Health Insurance Agencies 355-4 Versicherungsbehörden
Extent and Medium
190 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 Versicherungsbehörden (German Health Insurance Agencies), 1847-1954. Consist of minutes of director's meetings, records of employment of legal advisors, and for civil servant positions concerning German-Jewish community; negotiations between associations of dentists and health insurance companies about contracts and regulations, exclusion of the Jewish Hospital from the treatment of "Aryan" health insurance members, files relating of regulation for care for political prisoners in concentration camps, and compulsory insurance for guards of the concentration camps, and other records relating to organization and employment. Includes a file of SS-Sturmführer Willi Dusenschön and Ferdinand Gowa.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Staatsarchiv Hamburg (Germany)
Corporate Bodies
- Nazi Party
Subjects
- Hamburg (Germany)
- Germany--Politics and government--20th century.
- Health services administration--German--History--20th century.
- Jews--Germany--Hamburg--History--20th century.
- Insurance, Health--Germany--History--20th century.
- Race discrimination--Law and legislation--Germany--History--1933-1945.
Genre
- Document
- Registers.
- Correspondence.