Aachen

1. Historisches Institut der RWTH Aachen

Abteilung Hochschularchiv
Kopernikusstr. 16
52056 Aachen

Phone: (0241) 80-6386
Fax: (0241) 80-8888-357
E-mail: archiv@rwth-aachen.de
Web site: www.rwth-aachen.de/zentral/dl_archiv.htm
Contact: Dr. Maria Lutz (phone as above) and Prof. Dr. Reinhard Hildebrandt, (0241) 80-6037
Business hours: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Mon.-Thurs.; 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m., Fri.

Holdings:
This archive, located at the University of Aachen, contains smaller holdings regarding post-World War II German-American cultural relations, including:

  • Records regarding a donation in 1950 of books, magazines, and technical equipment by the United States (HA AC 1026).
  • A 1964 record of guest lecturers from the United States (HA AC 1501).
  • A list from the Akademisches Auslandsamt of American professors in Europe during 1962-3 (HA AC 3513).

    • Abtei Maria Laach

    2. Archiv der Abtei Maria Laach

    56653 Maria Laach

    Phone: (02652) 59-0
    Fax: (02652) 59-359
    Contact: Father Basilius Sandner
    Business hours: By appointment only.

    Holdings:
    The archive of the Maria Laach Monastery holds approximately 100 letters regarding the project of three monks, Albert Hammenstede, Thomas Michels, and Damasus Winzen, who were sent to the United States to prepare for the re-establishment of the abbey in the case that it was phased out by the National Socialists. There also are records on the founding of Mount Saviour monastery by one of the three fathers (II B 111).

    Finding aids:
    There are no finding aids, but information concerning this part of the abbey's history may be found in the following works:

  • Pater Albert Hammenstede, "Erinnerungen eines Laacher Mönches. Autobiographische Aufzeichnungen," in: Laacher Hefte 2 (1996).
  • J. Madeleva Roarte, Father Damasus and the Founding of Mount Saviour. Pine City, N.Y., 1998.

    • Altenburg

    3. Thüringisches Staatsarchiv Altenburg

    Postfach 1331
    04583 Altenburg

    Phone: (03447) 31 54 88
    Fax: (03447) 50 49 29
    Web site: www.thueringen.de/Staatsarchive/index.htm
    E-mail: ThStaAltenburg@Thüringen.de
    Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-3:45 p.m. Mon.-Wed.; 8:00 a.m.-6:45 p.m. Thurs.
    Note: Prior written inquiry is preferred.

    Holdings:
    The state archive of Thuringia in Altenburg contains the records of the duchy of Saxony-Altenburg to 1918/1920 and the district of Altenburg to 1952. The archive also contains materials and rare books relating to emigration from the duchy of Saxony-Altenburg to the United States during the nineteenth century. Documents regarding trade agreements with the United States are housed in Altenburg, as well. Maps:

  • Six sheets of the "Special Map of the United States of North America," 1853.
  • Map of the U.S. dated 1784; map "United States and Canada," 1849.
  • Two maps of the Spanish-American theater of war, 1898.
    • Emigration:
  • Approxmately 130 individual files containing requests for emigration between 1834 and 1889, most from the records of district offices, court offices, Justizämter, and offices of the district president.
  • Approximately thirty records regarding emigration to the United States, emigration agencies, and the transport of poor emigrants from Quebec to Texas between 1840 and 1921.
    • Political relations:
  • Approximately five volumes of records on the entrance of Saxony-Altenburg into trade agreements with the United States, 1844-1920 (Geheimes Ministerium, Appellationsgericht Altenburg).
  • Approximately nine volumes of files on the appointment of consuls of the duchy of Saxony-Altenburg to various states in the U.S., second half of the nineteenth century (mainly Geheimes Ministerium).
    • Rare books:
  • Schicksale und Abenteuer der aus Sachsen nach Amerika ausgewanderten Stephanier-ihre Reise nach St. Louis, ihr Aufenthalt daselbst und der Zustand ihrer Colonie in Perry County. Dresden, 1839 (Library: W 151).
  • Festschrift zum 75. Jubiläum der evangelisch-lutherischen Gemeinden Altenburg, Frohna und Wittenberg in Perry County, Missouri. 1914 (W 219)
  • Three "Reports from Texas" by Carl Daniel Adolf Douai between August and November 1852, published by the Altenburger Volksblatt, 1852/53.
  • Various publications regarding the situation in America from contemporary nineteenth-century newspapers.

    • Amberg

    4. Staatsarchiv Amberg

    Archivstr. 3
    92224 Amberg

    Phone: (09621) 307-270
    Fax: (09621) 307-288
    Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., Mon.-Thurs.; 8:00 a.m.- 1:30 p.m., Fri. The reading room is open until 6:00 p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays

    Holdings:
    The state archive of Amberg contains a substantial collection of materials regarding the emigration from the Oberpfalz to the United States. Most concern individual emigrants; however, there also is material available on emigration agencies.
    Most documents are accessible electronically-the search terms "America," "North America," and "U.S." cover the period 1807-62. These records are found under the following entries:

  • Regierung der Oberpfalz, Kammer des Innern; Regierung der Oberpfalz, Abgabe 1949ff.
  • Landgerichte älterer Ordnung, 1803-62.
  • Bezirksämter, 1862-1972.
    • Documents that are not catalogued electronically include:
  • "Die alljährliche Übersicht über deutsche Auswanderungen nach Nordamerika: 1843-1853"; Regierung der Oberpfalz, Kammer des Innern, Nr. 298.
  • "Die alljährlich zu erstattende Übersicht über die bayerische Auswanderung: 1853-1855, 1860"; Regierung der Oberpfalz, Kammer des Innern, Nr. 299.

    • Apolda

    5. Landratsamt Weimarer Land

    Kreisarchiv Apolda
    Postfach 134
    99503 Apolda

    Phone: (03644) 555856
    Fax: (03644) 540 850
    Contact: Frau Beyer
    Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Mon., Tues., Thurs.; 1:00 p.m.- 4:30 p.m. Tues.; 1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Thurs.
    Note: Certain records are deposited in the Stadtarchiv Apolda; for further information, please contact the archivist. The records of the Stadtarchiv Blankenhain must be used at that archive. For information and an appointment, please contact Frau Beyer at the Kreisarchiv Apolda.

    Holdings:
    The district archive of Apolda contains records related to emigration and immigration, mainly during the nineteenth century. There are documents regarding foreign workers, as well. The records are organized regionally, by town. Holdings of the Stadtarchiv Blankenhain:

  • Records from the town council regarding requests of emigration, 1829-50, 1833, 1833/34, 1834, 1838, 1839, 1851-3, 1852/53, 1859-1902 (Signatur: 1373-8, 1381, 1382, 1395, 1396).
    • Holdings of the Kreisarchiv Apolda:
  • Alt-Neudörnfeld: records on inhabitants' affairs, 1900-43 (A/25); emigration and immigration, 1857-75) (A/26); foreign workers, 1938-44 (A/35).
  • Bechstedtstraß: servants' affairs and foreign workers, 1848-1922 (A/3); emigration and immigration, 1868-1922 (A/4).
  • Buchfahrt: military service, 1886-1915 (A/5); military muster rolls, 1912/19 (A/6); census, 1933/39 (A/20); evacuation, 1943-5 (A/21); emigration/immigration, 1886-1919 (A/22); foreign workers, 1925-44 (A/23); foreign workers,1900-22 (A/24); and statistics on population, 1945-7 (A/25).
  • Buttelstedt: civil rights affairs and emigration, 1705-1939 (A/75-110).
  • Denstedt: population register, 1927-46 (A/14); servants' affairs and foreign workers, 1899-1910 (A/65); emigration, aliens office, 1865-1910 (A/92); and foreign workers, 1913-16 (A/93).
  • Großschwabhausen: census, 1858 (A/16); census, 1852-1920 (A/23); emigration/immigration, 1857-1922 (A/28).
  • Kiliansroda: emigration to America, 1856-71 .
  • Krautheim: population lists, 1853/64/1900/1939 (A/12).
  • Magdala: military service, 1830-56 (A/129).
  • Lotschen: census; registration of jobs and plants, 1934/38 (A/10).
  • Mellingen: registration office, 1928-43 (A/58); aliens office, 1931-41 (A/95).
  • Nermsdorf: population book, 1925 (A/11).
  • Niedersynderstedt: immigration, 1846-9 (A/39); foreign workers, 1881-1913 (A/102).
  • Niederzimmern: statistics on population, 1864 (A/20); emigration/immigration, 1892-1922 (A/23); foreign workers (A/24).
  • Obergrunstedt: military muster rolls, 1882-96 (A/2).
  • Saalborn: population book, 1851-1918 (A/17).
  • Söllnitz: census, 1916-38 (A/12); registration list, 1881-1913 (A/13).
  • Stedten am Ettersberg: certificates of citizenship, 1846-50 (A/6).
  • Thangelstedt: emigration/immigration, 1872-1909 (A/13); census, 1900-29 (A/41); foreign workers, 1900-25 (A/42).
  • Tonndorf: certificates of citizenship, 1833-1901 (A/22); census, emigration/immigration, admission of foreigners, 1854-1925 (A/23); lists to the census, 1858/1861/1864 (A/24-A/26); right of residence, 1852-74 (A/46).
  • Troistedt: foreign workers during the war, 1914-17 (A/37); foreign workers 1879-1919 (A/38).
  • Ulla: inhabitants' affairs, 1864-74 (A/23); registrations and leaving certificates, 1874-1945 (A/24W); foreign workers, 1886-1926 (A/28).
  • Wohlsborn: population book, 1925 (A/7).

    • Augsburg

    6. MAN Aktiengesellschaft

    Historisches Archiv
    Heinrich-von-Buz-Str. 28
    86153 Augsburg

    Phone: (0821) 322-3912
    Fax: (0821) 322-3291
    E-mail: Gerda_Krug@mra.man.de and Gerlinde_Simon@mra.man.de
    Web site: www.man.de
    Contact: Gerda Krug, Gerlinde Simon
    Business hours: 8:15 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
    Note: By prior appointment only.

    Holdings:
    The industry archive of the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg Aktiengesellschaft (MAN) contains documents from the twentieth century, primarily after 1945. They include economic, business, science, and technology activities pertaining to machinery, Diesel engines, and sheet-fed and rotary presses. Post-World War II period:

  • Forschungsanstalt für Mechanik und Gestaltung holds information on the dismantling of the Research department of Mechanics and Design, 1946 (1.1.7.1).
    • Records of the members of the board:
  • Richard Buz, 1907-32 (1.3.3.1).
  • Imanuel Lauster, 1911-25, contains material on his trip to America with Dr. Paul Rieppel (1.3.3.2).
  • Dr. Guggenheimer, 1907-25, contains material on American capital invested in German-Russian mixed corporations (1.3.3.3).
    • Reports of academic conferences and matters:
  • Impressions of America, Professor Nägel, 1936.
  • Report by Dr. Englert of his 1936 research trip to the United States.
  • Characteristics of the American construction of diesel motors, Seitz, 1940.
  • Practical applications from the American Construction of Diesel Motors, 1954.
  • "Engineering Factories in the United States," by Pagel, dated 1954.
  • Report regarding ship's turbine constructions by Dr. Koch, dated 1954.
  • "Welding in the United States," Dr. Erker, 1954 (1.3.7).
    • The company: missions, treaties Germany/ North America
  • Missions in the U.S. and Canada (1.3.9.1).
    • Events:
  • Records of the handing-over ceremony for the first rotary machine after World War II to the American Army publishing house (1.7.).
  • Literature on Diesel motors.
  • Brochures, manuscripts, lectures, etc. (1.9).
  • Printing machines/patents, license agreements.
  • Licensing agreements with American firms (3.35.3).
    • History of diesel motors:
  • Patents; material on Diesel Motor Company of America, 1898-1900 (3.36.1.1.2).
  • Correspondence; treaties; papers of Rudolf Diesel (3.36.2); various articles (3.36.9).
    • Bridge-building activities:
  • Building of bridge over the Missouri River near Kansas City, 1939 (352a/5).

    • Further material on MAN economic and technological activities in the U.S. and Canada may be found at the following archives: The MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG, München, Archiv; the Rheinisches Industriemuseum, Oberhausen; and the Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Köln.


    8. Stadt Augsburg

    Stadtarchiv
    Postfach 11 19 60
    86044 Augsburg

    Phone: (0821) 324-3882
    Fax: (0821) 324-3883
    E-mail: stadtarchiv.stadt@augsburg.de
    Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., Mon.-Wed.; 9:00 a.m.-7:30 p.m., Thurs.; 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Fri. (Prior appointment is necessary only during school holidays.)

    Holdings:
    The city archive of Augsburg contains records on the Industrial Fair in New York, 1854; the American Circus Märkel-Pinder-Taylor, 1884-8; the construction of an American ice rink; and material on emigration to the United States during the nineteenth century. There also are administrative records about the American Welfare Organization of the Quakers, 1920-4, as well as writings by the Augsburg pietist Samuel Urlsperger regarding the Georgia-Salzburgers.


    7. Staatsarchiv Augsburg

    Salomon-Idler-Str. 2
    86159 Augsburg

    Phone: (0821) 575025
    Fax: (0821) 579945
    Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon., Wed., Thurs.; 8:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. Tue.; 8:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Fri.

    Holdings:
    The state archive at Augsburg contains records from the various Landgerichte älterer Ordnung between 1803 and 1862, as well as those of the Bezirks- and Landratsämter, 1862. There is considerable documentation on nineteenth and twentieth century emigration to the United States from the Augsburg region. These records were recently used in the work by Peter Maidl, Auswanderung nach Übersee, volume I: Studien zur bayerisch-schwäbischen Auswanderung nach Nordamerika im 19. Jahrhundert; Volume II: Verzeichnis der Auswanderer, Ph.D. thesis, University of Augsburg 1993; available on microform. Users may want to consult individual records of the Bavarian government regarding general emigration matters, as well as Nachlaßakten of emigrants in the holdings of the Landgerichte ältererer Ordnung and Amtsgerichte. The papers of Count Friedrich Ludwig Walbott of Bassenheim (1844-1910), a large landowner, Catholic politician, and publicist, contain records referring to his involvement in the Raphael-Verein for the care of emigrants,1880-1910. There also are two records on the Catholic Congress of Chicago, which took place during the Chicago World Trade Fair, 1892-3.
    The records of the different authorities within the Office of Military Government, United States (OMGUS), in Swabia are available on microform.


    9. Universität Augsburg

    Universitätsarchiv
    Universitätsstr. 2
    86135 Augsburg

    Phone: (0821) 598-5239
    E-mail: archiv@archiv.uni-augsburg.de
    Contact: Dr. Werner Lengger, University Archivist
    Business hours: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 8:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Fri.

    Holdings:
    The archives of the University of Augsburg opened in 2000. They contain records from all departments and offices of the University of Augsburg (founded in 1970), from its predecessors (especially the Pädagogische Hochschule Augsburg der Universität München 1958-72), and scientific and academic papers of their faculty. The presidents' files contain materials concerning the partnerships of the University of Augsburg with U.S. and Canadian universities, among them the University of Pittsburgh (since 1980), Emory University, Universitū Laval at Québec, UBC Vancouver, Brandeis University, Carleton University, the University of Dayton, the University of California at San Diego, the University of Vermont, and the University of Southern Colorado. Exact information will be available in the near future. It is expected that the files of the Institute for Canadian Studies at the University of Augsburg (founded in 1985) will be added to the University Archives in the near future.


    Aurich

    10. Niedersächsisches Staatsarchiv in Aurich

    Oldersumer Str. 50
    26603 Aurich

    Phone: (04941) 176-660
    Fax: (04941) 176-673
    E-mail: poststelle@staatsarchiv-aur.niedersachsen.de
    Web site: www.staatsarchive.niedersachsen.de
    Contact: Dr. Bernhard Parisius
    Business hours: Mon.-Fri. 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

    Holdings:
    The state archive of Lower Saxony in Aurich contains material regarding emigration in the following entries:

  • Rep 15: Hannoversche Landdrostei Aurich and Rep 16/1: Preußische Regierung Aurich. The records of the Landdrostei also contain reports from the Hannoverian consul in New Orleans regarding trade in that city, 1838.
  • Dep 4: Archiv des Fürsten zu Inn- und Knyphausen contains records of Graf zu Inn- und Knyphausen regarding the Texas-Verein.

    • Finding aids:

  • Walter Deeters, "Bericht über die Bestände des Niedersächsischen Staatsarchivs in Aurich, Göttingen 1999," in: Veröffentlichungen der Niedersächsischen Archivverwaltung 53 (1999).

    • A finding aid (Beständeübersicht) will be established on the Web site in the near future.

    Bad Honnef

    11. Stiftung Bundeskanzler-Adenauer-Haus

    Rhöndorf
    Postfach 1108
    53581 Bad Honnef

    Phone: (02224) 921-0
    Fax: (02224) 921-111
    E-mail: info@adenauerhaus.de
    Web site: www.adenauerhaus.de
    Contact: Dr. Krekel, Mr. Hommel
    Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Fri.
    Note: Visits to the archive by appointment only; for appointments, call 921-234 or 921-200-1.

    Holdings:
    This archive holds the Konrad Adenauer papers, which include correspondence with such American statesmen as President Dwight D. Eisenhower and President John F. Kennedy, as well as notes on Adenauer's meetings with other American and Canadian politicians.


    Bad Karlshafen

    12. Deutsches Hugenotten-Zentrum

    (Deutsche Hugenotten-Gesellschaft e.V.)
    Bad Karlshafen
    Hafenplatz 9a
    34385 Bad Karlshafen

    Phone: (05672) 1433
    Fax: (05672) 925072
    E-mail: refce@t-online.de
    Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri.; 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Wed.

    Holdings:
    The library of the Deutsches Hugenotten-Zentrum contains records regarding the history of the Huguenots in the United States, including: Reformed Church of Ohio: Acts and Proceedings of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States at Dayton, Ohio, May 27th 1896. Cleveland, Ohio, 1896.


    Bad Laasphe

    13. Fürst Wittgenstein'sches Archiv

    Rentkammer Wittgenstein
    Schloß Wittgenstein 4
    57334 Bad Laasphe

    Phone: (02752) 47 45-0
    Fax: (02752) 47 45-28
    Contact: Eberhard Bauer, (02752) 6606
    Business hours: By appointment only.

    Holdings:
    This archive contains microfilmed records pertaining to emigration from the county of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein to North America. Included are records on radical Pietism in Wittgenstein from 1700 to 1730, such as writings about Alexander Mack, the Church of the Brethren, and the Baptist Schwarzenau-Täufer movement. Correspondence between Schwarzenau-Bad Berleburg and the American Church of the Brethren to the present day also is included.
    In addition, the archive includes records pertaining to Christoph Sauer Sr., who founded a printing office in Germantown, Md., in 1738. The "Hoch-Deutsche Americanische Calender" was printed there, as was a German-language Bible. Letters by German emigrants to the United States are also housed here.

    Finding aids:

  • E. Bauer and A. Krüger, Landeskundliche Beiträge aus Wittgenstein. Bad Laasphe, 1987.

    • Bamberg

    14. Staatsarchiv Bamberg

    Hainstr. 39
    96047 Bamberg

    Phone: (0951) 98622-0
    Fax: (0951) 98622-50
    Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 8:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Fri.

    Holdings:
    The state archive in Bamberg contains records regarding nineteenth-century emigration to the United States and on the United States Military Government in Germany after 1945:

  • Records on emigration from Upper Franconia to the United States during the nineteenth century, including requests for emigration and the issuance of passports.
  • Records of the Office of Military Government, United States (OMGUS) from 1946 to 1949. These have been microfilmed from the originals held at the National Archives in College Park, Md.
  • Private papers of Emil Marschalk von Ostheim (d. 1903) that contain diaries about his passage to North America.

    • Bensheim

    15. Evangelischer Bund

    Konfessionskundliches Institut
    Konfessionskundliches und Ökumenisches Arbeitswerk der EKD
    Postfach 1255
    Eifelstr. 35
    64602 Bensheim

    Phone: (06251) 8433-0
    Fax: (06251) 8433-28
    E-mail: ki-eb@-online.de
    Web site: www.ekd.de/ki
    Contact: Pfarrer Dr. theol. Walter Fleischmann-Bisten
    Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-8:30 p.m., Mon.-Fri.

    Holdings:
    The archive of the Evangelischer Bund contains documents pertaining to the history of the ecumenical movement and the interactions among representatives of various denominations after 1945. It also contains the papers of Prof. Dr. Edmund Schlink. In addition, there is material on the history of the Evangelischer Bund since 1886, including correspondence with churches in the United States.

    Finding aids:

  • Konfessionskundliches Institut des Evangelischen Bundes, ed., 50 Jahre Konfessionskundliches Institut.
  • Konfessionskundliches Institut des Evangelischen Bundes, ed., Schriftenverzeichnis des Evangelischen Bundes.

    • Bergisch Gladbach

    16. Stadt Bergisch Gladbach

    Stadtarchiv
    Hauptstr. 310
    51465 Bergisch Gladbach

    Phone: (02202) 142208
    Fax: (02202) 142216
    Web site: www.bergischgladbach.de
    E-mail: archiv@fb4.stadt-gl.de
    Contact: Dr. Albert Eßer
    Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri.; 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Wed.; 2:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Thur.

    Holdings:
    The city archive of Bergisch Gladbach holds the papers of Dr. Ferdinand Schmitz (N 1/34), a secondary school teacher (1866-1943). Schmitz's correspondence with Max Grah, an emigré from Gladbach to Los Angeles, contains reports on the situation in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s, as well as his memories of Bergisch Gladbach.


    Berlin

    17. Archiv zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

    Boltzmannstr. 14
    14195 Berlin

    Phone: (030) 84 13-3701
    Fax: (030) 84 13-3700
    E-mail: mpg-archiv@archiv-berlin.mpg.de
    Contact: Prof. Dr. Eckart Nenning
    Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Fri.
    Note: By prior appointment only.

    Holdings:
    The archive of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft holds the records of its predecessor, the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft. The archive also houses the private papers of numerous scholars who visited North America, as well as miscellaneous records of American scientific institutions:

  • I. Abteilung, Repositur 1A: Akten der Generalverwaltung der Kaiser Wilhelm-Gesellschaft, nos. 1093-1095, hold the records of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft and the Rockefeller Foundation, 1928-43.
  • II. Abteilung, Repositur 1A: Akten der Generalverwaltung der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Az.: IM 2/ USA contains correspondence with Professor George Barany of Denver regarding the Schayer Collection: Natural Scientists and Religion, 1969-72.
  • III. Abteilung: Nachlässe holds the private papers of scholars who visited the United States and Canada during the twentieth century. They include: Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer (Rep. 23), Peter Debye (Rep. 19), Max Hartmann (Rep. 47), Reginald Oliver Herzog (Rep. 60), Erich von Holst (Rep. 29), Alfred Kühn (Rep. 5), Richard Kuhn (Rep. 25), Max von Laue (Rep. 50), Feodor Lynen (Rep. 31A/31B), Josef Mattauch (Rep. 28), Hans Nachtsheim (Rep. 20A/20B), Erich Pietsch (Rep. 22), Ludwig Prandtl (Rep. 61), Max Rubner (Rep. 8A), Birgit Vennesland (Rep. 15), Otto Heinrich Warburg (Rep. 1), and Max Witt (Rep. 9).
  • Va. Abteilung, Rep. 5 includes the Fritz Haber Collection and miscellaneous records from the American Society of European Chemists and Pharmacists, New York, 1958, and the National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1934.


    • 18. Bibliothek und Dokumentationsstelle der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e.V.

    Rauchstrasse 18
    10787 Berlin

    Phone: (030) 254 231-0
    Fax: (030) 254 231-16
    E-mail: bidok@dgap.org
    Web site: www.dgap.org
    Business hours: 10:30 a.m.-4.30 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 10:30 a.m.-3.00 p.m. Fri.

    Holdings:
    This library in Berlin holds more than 60,000 books, 280 in-print and 259 out-of-print magazines covering the period after 1945, and a number of newspapers from Germany and abroad. The Presseausschnitt-Archiv holds more than one million newspaper clippings on microfilm from 1945 to 1967.


    19. Bundesarchiv

    Finkensteinallee 63
    Postfach 450569
    12175 Berlin

    Phone: (01888) 7770-0
    Fax: (01888) 7770-111
    Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Fri.; hours for posters, pictures, and maps: 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 8:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Fri.

    Holdings:
    The Berlin branch of the Bundesarchiv contains records of the Deutsche Demokratische Republik, the Norddeutscher Bund, and the Kaiserreich. The personnel files of the National Socialist Party, formerly held at the Berlin Document Center, also are at this archive, as is a plethora of personal papers, especially those of politicians from the former GDR and Third Reich.

    Finding aids:

  • Stiftung Archiv der Parteien und Massenorganisationen der DDR im Bundesarchiv, ed., Die Bestände der Stiftung Archiv der Parteien und Massenorganisationen der DDR im Bundesarchiv: Kurzübersicht. Berlin, 1996.


    • 20. Der Bundesbeauftragte für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik

    Postfach 218
    10106 Berlin

    Phone: (030) 22 41-70
    Fax: (030) 22 41-86 51

    Holdings:
    This archive holds the records of the major counterintelligence agency of the former GDR, the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS). Although some records were destroyed in 1990 by GDR officials, the archive includes documents concerning the history of "protection" against American spy operations in the GDR and the "observation" of American plants in West Berlin, the FRG, and the United States. The records also contain information about GDR spy activities targeting American installations. Major holdings pertaining to the United States include:

  • Hauptabteilung II Spionageabwehr (counterintelligence division) and Hauptabteilung III /Funkaufklärung (signals intelligence), which comprise over 1,600 and 700 linear meters respectively and 1,648 holdings in toto.
  • Zentrale Auswertungs- und Informationsgruppe (ZAIG), which offers analyses of the political conditions in North America; it includes materials that were used publicly against the Central Intelligence Agency.
  • Hauptabteilung XVIII/ Volkswirtschaft, which contains reports on proposed and actual measures against embargos.
  • Hauptabteilung VI/ Paßkontrolle, which contains documents pertaining to incidents at the borders and activities of the Allied powers.

    • Finding aids:
    There are no printed finding aids available as yet, however users may consult one of the following books based on records of these archives:

  • Klaus Eichner and Andreas Dobbert, Headquarters Germany: Die USA-Geheimdienste in Deutschland. Berlin, 1997.
  • Klaus Steiniger, Tops und Flops: Die Geschäfte der US-Geheimdienste. Berlin, 1998.


    • 21. Deutsches Historisches Museum

    Unter den Linden 7
    10117 Berlin

    Phone: (030) 20304-201
    Fax: (030) 20304-543
    E-mail: vor@dhm.de
    Web site: www.dhm.de
    Contact: Dr. Dieter Vorsteher
    Business hours: 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; Fridays by prior appointment.

    Holdings:
    The archive of the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin contains documents, letters, postcards, and photos of German emigrants from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the first printing of the Declaration of Independence in German (Philadelphia, 1776). In addition, the museum has a collection of bulletins, magazines, placards, and leaflets of the post- World War II era, including Heute, an American magazine edited by OMGUS from 1945 to 1951.

    Finding aids:
    Catalogs and databases facilitate searching the collection.


    22. Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv

    Standort Potsdam
    Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 20
    14482 Potsdam

    Phone: (0331) 5812-222
    Fax: (0331) 5812-5222
    Contact: Dr. Hans Peter Jäger
    Business hours: By prior appointment only: 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 8:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Fri.
    Note: The Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv moved from Berlin to Potsdam in November 2000.

    Holdings:
    This media archive of the Deutscher Rundfunk contains the records of the Rundfunk im Amerikanischen Sektor (RIAS) and of RIAS TV (1988-92). RIAS was operated by the American military government in Germany with the purpose of broadcasting Western news into the GDR. From 1946 to 1949, the station was run by the Office of Military Government, United States (OMGUS); from October 1949 to July 1953 by the High Commissioner for Germany (HICOG); and from August 1953 to December 1993 by the United States Information Agency (USIA).
    The archives contain records, manuscripts, publications, posters, brochures, and news releases. Most address internal problems of programming, scheduling, organization, and finances, although correspondence with U.S. authorities also is found. Personal files and sound and picture carriers are not available. There are 450 meters of files (records of the management), 1,800 microfilms (including manuscripts of political programs, 1953-80); 500 posters, 1946-93; 400 brochures, 1947-93; and thirteen meters of publications (including yearbooks).

    Finding aids:

  • Petra Galle and Axel Schuster, Archiv- und Sammlungsgut des RIAS Berlin: Ein Findbuch zum Bestand im Deutschen Rundfunkarchiv. Potsdam, 2000.

    • The archive's database facilitates the search for records.


    23. Archiv des Diakonischen Werkes der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland

    Altensteinstr. 51
    14194 Berlin

    Phone: (030) 83001-561, -562, -563 (archive) and (030) 83001-121, -123, -561 (library)
    Fax: (030) 83001-222 (archive and library)
    E-mail: archiv@diakonie.de
    Web site: www.diakonie-archiv.de and www.diakonie-bibliothek.de
    Contact: Dr. Michaelel Häusler (director)
    Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Fri.

    Holdings:
    This church archive holds the records of the Diakonisches Werk, a welfare organization run by the Protestant church. The holdings include documents pertaining to the care of German emigrants to America by the Central-Ausschuß für Innere Mission, by the Evangelisches Hilfswerk, and by the Diakonisches Werk der Evangelischen Kirche Deutschlands. Also included are the following:

  • Central-Ausschuß für Innere Mission: seventeen volumes regarding religious and welfare support of emigrants (1855-1955), two volumes on the Evangelischer Hauptverein für deutsche Ansiedler und Auswanderer (1898-1935), and three volumes regarding support for returning emigrants (1913-30).
  • Evangelisches Hilfswerk (Zentralbüro): four volumes regarding welfare support for emigrants.
  • Diakonisches Werk der EKD: more than fifty volumes regarding advisory support for emigrants (1957 to the present).
  • A complete set of Der deutsche Auswanderer, a magazine published by the Evangelischer Hauptverein für deutsche Ansiedler und Auswanderer (1902-41).


    • 24. Evangelisches Zentralarchiv in Berlin

    Bethaniendamm 29
    10997 Berlin

    Phone: (030) 22 50 45 0
    Fax: (030) 22 50 45 40
    E-mail: archiv@ezab.de
    Web site: www.ezab.org
    Contact: Henner Grundhoff
    Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon., Tues., Thurs.; 9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. Wed.; 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Fri.
    Note: Prior appointment is necessary.

    Holdings:
    The Evangelisches Zentralarchiv in Berlin is the central repository for the Protestant church in Germany. It contains records of official correspondence between the German Protestant church (Evangelische Kirche Deutschland, EKD) and foreign churches, including those in North America. The archive also contains records regarding German parishes in the United States (Auslandspfarrämter).

  • The Kirchliches Außenamt contains approximately forty records on the administration of German theological seminaries in the United States and Canada. These seminaries were sponsored by the German Protestant church and its predecessors, such as the Evangelische Kirche der Union. The holdings also contain about fifty records from both institutions regarding ecumenical relations with North American churches. Bestand 5: Kirchliches Außenamt und Vorgängereinrichtungen, ca. 1850-1945; Bestand 6: Kirchliches Außenamt der EKD, 1946-86.
  • Records compiled by Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze (1911-60). Bestand 51: Ökumenisches Archiv.
  • Approximately forty records referring to the United States and Canada (1939-83). Bestand 31: Internationaler Versöhnungsbund.

    • Finding aids:

  • Christa Stache, Das Evangelische Zentralarchiv und seine Bestände. Berlin, 1992.


    • 25. FFBIZ Frauenforschungs, -bildungs- und -informationszentrum e.V.

    Danckelmannstr. 47 und 15
    14059 Berlin-Charlottenburg

    Phone: (0049) 30/322-1035
    Fax: (0049) 30/322-1035
    Contact: Dr. Ursula Nienhaus
    Business hours: 2:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Tues.; 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Thurs.; 3:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Fri.
    Note: Access allowed to women only.

    Holdings:
    The FFBIZ in Berlin is the first and largest archive of the New Women's Movement in Germany and stands as a model for similar institutions. It holds considerable material dealing with gender issues, women's history, and feminism. Included in the records are 11,500 brochures, newspaper articles, and handwritten sources on women and the feminist movement in the United States and Canada dating back to the early 1960s.
    The magazine collection includes the following: The Activist, Battle Acts, The Celibate Woman, Detroit Women's Voice, Feminary, The Feminist, Fighting Woman News, Gay Community News, Grapevine: Newsletter of the Lesbian Mothers' Defense Funds, Gray Paper, Heresies, Hysteria, Lesbian Connection, The Lesbian Tide, Lilith: The Jewish Women's Magazine, Media Report to Women, Ms. Magazine, New Directions for Women, Off Our Backs, Pacific Vision, Peace and Freedom, Plexus, Quest, SIGNS, The Tribune, Win News, Women: A Journal of Liberation, Women's Studies Abstracts, Women's Studies International Forum, and The Women's Review of Books.


    26. Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz

    Archivstraße 12/14
    14195 Berlin (Dahlem)

    Phone: (030) 8 39 01-00
    Fax: (030) 8 39 01-180
    Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-3:45 p.m. Mon., Wed.-Fri.; 8:00 a.m.-7:45 p.m. Tues.
    Note: Prior appointment is recommended.

    Holdings:
    This archive in Berlin-Dahlem holds records that cover diplomatic correspondence on political, cultural, and trade issues between Prussia and the United States, as well as records on German emigration to the United States. The following record groups are included among the holdings:

  • I. HA Geheimer Rat, Rep.11 Auswärtige Beziehungen, Amerika, Nr. 21 (Vereinigte Staaten) Konvolut 1-4, 1778-1817, includes letters of Prussian and American ministers; private petitions; the 1785 Trade Agreement between Prussia and North America; and the 1799 Treaty of Friendship between Prussia and the United States.
  • I. HA Rep. 76 Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Kunst und Volkserziehung holds records about students at American universities,1875-95 (Va Sekt. 1 Tit. XIX Nr. 52); 1898-1914 (Vc Sekt. 1 Tit. XI Teil X Nr. 38); festivities in remembrance of the discovery of North America, 1891-4 (Vc Sekt. 1 Tit. XI Teil Vb Nr. 17); news and works on scientific life in North America, 1842-1915 (Vc Sekt. 1 Tit. XI Teil VII Nr. 26); and professorial exchanges, 1906-15 (Vc Sekt. 1 Tit. XI Teil VII Nr. 38).
  • I. HA Rep. 77 Preußisches Innenministerium contains records on emigration to North America, 1855-1914; appendices, 1880-1906 (Tit. 226 Nr. 11); and migration from America, 1911-19 (Tit. 226b Nr. 65).
  • I. HA Rep. 81 Gesandtschaft Hamburg; Allgemeine politische Angelegenheiten (1871-84); Paß- und Heimatsachen (1839-53); and Wirtschaftspolitik (1884-90).
  • I. HA Rep. 89 Geheimes Zivilkabinett (1824-50); Ausländische Vereine (1911-16); Kirchen- und Schulwesen (1826-1914); Kirchenverfassung und Kirchenpolitik (1840-1912); and Postverhältnisse mit anderen Staaten-Nordamerika(1852-70).
  • I. HA Rep. 92 contains the personal papers of Franz Berthold (manuscript on a passage to North America in 1928); Ludwig Roenne (exchange of letters with the French minister in Washington, 1841-2); Friedrich Althoff (America, 1904), and the German-American "Hochstift," 1908.
  • I. HA Rep. 93 Ministerium der öffentlichen Arbeiten, E/Eisenbahnverwaltung contains news on domestic and foreign railroads (1890-1920); the World's Fair in Chicago (1890-8); the World's Fair in St. Louis (1904, 1901-06); and the World's Fair in Philadelphia.
  • I. HA Rep. 109 Preußische Seehandlung contains material on marine matters in North America (1782-1929).
  • I. HA Rep. 120 Preußisches Ministerium für Handel und Gewerbe contains material on trade with foreign countries, mainly with North America and western India (1815-1933, CXIII 16).
  • I. HA Rep. 151 Preußisches Ministerium für Finanzen, III Abteilung für indirekte Steuern holds materials on trade with foreign countries, mainly North America (1819-1914).
  • II. HA (2.4.1) Preußisches Außenministerium, I Politische Abteilung pertains to the diplomatic mission of Prussia in the United States (1817-74) and the diplomatic mission of the United States in Prussia (1835-75); in addition, it holds such materials as Politischer Schriftwechsel (1817-67); Politische Einzelfragen (1814-90), and Innere Landesangelegenheiten (1853-95).
  • III. HA (2.4.1.) Preußisches Außenministerium, II (Handelspolitische Abteilung) contains materials pertaining to Prussian consulates in North America (1802-69); consulates of non-European countries in Prussia (1810-1900)); consulates of foreign countries in countries outside of Europe (1834-97); economic relations with American states and areas, General (1819-69); Wirtschaftsgattungen und Warenzweige (1810-39); navigation (1817-24); Rechtsverstöße und Beschwerden (1818-39); trade of Germany and European states with non-European states and North America (1815-75); Eisenbahnen, Chausseen (1835-76); and Post (1836-84).
  • III. HA (2.4.1) Preußisches Außenministerium, III (Rechtspolitische Abteilung) holds materials on Zwischenstaatlicher Rechtsverkehr (1844-69); legal correspondence concerning North America: Auswanderungen, Erbschafts- und Paßangelegenheiten (1803-74); Justizangelegenheiten, Strafverfolgung, Armenrecht (1817-86); Personenstand und Auskünfte (1818-47); Förderung und Schulden (1818-61); Vermögenswerte und Liegenschaften (1822-45); and Dienstverhältnisse (1861-2).

    • Finding aids:

  • Hans Braning, Ruth Bliß, and Winfried Bliß, eds., Übersicht über die Bestände des Geheimen Staatsarchivs in Berlin-Dahlem, vol. 1: Provinzial- und Lokalbehörden. Cologne, 1966.
  • Hans Branig, Winfried Bliß, and Werner Petermann, eds., Übersicht über die Bestände des Geheimen Staatsarchivs in Berlin-Dahlem, vol. 2: Zentralbehörden, andere Institutionen, Sammlungen. Cologne and Berlin: Grote, 1967.
  • Jürgen Kloosterhuis, ed., "Archivarbeit für Preußen," in: Veröffentlichungen aus den Archiven Preußischer Kulturbesitz: Arbeitsberichte 2 (2000).


    • 27. John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien

    Freie Universität Berlin
    Bibliothek
    Lansstr. 7-9
    14195 Berlin

    Phone: (030) 838 528 58
    Fax: (030) 838 528 60
    E-mail: jfkibibl@zedat.fu-berlin.de
    Web site: www.fu-berlin.de/jfki
    Contact: Dr. Werner Bies or Barbara von Roll
    Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Fri. (during the term); 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri. (out of term)

    Holdings:
    The library of the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies holds humanities and social-science material (printed media, microforms, audiovisual media, and digital media). Special collections include North American newspapers, ethnic groups and minorities in North America, and popular culture. The library also specializes in Canadian studies and holds some 180,000 volumes, about 625,000 micromaterials, 1,257 current newspapers and magazines, 16,000 photos and transparencies, and 35,000 other media.

    Finding aids:
    A guide to the research library is available on the Internet or in printed form. Holdings information is available on the OPAC of the Libraries of the Freie Universität: www.opac.fu-berlin.de and in Hans Kolligs, ed., Microform Collections in the Library of the John F. Kennedy Institut, Freie Universität Berlin. Berlin, 1992.


    28. Landesarchiv Berlin

    Kalckreuthstr. 1-2
    10777 Berlin

    Phone: (030) 21283-0
    Fax: (030) 21283-177
    Business hours: The Landesarchiv is currently closed due to the loss of its lease, i.e. the incompetence of the responsible Berlin city officials. Reopening is promised for July 1, 2001 at a new location. For background information see here and here (This comment by the webmaster)

    Holdings:
    This state archive contains records regarding West Berlin politicians and a collection of posters from the post-World War II period:

  • Stadtverordnetenversammlung von Berlin (STA Rep. 100/1); Magistrat von Berlin /Oberbürgermeister (STA Rep. 101). The Abgeordnetenhaus von Berlin (Rep. 1) and Senat von Berlin (Rep. 2) contain records of the Berlin city council and parliament from 1946 to 1948.
  • Personal papers include those of journalists Hans Habe (Rep. 200 Acc. 3311), Hans E. Hirschfeld (Rep. 200 Acc. 2014), and Victor Klages (Rep. 200 Acc. 3129); as well as those of Berlin mayors Ernst Reuter (Rep. 200 Acc. 2326) and Otto Suhr (Rep. 200 Acc. 1704 and 4238).
  • The poster collection includes examples from the Cold War and the student movement of the late 1960s.

    • Finding aids:

  • Klaus Dettmer et al, Das Landesarchiv Berlin und seine Bestände, in: Schriftenreihe des Landesarchivs Berlin, vol. 1. Berlin, 1992.
  • Jürgen Wetzel, Nachlaß Ernst Reuter: Repositur 200 ACC. 2326. Berlin, 1988.


    • 29. Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amtes

    Auswärtiges Amt
    Referat 117
    Werderscher Markt 1
    10117 Berlin

    Phone: (01888) 172159 (secr.)
    Fax: (01888) 173948
    E-mail: 117-s@auswaertiges-amt.de
    Web site: http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/www/de/infoservice/politik/index_html
    Business hours: 8:15 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 8:15 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Fri.
    Note: Prior written application is necessary.

