Sponsorship group archives and libraries on the history of the labor movement
The support group Archives and Libraries for the History of the Labor Movement , based in Berlin, is a non-profit, registered association dedicated to supporting all efforts to keep archives and libraries on the history of the labor movement closed, to systematically supplement them and to make them accessible to the public. It was founded on March 6, 1991 in Berlin.
Further goals of the association are the maintenance of the cultural heritage, especially of the labor movement as well as the promotion of national and international scientific and cultural relations, regular public relations work to promote the purposes of the association and the dissemination of work results from archives and libraries as well as the representation of its members as users of relevant archives and libraries .
Twice a year the sponsorship group gives the " Mitteilungen. Förderkreis Archives and Libraries for the History of the Labor Movement ”. Publication months are March and September.
The support group was founded on March 6, 1991 in the building of the Institute for the History of the Labor Movement (IfGA) in Berlin. At the end of 1989, the IfGA emerged with a democratized structure from the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED . His task was to preserve the files of the Central Party Archive and the book collections of the library in the IML completely and undivided and to bring them into the newly merging German archive and library landscape. These holdings are now in the Federal Archives as the "Foundation Archive of Parties and Mass Organizations of the GDR in the Federal Archives (SAPMO)".
The Förderkreis acts as an organizer of scientific conferences and lectures.
Henryk Skrzypczak (1991–1992), Günter Benser (1992–2011) and Reiner Zilkenat (2011–2018) were chairmen of the sponsorship group . The current chairman is Holger Czitrich-Stahl , provisional from October 2018, since May 2019 properly.
The Förderkreis operates its own website. He is a member of the International Conference of Labor and Social History (ITH) based in Vienna and the International Association of Labor History Institutions (IALHI) based in Amsterdam.
literature
- Announcements from the sponsorship group. Issues No. 1 to No. 57 (1992–2020) (current status);
- Henryk Skrzypczak: Older is not old enough. Festschrift. On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the founding of the association and the 80th birthday of the founding chairman. Berlin 2007
- Günter Benser / Michael Schneider (eds.): “Preserve-Spread-Enlighten”. Archivists, librarians and collectors of the sources of the German-speaking labor movement. Bonn-Bad Godesberg 2009
- Special issue. Festschrift 20 years of the sponsorship group archives and libraries on the history of the labor movement 1991–2011. Berlin, May 2011
- Rainer Holze / Siegfried Prokop (eds.): Basic democracy and the workers' movement. Günter Benser on his 80th birthday. Berlin 2012
- Special issue. The Berlin transport workers strike in 1932. Berlin, September 2012
- Henryk Skrzypczak: When it was “about the whole thing”. Trade unions between revolution and surrender. 1918-1933. Neuruppin 2014
- Festschrift 25 years of the sponsorship group archives and libraries on the history of the labor movement 1991–2016. Texts-documents-pictures on the club's history. Edited by Rainer Holze and Birgid Leske, Neuruppin 2016
- Rainer Holze / Marga Voigt (eds.): 1945 - A “zero hour” in your mind? On the intellectual situation in Germany after liberation from fascism. Neuruppin 2016
- Günter Benser / Dagmar Goldbeck / Anja Kruke (eds.): “Preserve-Spread-Enlighten”. Archivists, librarians and collectors of the sources of the German-speaking labor movement. Supplement, Bonn 2017
- Reiner Zilkenat (Ed.): "... all power to the councils!" The German revolution 1918/19 and its councils. Neuruppin 2018
- Stefan Bollinger / Reiner Zilkenat (eds.): Twice Germany. Social policy in two German states: challenges, similarities, separate ways. Neuruppin 2020