25-27.09.2024: »Future-ready? Data quality and data security in museum and archive«

This year, the EDV days are dedicated to the spectrum of data quality and data security in museum and archives. Successful development, preservation and research of cultural goods is only possible in the long term on the basis of high-quality specialist information, whose lasting protection can only be ensured by appropriate systems and strategies. Data quality and data security play an essential role in museum and archive work. On the one hand, in the case of the EDV days 2024, we illuminate specific possibilities for generating technically improved, deepening and thus future-oriented development data, for example by data qualification or the use of controlled vocabulary. On the other hand, the conference will focus on current challenges in the field of data security, which are becoming increasingly relevant in view of the digital transformation processes. Information security and data protection are also indispensable in museums and archives. Two practical workshops complete the programme. The lectures on Thursday and Friday will be held in parallel Livestream transfer. The workshops are excluded on Wednesday. The stream is freely accessible via the EDV tags website. When registering for the live stream, the link will be sent to you by email a few days before the event. Further information on the programme and the venue as well as the registration form can be found on Conference website. We look forward to your participation! Posted on 29.07.2024

14.10.2019: Establishing an emergency network of Bamberger Archives, Libraries and Museums

Director-General of the State Archives, Dr. Margit Ksoll-Marcon, Mayor of the City of Bamberg, Mr Andreas Starke, General Vicar of the Archdiocese of Bamberg, Monsignore Georg Kestel, President of the Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg, Prof. Dr. habil. Godehard Ruppert, and the head of the Bamberg State Library, Ms. Library Director Prof. Dr. Bettina Wagner, signed on 14. October 2019 in the City Archive Bamberg the agreement for mutual support of Bamberger Archives, Libraries and Museums in emergencies (“Notfallverbund Bamberg”). 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 institutions provide mutual support to bundle resources and 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 impressively large disasters such as the Elbhochwasser 2002, the fire in the Weimar Anna-Amalia-Bibliothek 2004 or the collapse of the historical archive of the city of Cologne 2009. The Bamberg emergency association, established by the signing of this agreement, expressly invites the representatives of other cultural institutions in the Bamberg city area to cooperate in the future. Further information on the work of emergency associations in Germany can be found at: http://notfallverbund.de/ On. 14.10.2019   Related files: Joint press release on the Bamberg emergency network

07.03.2020: History of the Post in the Oberpfalz - Tag der Archive im Staatsarchiv Amberg am 7. March 2020

On the first weekend of March the 10th will be German. Tag Archives organized. This year he is entitled “Communication: From the Depesche to the Tweet”. Several hundred archives in Germany open the doors to their treasury chambers and show their work with historical documents. Lectures on the history of the post in the Oberpfalz (10-13) Welcome (Dr. Maria Rita Sagstetter, State Archive Amberg) The post in the Oberpfalz. Formation - Structures – Formation (Dr. Martin Dallmeier, Regensburg) Stocks on post history in the Amberg State Archive (Dr. Till Strobel, Amberg State Archive) Introduction to Exhibition “History of Post in the Upper Palatinate in 19th and 20th Century’ (Jochen Rösel M.A., Staatsarchiv Amberg) Guided tour of the Amberg State Archive (13 – 2 pm) Participation in the leadership is also possible regardless of the attendance of the lectures. Exhibition It is also possible to: Exhibition “History of Post in the Upper Palatinate in 19th and 20th Century‘ are visited. This is also the 09.03. to 09.04.2020 open during the opening hours of the State Archive. Submitted at: 06.02.2020

26.06.2019: "Should and atonement? National Socialism in Court" - Exhibition at the State Archive Coburg

After the Second World War with more than 50 million dead, the question of the responsibility, for the guilt and atonement of the crimes committed by the Nazis, was raised. In addition to the allied war criminal processes in Nuremberg, the Americans led the twelve Nuremberg follow-up processes as well as the Dachauer war criminal processes to punish criminal organisations as well as perpetrator groups and individual workers. Since the end of 1945 the German courts were allowed to speak right again and since 1950 they had so far-reaching competencies in order to be able to judge war crimes. In addition, investigative authorities and courts have now been able to clarify and judge crimes with a national-socialist background. The exhibition at the State Archive Munich provides an insight into the procedures and introduces some processes that stand out from the mass of criminal proceedings. A large section of the exhibition is dedicated to crimes in concentration camps. The legal work-up of Dachau was exclusively within the jurisdiction of the prosecutor's office Munich II, to the Passau outer camps of the concentration camp Mauthausen determined the prosecutor's office Passau. A further section examines the legal work-up of the Nazi violent acts by the Coburg prosecutor's office, as in the Coburger area. The exhibition at the State Archive Coburg (Herrngasse 11) is from 26. June to August 2, 2019 to see. Admission is free. Opening hours: Mo–Do: 8.00–16.00 h, Fr: 8.00–13.30 h A catalogue is available for the exhibition: Small exhibitions No. 40: Guilty and atonement? To prosecute the NS crimes by Upper Bavarian judicial authorities on the basis of the transfer to the State Archive Munich. An exhibition of the State Archive Munich. 6.5.-20.6.2014. Conception and editing: Christoph Bachmann and Robert Bierschneider, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-938831-43-4 - € 5.00, 140 pages in text. Download Posted on 26.06.2019

Archives of the Free State of Bavaria for “Reparation” National Socialist Unright

‘reparation files’ are important sources of historical research due to the detailed biographical information and the attached evidence. On the 7th Day of Provenance Research on the 9th April 2025 show the Bavarian State Archives with a small showcase presentation in the Bavarian Main State Archive, which provides insights into persecution skills based on this file group. The Day of Provenance Research conveys the social and scientific relevance of this research area and takes place every year on the second Wednesday in April. In the example of the persecution fate of the Jewish woman Hedwig Bobelle during the NS period, it is shown which evaluation possibilities for example offer the compensation files. The Compensation Act contains applications submitted by Hedwig Bobelle to the Bavarian State Compensation Office from 1954. These requests for damage to freedom, property and property as well as professional and economic progress illustrate, among other things, the handling of the recovery authorities with the formerly persecuted. In many cases, detailed evidence was required which were hardly to be provided, since almost everything had to be left behind on the flight, in detention and other war-related fates. It is also clear that not only cultural goods such as paintings, musical instruments or valuable books have been robbed. Everyday objects, from personal memorabilia to furnishings, were also deprived of Nazi persecution. Files such as those of Hedwig Bobelle will be made available online in the future, taking into account the legal bases. For this purpose, between 2023 and 2030 a part of the archival tradition is digitized and deepened for the “reparation” of NS injustice of the state archives of Bavaria. Development data and digitalisates are provided online via the finder database of the Bavarian State Archives and the thematic portal “Reparation of National Socialist Unright” in the “Archivportal-D”. The digitization project was initiated by the Federal Ministry of Finance, which has been responsible for the “reparation” of national socialist injustice as the top specialist authority since the early 1950s. The theme portal implements one of the following tasks of the “reparation”. The presentation is from 2 to 30. April 2025 in the Bayerischer Hauptstaatsarchiv, Schönfeldstr. 5, 80539 Munich, to see. The entrance is free. Opening hours: Monday to Thursday 8.30-18.00 Friday 8.30-13.30 closed: Good Friday and Easter Monday, 18th and 21st April 2025 Links: on the theme portal ‘Reparation of National Socialist Unright’ link to the online collection "Reparation for National Socialist Injustice" Working group Provenance research e.V. to Events on the Day of Provenance Research the Research association Provenienzforschung Bayern Poster and Flyer: Nicole Edwards, GDA. Issued on 08.04.2025, amended on 12.05.2025.