Documentation regarding the property of Gertrud (Fulda) Jaffé, born in Frankfurt, Germany, 27 June 1903, from the Berlin Oberfinanzpraesident, 1942-1966
File Number : JM/17890
Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Official Documentation
Files of the Oberfinanzpraesident Berlin-Brandenburg
The local (Finanzamt) and regional (Oberfinanzpraesidium) finance offices were the central offices for the registration of Jewish property by the Nazi authorities. The Jewish property was later seized by means of very high emigration taxes and confiscation. Special importance was given to the Finanzamt Moabit-West in Berlin, headed by Willy Bötcher, which received the responsibility for the confiscation of property of political emigres (whose citizenship was revoked) throughout the German Reich on 30/08/1933.
The function of the offices was expanded...
Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Official Documentation