Bad Arolsen special registry office
The Bad Arolsen special registry office was established as the Hessian state office in the city of Bad Arolsen by state ordinance of September 1, 1949 and regulated by federal law with the law to amend and supplement the civil status law of January 15, 1951.
According to Section 38 of the Civil Status Act in the version that has been in force since January 1, 2009, it is exclusively responsible for documenting deaths of prisoners in former German concentration camps, regardless of the prisoner's nationality. It receives its information mainly from the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen. The registry office in whose district the person making the notification is domiciled or habitually resident is also responsible for receiving the notification for the certification of the death. This registry office then sends the special registry office in Bad Arolsen a record of the report. In the case of multiple notarizations, the special registry office makes the wrongly existing entry irrelevant by means of a corresponding subsequent notarization ( Section 43 PStV ).
The special registry office does not provide final or official information on the total number of victims of the Holocaust .
The office should not be confused with the former Nazi special registry office in Bad Arolsen, which recorded the deaths of concentration camp inmates in the village in the attic of the Arolsen barracks during the Nazi era .
Web links
- Notarization of deaths in the former German concentration camps Entry of the special registry office on the website of the city of Bad Arolsen, accessed on December 2, 2018
- Death register of the camp registry offices . Hessian birth, marriage and death registers In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Second Hessian Ordinance for the Implementation of the Personal Status Act of November 3, 1937 (RGBl. I p. 1146) of September 1, 1949 (Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse p. 123)
- ↑ Federal Law Gazette I p. 57
- ^ Siegfried Maruhn: Staatsdiener im Unrechtsstaat - The German registrars and their association under National Socialism. Verlag für Standesamtwesen, 2002, p. 233
- ↑ Jürgen Langowski: The tracing service of the ICRC and the Arolsen special registry office: How Auschwitz deniers put correct numbers in a wrong context using the facsimile of a letter in Wolfgang Benz : Legends, Lies, Prejudices . Munich 1992, p. 108
- ^ Arolsen, special registry office, barracks. Topography of National Socialism in Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).