Bavarian War Archives
The Bavarian War Archive was founded in 1885 and is used to store documents and materials on Bavarian military history . Today it is part of the Bavarian Main State Archives as Section IV .
history
The basis of the archive is the so-called old stock , files that go back to the 17th century. These were stored in the Reich Archives from 1866. In 1885 the Bavarian War Archives was founded as an authority subordinate to the Bavarian General Staff . The main task of the archive was to create as complete a history of the Bavarian Army as possible . In 1920 it was subordinated to the Foreign Office , but in 1933 it came under the jurisdiction of Bavaria again and was then administered by the Bavarian State Chancellery . In 1937 it was renamed the Munich Army Archives and added to the German Army Archives . In 1946 the archive was finally connected to the Bavarian Main State Archive. 1949 took over the documents (v. A. Bavarian War muster rolls and leaderboards from the First World War) of the former branch Munich the central evidence Office warrior losses and war graves that after 1919 the armory was established in Lothstraße.
tasks
The original goal of publishing a history of the Bavarian Army was pursued until 1935. A total of eight volumes were published that deal with Bavarian war history up to 1914. A separate military history magazine was published between 1882 and 1925. From 1921 onwards, almost 100 war stories of Bavarian regiments were published in the series of memorial sheets for German regiments , as well as other publications on the history of the Bavarian army during the First World War. One of the main publications was the commemorative work of Bavaria's Golden Book of Honor , issued in 1928, which lists the bearers and the facts of the award of the highest Bavarian war awards of the First World War .
Today's task of the archive is to provide sources for research into military history. Due to the large inventory of collected materials from all areas, the war archive also serves many other research areas on Bavarian history.
Duration
The holdings are divided into the following areas
- Old stock ( Thirty Years War until 1914)
- Military authorities from the 17th century until after the First World War (including the War Ministry , Bavarian Military Plenipotentiary in Berlin, General Staff , Supreme Arms Authorities, Feldzeugmeisterei , military training and teaching institutions)
- Troop files from the First World War (including Army Group Crown Prince Rupprecht )
- Follow-up facilities of the Bavarian Army (including Reichswehrgruppenkommando 4 , Generalkommando Oven , Freikorps , Bavarian State Police 1919–1935)
- Personnel files (around 450,000)
- Manuscripts and bequests (among others from Count Rumford , Johann Nepomuk von Triva , Felix Graf von Bothmer , Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen , Emil Leeb , Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb )
- Maps, plans, pictures
- Photographs (around 500,000)
- Printed works (library with 28,000 volumes)
Location
The Bavarian War Archive is located in the Munich district Neuhausen-Nymphenburg . The two-story raw brick building with a hipped roof dates from 1928; The war archive also includes an adjoining three-storey building with a gable roof , built around 1890, also with a raw brick facade. Both buildings are under monument protection.
There are old fruit trees in the archive garden; it is now in the hands of the city and freely accessible as a public green area.
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- Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 18, 2008, Munich section, page N1
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Announcements for archive maintenance in Bavaria , 9th year, volume 3/4, Munich 1963, p. 37/40.
- ↑ Complete scan of "Bavaria's Golden Book of Honor"
- ↑ War Archives . Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, accessed on June 2, 2009
Coordinates: 48 ° 9 '32.4 " N , 11 ° 32' 45.7" E