementary schools, Jewish religious schools, Jewish elementary education, including: lists of Jewish children dismissed from public schools in 1938 , teachers' registers, including: a list of Jewish and emigrated authors, church affairs, “racial history”, "racial care”.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In 1823, six intermediate administrative authorities, known as Landdrosteien, were established in the kingdom of Hannover, which had fewer powers than the recently established Prussian (district) governments; in particular, they did not cover the finance, clerical and educational sectors. It was not until 19 years after the annexation of Hannover by Prussia, on 1 July 1885, that the middle administrative level was reorganised according to the Prussian system. When it was established in 1885, the administrative region of Hannover covered 5,717 square kilometres, roughly the area of Calenberg, Hoya and Diepholz. It continued to be considerably enlarged until 1945 – in 1922, Pyrmont was incorporated after a referendum and in 1932, in the course of the "internal Prussian land consolidation”, the county of Schaumburg administrative district was also added. As a result of an ordinance dating from 1932, the authority was renamed "chief administrative officer" (“Regierungspräsident"). The intermediate authorities consisted of the departments of the interior (the administrator's department), churches and schools, as well as direct taxes, domains and forestry. The latter department lost considerable importance after the First World War as income tax became a jurisdiction of the Reich and the tasks of domain management barely carried any weight. After the department was stripped of its responsibility for the forests in 1933, it was renamed the agricultural department.
- Access points: locations:
- Bad Pyrmont
- Barsinghausen
- Groß Munzel
- Hannover
- Lemförde
- Liebenau
- Münder
- Neustadt am Rübenberge
- Nienburg
- Pattensen
- Rehburg
- Salzhemmendorf
- Stolzenau
- Sulingen
- Syke
- Twistringen
- Wunstorf
- Access points: persons/families:
- Moses, Marcus
- Rosenberg, Rudolf
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic legislation
- Antisemitism--Racial laws
- Cemeteries
- Children
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Education--Vocational training
- Jewish community
- Land
- Legal status of Jews
- Literature
- Literature--Writers, poets, and playwrights
- Nazism
- Plunder
- Real estate
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is ordered according to a thematic index. Keyword search is possible via the database.
- Finding aids:
- An online catalogue (Arcinsys) is available.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.arcinsys.niedersachsen.de/arcinsys/start.action?oldNodeid=
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Meike Buck