Archives of Liberalism
| Archives of Liberalism (ADL)
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 Exterior view of the archive |
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| Archive type | Archive of the political foundations / party archive |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 0 ′ 17 ″ N , 7 ° 34 ′ 6 ″ E |
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Gummersbach North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Visitor address | Theodor-Heuss-Strasse 26 51645 Gummersbach |
| founding | 1968 |
| scope | 4.9 km |
| Age of the archive material | 19th century - today |
| ISIL | DE-Gub1 (Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, Archive of Liberalism) |
| carrier | Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom |
| Organizational form | Department of the Foundation |
| Website | www.freedom.org/buero/archiv-des-liberalismus |
The Archive of Liberalism ( ADL ) of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach has existed since 1968, making it the oldest of the six archives of the political foundations in Germany .
history
The archive of liberalism is located in Niederseßmar, a district of Gummersbach. After 1948 the documents of the federal party leadership of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) in Bonn , at the headquarters of the FDP office (later called Thomas-Dehler-Haus ) and temporary foundation headquarters , were temporarily stored. In September 1949 a section for the party's chronicle was set up there under the direction of Erika Fischer. In 1961 the first professional archivist was hired.
In 1968 the FDP sold its Political Archive to the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. The documents initially remained in Bonn before they were professionally archived in an extension to the Theodor Heuss Academy in Gummersbach, which had existed since 1967, and made available to the public on Theodor Heuss' centenary in January 1984. In 2009 the previous premises were modernized; In addition, a new archive building was inaugurated in May of this year, which, in addition to a considerable expansion of the storage area, also includes a new user room, a conference room and additional offices. From 2009 to 2013, documents from the Cologne City Archives that were recovered after the collapse were stored here. In November 2018 the archive celebrated its 50th anniversary as part of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and published a commemorative publication on the occasion.
Stocks
The Archives of Liberalism collects documents on the history of organized liberalism . In addition to "classic" files, it also makes printed matter, leaflets, posters and other advertising material accessible, as well as photos, films, videos, tapes and digital media (including websites). The focus of the collections is on Germany and the period after 1945; a few individual holdings date from the Weimar Republic , very few from the late 19th century . In total, the holdings comprise around 4.9 kilometers of files (as of January 2018) and around 25,000 units of audiovisual material (posters, films, advertising material). The archive also includes a special scientific library with around 42,000 volumes (books, magazines, pamphlets, articles). The vast majority of the holdings are indexed in a database as well as in analog or digital finding aids and are made available to users - taking into account the protection periods under the Federal Archives Act . The holdings in the archive are cleaned, restored to a smaller extent and, if necessary, digitized .
Party and organization stocks
The core of the collections is the former archive of the FDP federal party leadership, which was acquired by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in 1968. The documents of numerous regional associations were added later. The documents of the FDP parliamentary group and many liberal state parliament groups are also kept in the ADL . In addition, in 1991 - after the unification of the FDP with the Bund Free Democrats in 1990 - the central archive of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD) of the GDR was brought to Gummersbach. Since then, it has been maintained and indexed by the Archive of Liberalism as a deposit of the Foundation Archive of Parties and Mass Organizations of the GDR in the Federal Archives (SAPMO). You can also find documents from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach. B. the committees of the foundation , various liberal support organizations in Germany (including the Young Liberals , the German Young Democrats and the Liberal Women ).
By expanding the archive to include holdings from international and European liberal organizations, in particular from Liberal International (LI) or the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party ( ELDR ) since 1998, the “Archive of German Liberalism” was renamed in 2001 to “ Archive of Liberalism ”.
Stocks of persons
In addition, the estates of liberal politicians, u. a. by former members of the Bundestag and FDP federal chairmen, such as those of the Federal Interior and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the Federal President and Federal Foreign Minister Walter Scheel , the Federal Minister of Justice Thomas Dehler or the Federal Minister of Economics Otto Graf Lambsdorff , the long-standing FDP parliamentary group leader Wolfgang Mischnick or the Vice-President of the German Bundestag Liselotte Funcke . The ADL also contains so-called letters , so u. a. by Federal Minister of the Interior Gerhart Baum .
Other holdings include a. from the following personalities in the archive:
- Franz Blücher , Federal Minister for Marshall Plan Affairs and Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation
- Dieter-Julius Cronenberg , longstanding Vice President of the German Bundestag
- Johannes Dieckmann , President of the People's Chamber of the GDR (LDPD)
- Martha Dönhoff , German women's rights activist and liberal politician (DDP, FDP)
- Josef Ertl , Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests
- Karl-Hermann Flach , Federal Managing Director and General Secretary of the FDP
- Hildegard Hamm-Brücher , State Secretary, Member of the Bundestag, State Minister in the Foreign Office
- Wilhelm Külz , politician (DDP, LDP), Reich Minister of the Interior, 1945 to 1948 chairman of the LDP
- Reinhold Maier , first Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg
- Hermann Saam , German diplomat and mayor
- Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen , Senator in Berlin, General Secretary of the FDP, Commissioner for Foreigners of the Federal Government
- Guido Westerwelle , FDP Federal Chairman and Federal Foreign Minister
The oldest archival material in the archive of liberalism is an interpretation by Martin Luther on the 147th Psalm from 1532, the Hambacher cloth from 1832 and a letter from Carl Theodor Welcker from 1839. There is also a copy of a picture sheet about the Frankfurt Wachensturm from Epinal from 1833 as well as a collection of graphics for the revolution of 1848/49 .
Photo views from the archive
New building from 2009
Showroom
Magazine from 1984
Magazine from 2009
Shelf with microfilms
Drawing cabinet by Friedrich Naumann with poster reproductions
File evaluation in the user room
Liberalism research and political education
Once a year, the archive organizes a colloquium on research on liberalism, the contributions of which form the focus of the next “Yearbook on Research on Liberalism”. The Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Preis of the Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Gedächtnisstiftung is also awarded here for outstanding work on the history and the spiritual foundations of liberalism. Further scientific conferences and lecture events in cooperation with external partners or the country offices of the Naumann Foundation complete the annual program.
The Archive of Liberalism regularly organizes cooperation events with various universities (including Aachen , Gießen , Hagen , Cologne , Marburg and Wuppertal ) and maintains educational partnerships with schools from the Oberbergisches Land (Gummersbach, Marienheide ).
The archive has helped design exhibitions on Friedrich Naumann, Walter Scheel and the permanent exhibition in the Genscher House in Halle (Saale) .
Committee work
The Archive of Liberalism works together with the other archives of the political foundations and is involved in the work of the International Council on Archives and Section 6 (parliamentary, party and foundation archives ) of the Association of German Archivists (VdA). In addition, the archive and its employees are represented in the board of trustees of the Federal President-Theodor-Heuss-Haus Foundation and the Archive of the Parties and Mass Organizations Foundation of the GDR in the Federal Archives , as well as in the “Places of the History of Democracy” working group and in the Bergischer Archives working group active.
Management and employees
Former directors of the archive were Friedrich Henning (1961–1982) and Monika Faßbender (1982–2010). The archive has been managed by the Wuppertal historian Ewald Grothe since 2011 . Scientific speakers for historical liberalism research and the field of "public history" are Jürgen Frölich and Wolther von Kieseritzky . Archivists, historians, clerks, specialists for media and information services, technical staff and a trainee work at the ADL.
Publications
The “ Yearbook on Liberalism Research ” , which has been published since 1989, is co-edited and editorially supervised by the Archive of Liberalism . In addition, the archive publishes anthologies and conference volumes at irregular intervals.
Collective and conference volumes
- Ewald Grothe / Ulrich Sieg (eds.): Liberalism as enemy image. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8353-1551-8 .
- Ewald Grothe / Jürgen Frölich / Wolther von Kieseritzky (eds.): Liberalism research after 25 years. Balance sheet and perspectives. Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2016, ISBN 978-3-8487-3035-3 .
- Ewald Grothe / Aubrey Pomerance / Andreas Schulz (eds.): Ludwig Haas. A German Jew and a fighter for democracy. Droste, Düsseldorf 2017 (= contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties , vol. 174), ISBN 978-3-7700-5335-3 .
- Hans-Peter Becht / Ewald Grothe (eds.): Karl von Rotteck and Karl Theodor Welcker. Liberal professors, politicians and publicists. Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2018 (= State Understandings , Vol. 108), ISBN 978-3-8487-4551-7 .
- Ewald Grothe / Jens Hacke (eds.): Liberal thinking in the crisis of the world war era. Moritz Julius Bonn. Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2018 (= Staatsdiskurse , vol. 36), ISBN 978-3-515-12234-4 .
- Ewald Grothe / Arthur Schlegelmilch (eds.): Constitutional Moments. Proceeds from the symposium of the Dimitris Tsatsos Institute for European Constitutional Studies, the Institute for History and Biography and the Archive of Liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom on April 13 and 14, 2018 at the FernUniversität in Hagen. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag , Berlin 2020 (= publications of the Dimitris Tsatsos Institute for European Constitutional Studies , Vol. 20), ISBN 978-3-8305-3982-7 .
