Metadata: Municipal Department Management
Collection
- Country:
- Austria
- Holding institution:
- City Archives of Innsbruck
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stadtarchiv/Stadtmuseum Innsbruck
- Postal address:
- Badgasse 2; 6020 Innsbruck
- Phone number:
- 0043 512 5360 1400
- Title:
- Municipal Department Management
- Title (official language):
- Magistratsdirektion
- Creator/accumulator:
- Municipal Department Management
- Date(s):
- 1875/1986
- Date note:
- ca. 1880-1986
- Language:
- German
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection of the Municipal Department Management is a non-Jewish collection with a small number of documents related to Jewish points of interest.
It covers the period from 1880 to 1986 and includes different documents of the administrative management, such as records about presidential business, questions of human resources, statistics, elections, school system, sports matters and tourism. There is at least one reference to Jewish heritage in the finding aids of 1939/40, which deals with details about discussions concerning Jews in the Nazi period, for example the treatment of “mixed race Jews” (“jüdische Mischlinge”) and the “Jewish question” (“Judenfrage”). Further research revealed no other references of Jewish heritage from this period in the finding aids.
NB: Entries about Jewish people in the finding aids of 1911 to 1986 can be found in two ways: 1. Searching for personal names or subjects, such as “Jews” (German “Juden”) or “Jewish community” (German “Israelitische Kultusgemeinde”). This applies to records until 1945, after which point there are no more Jewish references in the “subjects”. 2. For records after 1945, one must search for personal names. This is usually the more fruitful approach, as the majority of documents in the Innsbruck city archive is arranged by individuals’ names rather than by subject.
- Archival history:
- This collection was transferred to the City Archive as part of the regular document transfer process stipulated by national archival regulations. It no longer receives any accruals.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The City Archive of Innsbruck received the documents in this collection from the city council of Innsbruck and its various departments and offices. The Municipal Department Management was the supreme agency of Innsbruck and therefore all other administrative departments were subordinated to it. The management office is responsible for the highest municipal matters and reports directly to the mayor of the city. It organises, controls, improves and reviews the municipal departments. Its other responsibilities are presidential business, questions of human resources, statistics, elections, school system, support of science and arts, city theatre, archives and tourism. Cf. Werbeamt des Landesverkehrsamtes (ed.), Adressbücher 1930-1940. (The address books are publicly accessible at the City Archive in Innsbruck); Cf. Stadtmagistrat Innsbruck, Aktenplan, M. D.
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Racial laws
- Jewish Question
- Nazism
- Access, restrictions:
- Public access
- Finding aids:
- Finding aids of 1911-1986 are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Rebecca Muršec, March 2017