Data Collection Jewish Genealogy
Jews living in the Neumark become Prussian citizens in the year 1812
On 11 March 1812, King Frederick William III issued an edict that put the majority of Jews living in Brandenburg and four other Prussian provinces on a mostly equal footing with Christian citizens
However, Jews who wanted to become Prussian citizens had to fulfil the following important condition in advance: They had to inform the authorities in their place of residence within 6 months of the edict´s publication which permanent family name they would be using in future (§ 3).
The names of those who acquired Prussian citizenship in the Neumark were published in 1813 in a supplement to the Official Gazette of the regional government.
Our database contains information for 680 persons. about:
- Previous first and last name of the head of a family as well as his/her place of residence
- Last name of the head of a family and its members after acquiring Prussian citizenship
Notes:
- We determined a person´s gender based on the first name. In some cases this was not possible.
- The digitised version of the supplement to the Official Gazette is not always legible, so that in individual cases a transcription error may have occurred; some errors already seem to have crept in when the supplement was created over 300 years ago
- The information in the Official Gazette as far as widows are concerned is not always complete; sometimes only the first and the last name of the husband is provided.
- The list of names does not contain any data on the Jews living in the town of Cüstrin. A footnote in the supplement to the Official Gazette points out that these could not be provided due to the blockade of the town and would be supplied at a later stage.
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