    Holdings:
    This archive in Bonn is the general repository of the records of the German Foreign Office; its holdings date back to 1867. The many holdings pertaining to North America include:

  • Exchange of letters with the Royal Mission in Washington as well as other missions and foreign governments regarding America's internal affairs (1868-78) (I C 56/IC 59/IC 63/IC 68/IC 69/IC 74).
  • English-American differences in Alabama (IC 60).
  • The press in America, 1874-5 (IC 77).
  • Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika 1 (U.S. internal affairs, 1885-92); 2 (internal affairs, 1882-1922); 3 (letter from the U.S. House of Representatives regarding the death of Eduard Lasker, 1884-9); 5 (military affairs, 1885-1920); 5a (naval forces, 1888-1920); 6 (statesmen, journalists, writers, military personnel, and personalities, 1885-1923); 7 (American diplomacy, 1885-1920); 8 (diplomatic corps in Washington, 1886-1919); 9 (Congressional affairs, 1886-1919); 10 (Irish in the USA, 1886-1916); 11 (presidents and embassies, 1886-1920); 12 (Chinese problem, 1885-1907); 13 (churches in the U.S., 1889-1919); 14 (club activities in the U.S., 1886-1915); 15 (socialism and anarchism in the U.S., 1885-1919); 16 (German-American political relations, 1886-1920); 17 (American-British relations, 1887-1920); 18 (American-French relations, 1887-1919); 19 (departments, 1887-1918); 20 (general policies of the U.S., 1887-1917); 21 (weapons manufacturers in the U.S., 1887-1916); 22 (U.S. relations with Venezuela, 1888-1914); 24 (U.S. relations with Russia, 1889-1920); 25 (Mormons, 1890-1912); 26 (U.S. relations with Brazil, 1890); 27 (U.S. relations with Italy, 1890-1919); 28 (U.S. relations with Spain, 1890-1919); 29 (U.S. relations with Japan, 1892-1919); 30 (finances); 31 (U.S. relations with Austria-Hungary, 1899-1920); 32 (U.S. relations with Portugal, 1916-18); 33 (Isle of Guam, 1914-15); 34 (United States Virgin Islands, 1917-18).
  • Akten des Auswärtigen Amts im Großen Hauptquartier (1915-19).
  • Handakten des Unterstaatssekretärs Toepfer (B Geh).
  • Kommissionsakten Brest Litowsk/Bukarest.
  • Akten der Delegation der Haager Friedenskonferenz (1899).
  • WK Akten im Großen Hauptquartier (1915-17).
  • Deutsche Friedensdelegation Versailles (1919).
  • Handakten Ministerial Direktor-Simons.
  • Parlamentarischer Untersuchungsausschuß.
  • I S: Schiffahrt.
  • III Allg. Pol. 4 Konferenz in Washington (1921-5).
  • III Vereinigte Staaten: Politik, 1920-36; Politik 2 (political relations between the United States and Germany, 1919-36; Washington's 200th birthday, Steuben, Paul de la Motte, death of Woodrow Wilson, peace treaty); Politik 3 (Political relations between the United States and foreign countries); Politik 5 (domestic politics, parliament, parties in the U.S., 1920-36); Politik 6 (problem of nationalities in the U.S., 1923-35); Politik 7 (departments, 1921-33); Politik 8 (diplomatic missions of the U.S. abroad, 1920-36); Politik 9 and 10 (diplomatic missions of the U.S. in Germany, 1920-36); Politik 11 (personal data: statesmen, important families, diplomats, military personnel, journalists (1920-36); Politik 12 (the press in America, 1921-36); Politik 13 (military affairs in the U.S., 1920-36), Politik 14 (naval affairs, 1920-36); Politik 15 (spy rings in the U.S., 1919-35); Politik 16 (religion and churches in the U.S., 1920-36); Politik 17 (educational affairs in the U.S., 1922-6); Politik 18 (pacifism in the U.S., 1921-35); Politik 19 (bolshevism, communism, socialism in the U.S., 1920-36); Politik 20 (Freemasons in the U.S., 1926-8); Politik 21 (relations between the U.S. and its colonies, 1922-31); Politik 25 (German culture in the U.S., 1920-37); Politik 26 (Amerika-Institute; the German House in New York; German Steuben Society; propaganda; Steuben Society of Hamburg; Steuben Society of America; Carl Schurz Association); Politik 28 (Rotary Clubs in the U.S., 1926-36); Politik 29 (national socialism, fascism, and similiar movements in the U.S., 1929-36); Politik 35 (forgeries for political reasons in the U.S., 1929).
  • III Vereinigte Staaten Rechtsw. 1; Rechtsw. 4 (constitutional law, 1922ff); Rechtsw. 6 (legal relations between the U.S. and Germany, 1920ff); Rechtsw. 7 (civil law, 1921ff); Rechtsw. 8 (rights of foreign nationals in the U.S., 1922ff); Rechtsw. 15 (German criminals in the U.S., 1920ff); Rechtsw. 16 (American criminals in Germany, 1920ff); Rechtsw. 17 (internment of German citizens in the U.S., 1921ff); Rechtsw. 18 (internment of American citizens in Germany, 1921ff); Rechtsw. 19 and 19. 1 & 2 (confiscation of German property in the U.S., 1921ff); Rechtsw. 20 (brochures: Beermann, Semon, Zahlungen, 1920ff); Rechtsw. 21 (confiscation of German and foreign property in territories formerly occupied by Germany and the resulting American requests for compensation, 1921ff); Rechtsw. 27 (requests for compensation from the U.S. by Germany, 1920ff); Rechtsw. 28 (requests for compensation from Germany by the U.S., 1920ff); Rechtsw. 31 (1920ff); Rechtsw. 35 (lawyers, 1925ff); Rechtsw. 40 (imprisonment, 1921ff).
  • III Vereinigte Staaten Sozialpolitik 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15 (workers' questions, trade unions, strike movements, social insurance, 1920s-30s).
  • III Vereinigte Staaten Innere Verwaltung 1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 (border questions, police in the U.S., constitutional matters, expulsion of Germans, 1920s-30s).
  • III Vereinigte Staaten Verträge III A - Privata.
  • III Vereinigte Staaten Kunst und Wissenschaft 1, 2, 3, 4 (foundations, conferences and congresses, 1921-38).
  • III Vereinigte Staaten Luftschiffahrt 1.
  • III Vereinigte Staaten W 6 geh (economic relations with Germany, 1926-34).
  • III B Rechtswesen 6 (including patents of a chemical foundation, Otis reports, sabotage claims, and letters of Nadolny-Papen, 1921-38).
  • III B Recht 19, Recht 20, Recht 6.
  • Pol MC (Bethlehem Steel Company, Dr. Hanfstaengl, sabotage claims).
  • IV Dänemark, Finnland, Norwegen, Polen, Estland, Lettland, Litauen, China, Siam, Niederländisch Indien: Po 3 (political relations between the United States and Denmark, Finland, Norway, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, China, Siam, and the Dutch Indies, 1920s-30s).
  • IV Rußland Po 3, 4, 19 (political relations between Russia and the United States, Bolshevism in the U.S., and the Washington Conference, 1920s-30s).
  • IV Philippinen Po 1, 2, 5 (1920s-30s).
  • W II Belgien, Bulgarien, Griechenland, Rumänien, Schweiz, Tschechoslowakei, W III Mittelamerika, Mexiko, Panama, San Salvador, Südamerika, Columbien, Peru, Liberia, W IV Dänemark, Norwegen, Rußland, Ostasien: Handel 12 (trade relations between the above countries and the U.S., 1920s-30s).
  • W III Haiti, Mexiko, Südamerika, Bolivien, Columbien, Iran, Liberia: Fianzw. 4 (financial relations between the above countries and the U.S., 1920s-30s).
  • W III Vereinigte Staaten Zollwesen 1 (tariff organization and legislation, 1920s-30s), Zollwesen 4, 4-1, 4-2, 4-3 (tariffs, 1920s-30s), Zollwesen 5 (circular letters on tariffs, 1920s-30s).
  • W IV Ostasien/China Wirtschaft 1-A (reconstruction of China and assistance by the U.S., 1920s-30s).
  • Pol I Völkerbund Länderakten (U.S., 1930s).
  • Pol I M (espionage, spy organizations, military buildup, 1930s).
  • Pol V Po 19 (socialism, bolshevism, and communism in the U.S., 1930s).
  • Pol IX Po 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 11-1, 23-1, 25, 26: USA (Political relations in the late 1930s, including appeal for peace by President Roosevelt, neutrality matters, Steuben Society).
  • Büro St. S.-36 (including London Conference, Dawes Plan, The Hague Conferences, Kellogg-Briand Pact, relations during WW II, 1920s-early 40s).
  • Büro U. St. S. Ver. St. (including non-neutral action taken by the U.S.; Roosevelt Telegram; European trip by Sumner Welles, 1938-42).
  • Handakten Direktoren (personal papers of Hauschild, Dirksen, Trautmann, and Köpke, 1920s-30s); Schmidt (translator, conversation with Sumner Welles, 1940).
  • IIF Abr. Abrüstung 5, 5A, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 (disarmament conferences, 1920s-30s).
  • II-F/Luft (including material on air traffic between the U.S. and Germany, 1920s-30s).
  • II-F/M (disarmament conference in Washington, 1921ff).
  • Handakten Etzdorf (personal papers of Etzdorf, including political reports from Washington, early 1940s).
  • Handakten Gaus (notes by Staatssekretär von Schubert, including reparations, Young Plan, Saar Question, 1929ff).
  • Handakten Dr. Carl Megerle (personal papers of Dr. Carl Megerle, including reports on discrimination against Jews in the U.S.; newspaper clippings, 1928-35).
  • Handakten Botschafter Ritter (personal papers of Ambassador to the U.S. Ritter, early 1940s).
  • Handakten Verbindungsstelle des Beauftragten für das Informationswesen (U.S. propaganda, early 1940s).
  • Auslandsorganisation der NSDAP, United States, 1930s-40s.
  • Parteidienststellen-RSHA (Reichssicherheithauptamt, secret reports on the U.S. during WW II).
  • U. St. S. "W" (economic situation of the U.S., 1919-20).
  • Ha Pol Handakten Ministerialdirektor Ritter (economic developments, 1920s-30s).
  • Ha Pol Clodius, Wiehl, Sammlung (LR von Maltzan), Sammlung Nachtrag (VLR Davidsen, Ges. Eisenlohr, VLR Frohwein, VLR Hemmen, LR Geheimrat Schmitt, VLR Kroll regarding various problems and developments, 1918-44).
  • Ha Pol I Wirtsch. 21 (world economy, 1944).
  • Ha Pol IIa Belgien, Frankreich, Niederlande, Schweiz, IIb Australien, Brit. Indien, Großbritannien, Engl. Kolonien, III Portugal, Spanien, IVa Böhmen-Mähren, Bulgarien, Griechenland, Jugoslawien, Kroatien, Österreich, Slowakei, Ungarn IVb Rumänien, Vb Lettland, VI Norwegen, VII Ägypten, Orient, Türkei, Philippinen, IXa Canada, Cuba, Mexiko and subtitles Wirtschaft, Handel, Zollwesen, Schiffahrtswesen, Finanzwesen (information on economic relations between the above countries and the U.S., 1930s-40s).
  • Ha Pol IXa USA Ausstellungswesen, Eisenbahnwesen, Finanzwesen, Handel, Industrie, Kraftfahrwesen, Landwirtschaft, Postwesen, Rohstoffe und Waren, Schiffahrtswesen, Steuerwesen, Verkehrswesen, Verwaltung, Veterinärwesen, Wege und Straßenwesen, Wirtschaft, Zollwesen, Asservate (economy of the U.S., economic relations between the U.S. and Germany and other countries in the late 1930s and early 1940s).
  • Ha Pol IXb Bolivien, Brasilien, Chile, Columbien, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Salvador, Südamerika, Urugay (material on economic relations between Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, El Salvador, South America, and Uruguay and the U.S., 1930s-40s).
  • Ha Pol XIIa Schiffahrtswesen, Protokolle und Verträge, XIIb Postwesen, Verkehr, Wege- und Straßenwesen, 1932-44 (navigation, protocols and treaties, postal agencies, and transit agencies).
  • W Auswanderungswesen 1 (on emigration, 1922-3), Finanzwesen 2, 2A, 16, 16D, (peace treaty, trade) Friedensvertrag, Handel (1920s-30s).
  • S Schiffahrt nos.14, 158, 185, 288, 328, 360 (on navigation in the 1920s).
  • Protokoll VIII 12 (German and American consulates, 1920s-40s).
  • Protokoll II 12 (American consular representatives in Germany, 1912-41).
  • R Kriegsrecht/Völkerrecht (regarding laws of war, including prisoners of war, and questions of neutrality, 1939-45); RI, RII (international law in the 1930s and 1940s).
  • RIII (problems of citizenship, 1930s and 1940s).
  • RIV (problems of Germans abroad, including Germans in the United States, 1930s-40s).
  • RV Arbeitsrecht (labor legislation, including conditions in the U.S., 1930s-40s); Fremdenpolizei, Sozialpolitik (1930s-40s).
  • RVM (Belgian and German property in the U.S. after WWI; Geneva Conference, The Hague Peace Conferences, Kellog Pact, Monroe Doctrine, reparations, Carnegie Foundation, League of Nations, 1919-30s).
  • RVI (files on Bürgerliches Recht, Familienrecht, and Prozeßrecht contain material on the U.S., 1930s-40s).
  • R XI Nordamerika (1920s-40s).
  • Kult II M (hygiene, demography, and quarantines, 1892-1926).
  • Kult II O (treaties on literary publications, 1896-1919).
  • Kult E Auswanderung 12/Rückwanderung (emigration and return to and from the United States, 1920-41).
  • Kult VI A (German-Americans, 1921-38).
  • Kult VI S (educational system in North America, 1913-34).
  • Kult VI W (cultural relations between Germany and the U.S.; artisans and scientists, 1885-1936).
  • Kult Pol Gen (Kulturpropaganda), Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation, 1927-42.
  • Kult Pol S (teachers' records, 1944-5).
  • Kult Pol II (permanent international committee, U.S., 1936).
  • Kult Pol VI A (Protestant and Catholic church matters, 1843-1936).
  • Kult Pol VI B (German-American relations on the church level, 1917-26).
  • Kult Pol VI W (public health, institutes and foundations, 1925-38).
  • Kult Pol geheim (propaganda activities, 1940-2).

