Law as crime

Electronic data regarding records of the "Vermögensverkehrstelle" / Assets Transfer Office of the Nazi-era "Ministerium für Handel und Verkehr" / Ministry of Commerce and Transportation now held by the Austrian "Archiv der Republik" / Archives of the Republic; a decree concerning the Reporting of Jewish assets of April 26, 1938 required all Jewish citizens to report their total domestic and foreign assets, where such assets exceeded 5,000 Reichsmarks, and the Vermögensverkehrstelle was created three weeks later to oversee the transfer of such Jewish assets into Aryan hands; name index includes last name, first name, date of birth and archival file number

• Index
• Research project

Ministerium für Handel und Verkehr

• Steiner, Hubert
• Kucsera, Christian

Circa 12 Aug 1998

After 26 Apr 1938

After 26 Apr 1938

Male and Female

• English
• German

Jew

49118

Created from information from records of the "Vermögensverkehrstelle" of the Nazi-era "Ministerium für Handel und Verkehr" now held by the Austrian "Archiv der Republik" [Archives of the Republic]; see also Steiner von Hubert und Christian Kucsera, "Recht als Unrecht: Quellen zur wirtschaftlichen Entrechtung der Wiener Juden durch die NS-Vermögensverkehrsstelle. Teil 1: Privatvermögen, Personenverzeichnis". Wien: Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, 1993, USHMM Library call number DS135.A92 V523 1993

Researchers seeking records should contact the Archiv der Republik.

Archiv der Republik
Nottendorfer Gasse 2, A-1030
Wien, Austria
Tel: (0043 1) 79540 251
Fax: 22/01/2008 (0043 1) 79540 109

Assets / property

Electronic indices of Holocaust survivors and victims, from various sources.