| Mailing address: Postfach 218 10106 Berlin | Visitors address: Glinkastraße 35 10117 Berlin |
Telephone: (030) 224-170
Fax: (030) 224-17762
E-mail: post@bstu.de
Web site: www.bstu.de
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
The archive holds the records of the East German secret police (STASI) in Berlin and in fourteen field offices in the new German states. Material that was destroyed by STASI officers in 1989/90 is currently being reconstructed. The collection is enormous and encompasses 122 kilometers of files, 360,000 photographs, 600,000 negatives, film reels, audiovisual materials, and more than 40,000 file cards.
Finding aids:
Dagmar Unverhau, ed., Schriftenreihe Archiv zur DDR-Staatssicherheit.
Schriftenreihe der Abteilung Bildung und Forschung des BstU.
Stasi-Unterlagen-Gesetz (StUG vom 20.12.1991).
Telephone: (030) 839-010
Fax: (030) 839-01180
Web site: home.t-online.de/home/Neumark-L/nm_agsta.htm
Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Mon., Wed., Fri.; 8:00 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Tues.
Holdings:
The archive holds the records of the central administrative offices of the Mark Brandenburg back to 1188, the records of the administrative and judicial offices of Brandenburg-Preußen up to 1808, records for the period 1808-15, Prussian parliamentary files from 1847 to 1933, files of the Prussian ministries and top administrative units since 1808, the records of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz since 1957, records of the Hohenzollern family, military files of the Prussian army until 1867, files of the provincial administrations (including Brandenburg, East Prussia, Saxony, and West Prussia), records of parties and private organizations, scientific treatises, private papers, films, and manuscripts. The archive is complemented by a 190,000-volume library.
Finding aids:
Jürgen Kloosterhuis, ed., "Archivarbeit für Preußen: Veröffentlichungen aus den Archiven preußischer Kulturbesitz," in: Arbeitsberichte 2 (1999).
Telephone: (030) 212-830
Fax: (030) 212-83177
E-mail: info@landesarchiv-berlin.de
Web site: www.landesarchiv-berlin.de
Contact: Sabine Preuß
Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Tues. & Thurs.; 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Wed. & Fri.
Holdings:
The archive holds the administrative and judicial records of the city of Berlin since the Middle Ages. The holdings encompass parliamentary and local government files, company records until 1945, the records of the magistrate from 1809 to 1945, the records of the local courts, the files of the Einwohnermeldeämter from 1875 to 1960, a women's archive, records of prominent locals and organizations, the records of the East Berlin archive up to 1990, records of GDR institutions and mass organizations, records of the state of Berlin since 1990, a collection of 80,000 maps dating from 1650 to the present, photographs, a collection of flyers and posters, Berlin daily papers since 1722, a theater history collection, and a 75,000-volume library.
Finding aids:
"Das Landesarchiv Berlin: Geschichte, Bestände, aktuelle Entwicklungen und Probleme,"in: Der Archivar 3 (1997): 517-26.
Jürgen Wetzel, ed., "Das Landesarchiv Berlin und seine Bestände," in Schriftenreihe des Landesarchivs Berlin, vol. 1. (Berlin, 1992).
| Mailing address: Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amtes 11013 Berlin | Visitors address: Kurstrasse 31 10117 Berlin |
Telephone: (0228) 17-2158 (secretariat)
(0228) 17-2179 (rea (reading room Berlin)
Fax: (0228) 173-948 (archive Berlin)
E-mail: poststelle@auswaertiges-amt.de
Web site: www.auswaertiges-amt.de
Contacts: Dr. Hans-Jochen Pretsch (director), Dr. Maria Keipert (records up to 1945), Dr. Johannes von Boeselager (records since 1949), and Dr. Ludwig Biewer (private papers, audiovisual archive, personnel records)
Business hours: By appointment only; closed from mid-December to mid-January.
Holdings:
The political archives of the German Foreign Office (newly moved to Berlin, although still retaining the Bonn area codes and telephone numbers) contain the records of the foreign office itself, consular and embassy files, copies of bilateral and multilateral treaties, personnel files, private papers, and ministerial records dating from 1867 to the present. The archives also include the records of the East German Foreign Office and are complemented by a large audiovisual materials collection.
Finding aids:
The American Historical Association, ed., A Catalogue of Files and Microfilms of the German Foreign Ministry Archives, 1867-1920. (New York, 1970).
George O. Kent, ed., A Catalogue of Files and Microfilms of the German Foreign Ministry Archives, 1920-1945, 3 vols. (Stanford, Calif., 1962).
A number of records are already available in printed form, e.g., Akten zur deutschen auswärtigen Politik and Akten zur auswärtigen Politik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
Hans Jochen Pretsch, "Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amts," in Europäische Kommission, ed., Archivführer der Außenministerien derMitgliedstaaten und der Institution der Europäischen Union (Luxembourg, 1997).
Telephone: (0421) 361-6221
Fax: (0421) 361-10247
E-mail: information@staatsarchiv.bremen.de
Web site: www.bremen.de
Contact: Dr. Hartmut Müller
Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Tues. & Wed.; 9:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Thurs.; 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
The archives are the main depository for all the records of the state of Bremen. It includes administrative, judicial, social, and commercial files, as well as a large collection of audiovisual material.
Finding aids:
Beständeübersicht/Staatsarchiv Bremen (Übersicht über die Bestände des Staatarchivs der Freien Hansestadt Bremen), 2d ed. (Bremen, 2000). (available on CD-ROM)
Bremisches Jahrbuch, vol. 77 (1998).
Telephone: (0351) 800-60
Fax: (0351) 802-1274
Contact: Dr. Martin
Business hours: 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon., Thurs., Fri.; 8:30 a.m.- 6:00 p.m. Tue. & Wed.
Holdings:
The archive contains the political, judicial, and economic records of the state of Saxony, and the collection encompasses more than 52,000 diplomas, 200,000 maps and plans, and a library of more than 65,000 volumes of regional history. The archive is complemented by private papers, the records of clubs and organizations, and records of parties and companies.
Telephone: (0211) 944-902
Fax: (0211) 944-97002
E-mail: poststelle@hsa.nrw.de
Web site: www.archive.nrw.de
Contacts: Dr. Joester (Old Archives of Nordrhein), Dr. Stahlschmidt (Administrative Archive), Dr. Romeyk (Government Archive), and Dr. Weber (Archive for the History of Northrhine- Westphalia)
Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Mon-Fri.
Holdings:
This main archive of the state of Northrhine-Westphalia documents more than 1,200 years of local history, from the early Middle Ages to the present. The depository consists of four departments: The Old Archive of Nordrhein, which holds medieval collections (e.g., diplomas from the year 877) and documents the history of the area up to the liberation wars of 1814/15. It also holds church sources, large collections of French sources from the Napoleonic occupation, city and community archives, family and aristocratic archives, and an important collection of old maps. The second department houses the records of the administrative districts of Cologne and Düsseldorf, including judicial, social, and financial files. Some 400 public administration offices currently deposit their records here. The third department holds the records of the state government and its predecessors since 1945, including the files of all ministries, the state supreme court, the local high courts, and the diploma archive of the state government. Finally, the fourth department collects all nonpublic records from parties and organizations, as well as private papers of prominent people in the state. It documents the history of Northrhine-Westphalia and also contains the records of the period 1933-45, as well as denazification files.
Finding aids:
Nordrhein-Westfälisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, ed., Häuser der Geschichte: Die staatlichen Archive des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (Düsseldorf, 1999).
Nordrhein-Westfälisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, ed., Die Bestände des Nordrhein-Westfälischen Hauptstaatsarchivs (Düsseldorf, 1994).
Quarterly journal: Der Archivar: Mitteilungsblatt des deutschen Archivwesens.
Telephone: (040) 368-132-00
Fax: (040) 368-132-01
E-mail: christian.deike@staatsarchiv.hamburg.de
Web site: www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/biblio/staatsarchiv.html
Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Mon. & Tues.; 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Wed.; 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Thurs. & Fri.
Holdings:
The archive contains political and judicial files, the records of various administrative departments (such as police, education, construction, finance, military, and so forth), administrative records of the territorial subdivisions of Hamburg, material on various religious communities and philanthropic organizations, private papers, company archives, and a special collection of more than 7,000 diplomas dating from 1140 to 1945 and 1,300 diplomas dating from 1945 to 1998. In addition, it holds a large seal collection, letters, autographs, audiovisual material, and 3 million maps, plans, portraits, and photographs.
Finding aids:
Paul Flamme, Peter Gabrielsson, and Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt, eds., "Kommentierte Übersicht über die Bestände des Staatsarchivs der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg," in Veröffentlichungen aus dem Staatsarchiv der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg. Hamburg, 1999.
Telephone: (0511) 106-2840
Fax: (0511) 106-2910
E-mail: hannover@sta-ha.niedersachsen.de
Web site: www.staatsarchive.niedersachsen.de
Contact: Christian Börner
Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon, Wed, Fri.; 8:00 a.m.- 6:30 p.m. Tues. & Thurs.
Holdings:
The archive contains five main collections: The Old Archive, which contains files from the ninth to the eighteenth centuries and holds diplomas and records of earlier administrative units and courts; the middle archive, which documents the state's history from the fifteenth to the twentieth century and holds state contracts and treaties, the records of the kingdom of Hannover, and judicial and commercial files up to 1945; the third collection, which documents the state's post-1945 history and contains the records of the administrative units of the state of Niedersachsen and the courts, but not the state parliament; the fourth collection, which contains private papers and unofficial records of organizations, parties, families, and companies. The papers of the Hannoverian royal family are also housed here; finally, the fifth collection, which contains audiovisual records, manuscripts, seals, maps, and a 40,000-volume library.
Finding aids:
Übersicht über die Bestände des Niedersächsischen Staatsarchivs (bzw.Hauptstaatsarchivs) Hannover, vols. 1-4 (Göttingen, 1965-92).
Telephone: (0261) 505-0
Fax: (0261) 505-226
Web site: www.bundesarchiv.de
Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
The Federal Archive is the largest public archive in Germany. Most of the records for the post-1945 years are held in Koblenz, those for the period before 1945 in Berlin. Except for the German Foreign Office, all official records of the federal government are stored in this archive. The holdings encompass administrative files, documentation on political parties and organizations, private papers, posters, audiovisual records, and a substantial number of special collections. The Bundesarchiv consists of a total of ten separate archives. The military history records are located in Freiburg; the records on mass organizations and parties of the GDR and the files relating to the history of the German empire are both located in Berlin; and material on the German revolution of 1848/49 is housed in Frankfurt. The film collection of the federal archives also is held in Berlin. The Zentrale Nachweisstelle of the German Wehrmacht is held in Aachen, and intermediate archives are located in Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten and St. Augustin-Hangelar. The Bundesarchiv's Web site enables users to easily identify the location of the archival materials they seek.
