Archives from the Consulate general of Germany in Jerusalem
Held by Israel State Archives (ISA)
Reference | JM-ISA/RG67/1-866/1-13/2 |
Title | Administration of the consulate under Dr Schultz and Mr Finn. |
Dates | 1842-1851 |
Dates Start | 1842 |
Dates End | 1851 |
Level of description | File |
Extend and medium | 1 file |
Repository | Israel State Archives (ISA) |
Name of creator(s) | Consulate general of Germany in Jerusalem (CGGJ) |
Description | Consul Dr. Schultz: personal file (correspondence concerning appointments, salaries, duty travel and vacations). |
Language of material | German |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/administration-of-the-consulate-under-dr-schultz-and-mr-finn |
Reference | JM-ISA/RG67 |
Title | Archives from the Consulate general of Germany in Jerusalem |
Covering dates | 1842-1945 |
Dates Start | 1842 |
Dates End | 1945 |
Level of description | Fonds |
Extend and medium | Global extent : 1923 files, about 50 linear meters |
Repository | Israel State Archives (ISA) |
Name of creator(s) | Consulate general of Germany in Jerusalem (CGGJ) |
Archival history | As this is a German consular archive, the fonds should be kept in Berlin. However, it would appear that the fund was abandoned at the outbreak of the Second World War, when German consular activity ceased in Palestine. The fund was reportedly sheltered in a monastery in Jerusalem. The seizure in Nazareth in October 1955, by an Israeli police officer, of a part of these papers would have brought to light the fact that they were the object of a clandestine sale by the kilo. Sixteen years later, the Israeli State and the State Archives of Israel (ISA) recovered substantial fragments of them by commercial means. |
Description | Documents of German consulates in Jerusalem, Jaffa, and Haifa, including records of relations with the Ottoman authorities, tax matters, the acquisition of property, Jewish immigration, civil and criminal cases, representation of German interests by the Spanish Consulate (1917‒1926), and a variety of other subjects. Collection reflects Germany’s takeover of the Austrian Consulate in 1938. Only the remnants from the archives of the consulate in Jerusalem from the years 1842-1939 (including several files of the Austrian consulate which were turned over to the German consulate upon the annexion of Austria in march 1938) are described here, but the fonds also contains remnants from the archives of the Jaffa consulate (1870-1917) and the Haifa consulate (1877-1918). |
Accruals | Fond is closed. |
System of arrangement | The files were renumbered by the National Archives of Israel. The online records contain the titles of the proceedings, so that one can find them from the finding aids published in 1976 in German. |
Conditions governing access | Subject to the authorization of Israel State Archives (ISA) |
Finding aids | http://www.archives.gov.il/en/ http://www.archiv.diplo.de/Vertretung/archiv/de/03-Bestaende/03-bestaende.html |
Rules or conventions | International standard for archival description, General, etc. |
Date of the catalogue | February 2018. |
Archivist's notes | Authors : Isabelle Chave, Wojszvzyk Elise, David Labude |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/archives-from-the-consulate-general-of-germany-in-jerusalem |