21.06.2022: More clarity for research. Exchange of archives between the state archives of Bavaria and the archives of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising

In the Directorate-General of the Bavarian State Archives, an important exchange of archives between the Bavarian State Archives and the Archives of the Munich Archdiocese and Freising was carried out yesterday. Director-General Dr. Margit Ksoll-Marcon and archive and library director Prof. Dr. Johannes Merz gave each other symbolically a total of 543 documents, volumes and files, which will be stored in an archive of the opposite side after they had entered the “false” archive by various historical circumstances. Such a exchange is a technically recognized but not very common approach in archives. Two closed file complexes were submitted to the State Archives from the archbishop archive: 1. Documents of the Foundation administration Wasserburg: The foundation administration is a state authority which, from 1807 to 1817, manages assets and accounts for all churches, brotherhoods and other ecclesiastical foundations in the former Pfleg and/or Landgericht Kling perceived. For this they were also available older series of church bills. In total, it is 146 mostly extensive volumes with invoices of the churches in the parishes of Eggstätt, Eiselfing, Evenhausen, Grünthal, Höslwang, Obing and Schnaitsee from 1700-1803, as well as 78 other volumes and files from 1672-1847. The documents were recovered in 1985 by the archdiocese archives of the parish church of Schnaitsee, where they had arrived on an unknown path. Two. Professors of the Zisterzienserkloster Kaisheim (near Donauwörth): The 96 documents from the period 1575-1727 were mostly written by the novices on parchment, which thus completed their entry into the convent community. At the secularization of the Bavarian monasteries in 1803, they were apparently not taken over by the state archives like the rest of the monastery archives and came to the archive of the archbishop by Deutinger (1789-1854) via the collection of the historically highly interested Munich Cathedral Propstes Martin von Deutinger. The documents submitted by the archive of the archdiocese will be stored in the respective competent state archives and there will be gaps in the tradition: the documents of the foundation administration in the state archive of Munich, the Kaisheimer Professkunde in the state archive of Augsburg. From the state side, a variety of individual items were handed over to the archbishop's archive. In the more detailed analysis of the stocks carried out in the Bavarian Main State Archive in recent years, in which the Freisinger Archivals in the 19th They have turned out to be part of spiritual administration. After the secularization of the Freising High Foundation in 1802, the separation between documents of the spiritual administration that remained with the Freising Diocese Administration and today form the altarpiece of the archbishop's archive, and those of the worldly government of the spiritual principality of Freising, which were taken over by the new landlord with the acquisition of its territories, was not always carried out cleanly, which is now corrected by the exchange of archives. 222 archivals of the spiritual government of the Diocese of Freising (officialate, Spiritual Council or Spiritual Government, Generalvikariat) from 1418-1802 went to the archives of the archdiocese with a very diverse subject. They concern, inter alia, synods, visitations, church court proceedings and monasteries in the diocesan area. The documents handed over to the archive of the archbishop will be incorporated into the corresponding directories in the near future, then scanned and provided online in the digital archive of the archbishop for use. The exchange now completed means a substantial simplification for research. He is also a further proof of the long-standing trusted cooperation between the state archives and the archives of the archbishop, which is shown in the participation of ecclesiastical archives in the training of state archivists and in the joint participation in scientific projects. Posted on 21.06.2022

21.03.-20.05.2022: From the national park to the bee colony. 50 years Ministry of the Environment in Bavaria.

The small exhibition “From the National Park to the Beevolksbegehren” shows the diversity of the tradition of the environment stored in the Bavarian Main State Archive. 50 years of the Ministry of the Environment in Bavaria”, which until 20. May 2022 can be seen in the Bavarian Main State Archive. The Bavarian Ministry of the Environment was established in the European Nature Conservation Year 1970 by decision of the Bavarian Landtag. Since then, the environmental policy field has developed into a political-social long-term task with the aim of creating as much as possible equivalent and good living conditions throughout Bavaria. This includes a lively and healthy environment. Priorities in the history of the Ministry of the Environment were early environmental initiatives and educational measures, legislative initiatives such as the inclusion of environmental protection as a state goal in the Bavarian Constitution and the Bavarian Environmental Pact in 1995. There were also challenges such as environmental scandals, protests against the reprocessing plant in Wackersdorf, citizens' initiatives and popular desires. They also demonstrate the emergence of a new political culture of resistance and direct democracy. Place of exhibition: Schönfeldstraße 5, 80539 Munich, 1st floor Opening hours: Monday to Thursday: 8:30 am to 6 pm Friday: 8:30 to 13:30 Sundays and holidays, as well as Easter, 15th to 18th April closed The entrance is free. The exhibition is a catalogue in the series Small exhibitions published: 65: From the national park to the bee colony. 50 years Ministry of the Environment in Bavaria. An exhibition of the Bayerischer Hauptstaatsarchiv, Munich [1 December 2020 - 26.3.2021]. Conception and editing: Johannes Moosdiele-Hitzler, Thomas Paringer (Staatliche Archive Bayerns - Kleine Exhibitions 65), Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-938831-99-1, 72 pp., numbered sw-Abb. € 4,00. Here is the archiving agreement between the Landesbund für Vogelschutz and the Bayerischer Hauptstaatsarchiv. Posted on 21. March 2022, updated on 26.4.2022.

