Documentation of the Amtsgericht Bergedorf (Bergedorf Magistrates Court) in Hamburg The Amtsgericht Bergedorf (Bergedorf Magistrates Court) was established in 1855. It is still in existence as of the time of the writing of these lines. The Court files that arrive for archival storage are transferred to the State Archive in Hamburg. They include administrative files, protocols of trials, court decisions, criminal and civil court proceedings, files and Register (registration) books, and freiwillige Gerichtsbarkeit (mediation and arbitration) files. The files that were copied for Yad Vashem relate to the Handelsregister (Registry of companies) of the Court of Law. They include files regarding the dissolution of Jewish businesses, the administration of the confiscated property of the Socialist Trade Unions Center, and files of organizations that expressed their desire to become integrated into the new Nazi State, including reports prepared by the Gartenbau (Gardening Association), whose Jewish chairman left [quit] in 1934.