Metadata: Police authority of Hannover with security police inspection
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. 132 Hannover
- Title:
- Police authority of Hannover with security police inspection
- Title (official language):
- Polizeidirektion Hannover mit Schutzpolizeiinspektionen
- Creator/accumulator:
- Police authority of Hannover
- Date(s):
- 1910/2009
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 13 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains: personnel files; documents of the criminal investigation department, including: diaries, details of offenders, investigative procedures and criminal charges, including those relating to EXPO 2000 and the "chaos days" in Hannover. Of special interest to Jewish history are records relating to Dr. Walter Zirpins (senior civil servant and criminal councillor, born 26 May 1901), including investigations into alleged involvement in the killing of Jews in the Lodz Ghetto.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The current Hannover police authority (PD) was established between 1900 and 1903 as the royal Prussian police headquarters on Hardenbergstrasse near Waterlooplatz in Hannover. During World War II, it was only slightly damaged. With a view to the large police operation for EXPO 2000, the building of the PD Hannover was modernised and extended.
- Access points: locations:
- Lodz
- Access points: persons/families:
- Zirpins, Walter 1901-1976
- 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
