Berlin-Brandenburg Economic Archive
The Berlin-Brandenburgische Wirtschaftsarchiv eV ( BBWA ) is a publicly accessible archive whose holdings and collections can be viewed for scientific research projects or other research while observing the legally prescribed or requested by the owners protection periods. Winner of the regional economy archive is the same club , that of Berlin and Brandenburg private enterprises, the Chamber of Commerce in Berlin , the Berlin Chamber of Trade and the Association of Berlin Merchants and Industrialists is supported financially (VBKI).
history
Since the beginning of the 20th century there have been considerations and efforts to set up an economic archive in Berlin. In 2004, the Berlin-Brandenburg Economic Archive Association was founded on the initiative of historians and archivists and with significant support from the Berlin State Archive . In 2009, the association transformed into a sponsoring association opened the economic archive at its current location in Berlin-Reinickendorf. It is located directly between the Berlin State Archives and the German Armed Forces (WASt) in the buildings of the former Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken AG (DWM).
task
While the State Archives Berlin and the Brandenburg State Main Archives in Potsdam have the task of preserving documents from government agencies, the Berlin-Brandenburg Economic Archive takes over documents from private-sector companies in accordance with the state archive laws of the federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg . Some companies maintain their own historical archives.
The central task is the preservation, indexing and provision of historically valuable documents from the economic life of the Berlin-Brandenburg region. By collecting the historical economic tradition, the archive secures information and acts as a 'memory' of the region and makes it available to research, the donating companies and the public.
In addition, the BBWA encourages companies to set up and maintain their own archives and can advise on the creation of company histories, commemorative publications and historical concepts.
The BBWA works closely with the Berlin State Archives and the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences .
Stocks
The archive holds about 1,600 running meters. Files, especially documents from the various chambers and corporate archives of Berlin companies. Part of the BBWA is the Flick research archive, which was created as part of a research project at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena .
The library contains, among other things, the holdings of the Weltwirtschaftliche Gesellschaft eV and the complete reports of the "Association for the Promotion of Industry in Prussia".
use
The BBWA is a publicly usable archive whose holdings are accessible to all users who can prove a legitimate interest, taking into account the general protection and blocking periods as well as special agreements with the owners.
public relation
The Berlin-Brandenburg Economic Archive has been operating a so-called “online magazine” called “Archivspiegel” since July 2012, making it the first economic archive in Germany to have its own weblog.
literature
- Klaus Dettmer, Björn Berghausen: On the way to a Berlin economic archive. In: Archiv und Wirtschaft, Volume 42 (2009), Issue 2, pp. 59–65. PDF
- Björn Berghausen: The Berlin-Brandenburg Economic Archive (BBWA). In: Brandenburgische Archive 29 (2012), pp. 14-17. PDF
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dettmer, Berghausen (2009), p. 59.
- ^ Information Service Science of June 17, 2010
- ^ Project "Flick in the 20th Century" at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena