Main State Archive Weimar
The main state archive in Weimar is the ministerial archive of the Free State of Thuringia and the archive of the central authorities of the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar and the predecessor Ernestine territories. Since July 13, 2016, it has been a department of the Thuringia State Archives , which is subordinate to the Thuringian State Chancellery.
Holdings and locations
As the largest of six Thuringian state archives, it stores around 30 kilometers of shelving documents , official books, files, drawings, maps and cracks as well as electronic and other data carriers from eleven centuries of German history.
The archive is spread over two locations in Weimar:
- The main state archive on Beethovenplatz , which is part of the Park an der Ilm , was built by Carl Heinrich Ferdinand Streichhan from 1883 to 1885 as a purpose-built archive . Today it contains the holdings up to 1920.
- The former “ Marstall ” is a three-wing, two - storey neo - renaissance building , which was also built from 1873 to 1878 according to plans by Carl Heinrich Ferdinand Streichhan and used as a court post stable and courier station. After the state of Thuringia was founded, the building was the seat of the ministries for public education and justice , and the Gestapo during the Nazi regime . Today the archive holdings from 1920 are located here with a reading room.
history
The main state archive has its origins in 1547 with the establishment of the residence of the Ernestine line of the House of Wettin in Weimar. Forerunners were the common main archive of the Saxony-Ernestine general house and the central archive of the Ernestine duchy of Saxony-Weimar as well as the grand ducal house archive. For the State of Thuringia, founded in 1920, the Weimar State Archive was the state main archive, which was responsible for all central state authorities as well as for subordinate institutions in the cities of Jena and Weimar and the districts of Stadtroda and Weimar on the basis of the Thuringian archive order of 1932 . After the state was dissolved in 1952, until 1990 it was only responsible for the district administrative institutions and state-owned companies in the Erfurt district. The basis of the activities of today's Thuringian Main State Archive Weimar is the Archives Act of the Free State of Thuringia from 1992.
Directors, department heads and archivists (selection)
Directors:
- 1926–1934 Armin Tille
- 1934–1958 Willy Flach
- 1958–1973 Hans Eberhardt
- 1973–1990 Gottfried Börnert
- 1991–2008 Volker Wahl
- 2008–2016 Bernhard Post (initially acting head, since April 2009 director, since July 2016 head of the Thuringia State Archives)
Head of department in the Thuringia State Archives:
- 2016–30. April 2018 Dagmar Blaha
- since May 1, 2018 Frank Boblenz (acting)
Archivists:
literature
- Wolfgang Leesch : The German archivists 1500–1945. Volume 1: Directory according to their places of work. Saur, Munich a. a. 1985, ISBN 3-598-10530-4 .
- Thuringian archivist association (Hrsg.): Life pictures Thuringian archivists. Rudolstadt 2001, ISBN 3-00-007914-9 .
