21.01.2020: Bavaria and Poland in the first half of 20. Century. Strokes on an alternating relationship
Tuesday, 21. January 2020, the small exhibition “Bayern and Poland” was held in the first half of the 20th century in the Bavarian State Archives Directorate-General. Century. Opened to an interchangeable relationship. The exhibition was opened in the course of training in the preparatory service 2018/2020 for the entry into the 4th Qualification level of the field of education and science, specialist focus on archives, at the Bavarian Archive School. Dr. Katharina Aubele, Dr. Julia Oberst and Dr. Hubert Seliger are responsible for the exhibition. In addition to their position in the middle of Europe, Bavaria and Poland have two particularities: both countries have undergone a change in state development and both have not been seldom playing ball of the Great Powers In addition, in the first half of the 20. numerous connections and interfaces between Bavaria and Poland, which are illuminated in more detail in the small exhibition. Despite the rather light-like approach, attempts are being made to remember forgotten aspects of common, also pan-European history. In addition to basic questions about who was Pole from the Bavarian perspective and how the diplomatic relations between Bavaria and Poland and the Polish Consulate General in Munich developed, the exhibition follows the traces of Polish students in Bavaria. What Polish associations and student connections were there? Why had Bavarian universities at the beginning of the 20th century A century of attraction
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15.01.2020: Reduction of two medieval documents from the USA - Press discussion on 15th January 2019 in the State Archive Nuremberg
Wednesday, 15. January 2020 (15.00) two documents missing since the end of World War II were returned to the State Archive Nuremberg by the Federal Foreign Office. The two documents from 1418 showed up in the USA in 2019 in the estate of a former US soldier and were able to be returned to Nuremberg by the Federal Foreign Office. In the Second World War, the State Archive Nuremberg held its most valuable collections due to imminent air raids at numerous mountain sites. In total, almost 17 kilometres of archived goods were located in 32 different locations around approx. 80 km around Nuremberg. One of the depots was in the castle Sandsee (now district Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen). There were 137 boxes with late-medieval documents. Immediately after the end of the war, this depot was plundered, more than 70 parchment certificates disappeared. Already in 1987 and 1991, a total of 20 missing documents came from the USA back to Nuremberg. With the new return of two documents, the hope is that further missing pieces will find their way back to the State Archive Nuremberg. Submitted on: 15.01.2020 Related files: Pressemitteilung
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29.11.2019: 10 years Bavarian-Czech Archive Partnership - Festakt im Staatsarchiv Amberg
On 29 November 2019, the ten-year successful partnership of the Bavarian State Archives with Czech archives in the presence of the Minister of State for Science and Art, Bernd Sibler, MdL, and the Director of the Czech Archives Administration PhDr. Jiří Úlovec, celebrated and shared in the future. “A look into our archives reveals how closely Bavaria and the Czech Republic are connected: For centuries we have shared a common cross-border history. The close cooperation of our archives helps to make this valuable cultural heritage even more visible. At the same time, the archives set a clear sign for our partnership exchange and our good neighborhood. “The Bavarian Minister of State for Science and Art Bernd Sibler, MdL, said in his greeting. Ten years ago, the cooperation project “Bayerisch-Tschechisches Netzwerk digital history sources” established the firm cooperation of the Bavarian State Archives with the Pilsen District Archive. As part of the project funded by the European Union, historical sources of the Bavarian-Böhmic border area from Bavarian and Czech archives were digitized and virtually on the own bilingual presentation platform “Portafontium” on the Internet. (http://www.portafontium.de/) brought together. This common platform was significantly expanded with the Czech-Bayerische Archivführer (2013 to 2015). As a bilingual online database, the archive guide is a new access to Bohemica in Bavarian archive
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19.11.2019: "Naturschutz in Bayern vor 1979 - Actions and actors" - Lehrausstellung im Bayerischer Hauptstaatsarchiv
On Tuesday, 19 November 2019, the small exhibition "Naturschutz in Bayern" will be held in the Bavarian Main State Archive before 1979. Actions and actors’. The exhibition was opened in the course of training in the preparation service 2017/2020 for the entry into the 3rd Qualification level of the field of education and science, specialist focus on archives, at the University of Applied Sciences in Bavaria, elaborated by Andrea Kurzböck. Climate protection and environmental protection are currently dominated by public discussion, and nature conservation is rarely discussed. An exception is species protection, a core area of nature protection. Since 19. In addition to species protection, nature protectors are concerned with the protection of the landscape and individual natural monuments. Procedures, personnel structure and motivations of nature conservation have been subject to changes over time, but have always been diverse. State and non-governmental institutions demanded, appealed to reason and emotions, mobilized, threatened with punishment, rewarded but also exemplary action. Associations, associations, press and state authorities gathered and disseminated information. At the beginning, aesthetic and patriotic-conservative aspects were at the centre of the argumentation. Other motives were the protection of nature for scientific purposes and the recognition that the destruction of nature is burdening the economy in the long term. Ecological and soci
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