Prussian Institute for Archival Science
The Prussian Institute for Archival Studies and Historical Studies ( IfA ) was a state training facility for scientific archivists in the German Reich.
history
The IfA was founded on September 30, 1930 and was based in Berlin-Dahlem at the Prussian Secret State Archives . It served the training of scientific archivists and was subordinate to the Prussian Prime Minister and the Prussian Minister for Science, Art and Public Education. The IfA was headed by Albert Brackmann from 1930 to 1936 and Ernst Zipfel from 1936 to 1945 .
The management of the IfA lay with the general director of the Prussian State Archives, who appointed the lecturers from among the scientific archivists of the Prussian Secret State Archives and from the professors of the University of Berlin . He was responsible for creating the curriculum and deciding on the selection of applicants, which was limited to 20 people per semester. The selection process took place on the basis of certificates, academic papers and an interview. In addition to the technical requirements (state examination for the higher teaching post and doctorate), knowledge of Latin and modern foreign languages was also a condition for admission.
In 1936 a course was also set up for the senior archive service , which included a training period of three years and, like that of the senior service, was without remuneration. The prerequisite for this course was a nine-year school attendance up to subprima as well as knowledge of Latin and a modern foreign language. Before starting the training, the candidate had to have worked for two years in an authority or an archive.
From 1943 onwards, six months of theoretical training was set up for those involved in the war, which was limited to history, archival studies and the National Socialist worldview. With the discontinuation of the ninth scientific course shortly before the end of the war, the activities of the Institute for Archival Studies and Historical Studies ended in 1945. In terms of personnel, the Marburg Archive School can be viewed as a successor institution.
In the GDR there was an institute for archival science from 1950 and from around 1953 a technical college for archivists of the higher service in Potsdam. Training for scientific archivists of the higher service followed later at the Humboldt University in Berlin at the local Institute for Archival Studies in the History Section. Both training paths for the upscale archives service and as a scientific archivist were offered in direct and distance learning and were permeable.
Graduates (selection)
- Johannes Papritz
- Graduating year 1934: Kurt Dülfer
- Graduating year 1935: Karl Ernst Demandt
- Graduating class 1939: Wolfgang Leesch
- Graduation class 1940: Olof Ahlers
literature
- Albert Brackmann : The institute for archival science and historical studies at the Secret State Archives in Berlin-Dahlem. In: Archivalische Zeitschrift 40 (1931), pp. 1–16.
- Albert Brackmann: The Dahlem Institute for archival science and historical further education in the years 1930-1932 and the problem of the archival offspring. In: Correspondence sheet of the general association of German history and antiquity associations. 80 (1932), col. 150-155.
- Johannes Papritz : The Archive School Marburg. In: Archivum. Revue Internationale des Archives Vol. 3. (1953), pp. 61–76 (for IfA pp. 62–67).
- Pauline Puppel: "Attracting and training the archival young generation". Training at the institute for archival science and historical studies in Berlin-Dahlem (1930–1945). In: Sven Kriese (Ed.): Archive work in and for National Socialism. The Prussian State Archives before and after the change of power in 1933 , Duncker & Humblot: Berlin 2015, pp. 335–370.