25.04.2022: Archiving agreement between the Landesbund für Vogelschutz and the Bayerischer Hauptstaatsarchiv

25. In April 2022, Dr. Bernhard Grau, Director of the Main State Archives and Dr. Norbert Schäffer, Chairman of the Bavarian Association for Bird Protection (LBV), signed an archiving agreement. The agreement regulates the future transfer of the LBV association to the Bayerische Hauptstaatsarchiv. The Landesbund für Vogelschutz is one of the oldest and most important environmental associations in Bavaria. His tradition dates back to the founding year 1909. The new acquisition focus of the Bavarian Main State Archives includes sources from the field of natural, environmental and climate protection as well as civic engagement. The state archives of Bavaria also take over non-governmental and private archives and collections. The written transmission of the Landesbund für Vogelschutz substantially complements the stocks already stored in the Bayerische Hauptstaatsarchiv for environmental and climate protection. The largest group of private traditions form the estates of important personalities: Prof. Dr. Hubert Weiger (born in 1947), forest scientist, long-term chairman and current honorary chairman of BUND Naturschutz in Bayern e.V., BUND and member of the Coal Commission of the Federal Government and many other bodies. He will be present at the signing of the agreement. Dr. Hans Bibelriether (born 1933), Förster, long-term director of the first German National Park “Bayerischer Wald” and a recognized expert in the national park movement. Sepp Daxenberger (1962–2010), Mayor and Minister of State of Bündnis 90/The Greens and their co-country chairman. Ruth Paulig (born 1949), co-founder of the Greens in Bavaria, Minister of State of Bündnis 90/The Greens and their co-country chairman. Dr. Sepp Dürr (born 1953), Chief of State of Bündnis 90/The Greens and their Co-President. Prof. Dr. Klaus Buchner (born in 1941), physicist, Federal Chairman and MEP of the ÖDP. Dr. Max Stiferl (1932–1998), 1970–1977 first Bavarian Minister of the Environment, 1977–1988 Minister of Finance, 1988–1993 Bavarian Prime Minister. Alfred Dick (1927–2005), 1977–1990 Bavarian Environment Minister. The small exhibition “From the National Park to the Beevolksbegehren” shows the diversity of the tradition of the environment stored in the Bavarian Main State Archive. 50 years of the Ministry of the Environment in Bavaria”, which until 20. May 2022 can be seen in the Bavarian Main State Archive. The Bavarian Ministry of the Environment was established in the European Nature Conservation Year 1970 by decision of the Bavarian Landtag. Since then, the environmental policy field has developed into a political-social long-term task with the aim of creating as much as possible equivalent and good living conditions throughout Bavaria. This includes a lively and healthy environment. Priorities in the history of the Ministry of the Environment were early environmental initiatives and educational measures, legislative initiatives such as the inclusion of environmental protection as a state goal in the Bavarian Constitution and the Bavarian Environmental Pact in 1995. There were also challenges such as environmental scandals, protests against the reprocessing plant in Wackersdorf, citizens' initiatives and popular desires. They also demonstrate the emergence of a new political culture of resistance and direct democracy. In about 40 exhibits, the small exhibition will focus on the institutionalization of environmental protection and environmental policy in Bavaria. A small catalogue has been published for the exhibition. The exhibition in the Bavarian Main State Archive, Main Building, Schönfeldstr. 5, can be seen until 20 May 2022. Admission is free. Opening hours: Mo–Do 8.30–18.00 h, Fr 8.30–13.30 h (Sun and holidays closed). Here is the report of the Süddeutsche Zeitung on the archiving agreement. Posted on 20. April 2022, updated on 26. April 2022.

