Archives of the State Welfare Association of Hesse

Archives of the State Welfare Association of Hesse
Archive type	Municipal Archives
Coordinates	51 ° 19 '3.4 " N , 9 ° 28' 30.4" E Coordinates: 51 ° 19 '3.4 " N , 9 ° 28' 30.4" E
place	kassel
Visitor address	Kölnische Strasse 30
founding	1986
scope	about 6,000 running meters
Age of the archive material	16th century - today
ISIL	DE-2794 (LWV archive)
carrier	State Welfare Association of Hesse
Website	[1]

The archive of the State Welfare Association of Hesse (LWV archive) stores the records of the State Welfare Association (LWV) based in Kassel , its predecessor associations and institutions. It was set up in 1986 and has the task of taking over historically and legally significant documents from the offices and facilities of the LWV and Vitos gGmbH, making them accessible and making them available to the public.

history

In the 1980s, the State Welfare Association decided to set up an independent public archive. The trigger was an initiative by Country Director Tilman Pünder . Pünder, who has rendered outstanding services to the preservation and care of the historical heritage of the LWV, had become aware of the value of the tradition of the State Welfare Association through two events: the 450th anniversary of the Haina and Merxhausen High Hospitals (today Vitos Haina and Vitos Kurhessen ) as well as the public discussion about the reappraisal of the National Socialist "euthanasia" crimes in the former Nazi killing center Hadamar (today Vitos Hadamar). In both cases it became clear that extensive archival holdings were stored in the LWV facilities on site, but that their security and indexing was insufficient for scientific research. For this reason, the state welfare association created the post of scientifically trained archivist with a state examination at the Marburg archive school in 1985 . On April 1, 1986, this position could be filled with Christina Vanja . In the period that followed, Vanja systematically built up the archives of the State Welfare Association. It is thanks to your commitment that the LWV archive has developed into a specialist archive on the history of social welfare from the Reformation to the late 20th century. Today the archive of the State Welfare Association is part of the main administration of the LWV in Kassel. Together with the Hadamar Memorial, it forms the Archive, Memorials, Historical Collections department.

Stocks

The LWV archive has a volume of 6,000 running meters of files. There are also almost 20,000 photographs, over 4,000 maps and plans, and a specialist library with 20,000 volumes. The documents go back to the early 16th century and extend into modern times. Thematically, the history of social welfare is at the center of the tradition. Focus on:

Inventory of the first supraregional Hessian supply facilities for physically or mentally impaired as well as poor, old and sick people (the high hospitals Haina , Merxhausen , Gronau and Riedstadt ),

Holdings on the National Socialist “euthanasia” crimes. These include the 4,000 patient files of the former Nazi killing center Hadamar from the period from 1942 to 1945 as well as the transfer of factual, personal and individual case files from other Hessian and Nassau state hospitals such as Herborn , Weilmünster , Eichberg , Gießen , Idstein (Kalmenhof) , Heppenheim and Marburg ,

Documents on the history of the youth homes and educational assistance in the 1950s and 1960s as well as the history of the home campaign ,
Documents on the concentration (1933–1934) and labor education camp Breitenau (1940–1945) near Kassel,
Holdings of the schools for the hearing impaired and visually impaired, which are sponsored by the State Welfare Association (such as the Hermann Schektiven School in Homberg or the Freiherr von Schütz School in Bad Camberg).

Since 2018, the holdings have been searchable online using the "Arcinsys Hessen" archive information system . Currently (as of 03/2020) around 154,000 data sets from 130 stocks are available online for research. The holdings are divided into various sub-groups, such as factual files (B), personnel files (P), individual case files (K), photographs (F) and service libraries (D).

Locations

In addition to the main location in Kassel, the archive of the State Welfare Association has three branch offices. At the Hadamar (memorial), Haina (psychiatric museum) and Riedstadt (psychiatric museum) locations , it is responsible for the archival care of the documents stored there.

Branch office of the LWV archive in Haina

literature

Christina Vanja (ed.): Wealth of sources. Diversity of research. 30 years archive of the Landeswohlfahrtsverband Hessen (historical series of publications by the Landeswohlfahrtsverband Hessen, sources and studies Volume 17), Petersberg 2016.
Christina Vanja: Remembering the Nazi "euthanasia" after 1945 - memorial sites in Hesse. In: Andreas Hedwig and Dirk Petter (eds.): Selection of the strong - "Elimination" of the weak. Eugenics and Nazi "euthanasia" in the 20th century (Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg 35), Marburg 2017, pp. 201–224.
Dominik Motz: Digital into the future. The archive of the State Welfare Association of Hesse at Arcinsys. In: Archive news from Hessen. Volume 18, 2018, Issue 2, pp. 14-16.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Landeswohlfahrtsverband Hessen: About us. Retrieved March 14, 2020 .
↑ Andreas Jürgens: Greeting . In: Christina Vanja (ed.): Wealth of sources. Diversity of research. 30 years archive of the State Welfare Association of Hesse . Petersberg 2016, p. 7-8 .
↑ Dominik Motz: Digital in the future. The archive of the State Welfare Association of Hesse at Arcinsys . In: Archive news from Hessen . No. 18/2 , 2018, p. 14-16 .
↑ LWV archive, inventory B 2. Accessed on March 16, 2020 .
↑ LWV archive, inventory B 73.Retrieved on May 12, 2020 .
↑ LWV archive, holdings B 71. Retrieved on May 12, 2020 .
^ Landeswohlfahrtsverband Hessen: research. Retrieved March 14, 2020 .
↑ Landeswohlfahrtsverband Hessen: About us. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .

[1] Landeswohlfahrtsverband Hessen: About us. Retrieved March 14, 2020 .

[2] Andreas Jürgens: Greeting . In: Christina Vanja (ed.): Wealth of sources. Diversity of research. 30 years archive of the State Welfare Association of Hesse . Petersberg 2016, p. 7-8 .

[3] Dominik Motz: Digital in the future. The archive of the State Welfare Association of Hesse at Arcinsys . In: Archive news from Hessen . No. 18/2 , 2018, p. 14-16 .

[4] LWV archive, inventory B 2. Accessed on March 16, 2020 .

[5] LWV archive, inventory B 73.Retrieved on May 12, 2020 .

[6] LWV archive, holdings B 71. Retrieved on May 12, 2020 .

[7] Landeswohlfahrtsverband Hessen: research. Retrieved March 14, 2020 .

[8] Landeswohlfahrtsverband Hessen: About us. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .