Period: 1381 - 1945 Scope: 35 linear metres = 2,143 units of description Cataloguing: ordered and indexed, index (1981) Citation method: AHR, 1.1.12.1. No. ... or Gewett: port and shipping, no. ... Content: 1. general business operation and finances regulations of the council and the Gewett (1688-1944, 16 VE).- personnel matters (1749-1943, 16 VE).- household, insurance, taxes (1882-1945, 17 VE).- Gewettsrechnungen (1381-1918, 65 VE).- documents to the Gewettsrechnungen (1651-1765, 9 VE). 2. port and shipping port and shipping in general (1828-1945, 81 units) - Rostock shipping (1660-1945, 82 units) - Bielbriefe (1710-1902, 8 units) - ship surveying (1843-1927, 35 units) - ship register files (1840-1900, 434 units).- Ship's logbooks (1783-1878, 10 units) - Ship's averages and declarations (1804-1942, 25 units) - Ship's lists (1557-1938, 12 units) - Ship's traffic, port journals, number books of incoming and outgoing ships (1576-1945, 45 units).- Harbour dues and fees (1811-1945, 51 units).- Harbour master (1756-1945, 7 units).- Harbour facilities, port construction, port operations (1668-1945, 43 units).- Harbour and beach railway (1894-1933, 5 units).- Harbour doctor, health police (1784-1937, 14 units).- Seamen's office, etc. This year, Wasserschout (1829-1945, 26 units) - Seamen's survey, survey rolls (1799-1919, 62 units) - Breach of wages contracts and wages regulations (1798-1879, 31 units) - Unauthorized abandonment of ships (1843-1937, 86 units) - Maltreatment of seamen (1854-1892, 9 units).- Miscellaneous offences, disputes, penalties for seafarers (1833-1945, 68 units) - Reimbursement of expenses for repatriation, meals, support for seafarers (1854-1930, 183 units) - Death of seafarers, inheritance matters, wages (1856-1941, 109 units).- Seemannsunterstützungskasse, Invaliden- und Unfallversicherung (1870-1945, 27 VE).- Training of seafarers, navigation school (1833-1945, 19 VE).- Ferry, steam and motor ship traffic (1834-1945, 109 VE).- Storage sites in Rostock and Warnemünde (1826-1945, 38 VE).- Shipbuilding sites, shipyards (1781-1911, 13 VE) - Fire-fighting operations, lighterships (1798-1905, 10 VE) - Pilotage (1741-1943, 158 VE) - Maritime marks, signals (1812-1942, 15 VE) - Fairway, Warnow (1783-1944, 53 VE) - Beach matters (1633-1945, 39 VE).- dredging, ballast (1745-1944, 46 units) - crane, scales, tar house (1790-1945, 15 units) - bridges, bridge deliveries (1839-1941, 9 units) - navy, warships (1873-1942, 9 units) - sea border slaughterhouse (1915-1931, 4 units) - fishing (1822-1934, 8 units) - water sports (1895-1937, 6 units). Overview: The sub-collection "Gewett: Hafen und Schifffahrt" contains the most important sources on Rostock's shipping history. The temporal emphasis of the tradition lies in the 19th century and reaches up to the end of the Second World War. The nautical register from 1585-1605, the ship's tonnage records (Bielbriefe), the ship's register files, the ship's registers, the harbour journals or the sample rolls are worth mentioning. In addition, the general administrative files for the business operation of the bet are classified in this portfolio. Of particular interest are, among other things, the weight calculations. The invoices of the two Weddeherren, which have been available since 1381, prove that the preservation of the harbour, the low, the fairway, the bulwark and the light as well as the supervision of the beach and the flotsam have belonged to their tasks since earliest times. In the course of the formation of the authorities, these competences gave rise to important areas of responsibility for the Gewett. The area of responsibility of the Gewett was regulated by a series of Council regulations. 1756 a beach regulation was issued, 1802 a pilot regulation, 1853 a port regulation. Since 1831 Gewett was responsible for the exhibition of Bielbriefe. A council decree of 1838 made it a de facto seaman's office, controlling the acceptance, wages and layoffs of ship crews. After the German Reich's Seemannsordnung came into force, the Gewett officially became the Seemannsamt in 1873. In 1874 a sovereign decree entrusted him with the tasks of a beach office. In 1879 the Gewett took over the management of the ship registers, in 1888 it became the ship surveying authority. Under the supervision of the Gewett, important areas of the shipping and port industry were located in Rostock and Warnemünde. However, some functions had to be transferred to state authorities since the end of the 19th century. Since their establishment in 1877, the Maritime Offices have negotiated declarations and accidents. The keeping of the shipping registers was transferred to the district court in 1912. After the dissolution of the Gewett in 1920, the municipal port administration took its place. In 1934 the port administration was dissolved as an independent department. The finance department took over the processing of the property, e.g. the letting of the storage places at the harbour, on the beach and in Warnemünde. The tasks of the shipping office, the seaman's office and the ship surveying authority were assigned to the police office. The civil engineering office was responsible for port and waterway construction. Publications: Müller, Walther: Rostock's maritime shipping and maritime trade in the course of time. A contribution to the history of the German seaside towns, Rostock 1930 Rahden, Heinrich: Die Schiffe der Rostocker Handelsflotte, Rostock 1941 (Publications from the town archive of the seaside town Rostock, vol. 2)
Period: 1508 - 1946 Scope: 19 linear metres = 921 units of description Cataloguing: ordered and indexed, index (2005) Citation method: AHR, 1.1.3.22. No. ... or AHR, Mayor and Council: Construction, Maintenance, Utilities, No. ... Content: Organisation of the building authority (1784-1850, 5 units) - Building yard, building material (1643-1932, 55 units) - Award of municipal contracts (1635-1938, 6 units) - Construction of desert areas, exemption from contributions (1576-1819, 10 units) - Construction planning, urban expansion (1863-1938, 42 units).- Visit to municipal buildings (1694-1914, 11 units) - Town Hall (1533-1938, 32 units) - Buildings and facilities (1535-1938, 98 units) - Monuments (1682, 1814-1946, 23 units) - Building regulations, building police (1617-1938, 44 units).- Supervision of private buildings (1817-1908, 41 units) - building cooperatives, construction companies (1919-1937, 4 units) - city fortifications, defences (1508-1934, 76 units) - streets, squares, bridges, sewers (1651-1941, 51 units).- Street cleaning, street lighting, public toilets (1606-1938, 34 units) - Streets A - Z (1561-1934, 276 units) - Waterborne, water art, wells, pumps, pipes (1550-1930, 62 units) - Waterworks (1859-1940, 23 units) - Gasworks (1856-1938, 19 units) - Electricity Station (1896-1938, 9 units). Overview: Until 1812, the responsibility for the city buildings lay with the city treasury, because it ultimately had to pay the costs for construction and maintenance. The municipal building yard with the necessary material and equipment was administered by the building clerk, as specialists city masons, city carpenters and tower coverers stood in the service of the council. Since the beginning of the 19th century, this structure has been the subject of criticism. The starting point was a revision of the expenditure of the city treasury, which was found to be too high. After visiting the city buildings, the Hundertmännerkollegium was of the opinion that many buildings urgently needed repair. The repairs carried out could have been carried out more cheaply if more expertise had been given to carrying out the tasks and supervision had been better exercised. Finally, in January 1812, an independent building department was formed, which, however, remained part of the Kassendepartement and only since 1854 appears in the lists of authorities as an independent building authority. The building department or building authority was led collegially by a member of the council - he bore the name Director - and four civil deputies. An instruction of 1830 named the responsibilities for the municipal buildings, as far as these were not in combing, weight, poor order or other administrative branches. The responsibility extended to the city, the suburbs and the city field mark, to the port and shipping facilities on the beach and the Warnow as well as to Warnemünde. As officials, the instruction named the building scribe, the carpenter, the excavator master and the crane supervisor. A foreman worked in Warnemünde on a fee basis. The fact that the position of port master carpenter was replaced by that of city master builder in 1835 indicates a change in the emphasis of the work. The planned expansion of the port and the new regulation of the Warnow, made a division of tasks necessary in 1885. The city master builder took over