Gestapo Düsseldorf Geheime Staatspolizei-Staatspolizeileitstelle Düsseldorf (RW 0058)

Identifier
irn628374
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2018.457.1
  • RG-14.120
Dates
1 Jan 1933 - 31 Dec 1944
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

1,355,371 digital images, JPEG

Archival History

Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen

Acquisition

Source of acquisition is the Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen (State Archive of North Rhine-Westphalia). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in Oct. 2018.

Scope and Content

Case files of individuals arrested by the Gestapo in the Rhine Land region, consisting of questionnaires, protocols, internments and dismissals, Schutzhaft orders, arrest orders, flyers, photographs, and biographical information with particular focus on the Communist Party in Germany and associated political organizations (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD), Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands (KJVD), Kampfbund gegen den Faschismus, Roter Frontkämpferbund (RFB), Revolutionäre Gewerkschaftsopposition (RGO), Rot Sport, Aufbruch-Arbeitskreis, Ringbolschewisten); the Communist movement (including Rotspanienkämpfer, Internationale Arbeiterhilfe, Rote Hilfe); the Esperanto movement; Roter Kämpfer-Kreis; Französischer Rheinschifferverband; the Socialist Party of Germany and associated political organizations (including Sozialistische Arbeiterjugend, Eiserne Front, Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei); Marxism; foreigners; so-called Rückwanderer; so-called sects (including Adventists, Bibelforscher or Jehovah's Witnesses, Christliche Versammlung); Freemasons; Pacifists, the Catholic Church; the Evangelical Church (including Bekennende Kirche, Deutsche Christen); Jews; emigrants; various offenses such as treason, espionage, sabotage, Vergehen gegen das Heimtückegesetz, Separatismus and allgemeine Opposition; monarchists; Stahlhelm; Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Frontkämpferbund (NSDFB); Jungdeutscher Orden; Schwarze Front; unions; foreign laborers; prisoners of war; youth organizations, media and the press; radio; the arts; cases involving members of the Wehrmacht, police, the foreign legion, ethnic minorities, and cases against members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP).

System of Arrangement

Archival signatures: LAV NRW, R, RW 0058 (RW-58) Nr. 1-71,728. Arranged in 71,728 archival registration units: Consists of 71,617 Gestapo personal files. The total number of the registration units is higher than personal files because the collection includes empty files (Missing files) and an additional unit was created whenever files were bound into volumes.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen

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Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.