    • Material regarding the United States for the post-World War II era is too voluminous to be described here in full. There are several references to the United States in different files. Some of the more important records may be found in the files of the Politische Abteilung 2, Länderabteilung 3, as well as in Bestand B 32. Politische Abteilung 2 (Bestand B 10, 1949/51-58).
    VolumeFile numberContentsTime period
    19010-00/80Government authorities12.195
    162106/107Foreign offices1950-6
    242205-00/80U.S.-Internal affairs1951-2
    262/263210-01/80Polit. Relations US-FRG1949-54
    279210/17-80United States04.-07.1951
    281211-00Polit. Relations U.S.-others1950-3
    294211-00/80as above1954
    309212-06Problems of race and nationality01.-06.1953
    311/312212-06Jewish question and anti-Semitism1954-5
    327-28212-10-50Aid plans of foreign countries1952-7
    337212-11/80Refugees1951-2
    356/357Emigrant matters1950-4
    360-362212-19Council of Foreign Ministers1950-4
    363-366212-19EBerlin Four-Powers Conference
    367212-19EOther conferences1954
    368/369212-19London Meeting of Foreign Ministers1954
    550214-32-04Saar problem1950-2
    564215-00EPublic figures1950-4
    804/805221-55European Union1951-3
    849/880223-00/80NATO-U.S. relations1950-2
    940230-00/80Military affairs, U.S.1951-2
    1008232-00/80European defense1953-4
    1082/1083232-17-019Mutual assistance U.S.-FRG1953-4
    1252-1254232-23Brussels Conference1953-4
    1259240-00Allied High Commission 1949-55
    1260/1261240-01American High Commissioner1949-55
    1264-1341240-04/-11HICOG 1949-55
    1342241-00Occupation matters- general1949-55
    1343/1344241-01Occupation statute1949-55
    1346/1347241-02Members of occupation forces status1950-6
    1353/1354241-06Laws of the occupation authorities1950-6
    1355-1359241-07Military government laws1949-56
    1364-1382241-14/14EOccupation costs1949-56
    1402241-24ECanadian troops in the FRG1951-2
    1416-1440241-27General Mission (Generalvertretung)1951-4
    1446-1466242Allied Security Office1949-56
    1513243-18/80London Debt Agreement1949-56
    1544243-18 Del. 20 London Debt Agreement: USA1951-3
    1545243-18 Del. 20London Debt Agreement: Canada1951-3
    1573243-18 Del. 34 American Creditors' Committee10.1952
    1630243-18 Del. 42 L.D.A., Ratification, U.S.1952-3
    1631243-18 Del. 43 USA-STEG-obligations09.-11.52
    1669244-10Jewish reparations1953-5
    1699245-02Restitution of archival holdings1953-6
    1701245-02ERestitution of archival holdings1950-4
    1706245-03/40German private property in Canada 09./10.52
    1708245-03/80as above: United States1950-2
    1713300-01/80Economic relations U.S.-Germany1950-3
    1716300-12ECharity parcels (incl. CARE)1951-2
    1753304-06/40Execution of trade agreements-Canada1950, 52
    1767/1768304-06/80as above: United States1949-54
    1772307Fairs and exhibitions1950-3
    1788-1797318Marshall Plan1949-56
    1802334International organizations (Ind.)1951-4
    1803-1805340-00Finance-general matters1949-55
    1808340-08Securities03.52-01.56
    1818350-00Taxes1950-4
    1876400Cultural policy1951-5
    1877-1881412-0Emigration and immigration1949-53
    1892-1893412-08/40Emigration to Canada1952-3
    1896412-08/80Emigration to the United States1950-2
    1907454-07Broadcast agrmt., U.S.-FRG1952-3
    1908-1909454-08Broadcasting: "Radio Free Europe"1951-4
    1910454-09Broadcasting: "Liberation"1952
    2057514-01/80Return of prisoners of war: U.S.1950-8
    2093515-00gGerman war criminals in Canada1950-5
    2107515-02War criminals Trials in Germany1952-7
    2204515-10kWar Criminals trials in Canada1948-56
    2205515-10lWar criminals trials in the U.S.1950-6
    2260516-01/80German war graves in the U.S.1952-4
    2265516-02/80American war graves in Germany1952-3
    2284533-01/86German trademarks in the U.S.04.52
    2287533-03/80Copyright agreements01.-09.50
    2288533-04Patent law-general1949-52
    2290533-04/80Patent law-U.S.1950-2
    2321700-01/40Canadian consular missions-FRG1950-4
    2322700-01/80American consular missions-FRG1951-3
    2325-26710-03aList of consulates1949-53
    2329747-00Staatssekretär (Hallstein)-general1951-4
    2331752-05/80Official travels U.S.1950-4
    2365244-13Book by Kurt R. Grossmann1954
    2365412-08/40Book by Wolfgang E. Friedmann1952

    Abteilung 3 Länderabteilung (Bestand B 11) Part 1: Microfilmed records Abteilung 3 Länderabteilung (Bestand B 11) Part 1: Microfilmed records
    Order no.File number ContentsTime Period
    39-40200-00German internal affairs1951-3
    43-46200-00/83June 17, 1953- reactions abroad06.-12.53
    48201-10SRP1951-2
    49-58202-03Unification of Germany1950-4
    515211-02SEATO1955-6
    517211-02Bagdad Pact1953
    533-36212-06Race and nationality, Jewish question and anti-Semitism1949-55
    538-39212-10Refugees and expellees1950-2
    551212-14Emigrant matters1951-2
    598-603212-14ECommittee and "Radio Free Europe" 1950-4
    604-605212-14Radio liberation1952-6
    605212-16Restitution of prisoners of war1954-5
    625-36212-19Conferences of foreign ministers1950-4
    680213-13Oder-Neisse Line1952
    730-32223-00Atlantic Pact1954-5
    762230-02Naval forces1951-5
    773-76230-07German remilitarization1953-4
    778230-15Germans in foreign armies1951-5
    792240-00Allied High Commission1950-6
    792240-01American High Commissioner1954-5

    B 11 KAN
    2Political affairs
    20Internal affairs
    205Internal affairs of host country
    21Affairs between states
    210Political relations between Germany and Canada
    211Political relations between Canada and other countries
    212Bolshevism and communism
    215Public figures
    23Military affairs
    230Military, naval, and aviation affairs

    B 11 USA
    0Organization of United States
    01Organization and administration
    010Government executive bodies
    012Parliaments
    205Internal affairs
    21Relations between states
    210Political relations between Germany and the U.S.
    210-01Public relations
    211-00Political relations between the U.S. and other countries
    212-00Bolshevism and communism
    215Public figures
    23Military affairs
    230Military, naval, and aviation affairs
    24Results of the German capitulation
    240Allied High Commission
    245Liquidation of German property
    3Economic affairs
    30Economy and trade
    4Cultural affairs
    41Social affairs, youth, immigration and emigration
    42German-Americans
    44Churches
    5Law
    51Law of nations
    512State treaties
    516War graves
    6Press affairs
    7Protocol

    Part 2: Non-microfilmed records
    VolumeFile number Contents Time period
    850230-00/40Military, naval, and aviation affairs1951-2
    864-65230-00/80as above: U.S.1950-4
    898240-01American High Commissioner1955
    915240-01American High Commissioner1950-5
    962-63245-03/80German property in the U.S.1950-4
    973250-01/80Termination of war (U.S.)1950-4
    997300-13/80Economic assistance (U.S.)1951-2
    1024-27304-05/80Trade agreements (U.S.)1950-4
    1043318-00Marshall Plan1955
    1049318-00Marshall Plan1950-3
    1100400-03/80Cultural relations with the U.S.1955
    1101400-06/80Cultural organizations and associations abroad (U.S.)1955
    1114412-08/40Emigration to Canada1951-3
    1115413-02/80Research in the U.S.1955
    1123420-01/80German-Americans1950-3
    1146461-03/80Foreign institutes and associations in Germany (U.S.)1955
    1180601-27/80Foreign news services in Germany1955
    1189602-00/80Members of the press: U.S.1950-3
    1197602-02/40German press members in Canada1951-3
    1202-03602-02/80German press members in the U.S.1951-5
    1206602-03/80Foreign press members in the U.S.1951-3
    1221-22602-04/40Foreign press members in the FRG (Canada)1951-4
    1232-36602-04/80Foreign press members in the FRG (U.S.)1951-4
    1263750-06/80State visits of foreign heads of state in the U.S./of Americans abroad1955
    1267752-01/40Travel of German chancellor to Canada1953
    1268752-01/80Travel of German chancellor to U.S.1953
    1271-72752-01ETravel of German chancellor to U.S.1954
    1291752-05/40Canadian politicians and public figures in Germany1952-4
    1308752-05/80U.S. politicians and public figures in Germany1951-5
    1313752-05/80EHoover trip to Germany1954
    1350752-07/40Politicians and public figures in Canada1951
    1357-59752-07/80Politicians and public figures in the U.S.1951-4
    1361754-03/80Visits and travels of Germans in the U.S.1954
    1364-65754-04/80Visits and travels of Americans in Germany1952-4
    1424-34Ref. 91.20Canada
    1435-52Ref. 91.36United States

    Bestand B 32, Referat 305/II A6, 1955-67

    Finding aids:
    Finding aids are available at the Auswärtiges Amt.


    Bielefeld

    30. Evangelische Kirche von Westfalen

    Landeskirchliches Archiv
    Postfach 10 10 51
    33510 Bielefeld

    Phone: (0521) 594-0
    Fax: (0521) 594-267
    E-mail: archiv@lka.ekvw.de
    Web site: www.archive.nrw.de
    Contact: Herr Günther (0521) 594-272
    Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.

    Holdings:
    This archive of the Westphalian Protestant church in Bielefeld contains emigrant letters sent to addressees in the church district.

    Finding aids:
    There are no special finding aids, but researchers may contact the archivist for further information.


    31. Stadtarchiv und Landesgeschichtliche Bibliothek

    Rohrteichstr. 19
    33602 Bielefeld

    Phone: (0521) 51 68 46
    Fax: (0521) 51 68 44
    Contact: Dr. Monika Minninger
    Business hours: 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Mon.; 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Tues.-Fri.

    Holdings:
    This city archive and state historical library in Bielefeld holds letters of emigrants from Bielefeld to North America as well as books pertaining to German emigrants in America.
    Material on emigration from Bielefeld and the surrounding region to Canada is rare; researchers may consult the volumes by Friedrich Müller and Siegfried Richter listed below. Material includes four letters from America, Höner to Höner during the years 1852-6 (Kleine Erwerbungen 450), a letter by Bertha Meier of Bechterdissen from the United States, ca. 1853 (Kleine Erwerbungen 534), and two letters by Meier of Altenschildesche from Illinois, dated 1915 and 1921 (Kleine Erwerbungen 831).
    The rare books collection includes reports by the Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, 1953-66, 1972, and 1978-84; I. Daniel Rupp, A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French, and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776. Leipzig, 1931; and three books by Klaus G. Wust: German Immigrants and Their Newspapers in the District of Colombia, Washington, D.C., 1959; Pioneers in Service: The German Society of Maryland, 1783-1958, Baltimore, Md., 1958; and Zion in Baltimore, 1755-1955: The Bicentennial History of the Earliest German-American Church in Baltimore, Maryland. Baltimore, Md., 1955.
    Additional material collected by Dr. Minninger during a research trip to Missouri will be available after her findings on emigrants to America from the city and district of Bielefeld during the nineteenth century are published.

    Finding aids:

  • Friedrich Müller, "Westfälische Auswanderung im 19. Jahrhundert," in: Beiträge zur westfälischen Familienforschung 38/39 (1980/81) and 47/48 (1989/90).
  • Siegfried Richter, "So leben sie drüben: Sauerländer in den USA und Kanada," in: Sauerland: Zeitschrift des Sauerländer Heimatbundes, Sonderausgabe (1973).
  • Monika Minninger, "Die Jöllenbecker tanzten nicht 'auf dem Wasser': Quellen des Stadtarchivs zur US-Auswanderung," in: Ravensberger Blätter 1 (June 1998): 45-51.

    • Bochum

    32. Arbeitsgruppe Geschichte Nordamerikas

    Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaft
    Ruhr-Universität Bochum
    44780 Bochum

    The professorship has been vacant since April 2000 and will be at least until 2003. Therefore, inquiries should be directed to the Historische Bibliothek. Phone: (0234) 332-2538
    Fax: (0234) 321-4240

    Holdings:
    The archive contains: miscellaneous microfilm collections on U.S. history, 1790-1920, including U.S. census reports from 1790 through 1920 (nearly complete); county histories of the"Old Northwest," series I: Wisconsin (complete); U.S. Army general reports of Civil War service, 1864-87 (vols. 1-14, National Archives); registers of the records of the proceedings of the U.S. Army General Courts materials, 1809-90 (vols. 3-14, National Archives).

    Until lasty year, the archive at the Ruhr University in Bochm contained the Bochumer Auswandererbriefsammlung (BABS), the world's largest collection of letters by German emigrants in the United States. The letters collection is currently housed in the Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt, but is inaccessible to the public. It will be transferred to the Landes- und Forschungsbibliothek Gotha in eraly 2002 and will then be open for research again.

    For urgent questions contact:
    Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Helbich
    Cumbacher St. 6
    99880 Schnepfentahl
    Phone: (03662) 906285
    Fax: (03662) 906186
    Email: wolfgang.helbich@ruhr-uni-bochum.de


    33. Stadtarchiv Bochum

    Kronenstr. 47
    44789 Bochum

    Phone: (0234) 9103899
    Fax: (0234) 9103906
    Contact: Dr. Wölk
    Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Mon., Tues., Thurs.; 10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Wed.

    Holdings:
    The city archive of Bochum contains various records pertaining to the United States, primarily concerning emigration during the nineteenth century and the distribution of American aid following World War I:

  • List of draftees of the district of Bochum who emigrated to America without official permission (Bestand LA, LA 58, 1818-56, Auswanderung).
  • Memorandum on licensing of dentists in the U.S. and a list of American departments of dental medicine (Bestand LA, LA 77, 1903-06, Verleihung von Orden und Ehrenzeichen, Tragen fremder Orden und die Führung von Titeln).
  • Private papers of Johann Linnemann (Chicago), Anna Gab (New York), Marya Michaels (New York), Friedrich Sand (U.S.), and Friedrich Entrymann (U.S.) (Bestand B, B 324, 1874-1906, Nachlaßregelung Verstorbener).
  • Emigration records (Bestand AW, AW 276, 1905-23, Auswanderungen).
  • Records on the import of foodstuffs from America by the Konzern westfälischer Industriekommunalverbände (Bestand BO 500, BO 500/36, 1917-20, Einfuhr ausländischer Lebensmittel); (Bestand BO 500, BO 500/212, 1919, Verteilung von amerikanischem Mehl in der Stadt Bochum); (Bestand Kr A, Klass. 6.17.1, 1919, Verteilung des amerikanischen Mehls); (Bestand Kr A, krA 738, 1923-5, Kinderspeisungen durch die amerikanische Hilfsmission); minutes of public-welfare committee meetings during 1924 on the distribution of clothing, foodstuffs. etc. (Bestand WAT, WAT 1301, 1919-24, Amerikanisches Hilfswerk).
  • U.S. loans (Bestand Kr A, krA 563, 1924, Vermittlung von Auslandskrediten durch Firma Herzogenrath und Scheidt, Elberfeld-Amerikaanleihe).
  • Documentary films on Erich Ollenhauer's and Willy Brandt's visits to the U.S. (Bestand SPD, 1958-9), documentary on 16mm film, "Handschlag mit Amerika: Erich Ollenhauer in der neuen Welt. Eine Flugreise über 18.000 km"; documentary on 16mm film, "Berlin-Amerika: Brücke des Vertrauens."
  • Records on political education and culture: Schulverwaltungsamt, BO 40Sch/5, Politische Bildung, u.a. Amerika-Monat, 1948-71; Amt für Ratsangelegenheiten, BO 00/88 und BO 00/215, Woche der amerikanischen Dramatik am Schauspielhaus, 1955; Oberbürgermeisterregistratur, OB 553, Repräsentationen, u.a. Amerika-Monat der Volkshochschule, 1966.
  • Records on exchange: Amt für Ratsangelegenheiten, BO 00/210, Besuch amerikanischer Kommunalpolitiker, 1952; Oberbürgermeisterregistratur, OB 553, Repräsentationen, u.a. Besuch des amerikanischen Botschafters G. C. McGhee, 1966.
  • Records on transportation: Amt für Verkehrs- und Wirtschafts-förderung, BO 80/63, Errichtung einer Großtankstelle der deutsch-amerikanischen Petroleum Gesellschaft, 1949-55.

