Archiwum Państwowe w Gdańsku
| Archiwum Państwowe Gdańsk
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| Archive type | State Archives |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 21 '28.1 " N , 18 ° 38' 53.6" E |
| place |
Gdansk Poland Gdynia (branch)
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| Visitor address | ul.Wallowa 5 |
| founding | 1901 |
| scope | 12,006 linear meters (2008) |
| Website | gdansk.ap.gov.pl |
The Archiwum Państwowe w Gdańsku (AP) ( German State Archives Danzig ) is the state archive in Gdansk in the Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . It opens up the historical archives of the Hanseatic city , authorities and administrations, ensures their preservation and makes them accessible to the public. Since it was founded in 1901, it has seen an eventful history as it belonged to four states.
Overview
- 1901–1918 Royal State Archives for West Prussia / Royal State Archives of Danzig - German Empire
- 1920–1939 State Archives of the Free City of Gdansk - Free City of Gdansk
- 1940–1945 Reichsarchiv Danzig - Greater German Reich
- 1945–1952 Archiwum Państwowe - Republic of Poland
- 1952–1983 Wojewódzkie Archiwum Państwowe w Gdańsku - People's Republic of Poland
- since 1983 Archiwum Państwowe w Gdańsku - People's Republic of Poland / Third Polish Republic
history
The archive was opened as the Royal State Archives for West Prussia in Danzig on April 1, 1901 in the Danzig City Hall. The move to its own building on Hansaplatz (today ul. Wały Piastowskie 5 ) took place in December 1902 and the inauguration took place on February 14, 1903. This was preceded by an initiative of scientific circles in the province of West Prussia of the German Empire and was put forward by scientific circles. On December 11, 1899, the city undertook to transfer a piece of land free of charge to the state treasury and to hand over its archive collections. For its part, the Gdansk administrative district undertook to set up a state archive on the property. The General Directorate of the Prussian State Archives in Berlin commissioned Otto Meinardus from Wiesbaden to organize the archive. In October 1901 he handed over the management to Max Bär . He became known through the archival listing according to the "Bär's principle" .
Until the outbreak of the First World War , the main part of the archives consisted of the files of the state, the church, the economy and the court administration, which were taken over from the state archive in Königsberg . A second group of files was collected by archivists and included archive material from other cities as well as from guilds, associations, monasteries and churches. Another source of influx was contemporary government institutions.
In 1912 Adolf Warschauer was the first Jew to become director of a Prussian state archive. Karl Joseph Kaufmann took over in 1919 and handed over management to Walther Recke in 1929 . He joined the NSDAP in 1937 and in the same year took over a chair for history at the Technical University of Danzig . After the attack on Poland in 1939, files from the most important offices and the international institutions of the Danzig Free State were transferred to the Reich Foreign Ministry in Berlin, while others were taken over by the Reichsarchiv Danzig .
Recke's successor was Ulrich Wendland in 1941 , who headed the archive's escape and in 1945 took over the management of the “ main archive for official files ” (since 1963 “secret state archive of Prussian cultural property”) in Berlin-Dahlem. At the end of 1944 the most valuable collections came to Pomerania or further west. In March 1945, the archive building and the remaining files as well as collections that had been moved to the city were burned. Only the files in the cellars of the archive building were preserved.
The Polish authorities ensured that the files and remaining parts of the building were monitored. The archive was managed by Marcin Dragan, who had been in charge of the archive of the Polish General Commissariat in the Free City of Gdansk since 1930. The State Archives were reopened on December 17, 1946 by order of the Minister of Education. His main tasks were the reconstruction of the building, the re-establishment of the historical files collected up to 1945 and the safeguarding and collection of the files of German offices that remained in Danzig. Researcher has had access to these stocks since October 18, 1947. Three years later, the State Archives employed 11 people and had renewed storage rooms. The stock comprised 2295 meters.
The recovery of stocks from Germany and the Soviet Union took place in the years 1947, 1957–1958 and 1963–1965. Around 50 percent of the pre-war stocks were recovered, 30 percent were considered damaged and around 20 percent lost.
New additions came from the newly founded institutions. On the other hand, after changes in the political system, Powiate archives were rebuilt in 1950 . In the Gdansk Voivodeship , this concerned Elbląg (Elbing) , Gdynia (Gdingen) and Wejherowo (Neustadt in West Prussia) , since 1952 Malbork (Marienburg) and since 1955 in Tczew (Dirschau) and Danzig, the latter were dissolved again in 1973 and 1967. In the years 1950-1954 the State Archives in Gdansk supervised the Koszalin Province (Koszalin) and oversaw the archives of Powiate in Slupsk (Stolp) and Szczecinek (Neustettin) . After the Gdansk Voivodeship was downsized in 1975, the holdings of the powiat archives were transferred to the Gdansk State Archives in 1983. The newly established Elbląg Voivodeship converted the Malbork archive into a state archive and closed the archive in Elbląg.
The celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the archive took place in 2001. On June 7th, an exhibition with the 100 Years State Archives in Gdansk was opened by the State Archives together with the Nadbałtyckie Centrum Kultury (NCK). The exhibition showed the history of the institution as well as archival material in originals or in the form of a multimedia presentation . The anniversary meeting took place on June 8th, during which numerous lectures were given.
Holdings and collections
In 2008, the State Archives possessed in Gdansk and its branch office in Gdynia (Gdynia) a total of 1,050,276 records, which accounted for 12.6 km run. The RISM library seal is PL-GDap .
See also
Web links
- Official website (Polish)
- Lidia Potykanowicz-Suda: Archiwum Państwowe. In: Gedanopedia: Archiwa. (Polish)
literature
- Karl Joseph Kaufmann : Festschrift to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the State Archives. Gdansk 1928.
- Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych (ed.), Czesław Biernat (arrangement): Archiwum Państwowe w Gdańsku. Przewodnik po zasobie do 1945 roku. Wydawn. Naukowe PWN, Warszawa - Łódź 1992. ISBN 83-01-09331-5 .
- General Directorate of the State Archives of Poland (Ed.), Czesław Biernat (Ed.): State Archives Gdansk. Guide to the holdings up to 1945. Oldenbourg , Munich 2000. ISBN 978-3-486-56503-4 .
- Aniela Przywuska, Izabella Rdzanek (ed.): 100 years of the Gdańsk State Archives. Catalog of the anniversary exhibition from 8. VI. 2000. Archiwum Państwowe, Gdańsk 2001. ISBN 83-914612-1-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archives in the Genadopedia (Polish)
- ↑ History of the archive (Polish)
- ↑ 100 years of the Gdańsk State Archives. Anniversary conference. (Polish)