21.04.2022: Olympic posters from the poster collection of the Bavarian Main State Archive available online

Itotal of 90 posters for Olympic Games from 1964 to 1972 are over finder database of the Bavarian State Archives available online. These include four recently acquired event packages of the ecclesiastical services among the Olympic summer games in Munich. The concept of “Heitere Spiele” included a separate, modern and colored picture language. This idea followed – besides the signs of the sports facilities – public work and advertising material. Especially the posters still provide a good insight into the concept at that time. There are various series at the Olympic posters: posters to Olympic individual disciplines, art posters of renowned artists and advertising posters for the cultural and ecclesiastical accompanying program. For example, the great orchestra and ballet companies of the world appeared during the games in Munich. These official poster series were created on behalf of the International Olympic Committee as organisers, which also manages the rights of use. A few additional posters refer to other accompanying events such as an exhibition by the Bavarian National Museum. The poster collection of the Bavarian Main State Archive contains over 50,000 posters. In addition to cultural and advertising posters, political posters dominate with a focus on the first half of the 20. Century. You can find the poster collection HIER>>. Posted on 11.04.2022, updated on 29.08.2022

25.01.2022: Nachlass Bezirkstagspräsident a.D. Dr. Georg Simnacher (1932-2014) transferred to the Staatsarchiv Augsburg.

The estate of District President a.D. Dr. Georg Simnacher (1932-2014) has been kept in the state archive of Augsburg since summer 2021. In 2009, Günzburg's long-standing Land Council and district president of Schwaben concluded a donation agreement with the Staatsarchiv Augsburg, which regulates the later acquisition of his written estate. After a vision and preordination by Simnacher Witwe Ms. Ursula Simnacher, the estate was handed over to the state archive of Augsburg. There the estate is archived and protected conservatively. He is available for inspection on the basis of the Bavarian Archives Act. The documents complement the official tradition of the state archives of Augsburg, especially the state council offices and the government of Schwaben. Dr. Georg Simnacher decided early for a political career. After studying law in Munich and Erlangen and law-historical doctorate, the CSU politician has already become a Landrat of Günzburg with 34 years of age. He had this office from 1967 to 1996. From 1974 to 2003, he was also the President of the District of Schwaben. The “Schwabenherzog”, as he was lovingly called, was also president of the association of Bavarian districts initiated by him from 1979 to 2003 (now Bavarian District Day). Here he strengthened the reputation of the districts as the third municipal level in Bavaria and gave their concerns hearing. Simnacher has left deep traces of health care and social policy, as well as the cultural and home care of Schwaben. Simnacher's private writing includes, in addition to biographical material (interferences, certificates, certificates) and documents from professional activity (acquisition documents before the circular or district day, papers, speeches and greetings, press collection), also private correspondence (accordings of many well-known political companions) as well as material on individual projects that were particularly close to his heart as District Presidents. These include the renovation of the former monastery church of Irsee and the establishment of a Swabian educational centre there, the rehabilitation of the Kurhaustheater in Augsburg or the decentralization of the district clinics in Kaufbeuren and Günzburg. Posted on 25.01.2022

12.02.2022: Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv takes over the family archive Bayrhammer

