Metadata: Non-governmental Archives
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:
- 10.72-2
- Title:
- Non-governmental Archives
- Title (official language):
- Nichtstaatliches Archivgut
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Rabbinate
- Date(s):
- 1754/1935
- Date note:
- 1754/1761; 1787; 1813/1935
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 91 folders
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Most of the 91 files relating to the State Rabbinate date from the 19th and early 20th centuries and reflect the activities of the State Rabbi who acted as conciliator in religious disputes. The files concern inaugurations of synagogues (No. 450 contains 2 photographs of the synagogue of Tessin); dissolution of synagogues; correspondence with other Jewish organisations; religious education; examination of Jewish teachers; inspection reports; weddings and funerals; correspondence with the individual Jewish congregations; synagogue order; dissolution of congregations; mortgages; cemeteries; ministerial decrees; lists of members of the individual congregations.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In 1839 Grand Duke Paul Friedrich issued the "Statut für die allgemeinen kirchlichen Verhältnisse der israelitischen Untertanen im Großherzogtum Mecklenburg-Schwerin". It covered the formation of an upper council, the occupation of the state rabbinate and the activities of the state rabbis. The National Rabbi was one of the Grand Duke's servants and was a member of the Israelite High Council. The first State Rabbi was Dr. Samuel Holdheim (1840); followed by Dr. David Meyer Einhorn (1847); Dr. Isaak Lipschütz (1853), Dr. Cohn (1859), Dr. Gabriel Fabian Feilchenfeld (1876) and Dr. Siegfried Silberstein (1910 to 1934). In 1934 the two regional congregations of Mecklenburg and Mecklenburg-Strelitz were merged; they were under the care of the Lübeck Rabbi Dr. David Alexander Winter.
- Access points: locations:
- Alt Strelitz
- Bützow
- Dargun
- Doberan
- Dömitz
- Gadebusch
- Gnoien
- Goldberg
- Grabow
- Grevesmühlen
- Güstrow
- Hagenow
- Krakow
- Lübtheen
- Lübz
- Ludwigslust
- Malchow
- Mecklenburg
- Neubukow
- Neukalen
- Neustadt
- Neustrelitz
- Parchim
- Penzlin
- Plau
- Radegast
- Rehna
- Ribnitz
- Röbel
- Rostock
- Schwaan
- Schwerin
- Stavenhagen
- Tessin
- Teterow
- Waren
- Warin
- Wittenburg
- Access points: persons/families:
- Achill, Jacob
- Adler, Alexander S
- Cohn, Aaron
- Cohn, August
- Cohn, Salomon
- Feilchenfeld
- Freund, Ismar
- Hamburger, Jacob
- Hirsch, Abraham
- Holdheim, Samuel
- Jacob, Juda
- Jacobson, J H
- Jaffé, Esaias Marcus
- Ladewig
- Levy, Daniel Samuel
- Levy, David
- Liebmann, Heinz
- Lipschütz
- Marcus, Liepmann
- Mendel, Nathan
- Naumann, Noah
- Seligmann
- Silberstein, Siegfried
- Tychsen, Oluf Gerhard
- Weil, Hirsch Beer
- System of arrangement:
- The items are numbered consecutively.
- Finding aids:
- The collection of Jewish sources is described in a published guide: 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 holdings of the State Main Archive can be researched 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