the building construction department, the port construction director the electricity and port construction departments as well as sewage and road construction. Overall, the demands placed on urban construction have increased enormously. The growth of the town required planning services for the new residential areas in front of the Kröpeliner Tor, the Steintor, the Mühlentor and the Petritor. Before the First World War, the Council's Urban Expansion Committees became the most important advisory body on urban development issues. With regard to the construction work, the city was responsible for the necessary development and road construction work, but it also had to create public buildings (e.g. hospitals, schools, municipal theatres) and utilities (gas works, waterworks, power station) in order to secure the community's existence. During the Weimar Republic, combating housing shortages became a central issue. It was not until 1925 that significant progress was made here through the continuation of urban expansion towards the west. The building police regulations for all buildings in the city were initially characterized primarily by the requirements for fire safety. Individual regulations touched half-timbered structures, thatched roofs, wooden gables, tarred roofing felt or chimneys. The regulations for Warnemünde (1848, 1908), for the Kämmerei and hospital area as well as for Rostock, the suburbs and the Stadtfeldmark (1894, 1929) were summarised in extensive building regulations. In Rostock, the Kämmerei was initially responsible for enforcing these regulations, in Warnemünde the Gewett. In 1899 a building police department was set up at the police station, which took over the building supervision for Rostock. After a reorganization, the building supervision was transferred to the building authorities in 1935. Publications: Dehn, Gustav: Organisation des Stadt-Bauamtts, Bauwesens, in: Festschrift der XXVI. Versammlung des Deutschen Vereins für öffentliche Gesundheitspflege, Rostock 1901, S. 129-131 Deutschlands Städtebau. Rostock. Ed. by the Council of the Seestadt Rostock, Berlin-Halensee 1922 and 1927
Period: 1816 - 1941 Scope: 3 linear metres = 183 units of description Cataloguing: ordered and indexed, index (2005) Citation method: AHR, 1.1.3.26. No. ... or AHR, mayor and council: associations, honors, foreign monuments, no. ... Content: Support of various associations and events by the city (1897-1938, 9 units) - Political associations and federations (1864-1938, 14 units) - Associations for health care, charity, social aid (1839-1941, 38 units) - Associations and institutions for education, science and culture (1816-1937, 28 units) - Masonic lodges (1866-1930, 2 units). Overview: Based on the need for conviviality, science and education, the citizens of Rostock began to form associations at the end of the 18th century. Until the middle of the 19th century. At the end of the 19th century, the Gemeinnützige Gesellschaft (1780), Societät (1794), Patriotischer Verein (1798), Naturforschende Gesellschaft (1800), Bibelgesellschaft (1816), Philomatische Gesellschaft (1819), Gewerbeverein (1835), Verschönerungsverein (1836), Union of Merchants (1837), Ärztlicher Verein (1840), Kunstverein (1841), Gartenbauverein (1853), Seidenbauverein (1858) and Männnerturnverein (1860) were founded. The further flourishing of the modern association system was closely linked to industrialisation, when people abandoned the rigid corporations that had shaped economic and social life until then. After the failed revolution of 1848, the right of association and assembly remained an important demand in the process of bourgeois emancipation. Especially the political parties, the associations for electoral reforms or workers' education were exposed to strong official repression. Nevertheless, the association system - primarily in the non-political sphere - underwent a powerful development and became a hallmark of bourgeois society. As in other cities, clubs for singing, sports, trade, mission, nursing, military, dance, sociable entertainment, science and much more were founded in Rostock. If these associations wanted to change their legal status from a mere society to a legal entity, the Council gave them corporate rights. Despite protests by the state government, Rostock claimed this state legal act for itself on the basis of its privileges. With the introduction of the Civil Code (1900), the Council