Metadata: Town Files of Wesenberg
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Archive of the Mecklenburg Lake District
- Holding institution (official language):
- Amtsarchiv Mecklenburgische Seenplatte
- Postal address:
- Platanenstraße 43, 17033 Neubrandenburg
- Phone number:
- + 49 395 57087 3333
- Web address:
- www.lk-mecklenburgische-seenplatte.de
- Reference number:
- 2103; 2107
- Title:
- Town Files of Wesenberg
- Title (official language):
- Stadtbestand Wesenberg
- Creator/accumulator:
- Mayor of the Town of Wesenberg
- Date(s):
- 1928/1942
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 2 folders
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes two files of interest to Jewish history. File Sig. 2103 contains circulars, correspondence and ordinances (print) on the implementation of the Nuremberg Laws; on the admission of Jewish persons to the “Landesfürsorgehaus (Landesanstalt) Neustrelitz-Strelitz” (1938-39) for all "male full or 3/4 Jews and stateless Jews"; on behaviour towards Jewish residents, e.g. Order on serving Jews in hairdressers (1942); service in shops; use of public telephones; conduct of “German-blooded [individuals] towards Jews" (1941); obligation to wear an identifying sign (1941), "Verzeichnis der in Wesenberg wohnhaften Juden und Mischlinge"(register of Jews and “mixed-bloods” living in Wesenberg); "Verzeichnis über das Vermögen von Juden" (Inventory of the assets of Jews) (1938) with completed forms of individual Jews; list of Jewish inhabitants of Wesenberg without date. File Sig. 2107 contains order on passports for Jews (1938).
- Archival history:
- In 1952, three years after the foundation of the GDR, the existing states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia were dissolved in an administrative reform and the territory of the GDR was divided into 14 districts with East Berlin as the so-called 15th district. Until reunification, the districts formed the middle level of state administration. Mecklenburg had 3 districts – Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg, each with 10 or 14 rural districts and 1 to 4 urban districts as a further subdivision. The district reforms of 1994 and 2011 changed the layout of the districts twice, and also partially changed the allocation of the individual municipalities to the district. With the formation of the district in 1952 came the order to establish district archives. They are the forerunners of the present district archives. The administrative district Mecklenburg-Strelitz existed from 1994 to 2011. With the district reorganisation of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern from September 2011 the administrative district was dissolved and its offices and municipalities were integrated into the new administrative district “Mecklenburgische Seenplatte”. The administrative headquarters are in Neubrandenburg, the archive in Neustrelitz.
- Access points: locations:
- Mecklenburg
- Neustrelitz
- Wesenberg
- System of arrangement:
- The material is arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Christine Schatz, Hamburg