Sächsische Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden records

Identifier
irn503831
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0081
  • RG-14.011M
Dates
1 Jan 1897 - 31 Dec 1944
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503831

Extent and Medium

20 microfilm reels, 35 mm

Creator(s)

  • Dresden (Germany). Polizeipräsidium.
  • Germany. Reichsministerium des Innern
  • Nachrichtstelle der Sa?chsischen Staatskanzlei (Zeitungsausschnittsammlung)

Biographical History

The Reich Ministry of the Interior (RMI) was the Ministry of the Interior of the German Reich during the Weimar Republic and the period of National Socialism . On November 1, 1934, it was united with the Prussian Ministry of the Interior to the Reich and Prussian Ministry of the Interior. It had the responsibility for the entire police apparatus. It was the successor of the Reich Office of the Interior and the predecessor of the Ministry of the Interior. Since April 14, 1914, the Ministry of Interior had the responsibility for elite sports as national task. Extension of the Reich Ministry of the Interior from the 1930s, Dorotheenstraße 93. The Official Gazette of the Reich Ministry, which was issued for the purpose of public announcements, was the Reichsministerialblatt (RMBl) from 1923 to 1945. It followed in this function from 1873 to 1922 mostly still published by the predecessor authority Zentralblatt for the German Reich (ZBl). [Source: Wikipedia]

Archival History

Staatsarchiv Dresden

Acquisition

Various agencies of the German government created the records before and during World War II. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives ordered the filming of selected files from the Sächische Hauptstaatsarchiv collection in 1993.

Scope and Content

Contains information about revocation of citizenship; activities of Zionist organizations and Zionist congresses; cases of Rassenschande; restrictions on Mischlinge; Jehovah's Witnesses; homosexuals; antisemitic propaganda; anti-Jewish laws; treatment of Ostjuden; concentration camps; treatment of German Romanies; the Jewish question in the East; and activities of Israelitische Religionsgemeinde in various German cities.

System of Arrangement

Organized into the following series: Reichsministerium des Innern, Reels 1-2; Polizeiprasidium Dresden, Reels 2-4; Nachrichtstelle der Sächsischen Staatskanzlei (Zeitungsauschnittsammlung), Reels 5-7; Kreishauptmannschaft Zwickau, Reels 10-11; Amtshauptmannschaft Annaberg, Reel 11; Sondergericht Freiberg-Zuchthaus Waldheim, Reels 12-13; Wirtschaftsministerium, Reel 13; Reichsministerium für Volksbildung, Reel 14-20. Arrangment is thematic within series.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Staatsarchiv Dresden

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Gays--Nazi persecution.
  • Concentration camps--Germany.
  • Expatriation.
  • Jehovah's Witnesses--Nazi persecution.
  • Romani Genocide, 1939-1945.
  • Antisemitism.
  • Zionists--Germany--Congresses.
  • Dresden (Germany)
  • Saxony (Germany)
  • Mischlinge (Nuremberg Laws of 1935)
  • Anti-Jewish propaganda--Germany.
  • Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.
  • Race defilement (Nuremberg Laws of 1935)

Genre

  • Document
  • Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
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