    • Bonn

    34. Archiv der sozialen Demokratie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

    Godesberger Allee 149
    53175 Bonn

    Phone: (0228) 883-0
    Fax: (0228) 883-497
    E-mail: archiv.auskunft@fes.de
    Web site: www.fes.de
    Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Fri.

    Holdings:
    This archive is the principal repository for the records of the Social Democratic Party (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, or SPD) and for the private papers of leading SPD politicians and trade unionists, including Heinrich Albertz, Hans Böckler, Willy Brandt, Walter Dirks, Horst Ehmke, Fritz Erler, Egon Franke, Gustav Heinemann, Richard Löwenthal, Carlo Schmid, Helmut Schmidt, Wolfgang Thierse, and Herbert Wehner. It includes minutes of meetings of the SPD parliamentary group, 1949ff; Social Democrats in the European Parliament, 1973ff.; SOPADE, 1933-45; and the SPD executive board, including the private papers of Kurt Schumacher and Erich Ollenhauer.
    The papers of organizations and institutions located at the Archiv der sozialen Demokratie include the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (1968-93); Arbeitsstelle Friedensforschung Bonn (1972-94); Deutsche Gesellschaft für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (1967-86); Erste Internationale (1864-1924); Initiative für Frieden, internationalen Ausgleich und Sicherheit (1969-98); Sozialdemokratischer/ Sozialistischer Hochschul-Bund (1968-82); and the Studiengesellschaft für Friedensforschung (1958-87).
    The archive also holds collections pertaining to German and European trade unions, including the Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund; Deutsche Angestellten-Gewerkschaft; Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund; Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft; Industriegewerkschaft Metall; the International Transport Workers' Federation; and the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco, and Allied Workers' Associations.

    Finding aids:

  • Archiv der sozialen Demokratie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, ed., Bestandsübersicht. Bonn, 1998.


    • 35. Deutscher Bundesrat

    Dokumentation, Archiv, Bibliothek
    53106 Bonn

    Phone: (0228) 91 00-427
    (0228) 91 00 428 (for recent periods)
    Fax: (0228) 91 00-418
    Web site: www.bundesrat.de
    Contact: Herr Hachenberg
    Business hours: By appointment only. .

    Holdings:
    The archive of the Bundesrat, the upper legislative chamber of the Federal Republic of Germany, contains the minutes of Bundesrat meetings as well as other Bundesrat documents pertaining to the United States and Canada.

    Finding aids:

  • Deutscher Bundestag and Deutscher Bundesrat, eds., Sach- und Sprechregister Deutscher Bundestag und Bundesrat.
  • Bundesminister der Justiz, ed., Bundesgesetzblatt Teil I: Fundstellennachweis A "Bundesrecht (ohne völkerrechtliche Vereinbarungen)" and Bundesgesetzblatt Teil II: Fundstellennachweis B "Völkerrechtliche Vereinbarungen; Verträge zur Vorbereitung und Herstellung der Einheit Deutschlands."
  • Dokumentations- und Informationssystem für Parlamentarische Vorgänge in Bundestag und Bundesrat (DIP), 8th and following periods.


    • 36. Deutscher Bundestag

    Parlamentsarchiv
    Platz der Republik 1
    11011 Berlin
    Office and Reading Room: Bonn, Dreizehnmorgenweg 3

    Phone: (0228) 16-22330 and (030) 227-32320
    Fax: (0228) 16-26817 and (030) 227-26871
    E-mail: vorzimmer.wd3@bundestag.de
    Web site: www.bundestag.de
    Contact: Dr. Günther J. Weller (0228/16 22 320) and Günter Koeth (0228/ 16 22 22645
    Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.; 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Tues.-Thurs.; 8:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Fri.

    Holdings:
    The archive of the Bundestag, the lower chamber of the German Parliament, contains the following items:

  • Zonenbeirat der britisch besetzten Zone, 1946-9 (Zonal Advisory Council of the British Occupation Zone, 1946-9; published finding aid).
  • Wirtschaftsrat für das Vereinigte Wirtschaftsgebiet, 1947-9 (Economic Council of the Anglo-American Bizone, 1947-9; published finding aid).
  • Länderrat der amerikanisch besetzten Zone (Council of the Länder of the American Occupation Zone; internal finding aid).
  • Parlamentarischer Rat (mit Herrenchiemsee), 1948-9 (Parliamentary Council, including Herrenchiemsee, 1948-9; see also edition: Der parlamentarische Rat 1948-9: Akten und Protokolle. 1975ff.).
  • Urschriften des Schriftguts des Bundestages, seiner Ausschüsse und sonstigen Gremien, 1949ff (original papers produced by the Bundestag, its committees and other bodies, from 1949 to present; internal finding aids).
  • Auswärtiger Ausschuß des Bundestages (1949 to present), protocols and writings; internal finding aids: open for research for the period 1949-61.
  • Registraturgut der Verwaltung des Bundestages (Records of the Administration of the Bundestag: internal finding aids).
  • Bildarchiv; Bildmaterial zur Arbeit des Bundestages (Photographic Archives; illustrative material on the work of the German Bundestag; internal finding aids).
  • Archiv für Wahlkampfmaterial; Plakate, Flugblätter, Broschüren von Bundes- und Landtagswahlen (Archives of Election Campaign Materials; posters, leaflets, brochures connected with elections to the Bundestag and Land parliaments; internal finding aids).
  • Ton-/Videoarchiv; Ton- und Videoaufzeichnungen der Plenarsitzungen des Bundestags (Sound and Video Archives; sound and video recordings of the plenary sittings of the German Bundestag; internal finding aids).
  • Politikerarchiv; biographische Unterlagen über die Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages seit 1949 (Politicians' Archives; biographical information on the Members of the German Bundestag; internal finding aids).
  • Gesetztesdokumentationen (Gesetzesmaterialien) zu allen Bundesgesetzen seit 1949 (Legal documentations concerning all federal laws passed since 1949; internal finding aids).

    • Finding aids:

  • Deutscher Bundestag and Deutscher Bundesrat, eds., Sach- und Sprechregister Deutscher Bundestag und Bundesrat (subject and speaker index).
  • Bundesminister der Justiz, ed., Bundesgesetzblatt Teil I: Fundstellennachweis A "Bundesrecht (ohne völkerrechtliche Vereinbarungen)" as well as Bundesgesetzblatt Teil II: Fundstellennachweis B "Völkerrechtliche Vereinbarungen; Verträge zur Vorbereitung und Herstellung der Einheit Deutschlands."
  • Dokumentations- und Informationssystem für Parlamentarische Vorgänge in Bundestag und Bundesrat (DIP), 8th and following periods; see: www.bundestag.de.
  • Peter Schindler, Datenhandbuch zur Geschichte des Deutschen Bundestages 1949 bis 1999, 3 vols. (also available on CD-ROM).


    • 37. Stadtarchiv und Stadthistorische Bibliothek Bundesstadt Bonn

    Amt 41-4
    53105 Bonn

    Phone: (0228) 77-3522
    Fax: (0228) 77-4301
    Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-12.00 p.m. Mon.-Sat.; 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Wed.; 1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Thurs.

    Holdings:
    This city archive and historical library contains records of individuals who emigrated from Bonn to the United States. They were used as a source in Herbert Weffer's Auswanderer aus Stadt und Kreis Bonn von 1814 bis 1914, in: Veröffentlichungen des Stadtarchivs Bonn, vol. 19.
    Also included is a collection of materials about the silver medal awarded to the city of Bonn for its outstanding performance at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair (Signatures: li 67 and li 305).

    Finding aids:

  • Dietrich Höroldt, Stadtarchiv und Wissenschaftliche Stadtbibliothek Bonn 1899-1979: Geschichte und Bestände, in: Veröffentlichungen des Stadtarchivs Bonn, vol. 22. Bonn, 1979.

    • Braunschweig

    38. Stadtarchiv Braunschweig

    Löwenwall 18 B
    38100 Braunschweig

    Phone: (0531) 470-4711 or 4719
    Fax: (0531) 470-4725
    Contact: Frau Dr. Schmidt-Czaia
    Business hours: 10:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m., Tues., Thurs.; 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Mon., Wed., & Fri.

    Holdings:
    The city archive of Braunschweig contains material related primarily to military troops from Braunschweig in North America and the documents of emigrants from Braunschweig to North America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The archive also holds the estate of the author Friedrich Gerstäcker, who emigrated to North America in 1837. Upon his return to Germany in 1843, he began writing his famous travel and adventure books.

    Military documents:

  • Karl Theodor Andree, Geographie von Nord-Amerika. Braunschweig, 1823 (H III 3 Nr. 13).
  • Notes on the history of Braunschweig troops in America, 1776-83 (H VI 6 Nr. 22).
  • Command book of the Braunschweig troops in the Revolutionary War, 1776 (H VI Nr. 23).
  • Letters, reports, and news on Braunschweig troops in America, 1776-83 (H VI 6 Nr. 24).
  • Travel journal of Lieutenant von Papet Jr. on his journey to North America, 1776-83 (H VI 6 Nr. 25).
  • Letters of the "Musterschreiber" of the Braunschweig troops, J. C. J. Dehn, 1776-81 (H VI & Nr. 26).
  • Other documents regarding Braunschweig troops in North America (H VI Nr. 27-29).
  • A diary on the expedition of British troops in America, 1779-80 (H VI 6 Nr. 84).
  • A brochure on the occupation of the city of Schöningen by the Americans, April 1945 (H VI 3 Nr. 58).
  • A collection of documents regarding the occupation of Braunschweig, April 1945 (H III 2 Nr. 85).
    • Emigration:
  • Emigration from Braunschweig (C VII: 40, Bestand Polizeidepartement).
  • List of wives whose husbands were stationed in the United States (1777) (C VII: 1005, Bestand Polizeidepartement).
  • Emigration of J. C. F. Stühmer, teacher, to America (1841-52), (D III:552,I).

    • The picture collection contains one picture from an American-German historians' conference (H XVI: J II 11) and three pictures of American troops in Braunschweig (H XVI: H I/1945).


    39. Universitätsbibliothek der Technischen Universität Braunschweig

    Universitätsarchiv
    Pockelsstr. 13
    38106 Braunschweig

    Phone: (0531) 3 91-50 33
    Fax: (0531) 3 91-58 36
    E-mail: archiv@tu-bs.de
    Web site: www.biblio.tu-bs.de/archiv.html
    Contact: Klaus Oberdieck
    Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Mon., Wed.-Fri.; 3:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Tues.
    Note: Business hours may vary during semester breaks and may be individually arranged by appointment.

    Holdings:
    The Technical University's archive in Braunschweig contains documents dealing primarily with cultural relations and university history. The records of the institutes and the estates are found in Bestand D. The university's registers contain names of Americans studying at the Collegium Carolinum, and its successor institutions, the Technische Hochschule and Technische Universität Braunschweig. The records of the Akademisches Auslandsamt are still classified and have not yet been registered.
    There is also "anti-Americana" in the holdings, including the publications of the AStA and other left-wing political groups (Bestand S), as well as the records of the former Pädagogische Hochschule (Bestand C). There also are materials from anti-Vietnam protests and the NATO-Doppelbeschluß. Both holdings are registered in card indexes. The university archive dates back to the 1978 commencement of regular contact with users in the United States and Canada, and the material is part of the universitiy archives' own records (Bestand E II).


    Bremen

    40. Staatsarchiv Bremen

    Am Staatsarchiv 1
    28203 Bremen

    Phone: (0421) 361-6221
    Fax: (0421) 361-10247
    E-mail: zentrale@staatsarchiv.bremen.de
    Web site: www.bremen.de/info/staatsarchiv
    Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Tues. & Wed.; 9:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Thurs.; 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Fri.

    Holdings:
    The state archive in Bremen holds a vast collection of records related to the United States. These include records on relations between the Hanseatic cities and the U.S. (1790-1958); Hanseatic diplomatic agents in the United States and correspondence with them, including the papers of Rudolf Schleiden and Dr. Johannes Rösing (1816-69); treaties with the United States, 1782-1865; relations between the Hanseatic cities and Texas, 1840-7; criminal matters, nineteenth century; Reichssachen and Bundessachen; civil rights, especially the loss of civil rights due to emigration, nineteenth century; navigation; ministers to the Bremen Senate (1832-1902); indices on Bremen's trade (1769-1839); and a register of the city's consular and legation records (1828-64).

    Finding aids:

  • Beständeübersicht/ Staatsarchiv Bremen (Übersicht über die Bestände des Staatsarchivs der Freien Hansestadt Bremen), 2d ed. Bremen, 2000. (CD-ROM edition available)
  • Inventar der Quellen zur Geschichte der Wanderungen, besonders der Auswanderung, in Bremer Archiven, in: Veröffentlichungen aus dem Staatsarchiv der Freien Hansestadt Bremen, vol. 53. Bremen, 1986.
  • Franz-Josef Pietsch, Die wirtschaftlichen Beziehungen Bremens zu den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts, in: Veröffentlichungen aus dem Staatsarchiv der Freien Hansestadt Bremen, vol. 42. Bremen, 1974.

