Metadata: Interior ministry of Lower Saxony
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:
- Nds. 100
- Title:
- Interior ministry of Lower Saxony
- Title (official language):
- Niedersächsisches Innenministerium
- Creator/accumulator:
- Interior ministry of Lower Saxony
- Date(s):
- 1867/2007
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 362.6 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains records relating to: authority management and budget; press and public relations; permanent conference and working group of the ministers of interior; legal matters; border matters; name changes; naturalisations; orders; titles and badges of honour; administrative and territorial reform; compensation and reparations; surveying and cadastration; police; state protection; transport; foreigner and asylum matters; lotteries; casinos; association and assembly; party bans; civil protection; Bundeswehr [German Federal army] and federal border protection; military facilities; municipal constitution, including changes in municipal and street names; municipal supervision; municipal financial compensation; regional planning; coats of arms; seals and stamps, etc.
Of special interest to Jewish history are: residence investigations, including: creation of lists of names of deported Jews; exploitation of the seized property of deported Jews; letter from the Lower Saxony Minister of the Interior on the granting of leave to remain to foreign and stateless Jews; petition of the Jewish congregation of Hannover on the payment of due taxes on Jews and rejection of the Hannover military government; return of expropriated assets and properties to Jews and inmates of concentration camps; matters of the Lower Saxony State Committee on Special Assistance: special assistance and (detention) compensation procedures, including: racial persecution of Jews; repairing Jewish cemeteries in Lower Saxony; surveys of the fate of persons persecuted for racial-political reasons in Lower Saxony; Jewish Committee in Hannover; depictions of ghettos, forced labour camps and concentration camps, including: 3 reference files; claims for reparations by Jewish institutions and individuals; annual report of the Jewish congregation of Berlin dating from September 1979; reconstruction of Jewish cemeteries in Hannover, Hildesheim, etc.; war graves, including, among others: the resting place of former prisoners of war in the Jewish cemetery in Bassum; overviews of Jewish cemeteries in Lower Saxony; general affairs of Jewish cemeteries - isolated cases; names of Jewish frontline veterans on memorials; Jewish cemetery in Braunschweig - extension of the chapel; development of Jewish cemeteries in Lower Saxony with the help of state funds, including: photographs of the cemeteries; cemetery desecration; comparison of restitution of Jewish congregations represented by the Jewish Trust Corporation, by the state of Lower Saxony; synagogue building; the Jewish congregation of the city and district of Celle providing witnesses for affidavits on detention periods; compensation; treatment for children of former persecutors of Nazi tyranny; dissolution of the restitution authority of Braunschweig, including: letter to the Jewish congregation of Braunschweig; Society for Christian Jewish Cooperation in Hannover; compensation to the Jewish Trust Corporation for objects of worship and synagogues destroyed in Lower Saxony during the November Pogrom 1938, including: listing of the values for buildings; compensation for destroyed synagogues.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- After the establishment of the State of Lower Saxony on 9 December 1946, a new government of the State of Lower Saxony was appointed with nine expert ministers (interior; finances; construction and labour; education, arts and science; economy; transportation; food, agriculture and forestry; public health and welfare; justice).
- Access points: locations:
- Braunschweig
- Celle
- Hannover
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is ordered according to a thematic index. Keyword search is possible via the database.
- Access, restrictions:
- Restrictions on access in accordance with the German Archives Act limit access to personal files for 100 years after the birth or 10 years after the death of the person concerned.
- 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
