Archive divisions

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The archive segments hold the archives , the archives together according to their types. The main focus is on the legal entities of the archives.

In Germany , the archives are traditionally divided into eight sections - they correspond to the specialist groups of the Association of German Archivists (VdA):

  • State Archives
  • Municipal archives
  • Church Archives
  • Manorial, house and family archives (aristocratic archives)
  • Economic Archives
  • Parliament, party, foundation and association archives
  • Media archives
  • University archives and archives of scientific institutions

State Archives

The state archives include the Federal Archives , the Political Archives of the Foreign Office , the Archives of the Federal Commissioner for the Documents of the State Security Service of the former GDR , the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage and the state archives and state archives supported by the federal states .

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Municipal archives

Archives of the local authorities are city archives, district archives and municipal archives. The Historical Archive of the City of Cologne is the largest municipal archive north of the Alps . Another German municipal archive of supraregional importance is the Institute for Urban History in Frankfurt am Main. The originally communal archives of the three city-states Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg have the status of a state archive.

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Church Archives

In the area of ​​churches, in addition to the archives of the Protestant regional churches and the diocese or diocesan archives of the Catholic Church, there are occasionally publicly accessible church archives at the level of the church districts or deaneries and the parishes (parish archives). The Protestant free churches have also set up archives. There are also numerous archives of independent church organizations and institutions such as religious archives, association archives and archives of diaconal institutions.

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Manorial, house and family archives (aristocratic archives)

The aristocratic archives are private archives that are maintained and accessible in very different ways. They are often deposited in state archives or academic libraries and are looked after by state archivists and historically trained academic librarians. In North Rhine-Westphalia, the archives are responsible for maintaining the aristocratic archives ( LWL Archive Office for Westphalia and LVR Archive Advice and Training Center ).

Economic Archives

This group includes the regional economic archives , mostly carried by the chambers of industry and commerce, the mining archive in Bochum as the only larger industry archive, as well as the company or company archives (there are around 200 institutionally developed company archives in Germany).

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Parliament, party, foundation and association archives

The federal and state parliaments do not submit their documents to the state archives, but maintain their own parliamentary archives. The archives of the six political parties represented in the Bundestag are located at the party foundations. In addition to the party documents, the files from the parliamentary and state parliamentary groups and, in particular, the legacies of politicians are archived here. This group also includes the archives of trade unions and associations.

The British Parliament has the Parliamentary Archives .

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Media archives

Media archives are furthest away from the “classic” definition of an archive, as they are more oriented towards the professional model of documentaries. These include the archives of the public and private radio and television companies, the archives of the print media and the image archives . In the case of publishers, the continuous collection of all print products is also called the production archive. In the field of journalism, where short, quick information is required, newspaper clipping archives are the most important sources of research.

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University archives and archives of scientific institutions

The core of this group are the public university archives . It also includes the archives of scientific institutions, such as scientific collections and museums, as well as the literary archives .

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Situation in Switzerland

In Switzerland , the institutions included in this group are generally assigned to two different categories: the university archives and the special archives. Special archives are understood to be institutions which, when organizing and indexing the documents stored and conveyed by them, are based on archival methods, but - such as libraries or museums - obtained these documents during the collection process.

"Alternative" archives

The so-called archives from below or archives of the new social movements such as B. those of the women's , gay , peace or environmental protection movement .

List of archives

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Lost Treasures in the Cologne City Archive " ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , March 3, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ksta.de
  2. ↑ See also their joint documentation and collection profile on the website of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.freiheit.org
  3. ^ Page of the VdA with Section 6.
  4. ↑ See also English Wikipedia .
  5. ^ Philipp Messner: The archive . In: Gaby Knoch-Mund, Jean-Philippe Accard, Niklaus Bütikofer (Ed.): Information science. Theory, method and practice . Hier + Jetzt, Baden 2014, pp. 283–303, 288f, DOI: 10.18755 / iw.2014.17 .

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