Social Welfare Authority I 351-10 I Sozialbehörde I
Extent and Medium
16,196 digital images, JPEG
Archival History
Staatsarchiv Hamburg (Germany)
Acquisition
Records originate from the Hamburg State Archive (Staatsarchiv Hamburg). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Archival Programs Division received the digitized microfilms in February 2019 from Yad Vashem, Israel, via exchange.
Scope and Content
Selected records of the Sozialbehörde I (Social Welfare Authority) related to the law for protection of German “blood and honor”, regulations for the Jewish housing, the cost for the care of disabled people, Jewish doctors, and Jewish forced laborers, admission of Jewish "mixed race" in day care homes, resettlement of residents displaced during redesigning of Hamburg, adoption of Jewish children, trainings for NSDAP employees, Jews in the welfare institutions, sterilization of prison inmates, public assistance for needy foreigners, the Association of Hamburg Children's Homes, student support (concerning expulsion of Jewish students), options of accommodation for the homeless, labor plans for the prisoners released from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, cooperation between NSA and social administration, and relief plans for "mother and child." Consists of correspondence, minutes of advisory meetings, monthly, quarterly and annual reports, regulations, training materials, lectures, statistics, relocation lists, and lists of inmates of the institute Farmsen, applications for welfare pension, medical guidance, press releases, and circulars.
System of Arrangement
Records arranged in following groups by names of departments: 1. State Construction; 2. Administration and Management; 3. Economic Department; 4. Personnel Affairs; 5. Salary Affairs; 6. Cash and Accounts; 7. Statistics; 8. State Welfare Institutions; 9. Welfare and Providence; 10. General Care; 11. Caring for the Elderly; 12. Minors and the Disabled; 13.Welfare during the war; 14. Health Care (extended welfare and special purpose associations and National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV).
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Staatsarchiv Hamburg (Germany)
Corporate Bodies
- Nazi Party
Subjects
- Hospitals--Administration--Germany--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Germany.
- Hamburg (Germany)
- Medical ethics--Germany--History--20th century.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany--Hamburg--History--20th century.
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
- Germany--Politics and government--20th century.
- Jewish physicians--Germany--History--20th century.
- Charities--Germany--History--20th century.
- Law and legislation--Germany--Hamburg--History--20th century.
- Medical personnel--Germany--Germany--History--20th century.
Genre
- Correspondence.
- Press releases.
- Lectures.
- Circulars.
- Minutes.
- Statistics.
- Registers.
- Reports.
- Document