Association of the German Nobility Associations
The Association of German Nobility Associations e. V. (VdDA) is an organization of the German nobility with headquarters in Berlin-Charlottenburg and management in Bonn .
history
The Association of German Aristocratic Associations was established on May 15, 1956 as an amalgamation of regional aristocratic associations and is the legal successor to the German Aristocratic Association (DAG) founded in Berlin on February 26, 1874 . This had not only lost its office in Berlin during the Second World War , but also its Central and East German regional departments and was dissolved by an emergency board on May 15, 1956 in Hanover .
After the Second World War, the DAG was not revived because it was discredited by the anti-Semitism of its members. Rather, new associations had been founded that were no longer centrally controlled, but structured according to the landscape. These united on April 29, 1954 to form the Working Group of German Aristocratic Associations , which in turn merged with the former DAG to form the Association of German Aristocratic Associations (VdDA). This is a member of the umbrella organization of the European nobility associations ( CILANE ).
The association's work includes the administration of archive materials . On November 16, 1956, the VdDA was given the legal status of a private association by order of the Berlin Police President .
The association received their DAG files from several aristocratic associations in order to be able to continue the work. It also manages deposits from family associations and numerous estates , including the Helmut and Liselotte Besch Foundation . It also maintains a library with 5,000 volumes, including almost all printed family histories of noble families. The series of publications from the German Aristocratic Archives that she has published comprises eleven volumes so far.
The German Nobility Law Committee, which is independent of the VdDA, decides on issues relating to nobility law .
The current president is Alfred Prince von Schönburg-Hartenstein , elected on April 19, 2008.
In 2013, the VdDA had 23 member associations, which together numbered around 8,000 members.
Associations
- Regional associations
- Association of the nobility in Bavaria
- Association of the historical nobility in Berlin and Brandenburg
- Association of the nobility in Bremen and Oldenburg
- Association of the nobility in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein
- Association of the nobility in Hesse
- Association of the nobility on the Middle Rhine
- Association of the nobility in the Rhineland and Westphalia-Lippe
- Association of the nobility on the Saar
- The Saxon nobility
- Association of Silesian Nobility
- Association of the nobility in Württemberg
- Knighthoods
- Confessional Associations
- Cooperative of Catholic nobles in Bavaria
- Association of Catholic Nobles of Silesia
literature
- Kurt Adamy, Kristina Hübener (ed.): Nobility and state administration in Brandenburg in the 19th and 20th centuries. A historical comparison (= Potsdam historical studies 2). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-05-002825-4 .
See also
- German aristocratic archives
- German nobility gazette
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch
- Rhenish knighthood
- Old Hessen knighthood
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Demel, Sylvia Schaut: Der deutsche Adel . CH Beck, 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66704-6 , IV. 9.
- ↑ Walter v. Hueck: Nobility and state administration in Brandenburg in the 19th and 20th centuries . Ed .: Kurt Adamy, Kristina Hübener. Akademie Verlag GmbH, 1998, ISBN 3-05-002825-4 , p. 33 ff .
- ↑ The subtle difference . Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, April 15, 2011. ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
