Geheime Räte: innere Landesverwaltung

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Country

DE

Name of institution (English)

State Archives of Lower Saxony – Hannover branch

Name of institution (official language of the state)

Language of name of institution

deu

Contact information: postal address

Am Archiv 1, 30169 Hannover

Contact information: phone number

0049 5111206601

Contact information: web address

Contact information: email

hannover@nla.niedersachsen.de

Reference number

Hann. 93

Type of reference number

Archival reference number

Title (English)

Privy councils: internal regional administration

Title (official language of the state)

Geheime Räte: innere Landesverwaltung

Language of title

deu

Creator / accumulator

Electorate/Kingdom of Hannover
Geheimen Räte

Date(s)

1216/1889

Language(s)

deu

Extent

64.5 linear metres

Type of material

Textual Material

Physical condition

Good

Scope and content

Collection Hann. 93 includes the files of the Electoral Hannover privy councils concerning the internal state administration in all branches.
The collection contains records relating to general matters; deduction charges from inheritances; administrative districts and city matters; appointments; Bremen Reich execution; internal state administration; border and sovereign matters; counties of Hohnstein and Hoya; Ilfeld abbey; intercessions; justice and criminal matters; monastic matters; agricultural matters; state economics; war; feudal matters; service duty of inhabitants (Landfolge); assembly of estate, etc.
Of special interest to Jewish history is a directory of Jewish families with their adult sons and assistants in the hamlets (Flecken) of Hoya, Bücken, Bruchhausen, and Vilsen; demands for money; writs of protection; settlement of six wealthy Portuguese Jewish families in Hannover territory; responsibility of the state rabbis; Jewish writs of protection; surplice fee (Jura stolae), names and families of the "protected Jews" ("Schutzjuden") living in the city of Burgdorf; exchange debt claims; intercessions; various Jewish matters; correspondence; imperial warrant of apprehension; passport matters; announcement of an epidemic; reports; applications; the onera publica (public duties) of the Jews in Münden; lists of "protected Jews" ("Schutzjuden"); the synagogue in Hannover; private prayer; request by Philipp Hirsch in Nörten for protection; and a list of "Schutzjuden" residing in the administrative district of Fallersleben.

Archival history

The Geheime Räte: innere Landesverwaltung fonds started to be formed in 1705 when the principality of Celle was united with Calenberg. The collection chronologically connects to the corresponding files Cal. Br. 23 (1488-1705), while the relevant Celle matters are distributed over a whole series of files of the Celle Archive (Celle Br. 46 to 70). However, the key year 1705 is not rigorously maintained – numerous subject areas date from the 17th and even the 16th century. The majority of the files are from the 18th century and the collection mostly ends with the occupation period of 1803. Only a few documents are available from the following decades up to 1823, the last year of the collection Hann. 93. The majority of the administration matters were then transferred to the administrative regions (Landdrosteien).
In 1950 — when the State Archives undertook the reorganisation of the fonds of the Landdrosteien and of other government institutions and restored their finding aids — it is accepted that the Landdrosteien fonds contained numerous files from the Geheime Räte (Privy Councils), which did not become an organic part of the Landdrosteien records and some were not even listed. These files are mostly in Hann. 93.. The volume of this collection has almost tripled as a result of the incorporation of these files.

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The collection is ordered according to a thematic index. Keyword search is possible via the database.

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Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv - Standort Hannover Collections (official language of the state)