Finding aids:
Gerhard Granier, Josef Henke, and Klaus Oldenhage, eds., Das Bundesarchiv und seine Bestände. (Boppard, 1977).
| Mailing address: Postfach 13 40 56013 Koblenz | Visitors Address: Karmeliterstr. 1/3 56068 Koblenz |
Telephone: (0261) 912-90
Fax: (0261) 912-9112
E-mail: anfrage@landeshauptarchiv-ko.de
Web site: www.landeshauptarchiv.de
Contact: Dr. Heinz-Günther Borck
Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Mon.-Wed.; 8:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Thurs.; 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
The archive contains the political, economic, and judicial records of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate up to the present. For the old empire, the archival collection encompasses the files of the Kurfürstentum Trier, of numerous important Grafschaften, and of a number of abbeys, for instance Maria Laach in the Eifel; from the period of Napoleonic occupation it holds the files of the Departements Saar and Rhein-Mosel; and from the Prussian period the files of the Rheinprovinz are particularly relevant. The collection encompasses more than 80,000 diplomas dating back as far as 816, 10,000 maps and plans, and a library specializing in regional and local history.
| Mailing address: Postfach 4023 39015 Magdeburg | Visitors address: Hegelstr. 25 39104 Magdeburg |
Telephone: (0391) 566-43
Fax: (0391) 566-440
Contact: Dr. Josef Hartmann
Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-3:15 p.m. Mon., Wed., Fri.; 8:00 a.m.-5:45 p.m. Tues.
Holdings:
The archive consists of nine collections: The Old Archive encompasses the administrative and judicial records of the later province of Saxony from 902 to 1807/1815; the second collection encompasses the files of the kingdom of Westphalia from 1807 to 1814; the third consists of the local administrative records for the Prussian civil and military administration for the provinces between the Elbe and Weser rivers for the years 1813-16; the fourth documents the development of the province of Saxony (excluding the districts of Erfurt and Merseburg) for the years 1815 through 1945; the fifth encompasses the records of the GDR era for the state of Sachsen-Anhalt from 1945 to 1952 and the district of Magdeburg from 1952 to 1990; and the sixth contains the records of the state of Sachsen-Anhalt from 1990 to the present. Collections seven, eight, and nine encompass private papers, the records of the mining administration, audiovisual records, and seals and maps. The archive is complemented by a 50,000-volume library specializing in local and regional history.
Telephone: (089) 286-38596
Fax: (089) 286-38615
Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 8:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
The archive collects the records of the Herzogtum, Kurfürstentum, kingdom, and free state of Bavaria. It does so in conjunction with eight other state archives in Bavaria. The Hauptstaatsarchiv also contains administrative, judicial, and other papers of high administration officials, as well as private collections. It is complemented by a substantial collection of posters, paintings, and flyers.
Finding aids:
Generaldirektion der Staatlichen Archive Bayerns, ed., Bayrisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Kurzführer der Staatlichen Archive Bayerns: Neue Folge (Munich, 1996).
Telephone: (0331) 567-4120
Fax: (0331) 567-4112
Contact: Dr. Scholz and Ms. Weirauch
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
The archive is divided into two branches, one located in the Orangerie and the other in Potsdam-Bornim. The Landeshauptarchiv contains the records of the state of Brandenburg and holds local administrative records dating back to the twelfth century, files of the Prussian province of Brandenburg and of local offices of the German Reich from 1815 to 1945, and East German records for the districts of Cottbus, Frankfurt an der Oder, and Potsdam, including economic and political files and the records of mass organizations.
Finding aids:
Quellen, Findbücher und Inventare des Brandenburgischen Landeshauptarchivs, vols. 1-6 (1994-8).
| Mailing address: Postfach 10 24 31 66024 Saarbrücken | Visitors address: Dudweilerstr. 1 66133 Saarbrücken-Scheidt |
Telephone: (0681) 980-390
Fax: (0681) 980-39133
Web site: www.staatskanzlei.saarland.de/1223.html
Contact: Dr. Wolfgang Laufer
Business hours: 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
Holdings:
The archive contains the political, judicial, and economic files of the state of Saarland back to 1945. In addition, the archive holds the records of many cities and and communities dating back to the nineteenth century, and the collections of Nassau-Saarbrücken, Herzogtum Lothringen, Herrschaft Dagstuhl, and Sachsen-Coburg. The archive is complemented by substantial holdings of private papers, the papers of the Historische Verein der Saargegend, posters, plans, photographs, press clippings, and a schoolbook collection.
Finding aids:
Hans-Christian Herrmann, "Grundzüge zur saarländischen Archivgeschichte," in: Jahrbuch für westdeutsche Landesgeschichte 22 (1996): 213 ff.
Telephone: (04621) 861-800
Fax: (04621) 861-801
E-mail: landesarchiv@la.landsh.de
Web site: www.schleswig-holstein.de/archive/lash
Business hours: 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
Holdings:
The archive contains the administrative and judicial records of Schleswig-Holstein from 1059 to the present. The collection consists of more than 12,000 scrolls and diplomas, 75,000 maps, and a special collection of more than 350,000 meters of documentary films for the years 1895 to the present. The archive is complemented by a 100,000-volume library specializing in local and regional history.
Finding aids:
Veronika Eisermann and Hans-Wilhelm Schwarz, eds., Archive in Schleswig-Holstein: Veröffentlichungen des Schleswig-Holsteinischen Landesarchivs, vol. 43 (Schleswig, 1996).
Telephone: (0385) 59 29 60
Fax: (0385) 59 29 612
E-mail: LHA.Schwerin@t-online.de
Web site: www.landeshauptarchiv-schwerin.de
Contact: Dr. Andreas Röpcke
Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Tue.-Thurs.; 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
The archive contains the records of 800 years of regional history. The files encompass the history of Schwerin's settlement and christianization in the second half of the twelfth century and historical chronicles (i.e., Mecklenburgische Reimchronik des Ritters Ernst von Kirchberg). It also holds 18,000 diplomas dating back to 1158, administrative, political, and judicial records to the present, private collections, audiovisual materials, and more than 110,000 maps, plans, posters, and drawings. The archive is complemented by a 30,000-volume library.
Finding aids:
Peter-Joachim Rakow, Christel Schütt, and Christa Sieverkropp, eds.,Die Bestände des Landeshauptarchivs Schwerin, vol. 1: Urkunden und Aktenbestände 1158-1945 (Schwerin, 1998).
Telephone: (0711) 212-4335
Fax: (0711) 212-4360
E-mail: Hauptstaatsarchiv@S.lad-bw.de
Web site: www.lad.bw.de
Contact: Dr. Robert Kretzschmar
Business hours: 12:00-5:00 p.m. Mon.; 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Tues. & Wed.; 8:30 a.m.-7:00 p.m. Thurs.; 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
The archive holds the records of the state of Württemberg and its territories up to 1805, the ministerial archives from 1806 to 1945, the records of Württemberg-Baden (1945-52), and the records of the state of Baden-Württemberg since 1952. In addition, the archive holds military records from 1806 to 1922, as well as private papers, maps, and audiovisual materials.
Finding aids:
Eberhard Gönner, Das Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart: Seine Bestände und seine Aufgaben (Stuttgart, 1969).
| Mailing address: Postfach 2726 99408 Weimar | Visitors address: Marstallstr. 2 or Beethovenplatz 3 99423 Weimar |
Telephone: (03643) 8700
Fax: (03643) 870-100
E-mail: thhstaweimar@thueringen.de
Web site: www.thueringen.de/staatsarchive
Contact: Dr. Volker Wahl
Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Wed.; 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Thurs.
Holdings:
The archive documents the over 1000-year history of Thuringia. It holds administrative, judicial, and economic records in various collections: the Ernestisches Gesamtarchiv, the Herzogtum Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, the Großherzogliche Hausarchiv, the records of the state of Thuringia from 1920 to 1952, the files of the Bezirksverwaltung Erfurt 1952-90, commercial archives, communal archives, church archives, papers of religious and political organizations, private papers, maps, and audiovisual records.
Telephone: (0611) 8810
Fax: (0611) 881-145
E-mail: Poststelle@hhstaw.hessen.de
Web site: www.archive.hessen.de
Contact: Dr. W. Schüler and Dr. K. Eiler
Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-5:45 p.m. Mon., Wed., Fri.; 9:00 a.m.-4:15 p.m. Tues. & Thurs.; 8:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. every 2d and 4th Saturday of each month.
Holdings:
The archive contains the records of the territory of Hesse in the old empire from the tenth century to 1806, the files of the Herzogtum Nassau (1806-66), the material of the Prussian Regierungsbezirk Wiesbaden (1866-1945), and the records of the state of Hesse from 1945 to the present. In addition, the holdings encompass nonstate records such as party files, family archives, and private papers of politicians and prominent locals. It is complemented by 30,000 historical maps and plans, a seal collection, numerous diplomas (including papal diplomas), and a substantial audiovisual collection.
Finding aids:
Das Hessische Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden: Geschichte, Aufgaben, Angebot (Wiesbaden, 1985).
Telephone: (0241) 452-267
Fax: (0241) 452-496
Web site: www.archive.nrw.de
Business hours: 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Mon-Wed., Fri.; 2:00 p.m.- 6:30 p.m. Thurs. by appointment.
Holdings:
The Diözesanarchiv contains the administrative records of the Catholic bishopric of Aachen, consisting primarily of correspondence with parishes and other administrative units of the Catholic church. The records of more than 90 parish archives are deposited in Aachen, along with 700 manuscripts dating back to the thirteenth century and 1,400 diplomas, including 114 papal diplomas. The archives also collect audiovisual materials and private papers of bishops and other church leaders. The library specializes in regional and church history, and holds more than 16,000 volumes. The historical collection (more than 3,200 volumes) contains 57 incunables and religious literature dating back to the sixteenth century.
Finding aids:
Bundeskonferenz der kirchlichen Archive in Deutschland, ed., Führer durch die Bistumsarchive der katholischen Kirche in Deutschland, 2d ed. (Siegburg, 1991), 64-9.
Telephone: (0821) 316-6411
Fax: (0821) 316-6419
E-mail: info@bistum-augsburg.de
Web site: www.bistum-augsburg.de
Contact: Dr. Stefan Miedaner
Business hours: 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri.; 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Mon.-Wed.; 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. & 1:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Thurs.; 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
The archive is the depository for all church books and registers of the bishopric of Augsburg, the records of 200 parishes, personnel files of church leaders and priests, and numerous documents and diplomas from the Middle Ages and early modern times. It also holds a collection of crucifixes, seals, and coins.
Finding aids:
Bundeskonferenz der kirchlichen Archive in Deutschland, ed.,"Augsburg," in Führer durch die Bistumsarchive der katholischen Kirchen in Deutschland, 2d ed. (Siegburg, 1991), 70-3.
Benedikt Kraft, Die Handschriften der Bischöflichen Ordinariatsbibliothek in Augsburg (Augsburg, 1934).
Josef Friesenegger, Die Ulrichskreuze mit besonderer Berücksichtigung ihres religiösen Brauchtums (Augsburg, 1937).
Stefan Miedaner, ed., Aus zwölf Jahrhunderten Augsburger Bistumsgeschichte (Augsburg, 1993).
Stefan Miedaner, "Das Archiv des Bistums Augsburg," in: Der Archivar 46 (1993): 405-7.
Stefan Miedaner, "Die Sammlung von Ulrichskreuzen im Bistumsarchiv Augsburg," in Beiträge zum Archivwesen der Katholischen Kirche Deutschlands 5 (1997): 103-8.
Telephone: (0951) 502-411
Fax: (0951) 502-425
E-mail: roehrig@erzbistum-bamberg.de
Web site: www.erzbistum-bamberg.de/archiv
Contact: Dr. Josef Urban
Business hours: 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Tue.; 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
The archive contains the records of the archbishopric from 1818/1821 to 1945, the administrative and commerical files of the church offices before the archbishopric was founded in 1818/1821, the records of more than 120 parishes, collections of maps, plans, drawings, and photographs, and private papers of religious and community leaders.
Finding aids:
Bruno Neundorfer, "Vom fürstbischöflichen zum erzbischöflichen Archiv," in: Bericht des Historischen Vereins Bamberg 120 (1984): 579-88.
Bundeskonferenz der kirchlichen Archive in Deutschland, ed., Führer durch die Bistumsarchive der katholischen Kirche in Deutschland (Siegburg, 1991), 74-8.
Telephone: (03591) 441-02
Fax: (03591) 441-24
Contact: Dr. Siegfried Seifert
Business hours: 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
Holdings:
The archive contains administrative records, diplomas, and parish files, as well as private papers relating to the history of the bishopric.
Finding aids:
Bundeskonferenz der kirchlichen Archive in Deutschland, ed., Führer durch die Bistumsarchive der katholischen Kirche in Deutschland (Siegburg, 1991), 205-6.
Telephone: (030) 830-01561/2/3
Fax: (030) 830-01222
E-mail: archiv@diakonie.de
Web site: www.diakonie.de/archiv.htm
Contact: Dr. Michael Häusler
Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
The collection contains the records of the Diakonisches Werk of the German Protestant Church and its predecessor organizations, such as the Central-Ausschuß für die Innere Mission der deutschen evangelischen Kirche, 1848-1957; the Hilfswerk der EKD, 1945-57; the Diakonisches Werk der DDR, 1953-90; and records of local and regional offices of the Innere Mission and Diakonie. The archive is the central depository for all materials of the German protestant welfare organizations.
Finding aids:
"Diakonisches Werk der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland-Archiv," in Handbuch des kirchlichen Archivwesens, Teil I: Die zentralen Archive in der evangelischen Kirche, 4th ed. (Neustadt an der Aisch, 1997), 313-21.
Telephone: (030) 757-9890
Fax: (030) 757-98931
Contacts: Dr. Gotthard Klein, Christine Grünig, and Rosemarie Rietz
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
The archives serve as the repository for the records of the archdiocese of Berlin and contain the records of the Bischöfliche Ordinariat Berlin (1945-61), the Bischöfliche Ordinariat Berlin-West (1961-90), and the Bischöfliche Ordinariat Berlin-Ost (1961-90). The church books and registers are located in the parishes themselves, unlike in other dioceses. In addition, the archives hold the records of prominent church leaders and local priests and bishops. The archives are complemented by documentation on the history of the archdiocese and its predecessors, a photo archive, and a library.
Finding aids:
Gotthard Klein, "25 Jahre Diözesanarchiv Berlin: Eine Zwischenbilanz," in: Wichmann-Jahrbuch 32/33 (1992/93): 157-75.
Telephone: (030) 88082-451
Fax: (030) 282-1176
E-mail: office@cjudaicum.de
Web site: www.cjudaicum.de
Contacts: Ms. Welker and Ms. Hank
Business hours: 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Tues.-Thurs., by appointment only.
Holdings:
The Centrum functions as the principal repository of the administrative records of Jewish communities, organizations, and clubs in pre-1945 Germany. In addition, the archives contain the files of Berlin's Jewish community and the Organization of Jewish Communities in East Germany. There also are some private collections, but virtually no Jewish personnel files or registers are found.
Finding aids:
Article (currently untitled) forthcoming, to appear in: Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden in den Archiven der neuen Bundesländer 6 (2001).
| Mailing address: Postfach 10 10 51 33510 Bielefeld | Visitors address: Landeskirchliches Archiv Altstädter Kirchplatz 5 33602 Bielefeld |
Telephone: (0521) 594-296-164
Fax: (0521) 594-129
E-mail: archiv@ika-ekvw.de
Web site: www.archive.nrw.de
Contact: Prof. Dr. Bernd Hey
Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.- Thurs.
Holdings:
The Landeskirchliche Archiv contains the records of the Protestant church of Westphalia. It is the center for research into regional and church history, and is the principal depository for the records of the supervising bodies of the church province of Westphalia, the church registers of numerous parishes for the years 1615 to 1981, the military parishes for the years 1741 to 1945, and the official files and records of the local church leadership and its organizations and institutions. It also holds a large number of private papers of prominent church leaders and pastors. Some of the collections deserve special attention: 400 diplomas and seals for the years 1235 to 1807; the Collection Wilhelm Niemöller (Bielefelder Archiv des Kirchenkampfes) on the Kirchenkampf ; and the Kurt-Gerstein-Archiv, a collection of originals and copies. A large library of more than 10,000 volumes on regional and Westphalian church history complements the collection.
Finding aids:
Bernd Hey, "Wer braucht kirchliche Archive? Über Ziele und Praxis der Archivpflege im evangelischen Westfalen," in: Archivpflege in Westfalen und Lippe 42 (1995): 3-7.
"Evangelische Kirche in Westfalen," in Handbuch des kirchlichen Archivwesens, Teil I: Die zentralen Archive in der evangelischen Kirche, 4th ed. (Neustadt an der Aisch, 1997), 291-303.
Schriften des Landskirchlichen Archivs der Evangelischen Kirche von Westfalen, publication series since 1995.
| Mailing address: Postfach 24 01 41 53154 Bonn | Visitors address: Hochkreuzallee 246 53175 Bonn |
Telephone: (0228) 382-970
Fax: (0228) 382-9744
E-mail: info@zdk.de
Web site: www.zdk.de
Contact: Heinz Terhorst
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
Principal repository for the records of the general secretariat of the Central Committee of German Catholics. It holds administrative and judicial files, files of Catholic splinter groups, and records of Kirchentage (annual national Catholic conferences and meetings) since 1945.
| Mailing address: Postfach 10 69 29 28069 Bremen | Visitors address: Franziuseck 2-4 28199 Bremen |
Telephone: (0421) 559-70
(0421) 559-7214
Fax: (0421) 559-7265
E-mail: bek@magicvillage.de
Web site: www.kirche-bremen.de/bek
Contact: Joachim Colberg
Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
Holdings:
Principal repository of the records of the Protestant church of Bremen, consisting mainly of administrative files dating back to 1874, military church records (1867-1939), parish registers and church books, and private papers of prominent church and community leaders. Of particular interest are the records for the period 1933-45, which were recently reorganized and made more accessible.
Finding aids:
"Bremische Evangelische Kirche," in Handbuch des kirchlichen Archivwesens, Teil I: Die zentralen Archive in der evangelischen Kirche, 4th ed. (Neustadt an der Aisch, 1997), 97-100.
Joachim Colberg and Heinrich Figge, "Die Aktenbestände des Landeskirchlichen Archives der Bremischen Evangelischen Kirche zur kirchlichen Lage in Bremen von 1933 bis 1945," in: Hospitium Ecclesiae(Forschungen zur Bremischen Kirchengeschichte) 21 (1998): 133-51.
Telephone: (0221) 164-258-00
Fax: (0221) 164-258-03
Web site: www.archive.nrw.de
Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri.; 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon., Tues., Thurs.
Holdings:
The archive contains the records of the archbishopric of Cologne, and the oldest documents date back to 942. The collection is one of the largest and most important church archives north of the Alps.
Finding aids:
Historisches Archiv des Erzbistums Köln, ed., "Das Historische Archiv des Erzbistums Köln: Übersicht über seine Geschichte, Aufgabe und Bestände," in: Studien zur Kölner Kirchengeschichte 31 (Siegburg, 1998).
| Mailing address: Postfach 14 24 06813 Dessau | Visitors address: Pauluskirche Radegaster Str. 06842 Dessau |
Telephone: (0340) 882-486-2
Fax: (0340) 252-613-0
Contact: Günter Preckel
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
The archive contains the principal records of the Protestant church for the province of Anhalt from the fifteenth century to the present. The library holds local historical studies and travel reports.
Telephone: (05231) 976-803
Fax: (05231) 976-850
E-mail: Archiv@Lippische-Landeskirche.de
Web site: www.Lippische-Landeskirche.de
Contact: Maja Schneider
Business hours: 9:15 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.; 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Wed.; 8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Thurs. & Fri.
Holdings:
Principal depository for the records of the Lippische Landeskirche. It holds the files of the Fürstliche Konsistorium (back to 1793), the Lippische Konsistorium (after 1918), and the Landeskirchenamt (after 1931). The archive also holds numerous diplomas dating back to the fifteenth century, parish registers, and copies of all church books from the province of Lippe. Private papers of prominent church leaders and a research library complement the collection.
Finding aids:
"Lippische Landeskirche," in Handbuch des kirchlichen Archivwesens, Teil I: Die zentralen Archive in der evangelischen Kirche, 4th ed. (Neustadt an der Aisch, 1997), 151-5.
