District self administration Gauselbstverwaltung
Extent and Medium
10,360 digital images, JPEG
30 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Archival History
Oberösterreichisches Landesarchiv
Acquisition
The Gauselbstverwaltung collection was transferred after the war to the Oberösterreichisches Landesarchiv.The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Oberösterreichisches Landesarchiv (Archives of Upper Austria) via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in January 2010.
Scope and Content
Contains only those records of the district self administration that were continued in the financial division after 1945. The records pertain mostly to the confiscation of Upper Austrian cloisters and monasteries, properties owned by the Schwarzenberg family, as well as other "Aryanization" or expropriation cases. The administration of the real properties is partly documented until the 1950s. The collection also contains some unrelated earlier and later records dealing with agricultural activities as well as the Oberösterreichische Kraftwerke.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Oberösterreichisches Landesarchiv
People
- Schwarzenberg family--Austria--Upper Austria.
Subjects
- Church buildings--20th century--Austria--Upper Austria.
- Aryanization--Austria--Upper Austria.
- Austria--Upper Austria--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Austria--Upper Austria.
- World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Austria--Upper Austria.
Genre
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Oberösterreichisches Landesarchiv