University archive of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster
| University archive of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster
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| Archive type | University archive |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 58 ′ 27 ″ N , 7 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ E |
| place | Muenster |
| Visitor address | Leonardo-Campus 21 48149 Münster |
| founding | 1912 |
| Age of the archive material | 18th century until today |
| ISIL | DE-2100 (University Archives Münster) |
| carrier | Westphalian Wilhelms University |
| Website | www.uni-muenster.de/Archiv/ |
The Münster University Archive is a central facility of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster .
It is one of the largest university archives in Germany. The archive material comprises around 6,300 running meters of shelving, which is spread over more than 440 holdings and 300 accesses.
The Münster University Archives keep the files and other archival-worthy documents created at the university's facilities and make them accessible for use - especially research on the history of universities and the history of science. In addition, the archive collects pamphlets, posters, image and audio documents as well as professor's bequests and maintains a library on the history of the university.
history
The university archive of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster was founded by resolution of the Senate on June 12, 1912. In the following winter semester 1912/13 it is listed for the first time in the course catalog. The first university archivist was the historian Aloys Meister . He set up the university archive in what was then the main building of the University of Münster on Domplatz. After his death, Karl Spannagel followed in 1925 and Anton Eitel in 1931 , both, like their predecessors, professorships for medium and modern history at the University of Münster. After Anton Eitel was relieved of all his offices in 1942, the rector was able to win over the director of the Münster State Archives and honorary professor Johannes Bauermann for the post of university archivist . Bauermann made sure that the archive was relocated and saved from destruction by the Allied bombs. The archive was stored in the rooms of the State Archives in Münster until 1966 and was then moved to university rooms at Steinfurter Str. 107.
At the end of 1977, Bauermann resigned from the management of the university archive. He was followed on July 1, 1978 by honorary professor Wilhelm Kohl , who, like Bauermann, had previously been director of the Münster State Archives. On April 1, 1979, the archive was assigned a permanent position for the first time, which was filled with Rohtraud Müller-König. She took over the management of the archive. In 1996 the archive was moved to its current location on the newly established Leonardo campus, which is used by the University, University of Applied Sciences and Art Academy in Münster. Müller-König's successor was Robert Giesler in 1998, who is still the managing official today. Kohl retired from the management of the university archive at the end of 2004, who then took over as the first full-time archive manager Sabine Happ at the beginning of 2005. There are currently four employees working in the archive.
Stocks
The holdings document the history of today's University of Münster, which was founded in 1902, and its predecessor institutions, the first University of Münster from 1780 to 1818, the Theological and Philosophical School of Münster from 1818 to 1832 and the Münster Academy from 1832 to 1902. A detailed overview of the holdings as well as finding aids for 158 holdings are available online.
Publications
Since 2008, the Münster University Archives have been publishing their own series of publications by Verlag Aschendorff (Publications of the Münster University Archives), in which 14 volumes on various university history topics have been published so far. A volume is currently in preparation. Since 2015, the University Archives of Münster, together with the Central Custody of the University of Münster, have published a series of publications called "Nike. Art and History at the University of Münster", in which four issues have appeared so far. Together with the contact point "Studium im Alter" of the University of Münster, the University Archives of Münster are carrying out a project with older and younger students to research the lives of victims of National Socialism at the University of Münster. The short biographies in the form of memorial sheets are published on the homepage "www.flurgespraeche.de". At the beginning of 2018 they were also published in book form as Volume 12 of the "Publications of the University Archives of Münster".
literature
- Sabine Happ: 100 Years of the Münster University Archives, in: Archivpflege in Westfalen-Lippe 78 (2013), pp. 32–33
- Sabine Happ: The University Archives Münster (Nike. Art and History at the University of Münster, 4) Münster 2018