04.07.2019: Digital cultural mediation – “Small archival studies” unlocked by the state archives of Bavaria - online presentation of 100,000 digitized archives with a total of 3.5 million images on the homepage
As a new e-learning module on the homepage of the Bavarian State Archives, the 4th July 2019 at 10.00 a.m. the “Small Archives” presented and unlocked (https://www.gda. bayern.de/service/archivalienkunde/). The module Prof. Dr. Joachim Wild, Director of the Main State Archive a.D., has worked out the subject “Archival Studies” for 30 years at the Bavarian Archive School, the central educational institution for archivists in Bavaria. Currently, the state archives of Bavaria store well 47 million originals from 777 to today. If you put all archives together, you could easily bridge the distance from Munich to Nuremberg. About the homepage and the finder database (https://www.gda.bayern.de/service/finding agent database/) are currently 100,000 archives Digitalisate available. Since most archives comprise several pages, this results in the fair number 3.5 million available images. These quantities already make it clear that any form of digital access to archives will always be a part of the written tradition of Bavaria. The focus is on the state archives of Bavaria, therefore, the digital collection of directories and development information. This information is not only available through the homepage, but is also fed via interfaces into important portals such as the Archive Portal D and from there into the EUROPEANA. Another focus is the digitization of audiovisual archives. Due to the shortevity of storage media such as film, video and CD, the total loss
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26.06.2019: "Should and atonement? National Socialism in Court" - Exhibition at the State Archive Coburg
After the Second World War with more than 50 million dead, the question of the responsibility, for the guilt and atonement of the crimes committed by the Nazis, was raised. In addition to the allied war criminal processes in Nuremberg, the Americans led the twelve Nuremberg follow-up processes as well as the Dachauer war criminal processes to punish criminal organisations as well as perpetrator groups and individual workers. Since the end of 1945 the German courts were allowed to speak right again and since 1950 they had so far-reaching competencies in order to be able to judge war crimes. In addition, investigative authorities and courts have now been able to clarify and judge crimes with a national-socialist background. The exhibition at the State Archive Munich provides an insight into the procedures and introduces some processes that stand out from the mass of criminal proceedings. A large section of the exhibition is dedicated to crimes in concentration camps. The legal work-up of Dachau was exclusively within the jurisdiction of the prosecutor's office Munich II, to the Passau outer camps of the concentration camp Mauthausen determined the prosecutor's office Passau. A further section examines the legal work-up of the Nazi violent acts by the Coburg prosecutor's office, as in the Coburger area. The exhibition at the State Archive Coburg (Herrngasse 11) is from 26. June to August 2, 2019 to see. Admission is free. Opening hours: Mo–Do: 8.00–16.00
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03.06.2019: "Joseph Ludwig Graf von Armansperg (1787–1853): Aristokrat, Liberal, Minister, Chancellor" - Teaching Exhibition at the Bavarian Main State Archive
On Monday, June 3, 2019, the opening of the small exhibition “Joseph Ludwig Graf von “Armansperg (1787–1853): Aristokrat, Liberal, Minister, Arch Chancellor” takes place in the Bavarian Main State Archive. The exhibition was launched 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. Joseph Ludwig Graf von Armansperg served four Wittelsbach kings as officials, ministers and advisors. He came from an old noble family of Lower Bavaria, which was raised to the Reichsfreiherrenstand in 1719. His career began as administrative officer under King Maximilian I. Joseph. King Ludwig I promoted him to the “Superminister” for finance and interior, later for finance, the royal house and exterior. As a “Sparmansperg” he refurbished the Bavarian state finances and set new standards in terms of transparency, accuracy and economy. At the end of his professional life, Armansperg became President of the Council of Regents and Chancellor of the Young Kingdom of Greece under King Otto. Armansperg spent his retirement as a landlord at Egg Castle near Deggendorf. During the revolutionary upheavals of 1848, King Maximilian II again sought Armansperg's advice on various questions. To Joseph Ludwig von Armansperg, the state archives of Bavaria maintain a rich tradition. Pers
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30.04.2019: NEW COLLECTION: “Description of Estates in the Bavarian Main State Archive”
Written discounts of individuals are of considerable importance for the cultural memory of the state or society. They complement the official tradition and provide a view of history from a personal perspective. This is why archives and other memory institutions are intensively concerned with the preservation, development and use of these private sources. The Bayerische Hauptstaatsarchiv keeps estates of important personalities and collections in its own department, such as leaflets, posters, photos, and association articles. 30. April 2019 was presented to the public the new “Directory of Estates in the Bavarian Main State Archive” in the presence of Mr. State Minister for Science and Art Bernd Sibler, MdL. Art and Science Minister Bernd Sibler, a self-studied historian, stressed in the run-up to the event: “Public estates are valuable cultural evidence of our country. They help to better understand the work and work of important personalities and are thus a unique source of historical research. I am proud that the archive inventory on estates in the Bayerischer Hauptstaatsarchiv facilitates access to this high cultural property for all interested and makes us aware again: archives are the memory of our country!” Through its clear structure, the inventory provides a quick overview of these sources that are so important for historical research. Which life stations of the estate agents can be traced? Who corresponded to who? Where can I find other parts
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