Metadata: Government Council Files 1837-1950
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- State Archive Solothurn
- Holding institution (official language):
- Staatsarchiv Solothurn
- Postal address:
- Bielstrasse 41; CH-4509 Solothurn
- Phone number:
- +41 32 627 62 80
- Web address:
- https://so.ch/staatskanzlei/staatsarchiv/
- Email:
- staatsarchiv@sk.so.ch
- Title:
- Government Council Files 1837-1950
- Title (official language):
- Regierungsrats-Akten 1837-1950
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administration of Solothurn
- Date(s):
- 1861/1920
- Language:
- German
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection contains reports on the debate on the equality of Jews that took place throughout Switzerland in the 1860s. This debate was occasionally conducted with an antisemitic undertone. In 1862, for example, it was claimed that foot-and-mouth disease had been brought in by Jewish traders. Similar accusations were repeated against Guggenheim in the 1870s and against Katz and Leval in the 1890s. Among others, there is a file from 1875 concerning the cattle traders "Gebrüder Leval" (Salomon and Charles) and Daniel and Heinrich Katz. In 1882, the merchant Josef Guggenheim from Obererlinsbach filed a tax complaint, which proves that he lived in the community at that time. There is a cantonal ordinance from 1894 that basically prohibited shechita. From 1896 there is again a letter about the import of kosher meat from Olten. In 1887, there is the case of Rabbi Salomon Nordmann who died that year, leaving his family in need. Since Nordmann was a French citizen, his surviving dependants initially received no support from the Solothurn municipality, whereupon a correspondence ensued between the Jewish Community and the city. After the First World War, more and more Jews applied for citizenship. One of them was Benjamin Feldmann from the Ukraine, who acquired citizenship in Starrkirch for 1,000 francs.
[RR-Bericht 1861, Solothurn 1862: 114; RR-Rechenschaftsbericht 1861, Solothurn 1862:181; RR-Akten Rubrik Sanität, 1871, Nr. 2367; RR-Akten, Rubrik Sanität 1875, Nr. 2845; RR-Akten, Rubrik Bund 1887-1888 (Sign. A 10/357), Nr. 1354, 1669 und 1888; RR-Bericht 1894; Reg.-Beschluss 1882, Nr. 1845, 1454; RR-Akten, Rubrik Sanität, Eintrag vom 21.6.1895; Sign. A 10, 588; RR-Akten, Rubrik Sanität 1895, Nr. 2845; Reg.-Beschluss Nr. 3081, 20.11.1896; RR-Bericht 1898: 380; RR-Akten, Kantonsrat, Rubrik I 1920]
- Archival history:
- The collection has been transferred to the archive on a continual basis.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The State Archives hold the documents of parliament, government and administration of the canton of Solothurn. In addition, there are documents of independent corporations, institutions subject to cantonal public law and of natural or legal persons, as long as they fulfil public tasks of the canton. The holdings of the State Archives comprise around 8,500 linear metres. The oldest fragment of a text dates from the end of the 8th century. The oldest completely preserved document dates from 1147. In terms of quantity, the focus is clearly on more recent administrative documents. The holdings of the Jewish Community were transferred to the State Archive in 2013.
- Access points: locations:
- Solothurn
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2021
