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15.01.2019: Introduction of Archive Director Dr. Christian Kruse as new head of the Bamberg State Archive

Tuesday, 15th In January 2019, Dr. Christian Kruse, Director General Dr. Margit Ksoll-Marcon, was officially introduced as Head of the State Archives. Ms. President of the Government Heidrun Piwernetz has spoken a greeting. Dr. Christian Kruse was effective from 1. December 2018 appointed Head of the Bamberg State Archives. He followed archive director a.D. Dr. Stefan Nöth, who has been the state archive since 1st. August 2006 and retired as of 31 August 2018.

Christian Kruse, born in Kiel, studied history and German 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”. After training as a scientific archivist at the Bayerische Archivschule, he worked from 1991 to 2002 in the Bayerischer Hauptstaatsarchiv and from 2002 to 2007 in the Staatsarchiv Augsburg and Nuremberg.

From 2007 to 2008, he worked as a permanent representative of the Head of State Archives in Munich, from 2008 to 2018 he was responsible for archive building, stock conservation, publications and public relations in the Bavarian State Archives Directorate-General. Dr. Kruse represented the state archives of Bavaria in federal-counter-gremien. The state archive Bamberg can inaugurate a modern magazine building in the next few months. Networking in the region with archives, authorities, courts, educational institutions and schools is a central task that will be intensified.

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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 to Polish students? The voltage fields of the first half of the 20. During the First World War, Poland in Bavaria was often mistrusted “Ausländer”, later forced laborers subjected to the Nazi regime without protection, or displaced persons without home after the war. Art and culture reflect the alternating Polish-Bavarian relations in the first half of the 20th. The most famous example is the Landshuter Wedding, which has been celebrated regularly since 1903 and which, although taking up a historical event, should attract foreign guests to Landshut. The Polish art and also the artist Veit Shock (1447/1448–1533) were subject to significant struggles, claiming Nuremberg and Krakow equally. In Bavarian archives and libraries, the versatile and diverse Bavarian-Polish relationship can be traced. The tradition of the Bavarian ministries stored in the Bavarian Main State Archives as well as the tradition of the sub- and central authorities and the courts in the state archives should be highlighted. Further documents can be found in ecclesiastical and university archives. For example, the small exhibition combines about 40 exhibits from the Bavarian Main State Archives, the State Archives Augsburg and Munich, the Archive of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, the City Archive Munich and the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. The exhibition is from 21. January 2020 until 7 March 2020 in the main building of the Bavarian Main State Archive (Treppenhaus, 1st OG), Schönfeldstraße 5, 80539 Munich to see. Opening hours: Monday to Thursday 8.30–18.00, Friday 8.30–13.30 (Sa, So and at the Carnival Serviceag 25.2.2020 closed; Special opening on the Tag Archives, Sa 7.3.2020) Free admission. Guided tours for groups can be agreed under (089) 28638-2575. Further information at www.gda.bayern.de (press images in higher resolution can be requested). To the exhibition a small Exhibition catalogue. Submitted on: 21.01.2020 Related files: Pressemitteilung Bild 3a: Reklamemarke mit Motiven der Landshuter Hochzeit, 1913, Privatbesitz (Foto: Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv) Bild 3b: Reklamemarke mit Motiven der Landshuter Hochzeit, 1913, Privatbesitz (Fotos: Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv). Bild 3d: Reklamemarke mit Motiven der Landshuter Hochzeit, 1913, Privatbesitz (Fotos: Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv) Bild 3e: Reklamemarke mit Motiven der Landshuter Hochzeit, 1913, Privatbesitz (Foto: Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv)

Figure 2: Dr. Bernhard Grau, Director of the Main State Archives, Prof. Dr. Hubert Weiger, Honorary Chairman of BUND Nature Conservation and Dr. Thomas Paringer, Archive Director, Head of Department at the Bavarian Main State Archive.

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.

Photo by Dr. Klaus Rupprecht, new head of the Bamberg State Archive (Photograph: Reinhold Schäffer, Bamberg State Archive

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

illustration of the linen shirt for the newborn prince Ludwig., with embroidered king crown and number 3, approx. Size 56, Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Family Archive Preysing-Lichtenegg-Moos (Photo: Bayerisches Hauptstaatarchiv)

11.10.2021: 100. Day of death King Ludwig III.

