Lower Saxony State Association for Family Studies

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Lower Saxony Regional Association for Family
Studies (NLF)
purpose Promotion of family research through the collection and provision of genealogical literature
Chair: Gabriele Fricke
Establishment date: 1913
Number of members: 630
Seat : 30169 Hanover , Rückertstr. 1
Website: Familienkunde-niedersachsen.de
Reference to the rooms of the association in Hanover

The Lower Saxony Regional Association for Family Studies was founded in Hanover in 1913. It has more than 600 (in 2019: 630) members and is one of the oldest family history associations in Germany. Its task is to promote family research by collecting and providing genealogical literature, for example works on individual families and copies of church records . The association maintains a special library in Hanover with around 10,000 genealogical publications. He is the editor of numerous special genealogical publications. The association is a member of the German Working Group on Genealogical Associations .

history

The District Court Judge Erich von Bennigsen became the first chairman from 1913 to 1919 . On March 25, 1914, a local group in Bremen was brought into being. The work of the association came to a standstill in 1919 due to the First World War and the death of Bennigsens. On February 25, 1920 Max Burchard took over the chairmanship of the association. On May 11, 1923, the association joined the Central Office for Lower Saxony Family History in Hamburg (today the Hamburg Genealogical Society ) as the Hanover local group. Not until December 31, 1930 did the return to independence take place as a genealogical evening in the Association for City of Hanover History and Population Studies .

In the course of the National Socialist takeover of power , the Reich Minister of the Interior established an office for the expert on race research , the aim of which was to transfer “yesterday's family history research into today's genealogical research ”. On September 10, 1934, a Reich Association for Family Research and Heraldry (RSW) was founded, which was joined by around 2,000 associations, including the Genealogical Evening in the Association for City of Hanover History. He became part of the regional association of Hanover in the RSW , later also in its successor organization, the Volksbund der Deutschen Kippenkundlichen Vereine (VSV). Max Burchard remained at the head of the association and was appointed "director". On November 1, 1936, the Hanoverian State Association for Kinship Studies (HLS) was founded, and Max Burchard took over again. After his death on June 27, 1944, the HLS was headed by the architect, chief building officer Willi Werner.

On the night of October 8th to 9th, 1943, the library and archive of the association burned in a British air raid . A provisional rebuilding was made possible through donations in Egestorf / Deister .

Prohibition and license by the occupying power

On May 8, 1945, the British occupying forces initially banned all club activities, but on March 11, 1946 granted the HLS permission to resume its activities, which began on July 16. The former head of studies Ludwig Wülker became the new chairman . The first lectures took place in January 1948; in March 1948 the association celebrated its 35th anniversary. The district court of Hanover entered the regional association for family studies under number 448 in the register of associations . In the same year the remaining Egestorf library returned to Hanover and was housed in two cupboards in the local library .

Association library

A special library in Hanover contains 10,000 genealogical publications, journals and research papers. Around 150 files also contain unbound manuscripts, certificates and research results. An extensive inventory of bequests is made accessible by name and location using a PC find file. Prepared material from bequests and donations can be researched on the association's website.

In 1951 the library was relocated to an old factory building at Glockseestrasse 36 in Hanover, as its holdings had grown steadily. The first library directory was published at the end of May 1952. Because the building was demolished, the library moved to Glockseestrasse 35 in May 1972. Since 2013, the association and its library have had rooms at Rückertstrasse 1, 30169 Hanover.

Chair since 1951

Club logo
  • 1951 to 1974 Otto Tope
  • 1974 to 1981 Herbert Mundhenke
  • 1982 to 1998 Jürgen Ritter
  • 1998 to 2001 Günter W. Brauns
  • 2001 to 2007 Bolko F.-W. Knust
  • 2007 to 2012 Karl Junge
  • 2012 to 2013 Wolfgang Smit
  • since February 2013 Gabriele Fricke

Club magazine

In the first few years, no association magazine was published, but the Protestant church newspaper Der Weserbote was temporarily regarded as such. On October 14, 1914, the association founded its own publication Niedersächsisches Familienarchiv , which existed until 1919. Together with the Göttingen Genealogical-Heraldic Society , it was decided on February 7, 1951 to publish a new magazine, which, however, stopped its publication after almost three years. The journal Norddeutsche Familienkunde published by Degener-Verlag was now available to members as an alternative to publications .

Today the association is co-publisher of the magazine for Low German family studies in cooperation with the family studies associations in Hamburg, Bremen and Göttingen.

Events and publications

The association organizes lectures, excursions and seminars and issues special publications (e.g. local family books ) every year. Events, informal meetings and working groups facilitate the exchange of research and experience among the members. Offers to interested parties are also publicly available to non-members.

Publications (selection)

In 1964 the association began to publish the 6000 funeral sermons of the Braunschweig City Archives in a series of special publications ; this work was not completed until 1988. In the years since 1982 the association has published more than 25 special publications on genealogical topics.

  • The funeral sermons of the Braunschweig City Archives , published in 10 volumes 1976–1990
  • Schloss-Kirchenbuch Hannover: 1680–1812 , published in 2 volumes 1992–1993
  • Garrison church book Hanover 1816–1867 , published in 2 volumes 1995–1996
  • Local family book Bockenem , published in 2 volumes, special publication by the Lower Saxony Regional Association for Family Studies No. 38, German local family books; Vol. 392: Series B, Hannover 2007, ISBN 978-3-936557-15-2 and ISBN 978-3-936557-16-9

Web links

Commons : Lower Saxony Regional Association for Family Studies  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Members on the association's website , accessed on August 13, 2019
  2. ↑ Information about the library on the association's website , accessed on August 13, 2019
  3. ↑ Find files of the special library Familienkunde Lower Saxony in 2005 in the catalog of the German National Library
  4. ↑ Overview of the collections on the club website , accessed on August 13, 2019
  5. ^ Journal for Low German Family Studies, Ed .: Die Maus, Gesellschaft für Familienforschung eV, Bremen; Genealogical-Heraldic Society with the seat in Göttingen eV; Genealogical Society, seat Hamburg, eV; Lower Saxony Regional Association for Family Studies eV, Hanover, ISSN  0044-3190 , ISSN  0945-7461
  6. ↑ Overview of the 45 special publications since 1951 on the Landesverein's website , accessed on August 13, 2019
  7. ↑ Overview of events on the association's website, accessed on August 13, 2019
  8. ^ The funeral sermons of the Braunschweig City Archives: evidence in the German National Library
  9. ↑ Castle Church Book Hanover: 1680–1812: Record in the German National Library
  10. ↑ Garrison church book Hannover 1816–1867: Record in the German National Library