had to grant this power to the State alone. From then on, the courts kept the register of associations. The Reichsvereinsgesetz of 19 April 1908 put the law on associations on a new, modern basis. An adaptation of the law that was long overdue, because the German Empire had existed since 1871 and the associations had become more differentiated since that time. The Rostock address book of 1908 registered a total of 141 organisations in the most diverse categories: religious, charitable and support associations, non-profit associations, patriotic, political and municipal associations, civil servants' associations, military associations, commercial, industrial, trade and crafts associations, associations for agriculture, fishing and animal husbandry, associations for science and art, stenographers' associations, music and singing associations, sports associations, good temple lodges and convivial associations. In her work, there were many points of contact with the Council. Requests for support, events, celebrations, celebrations, anniversaries, conferences and meetings could be reasons for the associations and federations to turn to the Council. In addition, there are inquiries outside of Rostock, partly with similar concerns, but also with requests for support in the erection of monuments. The City of Rostock's membership in associations and organisations was also reflected in the files. Publications: Kohfeldt, Gustav: From the history of older associations and societies in Rostock 1. The beautification association of 1836 and the municipal facilities 2. The philomatic society, in: Beitr. Rost. 10th vol. 1917, pp. 105-119, and 12th vol. 1924, pp. 17-35
Period: 1945 - 1952 Scope: 32 linear metres = 1,875 units of description Cataloguing: ordered and indexed, provisional find book (2006) Citation method: AHR, 2.1.0. No. ... or AHR, City Assembly and City Council (1945 - 1952), No. ... Content: 1st Haupt- und Innere Verwaltung Kommandantur (1945-1951, 14 VE).- Landtag and Landregierung (1945-1952, 6 VE).- Stadtverordnetenversammlung and Rat (1945-1953, 24 VE).- Personalangelegenheiten, Personalakte (1945-1965, 135 VE).- Stellen- und Strukturpläne (1945-1953, 19 VE).- Organisation of administration (1945-1953, 45 units); - Municipalities (1945-1952, 13 units); - Legal issues, foundations (1882-1955, 25 units); - Improvement of administrative activity (1948-1952, 13 units); - Accounting and activity reports (1945-1952, 17 units).- Entries, inquiries and applications (1945-1950, 11 VE) - KPD, SPD, CDU, LDP, SED, social organisations (1945-1953, 14 VE) - Press and radio (1945-1952, 17 VE) - Correspondence with foreign countries, the western occupation zones and the FRG (1947-1951, 2 VE).- Budget, finances, taxes (1945-1953, 24 units) - Economy (1945-1953, 20 units) - Economic planning (1945-1953, 35 units) - Labour and career counselling (1945-1951, 5 units) - Maritime and port industries, fisheries and shipyards (1944-1952, 32 units) - Construction (1945-1952, 19 units).- Gas, water and energy supply (1945-1952, 8 units).- Municipal economic enterprises, local economy (1933-1952, 14 units).- Agriculture, forestry and allotment gardens (1945-1952, 22 units).- Transport, roads, bridges, ferry traffic (1937-1952, 13 units).- Trade and supply (1945-1951, 15 units).- Health care (1945-1953, 26 units) - Social welfare, resettlers (1945-1953, 16 units) - Housing, New homeland (1945-1952, 16 units) - Popular education (1945-1952, 19 units) - University, College of Music and Theatre, Promotion of Science (1945-1952, 6 units).- Youth issues and sport (1937-1954, 16 VE) - Culture (1945-1952, 17 VE) - Insurance, banks, savings bank (1945-1952, 4 VE) - Municipal property, buildings, cemeteries (1945-1952, 9 VE) - Works council, works union management, FDJ, DSF (1945-1952, 7 VE).- Elections (1946-1950, 10 units) - Order and law, courts and police (1921-1952, 23 units) - Demilitarisation (1945-1950, 2 units) - Denazification (1934-1950, 29 units) - Confiscation, expropriation (1945-1952, 63 units) - Start-up of persons and operations Oct. 1948 and Oct. 1949 (1948-1949, 32 films). 2. construction and housing - general administrative affairs of the building authority or the construction department (1945-1953, 11 units) - planning and accounting of investment buildings (1949-1952, 17 units) - urban planning (1947-1953, 7 units) - implementation of various construction projects (1945-1955, 28 units) - new housing construction (1945-1954, 71 units).