German aristocratic archives

German aristocratic archives
Archive type	Archive / special scientific library
place	Marburg
Visitor address	Schwanallee 21
founding	1961
ISIL	DE-Mb104
carrier	Association of the German needle associations (VdDA)
Organizational form	Foundation, endowment
Website	German aristocratic archives

The German Aristocratic Archives was founded in 1961 as a registered association and is based in Marburg an der Lahn .

description

The German Aristocratic Archive is primarily dedicated to the creation, processing and publication of the genealogical manuals of the nobility . In addition, documents on the history of the nobility, regional aristocratic associations and various families are collected and made available to the public.

In addition to answering inquiries about the history and genealogy of the German nobility and current topics, which is subject to a fee , scientific work on the history of nobility in the broadest sense is funded.

The needle legal supervision of the Adelsarchiv and its publications, the German nobility Legal Committee .

history

The founding of the German Aristocratic Archives went back to a private initiative of the Upper Government Councilor Hans Friedrich von Ehrenkrook, who had fled from Breslau, and the lawyer Jürgen von Flotow, who was expelled from Mecklenburg . Up until the currency reform , so-called "refugee lists" with addresses and search notices were published, and in August 1948 the first booklet "German Aristocratic Archives" appeared.

At the same time, Hans Friedrich von Ehrenkrook and the publisher Hans Kretschmer, who was expropriated in Görlitz in 1946, began to prepare the continuation of the Gothic Genealogical Pocket Books in a new series entitled " Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility ". The first volume in this series was published in 1951 and has been published by the archivist of the German Aristocracy (1965 to 1996 Walter von Hueck, 1996 to 2015 Christoph Franke, since 2015 Gottfried Graf Finck von Finckenstein ). As early as 1961, the Association of German Aristocratic Associations (VdDA) was able to take over the genealogical collection built up by Ehrenkrook and to found the German Aristocratic Archive as a registered association.

Between 1968 and 1984 the archive used rooms in the Hessian State Archive in Marburg . In June 1984 the German Aristocratic Archives moved into the municipal building at Schwanallee 21 and the archive has been housed there ever since. In 1994 the association was converted into a foundation to secure the financial existence of the aristocratic archives in the long term . The basic indexing of the archival material, which was initiated in 1996, and a systematic indexing of the library , which has grown over five decades , has now been completed.

The return to the roots of the old " Gothaischer Hofkalender " is connected with the establishment of the publishing house of the Deutsches Adelsarchiv as a dependent company of the Stiftung Deutsches Adelsarchiv, Marburg . In the summer of 2015, the first self-published volume, the " Gothaische Genealogisches Handbuch " (GGH 1) Princely Houses , came out. In 2016 the first volumes of Adelige Häuser , Gräfliche Häuser followed, and in 2017 the first volume Freiherrliche Häuser . Two or three more volumes in this series come out every year.

Publications

• Princely houses 1 (GGH 1), Verlag des Deutschen Arelsarchivs, Marburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-9817243-0-1
• Noble houses 1 (GGH 2), Verlag des Deutschen Adelsarchivs, Marburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-9817243-3-2
• Gräfliche Häuser 1 (GGH 3), Verlag des Deutschen Arelsarchivs, Marburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-9817243-2-5
• Noble houses 2 (GGH 4), Verlag des Deutschen Adelsarchivs, Marburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-9817243-3-2
• Freiherrliche Häuser 1 (GGH 5), Verlag des Deutschen Adelsarchivs, Marburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-9817243-4-9
• Noble houses 3 (GGH 6), Verlag des Deutschen Adelsarchivs, Marburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-9817243-5-6
• Princely Houses 2 (GGH 7), Verlag des Deutschen Arelsarchivs, Marburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-9817243-6-3
• Noble houses 4 (GGH 8), Verlag des Deutschen Adelsarchivs, Marburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-9817243-7-0
• Gräfliche Häuser 2 (GGH 9), Verlag des Deutschen Arelsarchivs, Marburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-9817243-8-7
• Noble houses 5 (GGH 10), Verlag des Deutschen Adelsarchivs, Marburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-9817243-9-4
• Freiherrliche Häuser 2 (GGH 11), Verlag des Deutschen Arelsarchivs, Marburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-9820762-0-1

literature

• Literature from and about the German Aristocratic Archive in the catalog of the German National Library
• Christoph Franke: German Adels Archive - History - Holdings - Tasks, in: Der Archivar (59) 2006, p. 355ff.
• Christoph Franke: Culture of Remembrance and the Tasks of the German Aristocratic Archives, in: Der Herold (51) 2008, pp. 264–274.
• Christoph Franke: Archive funding through conversion into a foundation? The German Aristocratic Archive as an example, in: Cultural Capital and Economic Potential - Future Concepts for Archives, 82nd German Archive Day in Cologne, Ed. Heiner Schmitt (= conference documentation on the German Archive Day, published by the Association of German Archivists , Vol. 17) , Fulda 2013, pp. 75-90.

See also

• Association of the German Nobility Associations

Web links

• German aristocratic archives
• The beginning with refugee lists 1945-1959
• Publications of the publishing house of the German Aristocratic Archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ VdDA - ARA. Retrieved August 18, 2016 . 
2. ↑ http://home.foni.net/~adelsforschung/lex32.htm
3. ↑ http://www.whoswho.de/bio/walter-von-hueck.html
4. ↑ http://www.adel-in-deutschland.de/verbaende/stiftung-deutsches-adelsarchiv
5. ↑ http://www.gotha-handbuecher.de
6. ↑ Claus Peter Müller: Blue Blood: When is a Prince a Prince? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 25, 2015, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed August 21, 2016]).

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