Metadata: Personal estate of Dr. Jürgen Asch
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:
- V.V.P. 90
- Title:
- Personal estate of Dr. Jürgen Asch
- Title (official language):
- Nachlass Dr. Jürgen Asch
- Creator/accumulator:
- Asch, Jürgen
- Date(s):
- 1925/2017
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 0.3 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The estate of Dr. Jürgen Asch contains: personal papers; business correspondence; documents of his parents Moritz and Bertha Asch from the period before 1945; documents (restitution proceedings after the Second World War); photos of various relatives of the families Asch and Seligsohn, obituaries. Of special interest to Jewish history are: correspondence by Jürgen and Bertha Asch with attorney Dr. Walter Stephan (Berlin) on estate and wills enforcement case Klara Asch (1950-1961) and compensation or law cases, including: tax notices of the tax office in Reinickendorf (1939-1944) and assessment notification of the Jewish Religious Association in Berlin (1941 and 1942) for Klara Asch; settlement with the Restitution Office in Berlin (1967); contract on division of administrator of the absent co-heir Dr. Ernst Fischer (1967); listing of the estate (1953); letter from Jürgen Asch to the Hungarian Red Cross in Budapest concerning the whereabouts of Dr. Ernst Fischer (1953); postcard by Klara Asch to her sister-in-law Bertha Asch from Theresienstadt dated 19 January 1944 (last sign of life); correspondence between Bertha Asch and lawyer Ingeburg Gentz, guardian ordered in the case of Klara Asch's mental and physical incapacity, for the estate of Klara Asch (1945-1947), including: letter from the Reich Association of Jews in Germany, Berlin, to the Chief Finance Administrator of Berlin-Brandenburg, office for the seizure of assets, dated 15 March 1945 regarding the assets of Klara Asch (copy), letter from the Gestapo/State Police Department in Berlin; estate of Dr. Jürgen Asch: correspondence of Moritz and Bertha Asch, especially correspondences by Bertha Asch, in the matter of the will of Moritz Asch, care for Klara Asch; invoices from the gas utility company in Berlin; correspondence with mortgage broker and with the Jewish Winter Relief Organisation of the Jewish congregation of Berlin.
- Archival history:
- The son of a Protestant mother and a Jewish father, Dr. Jürgen Asch was racially persecuted by the Nazi regime. He was born on 2 July 1931 in Berlin-Lichterfelde as the only child of Bertha Kließ (accountant, born on 28 June 1895 in Travemünde, died in July 1990 in Hannover) and Moritz Asch (merchant, born on 6 September 1883 in Schneidemühl/Posen). The family was wealthy. His father Moritz Asch, son of Isert and Rosa Asch, moved among the upper middle-class circles of Berlin and Hamburg. As a Jew, he was arrested by the Gestapo on 9 November 1938 in the family's Berlin home and taken to the Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg concentration camp, where he died on 8 December 1938. His sister Klara Asch (born on 7 November 1881), who was under guardianship, was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp on 16 June 1943 and declared dead after the war by a aruling of the Wedding District Court of 15 November 1951.
- Access points: locations:
- Berlin
- Access points: persons/families:
- Asch, Berta
- Asch, Jürgen
- Asch, Klara
- Beutler, Rosa
- Fischer, Ernst
- Gentz, Ingeburg
- Stephan, Walter
- 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