100. King Ludwigs III dedicate the Bavarian State Archives to the last Bavarian king Online presentation. Written considerations of the king’s to a European “federation of states” which have not yet been disregarded by research are presented. The unlocking took place on Monday, 11. October 2021 on the occasion of a visit by the Head of the Bavarian State Chancellery, Minister of State Dr. Florian Herrmann, MdL, and SKH Herzog Franz von Bayern in the Bavarian Main State Archive. The First World War and the November Revolution in 1918 led to the end of the monarchy in Bavaria. The last Bavarian King Ludwig III fled from Munich on 7 November 1918. He spent the rest of his life at Schloss Wildenwart im Chiemgau, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Hungary. Ludwig III died 76 years on 18th. October 1921 at Nádasdy Castle in Sárvár in Hungary. The state archives of Bavaria preserve diverse testimonies from the life of the last monarch. Some selected special pieces from the Bavarian State Archive, Department III Secret Home Archive and Department V Estates and Collections and State Archive Munich are presented in an online presentation. A first-hand shirt, baptism and birth certificate, will and death-matric entry as well as photos provide an insight into the life-reality of the prince and later monarchs. From research to Ludwig III. a document which was found in his desk in Sárvár after the death of the king has not been honoured. It opens up a new look at the monarchs named “Millibauer” in the Bavarian population due to their passion for agriculture. Ludwig held reflections on the project of a “federation of states” in a volatile pencil. The political plans contained are partly very time-bound, but point in time ahead of what is or is being pursued in the European Union today. ↗ to online presentation Submitted on 11.10.2021

"The German Reparation"

How did the Federal Republic of Germany compensate for the victims of unprecedented NS crimes? How was robbed property returned? And are committed crimes even “make good again”? These and other questions are discussed in the new, three-part podcast “The German Reparation”, which is now available online. In three episodes, central aspects of restitution such as restitution and compensation are at the heart of NS persecuters, as well as dealing with the so-called “forgotten victims” using the example of Sinti and Roma. Experts from science and society, along with podcast host Nora Hespers, also on the basis of historical documents from the Federal Archives, illuminate the backgrounds of reparation. The podcast appears in a German and English version. “The German Reparation” was created on behalf of the Federal Archive for the online theme portal “Reparation of National Socialist Unright”. Since 2022, the thematic portal initiated by the Federal Ministry of Finance and designed by the Federal Archives has been providing central access to millions of files of the German reparation policy and is continually being developed into a comprehensive search and information site which, in addition to archive contents, also offers background information, podcasts and research aids. The theme portal is implemented together with the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, the Leibniz-Institut FIZ Karlsruhe and the portal Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. The new podcast will be published on the 18th anniversary of the ratification of the Luxembourg Agreement on the so-called ‘Reparation of National Socialist Unright’. March 1953. In this agreement, the Federal Republic took responsibility to the State of Israel for the crimes committed in Nazism, especially to Jews. In the first podcast sequence “A question of property – between robbery and law” the refund of stolen property is at the centre of attention. Historian Jürgen Lillteicher (Director of the Allied Museum Berlin) talks about the start of reparation. Jurist Benjamin Lahusen (University of Frankfurt an der Oder) takes a look at the court halls at that time, and the provenance researchers Susanne Kiel and Kathrin Kleibl (LostLift database) report on the handling of the moved goods persecuted who had been confiscated in ports during war outbreak. The second sequence “A question of the territory – the view to the west” looks at the compensation of Nazis in Western Europe. Historian Tim Geiger (Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin) reports on the foreign policy history of reparation, and Nicole Immler (University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht) explains how reparation was carried out abroad. Britta Weizenegger (Landesamts für Finanz Rheinland-Pfalz) also reports how a reparation office works today. In the third episode “Camp for Recognition” is about the reparation for the Sinti and Roma persecuted in the NS period. They are representative of the so-called “forgotten victims” (such as homosexuals, so-called “Asocial”, “vocational criminals”), whose suffering was not recognized and compensated for decades after the Nazi terror. “The German Reparation” hosted the president of the Central Council of the Germans Sinti and Roma, Romani Rose, the President of the Federal Court of Justice, Bettina Limperg, and Markus Metz from the Bavarian National Association of Sinti and Roma. Link the podcast Topics "Reparation of National Socialist Unrightness" Posted on 14.03.2025

Drawing certificate of Emperor Ferdinand II for Duke Maximilian of Bavaria with the Kurwürde, 25 February 1623 (Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Kurbayern Documents 22118) [JPG file].

