Address book of the city of Hanover

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Address book of the city of Hanover 1942, front of part II with data on the heads of household, sorted by street
Around 1800: City map of Hanover at the time the first address book was created, with the Calenberger Neustadt and Linden

The address book of the city of Hanover - with partly slightly changed names - has been published annually since 1798, with the exception of a few war years. The 2004 edition was the last printed address book for the city of Hanover . The books are considered to be "a valuable source for the city ​​history of the 19th [and 20th] centuries". Therefore, the have Stadtarchiv Hannover and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library , the digitalization announced all 200,000 pages to the end, 2014. [outdated]

General

Hanover's address books reflect the profound change from the formerly handicraft-oriented agricultural society to an extensive industrial location, accompanied by the doubling of the population between 1800 and 1850 and its eight-fold increase by 1900. The first edition from 1798 already provides some information on the history of the Jews in Hanover . A comparison of the address books of the 1930s / 40s makes events such as the Lauterbacher campaign and the subsequent devastation caused by the air raids on Hanover visible . The immigration by expellees and refugees from the east, the rebuilding and expansion in the post-war period , especially the reconstruction of the city under city planning officer Rudolf Hillebrecht , are visible in the address books. The comparison with the later editions also shows the end of the industrial age and the beginning of the modern service society as well as the first steps into the age of the Internet , which ultimately ushered in the end of printed address books.

The address books were printed by Lamminger and their successors Klindworth and Pokrantz until 1924 , later by the German Address Book Society August Scherl and from 1949 by Walter Dorn Verlag .

First editions

1795 - the forerunner

In 1795, the Cammermeister and Commerz-Rath Christian Ludwig Albrecht Patje brought out a work with the title Brief Outline of the Factories, Trades and Trades in the Chur-Braunschweig-Lüneburg Lands . The foreword said:

“To be educated can never be made enough of a need. ... Anyone who can contribute to the activities of knowledge and to the teachings of his fellow citizens has a certain obligation not to omit. "

The first vintage from 1798

Title page of the first Hanover address book for 1798
Dedication and preface to the first Hanover address book

The first address book of Hanover was printed by the court printer Johann Thomas Lamminger , who had also collected the data, and appeared in January 1798. He described his work for it:

"I asked about every single resident in every house so that my company could at least come close to the desired completeness and accuracy."

The book did not contain the names of the residents as identified in alphabetical order, but divided the people of stalls and professions. After the actual address book, there was also a list of Jewish residents of the then still independent Calenberger Neustadt . The book was divided into:

  • Scholars, merchants, shopkeepers, manufacturers, artists
  • Professionals and craftsmen
  • Aubergists, billiards, innkeepers and caterers
  • Rental coachmen, carters and wage workers

In addition, it contained a directory of the Jews engaged in trade and commerce in the Calenberger Neustadt.

Ludwig Hoerner quotes from the preface to the centenary edition at the end of 1896 that the first edition was not only dedicated to the “commercial public”, but from the three parts

  • Address book of "qualified" traders and others as well as authorities
  • "City Manual"
  • "Traffic Handbook"

and fourthly, I established an (incomplete) “trade chronicle” and a list of professions.

Issues in the 19th century

The contents of the editions following the first year were repeatedly changed and expanded.

After 1812, the completeness of Hanover's address books, which had been planned from the beginning, became more reliable: A list of stalls and trades was added to the books , where strangers could find the names and addresses of tradespeople - broken down by branch.

The address of 1825 Hanover captured - after the unification of old and new in 1824 - already a part of the population to Herrhausen, Linden and out the other gates by saying their business ... .

The citizens and traders - unlike the authorities - already understood some of these people as belonging to Hanover who worked in, for example, Herrenhausen , Hainholz or Limmer .

In the 1840s, the introduction followed briefly at the beginning

  • Hints for strangers with information on libraries, clubs, baths, schools and restaurants, mail and travel

the extension by a

  • Statistical yearbook with information on law and the police, traffic and trade, markets and market prices as well as a description of the sights of Hanover.

From 1846 on, the editors added a “Allgemeine Geschäftsanzeiger” (AG) to the Hanover address books - often full-page advertisements.

Advertisement by Friedrich Karl Wunder

In 1849 Hanover's first photographer Friedrich Karl Wunder advertised a full page as a daguerreotype (first in 1847) under the heading “Business Gazette”.

In 1866 the address book of the Königliche Haupt- u. Residence city Hannover for the last time with the indication of the independent kingdom.

To mark the centenary of the first edition from the end of 1796, the editor reproduced the foreword from 1798 as a facsimile .

The 2002 edition

The 2002 edition consisted of two parts.

The business section contained:

  • Authorities
  • societies
  • Companies, trades and professions
  • Branch part
  • Trade and Cooperative Registers

The residents' part was divided into:

  • Private individuals A – Z
  • Street and house directory of citizens registered with their main residence from the age of 18 years

literature

Digital copies

At Genwiki

GenWiki has already completely scanned some address books of the city of Hanover , including the editions of

At the computer genealogy association

On the basis of the scans at GenWiki, the Association for Computer Genealogy has transferred their scans into online researchable data sets , for example

At the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library

Scans, which were created by the city archive, are now available on the GWLB website:

  • Hanover address books. In: GWLB's digital library. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library , accessed on February 7, 2019 (volumes 1798 - 1943): “The holdings until 1943 are publicly accessible and can also be researched via the library catalog. At this point in time, not all volumes up to 1943 have been activated. "

Web links

Commons : Address books of the city of Hanover  - collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c d Klaus Mlynek: Address books (see literature)
  2. ↑ Compare, for example, this information from the German National Library
  3. ↑ a b c Gunnar Menkens: Addresses for everyone. City archive digitizes historical address books. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . July 11, 2013, accessed February 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Note: Deviating from the information in the HAZ of June 11, 2013, the City Lexicon Hannover (published 2009) named the year 2002 as the date of the last printed address book edition.
  5. ↑ Ludwig Hoerner: Agents, Bader ... , p. VIII
  6. ↑ after Ludwig Hoerner in the preface to the 1802 edition
  7. ↑ Introduction to Agents, Baders and Copists ... , p. XIf
  8. ↑ Ludwig Hoerner: Agents, Bader ..., S. XII
  9. ↑ Hoerner, S. XI
  10. ↑ L. Hoerner: Agents, Bader ..., S. XII
  11. ↑ Ludwig Hoerner in: Hannover in Early Photographs 1848–1910 , ill. P. 33