Currently under construction.
| Mailing address: Postfach 32 03 40 40418 Düsseldorf | Visitors address: Hans-Böckler-Str. 7 40476 Düsseldorf |
Telephone: (0211) 4562-225
Fax: (0211) 4562-444
E-mail: archiv_ekir@mail.rp-pro.de
Web site: www.archiv-ekir.de
Contacts: Dr. Dietrich Meye, Ulrich Dühr, and Michael Hofferberth
Business hours: 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Mon., Tue., Thurs.; 8:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. Wed.; 8:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Fri.; and by appointment.
Holdings:
The archive is the principal repository for the history of the Protestant church in the Rhineland. Its holdings encompass materials on Rhenanian church history, the history of the reformation, and the history of the Kirchenkampf in the Rhineland.
Finding aids:
Hans Otte, ed., Handbuch des Kirchlichen Archivwesens,Teil I: Die zentralen Archive in der evangelischen Kirche, 4th ed. (Neustadt an der Aisch, 1997).
| Mailing address: Postfach 13 01 85067 Eichstätt | Visitors address: Luitpoldstr. 1 85072 Eichstätt |
Telephone: (08421) 507-61
Fax: (08421) 507-69
Business hours: 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. & 1:30 p.m-5:00 p.m. Tue.- Thurs.; 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
The collection documents the history of the fürstbischöfliche Geistliche Rat from the fifteenth century to 1821 and holds the administrative and judicial records of numerous bishops, as well as parish archives and private papers.
Finding aids:
Bundeskonferenz der kirchlichen Archive in Deutschland, ed., Führer durch die Bistumsarchive der katholischen Kirche in Deutschland (Siegburg, 1991), 82-9.
| Mailing address: Postfach 296 99006 Erfurt | Visitors address: Hermannsplatz 9 99084 Erfurt |
Telephone: (0361) 6572-400 or (0361) 5973-150
Fax: (0361) 6572-444
Contact: Dr. Michael Matscha
Business hours: 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Tues. & Thurs.; 1:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. and 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
The archive contains the postwar records of the Generalvikariat, the Vikariat Meiningen, the Domarchiv with diplomas and files dating back to 1030, judicial records, the Dombibliothek, the regional archive Ordinarien Ost with the files of the Berliner Ordinarienkonferenz and the Berliner Bischofskonferenz for the years 1954-91, and a number of parish archives and private papers.
Finding aids:
Michael Matscha, "Das Bistumsarchiv Erfurt," in: Archive in Thüringen 8 (1995): 7-9.
| Mailing address: Postfach 100 464 45004 Essen | Visitors address: Zwölfling 16 45127 Essen |
Telephone: (0201) 220-4361
Fax: (0201) 220-4570
E-mail: gv-essen@t-online.de
Web site: www.archive.nrw.de
Contacts: Ursula Renate Kanther, Dorothea Schenker, and Helmut Teckentrup
Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
The archive contains the administrative, judicial, and personnel records of the archbishopric of Cologne, the archbishopric of Paderborn, and bishopric of Münster. It is complemented by private papers and a research library.
| Mailing address: Postfach 420 79004 Freiburg i. B. | Visitors address: Karlstr. 40 79104 Freiburg i. B. |
Telephone: (0761) 200-244
Fax: (0761) 200-572
Web site: www.caritas.de
Contact: Dr. Hans-Josef Wollasch
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
The archive contains the records of the central office of the German Caritasverband and those of the branch offices in Berlin, Bonn, and Munich, the records of the Sozialdienst katholischer Frauen in Dortmund, and the files of the Sozialdienst katholischer Männer in Düsseldorf. It also holds partial collections of the records of the international organization Caritas Internationalis and other welfare organizations.
Finding aids:
Deutscher Caritasverband, ed., Das Archiv des Deutschen Caritasverbandes in Freiburg im Breisgau (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1996).
Telephone: (0761) 218-8261
(0761) 218-8262
Fax: (0761) 218-8599
Contacts: Dr. Christoph Schmider and Monika Ritter
Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri., and by appointment.
Holdings:
The archive is the main depository for the administrative records of the archdiocese of Freiburg from 1827 to the present, as well as a portion of the records of the bishoprics to which Freiburg's territory belonged in the past (Konstanz, Mainz, Speyer, Straßburg, Worms, and Würzburg). In addition, it holds the records of church commissions and superior institutions (Kath. Kirchendepartment, Kath. Kirchen-Section, Kath. Oberkirchenrat, Kath. Oberstiftungsrat) and other administrative units. Finally, the Freiburg archive holds the records of many parish archives as well as private papers of church leaders. It has on microfilm almost all of the parish registers of the archdioceses of Freiburg, an important source for microhistory and genealogical research. Only some of the films have been duplicated for use at the Genealogical Society of Utah.
Finding aids:
Bundeskonferenz der kirchlichen Archive in Deutschland, ed., "Freiburg,"
in Führer durch die Bistumsarchive der katholischen Kirche in Deutschland, 2d ed. (Siegburg, 1991), 93-5.
| Mailing address: Postfach 147 36001 Fulda | Visitors address: Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Paulustor 5 36037 Fulda |
Telephone: (0661) 873-75
Fax: (0661) 875-78
Web site: www.archive.nrw.de
Contact: Dr. Edgar Kutzner
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
Records of the bishopric of Fulda since 1800 are held here, as are microfilms for all the parish records of the bishopric.
Telephone: (03834) 777-561
Fax: (03834) 777-563
Contact: Ulrike Reinfeldt
Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Mon.- Thurs.
Holdings:
The archives contain the records of the protestant church of Pomerania since 1945, older materials from various parishes, church registers from eastern Pomerania and Vorpommern, military registers, files of the church's superior councils, private papers, and records of religious and church organizations and institutions. The records have only partially been made accessible.
Finding aids:
Hans Otte, ed., "Pommersche Evangelische Kirche," in Handbuch des kirchlichen Archivwesens, Teil I: Die zentralen Archive in der evangelischen Kirche, 4th ed. (Neustadt an der Aisch, 1997), 223-7.
| Mailing address: Postfach 100 263 3102 Hildesheim | Visitors address: Pfaffenstieg 2 31134 Hildesheim |
Telephone: (05121) 168-930
Fax: (05121) 168-920
Contact: Dr. Thomas Scharf-Wrede
Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Tues.- Thurs.; 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
The archive chronicles the history of the bishopric of Hildesheim, with particular enphasis on its development from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It holds administrative records and church books, and is complemented by a research library.
Telephone: (0511) 124-1755
(0511) 124-1983
Fax: (0511) 124-1770
E-mail: archiv@evlka.de
Web site: www.evlka.de/archiv
Contact: Dr. Hans Otte
Business hours: 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 8:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
Principal repository of the records of the protestant church of Hannover. The archive contains the files of the various administrative and judicial levels of the church, diplomas dating back to 1222, parish files and registers, personnel files, records of various protestant missionary organizations and other religious organizations, large collections of private papers of prominent religious and community leaders, photographs, audiovisual records, seals, drawings, and a 9,000-volume library specializing in regional history and the history of Hannover's protestant church.
Finding aids:
Hans Otte, ed., "Evangelisch-Lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers," in Handbuch des kirchlichen Archivwesens, Teil I: Die zentralen Archive in der evangelischen Kirche, 4th ed. (Neustadt an der Aisch, 1997), 101-14.
Hans Otte and Jörg Rohde, Ostfriesland im Landeskirchlichen Archiv: Eine Beständeübersicht (Hannover, 1998).
Publication Series: Veröffentlichungen aus dem Landeskirchlichen Archiv Hannover.
Telephone: (06221) 164-141
Fax: (06221) 181-049
E-mail: Zentralarchiv@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Web site: www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/sonst/aj
Contact: Dr. Peter Honigmann
Business hours: 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.
Holdings:
The archive contains the post-1945 records of Jewish communities and organizations in Germany. It holds the files and materials of Jewish German-language authors and has documented 54,000 epitaphs in Baden-Württemberg and 5,000 in Lower Saxony. It functions as the central registry for all projects under way in the Federal Republic to document Jewish epitaphs. In addition, it collects all periodicals of Jewish communities, associations, organizations, and groups in the Federal Republic of Germany, and "Spezialinventaren" on the history of Jews in Germany.
Finding aids:
Peter Honigmann, "10 Jahre Zentralarchiv zur Erforschung der Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland," Der Archivar 50 (1997): 585-7.
Peter Honigmann, "The Future of the Past-Jewish Archives in Germany," in Susan Stern, ed., Speaking Out: Jewish Voices from United Germany (Chicago, 1995), 257-65.
Telephone: (0721) 917-5795
Fax: (0721) 917-5550
Contact: Axel Fischer
Business hours: 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; 1:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 8:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
Principal repository of the protestant church of Baden. The archive holds the records of the various administrative and legal levels and institutions of the Landeskirche, diplomas dating back to the fifteenth century, church registers and church books of 130 parishes until 1810, private papers of various church leaders, seals, maps, drawings, photographs, and records of various protestant organizations and clubs.
Finding aids:
Hans Otte, ed. "Evangelische Landeskirche in Baden," in Handbuch des kirchlichen Archivwesens, Teil I: Die zentralen Archive in der evangelischen Kirche, 4th ed. (Neustadt an der Aisch, 1997), 5-9.
Telephone: (0561) 788-760
Fax: (0561) 788-7611
E-mail: ekkw.archiv@t-online.de
Web site: www.ekkw.de/archiv
Contact: Dr. Bettina Wischhöfer
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
Principal repository of the administrative and judicial records of the various levels of the protestant church of Kurhessen-Waldeck. It includes military church books and records of various garrisons, personnel files, parish registers, records of protestant organizations and clubs, private papers of prominent church leaders, special collections of records for the years 1933-45, and a collection of seals. The archives are complemented by a 3,500-volume library specializing in local and church history.
Finding aids:
Hans Otte, ed., "Evangelische Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck,"Handbuch des kirchlichen Archivwesens, Teil I: Die zentralen Archive in der
evangelischen Kirche, 4th ed. (Neustadt an der Aisch, 1997), 141-9.
Bettina Wischhöfer, "Eine Zukunft für die Vergangenheit: Sichern, Erhalten und Erschließen. Ein Bericht über die Arbeit im Landeskirchlichen Archiv Archiv Kassel," in: Blick in die Kirche: Informationen aus der Evangelischen Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck 9 (1994): 29.