- Conversion and reconstruction of residential buildings (1945-1954, 39 units) - Industrial buildings, commercial facilities (1945-1953, 10 units) - Buildings for education and research (1945-1953, 31 units) - Kindergartens, crèches, clinics (1949-1953, 9 units) - Sports buildings (1949-1952, 7 units) - Town hall extension (1948-1953, 10 units) - Housing (1945-1954, 50 units). 3. planning commission, local economy, agriculture planning commission (1949-1954, 31 units) - general administrative affairs of the economics and labour department (1946-1952, 11 units) - local economy (1946-1953, 23 units) - manpower management (1949-1953, 3 units) - agriculture (1949-1954, 23 units). (4) Finance General administrative affairs of the Finance Department (1947-1953, 5 CA) - Budget planning (1945-1952, 29 CA) - Financial control and taxation of crafts and trades (1945-1952, 7 CA).- Municipal account statements of the incorporated villages Toitenwinkel, Biestow, Evershagen, Petersdorf, Stuthof, Krummendorf and Peez (1934-1949, 14 VE) - Zollfahndungsstelle Warnemünde (1947-1950, 6 VE). 5. health and social services management and basic principles of the health and social services department (1945-1953, 14 units) - personnel matters and budget (1945-1952, 16 units) - statistics (1945-1952, 5 units).- Committees and commissions (1945-1952, 4 units) - Health and social welfare (1944-1952, 8 units) - Combating venereal diseases (1945-1954, 8 units) - Resettled persons and camps (1945-1949, 5 units) - Victims of fascism (1945-1952, 39 units). 6. popular education and culture general administrative affairs of the department of popular education and culture (1945-1952, 11 units); - committees (1945-1961, 3 units); - work plans and reports (1945-1952, 13 units).- Cooperation with political parties, cultural association, FDJ, pioneers and the press (1945-1951, 11 VE) - Municipal school administration (1945-1952, 8 VE) - Popular education investment project (1949-1951, 4 VE) - Kindergartens, homes, youth welfare (1947-1951, 4 VE).- University, Faculty of Workers and Farmers, College of Music, Conservatory, Adult Education Centre (1945-1952, 8 VE) - Cultural work (1945-1952, 27 VE) - Exhibitions and events (1945- 1953, 10 VE) - Municipal Cultural Business Enterprise (1945-1951, 3 VE).- Archive and museum (1945-1951, 4 VE) - Stadttheater, Deutsche Volksbühne, Junge Bühne, Niederdeutsche Bühne (1945-1953, 13 VE) - Lichtspieltheater (1945-1953, 6 VE) - Libraries and bookshops (1945-1954, 20 VE) - Professional musicians (1946-1952, 3 VE). 7. district administration head of the district elders (1945-1952, 35 VE) - individual districts and rural districts Diedrichshagen, Biestow and Krummendorf (1945-1953, 93 VE). 8. administrative office Warnemünde minutes and reports (1945-1952, 6 units) - administration and budget (1945-1952, 10 units) - social organisations (1945-1952, 4 units) - local administration (1945-1950, 8 units).- Economy (1945-1952, 15 units).- Allotment gardening and agriculture (1946-1950, 3 units).- Health, social and housing (1945-1952, 9 units).- Cultural and popular education (1945-1948, 5 units).- Denazification (1945-1949, 6 units). Overview: On 1 May 1945 Rostock was occupied without a fight by the troops of the Red Army. To counter the threat of chaos, a group of Communists and Social Democrats contacted the front commander. The Ordnungskomitee, as the group called itself, published an announcement on 3 May 1945 calling on the population to maintain peace and order. On 5 May 1945, the Red Army ended the temporary Front Command Office. In his Order No. 1 of 5 May 1945, the city commander declared the NSDAP and its organizations, the entire state and administrative apparatus dissolved. On 9 May 1945 Christoph Seitz, who had come to Rostock with the Red Army as Front Commissioner, was introduced as the new Lord Mayor. In the weeks and months to come, the focus of our work was on restoring and safeguarding everyday life. The reconstruction of the city administration resulted in the dismissal of the majority of the employees, as they had belonged to the NSDAP. In order to be able to penetrate the city administratively, it was divided into 26 districts. The leading positions in the city administration, built under the control of the Soviet commandant, were occupied by Communists, Social Democrats and some bourgeois Democrats formed in the four