Archivportal-D: New data sets in the theme portal!
By Archivportal-D
The Archivportal-D is now presenting around a further 6.000 archive objects from the Federal Archives and the State Archives of Baden-Wuerttemberg, linked with keywords, in the theme portal of the Weimar Republic. Whether holiday or Carnival photos, testimonies of German colonial policy or the estate of the Imperial Chancellor Constantin Fehrenbach, the digital holdings give an insight into the multi-faceted legacy of the Weimar Republic and invite you to discover it.
Examples of holdings added from the State Archives, which have all been digitised:
- The State Committee of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Councils in Wuerttemberg
- The estate of the Imperial Chancellor Constantin Fehrenbach
- A collection of posters on the National Socialist German Workers’ Party from Freiburg
- A collection of photographs, among other things, on Carnival in the Hohenzollern lands
- A collection of photographs, among other things, on leisure time and holidays in Berlin and other places
Examples of holdings added from the Federal Archives, which have all been digitised:
- The Imperial Ministry of Finance with, among other things, files on the Silesian Uprisings (1919-1921)
- Documents of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (1917-1932)
- The main archives of the NSDAP with, among other things, transcripts of court proceedings against the National Socialists
- The Provisional Imperial Economic Council with, among other things, committee documents on employment policy
- Files from the Imperial Chancellery on the former German colonies
A short explanatory film offers help in navigating and searching the theme portal. Realised by the Federal Archives and the exhibition agency musealis GmbH.
Have a look at the Archivportal, browse through the digital copes and let yourself be drawn into the history of the Weimar Republic!