Federal Archives-Military Archives
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The Federal Archives-Military Archives (BArch-MA) in Freiburg im Breisgau is a department of the Federal Archives for the protection, indexing and storage of the military records of Germany since 1867.
The military archive department was set up in Koblenz in 1955 , the year the Bundeswehr was set up. The first director until 1960 was Erich Murawski , who, as a former officer, was particularly successful in gaining private estates from higher officers for the archive. In 1968, the department due to the between was the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Defense agreement reached to the conclusion as Federal Archives-Military Archives to the former site of the Military History Research Institute Freiburg i. Br., From which it took over the archive holdings from its document center, which was also dissolved.
In 1990 the holdings of the Potsdam military archive of the GDR were incorporated.
Stocks
The Military Archives Department manages the following archives:
- Estates of German military personnel since 1864
- Military history collections
- of the Prussian Army from 1867,
- the armed forces of the North German Confederation and the Imperial Army ,
- of the Imperial Navy ,
- the protection troops and the volunteer corps ,
- the Reichswehr ,
- the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS ,
- the German work units in the service of the Allies,
- the National People's Army including the border troops of the GDR as well
- the Bundeswehr .
Its holdings include the files of the High Command of the Wehrmacht with the command staff and the Armed Forces and Armaments Office , the High Command of the Army with the General Staff and Chief of the Army Archives, war diaries of the army groups , armies, corps and divisions, the floating units of the Navy , as well as documents from the Reich Ministry of Aviation , war diaries systematized according to military districts and individual files of the armaments commandos and armaments inspections. In addition, the private estates of the military, such as Erwin Rommel , Alfred von Tirpitz , Alfred von Schlieffen or Friedrich Paulus , can be found here, as well as the documents from the Blank office , the BMVg and thus all sources on the early history of the Bundeswehr (such as the Himmeroder memorandum ).
Most of the registries of the Reich Ministries of the Interior , for economy , food and agriculture , labor , church affairs, transport , science, as well as education and popular education , came from the Army Archives Potsdam (previously Reichsarchiv ) in 1990 . The core of the Potsdam files is a map collection of approx. 3,500 maps of the two world wars, originals and photocopies of Wehrmacht records that were privately handed over to the German Military Archives, as well as a number of bequests.
Information about the personnel files from the time of the Second World War can be obtained from the German Office (WASt) . Further information about soldiers of all German armed forces can be found on the website of the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr .
losses
The documents of the central offices of the Wehrmacht and the army command, the offices and the troops of the army below the division level and the air force have largely been lost. In contrast, the bulk of the war diaries of the command authorities of the army and the divisional headquarters until 1943 as well as the archives of the Navy survived the war.
Most of the files of the Prussian army and the archived holdings of the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht were destroyed in the air raid on Potsdam on April 14, 1945.
Further military documents can be found in the Berlin Document Center . The files from the period before 1867 are stored in the Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage .
literature
- Andreas Kunz: The Federal Archives-Military Archives in Freiburg. Source (s) of German military history from 1864 to today . In: Military History. Journal for Historical Education , Issue 4/2008, ISSN 0940-4163 , pp. 14-17 ( PDF; 5.05 MB ).
- Hans-Joachim Harder: Modernization in the Federal Archives-Military Archives . In: Angelika Menne-Haritz, Rainer Hofmann (Eds.), Archives in Context. Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Hartmut Weber on his 65th birthday, Schriften des Bundesarchivs 72 (2010), Düsseldorf (Droste-Verlag), pp. 177–184.
Web links
- Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv ( Memento from July 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- Federal Archives - inventory overview , as of October 18, 2013
Footnotes
- ^ Georg Tessin : Erich Murawski August 12, 1894– October 11, 1970. In: Baltic Studies . Volume 57 NF, 1971, ISSN 0067-3099 , pp. 99-100.
- ↑ Inquiries to the MGFA with contact address and contact person
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