The Bavarian State Archive with the family archive Bayrhammer takes over the estates Gustl Bayrhammer and his father Max Bayrhammer. The family archive contains personal documents, awards and memorabilia of the actor dynasty Bayrhammer from 1870. This secures the written testimonies of this “artisticly ambitious family” (Gustl Bayrhammer) for the future and makes it accessible to research. Especially Gustl Bayrhammer (1922–1993), who was on 12. February 2022 would have become 100 years old, so far many are regarded as the epitome of the Bavarian folk actor. Like his father Max (1867–1942), he worked on many stages throughout the German-speaking world. To complement official tradition, the Bayerische Hauptstaatsarchiv secures estates of political and socially important personalities. The takeover of the family archive Bayrhammer takes place on the basis of a donation agreement on the basis of the public interest and the supra-regional importance of the subcontracted persons. Max Emanuel Bayrhammer on the 26th Born in Lower Bavaria in May 1867 as the son of a castle administrator. He took acting lessons and quickly found access to large stages, often with classic main roles. He performed at the Gardenerplatztheater Munich, the Stadttheater Wroclaw, the Weimarer Hoftheater, the Wiener Volkstheater or the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt. After the end of the First World War, the role offers became less, already from the early 1920s, he joined NSDAP fans as an entertainer and after 1933 at events of the NS organization “force through joy”. In precarious economic circumstances, he lasted only with a small doped stage contract at the Bavarian National Theatre on Water. His performances as the author of stage pieces are forgotten today. His 1922-born son Gustl (actually Adolph Gustav Rupprecht Maximilian) Bayrhammer first received a commercial training. After his convocation in the Wehrmacht, Gustl Bayrhammer used the stationing in Berlin for a theatre training at the Schiller Theatre under Heinrich George and Gustav Gründgens. After the end of the war, together with Toni Berger (1921–2005), he took a first engagement at the Hohenzollerische Landestheater Sigmaringen. There he also met his later wife, actress Irmgard Henning (1919–2003). After more than two decades on different stages (e.g. Augsburg, Karlsruhe, the Luisenburg Festival Wunsiedel and the Landestheater Salzburg), he went to Munich in 1967. Since then, he has been involved in the Munich Chamber Games, the Münchner Volkstheater and the Bayerische Staatsschauspiel. Gustl Bayrhammer became famous throughout the country through his TV career. As the first Bavarian investigator in the TV series "Tatort", he appeared in 15 episodes nationwide between 1972 and 1981. The television role with which it is most often associated across generations is that of the “master Eder” in the children’s series “Pumuckl”. In this international large production with at the time extremely elaborate trick drawings, he brilled as a sympathetic-grantian carpenter. Max and Gustl Bayrhammer made their own understanding of their performances as a theatre actor. The family archive is documented by special biographical documents: Gustl Bayrhammer led over each of his roles book. The recordings range from the first performance at Theater Sigmaringen on 27th. November 1945 until his last appearance on 21st January 1993 in Munich. This written information is accompanied by equally carefully designed photo albums. His father, on the other hand, collected the theatre records and stage programs of his performances, so that his professional path can also be well tracked. As a curiosity, the family archive contains a whole range of awards and honours such as the Bavarian Film Award, the Bambi, the Bavarian Order of Merit and even a Golden Record for the Pumuckl-Hörspiele. TV contribution to the acquisition of the family archive Bayrhammer in the BR-Sendung "Rundschau" from 12.02.2022 [video film, about 2 minutes] ↗https://www.br.de/mediathek/video/bayerische-schauspiel-legende-100-birthday-von-gustl-bayrhammer-av:6207e19ed0f61f00084eeacc Radio contribution to the acquisition of the family archive Bayrhammer in the BR2 radio broadcast "Die kulturWelt" from 11. February 2022 [Audio contribution, at approx. 10.00-16:50]: ↗https://www.br.de/radio/bayern2/s/kulturwelt/die-kulturwelt-vom-11-februar-2022_x-100.html Posted on 11.02.2022, added on 14.02.2022

02.11.2021: Training for the third level of qualification of the training and science course, specialized focus on archives

On 2 November 2021, 13 candidates from the three-year preparatory service in the field of archiving started University of Applied Sciences in Bavaria. As part of their dual studies, the prospective graduate archivists will be taught in about two dozen subjects, ranging from German and Latin writing to archive management teaching, to the highly topical "Digital Archiving", which will teach craftsmen for their future profession. With three internship sections in different archives, the theoretically learned is transferred to practice. The Director-General of the State Archives, Dr. Margit Ksoll-Marcon, was pleased to see that, in addition to the six public participants, seven young people from municipal archives complete the training. “Not only in the light of upcoming retirements, there is still urgent need for committed and qualified young people, both at the state and at the local level. As a central educational institution for the archivist qualification in Bavaria, we take this claim into account through a need-oriented training: Her course has long been the largest by far," says Dr. Ksoll-Marcon at the welcome of young talents. She wished the applicants all the good for the period of study in Munich and with a view to the current pandemic-related challenges a lot of perseverance. Further information: https://www.gda.bayern.de/training/hochschule-fuer-den-oeffentlichen-dienst-in-bayern/ Posted on 27.01.2021

28.10.2021: Presentation of Dr. Christian Kruse as new head of the State Archive Nuremberg

He has this task as of 1. May 2021, followed by Ltd. Archive Director Prof. Dr. Peter Fleischmann, who was appointed 31. January 2021 retired. Prof. Dr. Fleischmann led this State Archive Nuremberg since 1 December 2012 and returned to stations in the state archive Augsburg and the state archive Munich – in both state archives he had the lead inne – to the state archive in which his professional activity began after his training at the Bayerische Archivschule. Born in Kiel Dr. Christian Kruse, he studied history and German at the universities of Erlangen and Vienna for the Magisterium at Gymnasium. He received his doctorate in Erlangen with a doctorate on “Franz Friedrich Anton von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld 1750–1806”. He completed his lecture on the scientific archivist at the Bavarian Archive School in 1988 until 1991, after which he worked in the Bavarian Main State Archives, in the state archives of Augsburg, Nuremberg and Munich and from 2008 to 2018 in the General Department of the State Archives of Bavaria. From 1 December 2018 to 30 In April 2021 he led the Bamberg State Archive. The State Archive Nuremberg has great challenges to face: its headquarters at Nuremberg's Archivstraße 17 will be refurbished, the offices were opened in 2020 the Rollnerstraße 14, which outsources archives in four locations (external office Lichtenau bei Ansbach, Staatsarchiv Augsburg, Staatsarchiv Landshut, Landeskirchliches Archive of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria). The refurbishment of the State Archive Nuremberg – the first archive-purpose building of the Kingdom of Bavaria, built in 1880 – is expected to last until autumn 2026. The State Archive Nuremberg has approximately 8.2 million archives of 36.8 km in its storage. It is responsible for the transfer of all the authorities, courts and prosecutors of the middle and lower level in the Central Franconia government district. For the time before 19. century the State Archives handed over the documents, official books, acts and plans of the Principality of Brandenburg-Ansbach, the Reichsstadt Nuremberg, the Hochstift and Domkapitels Eichstätt, as well as the calibertic monasteries, the German Orders, smaller towns of empire, empire, aristocracy and a patriot. Posted on 28.10.2021

