240 SWISS CITIZENSHIP approved his request on 10 March and transmitted the decision to the canton of Zurich.[7] The process of obtaining Zurich municipal citizenship lasted six months. Einstein petitioned the Zurich City Council (Stadtrat), the municipal executive body, for citizen- ship on 26 June (see Doc. 65). Three days later the Municipal Chancellery (Stadtkanzlei) requested information about the petitioner from three municipal offices.[8] Einstein again needed a statement of approval from his father, which he submitted with a copy of his birth certificate, to the Naturalization Section (Bürgerliche Sektion) of the Zurich Greater City Council (Grosser Stadtrat), the municipal legislature.[9] A police detective's report (Doc. 66) was placed in his file at the beginning of July. In the fall, Einstein filled out a questionnaire (Doc. 82) for a commission of the Naturalization Section, which conveyed it to the Greater City Council.[10] The commissioner handling Einstein's case requested more information about the applicant on 11 December.[11] Three days later Einstein made a personal appearance before the commission of the Naturalization Section (see Doc. 84). On 19 December the Greater City Council granted municipal citizenship contingent on cantonal approval and payment of a fee of 400 francs.[12] Cantonal deliberations took place in January and February 1901. On 9 January the City Council informed the Cantonal Governor's Office (Statthalteramt) of its favorable decision, imparted six days later to the cantonal Department of Internal Affairs (Direktion des Innern).[13] On 21 January this department requested more information on Einstein's financial situation from the municipality of Zurich in order to set cantonal citizenship fees.[14] Three days later the department commissioned a report on Hermann Einstein's financial status from a detective agency in Zurich,[15] [7] The announcement of approval and the letter of transmission to the canton of Zurich, both of 10 March and signed by Federal Council president Walter Hauser, are in SzZSa, N 14.12. [8] The office of residence records, the police, and the tax office. This request, with nota- tions by the recipients, is in SzZ-Ar, Akten des Stadtrats Zürich, Bürgerliche Sektion, 1901, no. 7. [9] Hermann Einstein's declaration of 4 July and a copy of Einstein's birth certificate, dated 6 July, are in ibid. The Naturalization Section was composed of those members of the Greater City Council who were municipal citizens and hence responsible for naturaliza- tion procedures. [10] On 26 October the Naturalization Sec- tion advised the Greater City Council of Einstein's application (printed letter, signed by Municipal President Hans Pestalozzi, SzZSa, N 14.12). [11] The letter of commissioner Gustav Weber to fellow-commissioner Arnold Kuhn also states that Prof. Herzog of the ETH gave Einstein "ein gutes (schriftl.) Zeugnis" (SzZ- Ar, Akten des Stadtrats Zürich, Bürgerliche Sektion, 1901, no. 7). [12] See the printed "Auszug aus dem Proto- kolle des Grossen Stadtrates von Zürich vom 19. Dezember 1900," SzZSa, N 14.12. [13] The city council's favorable decision, signed by its president, Pestalozzi, and the letter of transmission to the Department of Internal Affairs of 15 January, signed by Zurich Governor J. H. Müller, are in ibid. [14] This document, signed by the secretary of the Department of Internal Affairs, Dr. Arnold Bosshardt, and the reply of Municipal Secretary Heinrich Wyss of 23 January, stat- ing that he has no information on Einstein's finances or those of his father in Milan, are in ibid. [15] Bosshardt's letter is in ibid.