Oldenburg City Archives

The Oldenburg City Archive was founded in 1903 and archives documents and files from the City of Oldenburg . It is not to be confused with the State Archive Oldenburg in which to archive the city archives as deposit located.

history

An archiving of the city files in special "boxes" can be proven for the first time for the 1620s; The archive location was always the town hall . For the new town hall, which was inaugurated in 1888, an archive room was set up for the first time, but was soon used for administration.

The establishment of the city archive went back to Dietrich Kohl , senior teacher at the municipal high school, later Hindenburg school, today Herbartgymnasium Oldenburg . The institution was founded on April 7, 1903 by magistrate , total city council and city council decided at a joint meeting. The first city archivist was Kohl, who in the following years developed an intensive publication activity on the city's history. The first “archive seat” was the secondary school.

A process from 1905 shows that archiving the city files was urgently necessary. In September, Kohl was able to inform Lord Mayor Karl Tappenbeck that he had found the city charter from the 14th century and other documents from later centuries. These were verifiably used by Ludwig Strackerjan and Wilhelm Leverkus in the town hall, but then disappeared.

The archive moved several times before the outbreak of World War II . In the First World War, a war collection was created. At the beginning of 1944, part of the archive material was deposited in a potash mine near Helmstedt due to the threat of bombing , while others had previously been relocated to a brickworks in Scharrel . These outsourced stocks were returned in 1946.

On September 3, 1962, it was agreed in a contract between the City Archives and the State Archives Oldenburg that the files of the City Archives should be archived in the State Archives as a deposit. This regulation is valid until the present (2015).

City archivists from 1903 to 1956

Dietrich Kohl (1861–1942): 1903 to approx. 1931.
Johann Friedrich Karl Hoyer (1885–1937): 1931–1935
Kurt Reinecke (1877–1952): 1936–1938
Karl Orth (1873-1940): 1938-1940
Otto Müller (1877–1959): 1940–1956 (In personal union as director of the Oldenburg City Museum . Dismissed in 1946 by order of the British military government , but remained in office, exonerated in 1947).
Wilhelm Gilly (1923–2008): 1956–? (In personal union as head of the city museum)

Publications

Source volume on the history of the First World War in the city of Oldenburg (Volume 7)

Festschrift - 100 Years Oldenburg City Archives (1903-2003) (Volume 6)

Forced labor and its social acceptance in Oldenburg (1939–1945) (Volume 5)

We have to look into the future ... Denazification in the city of Oldenburg under British occupation (1945–1947) (Volume 4)

Oldenburg house book, buildings and residents in the inner area of the city of Oldenburg (Volume 3)

... none of which should refuse to avoid Our injustice ... The social structure in the city and house bailiwick of Oldenburg after the tax collection of 1744 (Volume 2)

Franz Noack, City Architect in Oldenburg from 1885–1929 (Volume 1)

literature

Dietrich Kohl: The history of the Oldenburger Stadtarchiv , in: Gemeinde-Blatt der Stadt Oldenburg , No. 16/17, Oldenburg 1907, pp. 71–86.
Dietrich Kohl (ed.): Oldenburgisches Urkundenbuch I: Urkundenbuch der Stadt Oldenburg , Oldenburg 1914.
City of Oldenburg - Department of Culture (ed.): 100 Years of the City Archives Oldenburg 1903 - 2003 (Publications of the City Archives Oldenburg Volume 6), Oldenburg (Isensee Verlag) 2004, ISBN 3-89995-159-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Not without pride, Kohl noted in his diary: “The purpose for which I initially set up the archival records has been achieved!” With this find - Kohl meticulously noted that it was at 5.45pm - were the files and documents from The attic of the town hall was completely transferred to the archive in the Oberrealschule, even if it was to take until September of the following year for these holdings to be placed in the archive. Joachim Tautz: Unfortunately, the city archives had an unsteady wandering life. The history of the Oldenburg City Archives from its founding to the conclusion of the deposit agreement with the Oldenburg State Archives from September 1962 , in: 100 Years of Oldenburg City Archives , p. 48–80, here p. 55

[1] Not without pride, Kohl noted in his diary: “The purpose for which I initially set up the archival records has been achieved!” With this find - Kohl meticulously noted that it was at 5.45pm - were the files and documents from The attic of the town hall was completely transferred to the archive in the Oberrealschule, even if it was to take until September of the following year for these holdings to be placed in the archive. Joachim Tautz: Unfortunately, the city archives had an unsteady wandering life. The history of the Oldenburg City Archives from its founding to the conclusion of the deposit agreement with the Oldenburg State Archives from September 1962 , in: 100 Years of Oldenburg City Archives , p. 48–80, here p. 55