Metadata: Departments and Directorates - Directorate of Justice and Police
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of Aargau
- Holding institution (official language):
- Staatsarchiv Aargau
- Postal address:
- Entfelderstrasse 22, CH-5001 Aarau
- Phone number:
- +41 62 835 12 90
- Email:
- staatsarchiv@ag.ch
- Reference number:
- DJ
- Title:
- Departments and Directorates - Directorate of Justice and Police
- Title (official language):
- Departemente und Direktionen – Justiz- und Polizeidirektion
- Creator/accumulator:
- Canton of Aargau
- Date(s):
- 1803/1970
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 22.5 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection contains the official documents of the cantonal justice and police directorate. In terms of Jewish history, one file is of primary interest. It contains a circular letter concerning the granting of assurances of residence permits in Switzerland to German Jews from November 1938. [DJ02/0188/17]
- Archival history:
- The directorate‘s records were probably gradually transferred to the State Archive.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- After the foundation of the Canton of Aargau in 1803, the Registrar of the State Chancellery in Aarau was responsible for organising and archiving the files produced by the new legislative and executive authorities. In the early years, these were housed in one of the lower rooms of the old town hall, which had been made available to the cantonal government by the Helvetic authorities. In the 1820s the archive moved to the new government building in the front suburb. In 1959, the State Archive and the Cantonal Library moved into a new building designed especially for them. The organisational separation of the two institutions in 1967 was also spatially completed in 1998 when the State Archive moved to the new Buchenhof administration building. The move to the new building brought about a marked improvement in internal operational processes. The archive users have a modern and purpose-oriented working environment in the Buchenhof.
- Access points: locations:
- Aargau
- Subject terms:
- Residency issues of Jews
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid is available, although the information is often rudimentary.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.ag.ch/staatsarchiv/suche/suchinfo.aspx
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2020