State Archives of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

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Coat of arms in front of the State Archives
Hamburg State Archives

The State Archive of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in the Kattunbleiche in Hamburg-Wandsbek is an office of the authority for culture and media . In the city-state, it takes on the task of both a state and a municipal archive.

history

A municipal archive, which was directly supervised by the city council, was first mentioned in a document in 1293. The management of the archive was transferred full-time to a member of the Senate on September 11, 1710, that is, upgraded from the municipal archive in the town hall to a council office. Nicolaus Stampeel provided an initial overview of the disorganized files.

The State Archives only got independent premises with the construction of the new town hall , but these were quickly occupied, which is why the growth had to be stored again in temporary accommodation from 1907. On the initiative of the mayors Paul Nevermann and Herbert Weichmann , a purpose - built archive building was built on ABC-Straße according to plans by the architect Bernhard Hermkes and opened in 1972. This building was abandoned after only 26 years, as the asbestos removal, renovation of the air conditioning system due to increased energy costs and an extension made a new building cheaper.

The archive is one of the oldest in Germany. In 2010 it celebrated its 300th anniversary.

Responsible Senate Secretaries and Scientific Directors

The following persons have been or have been in charge of the archive since the 18th century:

18th century

19th century

20th century

21st century

task

The State Archive takes care of the storage, maintenance and use of files, protocols, documents and cards that illuminate Hamburg's history.

The function of the archive was mainly focused on practical legal purposes until the 19th century.

Processing of the existing material out of scientific interest only began with the work of the archivist Johann Martin Lappenberg , who opened the archive to other researchers and established the use of the archive in Hamburg.

Premises

Today the archive is in the Kattunbleiche in Hamburg-Wandsbek . The new building was built according to a design by the Hamburg architect Jan Störmer . The archive moved here from the building on ABC Strasse in 1998. The complex consists of the windowless warehouse with the ice-blue glass facade and the administration and usage wing. The business premises and library of the Association for Hamburg History are also located on the upper floor of the administration building .

Duration

Magazine of the Hamburg State Archives

The inventory comprises around 35,000 running meters of shelf , which are divided into over 2,800 holdings (individual archives). The following data carriers are represented: manuscripts, manuscripts, seals, contracts, photographs and books. In 1958, the tectonics of the archives that exist today was introduced, which is divided into 7 subject groups:

  1. Government, parliament, general and inner city administration
  2. Administration of justice
  3. Subject administration
  4. Territory administration
  5. Religious communities
  6. Associations and persons
  7. Special stocks

A more detailed overview of the stored holdings of the State Archives according to areas and offices is documented in the annotated overview of the holdings of the State Archives of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg .

Inventory losses

Loss of inventory occurred due to the Great Fire of 1842. During the Second World War and the storm surge of 1962 , there were losses in the records of the offices, but the archive itself remained intact. Scheduled destruction of files by the NS agencies before the capitulation also left gaps in the tradition.

Over 1,500 medieval and modern documents were relocated to Saxony in 1942/43 to protect them from bombing , came to the Moscow archives during the war and were returned to the Hamburg archive in autumn 1990.

In the summer of 2018 it became known that the State Archives had classified around one million death certificates from the years 1876 to 1953 as not worth archiving and had shredded them. The reason given was that there were “parallel deliveries” to other holdings and that the certificates were therefore “given no lasting value”. Historians such as the chairman of the Association for Hamburg History , Rainer Nicolaysen , however, disagreed with this assessment and pointed out that the certificates were of great importance, especially for the investigation of Nazi crimes, because they contained information that was not contained in other files be. The chairman of the working group of formerly persecuted social democrats , Wolfgang Kopitzsch , called for complete clarification and more consistent service and technical supervision in order to prevent further wrong decisions.

Reading room

Individual documents and volumes can be viewed in the reading room after they have been ordered from the archive. Access to the holdings is supported by specialist archive advice and finding aids. In an application for use, the intended use and the purpose of use are requested. Not all documents are accessible due to the protection periods according to § 5 HmbArchG.

In the reading room, Hamburg address books, registration records of the forgiven and deceased from 1892 to 1925 and from 1943 to 1945 as well as a tax and electoral file for Greater Hamburg from July 24, 1943 can be viewed on microfilm. There are also “death books” with the names of the deceased up to 1979. The library catalog can be used to search for books in the State Archives.

Joint use of the Lower Saxony State Archives, Stade location

One of the seven locations of the Lower Saxony State Archives is in Stade . Hamburg uses 20 of the 50 shelf kilometers there for storage and storage. a. its land registers and files .

Further archives in Hamburg

Additional documents on the history and structure of the city of Hamburg can be found in the following archives:

In addition, there are a number of private district archives, some of which have existed since the 1980s.

literature

Tools

  • Paul Flamme, Peter Gabrielsson, Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt (Eds.): Annotated overview of the holdings of the State Archives of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (= publications from the State Archives of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Vol. 14). 2nd enlarged and improved edition. Verlag Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-923356-88-9 (also available online as PDF )

Representations

  • Julia Brüdegam: Selection process in the Hamburg State Archives. In: Archivar 61, 2008, 1, ISSN  0003-9500 , pp. 45-47.
  • Hans-Dieter Loose : The new building of the Hamburg State Archives. In: Archivalische Zeitschrift 83 (2000) pp. 39–71.
  • Jürgen Sielemann: Hamburg community files in the Hamburg State Archives. In: Frank M. Bischoff (ed.): Jewish archives. Contributions to the colloquium on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Archive of German Jews. At the same time 10th archivological colloquium of the archive school Marburg, 13. – 15. September 2005 (= publications of the Marburg Archive School, Institute for Archive Science. Vol. 45). Archivschule Marburg, Marburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-923833-10-8 , pp. 97–110.
  • Irmgard Mummenthey: Ground squirrels leave their cave. Insights into strategic management and future planning in the Hamburg State Archives. In: Information 27, 2008, 1, ISSN  0720-7123 , pp. 104–111.
  • Sarah Schmidt: The State Archive Hamburg under National Socialism (= publications from the State Archive of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Vol. 24). Hamburg University Press, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 3-943423-29-8 ( full text online )

Web links

Commons : State Archive of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hamburg's historical memory . In: Welt am Sonntag . Part of Hamburg . September 26, 2010, p. 12 ( online on the website of the daily newspaper Die Welt [accessed February 15, 2015]).
  2. ↑ Senate secretaries and scientific directors responsible for the archive , accessed on June 9, 2019.
  3. ↑ Source: Red information board no. 8 of the Wandsbeker information path.
  4. ↑ Source: Red information board no. 8 of the Wandsbeker information path.
  5. ^ Matthias Gretzschel: Hamburg's historical memory turns 300 years old . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . March 5, 2010, p. 6 ( online on the pages of the Hamburger Abendblatt [accessed February 15, 2015]).
  6. ↑ Holdings of the State Archives of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (PDF; 1.7 MB)
  7. ↑ a b Olaf Wunder: One million documents !: State archive director had Hamburg's history shredded . In: MOPO.de . ( mopo.de [accessed on September 18, 2018]).
  8. ^ New cassation scandal in the Hamburg State Archives . In: Archivalia . ( hypotheses.org [accessed September 18, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Answer of the Senate to a short question from the Left-wing MP Norbert Hackbusch (Drs. 21/14076 of August 24, 2018). In: kleineanfragen.de. Retrieved September 18, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Olaf Wunder: Shredder scandal in the state archive: Destroyed Nazi files: Experts call for clarification . In: MOPO.de . ( mopo.de [accessed on September 18, 2018]).
  11. ^ Udo Schäfer: Administrative regulation on the use of archive material in the State Archives of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (usage regulations) from June 1, 2004
  12. ↑ New State Archives opened. In: Hamburger Abendblatt, May 20, 2014, p. 8.
  13. ↑ Guided tours on the subject of disasters in the State Archives. In: Hamburger Abendblatt of February 24, 2012, p. 10.

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