International Forum on the Historical Office World

HBw No. 2/3 - 1982

HBw No. 37 - 1994

The International Forum for the Historical Office World ( IFHB ) is an association dedicated to the research and documentation of technical and social aspects relating to the office in the period from 1870 to 1990. The IFHB, founded in 1981, is based in Essen and is the largest association of its kind worldwide.

founding

The association was founded in 1981. The impetus for the establishment was the increasing automation of the office world, the new possibilities of electronic media and the associated changes in the office landscape.

Members

The association has around 350 members from all over the world. These are made up of private collectors of office technology, but also institutes, museums and libraries. Honorary members have been Konrad Zuse and Curt Herzstark since 1994 . The IFHB includes For example, the German Museum in Munich, the German Museum of Technology in Berlin , the Arithmeum Bonn, the Chemnitz Industrial Museum and the Technoseum - State Museum for Work and Technology, Mannheim.

Publications

Historic office world

HBw No. 66 - 2003

HBw No. 87 - 2012

The magazine Historische Bürowelt ( ZDB -ID 614413-5 ), published since 1982, is currently published four times a year. By July 2012 there are 88 issues with research reports on old typewriters , calculating machines , inventors, office machine collections, museums, company stories or the social aspects of the office world - from the point of view of secretaries, typists, businesspeople, scientists or office machine mechanics. English translations are available for non-German reading members in Italy, France, the USA or Belgium.

HBw - current

The magazine HBw - aktuell ( ZDB -ID 270887-5 ) has been published since 1984 and since 2007 with nine issues per year. She mainly reports on the dates of trade fairs, auctions and collectors' meetings on the subject of office technology.

more publishments

• Martin Reese: New Looks at Old Machines - the History of Mechanical Calculating Machines. Published by IFHB Essen. Publishing house Dr. Kovac, Hamburg 2002, 211 pages - ISBN 3-8300-0533-4
• Calculating machines - Lexicon of historical calculating machines and devices. Loose-leaf collection of the IFHB, 1st edition 2003, 2nd supplementary edition 2009. Around 1600 pages - fills four DIN A 5 folders.
• Jos Legrand (ed.): Meyer - Martin - the work of a good person. An edition of the IFHB; Ernst Martin Verlag, Maastricht / Rotterdam NL, 2009, 62 pages.

Web links

• Homepage of the association
• Library Service Center Baden-Württemberg : Evidence of IFHB research reports on typewriters and calculating machines
• IFHB on rechnerlexikon.de
• The Brunsviga 10
• IFHB typewriter publications index
• Index of calculating machine publications of the IFHB
• Index of the office publications of the IFHB

Individual evidence

1. ^ Museum for historical office technology. Retrieved July 5, 2012 . 
2. ↑ rechnerlexikon.de. Retrieved July 5, 2012 . 
3. ↑ The IFHB as a reference on www.rechenmaschinen-illustrated.com. Retrieved July 5, 2012 . 
4. ↑ HBw. Retrieved July 5, 2012 . 
5. ↑ HBw - current. Retrieved July 5, 2012 .