University archive Greifswald
| University archive Greifswald
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| Archive type | University archive |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 5 '41.6 " N , 13 ° 22' 45.6" E |
| place | Greifswald , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania |
| Visitor address | Baderstrasse 4-5 17489 Greifswald |
| founding | 1456 |
| Age of the archive material | 14th century until today |
| ISIL | DE-2092 (Greifswald University Archive) |
| carrier | University of Greifswald |
| Website | www.uni-greifswald.de/universitaet/einrichtungen/archiv/ |
The Greifswald University Archive is a central facility of the University of Greifswald . As a public archive , it serves research and teaching at the university, its self-administration and legal safeguards. Its holdings currently (as of August 13, 2014) include around 2,000 meters of shelves , which are assigned to 202 individual holdings and cover the period since the university was founded (1456).
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In addition to the university files, the university archive also contains numerous documents, official books, maps, historical architectural drawings and plans of the university buildings, negatives and slides, a photo collection (around 10,000 pieces), a film collection, a collection of medals and plaques, and a coin and Seal collection. The holdings document Greifswald's university and city history. In addition, the university archives keep 46 scholarly bequests .
history
The first previous facility of the Greifswald University Archives, the document depot of the university and chapter of the Nikolaikirche , was first mentioned in 1456. In the 17th century, the university archive was given its own room in the newly built college building, the so-called Ernestinum Ludovicianum. The secretary of the university and from time to time also the procurator or the syndic were responsible for the administration of the "archivum universitatis", as it was first mentioned in 1603 in the register of the rectorate. Independent of the university archives, there were also archives of the individual faculties; for the artist faculty there is evidence of this as early as 1459.
Interest in the university archive increased in the 18th century. The lawyer Augustin von Balthasar (1701–1786) arranged and registered the holdings in 1737 according to a specially designed system. When the archive moved to a new location in the 1750s, this order seems to have been lost. A reorganization undertook in 1771 Johann Carl Dähnert (1719–1785), who had organized the archives of the philosophical faculty as early as 1766 and as a librarian had the necessary specialist knowledge. Since then, Dähnert's system has formed the basis for the organization of the rectorate's archive.
In 1814 a large part of the holdings of the university archive was transferred to an institutionally independent archive of the academic self-administration. In 1823 the administrative servant Julius Heinrich Biesner rearranged the archive and partially re-recorded the holdings. In the winter of 1856/57 the holdings of the university archive were revised. Most of the university's court files have been destroyed since the 16th century. In 1885 the university archive was combined with the registry of the university board of trustees.
From 1931 on, the historian Adolf Hofmeister (1883–1956) headed the university archives by decision of the university senate . Hofmeister initiated and overlooked the conversion of the archive from a business registry to a scientific research facility; In addition, he suggested the union with the faculty archives and their professional accommodation. One of the aims of the university archives under Hofmeister was to prepare for the 500th anniversary of the university in 1956. The work and plans were hampered by the events of the Second World War : over 2,500 files were moved to depots in Berlin , Hamburg and Stettin in 1943 and 1945 to protect them from threatened air raids .
After the end of the war, the university archive continued its work under Hofmeister's direction. After the dissolution of the board of trustees, the unification of the various archival bodies of the university into a single institution became urgent. This task was carried out from 1955 to 1957 by Gisela Simon, who had previously worked in the Greifswald City Archives and later moved to the Duisburg City Archives . From 1958 to 1998 Manfred Herling was in charge of the university archive . His tasks included setting up the university archive, securing the holdings (and in particular the university's art collection) and repatriating the relocated holdings. The university archive also made an effort to gain visibility by organizing exhibitions, lectures and guided tours.
The repatriation of the stocks that were relocated in 1943/45 was successful after decades of efforts. In negotiations with the General Directorate of the Polish State Archives and with the Stettin State Archives , Herling succeeded in 1965/66 in having the holdings relocated there returned to Greifswald; the holdings relocated to Hamburg (in the Hamburg State Archives ) were returned in 1987, those relocated to the Secret State Archives in Berlin-Dahlem in 1989. In the same year the art collection was detached from the archive and placed under the custody.
In 1998 Manfred Herling retired. Under his successor Dirk Alvermann , the university archive moved into a larger building.