Metadata: Partial personal papers of the bank employee Gerhard Ballin
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- State Archives of Lower Saxony – Wolfenbüttel branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv - Standort Wolfenbüttel
- Postal address:
- Forstweg 2, 38302 Wolfenbüttel
- Phone number:
- +49 5331 935 0
- Reference number:
- 289 N
- Title:
- Partial personal papers of the bank employee Gerhard Ballin
- Title (official language):
- Teilnachlass des Bankangestellten Gerhard Ballin
- Creator/accumulator:
- Gerhard Ballin
- Date(s):
- 1800/2000
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 2 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains material about different Jewish families and concerning Jews in more than 30 towns and communities in southern Lower Saxony, as well as records on the history of Israel Jacobson. Of special interest within the personal papers of Gerhard Ballin is the documentation regarding the jury trial in Braunschweig in 1949 pertaining to the fire of the synagogue in Seesen in November 1938.
- Archival history:
- Gerhard Ballin’s stepdaughter gave the material to the state archive in 1991.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Gerhard Ballin (1922-1989), banker in Seesen, belonged to the well-known Jewish Ballin family. His predominantly genealogical collection concerns his own and other Jewish families.
- Access points: locations:
- Seesen
- Access points: persons/families:
- Ballin, Gerhard
- Jacobson, Israel
- System of arrangement:
- There is no system of arrangement. The material is in order of accession.
- 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
