Amtsgericht (District Court) of Chomutov
Extent and Medium
22,27 linear meters
Acquisition
After the abolition of the Amtsgericht Komotau (District Court in Chomutov) in 1945, its documents remained stored in the court building in Chomutov, in the common registry for the district courts of Hora sv. Sebestiana, Chomutov and Jirkov. Those documents were in the 1950s-1960s gradually handed over to the State Archives in Litomerice (since 1974, the State Regional Archives in Litomerice). Part of the criminal files of the former Amtsgericht Chomutov was stored at the District Court in Most, from where the files were taken over in 1966 by the State Archives in Litomerice. The complete archive collection was arranged and inventoried in 1967. In 1979, the archive collection was transferred to the District Archives Chomutov, based in Kadan (since 1992, the State District Archives Chomutov, based in Kadan).
Scope and Content
In the materials concerning the criminal agenda there are files relating to the breach of the duty to use the supplemental first name Israel for Jewish men, and Sára for Jewish women, 1940.
System of Arrangement
The archive collection contains only court materials that were arranged and divided into 6 groups (I. Personal files, II. Common and auxiliary files, III. General files, IV. Court agenda itself - divided into the civil and criminal one, V. Department of labor disputes, and VI. Inheritance court).
Finding Aids
P. Janoušek, Úřední soud Chomutov 1938–1945. Inventář. Litoměřice 1967 (archivní pomůcka č. 162)
Process Info
This archival description was created by the Jewish Museum in Prague in the framework of the cooperation between EHRI and the Yerusha project.
Places
- Chomutov