24.2.-26.5.2023: 1623. Bavaria will be the princess

On Thursday 23rd February 2023, was the small exhibition “1623” in the Bavarian Main State Archive. Bavaria is opening up Kurfürstentum. The award of the Kurwürde to Herzog Maximilian I. von Bayern 400 years ago, on 25. February 1623, was the result of difficult negotiations and a compromise: The Bavarian Duke was only for his person, not for his whole house. In a secret supplementary agreement, Emperor Ferdinand II confirmed the inheritance of the Bavarian Wittelsbacher. The origins of the Bavarian pursuit after this ranking date back to the late middle age. In the house contract of Pavia, in 1329 between the Bavarian and the Celtic line of the Wittelsbacher, an alternating exercise of the Kurwürde had been agreed; the Golden Bull of 1356 tied the Kurwürde to the Celtic territory. On 8 October 1619, Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria and Emperor Ferdinand II concluded the Munich Treaty. A subsidiary agreement to this agreement marks the beginning of the efforts of Maximilians to transfer the Palatinate Kurwürde to Bavaria. After Friedrichs V's battle from the Palatinate 1621, a secret stretching was first carried out, and in 1623 the transfer of the Kurwürde to life time was finally carried out. Only the Westphalian peace in 1648, which ended the Thirty Years War, confirmed the Kurwürde for Bavaria. The small exhibition explains the most important stages of the ascent of Bavaria to the Kurfürstentum and the taught discussions that were held in the courts involved. The exhibition will be seen in other state archives during the course of 2023 and was therefore planned as a flexible presentation on roll-ups. At the opening the document of 25th February 1623 in original. A small catalogue appears on the exhibition: 1623. Bavaria will be the princess. An exhibition of the Bavarian Main State Archives. Conception and editing: Gerhard Immler, with the collaboration of Sarah Hadry, Elisabeth Lukas-Götz, Claus Mannsbart, Genoveva Rausch, Alexandra Scharmüller, Monika von Walter, Elisabeth Weinberger, Susanne Wolf (State Archives of Bavaria - Small exhibitions 70), Munich 2023, ISBN 978-3-938831-66-3, 60 pages, 5,00 Euro. The exhibition at the Bayerischer Hauptstaatsarchiv, Munich, Schönfeldstr. 5, stairwell, can be seen from 24 February to 26 May 2023. The entrance is free. Opening hours: Mo–Do 8.30–18.00 hrs., Fr 8.30–13.30 hrs. (closed: May 1 (Feiertag), May 17 and 18.5 (Christi Ascension). Guided tours for groups can be booked free of charge at e-mail: poststelle@bayhsta.bayern.de. Published on 23.02.2023.

“Key Experiences” – Nuremberg key to various high-quality objects, 16. Century (State Archive Nuremberg, Cimelien 173/1, 173/5, 173/9, 173/10) [JPG file].

Event series "DREI um DREI"

In spring 2020, the State Archive Nuremberg had to withdraw from its buildings in the Archivstraße 17 in Nuremberg due to the necessary renovation. It'll take time to move back. Common formats of public relations such as archive tours or exhibitions cannot be offered during the outsourcing. The State Archive Nuremberg has been taking place since 30th. November 2023 with a new lecture format in memory: Under the title “Three Around Three”, archivists in a colourful mix of the rich archives of the State Archives show surprising and precious, eye-catching and consequences-rich, everyday and rare. Three topics are presented each on the third, starting at 3:00 in the afternoon. Three events per year are planned. On the occasion of the introduction of the reformation in Nuremberg 500 years ago, Dr. Christian Kruse, Dr. Daniela Palzer and Dr. Daniel Burger from the State Archive Nuremberg will present on 20th. March original source texts. The focus is on: Advice on “the right and most notable main thrust of our faith and Christian preaching”. The Council and the Nuremberg religious talk of March 1525. They “should, however, be generously ruen with irem Bapisthic measurements”. Nuremberg is evangelical. Determine “how to keep [...] with the void vnd Ceremonien”. The Confessio Augustana and the Brandenburg-Nürnberg church order. The next lectures in 2025: Thursday 20th March 2025, at 3 pm at the Sophien Hall Thursday November 13th 2025 at 3 p.m. Place of event is due to the lack of its own rooms of the Lorenzer Parish (Lorenzer Platz 10, 90402 Nürnberg, entrance right) on 6.2.2025 and 13.11.2025 in the "Osiander" room on 1st floor (record available), on 20.3.2025 on "500 years of reformation in Nuremberg" in the Sophiensaal in the EC. All lectures will be on Blog 'Archive in Bayern' to be read. Contributions to the lecture series "Drei um Drei": /wp:heading wp:paragraph Dr Christian Kruse, "The Süddeutsche Schreiner-Fachschule von Karl Maibaum, Nuremberg - ein Wiederdiscover" (11.3.2024) Dr Daniel Burger, "Key moments. Why does the State Archive Nuremberg keep the keys of the Nuremberg city gates?" (11.3.2024) Dr Daniela Palzer, "The robbery of Johann Paul Forster – a right-historical curiosity" (14.5.2024) /wp:paragraph wp:paragraph /wp:paragraph wp:paragraph /wp:paragraph We hope you are curious about us and our archives. We look forward to your coming! Contact: Staatsarchiv Nürnberg, Rollnerstraße 14, 90408 Nürnberg E-mail: poststelle@stanu.bayern.de Created on 19.12.2023, as amended on 10.03.2025.

Figure 1: Munich 1972, poster for individual discipline athletics (Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, poster collection 28712)

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

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