Bettina Wischhöfer, "Der Neubau des Landeskirchlichen Archivs Kassels," Der Archivar 51 (1998): 90-4.
| Mailing address: Postfach 34 49 24033 Kiel | Visitors address: Nordelbische Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche Winterbeker Weg 51 24114 Kiel |
Telephone: (0431) 649-860
Fax: (0431) 680-836
E-mail: archiv.nka@nordelbien.de
Web site: www.schleswig-holstein.de/archive
Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
The archives contain the official records of the Nordelbische Kirche and its predecessors, the Landeskirchen Eutin, Lübeck, Hamburg, and Schleswig-Holstein. In addition the archive collects the records of protestant institutions and organizations, e.g., the Diakonisches Werk Schleswig-Holstein, the Stadtmission Hamburg, and the private papers of protestant church leaders.
Finding aids:
Hans Otte, ed. "Nordelbisches Kirchenarchiv," in Handbuch des kirchlichen Archivwesens, Teil I: Die zentralen Archive in der evangelischen Kirche, 4th ed. (Neustadt an der Aisch, 1997), 179-91.
| Mailing address: Postfach 13 55 65533 Limburg | Visitors address: Roßmarkt 4 65549 Limburg |
Telephone: (06431) 2950
Fax: (06431) 295-476
E-mail: BistumLimburg@t-online.de
Web site: www.archive.nrw.de
Contact: Dr. Schwedt
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
The archive contains the records of the church province of Limburg from 1827 to 1967, protocols, administrative and judicial files, parish records and church registers, diplomas, personnel files, and private papers.
Finding aids:
Bundeskonferenz der kirchlichen Archive in Deutschland, ed., Führer durch die Bistumsarchive der katholischen Kirche in Deutschland (Siegburg, 1991), 116-18.
Telephone: (0391) 596-1150
Fax: (0391) 596-1100
Contact: Daniel Lorek
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
The collection is currently being reorganized and contains the files and records of the post-World War II history of the church province.
| Mailing address: Bischöfliches Ordinariat Postfach 1560 55005 Mainz | Visitors address: Heringsbrunnengasse 4 55116 Mainz |
Telephone: (06131) 253-157
Fax: (06131) 253-406
E-mail: ddamz@bistum-mainz.de
Web site: www.kath.de/bistum/mainz/bistum/archiv.htm
Contacts: Dr. Braun and Mr. Köhnen
Business hours: 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri.; 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Mon. & Wed.
Holdings:
The collection contains the records of the bishopric, diplomas, administrative files, parish files, financial records, private papers of prominent church and community leaders, church books, parish registers, and the records of local catholic clubs and organizations. The archive is complemented by maps and audiovisual materials.
Finding aids:
Hermann-Josef Braun, "Das Dom- und Diözesanarchiv Mainz," in: Unsere Archive: Mitteilungen aus den rheinland-pfälzischen und saarländischen Archiven 34 (1992): 7-8.
| Mailing address: Postfach 330 360 80063 München | Visitors address: Karmeliterstr. 1 80333 München |
Telephone: (089) 2137-1346
Fax: (089) 2137-1585
Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
The collection encompasses diplomas dating back to 1147, parish registers, administrative and judicial records of the bishopric of Freising, the records of the bischöfliche Ordinariat, personnel files, records of monasteries, graphic collections, and private papers. The substantial collection is complemented by a 55,000-volume library.
Finding aids:
Bundeskonferenz der kirchlichen Archive in Deutschland, ed., Führer durch die Bistumsarchive der katholischen Kirche in Deutschland (Siegburg, 1991), 127ff.
Telephone: (0251) 495-518
Fax: (0251) 495-491
Web site: www.archive.nrw.de
Contacts: Dr. Herbert Sowade and Dr. Peter Löffler
Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
The archive contains the records of the Generalvikariat, the Domkapitel, Offizialat Vechta, church organizations, and parishes. It consists of diplomas; administrative, judicial, and personnel files; maps; drawings; and photographs. It is complemented by a substantial research library.
Telephone: (0911) 588-690
Fax: (0911) 588-6969
E-mail: LKANuernberg@t-online.de
Web site: home.t-online.de/home/LKANuernberg/lkantit.htm
Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Thur.; 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
Principal depository of the records of the Protestant-Lutheran Church in Bavaria and its predecessors from the thirteenth century to the present. The records document the evolution of the protestant church in Bavaria through official church records, church registers, and parish records. It holds more than 1,100 diplomas dating back to 1260 (including papal diplomas and numerous royal and imperial diplomas), church registers, records of all the churches in territories that were absorbed into Bavaria, administrative records of the protestant church of Bavaria since 1809, institutions of the Landeskirche, military work/parishes, organizations such as the Diakonische Werk, bible groups, the Innere Mission, missionary organizations, student organizations, and records of important church meetings (Kirchentage). It also holds a large number of private papers, audiovisual records, a Kirchenkampf collection of the struggle between church and state during National Socialism, 3,000 posters from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, nearly 3,000 seals, 18,000 paintings, 180 films, and 25,000 slides. The archive is complemented by a large library (116,000 volumes) on the church, local, and general history of Bavaria, theology, and ecclesiastical law, and also encompasses special collections of religious songbooks and literature on the Kirchenkampf.
Finding aids:
Hans Otte, ed., "Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Bayern," in Handbuch des kirchlichen Archivwesens, Teil I: Die zentralen Archive in der evangelischen Archive, 4th ed. (Neustadt an der Aisch, 1997), 11-59.
Telephone: (0541) 318-418
Fax: (0541) 318-430
Web site: www.bistum-osnabrueck.de
Contact: Hermann Queckenstedt
Business hours: 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. & 1:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.- Thurs.; 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
The archive contains more than 3,000 papal and royal/imperial diplomas (the oldest from the year 803, signed by Charlemagne); 130 medieval manuscripts; administrative, judicial, commercial, and personnel records; parish files; maps; drawings and plans; a database with information on more than 7,000 church representatives; 100,000 photographs; and numerous private collections and papers. It is complemented by a large research library.
Finding aids:
Bundeskonferenz der kirchlichen Archive in Deutschland, ed., Führer durch die Bistumsarchive der katholischen Kirche in Deutschland (Siegburg, 1991), 145-51.
Telephone: (05251) 125-428
Fax: (05251) 125-470
Web site: www.archive.nrw.de
Contact: Gerhard Sander
Business hours: 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
The collection encompasses the administrative and financial records of the archbishopric, personnel files, diplomas, and numerous parish records.
Finding aids:
Bundeskonferenz der kirchlichen Archive in Deutschland, ed., Führer durch die Bistumsarchive der katholischen Kirche in Deutschland (Siegburg, 1991).
Telephone: (0851) 393-386
Fax: (0851) 393-440
Web site: www.passau.de/passau/Kultur/archiv-bi.htm
Business hours: 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Mon-Fri.; 1:30-4:00 p.m. Mon-Wed.; 1:30-7:00 p.m. Thur.
Contacts: Dr. Herbert W. Wurster and Wolfgang Fronhöfer (genealogical research)
Holdings:
The archive has functioned as the central depository of the administrative records of the diocese of Passau since the twelfth century. It also holds a large collection of parish records, which provide materials for research into local- and microhistory. The parish registers also provide data for genealogical research and are available from all parishes of the diocese; these are open for public research and date from the sixteenth century to 1900. The data from the parish registers is currently being entered into a central database.
Finding aids:
Herbert W. Wurster, "Die Bestandsgruppe Pfarrarchive im Archiv des Bistums Passau und deren Bedeutung für die familiengeschichtliche Forschung," in Wolfgang Pledl, ed., Forum Heimatforschung: Ziele-Wege-Ergebnisse, vol. 2 (Munich, 1997), 25-38.
Herbert W. Wurster, "Passau," in Bundeskonferenz der kirchlichen Archive in Deutschland, ed., Führer durch die Bistumsarchive der katholischen Kirche in Deutschland, 2d ed. (Siegburg, 1991), 157-62.
Telephone: (0941) 588-13
Fax: (0941) 529-93
E-mail: archiv@bistum-regensburg.de
Web site: www.bistum-regensburg.de
Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Mon.-Wed., Fri.; 9:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Thurs.
Holdings:
The archive contains the administrative, judicial, and commercial records of the Bischöfliches Ordinariat Regensburg from 1500 to 1945/1961, church books and registers of the bishopric of Regensburg from 1600 to 1890, as well as the church registers of the bishoprics of Danzig, Ermland, und Kulm from 1650 to 1880.
Finding aids:
Bayerisches Hauptsstaatsarchiv, ed., "Eintrag über Regensburg," in Bayerischer Archivführer (Regensburg, 1999).
Bundeskonferenz der kirchlichen Archive in Deutschland, ed., "Regensburg," in Führer durch die Bistumsarchive der katholischen Kirche in Deutschland, 2d ed. (Siegburg, 1991), 163-71.
Telephone: (07472) 169-305
Fax: (07472) 169-617
Contact: Dr. Stephan Janker
Business hours: 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri.; 1:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Thur.
Holdings:
The collection consists of more than 2,000 diplomas dating back to 1257, administrative, judicial, and commercial files collected since the sixteenth century, parish registers and church books, the records of the predecessor dioceses up to 1817, the Ordinariatsarchiv since 1828, the archive of the Katholische Kirchenrat, 210 parish archives, private papers, photographs, and maps.
Finding aids:
Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte (annual publication).
| Mailing address: Postfach 11 10 63 19010 Schwerin | Visitors address: Münzstr. 8-10 19055 Schwerin |
Telephone: (0385) 518-5141
(0385) 518-5148
Fax: (0385) 518-5170
Contact: Erhard Piersig
Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri., and by appointment.
Holdings:
Principal repository of the administrative and religious records for the Landeskirche Mecklenburg and its organizations, offices, and various administrative units. The archives also contain the parish records of more than 400 parishes, dating from 1750 to the present, original church books, and copies of all the church books for all parishes in Mecklenburg, which comprise more than 4,600 volumes for the period 1562 to 1971.
Finding aids:
Hans Otte, ed., "Landeskirchliches Archiv Mecklenburg," Handbuch des kirchlichen Archivwesens, Teil I: Die zentralen Archive in der evangelischen Kirche, 4th ed. (Neustadt an der Aisch, 1997), 157-78.
| Mailing address: Bischöfliches Ordinariat Bistumsarchiv 67343 Speyer | Visitors address: Kleine Pfaffengasse 16-18 67346 Speyer |
Telephone: (06232) 102-256
Fax: (06232) 102-300
E-mail: BistumSpeyer@t-online.de
Web site: www.kath.de/bistum/speyer/bsardchiv.htm
Contact: Dr. Hans Ammerich
Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 and 1:00 p.m-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
Holdings:
Principal depository of the records of the catholic church of the bishopric of Speyer. The files include papal bulls and diplomas dating back to 1194, the administrative records of the church, meeting records of the bishops, legal papers (since 1817/21), 140 parish archives, microfilms of church registers and parish books, posters and flyers, biographical materials on prominent church leaders, and a special collection on the church and National Socialism (1933-45). The archives are complemented by a library specializing in regional church history and literature.
