The mouse
Die Maus, Gesellschaft für Familienforschung e. V. is a genealogical association in Bremen and was founded on March 20, 1924. The association got its name from the fact that initial contact took place in a small room of today's "German House" on the market called "Mousetrap". It was founded on the initiative of two men who had been involved in genealogy for a long time .
- Gustav Wehner , frigate captain ret. D., who had been a member of the HEROLD association, which was decisive in family history and heraldry in Germany, since 1911 .
- Johann Ueltzen , engineer a. D., who made a name for himself as a co-founder and in 1907 and 1908 as managing director of the “ Central Office for Personal and Family History ” in Leipzig, which was established in 1904 .
The new association grew rapidly, as did its inventory of books and archival material. When the office was hit twice by bombs during World War II , it was housed at the nearby Bremen State Archives , and when the archive building was also destroyed in 1944, the "Maus" library and family history collection was housed in a bunker available to the State Archives . Since then, the association has been closely connected to the State Archives and still has work and library rooms there. There are just under 1,100 members.
The "Maus" publishes the "Blätter der Maus" at irregular intervals with the series of publications "The Graves in Bremen's St. Petri Cathedral ".
The emigration via Bremen and local family books are published in online databases of the mouse .
From 1994 to 2018 Die Maus was co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Niederdeutsche Familienkunde , which is published under the auspices of the Hamburg Genealogical Society .