Ongoing projects

After the Pogromnacht of 9 November 1938, the German Reich illegally confiscated the written tradition of Jewish cult communities in Bavaria. A number of municipal archives first entered the care of the state archives of Bavaria. After the Second World War, this document was sent to Jewish Historical General Archives (JHGA), the predecessor of the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP) in Jerusalem.

Zugänglichmachung von Archivgut des Freistaates Bayern zu Rückerstattung und Entschädigung über das Themenportal „Wiedergutmachung nationalsozialistischen Unrechts“

The NFDI4BioDiversity Consortium is an association of disciplines and interest groups including the civil sciences, citizen science, and state authorities in the field of environmental and nature protection for biodiversity, ecology and environmental data as well as infrastructure facilities.

The Directorate-General for State Archives of Bavaria supports the consortium NFDI4Memory as participant. The consortium combines a wide range of historically working humanities as well as other disciplines that use historical data methodically, and preserving institutions such as libraries, museums, archives and infrastructure facilities.

The National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) is an initiative of the Joint Science Conference of the federal and state governments. This is a digital, distributed infrastructure that provides science services and consulting services for the management of research data offer.

The Nuremberg State Archives hold the most important written records of the Nuremberg Trials in their collection entitled “Nuremberg War Crimes Trials.” In a collaborative project with the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (BAdW) and Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), these documents are now being completely digitized and scientifically processed using digital humanities methods.