    • Bremerhaven

    41. Förderverein Deutsches Auswanderermuseum e.V.

    Inselstr. 6
    27568 Bremerhaven

    Phone: (0471) 4 90 96 or 4 19 02 88
    Fax: (0471) 4 19 02 89
    E-mail: info@foerderv-dt-auswandermus.de
    Web site: www.foerderv-dt-auswandermus.de
    Contact: Jürgen Rydloff
    Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri.

    Holdings:
    The Förderverein Deutsches Auswanderungsmuseum promotes the establishment of a museum documenting Bremerhaven's prominence as a port of departure (Auswanderungshafen) for emigrants to North America. The library contains over 2,700 volumes on emigration, as well as a large collection of prints, emigrant letters, family chronicles, and parts of parish registers on microfilm.


    42. Seestadt Bremerhaven

    Stadtarchiv
    Postfach 21 03 60
    27524 Bremerhaven

    Phone: (0471) 590-2459 or 2567
    Fax: (0471) 590-2005
    Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon. & Wed.; 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Thurs.

    Holdings:
    This archive in Bremerhaven contains the records of the town council's main office (Hauptamt I, 1945-62) including about 100 records regarding the American occupation of Germany and German-American relations.
    The Zeitgeschichtliche Sammlung is a collection of different newspapers for Americans in Bremerhaven, and leaflets on the American Forces Network (AFN) and the Amerika Haus of Bremerhaven, 1945-92.
    The Zeitungsartikelsammlung contains newspaper clippings on the American occupation of Germany and German-American relations since 1945.


    Brühl

    43. Nordrhein-Westfälisches Personenstandsarchiv Rheinland

    Schloßstr. 10-12
    50321 Brühl

    Phone: (02232) 94538-0
    Fax: (02232) 94538-38
    E-mail: Poststelle@psa.nrw.de
    Contact: Dr. Schleidgen (94538-60)
    Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Mon.; 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Tues.-Fri.

    Holdings:
    This archive contains vital statistics records for the Rhineland and covers the administrative districts of Cologne and Düsseldorf.
    Records in the Personenstandsarchiv include parish registers (beginning in 1571) and records of the bureaus of vital statistics. They span nine kilometers.

    Finding aids:

  • Wilhelm Klein, "Die standesamtlichen Nebenregister im Personenstandsarchiv Brühl," in: Mitteilungen der Westdeutschen Gesellschaft für Familienkunde 18/19 (1957-60): 109ff.
  • Wolfgang Huschke, "Zur wissenschaftlichen Auswertung der Bestände des Personenarchivs Brühl," in: Der Archivar 26 (1973): 415-24.
  • Jörg Füchtner, "Personenstandsregister und Personenstandsbücher im Archiv," in: Das Standesamt 35 (1982): 293-8.

    • Bückeburg

    44. Niedersächsisches Staatsarchiv

    Postfach 1350
    31665 Bückeburg

    Phone: (05722) 9677-3
    Fax: (05722) 1289
    Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri.

    Holdings:
    The state archive in Bückeburg contains records regarding Lower Saxony's relations with North America, focusing on emigration and special-interest events. Records are filed by provenance and may be found within several different entries, including the following:

  • Removal of ad operas publicas addicted criminals to America, 1836-63 (Sign. L 3 Cb Nr. 112, available on microfiche).
  • Government of Schaumburg-Lippe, records on Germans abroad, estates from abroad, treaties, losses of civic rights, emigration, passports, international exhibitions, relations with foreign consulates, League of Nations, world economy, and Olympic Games (L4).
  • Office of the district president of Bückeburg (L 102a).
  • Archives of the estate of Münchhausen, which hold correspondence between Börries d. Ä. v. Münchhausen and Werner von Münchhausen of New York, 1887-1922 (Dep. 3 GA); and the diary of Börries Hilmar von Münchhausen, later colonel in the Hessian army, about the expedition of Hessian troops to North America, 1780-4 (Dep. 6 GH).
  • Archive of the city of Obernkirchen, which contains publications about emigration to North America in 1833 (Dep. 29).
  • Otto Bosse Co. has American business journals; information on the sinking of the Adonis near New York is included (Dep. 40).
  • The district of Schaumburg-Lippe contains records on emigration to the U.S. (1951-2, Dep. 46A).
  • Records regarding emigration to the U.S. in the Ölkrug/Obernwöhren collection, 1951-2; city of Bückeburg, including a town partnership between Bückeburg and Ozark, Alabama, 1978 (Dep. 9).
  • Additional records on the problem of emigration are included in the following entries: Neuere Regierungsregistratur Schaumburg-Lippe (L3); Schaumburg-Lippische Landesregierung (L4); Wirtschaftsamt (L 40); Ämter Bückeburg and Stadthagen (L 101a and b); Landratsamt Rinteln (H 7); Regierung Rinteln (H 2); Jüngeres Kammerarchiv (K 2); and Amt Blomberg (K 34).
  • Thirteen maps of the United States and Canada, 1755-1910, also are found.

    • Finding aids:
    There are no finding aids regarding "Americana" in Bückeburg, however researchers may find it useful to consult the following publications:

  • Heinrich Rieckenberg, Schaumburger Auswanderer 1820-1914. Melle, 1988.
  • Heike Matzke, ed., Schaumburger Auswanderer 1820-1914, Ergänzungen. Melle, 1995.

    • Büdingen

    45. Schloßbibliothek/Fürstliches Archiv

    Schloßplatz 2
    63654 Büdingen

    Phone: (06042) 889207
    E-mail: Ysenburg.forst@t-omline.de
    Contact: Dr. Klaus Peter Decker
    Business hours: By prior appointment only.

    Holdings:
    This archive in Büdingen contains documents regarding emigration to America, including the emigration of specific groups, such as the Church of the Brethren and the Gemeinschaft der wahren Inspiration. The Sammlung Mörschel contains literature relating to the latter and concerns an awakening movement that grew out of radical pietism, whose center was in the county of Isenburg during the eighteenth century. Its members lived there undisturbed until an 1833 conflict with the government of Hesse-Darmstadt erupted regarding matters of school policy, which precipitated the emigration of the entire group in 1842/43 under the leadership of Christian Metz. In 1855 they created the Amana colonies in Amana, Iowa. Most of the material consists of literature, including the Sammlungen and Jahrbücher, printed in Germany and the United States from 1823 to 1884.

    Finding aids:

  • Bernd Dugall, ed., Handbuch der historischen Buchbestände in Deutschland, vol. 5: Hessen, A-L. Hildesheim, 1992.
  • Fürstlich Ysenburgische Bibliotheksverwaltung, ed., Verzeichnis des Depositums "Sammlung Mörschel" in der Schloßbibliothek Büdingen. Büdingen, 1981.

    • Celle

    46. Landkreis Celle

    Kreisarchiv
    Trift 26
    Gebäude 6
    29221 Celle

    Phone: (05141) 916-353
    Fax: (05141) 916-474
    E-mail: rainer.voss@lkcelle.de
    Web site: www.landkreis-celle.de
    Contact: Rainer Voss
    Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Wed; 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Thurs.; 8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Fri.
    Note: Prior appointment is desired, especially if service in English is needed.

    Holdings:
    The district archive of Celle holds a small number of records regarding emigration to North America from 1844 until 1930 and a collection of oral histories from the district of Celle at the end of World War II. The latter includes descriptions of the American troops' work in the region (April to June 1945). The Celle archive also contains the chronicles of the district's villages with references to emigration to the United States and American troops at the end of World War II.

    Finding aids:
    Finding aids are available at the Kreisarchiv Celle. A short description of the records will soon be available on the abovementioned Web site.


    Chemnitz

    47. Stadtarchiv Chemnitz

    Aue 16
    09106 Chemnitz

    Phone: (0371) 4 88-47 02
    Fax: (0371) 4 88-47 99
    Business hours: 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Mon. & Tues.; 8:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Thurs.; 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Fri.
    Note: By prior appointment only.

    Holdings:
    The city archive of Chemnitz, known as Karl-Marx-Stadt when it was part of the GDR, contains a file regarding the founding of an American consulate ("Errichtung eines Konsulats der Vereinigten Nordamerikanischen Freistaaten"). It is included in the holdings of the Chemnitz city council until 1928 ("Rat der Stadt Chemnitz bis 1928, Capitel Polizeiangelegenheiten"). There also are records pertaining to the American occupation of Germany at the end of World War II (Bestand Siegmar-Schönau, Bestand Rabenstein).

    Finding aids:
    For further information on the consulate's activities, see Eberhard Brüning, "Vor 125 Jahren Amerikanisches Konsulat in Chemnitz eröffnet," in: Sächsische Heimatblätter 4 (1992): 278-80.


    48. Technische Universität Chemnitz

    Universitätsarchiv
    09107 Chemnitz

    Phone: (0371) 531-2694 or 2696
    Fax: (0371) 531-2691
    E-mail: stephan.luther@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de and Dagmar.szoelloesi@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de
    Web site: www.tu-chemnitz.de/uni-archiv
    Contact: Dr. Dagmar Szöllösi or Stephan Luther
    Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Mon.-Fri.; 1:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Thurs. The archives also may be used before and after business hours by prior appointment.

    Holdings:
    The Chemnitz University archive contains a number of printed materials, annual reports and programs of American educational establishments:
    CityInstitutionTime Period
    BaltimoreJohns Hopkins University Circular1902-48
    BostonMassachusetts Inst. of Technology1894-1911
    BrooklynPratt Institute1895, 1912-15
    Cambridge, Mass.Harvard University1911-12
    CharlottesvilleUniversity of Virginia1872-3
    ChicagoArmour Institute of Technology1911-14
    Lewis Institute1910-12
    Ithaca, NYCornell University1890, 1911-13
    LowellTextile School (many photographs)1910-16
    New YorkStevens Institute of Technology1873-5, 1906-30
    Columbia University1870-1, 1911-12
    PhiladelphiaUniversity of Pennsylvania1908-12
    Drexel Institute1911-12
    Franklin Institute1911-12
    PittsburghCarnegie Technical Schools1911-12
    South BethlehemLehigh University1909-12
    UrbanaUniversity of Illinois1908-12

    The archive also holds the papers of Adolf Ferdinand Weinhold (1841-1917), including correspondence with his American colleagues, and personal papers of Carl von Bach, which include his correspondence with Americans and Canadians between 1880 and 1930. A travel report on the technical and industrial educational system of North America was published in Abhandlungen und Berichte der Technischen Staatslehranstalten Chemnitz by its director, K.R. Mühlmann, in 1913.


    Coburg

    49. Staatsarchiv Coburg

    Herrngasse 11
    96450 Coburg

    Phone: (09561) 92833
    Fax: (09561) 94017
    Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 8:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Fri.

    Holdings:
    The state archive in Coburg contains documents regarding emigration and re-emigration to and from North America as well as German trade relations with the United States. Emigration:

  • Return of troops from North America to the Margravate of Bayreuth (1783, LA F Nr. 4157).
  • Emigration, including emigration agencies (Regierungs- und Intelligenzblatt 1807ff; Lreg Nr. 4010f; Min D Nr. 469, 471-6, 478, 482, 489-91, 504, 507, 509, 514, 533-59; LRA Nr. 403-81, 483f; 493, 496f; 499-513, 9211, 9226).
  • Association for the Protection of German emigrants in Texas (1844-51, Urk LA A Nr. 919; LA A Nr. 7961-71; Min D Nr. 479).
  • Personal papers of Prof. Dr. David W. Goebel, an emigrant returning from St. Louis (1872, AG Nr. 798).
  • American passport and personal documents of Otto Borneff, an emigrant returning from New Jersey (1914-26, Nachlässe Nr. 51, Borneff).
    • Trade and industry:
  • Participants in promotion of direct steam navigation between Bremen and New York (1858-67, Min D Nr. 3423).
  • Directions for export to the U.S. (1862, Min D Nr. 3425).
  • Reports on the situation of trade with the U.S., 1865-1916 (Min D Nr. 3429).
  • Annual report of Consul C. F. Adam in Cincinnati, Ohio (1866-1916, Min D Nr. 3430).
  • Philadelphia's World's Fair (1876, Min D Nr. 2384).
  • World's Industry and Cotton Centennial Exhibition, New Orleans (1884-5, Min D Nr. 2400).
  • Petition of Carl Friedrich Grosheim, merchant in New York, for appointment as Consul to the U.S. (1839-41, Min F Nr. 1418).
  • Survey of the consul to the U.S., Simon Hirschbach of Sonneberg, about export from Thuringia to the U.S. (1867/68, Min F Nr. 1424).
  • Treaties between member states of the Deutscher Zoll- und Handelsverein, a customs and trade association, and the U.S. and Great Britain on mutual extradition (1843-72, Min G Nr. 920).
  • Report of Consul Kühne in New York about trade and the separatist movement in the U.S. (1861, Min G Nr. 958); transport of shipments to the U.S. (1869, Min G Nr. 969).
    • Miscellaneous documents:
  • Poster from the Metropolitan Opera House depicting the presentation of Count Ernst II of Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha's opera, "Diana von Solange" (1890/91, Theater Nr. 15).
  • Control of North American citizens (1917, LRA Nr. 13990).

    • Finding aids:

  • Klaus Freiherr von Andrian-Werburg, ed., "Staatsarchiv Coburg: Beständeübersicht," in: Bayerische Archivinventare, 41 (1982).

    • Darmstadt

    50. Evangelische Kirche in Hessen und Nassau

    Kirchenverwaltung
    Zentralarchiv
    Paulusplatz 1
    64285 Darmstadt

    Phone: (06151) 405-0
    Fax: (06151) 405-440
    Contact: Kirchenarchivrat Bogs
    Business hours: By prior appointment only.

    Holdings:
    The archive of the Protestant churches in Hesse and Nassau hold the private and official writings of Martin Niemoeller, including material related to his travels in the U.S. (Bestand 62).


    51. Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt

    Schloß
    64283 Darmstadt

    Phone: (06151) 16 59 00
    Fax: (06151) 16 59 01
    Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Mon.; 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Tues.-Fri.