Finding aids:
Bundeskonferenz der kirchlichen Archive in Deutschland, ed., "Speyer," in Führer durch die Bistumsarchive der katholischen Kirche in Deutschland, 2d ed. (Siegburg, 1991), 179-86.
Publication series since 1975: Schriften des Diözesan-Archivs (18 vols.).
| Mailing address: Postfach 1720 67343 Speyer | Visitors address: Domplatz 6 67346 Speyer |
Telephone: (06232) 667-180 or (06232) 667-181
Fax: (06232) 667-234
E-mail: archiv@evpfalz.de
Web site: www.evpfalz.de
Contact: Erika Böhler
Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Tues.-Thurs.
Holdings:
Principal repository for the administrative and judicial records of the protestant church authority in the palatinate. The archives contain the files of various protestant organizations and clubs, private collections of prominent church leaders, twenty Dekanatsarchive, more than 300 parish archives, and ca. 3,500 parish registers and church books dating back to the sixteenth century. In addition the archives collect audiovisual materials, press files, and graphic materials that document the history of the protestant church of the palatinate. A substantial library of more than 11,000 volumes specializes in local and church history.
| Mailing address: P.O. Box 10 13 42 70012 Stuttgart | Visitors address: Gänseheidestr. 4 70184 Stuttgart |
Telephone: (0711) 2149-212
Fax: (0711) 2149-236
E-mail: archiv@elk-wue.de
Web site: www.elk-wue.de
Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
Principal depository of the records of the Evangelische Landeskirche in Württemberg. It includes church books of the Württemberg parishes (1808-75), the files of the church authorities and administrative units, and numerous private papers of prominent theologians and bishops. The archives also provide support for genealogical research. The records of the more than 1,200 protestant congregations of Württemberg (a former kingdom, now part of the present-day state of Baden-Württemberg) have been microfilmed. The films include all old certificates (baptism, marriage, death) from the late 1500s to 1875, when the task of registration was taken over by the Offices of Vital Statistics, and family registers starting in 1808. Copies of all the microfilms are also held at the Genealogical Society of Utah.
Finding aids:
Hans Otte, ed., Handbuch des kirchlichen Archivwesens, Teil I: Die zentralen Archive in der evangelischen Kirche, 4th ed. (Neustadt an der Aisch, 1997), 305-12.
Telephone: (0651) 710-5542
Fax: (0651) 710-5498
Web site: www.uni-trier.de/infos/bibtr/bistum.html
Contact: Dr. Martin Persch
Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
The archive contains the records of the archbishopric and bishoprics of Trier from the eighth to the twentieth centuries. Its main body encompasses administrative files for the years 1821-1950, parish archives, diplomas dating back as far as 1003, and 6,500 church books from 1580 to the present.
Finding aids:
Stefan Nicolay and Thomas J. Schmitt, eds., Die Bestände des Bistumsarchivs Trier: eine Kurzübersicht (Trier, 1999).
Telephone: (05331) 802-0
Fax: (05331) 802-707
E-mail: archiv@luth-braunschweig.de
Web site: www.luth-braunschweig.de/luth-bs/archiv/archivhome.htm
Contact: Hermann Kuhr
Business hours: 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
This archive holds the records of the Protestant-Lutheran Church in Braunschweig since the Reformation of 1568, files of the supervising institutions, parishes, religious institutions and organizations, and church registers. In addition, the archive contains medieval documents, seals, maps, and private papers.
Finding aids:
Hans Otte, ed., "Landeskirchliches Archiv Braunschweig," in Handbuch des Kirchlichen Archivwesens,Teil I: Die zentralen Archive in der evangelischen Kirche, 4th ed. (Neustadt an der Aisch, 1997), 77-95.
Telephone: (0931) 386-352
Fax: (0931) 386-464
E-mail: POW@bistum-wuerzburg.de
Web site: www.bistum-wuerzburg.de
Contact: Erik Soder von Güldenstubbe
Business hours: 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. and 1:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Mon.- Wed.
Holdings:
The archive documents regional church and religious history, and the evolution of the bishopric of Würzburg since 742. It contains the papers of the church's bishops, its administrative records, files of monasteries and parishes, and private papers.
Telephone: (0821) 322-3912 or (0821) 322-3791
Fax: (0821) 322-3291
E-mail: public-relations@ag.man.de
Web site: www.man.de
Contact: Ms. Gerda Krug and Ms. Gerlinde Simon
Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
Holdings:
The archives of the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG (MAN) contain some 1.5 million documents. They encompass sales registers, journals, employment registers, deeds, correspondence, annual and other business reports, publications, papers of the directors, photographs and film footage, drawings and other graphic records, technical documentation, books, and miscellaneous materials. The collection is divided into four main parts: general information on the company's operating environment as well as history of technology; the companies of the MAN group; materials on the business development of MAN and its numerous subcompanies, their organizational structure, their annual development, biographical information on senior executives, and corporate publications; and the factories, records of construction and operation of production facilities, recruitment and training of personnel, and records of union activities and worker representation councils. This part also features records on the early years of the industrial revolution in Germany, provisions for worker care (among them the construction of living quarters for employees and the establishment of health-care plans); products and all records on the development, manufacture, and sale of the products of the MAN group; technical publications and sales and supply figures. A special collection chronicles the construction of the world's first diesel engine more than a century ago. It includes a substantial portion of Rudolf Diesel's private papers. Another focus of this part of the archive is the documentation of the 150-year-old tradition of constructing printing presses. Additional materials provide information on the history of water turbines, pumping stations, steam engines, and physical instruments.
Finding aids:
Josef Wittmann, "MAN's Historical Archives," in: MAN Forum (July 1993): 20-5.
Telephone: (02271) 751-200-12
Fax: (02271) 751-1477
Web site: www.rwe.de
Contact: Günther Abts
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
This archive functions as the principal repository for the records of the Rheinbraun AG, one of the world's largest surface-mining companies and brown-coal producers, and its predecessor and subsidiary companies since 1890. The holdings encompass files, protocols, business records, technical drawings and materials, photographs, film reels, and a special collection of charcoal briquettes, coins, and medals.
Telephone: (030) 254-841-33
Fax: (030) 254-841-75
Web site: www.dtmb.de
Contact: Jörg Schmalfuss
Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Tues.- Thurs.
Holdings:
Although AEG's company archives were partially destroyed during World War II and in part moved to the former USSR, a substantial collection is still extant and consists of large numbers of business and administrative records, business reports, correspondence, patents, technical drawings, and public relations materials. The special collections encompass more than 1 million photographs, film reels, and audio records. In addition, the collection encompasses a 5,000-volume library and a museum of 2,500 objects from the varied activities of AEG and its subsidiaries (e.g., Telefunken), such as illumination technology, turbines, energy production, typewriters, household equipment, and so forth.
Finding aids:
Jörg Schmalfuß, "Das Archiv und Museum der AEG," in: Museums-Jounal I
(Berlin 1998): 55-7.
Telephone: (0234) 587-7154
Fax: (0234) 587-7111
E-mail: E.Kroker@lb.dmt.de
Web site: www.bergbaumuseum.dmt.de
Contact: Dr. Evelyn Kroker
Business hours: 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 8:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
The archive is the principal repository for the mining industry. It has collected the records of closed mines since 1969 and consists of fifteen company collections from the Erzbergbau, fifty-nine collections of companies from the Steinkohlebergbau, thirty-two collections of records from specialized institutes and organizations, three collections of companies from the Braunkohlebergbau, one collection from an alkali company, almost 100 private papers, and twenty-six special collections.
Finding aids:
Evelyn Kroker, Das Bergbau-Archiv und seine Bestände: Kurzführer, 2d ed.
(Bochum, 1994).
Evelyn Kroker and Norma von Ragenfeld, Findbuch zum Bestand 33: Rheinisch-Westfälisches Kohlen-Syndikat 1893-1945 (Bochum, 1980).
Telephone: (0221) 826-3304 or (0221) 826-2291
Fax: (0221) 826-2484
E-mail: CGNCID@DLH.DE
Web site: www.lufthansa.com
Contact: Werner Bittner and Monika Ecken
Carola Kapitza
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
The Lufthansa archives contain records, books, and magazines covering civil air transport from 1909 to the present. At the end of World War II the archives of the prewar Lufthansa were almost completely destroyed; only about 10 percent of the records remain. Still, some areas are well documented, such as timetables and routes, aircraft, and subsidiary companies (Deruluft, Eurasia, Iberia, and Syndicato Condor, among others). The postwar files are divided into nine groups: corporate management, traffic, filed organizations, marketing, operations, engineering, finance, personnel, and subsidiary companies. Special files document German airports, aircraft companies, other German airlines, and biographical sketches of aviation pioneers. 150,000 photographs are held at the archives and are made available by Lufthansa Photo Service, and films and videos are made available through Lufthansa Audiovisual Services.
Telephone: (0221) 1640-800
Fax: (0221) 1640-829
E-mail: sz@koeln.ihk.de
Web site: www.ihk-koeln.de/archiv/index.htm
Contact: Prof. Dr. Klara van Eyll
Business hours: 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mon., Tues., Thurs.; 9:30 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. Wed.; 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
The RWWA is the oldest regional economic archive in the world. Founded in 1906, it is the principal depository for the economic history of Rhineland-Westphalia. It consists of the records of fifteen chambers of commerce, a substantial number of company files (e.g., Brügelmann & Söhne, Chemische Fabrik Kalk, Kölnisch-Wasser-Fabrik, Felten und Guilleaume, Gutehoffnungshütte, and Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz), records of entrepreneurs and substantial documentation of regional biographies of leading businessmen, and one of the largest collections of more than 15,000 Firmenfestschriften.
Telephone: (0221) 145-1613
Fax: (0221) 145-3613
E-mail: gabriele.teichmann@oppenheim.de
Web site: www.oppenheim.de
Contact: Gabriele Teichmann
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
The archive contains the records of the Sal. Oppenheim Jr. & Cie. banking house, which was founded in 1789. The records encompass the history of the bank, correspondence, genealogy, charitable foundations and public activities, internal bank affairs, activities in support of the Jewish cause, colonial affairs, railway and shipping, insurance companies, mining and heavy industry, the history of the bank during the Nazi era, and the bank's postwar history. The archive also contains the records of orientalist and diplomat Max von Oppenheim. 5,000 photographs and slides, and collections of architectural models and office machines complement the collection.
