State Archives of Bavaria

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State Archives of Bavaria

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State level Free State of Bavaria
position State Archives
Supervisory authority Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art , Dept. XI
founding 1921 from the " General Reich Archives "
Headquarters Munich
Authority management Margit Ksoll-Marcon , General Director
Web presence www.gda.bayern.de

The Bavarian State Archives are due to the long existence as a state of Bavaria and in it especially at the beginning of the 19th century risen spiritual and temporal territories and institutions of the most important state archives in Europe. The documents stored cover the period from the beginning of the written form in the administration (oldest document from the year 777) until today.

history

The Bavarian State Archives (successor to the Royal Bavarian General State Archives) is a central archive for the Duchy , Electorate , UK and the Free State of Bavaria in charge of the records of the former kurpfalz Bavarian Central Archives and central authorities, for the Bavarian state ministries and other authorities responsible for the whole of Bavaria state authorities since the beginning of 19th century, for the archives of the spiritual and secular territories in the Bavarian Empire (excluding Upper Palatinate ) that fell to Bavaria in the course of secularization and mediatization at the beginning of the 19th century, as well as the records of the former Bavarian army and its forerunners.

The state archives in each of the seven administrative districts in Amberg , Augsburg , Bamberg , Landshut , Munich , Nuremberg and Würzburg keep the documents of the state authorities of their modern Sprengels (administrative district) as well as the documents handed down from pre-Bavarian times in the historical bins assigned to them.

The Coburg State Archives are responsible for the records of the independent city and the district of Coburg as well as the former Free State of Coburg, which was united with Bavaria in 1920, and its predecessors.

The General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives was established on June 1, 1970, as an intermediate level authority directly subordinate to the State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art. It is Bavaria's central specialist authority for all archival issues. The Bavarian Main State Archives and the eight State Archives (see above) are directly subordinate to it as the lower level authorities . The Bavarian Archive School (founded in 1821) is subordinate to the General Management and is used to train the next generation for various careers.

The office of General Director of the Bavarian State Archives had existed since 1921, when the three central archives in Munich (General Reichsarchiv, Secret State Archives and Secret House Archives) were combined to form the Bavarian Main State Archives and the previous head of the Royal Bavarian General Reich Archives Georg Maria von Jochner (1860 –1923), who was now as Director General of the State Archives at the same time head of the Bavarian Main State Archives and superior of the other Bavarian State Archives. This personal union of the offices was only abandoned by the repeal of the ordinance of 1921 in 1971.

Directors General of the State Archives

Surname Term of office
Georg Maria von Jochner 1921-1923
Otto Riedner 1923-1937
Joseph Franz Knöpfler 1937-1944
Ignaz Hösl 1944-1947
Wilhelm Winkler 1947-1958
Heinz Lieberich 1959-1970
Bernhard Zittel 1970-1977
Walter Jaroschka 1977-1997
Hermann Rumschöttel 1997-2008
Margit Ksoll-Marcon since 2008

literature

  • Short guide to the Bavarian State Archives. New episode. General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives, Munich 1993–2006.
  • Albrecht Liess (Ed.): Handbook of the Bavarian Archives. Bavarian Archive Day, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-921635-63-2 , pp. 15–39.
  • Hermann Rumschöttel : The General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives. In: Albrecht Liess, Hermann Rumschöttel, Bodo Uhl (eds.): Festschrift Walter Jaroschka for the 65th birthday (= archival journal. Volume 80). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1997, pp. 1–36.
  • Albrecht Liess: History of the archival inventory clearing in Bavaria , in: Journal for Bavarian State History Vol. 61, 1998, pp. 123-145. ; Published in English translation under History of Reorganization and Rearrangement of the Holdings of the State Archives in Bavaria in: Archivalische Zeitschrift Vol. 84, 2001, pp. 123–154.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Ordinance on the General Directorates of the Bavarian State Libraries and the Bavarian State Archives as well as the State Advisory Centers for Public Libraries of May 15, 1970, GVBl p. 251.
  2. ^ Ordinance on the structure of the Bavarian State Archives v. May 28, 1990, GVBl p. 175.
  3. ^ Hermann Rumschöttel : Professionalization - Differentiation - Specialization. Reflections on the history, status and future of archivist training in Bavaria. In: Hermann Rumschöttel, Erich Stahleder (Ed.): Preserving and redesigning. From the work of the Bavarian State Archives. Walter Jaroschka for his 60th birthday (= messages for archive maintenance in Bavaria. Special issue 9). Munich 1992, ISBN 3-921635-21-7 , pp. 93-107. Hermann Rumschöttel: The General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives. In: Albrecht Liess, Hermann Rumschöttel, Bodo Uhl (eds.): Festschrift Walter Jaroschka for the 65th birthday (= archival journal. Volume 80). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1997, pp. 1–36, here: 29. Current status: Ordinance for the specialist focus on archiving (FachV-Arch) v. January 3, 2014, GVBl p. 7.
  4. ^ Ordinance concerning the state archives and the municipal archives of July 16, 1921, GVBl p. 379.
  5. ^ Ordinance amending the ordinance on the General Directorates of the Bavarian State Libraries and the Bavarian State Archives as well as the State Advice Centers for Public Libraries of May 26, 1971, GVBl p. 208.
  6. ^ Munich digitization center at the Bavarian State Library: page 123 ZBLG 61 (1998)