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Sister M. Petra Articus (Ebtissin des Klosters Seligenthal) - Dr. Margit Ksoll-Marcon (Director of the State Archives) - Mr. Alexander Putz (Mayor of the City of Landshut) at the signing of the emergency agreement in the Landshut State Archive

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16.07.2019: Establishing an emergency network of the Landshuter Archives, Libraries and Museums

The Director-General of the State Archives, Dr. Margit Ksoll-Marcon, the Mayor of the City of Landshut, Mr Alexander Putz and the aegis of the Seligenthal Monastery, Sister M. Petra Articus sign on the 16th. July 2019 at 10 a.m. in Landshut State Archives, Libraries and Museums (“Landshuter Archives, Libraries and Museums”).

The agreement includes: joint trainings and exercises, the preparation and exchange of emergency plans, and the permanent exchange of those responsible with each other and with external partners such as the fire department and the technical aid.

For the hopefully never-ending emergency, the archives secure mutual support to bundle resources, as well as to ensure faster and more effective recovery and initial supply of the affected archives, books and exhibits. For the institutions involved, the protection of the cultural goods they hold against fire, water, external violence or other unpredictable events is one of the most important tasks. The past has shown that the staff of the individual institutions are often overwhelmed without external assistance, which has shown great disasters such as the Elbhochwasser 2002, the fire in the Weimar Anna-Amalia Library 2004 or the collapse of the historical archives of the city of Cologne 2009. Due to the fire of the Trausnitz Castle on 21 October 1961, which also seriously affected the state archive Landshut, which was then housed there, the city of Landshut and the Landshut archives had to make their own experiences with great fire disasters and damage to archivia and building material.

The Landshut emergency association, established by the signing of this agreement, expressly invites the representatives of other cultural institutions in the Landshut city area to cooperate in the future.

You can find a contribution to the Landshut emergency network in the Mediathek of Local Television for the Lower Bavarian Government District:

° https://landshut.niederbayerntv.de/mediathek/video/notfallverbund-landshuter-archive-bibliotheken-und-museen/

For more information on the work of emergency associations in Germany, see:

http://notfallverbund.de/

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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. Personal documents and documents can be found in Estate Armansperg in the Bavarian Main State Archive. Documents from other branches of the family lie in the State Archives Munich (Family Archive Grafen von Armannsperg) and Country hat. Armansperg's work as state officials and ministers was reflected in the files of various Bavarian authorities. About 30 objects were selected for the small exhibition, which illuminate the central stations of life and activity of Armanspergs. Documents, business writing, session logs, publications and private letters are complemented by contemporary paintings and lithographies. The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and the King Otto Museum in Ottobrunn provided reproductions for the exhibition. Today, among others, the Armanspergstraße in Münchner district Harlaching and the inscription of the Ottopillar in Ottobrunn remind Joseph von Armansperg. A compilation of these and other traces of memories round off the exhibition. The exhibition is from 3. June to 16. July 2019 in the main building of the Bavarian Main State Archive (Treppenhaus, 1st OG), Schönfeldstraße 5, 80539 Munich. Opening hours: Monday to Thursday 8.30–18.00 hrs., Friday 8.30–13.30 hrs., closed 10.5. (Pfingstmontag), 20.5. (Fronleichnam). The entrance is free. Guided tours for groups can be agreed under (089) 28638-2575. Submitted on: 03.06.2019

