Reichsarchiv (Munich)
From 1812 on, the (General) Reichsarchiv was the name of the central archive of the Kingdom of Bavaria located in Munich .
history
The archive structures in Bavaria were redesigned in 1799 by Elector Max IV Joseph . The Secret State Archives should follow the archive statute of 1799 for the inner state administration Kurpfalz Bavaria's record and relations with the individual German Estates related archival materials while the Secret State Archives received the bulk of the printed matter of the secret state registration and was destined for the archives that the Relationship to foreign countries and to the Reich. In 1812 the State Secret Archives were renamed the General Reich Archives , now the Kingdom of Bavaria. In 1826 the General Reich Archives and the regional archives subordinate to it in the government districts were placed under the Ministry of the Interior. The Reichsarchiv was together with the court and state library in the monumental building Ludwigstraße 16, which was completed in 1843. The Royal Bavarian General Reichsarchiv was renamed the Bavarian Main State Archive in 1921 after the revolution of 1918 .
Reich archivists
- Karl Heinrich von Lang , 1812–1820
- Franz Joseph von Samet , 1820–1825
- Maximilian von Freyberg-Eisenberg , 1825–1847
- Joseph Freiherr von Hormayr zu Hortenburg , 1847–1848
- Johann Nepomuk Buchinger , 1848–1849, administrator of the board of directors of the General Reich Archives
- Georg Thomas Rudhart , 1849–1860
- Joseph Maximilian von Gutschneider, 1860–1864, administrator of the board of directors of the General Reich Archives
- Franz von Löher (Franz Löher; since 1866 von Löher), 1864–1888
- Ludwig von Rockinger , 1889–1894
- Edmund Freiherr von Oefele , 1895–1902
- Franz Ludwig Baumann (from Baumann since 1908), 1903–1915
- Georg Maria Jochner (von Jochner since 1918), 1916–1922
Web links
- Margit Ksoll-Marcon : State Archives in Bayer n , published on March 31, 2015; in: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria .