27.2.-26.5.2023: Vaccines in Bavaria at the beginning of 20. Century

The small teaching exhibition "Impfgegner in Bavaria at the beginning of the 20th century from 27 February to 26 May in the State Archive Munich. Kevin Beesk's exhibition was launched as part of the current preparation service 2021/2024 for the start in the 3rd. Qualification level of the field of education and science, specialized focus on archives at the University of Applied Sciences in Bavaria, was developed from the 7th January to 7 Feburar in the Bavarian Main State Archive. Vaccinary scepticism and vaccination are not phenomena of the corona pandemic and associated discussions about vaccines or a general vaccination obligation. There have been reservations and resistance to vaccinations since the end of the 19th century. Century. The impfgegneric movement in the German Reich experienced a spy supply, especially since the introduction of a general vaccination obligation against the Pocken 1874. The small exhibition takes a look at the impfgegneric movement, its activity in Bavaria and main actors at the beginning of the 20th century. The nearly 30 exhibits originate mainly from the collections of the Bavarian State Archives. The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and the German Medical History Museum in Ingolstadt have provided digitalisate. accompanying the exhibition is a booklet available on this page under 'Family' files and under Publications available for download. Digitalized archives for exhibition: Exhibition 23: BayHStA, MK 16653: Dr. Heinrich Molenaar, Personalakt (412 Digitalisate) >> Opening hours: Monday to Thursday: 8:30 am to 4 pm Posted on 17.01.2023

Second life in book covers and file folders – a journey through time with parchment and paper waste

An exhibition by the Department of Archival and Library Science at the University of Public Service in Bavaria, curated by Amelie Knittel On display from February 10 to March 7, 2026, at the Bavarian Main State Archives. The reuse of used items is not a modern phenomenon: people have been recycling and upcycling since ancient times. In the 17th century, parchment was reused for envelopes, early printed materials were used as book spines, and after World War II, people often wrote on the back of already printed paper. The exhibition takes visitors on a brief journey through the various ways in which parchment and paper were reused in an administrative context and the curiosities that arose as a result. Around 20 exhibits from the Bavarian Main State Archives and the Munich State Archives illustrate in particular the nature of the reprocessing, the circumstances surrounding this process, and the contents of the items that were given a second life. On display from February 10 to March 7, 2026, in the main building of the Bavarian Main State Archives, 1st floor, Schönfeldstraße 5, 80539 Munich. Opening hours: Monday to Thursday 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Friday 8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Closed on Shrove Tuesday, February 17, 2026. Special opening for Archives Day on Saturday, March 7, 2026.   Admission is free.   Click here for the exhibition catalog. Guided tours for groups can be arranged at oeffentlichkeitsarbeit@gda.bayern.de.   Fig.: Exhibition poster; Nicole Edwards, GDA. Posted on February 10, 2026.   Related files Pressemitteilung_Makulaturen.pdf  Ausstellungskatalog_Makulaturen.pdf  

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.

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

15.11.2019: Establishing an emergency network of archives and libraries in Amberg and Sulzbach-Rosenberg

The Director-General of the State Archives, Dr. Margit Ksoll-Marcon, the Mayor of the City of Amberg, Mr. Michael Cerny, the Director-General of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Dr. Klaus Ceynowa, and the 1st Chairman of the Literaturarchiv Sulzbach-Rosenberg e.V., Mr. PD Dr. habil. Heribert Tommek, signed on 15. November 2019 at 10 a.m. in the Amberg State Archives the mutual support of archives and libraries in Amberg and Sulzbach-Rosenberg in emergencies (“Notfallverbund Amberg – Sulzbach-Rosenberg”). According to the emergency associations Augsburg (founded in 2015), Munich (founded in 2016), Nuremberg (founded in 2016), Landshut (founded in 2019) and Bamberg (founded in 2019), the association Amberg – Sulzbach-Rosenberg is the sixth of this kind in Bavaria. From an archival point of view it should be emphasized that the depot of the Amberg State Archive in Sulzbach-Rosenberg is also part of the association. The agreement includes: joint trainings and exercises, the preparation and exchange of emergency plans, and regular exchange of those responsible with each other and with external partners such as fire brigade and technical assistance. For the hopefully never-ending emergency, archives and libraries provide mutual support in order to bundle resources and to ensure faster and more effective recovery and initial supply of the affected archives, books and exhibits. One of the most important tasks of the institutions involved is the protection of the cultural goods they hold against fire, water, external violence or other unpredictable events. The past has shown that the employees of the individual institutions are often overwhelmed with large damage events without external assistance. Great catastrophes such as the Elbhochwasser 2002, the fire in the Weimar Duchess Anna Amalia Library 2004 or the collapse of the historical archives of the city of Cologne 2009 have shown this in an impressive way. Strong rains and flood events in the recent past led to a number of Bavarian nobility archives that were able to be managed with united forces. Fortunately, the institutions involved in Bavarian emergency alliances have not yet had to deal with major emergencies. The fire of the Trausnitz Castle in Landshut remains on the 21st. In October 1961, the state archive Landshut, which was currently housed there, was seriously affected. At that time, the Bavarian archive administration had to make its own experience with a large fire disaster and damage to archives and building materials. The emergency association Amberg – Sulzbach-Rosenberg, founded by the signing of this agreement, expressly invites representatives of other cultural institutions, such as museums, in Amberg and Sulzbach-Rosenberg to cooperate in the future. For more information on the work of emergency associations in Germany, see: http://notfallverbund.de/ Related Files: Pressemitteilung

17.07.2024: State Archives as a resource for provenance research

Within the framework of the practical seminar, the most important traditions are presented at the central government level (in the Bavarian Main State Archive) and in the regional area (exemplarily in the State Archive Munich). Provenance research serves to develop object and collection biographies and thus contextualizes the origin of an object. Although the object itself is initially examined, it is usually not enough to determine who the (art) work has heard in the course of time without doubt. In addition to museum documents such as sales books, files and official books are often indispensable in public archives in order to reconstruct the provenance. Many of these documents do not use the object, but are used for persons who have been deprived of assets. Within the framework of the practical seminar, the most important traditions are presented at the central administrative level (in the Bavarian Main State Archive) and in the regional area (exemplarily in the State Archive Munich) – from the tax and withdrawal files of the NS authorities to the reparation files from the post-war period to relevant documents of the ministries and large museums such as the Bavarian State Painting Collections. In practical exercises, research strategies are to be communicated. Comments on the legal framework and the terms of use in the Bavarian State Archives round off the event. Referencing Maria Stehr M. A.is an expert in enquiries from provenance researchers in the department II New holdings of the Bavarian Main State Archive, Robert Bierschneider performs the same function in the State Archive Munich. Gerhard Fürmetz M. A. leads the Department II of the Bavarian Main State Archives and is an expert in the field of overdelivery as well as in the presentation and evaluation of relevant archives. event in the Bavarian Main State Archive and the State Archive Munich, Schönfeldstr. 5 and 3 in 80539 Munich, the Wednesday, 17th July 2024, from 09:30 to 16:00. More information and registration can be found on the page of the State office for non-governmental museums in Bavaria. Created on 27.3.2024   Related files Programflyer [PDF-Datei].

29.06-30.10.2020: "The most burning of all social questions." Local housing policy between 1918 and 1954 in Munich, Nuremberg, Erlangen

On Monday, 29. June 2020, became the small exhibition in the Bavarian Main State Archive “The most burning of all social questions” Local housing policy between 1918 and 1954 in Munich, Nuremberg, Erlangen open. 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. Thomas Gilgert, Johannes Hasselbeck and Andreas Schenker are the editors of the exhibition. Lack of housing and rising rents in many cities lead to the housing issue of many today as a new social issue or even as the social issue of the 21st. It is seen in the century. Concentrated housing also promotes the spread of diseases, as the Covid-19-Pandemie is currently devastating. These phenomena are not new. Already in the pre-modern era, not all people had a roof over their heads. At the latest since the explosion in the urban centers, which begins with industrialization and continues to take place today, supply and demand are mostly disparate. The small exhibition looks back at the local housing policy in three crucial political phases in Bavaria: the Weimar Republic, the National Socialism and the early post-war period. For each of these periods, a city which was of particular importance for Bavaria at the time as it was today and whose housing policy was thus also exemplary for others is taken out. The exhibition begins with Munich as the most populous place and Bavarian capital for the period of the Weimar Republic. It follows Nuremberg, the old industrial heart of Bavaria and special show stage of Nazi propaganda (cf. also Exponat 2.2 in the online finder MF 22: "Representation of state forest grounds for the establishment of a working settlement on the outskirts of Nuremberg"). In the post-war period, the exhibition focuses on Franconian achievements, until then a middle city with a Protestant-small-bourgeois character, which developed into an educational, industrial and prosperity centre after 1945. On the basis of these examples, two democracies and a totalitarian dictatorship, the structural features of which are also found in local housing policy, are dealt with consecutive but conceivable different temporal contexts: In the Munich of the Weimar Republic, the increased importance of public service provision becomes clear, the völkian blood and soil ideology of the NS regime manifests itself in its Nuremberg home and small settlements, and an essential factor of the earned lack of housing in the post-war period were the many refugees and displaced persons arriving there. On the other hand, there are specific local peculiarities of the three places: The conservative expression of Munich's urban policy is more traditional. The self-conception of Nuremberg as a “city of the Reichsparteitage” is reflected in the offensive appearance of Mayor Liebels. Erlangen’s urban structure, which remained largely undisturbed in the war, resulted in an unusually strong settlement of various groups, which now needed a new home. With this concept, the exhibition wants to sharpen the view of the questions of the present by illustrating different reactions that the phenomenon of housing shortages had in three different contexts. The small exhibition combines about 40 exhibits, mainly from the municipal archives Nuremberg, Munich, Erlangen and the Bavarian Main State Archive. It is from 29 June 2020 to 30 June 2020 October 2020 (extended) in the main building of the Bavarian Main State Archive (Treppenhaus, 1st OG), Schönfeldstraße 5, 80539 Munich. Opening hours: Monday to Thursday 8.30–16.00 hrs., Friday 8.30–13.00 hrs. (Sa, So and on holidays closed) Free admission. Please note the applicable hygiene rules in the building of the Bavarian Main State Archive (including the duty to carry mouth-nut protection). Guided tours cannot be offered. Further information at www.gda.bayern.de (press images in higher resolution can be requested). The exhibition is a small Exhibition catalogue (ISBN 978-3-938831-95-3, protection fee 3.00 Euro). Submitted on: 07.07.2020