Walther Meyer Collection

The Walther Meyer Collection contains material on the Hannover Jewish Community and genealogical research on a number of families. Series I consists of original documents, primarily official announcements relating to the Hannover Jewish community, while Series II contains the genealogical research.

Series I consists of various official decisions of the nineteenth century from religious authorities, including from Nathan Adler, Chief Rabbi of Hannover. These mention many subjects, among them those that affected the Jewish Community, such as decisions on questions of diet or burial, appeals for educational funding as well as rules for rabbis in the kingdom of Hannover or documents relating to legal or religious issues. One folder holds a few documents on the transfer of Hannover to Prussia in 1867.

The second series pertains to Walther Meyer's genealogical research of the 1930s-1940s, including numerous notes, drafts of family trees and research correspondence. Among the many families analyzed by Meyer were the Meyers, Egers, Oppenheims, Borchardts, Neufelds, Ballins, Wertheimers, and Wallachs, along with their related families. This series also includes some pages of the galley proofs of a work by Meyer on the Egers family ("Zur Geschichte der Familie Eger"); this work is also mentioned in the correspondence of this series, especially in the letters he exchanged with Arthur Czellitzer.

This collection does not contain any biographical information on Walther Meyer.