Bavarian Army Library
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| founding | 1822 |
| Duration | approx. 136,000 (as of 2015) |
| Library type | Specialized scientific library |
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Bavarian Army Museum , Ingolstadt (formerly Munich) 
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| ISIL | DE-209 |
| operator | Free State of Bavaria |
| management | Daniel Hohrath |
| Website | www.armeemuseum.de |
The Bavarian Army Library is a special academic library in Ingolstadt , the history of which goes back to 1822, when it was founded as the Royal Bavarian Main Conservatory of the Army .
Today it functions as the museum library of the Bavarian Army Museum , which is located in the New Palace, and is preserved by the Free State of Bavaria with its unique historical, partly supplemented inventory . Approx. 110,000 volumes and 20,000 maps in the fields of military science and history , general history and art history are collected in the library , especially works on the Bavarian Army. The library can be used as a reference library ; she is a member of the Bavarian Library Association .
The current library director is the historian Daniel Hohrath .
history
The army library was originally based on the holdings of the library of the Secret War Archives , which was founded in 1804. On September 30, 1822, it was founded as the Royal Bavarian Main Conservatory of the Army . In 1826 the libraries of the Statistical-Topographical Bureau (today: Bavarian State Office for Statistics ) and the Bavarian Cadet Corps were integrated . In 1828 the inventory amounted to almost 10,000 volumes. As a result, the library acquired collections from the military Clemens von Raglovich (1836), Johann Friedrich Ferdinand Graf zu Pappenheim (1841) and Carl Theodor Prince of Bavaria (1875). In the middle of the 19th century, the inventory already exceeded the Vienna Army Library. In 1895 the library name was renamed the Royal Bavarian Army Library . In 1904 the library , which had previously been housed by the Bavarian General Staff , moved to the north wing of the Army Museum in Munich; meanwhile the book inventory had grown to over 100,000 copies.
With the end of the First World War and the dissolution of the Bavarian Army (and the associated integration of the troops into the Reichswehr ) in 1919, the library was continued as the Munich branch of the German Army Library in Berlin and in 1922 as the Munich Army Library . In 1926 it was returned to the Free State of Bavaria and placed under the local State Ministry for Education and Culture . In addition, the union with the library of the inspection of the engineer corps and the fortresses , the supreme weapons authority at that time, was made.
In the course of the National Socialist centralization, in 1936 it became the property of the German Reich as Wehrkreisbücherei VII . At last the holdings comprised approx. 200,000 volumes, in addition to the numerous manuscripts and sheets of maps. Around 80,000 volumes and 20,000 cards were outsourced to other locations in Bavaria during the Second World War (1943) when Otto Basler (1936–1945) was the director . As a result, books, maps and atlases survived the chaos of war with the smallest of losses.
After the war, some came ten thousand from the Munich Hofgarten salvaged from water damage subscribed, volumes in the Bavarian State Library in Munich, the majority but was early 1946 American US by the occupation forces on the former artillery barracks in Freising near Munich in the USA, in the Library of Congress (LoC) in Washington, DC. As a result, the library initially suffered a 50 percent loss of inventory, particularly in the areas of theology, philosophy, psychology, medicine and technology. The manuscripts and incunabula disappeared completely from the inventory.
After the Federal Ministry of Defense under Franz Josef Strauss had tried to return the spoils of war since 1959, around 80,000 volumes and 20,000 maps and plans were transferred back to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1962, whereby the LoC was to retain holdings. The boxes that had arrived in Bremerhaven by freight transport ( Military Sea Transportation Service ) were then taken to the Defense Division Library VI in Munich . In 1968, at the end of a long-standing legal dispute, the federal government and the state (Bavaria) agreed on a settlement , according to which the property was granted to the Free State of Bavaria and the FRG became a beneficiary of the holdings through a loan of at least ten years from the Bavarian State Library to the Defense Division Library VI . There began to be organized and made accessible, in 1977 a location catalog (in eight volumes) was handed over.
In 1978 he moved to the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich in Neubiberg near Munich. Without any official statement of reasons - the Free State wanted to centralize military history in Ingolstadt and tie in with the historical unity of museum and library - the contract for 1983 was terminated in 1981 on time. In 1983, the Bavarian Council of Ministers under Franz Josef Strauss decided to transfer the holdings to the Bavarian Army Museum in Ingolstadt, under the direction of Ernst Aichner . The cause was supported by the Neue Deutsche Biographie , the Munich Institute for Modern History and the Bavarian State Library; that stood u. a. the then Bundestag members Franz Ludwig Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and Martin Mayer , both CSU, opposite. The move took place at the beginning of 1984. In 1985, the library was combined with the 15,000-volume official library of the Army Museum, and the name Bavarian Army Library was again adopted .
The library is now located in the former war bakery of the royal provisions office in Provision Street.
Duration
Some of the holdings can be accessed via the Bavarian Library Association ; there are approx. 25,000 stocks listed:
- Military Studies (approx. 900 titles)
- Magazine for engineers and artillerymen
- Bellona
- Military monthly
- General military newspaper
- Military manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria
- Rank list of the Royal Prussian Army a. a.
- Military affairs, military history (approx. 7,300 titles)
- Service regulations = special collection u. a.
- Military technology (approx. 2,400 titles)
- Warfare Theory (approx. 2,000 titles)
- History (approx. 4,600 titles)
- Geography (approx. 3,800 titles)
- Linguistics and literary studies, history of art (approx. 2,300 titles)
- Mathematics and natural sciences (approx. 1,000 titles)
- Social Sciences (approx. 400 titles)
- Other: theology etc. (few available)
literature
- Hans-Joachim Genge: On the whereabouts of military libraries after the Second World War . In: Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen 58 (1999), pp. 529-547, especially pp. 533-535.
- Gerhard Robold: Bavarian Army Library . In: Eberhard Dünninger (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical book inventory in Germany . Volume 12: Bayern I-R . Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim u. a. 1996, ISBN 3-487-09586-6 , pp. 20-24. ( Digitized 2003 )
- Waldemar Sensburg: The Bavarian Libraries. A historical overview with special consideration of the public academic libraries . Bayerland-Verlag, Munich 1926, pp. 61-62.
- Friedrich Stuhlmann: The Fate of the German Military Libraries after the War 1914–1918 . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 46 (1929) pp. 339–350, especially pp. 346–347.
- Olof Wendt: The provenances of the Bavarian Army Library . In: Horst Leuchtmann , Robert Münster (ed.): Ars iocundissima. Festschrift for Kurt Dorfmüller on his 60th birthday . Schneider, Tutzing 1984, ISBN 3-7952-0399-6 , pp. 375-401.
- Agreement on the Bavarian Army Library. May 1985 . In: Bibliotheksforum Bayern 13 (1985) pp. 303-304.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Ansgar Reiss (Ed.): Bavarian Army Museum Ingolstadt. Annual report 2010–2014 . Ingolstadt 2015, p. 64.