Joseph von Fraunhofer in the opinion of his contemporaries and posterity

An exhibition at the Landshut State Archives, curated by Johanna Girschick, on display from February 10 to April 10, 2026 Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787-1826) was a Bavarian optician, inventor, and entrepreneur whose achievements in research are still relevant today. Born in Lower Bavaria, Fraunhofer combined exact science with application-oriented practice and discovered the Fraunhofer lines named after him. He was a member of several prestigious research institutions and enjoyed national and European renown. Honors from politics, society, and science attest to his special status. Streets in several German cities, buildings, stamps, an ICE train, and a research institution bear Fraunhofer's name. The exhibition at the Landshut State Archives marking the 200th anniversary of his death aims to raise awareness of Joseph von Fraunhofer in his home region of Lower Bavaria. It deals with the city of Straubing's approach to Fraunhofer in terms of historical memory and the 80-year struggle to erect a monument in his hometown. It becomes clear that Fraunhofer is viewed positively throughout history and in the present day. The approximately 30 exhibits come mainly from the Straubing City Archives. They are supplemented by items from the Bavarian Main State Archives and the archives of the Deutsches Museum in Munich, which holds Fraunhofer's estate. Reproductions are on display. The exhibition was developed as part of the 2021/2024 preparatory service training program for entry into the third qualification level of the education and science career path, with a focus on archiving, at the University of Public Service in Bavaria. On display from February 10 to April 10, 2026, at the State Archives in Landshut, Schlachthofstraße 10, 84034 Landshut. Opening hours: Monday to Thursday, 8:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Friday, 8:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Closed on Shrove Tuesday, Good Friday, and Easter Monday. Special opening for Archives Day on March 7, 2026, 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Free admission. An accompanying booklet is available for the exhibition. Fig.: Exhibition poster, Benjamin Gerum, GDA. Posted on February 5, 2026. Related files PM_StaA_Landshut_Ausstellung_Fraunhofer.pdf

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02.12.2022: Constitutional Order for Director-General of the State Archive a.D., Dr. Margit Ksoll-Marcon

Among other things, Margit Ksoll-Marcon conceived and initiated various exhibitions on the history of the Bavarian Constitutions during her professional career. The aim was always to permanently anchor the Constitution as the basis of our community in the historical consciousness of the population. For many years, a further focus of their work was cross-border cooperation with Czech archives, making it an invaluable contribution to the confrontation with the alternating common history of the people in the Czech Republic and Bavaria and thus to international understanding. Margit Ksoll-Marcon has acquired great merits to preserve and share the constitutional history of the Free State. Press release of the Bayerische Landtag: https://www.bayern.landtag.de/current/certificate/constitutionalmedaille/hirung-der-verfassungsorden-2022/ To the funerals: https://www.bayern.landtag.de/fileadmin/Internet_Documents/press/W%C3%BCrdungen_Ordenstr%C3%A4ger_2022.pdf Constitutional Orders: https://www.bayern.landtag.de/current/labelling/constitutionalmedaille/ Posted on 5.12.2022

Dr. Thomas Paringer, new head of the State Archive Landshut (Photo: Irmgard Lackner, State Archive Landshut)

23.11.2022: Change of office in the State Archive Landshut

He follows archive director Dr. Martin Rüth, who retired in early October 2022. Dr. Martin Rüth studied German and History Gymnasium and received a PhD in Würzburg with a work on “The rise and spread of the humanist law firm in the municipal authorities of southern Tuscany and Umbria”. After training as a scientific archivist at the Bayerische Archivschule 1988 until 1991, he worked at the Staatsarchiv Landshut, whose head he has been managing since 18th. March 2005. In his term of office, the planning and construction of the new building of the Landshut State Archives was completed. Born in Lower Bavaria, Dr. Thomas Paringer studied Bavarian and General History, History and Church History in Munich and Rome. He received his doctorate with an institutional history work on the Upper and Lower Bavarian state levels in the Duchy of Bavaria. After his lecture on the scientific archivist at the Bavarian Archive School 2006 to 2008, Thomas Paringer first worked in the State Archive Munich before he first moved to the State Archive Landshut in 2010. As his deputy director, he organised, among other things, the transfer of the archives to the modern new building on Schlachthofstraße. In the spring of 2017 he moved to the Bavarian Main State Archive in Munich and took over the management of the department V Estates and Collections. As an instructor at the Bayerische Archivschule and the Bayerische Verwaltungsschule for newer constitutional and administrative history, he is intensively familiar with the Bavarian authorities structure. With the acquisition of the direction of the State Archive Landshut, he returns to his roots. The excerpt from the Trausnitz Castle into a modern archive building in 2016 was a cemetery for the Landshut State Archive. The new building offers all the conditions for managing the new tasks of the archives created by the digitalization of society and administration. In addition to the increasingly digital provision of sources, the acquisition of digital documents and their accessibility are key areas of work of the new head of office. In addition, the role of the State Archive Landshut as the centre of regional historical research is to be strengthened. Dr. Paringer strives for more intensive contacts with neighbouring universities, cultural institutions and historical associations. The state archive Landshut stores around 2.93 million archives in the amount of 20,150 meters (as at the end of 2021). It is responsible for the tradition of all modern state courts, central and sub-authorities based in the Lower Bavarian government district. Older documents – mainly in the form of documents, official books and files – originate from the administration of the Lower Bavarian part of the Duchy and Prince of Bavaria and from numerous nobility archives. The oldest documents date from the 12th century. Posted on 23.11.2022

Figure 1: Theatrical sheet of Max Bayrhammer’s guest performance with “Penster” by Henrik Ibsen in the city theatre Ulm, 4th. July 1920 (Photo: Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Family Archive Bayrhammer)

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

Anastasia Anderson-Manahan, ca. 1952 in Unterlengenhardt (Signatur: BayHStA, NL Anastasia Anderson-Manahan 3, Photo credit: Bayerisches Hauptstaatarchiv)

22.02.2021: Who was Anastasia Anderson Manahan really?

Anastasia Anderson Manahan gained worldwide attention with her multi-filmed life history. The story of the young woman who allegedly escaped the shooting command of the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution as the only member of the tsar family and then hoped for general recognition in vain contained all elements of a modern tragedy. With the help of a DNA analysis on the mortal remnants of the Russian Zaren family, it was clear in 2007 that the youngest Zaren daughter was murdered together with her family. This proved that Anastasia Anderson Manahan was not the great-fearer Anastasia of Russia. For many years, friends and Plenipotentiaries from Anastasia Anderson Manahan's closest environment gathered written documents of all kinds that should prove that Anastasia was actually the daughter of the last Russian pair of fences. Thus, the so-called “Anastasia Archive”, which has now been handed over to the Bavarian Main State Archive for archiving. In addition to letters and correspondences with their supporters (many of them from high aristocratic circles), there are business documents that regulate the publishing and film marketing of their history. In addition, there are process documents and legal correspondences that document the struggle for recognition and the related legal claims over several decades. Insight into the personality structure of Anastasias give not least the wills written by her. In addition, the archive holds a variety of memories and testimony that should serve as evidence of the identity of Anastasia. With the acquisition of the estate of Anastasia Anderson-Manahan to the Bavarian Main State Archive, these documents find their final location in Bavaria, not far from Seeon in the district of Traunstein, where after their death on 12. February 1984 on the Orthodox part of the cemetery. She died in Charlottesville in the USA. The gravestone bears the years of life “1901-1984”, the name “Anastasia Manahan” in Latin and additionally the first name Anastasia in Cyrillic script. Also on the Seeoner cemetery are the tombs of relatives from the house of the dukes of Leuchtenberg. These were particularly closely connected to the Romanov's home after their origin and identity and initially acted as Anastasia's most important advocate. The Family archive Leuchtenberg has been stored in the Bavarian Main State Archive for many years.

