German Federal Archive ( German: Bundesarchiv ) - German State Archive . Created in 1952 , located in the city of Koblenz .
| Federal Archive | |
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| Bundesarchiv | |
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| Administrative center | |
| Address | |
| Type of organization | and |
| Official language | Deutsch |
| Executives | |
| the president | Holmann, Michael (since 2011) |
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| Established | 1952 |
| bundesarchiv.de | |
Since 1998, the archive is subordinate to the Ministry of Culture, before that it was subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs [2] . The budget of the German Federal Archives for 2009 amounted to 54.6 million euros [2] . The number of archive employees is 800 people. On December 6, 2008, the Federal Archive handed over for public use one hundred thousand of its photographs, posting them in digital form on Wikimedia Commons [3] .
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Archive History
The predecessor of the Federal Archive was the ( Reichsarchiv ), created in 1919 in Potsdam . Its basis was the various archives of state entities that existed in Germany; The oldest document in the archive dates back to 1411 . The photographs and films in the archive were mostly of non-governmental origin. More than half of the materials in this archive died during World War II .
In 1946, the German Central Archive (Deutsches Zentralarchiv) was founded in Potsdam, on the territory of the Soviet zone of occupation . Some of the documents of the State Archive, which were exported to the USSR after World War II , were returned to the German Central Archive in the late 1950s . In 1973, the archive was renamed the Central State Archive ( German: Zentrales Staatsarchiv ).
The government of West Germany in 1950 decided to create a new archive in the city of Koblenz. In 1952, the project was implemented. German archival documents, previously confiscated by the occupation authorities of the United States and Great Britain , were returned in 1955 to the new German Federal Archive, to the military archive department specially created for this purpose. In 1988, the Federal Archives Act was passed in Germany, which expanded the functions of the German Federal Archives.
After the reunification of Germany took place in 1990, two state archives of West Germany and the German Democratic Republic — the German Federal Archive and the Central State Archive — were merged. The previously independent National Archives for Films of the GDR and the Military Archives of the GDR were also included in the combined archive.
Storage Objects
The collection of the German Federal Archive consists of documents relating to West Germany before unification and modern Germany, as well as documents relating to the imperial past of Germany and the German Democratic Republic . In addition to government documents, the archive contains materials related to the activities of political parties and public organizations, as well as historical collections. The archive stores both text documents and photographs, films, posters, as well as materials in electronic form.
Archive Leaders
From 1999 to 2011, the German Federal Archive was managed by Hartmut Weber, and on May 3, 2011 he was replaced by (born 1961), historian and archivist. Holmann is the seventh archive manager since the foundation of the institution. The position of the first two archive managers was called the “director” ( German Direktor ), since 1967 this position has been called the “president” ( German Präsident ).
| Years | Executives | |
|---|---|---|
| 1952-1960 | Georg Winter | Winter, Georg |
| 1961-1967 | Karl Bruchmann | Bruchmann, Karl |
| 1967-1972 | Wolfgang A. Mommsen | Mommsen, Wolfgang |
| 1972-1989 | Hans booms | Booms, Hans |
| 1989-1999 | Friedrich kahlenberg | Kalenberg, Friedrich |
| 1999—2011 | Hartmut weber | Weber, Hartmouth |
| since 2011 | Michael hollmann | Holmann, Michael |
Notes
- ↑ Directory of German Library Codes - Berlin State Library , 2016.
- ↑ 1 2 German Federal Budget for 2009 Archived on July 20, 2011. (German) (Retrieved November 23, 2009)
- ↑ Wikipedia Receives German Pictorial History , Deutsche Welle (December 6, 2008). (English) (Retrieved November 23, 2009)
Links
- The official website of the German Federal Archive (German) (Retrieved November 23, 2009)
- Electronic Materials of the German Federal Archive (German) (Retrieved November 23, 2009)