Editions
The archive also publishes scientific editions, for example the records of the FDP politician Wolfgang Schollwer .
- Monika Fassbender (Ed.): Potsdamer Tagebuch 1948–1950. Liberal politics under Soviet occupation. Oldenbourg, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-486-54581-7 .
- Monika Fassbender (ed.): Liberal opposition to Adenauer. Records 1957–1961. Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55831-5 .
- Monika Fassbender (Hrsg.): FDP in change. Records 1961–1966. Oldenbourg, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-486-56003-4 .
- Jürgen Frölich (Ed.): “Germany as a whole is our obligation”. Notes from the FDP East Office 1951–1957. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2004, ISBN 3-86108-043-5 .
- Jürgen Frölich (Ed.): "There is still a lot of persuasion to be done in the FDP ...". Records from the FDP federal office 1966–1970. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2007, ISBN 3-86108-887-8 .
Public history brochures
Since 2019 the archive has also published brochures on liberal people or events of liberal history. The following issues have been published so far:
- Jürgen Frölich: Friedrich Naumann - A life for freedom. Potsdam 2019.
- Wolther von Kieseritzky: “Freedom!” - 30 Years of Peaceful Revolution. Potsdam 2019.
- Jürgen Frölich: Walter Scheel - With courage and consistency for change in freedom. Potsdam 2019.
- Ewald Grothe / Maximilian Spohr: Burkhard Hirsch - An icon of the liberal constitutional state. Potsdam 2020, ISBN 978-3-9822020-0-6 .
literature
- Archive of Liberalism (Ed.): 50 Years Archive of Liberalism. Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, Gummersbach 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-061056-1 ( PDF; 8.8 MB ).
- Monika Fassbender: The archive of liberalism. In: Anja Kruke / Harry Scholz (Hrsg.): The archives of the political foundations in the Federal Republic of Germany - An archive guide . Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86872-439-4 , pp. 95–111.
- Ewald Grothe: The archives of the political foundations as part of the Rhenish archive landscape. In: Archive Landscape Rhineland. 49th Rhenish Archive Day, 18. – 19. June 2015 in Pulheim-Brauweiler. Contributions . Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 2016 (= Landschaftsverband Rheinland, LVR-Archivberatungs- und Fortbildungszentrum. Archivhefte , Vol. 46), ISBN 978-3-7749-3997-4 , pp. 105–117.
Web links
- Homepage of the Archives of Liberalism
- Online database for an overview of the holdings as well as for bequests and deposits
- Documentation and collection profile of the archives of the political foundations in Germany
Individual evidence
- ^ It is the birthday of the Archives of Liberalism. Retrieved June 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Anna Maria Beekes: A real treasure chest in the cellar . In: Kölnische Rundschau from April 3, 2008.
- ↑ References: THA - Archive of Liberalism. Metallbau Altwicker GmbH, accessed on June 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Jürgen Frölich: 50 Years “Archive of Liberalism” . In: Archive of Liberalism (Ed.): 50 Years Archive of Liberalism. Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, Gummersbach 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-061056-1 , pp. 7-18.
- ^ Jürgen Frölich, Ewald Grothe, Susanne Ackermann (arrangement): 50 years archive of liberalism. Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, Gummersbach 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-061056-1 .
- ↑ Chronicle of the Foundation | Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom . In: Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom . ( Online [accessed December 22, 2017]).
- ^ Ewald Grothe: Legacies in the archives of the political foundations. In: Clemens Rehm / Monika Storm / Andrea Wettmann (eds.): Legacies - New ways of transmission in the network. Joint spring conference FG 1 and FG 6 for all specialist groups in the VdA. May 7, 2013, State Archive Chemnitz. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2014 (= Publications of the Saxon State Archives , Series A, Vol. 17), ISBN 978-3-95462-388-4 , pp. 63–74.
- ^ Information and invitation to tender for the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Memorial Foundation .
- ↑ Education partnerships in NRW .
- ↑ Silvia Zöller: Honor for Hans-Dietrich Genscher: “Unique for Halle” . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( Online [accessed January 23, 2018]).
- ^ VdA - Section 6: Archives of Parliaments, Political Parties, Foundations and Associations ; Ewald Grothe: Tasks and self-image of the archive of liberalism. In: Archive of Liberalism (Ed.): 50 Years Archive of Liberalism. Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, Gummersbach 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-061056-1 , pp. 23–35.
- ^ Archives of Liberalism [Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom]. Clio-online - Historisches Fachinformationssystem eV, June 21, 2020, accessed on June 21, 2020 .
- ^ Yearbook on Liberalism Research. In: H-Soz-Kult. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, June 21, 2020, accessed on June 21, 2020 .