27.6.2024: Emergency association Bayern founded

Climate change promotes natural disasters and extreme weather conditions, the consequences of which increasingly affect cultural institutions. Flood 2024 again proves that such damage events are usually no longer possible at local level alone. A cross-border networked infrastructure for the protection of cultural property with appropriate personnel and technical equipment is becoming increasingly important. In order to be better prepared for major damage events in Bavaria, leading cultural institutions join the Bavarian emergency association. First sign of the agreement the Directorate-General of the State Archives of Bavaria the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek the state office for non-governmental museums in Bavaria the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen the Bavarian National Museum Archive and Library of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising the archive of the archbishop Bamberg the Archaeological State Collection the Federal Archive for its facility Load balancing archive Bayreuth The Bavaria emergency association supplements the existing regional emergency alliances with a supra-regional level. So far, there are already active emergency alliances in Bavaria at the locations of all state archives, i.e. in Amberg-Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Augsburg, Bamberg, Coburg, Landshut, Munich, Nuremberg and Würzburg. Other local allies are found. Minister of State Markus Blume emphasised on the signing of the agreement: “Prevention, protection and networking are best achieved together: With the establishment of the Bavarian emergency association, cultural institutions from all over the Free State join forces to quickly and extensively protect our cultural treasures. At the heart of the composite is the provision and coordination of a special emergency container for the protection of cultural property. In emergency, expert experts from the association advise and accompany the fire brigade when using the container. Thus, hand-in-hand with the operational forces, a quick, safe and precise protection of our cultural treasures is guaranteed. ‘ In the event of a major damage event, the institutions, which are combined in the Bavarian emergency association, bundle their human, technical and technical resources in order to preserve irreplaceable cultural property from loss and destruction. The first 48 hours decide on the success of a first supply, after this time, mold formation is used in wet objects. Even after that, a recovery is still possible, but the more rapid action is done properly, the better. Objectives of the Bavarian emergency association are procurement and provision of required large equipment and regular training. In the event of damage, members of the association help with recovery and initial care, the subsequent further processing is not the task of the emergency network. For the Bavarian emergency association, as large as possible facilities should be obtained, which run their own workshops or regularly supervise their own large-scale projects in the field of conservation. In this way, the facilities have the necessary expertise in order to also initiate further operational forces in the appropriate handling of crops to be fermented or already havared. A broad distribution of competence was also central. In addition to archives and libraries, large museums are represented and an important competent representative of smaller museums is represented by the state office for non-governmental museums. Whether document, book, painting or sculpture, for any kind of cultural property are specialists on board. The Federal Government supports the 2021 regions affected by floods and heavy rain during the reconstruction and the cultural facilities located there in order to cope with damage. From the funds provided for this purpose, a total of ten emergency containers are purchased with equipment and materials for the protection of cultural goods and kept ready for nationwide use. The main objective of the 10 containers to be distributed over the federal territory is the creation of a networked emergency infrastructure cultural property protection, which can also be combined. For Bavaria is currently running Production of a special container according to the model of the unrolling container of the emergency composite Cologne which has already been proven in use. Starting in the middle of 2025, this roll-off container is ready for cultural goods protection at a logistically easily accessible location in the Munich area for the supra-regional retrieval via the emergency association Bayern. The alarming takes place via the control points of the fire department, the final decision as to whether there is an occasion for a request of the container, meets the emergency association Bayern. The emergency network also alerts the team of the container – tailored to the respective affected cultural goods. Further information: Emergency allies in Germany. The coordinating body for the preservation of the written cultural goods (KEK) takes into account the emergency provision in its funding lines and supports, for example, the purchase of emergency boxes and other equipment or the preparation of emergency plans. An overview of projects funded so far in the field of emergency provision is about KEK's homepage available. Also provided on the homepage of the KEK interactive overview map of all emergency alliances in Germany. The Security Guide Kulturgut (SiLK) offers archives, libraries and museums with a free online tool the possibility of Self-evaluation to raise the level of security of your own institution and to expose vulnerabilities. The joint recommendations for emergency management in archives and libraries of the federal state bodies were recast in 2024 and are here available. More information on conservation in the field Technical information on our homepage. BU 1: Signing of the agreement “Notfallverbund Bayern” on 27. June 2024 in the Directorate-General for State Archives of Bavaria. The group picture shows (from left to right): Dr. Dirk Blübaum and Simone Schön (both: Landesstelle für die Non-State Museums in Bavaria); Archivdirektor Karsten Kühnel M.A. (Federal Archives) Prof. Dr. Johannes Merz (Archive and Library of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising); Eva Ortner M.A. (Doerner Institute/Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen); Dr. Laura Scherr and Dr. Bernhard Grau (both: Directorate-General of the Bavarian State Archives); Dr. Rolf-Dieter Jungk (Amtschef in the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and Art); Prof. Dr. Bernhard Maaz (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen); Dr. Frank Matthias Kammel (Bayerisches Nationalmuseum); Prof. Dr. Rupert Gebhard (Archäologische Staatssammlung); Dr. Klaus Ceynowa (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek); Kreisbrandrat Johann Eitzenberger (chairman of the Landesfeuerwehrverband Bayern e.V.); Dipl.-Chem. Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Jürgen Schwarz (Bayerisches Staatsministerium des Innern, für Sport und Integration); Photo: Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv. BU 2: Roll-off container Cultural property protection of the emergency network Cologne; Photo: City Archive Cologne. Created on 27.6.2024