Metadata: Mecklenburg-Schwerin/Mecklenburg
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- State Archive Schwerin
- Holding institution (official language):
- Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin
- Postal address:
- Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin, Graf-Schack-Allee 2, 19053 Schwerin
- Phone number:
- + 49 385-588794 10
- Email:
- poststelle@lakd-mv.de
- Reference number:
- 5
- Title:
- Mecklenburg-Schwerin/Mecklenburg
- Title (official language):
- Mecklenburg-Schwerin/Mecklenburg
- Creator/accumulator:
- Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; State of Mecklenburg
- Date(s):
- 1849/1945
- Date note:
- 1849/1935; 1934/1945
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 318 folders
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The relevant files on the Jewish congregation and Jewish individuals are contained in Group III Land Matters (318 files). Within Group III, the files 5.12- 7/14 “Staatliches Gesundheitsamt Rostock-Stadt” (1935-1945) contain more than 1,000 files of the "Erbgesundheitsgerichte" (hereditary health courts) with procedural files on individual Jewish persons within the context of Nazi "racial hygiene". In detail: III. state cases 5.12- 1/1 with 2 files (1934-1944) on proof of Aryan ancestry and official regulations on population and race policy; 5.12-2/2 Mecklenburg legation to the German Bundestag in Frankfurt (1861-1866) with 5 files on religious matters; legal status of Jews; validity of Jewish wills; marriages; 5.12.-2/3 “Mecklenburgische Gesandtschaft” (Mecklenburg Embassy) in Berlin (1786-1934) with 1 file on Jewish matters of worship; 5.12-3/1 Mecklenburg-Schwerin Ministry of the Interior with 55 files (1902-1945) relating to civil status (6); citizenship and expatriation (3); trade (1); disposals of Jewish property (44) (house sales); welfare (1);
5.12-3/27 “Landesfürsorge- und Landesarbeitshaus Güstrow” (1817-1950) with 2 files on Polish Jews in Mecklenburg (1853-1861) and prisoners in custody in the Neustrelitz-Strelitz State Institution (1934-1940), affiliated since 1934; 5.12-5/1 Ministry of Finance (1849-1945), which includes 7 files relating to property and debt administration for confiscation of assets “hostile to the state” (1); properties (1); general (1), in the subject group budget, treasury and accounting 4 files on Jewish cemeteries in Dargun, Rehna and Schwerin and the Israelite High Council; 5.12-6/1 Ministry of Justice (1849-1935) with 5 files on the individual legal areas of criminal law and criminal procedural law with investigations against Jews for usury; 5.12-6/4 Higher Regional Court, Public Prosecutor's Office (1879-1945) with 31 files on the legal and employment relationships of Jews; welfare work and "hereditary health care";
5.12-7/1 Ministry of Education, Arts, Religious and Medical Affairs (1849-1945) with 68 files on the University of Rostock, schools; churches and Jewish congregations (40 titles on statutes, personal files of rabbis; Jewish high council; congregation treasuries; schools; cemeteries), Jewish foundations (18 titles) as well as an expert opinion on kosher butchering; 5.12-7/12 Government commissioner at the Israelite High Council (1840-1926) with 69 files on the High council; rabbinate; congregation affairs, especially dissolving of congregations, sale of synagogues in the first decades of the 20th century;
5.12-7/14 “Staatliches Gesundheitsamt Rostock-Stadt“ (1935-1945) with more than 1,000 files of the "Hereditary Health Courts" with procedural files on individual Jews; 5.12-9/2 to 5.12-9/9 Office and District administrations (1921; 1926 to 1945) with 11 files of the district offices Güstrow; Hagenow; Ludwigslust; Schönberg/Grevesmühlen; Schwerin including official circulars, orders, land sales, Jewish property, confiscations, foundations; 5.2-1 Grand Ducal Cabinet III/Grand Ducal Secretariat (c. 1850; 1920; 1945) with 12 relevant files on citizenship for Jews, proselytes, writers, regional rabbis, Jewish congregations, personal files of rabbis.
- Archival history:
- The collection 5.12-3/1 "Mecklenburg-Schwerinsches Ministerium des Innern" is incomplete. There was a loss due to a fire (1865) and the intentional destruction in early 1945 of the files from the years 1933-1945, in particular on social policies.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- By decree of 10 October 10 1849, the ministerial organisation was newly established. At the head of the organisation was the General Ministry, from 1853 the Ministry of State. As early as 1932, under National Socialist leadership, the Ministry of State was reorganised according to the “Führerprinzip”.
- Access points: locations:
- Berlin
- Boizenburg
- Brüel
- Bützow
- Crivitz
- Dassow
- Doberan
- Dömitz
- Gadebusch
- Gnoien
- Goldberg
- Grabow
- Grevesmühlen
- Güstrow
- Hagenow
- Krakow
- Laage
- Lübtheen
- Lübz
- Ludwigslust
- Malchin
- Marlow
- Mecklenburg
- Neubukow
- Neukalen
- Neukloster
- Neustadt
- Parchim
- Penzlin
- Plau
- Rehna
- Ribnitz
- Röbel
- Rossow
- Rostock
- Schwaan
- Schwerin
- Stavenhagen
- Strelitz
- Tessin
- Teterow
- Waren
- Warin
- Wismar
- Wittenburg
- Zarrentin
- Access points: persons/families:
- Einhorn
- Feilchenfeld
- Hamburger, J
- Hirsch
- Lichenheim
- Singer, F
- Suttner, Bertha von
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged in chronological order.
- Access, restrictions:
- Some restrictions apply to personal files.
- Finding aids:
-
An inventory and card index exist. The Jewish sources in the collection are also described in the printed finding aid: Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden in den Archiven der neuen Bundesländer, edited by Stefi Jersch-Wenzel and Reinhard Rürup, Vol. 4 Staatliche Archive in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Sachsen und Thüringen, München 1999, S. 7-185 (Mecklenburg-Schwerin).
The archive catalogue is also available online.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://ariadne-portal.uni-greifswald.de/
- http://archivdatenbank.landeshauptarchiv-schwerin.de/
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Christine Schatz, Hamburg
