German gender book
The German gender book , genealogical handbook of bourgeois families until 1943 , is a genealogical handbook with the master lists of non-aristocratic families.
concept
The German Gender Book is the counterpart to the Genealogical Handbook of the Aristocracy and differs from this only in the population group considered, here the non-aristocratic (i.e. bourgeois and peasant) families.
The aim of the German Gender Book is to facilitate family research by publishing the family list and the family coat of arms . Many of the various volumes are arranged according to regions of origin of the former German Reich - e.g. B. "Westphalian" or "Silesian" gender book - so that a research can be carried out on the ancestry of the ancestors from a certain region.
The “Hamburg Gender Book” with its seventeen volumes (2007) as part of the German Gender Book is a self-contained genealogical work unlike any other city. It is primarily intended to depict families of the upper class of the city republic (so-called Hanseatics ).
Genealogical handbook of middle class families
The German Gender Book was published from 1889 to 1943 under the title Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families and brought it to 119 volumes during this time, that of the genealogist Bernhard Koerner in 1889 by Verlag F. Mahler Charlottenburg, 1894-1904 by Verlag WT Bruer Berlin and 1906-1943 in publishing CA Strong issued Görlitz. Koerner provided the volumes with increasingly ethnically and anti-Semitic prefaces in which he represented the idea of an allegedly original Germanic race of the German bourgeoisie.
More than 4,000 families are treated.
The out of print 119 volumes of the Genealogical Handbook have been completely digitized since mid-December 2007 and are now available on 16 CD-ROMs :
| Volumes | 1 - 10 |
11 - 18 |
19 - 24 |
25 - 32 |
33 - 40 |
41 - 48 |
49 - 56 |
57 - 64 |
65 - 72 |
73 - 80 |
81 - 87 |
88 - 94 |
95 - 100 |
101 - 106 |
107 - 112 |
113 - 119 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 15th | 16 |
German gender book
After an interruption of twelve years, the series was continued in 1955 in the CA Starke Verlag, which was relocated to Glücksburg (Baltic Sea) and later to Limburg an der Lahn , with volume 120 under the name “German Gender Book”. Volume 221 was published in 2012. Most of these volumes are available on DVD-ROMs :
| Volumes | 120 - 125 |
126 - 131 |
132 - 137 |
138 - 143 |
144 - 149 |
150 - 155 |
155 - 161 |
162 - 167 |
168 - 173 |
174 - 179 |
180 - 185 |
186 - 191 |
192 - 197 |
198 - 203 |
204 - 209 |
210 - 215 |
216 - 221 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DVD | 17th | 18th | 19th | 20th | 21st | 22nd | 23 | 24 | 25th | 26th | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30th | 31 | 32 | 33 |
expenditure
- German Gender Book - CD-ROM. Genealogical handbook of middle class families. Complete list of volumes 1–216. Verlag CA Starke, Limburg ad Lahn 2003, ISBN 3-7980-0380-7 .
literature
- Joist Grolle : “German Gender Book. Ancestor cult and racial madness ”. In: Peter Freimark, Alice Jankowski, Ina S. Lorenz (ed.): Jews in Germany. Emancipation, integration, persecution and annihilation. Christians, Hamburg 1991, pp. 207-228.
Web links
- Historical book table - German gender book on CD / DVD
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GenWiki - Here you can find detailed links to the German Gender Book:
- List of names for the CDs published by Starke
- Link to the large directory of all names mentioned anywhere
- Links to already digitized editions of the gender book (currently 15 volumes) which can be viewed online by everyone.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hildegard von Marchthaler: The importance of the Hamburg gender book for Hamburg's population and history . In: Hamburg gender book . Vol. 9, Limburg an der Lahn 1961, p. XXIII.