Finding aids:
Gabriele Teichmann, "Archive Surveys: Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie., Cologne," Financial History Review 1 (1994): 69-78.
Telephone: (06151) 165 000
Fax: (06151) 165 003
E-mail: hwa@hrz4.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de
Contact: Dr. Ulrich Eisenbach and Ute Mayer
Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. Mon.; 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Tues.-Fri.
Holdings:
The economic archive of the state of Hesse, founded in 1992, is the principal depository of the records of Hessian chambers of commerce, commercial organizations (e.g., Verein Wirtschaftsforum, Rheinhauer Weinhändler-Vereinigung, Rotary Club Wiesbaden), and companies without archives of their own. Currently, more than fifty companies are documented in the archives, including Adam Opel AG, Deutsche Börse AG, Oberselters Mineral- und Heilquellen, Preußen-Elektra, and Triumph-Adler. The archives collect business records, annual reports, protocols of business meetings, contracts, public relations materials, posters, coins, stock certificates, money, plans, technical drawings, photographs, film footage, and sound recordings. The archives are complemented by a large library focusing on economic and business history.
Telephone: (0231) 5417-296
(0231) 5417-297
Fax: (0231) 5417-117
E-mail: wwado@dortmundihk.de
Web site: www.archive.nrw.de
Contact: Klaus Pradler
Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
This archive documents the economic and social history of the regions of Westphalia and Lippe from the eighteenth century to the present. It contains sources on the technical, social, and economic development of the Ruhrgebiet, and Westphalian industry (e.g., textile, metal, and tobacco). The holdings encompass more than 11,000 business books and substantial collections of business correspondence (more than a half-million letters). The archival collection is complemented by a research library that specializes in regional economic and social history, and also contains a large number of Firmenfestschriften and company journals.
Finding aids:
Ottfried Dascher, ed., Das Westfälische Wirtschaftsarchiv und seine Bestände (Munich, 1990).
Ottfried Dascher, "50 Jahre Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv in Dortmund- Bilanz und Perspektiven," in: Heimatpflege in Westfalen 2 (1992): 1-7.
Telephone: (0203) 806-418
Fax: (0203) 806-738
E-mail: Bernhard_Weber-Brosamer.FHC@haniel.de
Web site: www.haniel.de
Contact: Dr. Bernhard Weber-Brosamer
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
The archive of more than 3,000 files, several hundred maps, plans, and technical drawings documents the early phase of German industrialization, particularly the activities of Franz Haniel (1779--1866), an industrial pioneer from the Ruhr industrial region. Records are available on mining, railroad construction, and harbor construction in Duisburg. Few records on the history of the Haniel company after 1917 are available.
Finding aids:
Dirk Appelbaum, "Die wissenschaftliche Nutzung des Unternehmensarchivs Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH," Archiv und Wirtschaft 26 (1993): 171 ff.
Telephone: (0203) 52-66822
Fax: (0203) 52-66825
E-mail: konzernarchiv@tks.thyssenkrupp.de
Web site: www.thyssenkrupp.de
Contact: Dr. Manfred Rasch
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
The archives function as the the main depository for the records of the Thyssen company and its numerous subsidiaries. They encompass documents on the development of the Thyssen company and records of the history of the German iron and steel industries since the nineteenth century. A library of over 8,000 volumes complements the substantial collection. In addition to the business records of the company and its subsidiaries, the archive holds the private papers of its CEOs (but not the private papers of the Thyssen family), a large collection of audiovisual material (10,000 photographs, 7,000 slides, more than 1,000 reels of film, and several hundred videos), a poster and flyer collection, paintings, coins and medals, emergency money, public relations material, technical drawings, maps, and construction plans.
Finding aids:
Manfred Rasch, "Das Archiv der Thyssen AG und seine Bestände," in: Archiv und Wirtschaft, 29/1 (1996): 2-13.
Ralf Stremmel and Manfred Rasch, "Findbuch zu den Beständen Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG und Bergbau- und Industriewerte GmbH," in: Veröffentlichungen aus dem Archiv der Thyssen AG, 2 vols. (Duisburg, 1996).
Michael Moos and Andreas Zilt, "Findbuch zum Bestand Friedrich- Wilhelms-Hütte," in: Veröffentlichungen aus dem Archiv der Thyssen AG, no. 2 (Duisburg, 1997).
Andreas Zilt, "Findbuch zu den Beständen der Ruhrstahl-Gruppe," in: Veröffentlichungen aus dem Archiv der Thyssen AG, no. 3 (Duisburg, 1998).
Telephone: (0211) 797-3327
(0211) 797-2431
Fax: (0211) 798-2696
Web site: www.henkel.de
Contact: Wolfgang Bügel
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
This archive functions as the principal depository for the records of the Henkel company. It holds the files of the company's many subdivisions dating back to the mid-nineteenth century, and those of its overseas subsidiaries since 1930. The files encompass diplomas, administrative records, protocols, business books, technical drawings, and records of the various administrative and business units of the company. The special collections document the rise of the Henkel company as one of the leading producers world wide of applied chemical/hygienic products, with 300,000 photographs (since 1890), 5,000 sample product packages (since 1878), and public-relations material.
Finding aids:
Wolfgang Bügel, "Massenschriftgut im Werksarchiv Henkel," in: Archiv und Wirtschaft 2 (1991): 59-61.
Telephone: (0211) 820-2200
Fax: (0211) 820-2822
E-mail: MW-Archiv@Mannesmann.de
Web site: www.mannesmann.de
Contact: PD Dr. Horst A. Wessel and Kornelia Rennert
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
The Mannesmann archive is one of the largest business archives in the world and documents the development of the tube and pipe industry. It contains the records of Mannesmann AG and its predecessor companies, the files of the Phoenix Mining and Steel Company, Mannesmann Demag AG, Deutsche Röhrenwerke, and many other subsidiaries. The Phoenix files are of particular relevance to studying Franco-German business relations in general. The special collections department holds more than one million photographs and 10,000 film reels. The records of the archive consist of the standard business and economic files, but also hold many sources for social and political history, and the history of technology. Art historians have focused on Mannesmann's outstanding factory and administrative buildings, which were designed by Peter Behrens, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, and Le Corbusier.
Finding aids:
Horst A. Wessel, "Das Mannesmann-Archiv," in: Archiv und Wirtschaft 4 (1989): 141-9.
Deutsche Wirtschaftsarchive, vol. 1, 3d ed. (Stuttgart, 1994), 180-92.
| Mailing address: Postfach 10 42 61 40033 Düsseldorf | Visitors address: Rheinmetall Allee 1 40476 Düsseldorf |
Telephone: (0221) 473-4044
Fax: (0221) 473-4157
E-mail: christian.leitzbach@rheinmetall-ag.com
Web site: www.rheinmetall.de
Contact: Dr. Christian Leitzbach
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
The archives of this leading electronic and mechanical engineering group contain the records of Rheinmetall Berlin AG and Rheinmetall AG from 1956 to the present, the files of Rheinische Metallwaren- und Maschinenfabrik (1889-1935), the records of Rheinmetall-Borsig AG (1935-56), Rheinmetall GmbH and Rheinmetall Detec AG (1956 to present), the files of Jagenberg AG (1878 to present), and the records of Pierburg AG (1909 to present). The files consist of annual business reports, minutes of board meetings, the records of the finance department, photographs, technical drawings, and press clippings.
| Mailing address: Postfach 10 04 42 60004 Frankfurt am Main | Visitors address: Großer Hirschgraben 17-21 60004 Frankfurt am Main |
Telephone: (069) 130-6213
Fax: (069) 130-6201
E-mail: Staub@boev.de
Web site: www.boersenverein.de
Contact: Hermann Staub
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
The Börsenverein functions as the central organization for production and marketing in the publishing sector in Germany and represents the interests of more than 7,000 member companies. The historical archive, in the process of organization, collects photographs, posters, brochures, and files of the member organizations. It also holds the papers of the Börsenverein itself and its branch offices, and contains a large collection relevant to the reconstruction of German bookselling after 1945. The archive is complemented by a specialized library of more than 30,000 volumes and 100 periodicals.
Finding aids:
Hermann Staub and Susanne Hauert, "Das Gedächtnis des deutschen Buchhandels: Bibliothek und Historisches Archiv des Börsenvereins in Frankfurt," in: Buch und Bibliothek 40 (1988): 172-4.
| Mailing address: Taunusanlage 12 60325 Frankfurt am Main | Visitors address: Zimmerweg 6 60325 Frankfurt am Main |
Telephone: (069) 910-331-41
Fax: (069) 910-383-36
E-mail: martin-l.mueller@db.com
Web site: www.deutsche-bank.de
Contacts: Dr. Martin Müller
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
This archive contains the records of the Deutsche Bank from its founding in 1870 to the present. More than 50 percent of the documents are indexed in computer databases. The records of the Berlin secretariat (1870-1920), the files of the oriental office (1887-1920), the American office (1880-1920), and the files of the Berlin head office (1920-45) have all been made available to the public. In addition, the archive holds the records of the following banks: Nordeutsche Bank (1860-1929), A. Schaaffhausen'scher Bankverein (1848-1929), and the Deutsche Centralbodenkredit (1870-1945). Special collections encompass photographs, annual business reports, and press clippings. The archive is complemented by a library specializing in banking history.
Finding aids:
Lothar Gall et al, The Deutsche Bank 1870-1995 (London, 1995).
Jonathan Steinberg, The Deutsche Bank and its Gold Transactions During the Second World War (Munich, 1999).
| Mailing address: Postfach 10 06 02 60006 Frankfurt am Main | Visitors address: Wilhelm-Epstein-Str. 14 60431 Frankfurt am Main |
Telephone: (069) 956-636-92
Fax: (069) 956-649-67
E-mail: zentrale.bbk@bundesbank.de
Web site: www.bundesbank.de
Contact: Rolf Herget
Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
Holdings:
The historical archives of the Deutsche Bundesbank, the national bank of Germany, contain the records of the Bundesbank, the central banks of the indivudual states, the branches of the Deutsche Bundesbank, and the records of the former Bank deutscher Länder and its predecessors since 1945. This principal repository of central bank files contains administrative, business, and judicial records, maps, audiovisual materials, and photographs. It also preserves the estate of former members of the bank's governing bodies and other private collections. Most of the material dates back to the immediate post-World War II years. Sources concerning the Central Bank's prewar history are located at the Federal Archives in Berlin.
