Metadata: Town Collection Boizenburg
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- District Archive Ludwigslust-Parchim, Ludwigslust branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Kreisarchiv Ludwigslust-Parchim, Außenstelle Ludwigslust
- Postal address:
- Garnisonsstraße 1, 19388 Ludwigslust
- Phone number:
- +49 3871 7221044
- Reference number:
- 1
- Title:
- Town Collection Boizenburg
- Title (official language):
- Stadtbestand Boizenburg
- Creator/accumulator:
- Magistrate of Boizenburg; Town Council of Boizenburg
- Date(s):
- 1690/1962
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 34 folders
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collections of Boizenburg contains 37 files with content of interest for the history of the Jews in Boizenburg:
1. Files mainly until 1933 cover subjects such as permission to trade (1811-1833; No. 1/2759); occupation and business censuses (1907-1917; No. 1/125); trade registrations (1887-1909; No. 1/138); directory of registrations and deregistrations of apprentices (1863-1882; No. 1/144); privileges (1703, 1841, 1858; p. 1/165); list of members of the Jewish congregation (1844-1924); No. 1/501; 1/502); 3 letters of protection (1837-1844; No. 1/503; 1/504; 1/505); grain purchase by Jews; ordinance against pedlars (1727-1773; No. 506); emigration (1878-1913; No. 1/597; 1/599); Jews and the poor (1844-1880; No. 1/443); citizenship (1840-1917; No. 1/601); change in ownership of real estate (1902-1924; No. 1/1992); honorary citizenship of David Lazarus (1886-1938; p. 1/1058); guardianship ((1887-1938; No. 1/3175); house purchase (1832-1839; No. 1/3414); powers of attorney, actions, prohibition of peddling; lists of names; debts (1683-1884; No. 1/3421; 3438; 3439).
2. files mainly from 1933 onwards contain applications for identification cards (1942; No. 1/1027); registration sheets of the criminal police Schwerin (1941/1944; No. 1/1988); several files on the “Chemische Fabrik Hirsch und Richter” in Boizenburg (1900/1963), later “VEB Chemische Fabrik Boizenburg”, only partially indexed: minutes; Contracts (No. 1/2287); Thefts (No. 1/65); Building and construction plans (No. 1/184; 1/4432); Accounts and balance sheets (No. 1/2005; 1/2008; 1/2009); Burial fund of the “Boizenburger Schützenzunft“, membership of Jews (1902-1942; No. 1/3272).
Supplementary sources: Files concerning the application for residence (No. 1/01 to 1/26 1888/1920, 1/32/33, 1900/1920), presumably contain names of Jewish persons; census files (No. 1/834; 1/886; 1/887), names of Jewish persons may also be recorded here. No longer included in the inventory are No. 1/8 Jewish Religious Matters (1882; 1936; 1948; 1951, file missing, whereabouts unknown) and No. 1/1133 Jewish cemetery (1937/1942, the file is missing since 2006, whereabouts unknown). An edition of the citizens' books of Boizenburg (1692-1878) is available in printed form (names include: Cohn, Abraham; Kusel, Samuel; Kusel, Seelig; Lazarus; Seligsohn (1813)).
- Administrative/biographical history:
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In 1952, three years after the founding of the GDR, the existing states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia were dissolved in an administrative reform. The territory of the GDR was divided into 14 districts, East Berlin became the so-called 15th district. Until reunification, the districts formed the middle level of the state administration and took over the tasks of the state governments. Mecklenburg received three districts, Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg, each with ten or 14 rural districts and one to four urban districts. The rural and urban districts formed the 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 establishment of the district in 1952, the order was also issued to set up district archives. They are the forerunners of the present district archives.
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- Access points: locations:
- Boizenburg
- Lübtheen
- Mecklenburg
- Rostock
- Schwerin
- Strelitz
- Zarrentin
- Access points: persons/families:
- Behrend, Joel
- Cohn family
- Engel, J H
- Feilchenfeld
- Gutkind
- Kusel, Abraham
- Kusel, Samuel
- Kusel, Seelig
- Lazarus, David
- Lazarus, Philipp
- Marcus, Behrend Meyer
- Samuel, Isaak
- Seligsohn, Moses
- System of arrangement:
- Files are in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- There is an in-house list (Word document) as well as the published finding aid “Findbuch für Judaica in den Kreis- und Stadtarchiven Westmecklenburgs”, published by Verein für jüdische Geschichte in Mecklenburg und Vorpommern e.V., edited by Norbert Francke, Schwerin 2001. A general overview of the collections, especially after 1952, is available online.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Christine Schatz, Hamburg
