Metadata: Chief administrative officer of Lüneburg (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 Lüneburg
- Title:
- Chief administrative officer of Lüneburg (1885-1945)
- Title (official language):
- Regierungspräsident Lüneburg (1885/1945)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Chief administrative officer of Lüneburg
- Date(s):
- 1694/1985
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 510 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains records relating to the chief administrator's office; service administration; organisation; human resources management; police; military matters; health care; local affairs; welfare care; foundations; refugees; insurance; sovereign matters; agriculture; regional culture; nature conservation; veterinary affairs; commercial economy; business inspectorate; transport; water management; properties; construction; housing and settlement; urban planning; heritage preservation; land planning; department of churches and schools; youth care; sports; art; culture; domain management; forest management; personnel files.
Of special interest to Jewish history are: laws, ordinances and decrees of various kinds: Nazi inflammatory speech against Judaism (1933); newspaper clippings concerning the employment of Jews in private service and travel; registration of Jewish property; implementation of the decree on the elimination of Jews from German economic life and registration of the assets of Jews; renting apartments to Jews; instructions on the Jewish ordinances; decrees and ordinances of the Prussian Minister of the Interior or the Secret State Police on the treatment of Jews, including: boycott measures, issue of passports, dissolution of Jewish associations; construction of makeshift homes on the territory of the Lüneburg Jewish cemetery; hospitals: correspondence on the relocation of mentally ill Jews; requests for the Reichsbürgerbrief (Reich citizenship certificate) by Jewish "mixed-bloods"; withdrawals of German citizenship with lists of names, mostly of Jews, "gypsies" and Poles; prohibition of the raising of the imperial flag by Jews, 1935; officials with Jewish relatives ("jüdisch Versippte") and their removal from the civil service; implementation of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, including: information on the dismissal of Jewish civil servants; leave of absence of Jewish civil servants and provision of proof of the non-Jewish descent of civil servants; sale of Jewish property; exclusion of Jewish lawyers from the treasury; creation of a reading book for Jewish schools; Jewish cemeteries; school matters, decrees and ordinances of the Prussian Minister of the Interior or the Secret State Police on the treatment of Jews, including: 1887 statistical yearbook of the Deutsch-Israelitischer Gemeindebund (German-Jewish Communities Association); Jewish birth, marriage and death lists; school and synagogue matters; weddings; prohibition of Jewish religious education; use of Jewish assets; regulation of the legal situation over former Jewish land holdings; granting of aid to Jewish synagogue and school associations; establishment of a new synagogue in Lüneburg.
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic boycotts
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic legislation
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic propaganda
- Cemeteries
- Citizenship
- Education--Schools and universities
- Health and medical matters
- Health and medical matters--Hospitals
- Health and medical matters--Mental health
- Law enforcement
- Law enforcement--Police
- Nazism
- Newspaper clippings
- Passports and visas
- Plunder
- Professions
- Professions--Lawyers
- Synagogues
- Vital records
- Vital records--Birth records
- Vital records--Death records
- Vital records--Marriage records
- 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