Sweden box

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The so-called Schwedenkiste is a collection of twenty folio volumes of documents in which the papers of Ernst II of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg , Johann Joachim Christoph Bode and other important Freemasons and Illuminati are preserved. The name is derived from the fact that the materials were sent to the Grand Lodge of Sweden in Stockholm at the Duke's testament after his death . From there they returned to Gotha in January 1881 .

Originating from the estate Bode papers contain a significant collection of protocols, Prefecture reports and lodges speeches from the period between 1776 and 1787. For the prosopografische research, particularly the tenth volume of importance of the lists of names and accession explanations contains and the membership of a number of significant figures of the second half of the 18th century - including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - documented in the Illuminati Order.

In 1934 the materials were confiscated by the Gestapo and brought from Gotha to Berlin . In 1945 the Soviets captured the Sweden box and transferred it to Moscow . In 1957, nineteen of the twenty volumes were handed over to the Central State Archives of the GDR in Merseburg ; only the tenth volume with the lists of names and declarations of membership remained in Moscow. Since 1991 the materials have been freely accessible for research again. They are kept as a deposit by the grand lodge “To the Three Worlds” in the Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin-Dahlem .

literature

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  • Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage Berlin-Dahlem, Freemasons 5.2. G 39 JL Ernst zum Kompass, No. 100–119 (so-called Sweden box )

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Representations

  • Renate Endler: On the fate of the papers by Johann Joachim Christoph Bode , in: Quatuor Coronati Jahrbuch 27 (1990), ISSN  0171-1199 , pp. 9–35.
  • Hermann Schüttler: The members of the Illuminati Order, 1776–1787 / 93 , Munich 1991, ISBN 3-89391-018-2 .
  • Renate Endler: Volume X of the Schwedenkiste found , in: Quatuor Coronati Jahrbuch 31 (1994), ISSN  0171-1199 , pp. 189–197.
  • Renate Endler, Elisabeth Schwarze-Neuss: The Freemason Holdings in the Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage. Vol. 1: Grand lodges and protector; Vol. 2: Daughter boxes (= series of publications by the international research center for democratic movements in Central Europe 1770-1850, volumes 13 and 18), Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1994, 1996.