06.10.2021: Presentation of Dr. Klaus Rupprecht as new head of the Bamberg State Archive

On 5 October 2021, archive director Dr. Klaus Rupprecht became publicly a new head of the State Archives Bamberg presented. He took over this task as early as July 1, 2021 and followed archive director Dr. Christian Kruse, who moved to the State Archive Nuremberg as head of May 1, 2021. Dr. Christian Kruse led the Bamberg State Archive from 1 December 2018 to 30 April 2021. After studying history and German for the Magisterium at the Universities of Erlangen and Vienna, he received his doctorate in Erlangen with a work on “Franz Friedrich Anton von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld 1750–1806”. He completed his training as a scientific archivist at the Bavarian Archive School in 1988 until 1991, after which he worked in the Bavarian Main State Archives, in the State Archives of Augsburg, Nuremberg and Munich and from 2008 to 2018 in the Directorate-General of the Bavarian State Archives. Dr. Klaus Rupprecht, a native of Upper Franconia, studied history, anglistics and social studies at the University of Bamberg for the Teaching Office of Gymnasium. He received his doctorate with a dissertation on the topic of “Ritterisches Fürstentruung in Franken. The history of Guttenberg in the late Middle Ages and at the beginning of the early modern period”. After his lecture on the scientific archivist at the Bavarian Archive School in 1993 to 1996, Klaus Rupprecht worked in the Bavarian Main State Archive in Munich, came to the Bamberg State Archives in 1997, where he was Deputy Head and Speaker for Disclosure and Stock Issues since 2000. Since 1 November 2016 he has been head of the state archive Würzburg. With his appointment to the head of the Bamberg State Archives, he returned to his roots. In recent years, the Bamberg State Archive has been able to inaugurate and obtain an additional, modern magazine construction. In the next few years, public relations and public relations will be a special focus. It is also considered particularly important to strengthen the significance of the Bamberg State Archive as a centre of regional historical research. In this respect, cooperation with the Upper Franconian universities, cultural institutions and historical associations is sought. The state archive Bamberg retains around 2.6 million archives in the amount of 26.3 km (as at the end of 2020). It is responsible for the transfer of all state authorities, courts and prosecutors of the middle and lower level in the administrative district of Oberfranken, but without those based in county and circular city of Coburg (the State Archive Coburg is responsible for this). For the time before 19. The State Archives delivers the documents, official books, files and plans of the Hochstift and Domkapitels Bamberg as well as of the Bamberg monasteries and pens, the archives of the Markgraftum Brandenburg-Kulmbach-Bayreuth, the Franconian Empire and the rich Knights cantons Gebürg and Steigerwald. In addition, numerous nationally important nobility archives (e.g. Counts of Giech, Freelors of Guttenberg) as well as important personal estates and collections belong to the main areas of tradition. As part of the festive event, the Exhibition "The State Archive Bamberg. A treasure house of Upper Franconian history" open. The exhibition is open from 6.10.- 26.11.2021. Monday - Thursday: 8:00 - 16:00; closed on Monday 1.11 (All Saints) Friday: 8:00 - 12:30 A small catalogue appears: 64: The State Archive Bamberg. A treasure house of the Upper Franconian history. An exhibition of the Bamberg State Archives. Conception and editing: Christian Kruse, Johannes Haslauer, Claudia Kropf, Achim Paulus and Johannes Staudenmaier in cooperation with Johannes Hasselbeck (Staatliche Archive Bayerns - Kleine Exhibitions 64), Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-938831-97-7, 120 pp., numerous sw-Abb. € 5,00. Posted on 06.10.2021