19.02.2019: "On number safe! Protection of contents in the archive" - Teaching exhibition in the Bavarian Main State Archive

Archives are the memory of a society. They shall ensure that the archives kept by them are preserved, secured and kept permanently. Only, what means in the long term, secure and receive? What are the dangers and can archives be set and how can they be met? The small exhibition with about 35 exhibits shows, on the basis of selected examples, the dangers to which archival material can be exposed: from total loss through war, fire or theft, to partial damage caused by nager or insects, to targeted, unauthorized manipulation of content. In the second part, protection measures are introduced that apply archives and archivists yesterday and today for the preservation of the original and its contents: correct storage, pest management, certification and stapling, theft protections, standards and rules, copies and filming. The exhibition was opened in the course of training in the preparation service 2017/2020 for the entry into the 3rd Education and Science, specialized in archives, at the University of Applied Sciences in Bavaria. The exhibition can be seen from 19 February to 2 April 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. (Faschingsdienstag, 5 March only until 12.00 hrs.) Free admission. Guided tours for groups can be agreed under (089) 28638-2575.

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

21.06.2022: Cooperation Agreement between the University of the Federal Armed Forces of Munich and the Directorate-General for State Archives of Bavaria signed

21. In June 2022, the President of the University of Bundeswehr Prof. Dr. Merith Niehuss, whose Vice President Prof. Dr. Uwe Borghoff and the Director-General of the State Archive Dr. Margit Ksoll-Marcon signed a cooperation agreement at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich. The aim is to co-operate the Institute of Software Technology and the datArena of the University of the Bundeswehr Munich with the state archives of Bavaria in data backup and long-term data storage. The contract includes the cooperation of the two institutions with the organization and support of student projects and internships in order to close students with forms, methods and instruments of archival information management, as well as to give insights into the field of archives and the challenges of digital long-term archiving. Focus: Recovering old records and long-term archiving The intention of the agreement is that both partners develop joint projects, scientific meetings and workshops. For this purpose, the stock of the Bavarian State Archives can be used for research purposes by students and lecturers of the Institute for Software Technology. Research projects as well as project or master's work are intended primarily to restore and interpret older data stocks of the Bavarian State Archives, document formats and digital long-term storage and long-term preservation. Software solutions that can be created in research and used for the purposes of archiving are released for use by the State Archives. “The cooperation with the state archives is of particular importance for the University of the Bundeswehr Munich and the work in the datArena. This gives our researchers access to authentic and historically valuable data material as well as close personal contacts to internationally identified experts of long-term digital archiving,” explains Prof. Dr. Borghoff. Dr. Ksoll-Marcon said: “Enge contacts to the Institute of Software Technology at the University of the Bundeswehr have existed for many years and are intensified by this cooperation. The aim is to make research data readable and usable and to further develop the necessary technologies." The datArena: A forum of encounter The signing of the cooperation agreement took place in the new premises of the datArena on the grounds of the University of the Bundeswehr Munich. The datArena is a teaching, research and exhibition centre that conveys between technical, cultural and social history and will also offer researchers, students and the public a forum for encounters. The datArena was founded jointly by Prof. Dr. Borghoff and John G. Zabulitzky. At present, a move on the grounds is completed. In addition to valuable, technology-historical, representative electronic computers, the datArena houses a software archive of international rank and one of the largest collections of historical digital media. Since the software and media can be used on functional devices from the respective era, historical software and digital documents can be brought back to life. Thus, datArena offers an excellent infrastructure for research in the field of digital long-term archiving and preservation of digital cultural heritage. In conjunction with the datArena, courses and internships of the Bayerische Archivschule will be organized and conducted in the future.

24.06.2024: Conference presentations: Original maintenance in practice – Prevention of damage and emergency in archives and libraries

In cooperation with the Coordination body for the preservation of written cultural goods (KEK) to the event "Originalerhalt in Practice - Damage and Emergency Prevention in Archives and Libraries" on Monday, 24. June 2024 invited to the Bayerische Hauptstaatsarchiv at 10 a.m. The occasion is the presentation of the band „Schäden an Archiv- und Bibliotheksgut sehen und klassifikation“ by Ann-Kathrin Eisenbach and Katrin Marth, which you will find here free download can. Participation in the event is free of charge, but registration for participation on site is necessary due to limited capacity. Please register with full name and specify your service until 19. June 2024 at poststelle@gda.bayern.de The program for the event can be found under 'Family files' or here download directly. The conference presentations on the event can be held at the Homepage under technical information - conservation or directly here will be downloaded: Dr. Katrin Marth, Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv: From the creative description to usable information. Updating the damage disaster of the Bavarian State Archives Dr. Laura Scherr, Director-General of the Bavarian State Archives: Planning of conservation measures, remedying and preventing damage Dr. Ursula Hartwieg, coordinating body for the preservation of written cultural goods (KEK): Funding possibilities: The coordinating body for the preservation of the written cultural property (KEK) Ann-Kathrin Eisenbach M.A., Munich City Museum: Small damage: damage prevention at the desk Dr. Julian Holzapfl, Staatsarchiv München: Greater damage. Emergency prevention and information options Anton Löffelmeier M.A., City Archive Munich: Priority of stocks for emergency and cooperation with the fire department Nadine Thiel, Historical Archive with Rheinische Bildarchiv: Use cultural goods! The rolling container Cultural property protection of the emergency network of Cologne archives and libraries Dr. Laura Scherr, Director-General of the Bavarian State Archives: Emergency Association Bayern – emergency alliances in Bavaria   Further information on the handling of wet archives can be found on our Homepage under technical 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 previously funded projects in the field of emergency provision is available via the homepage of the KEK here. Also provided on the homepage of the KEK interactive map of all emergency allies in Germany. The Security Guide Kulturgut (SiLK) offers archives, libraries and museums with a free online tool the possibility of raising the safety level of the own institution in a self-assessment and revealing weaknesses. Cultural property protection of the emergency network Cologne: https://www.stadt-koeln.de/politik-und-verwaltung/presse/mitteilungen/22501/index.html     Figure: 1. Title Sheet, Ann-Kathrin Eisenbach – Katrin Marth, detect and classify damage to archive and library goods. Setting of damage using examples of the Bavarian State Archives, Munich 2023 [JPG file]. Two. Poster "Water in Archive", Directorate-General of the State Archives of Bavaria, Design: Nicole Edwards [JPG file].     Created on 5.6.2024

The Constitution of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1818–1918

The exhibition opens a wide panorama of the 19th and beginning 20. century in Bavaria. Not only is the creation of the constitution, but also its further development, which led to an increasing parliamentaryization of the Bavarian monarchy. Individual aspects of constitutional reality round off the picture. One can approach the topic about the intensively explained individual exhibits or thematically about the individual sections of the exhibition. In addition to the prehistory of the Constitution with the Constitution of 1808, “State and Constitutional Code”, “King and Parliament”, “The Way to the State Court”, “Constitutional Reforms in 19th Century”, “Constitutional reforms after 1900”, “problems and break lines of the Constitutional Regulation” and “Constitutional Jubilees”. Here goes to the virtual exhibition.

"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