admitted parties KPD, SPD, CDU and LDP. An important turning point in the democratic legitimacy of the new city administration was marked by the establishment of the City Committee on 18 December 1945, in which representatives of the parties acted in an advisory capacity. In February 1946, the military administration appointed Social Democrat Albert Schulz as the new mayor. Within the SPD, Schulz was among those who opposed the increasingly obvious intention to change the social and economic system in the spirit of Stalinist communism. The local self-government regained its democratic foundation in September 1946 through the "Democratic Community Constitution". The municipal constitution appointed the municipal council, which had emerged from secret, equal and direct elections, as the supreme organ of the city. The executive body for implementing the decisions should be the Council. The first free elections to the City Council took place on 15 September 1946. The municipal constitution as well as the constitution of the Land Mecklenburg adopted on 15 January 1947 had laid down the principle of municipal self-government, but under the given conditions the towns and municipalities could hardly bring this principle to life. The reconstruction of the society according to the Soviet model had serious consequences for the cities in the eastern occupation zone. The introduction of the state planned economy with the biennial plan of 1949/50 was associated with a far-reaching loss of financial independence for the cities. In addition, there was the elimination of economic independence. In the first half of 1949, all municipal service and utility companies as well as the real estate had to be combined into a special municipal utility company (KWU). The company was granted the status of an institution under public law, which was effectively removed from the local administration. The SED used the clashes over these measures to launch heavy attacks against the Lord Mayor Schulz, who resigned in August 1949 and fled to the West. His successor was the Lord Mayor of Greifswald, Max Burwitz (SED). As an important instrument for steering and controlling the other political forces, the SED systematically expanded the National Front as the umbrella organization of all parties and mass organizations from the beginning of 1950. The postponed elections to the City Council were held on 15 October 1950 for the first time under the sign of the National Front's Unity Lists. Due to a lack of alternatives, the result was clear from the outset. The administrative reform of 23 July 1952 was another important step towards aligning state forms with the model in the Soviet Union. With the formation of the 15 districts, the GDR eliminated the last remnants of federalism and made state centralism, declared "democratic", the lynchpin of the political system. The three districts of Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg emerged from the state of Mecklenburg. The city of Rostock became the seat of the newly formed council of the district. The integration of the communal level into the centralist system took place through the regulations adopted on 8 January 1953 by the Council of Ministers of the GDR on the structure and tasks of the municipal councils and district assemblies. Publications: Rackow, Heinz-Gerd: The foundations of municipal policy in the city of Rostock in the period from 1945 to the founding of the GDR, Rostock 1959 Sieber, Horst: 40 years ago: New city council after first democratic elections, in: Contributions to the history of the city of Rostock. Neue Folge, Rostock 1986 H. 6, p. 11-20 Schulz, Albert: Memoirs of a Social Democrat, Oldenburg 2000 Michelmann, Jeanette: Activists of the first hour. The Antifa in the Soviet Occupation Zone, Cologne et al. 2002, pp. 310-328 Woyke, Meik: Albert Schulz (1895-1974). Ein sozialdemokratischer Regionalpolitiker, Bonn 2006 (Historical Research Centre of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Series Political and Social History, 73) Sens, Ingo: In doubt against the defendants. The show trials against the Rostock city councillors Hans Griem and Martin Müller, Rostock 2009
Contains: among others: Accommodation of the ethnological donation of the merchant Schacht together with the collection of the German Colonial Society in Steinstr. 2 - Continuation of the Ethnological Museum until its accommodation in the old water tower on the Wall.