Finding aids:
Rolf Herget, "The Deutsche Bundesbank and its Historical Archives," in: Off the Record-A bi-annual bulletin from the Bank of England Archive, no. 9 (1997): 4-5.
European Association for Banking History, ed., "Deutsche Bundesbank," in Handbook on the History of European Banks (Frankfurt am Main, 1994), 328-36.
Dieter Lindenlaub, "The Archives of the Deutsche Bundesbank,"in European Association for Banking History, ed., Second European Colloquium on Bank Archives (Frankfurt am Main, 1992), 15-24.
Telephone: (069) 1362-3616
Fax: (069) 1362-3422
E-mail: detlef.krause@commerzbank.de
Web site: www.commerzbank.de
Contact: Detlef Krause
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
The archive contains annual reports, administrative files, minutes of meetings, memoranda, private papers, and the records of a number of banks taken over by Commerzbank. Some of the records date back as far as the the eighteenth century. Many of the files that were kept in the former Berlin headquarters were destroyed during World War II, so gaps in the documentation do exist. Photos, film reels, and audiotapes complement the collection.
Finding aids:
Detlef Krause, "Das Historische Archiv der Commerzbank AG," in: Archiv und Wirtschaft 23 (1990): 52-6.
Telephone: (069) 743-131-49
Fax: (069) 743-143-26
E-mail: martina.koechling@kfw.de
Web site: www.kfw.de
Contact: Dr. Martina Köchling
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
The archive contains all the records of the bank collected since its founding in 1948. The records encompass business and administrative files, minutes of board meetings, and personnel files. Of particular interest are the collections that document the bank's role in the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) and the Marshall Plan. The archives are complemented by special collections of audiovisual materials, which document the evolution of the bank's worldwide activities.
Finding aids:
Heinrich Harries, Financing the Future: KfW-the German Bank with a Public Mission, 1948-1998 (Frankfurt am Main, 1998).
Telephone: (07541) 380-170
Fax: (07541) 380-181
E-mail: waibel@zeppelin-museum.de
Web site: www.zeppelin-museum.de
Contact: Barbara Waibel
Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Tues.-Thurs.; 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m Tues. & Wed.; 1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Thurs.
Holdings:
The archive contains the records of the Zeppelin airship company, as well as photographs, film reels, technical drawings, and important records on the history of aviation during the years 1890-1960. A substantial library on aviation history complements the archival collections.
| Visitors/Mailing Address: Firmenarchiv Bertelsmann AG Carl-Bertelsmann-Str. 270 33311 Gütersloh |
Telephone: 0049 5241 80-89993
Fax: 0049 5241 80-6-89993
E-mail: archiv@bertelsmann.de
Web site: www.bertelsmann.de
Contact: Eva Rimmele
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
The Corporate Archive of the Bertlesmann AG holds documents from the company's
beginnings in 1835 up to the end of Worl War II. Most of the materials have
been collected for the study of the "Independent Historical Commission"
on the company's history in the Third Reich. The Archive is currently being
expanded. Recently, the archive of the renowned Christian Kaiser Verlag - now
a subsidiary of Random House - have been filed. Soon the storage of the company's
records from the 1950s and 1960 will begin.
Telephone: (03641) 642759
Fax: (03641) 643207
E-mail: Wimmer@zeiss.de
Web site: www.zeiss.de
Contact: Dr. Wolfgang Wimmer
Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri., by appointment only.
Holdings:
The archive documents the history of the Zeiss company since 1846 and of the VEB Carl Zeiss Jena in the GDR after World War II. The records can be accessed through finding aids, card catalogs, and computerized databases.
Telephone: (0431) 8814-305/304
Fax: (0431) 8814-527
E-mail: info-ifw@zbw.ifw-kiel.de
Web site: www.uni-kiel.de:8080/ifw
Contact: Bernhard Klein
Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Fri.
Holdings:
The Economic Archive of the Kiel Institute of World Economics (established in 1914) contains a collection of newspaper, magazine, and information-service clippings from nearly ninety national and international sources in Eastern and Western Europe, the United States, Africa, and Asia. The archive provides information on such subjects as the general economic situation in individual countries, their public finances, taxation, money, and credit situations, their labor markets, and social trends and product development in individual countries. This information is available to every country and is complemented by a special collection on international agencies and business and political personalities. Clippings and information material for the time period 1920-45 and clippings concerning France and Germany from 1920-66 are available on microfilm only. Articles concerning Europe and Germany have been recorded electronically since 1996.
Finding aids:
Kiel Institute of World Economics, ed., Economic Archives and Information (available from the archives).
Telephone: (0341) 91992-0
Fax: (0341) 91992-18
E-mail: swa.leipzig@t-online.de
Web site: www.leipzig.ihk.de/swa
Contact: Karsten Sichel
Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.
Holdings:
Principal depository of records on the economic history of Saxony. The archive includes records of several chambers of commerce, company records, private papers of inventors and entrepeneurs, collections of annual business reports, Firmenfestschriften, catalogs, and public relations materials.
Telephone: (0214) 30-81984
Fax: (0214) 30-61159
E-mail: Michael.Pohlenz.MP@bayer-ag.de
Web site: www.bayer.de
Contacts: Michael Pohlenz and Hans-Hermann Pogarell
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
This archive, one of the oldest and most important of its kind in the world, is the central depository of the Bayer AG and documents the company's history. Established in 1907, the archive contains business reports, personnel papers, annual reports, patents, contracts, private papers, public relations material, more than 100,000 photographs dating as far back as 1878, substantial amounts of film footage, an archival library with more than 3,000 volumes, posters, maps, technical drawings, 800 engravings showing the evolution of technology and science, and the private papers of former general director Carl Duisberg.
Finding aids:
Margarete Busch, "Das Bayer-Archiv gestern und heute," in: Niederwupper Historische Beiträge 15 (1996): 23-7.
Telephone: (0621) 604-6953
Fax: (0621) 602-1661
E-mail: lothar.meinzer@zoa.x400.basf-ag.de
Web site: www.basf.de
Contact: Dr. Lothar Meinzer
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
Principal repository since 1865 for the BASF company, the BASF group, and IG-Farben. The archives hold business records, business reports, patents, technical drawings, and the private papers of important managers, chemical engineers, and chemists (e.g., Matthias Pier and Walter Reppe). Special collections contain 50,000 photographs, audiovisual materials, public relations materials, and product samples. The company's newspapers, dating back to 1913, are particularly accessible: More than 10,000 headlines are kept in a computerized tracking system that the allows the user to find the relevant paper.
Finding aids:
Jutta Kissner, "Das BASF-Unternehmensarchiv," in: Archiv und Wirtschaft 26 (1993): 2-5.
| Mailing address: Postfach 8 01651 Meissen | Visitors address: Talstraße 9 01662 Meissen |
Telephone: (03521) 468-234
Fax: (03521) 468-800
E-mail: info@meissen.de
Web site: www.meissner-porzellan.de
Contact: Jürgen Schärer
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
Founded in 1710, Meissen is one of the most prominent porcelain companies worldwide. The archive itself consists of three collections: the first contains the records dating from 1710 to 1756 and from 1763 to 1945. It encompasses the administrative, financial, and production records of the Königlich-Polnische und Kurfürstlich-Sächsische Porzellan-Manufaktur, the Königlich-Sächsische Porzellan-Manufaktur, and the Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur. The second contains the records of the new archive from 1945 to 1990. It consists of the files of the Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen, SAG Baustoffe, and the VEB Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur. The third consists of the records of the new archive since 1990. A 9,000-volume library and numerous photographs and drawings complement the collection.
Finding aids:
Hans Sonntag, Meissener Porzellan: Bibliographie der deutschsprachigen Literatur (Leipzig, 1994).
Telephone: (089) 636-32612
Fax: (089) 636-32161
E-mail: frank.wittendorfer@uk.siemens.de
Web site: www.siemens.de/siemensforum
Contact: Dr. Frank Wittendorfer
Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. & 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.- Fri., by appointment only.
Holdings:
The archives, founded in 1907, are the principal depository for the records of the Siemens company and its many subsidiaries (including Deutsche Grammophon, 1932-68; Klangfilm, 1928 to present; Kraftwerk Union, Protos Automobile, 1908-27; and Telefunken, 1903-41). In addition, the files of the company's foreign operations (including Siemens Brothers & Co. London, 1858 to present; and Siemens & Halske AG St. Petersburg, 1882-1914) are housed here. The collection contains more than 400,000 photographs, private letters by the Siemens family (dating back to 1830), patents, film footage, including 1,000 films made after 1926, audio recordings made after 1933, a library that holds 13,000 volumes and Festschriften, and a collection of over 11,000 electromechanical devices and products.
Finding aids:
Klara van Eyll and the Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte, eds., Deutsche Wirtschaftsarchive, vol. 1 (Stuttgart, 1994), 243-7.
Stadtarchiv München, ed., Archive in München (Munich, 1996), 37-8.
Telephone: (089) 9244-4954
Fax: (089) 9244-4967
E-mail: UK-Presse@mail.hypo.de
Web site: www.hypo.de
Contact: Dr. Franziska Jungmann-Stadler
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
This archive contains the minutes of the executive board, the board of directors, and general meetings dating from 1835 to 1970. It also houses the records of the bank's various departments and a collection of 300,000 banknotes from many countries and different historical periods.
Telephone: (089) 5116-354
Fax: (089) 5116-564
E-mail: emoser@muenchen.ihk.de
Web site: www.muenchen.ihk.de/service/wirtarch.htm
Contact: Dr. Angela Toussaint
Business hours: By appointment only.
Holdings:
Principal depository of the records of Bavarian companies, commercial/business organizations, and chambers of commerce. The archive also contains a number of special collections of Festschriften, business reports, postcards, and public relations materials.
Finding aids:
Bayerische Industrie- und Handelskammertag, ed., Das Bayerische Wirtschaftsarchiv und seine Bestände. Munich, 2000.
Angela Toussaint, "Eine Zukunft für die Vergangenheit: Das Bayerische Wirtschaftsarchiv und seine Bestände," in: Archivalische Zeitschrift 80 (1997): 404-16.
Angela Toussaint, "Archivgutpflege der deutschen Wirtschaft unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Bayerischen Wirtschaftsarchivs: Geschichte und aktueller Stand," in: Archivalische Zeitschrift 79 (1996): 105-26.
Richard Winkler, "Quellen des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts in Archiven der Wirtschaft-unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Bayerischen Wirtschaftsarchivs," in: Forum Heimatforschung: Ziele-Wege-Ergebnisse 5 (2000): 63-82.
Telephone: (089) 889-935-51
Fax: (089) 88