    Holdings:
    The state archive of Hesse holds records related primarily to emigration to the United States during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

  • Records of the district court, ministries, and consulates.
  • Abt. Amtsgericht Groß-Umstadt (Freiwillige Gerichtsbarkeit, Rep. 51 F); Abt. Amtsgericht Groß-Umstadt (Strafsachen, Zivilprozesse, Rep. 51 StZ); Abt. Amtsgericht Fürth (Verträge, Rep. 51 V).
  • Abt. Staatsministerium includes documents on consulates in America (Rep. 39/1).
  • Abt. Bundestagsgesandtschaft und Militärkommissionen includes records on Hessian consulates in North America, emigration, and emigration agents (Rep. 39/2).
  • Abt. Staatsverträge (Rep. 14).
  • Abt. XIII Gemeindeangelegenheiten (Rep. 19a).
  • Abt. Ministerium des Innern und der Justiz (Rep. 48/1).
  • Abt. Justizministerium I has a file on German Cultural Policy abroad (1913-29); most of the records referring to North America are on the estates of Hessian and former Hessian citizens (Rep. 49a).
  • Abt. Depositum und Nachlaß von Werner includes material on Ludwig von Werner, who died in the U.S. (Rep. 73e).
  • Abt. Hessisches Hausarchiv contains material on the Texasverein, Hessian consulates, and military affairs, 1771-1852.
  • Abt. Kreisamt Heppenheim (Ablieferung 1, Rep. 40, 1).
  • Abt. Kreisamt Heppenheim (Ablieferung 2) has material regarding emigration agencies during the second half of the nineteenth century (Rep. 40, 2).


    • 52. Hessisches Wirtschaftsarchiv

    Karolinenplatz 3
    64289 Darmstadt

    Phone: (06151) 165-000
    Fax: (06151) 165-003:
    Contact: Dr. Ulrich Eisenbach, Ute Mayer
    Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Mon.; 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m Tues.-Fri.
    Note: Prior appointment is recommended, but not required.

    Holdings:
    This economic archive contains individual issues of newspapers and magazines related to transatlantic trade relations from the late nineteenth century until the 1950s. In particular, they include the following: Amerika-Export: Nachrichten für den deutsch-amerikanischen Handel (1952-3); Vierteljahresberichte der Gesellschaft zur Förderung des deutsch-amerikanischen Handels (1952-4; Amerika-Handel (1954-5); Amerika-Handel: Informations- und Pressedienst (1956-7); Mitteilungen (from 1917 onward, Organ) des Deutsch-Amerikanischen Wirtschaftsverbandes, a supplement to Deutsche Wirtschafts-Zeitung (1915-18); Deutsch-Amerikanischer Wirtschaftsverband: Mitteilungen. Wirtschafts- und handelspolitische Nachrichten, USA, Kanada, Mexiko (1918-19, 1923); Mitteilungen des Deutsch-Amerikanischen Wirtschaftsverbandes, New York, Berlin, Montreal (1924-33); Deutsch-Amerikanischer Oekonomist: Central-Organ für Banken (1871-5); Amerikanische Rundschau (1945-6); Transatlantic Trade (1920-39); Neue Zeitung, München: Eine amerikanische Zeitung für die deutsche Bevölkerung (published as: Die amerikanische Zeitung in Deutschland after 1949), (1945-55).


    53. Stadtarchiv Darmstadt

    Karolinenplatz 3
    64289 Darmstadt

    Phone: (06151) 16 50 10
    Fax: (06151) 16 59 01
    E-mail: STAD@hrz4.hrz.TU-DARMSTADT.de
    Contact: Dr. Peter Engels
    Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Tues-Fri.; 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Tues.-Thurs.

    Holdings:
    The city archive of Darmstadt contains a registry of the city's emigrants to the United States as well as the records of the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, formerly the Amerika Haus, which closed in 1997. Related material consists of about nine running meters of records primarily covering the events of the Amerika Haus, correspondence with other Amerikahäuser, the American Embassy in Bonn, and the Department of State in Washington from 1949 to 1995; and of half a running meter on the relations between the American Military Administration and the city of Darmstadt, 1945-55.


    Detmold

    54. Nordrhein-Westfälisches Staatsarchiv Detmold

    Willi-Hofmann-Str. 2
    32756 Detmold

    Phone: (05231) 766-0
    Fax: (05231) 766-114
    E-mail: NWStADetmold@t-online.de
    Web site: www.archive.nrw.de
    Contact: Dr. Hermann Niebuhr (766-203)
    Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Mon.; 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Tues.-Thurs.; 8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Fri.

    Holdings:
    The state archive of North Rhine-Westphalia in Detmold contains records regarding political and economic relations between the region and North America, including matters of emigration, trade, and citizenship:

  • Lippische Regierung, Ältere Registratur contains material on emigration to the United States, German-American economic relations, taxes, and the passage of Hessian troops to America (1782-1806).
  • Lippische Regierung, Regierungsregistratur I, has material dealing with tariffs and trade, export and import, measures against emigrants returning from North America (1885-1910), problems of citizenship, and inheritance claims from abroad.
  • Lippische Regierung, Abteilung des Innern, holds material from German consulates in the U.S., including reports by the German Foreign Office on the international situation (1933ff); and records of the U.S. consulate in Cologne, inhabitants affairs (1871-1945).
  • Wirtschaftsabteilung offers records on export and import, reports of diplomatic and consular missions abroad, material on the American tobacco trust (1903ff), and emigration agents (1898).
  • Finanzabteilung contains records regarding U.S. tariffs.
  • Abteilung des Inneren, Polizeiangelegenheiten, holds material on foreigners in Germany (1887-1948, three volumes), duty of registration (1915-34), passports, emigration and immigration, and extradition and eviction of foreigners (first half of the twentieth century).

    • More material may be found in the following holdings: Ministerium, Verwaltungs- und Landratsamt Detmold, Amt Schötmar, Amt Brake, Verwaltungsamt Brake, and Amt Hohenhausen. The records of the Hermannsverein contain correspondence about donations for a planned statue of Hermann der Cherusker (1838-63).

    Finding aids:
    A short description of the holdings may be found on the Internet. Users may also wish to consult the following:

  • Nordrhein-Westfälisches Staatsarchiv Detmold, ed., Die Bestände des Nordrhein-Westfälischen Staatsarchivs Detmold und des Personenstandsarchivs Westfalen-Lippe: Kurzübersicht. Detmold, 1980.

    • Dortmund

    55. Institut für Zeitungsforschung

    Königswall 18
    44122 Dortmund

    Phone: (0231) 50-23219
    Fax: (0231) 50-26018
    E-mail: bvolkenr@stadtdo.de
    Web site: www.zeitungsforschung.de
    Contact: Prof. Dr. Hans Bohrmann
    Business hours: 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Tues. & Thurs.; 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Wed. & Fri.; Use of the special collections by prior appointment only.
    Note: There is an entry fee of DM 20 (DM 10 for scholars and students). Those using the archive for less time may pay a fee of DM 2 per day.

    Holdings:
    The Institut für Zeitungsforschung holds both English and German periodicals, including the following: Newspapers and magazines from Canada and the U.S.: Canada: External Affairs (Ottawa); Newsletter (Ottawa); Der Courier (Regina); Pazifistische Rundschau (Vancouver); Der Nordwesten (Winnipeg). United States: The Christian Science Monitor (Boston); Chicago Daily Tribune/ Chicago Sunday Tribune (Chicago); The Christian Century (Chicago); Life (Chicago); Life International (Chicago); Time (Chicago); Volksfront (Chicago); Deutsch-Amerikanisches Magazin (Cincinnati); Printing Production (Cleveland); Wächter und Anzeiger (Cleveland); Newsweek (Dayton); The Progressive (Madison); Bulletin der Sozialistischen Arbeiter-Partei Amerikas (New York); Christianity and Society (New York); Deutsche Gegenwart (New York); Deutscher Zuschauer (New York); The New York Times Magazine(New York); The New Yorker (New York); The New Republic (New York); Die Republik der Arbeiter (New York); Christianity Today (Washington, D.C.); Foreign Newspaper Report (Washington, D.C.). Emigrant press (1933-45): Aufbau (New York, 1934-45); Bulletin of the Council for a Democratic Germany (New York, 1944/5); Decision (New York, 1941); Die Einheitsfront (New York, 1934); Gegen den Strom (New York, 1938-9); The German American (New York, 1942-5); Germany Today (New York, 1945); In Re: Germany (New York, 1941-4); Inside Germany Reports (New York, 1939-44); Neue Volks-Zeitung (New York, 1932-45); Unser Wort (Paris, Prague, and New York, 1933-41); Volksfront (Chicago, 1935-9); Die Zone (Vienna, Paris, London, and New York, 1933-4). Personal papers: Benedikt Fred Dolbin (1883-1971); Moritz Goldstein (1880-1977); Kurt Kersten (1891-1962); Peter de Mendelssohn (1908-82); Will Schaber (1905-96); John Steel (b. 1908); Hans Steinitz (1912-93); Henry P. Walters (Heinrich Walter, 1887-1960); Gertrud Anna Wenzel-Burchard (1906-94); George Wronkow (1905-89); Ludwig Wronkow (1900-82); and Robert Ziel (n.d.).

    Finding aids:
    Microfilmed material is listed in the catalog "Mikrofilmarchiv der deutschsprachigen Presse e.v."; the complete index of newspapers and magazines is contained in the archive's database.


    56. Stadtarchiv Dortmund

    Märkische Str. 14
    44141 Dortmund

    Phone: (0231) 50-2 21 56
    Fax: (0231) 50-2 60 11
    E-mail: stadtarchiv-dortmund@stadtdo.de
    Web site: www.archive.nrw.de
    Contact: Herr Bausch
    Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-3:45 p.m. Tues. & Wed.; 8:00 a.m.-5:15 p.m. Thurs.; 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Fri.

    Holdings:
    The city archive of Dortmund contains few materials related to North America. There are copies of letters from Moritz Heymann of New York to his parents, brothers, and sisters, dated 1855. Heymann was a Jewish merchant born in Dortmund.

    Finding aids:
    Information on Heymann may be found in the following article: Katharina Tiemann, "Jüdisches Leben im 19. Jahrhundert: Ein Jahrhundert geprägt von Emanzipation und beginnendem Antisemitismus-mit Briefzeugnissen des Dortmunder jüdischen Kaufmanns Moritz Heymann (1833-1899)," in: Heimat Dortmund: Zeitschrift des historischen Vereins für Dortmund 1 (1996): 13-16.


    Dresden

    57. Stadtarchiv Dresden

    Königsbrücker Str.
    01099 Dresden

    Phone: (0351) 8044750 or 8021202
    Fax: (0351) 8021203
    Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Tues.; 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Wed. & Thurs.; 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Fri.

    Holdings:
    The city archive of Dresden contains materials regarding emigration to the United States, cultural and economic relations, and English-language publications from a turn-of-the-century Anglo-American group in Dresden.

  • Records concerning emigration: "Acta, den Verein zur Regelung der Auswanderung für Unbemittelte betr., 1849" (B XII 133); "Acta, die beabsichtigte Veröffentlichung der Namen der Auswanderer nach Amerika betr., 1853" (C XVIII 178); "Acta, Auswanderungen betr., 1882" (C XXV 171). Bestand Ratsarchiv.
  • Records regarding German-American cultural and trade exchanges: the visit of the Brooklyn Choral Society to Dresden, July 1912 (448/1911 Dir. Reg.); the visit of American engineers to Dresden, 1912 (400/1912); the reception of American hotel proprietors, 1914 (203/1914 Dir. Reg.); the San Francisco World's Fair of 1915 (Dir. Reg. U 2/1913); the city's reception of American physicians visiting Dresden, 1913 (302/1913 Dir. Reg.); study trip of Delegates of the American States, 1913 (280a/1913 Dir. Reg.); study trip of German-Americans to Germany, 1914 (258/1913 Dir. Reg.); Americans in Dresden (401a/1914 Dir. Reg.); American aid for Saxony and Thuringia (Dir. Reg. 353a/1920). Bestand Hauptkanzlei.
  • The library contains English-language newspapers edited by members of the Anglo-American colony in Dresden (1893-1925). Newspapers include: The Dresden Daily (February 1906-December 1906; The Daily Record (January 1907-July 1910); The Stranger's Guide to Dresden (January 1893-August 1914), continued as The Dresden Herald (American newspaper, August 1914-December 1925).


    • 58. Technische Universität Dresden

    Universitätsarchiv
    Mommsenstr. 13
    01062 Dresden

    Phone: (0351) 463 4452
    Fax: (0351) 463 7178
    E-mail: mlienert@rcs.urz.tu-dresden.de
    Web site: www.ua.tu-dresden.de
    Contact: Dr. Matthias Lienert
    Business hours: 9:00 a.m.-3:45 p.m. Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri., and by appointment.

    Holdings:
    The university archive in Dresden, devastated by a fire in 1945, may prove useful for research because of its extensive contact with American and Canadian scholars. Its holdings include:

  • Personal papers of Professor August Toepler.
  • Direktorat für internationale Beziehungen.
  • Student and professor card index (accessible by nation).
  • Yearbooks of the Technische Hochschule Dresden.

    • Duderstadt

    59. Stadtarchiv Duderstadt

    Christian-Blank-Str. 1
    37115 Duderstadt

    Phone: (05527) 2144
    E-mail: ebeling@mpi-g.gwdg.de
    Web site: www.archive.geschichte.mpg.de/dud-d.htm.
    Contact: Dr. Hans-Heinrich Ebeling; Dieter Wagner
    Business hours: 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Mon.; 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Mon.; 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Thurs.

    Holdings:
    The city archive of Duderstadt contains records related to the emigration of Duderstadt citizens to the United States and their assimilation into American life from 1699 to 1955, the majority during the nineteenth century. There also are approximately 200 print advertisements from the local newspapers Duderstädter Wochenblatt and Zeitung für's Eichsfeld (1840-1900).

    Finding aids:
    All records can be found in the finding aids Rep 11 (1500-1850) and Rep 12 (1802-1945). The following publications dealing with printed advertisements are available at the archive: Frances Duderstadt Hartmann, The Duderstadts (La Vernia, Tx., 1967); and Dieter Wagner, "Skandal wegen einer ehebrecherischen Dreierbeziehung in Mingerode 1782-1783," in: Eichsfeld 3 (March 1998), which contains references to a citizen named Andreas Georg Boeker, who took part in the Revolutionary War (on the British side).


    Düsseldorf

    60. Archiv des Diakonischen Werkes der Evangelischen Kirche im Rheinland

    Lenaustr. 41
    40470 Düsseldorf

    Phone: (0211) 6398-272
    Fax: (0211) 6398-299
    Contact: Ursula Freese
    Business hours: By appointment only.

    Holdings:
    The archive of the Protestant church in the Rheinland contains thirteen records with correspondence, curricula vitae, and reports of emissaries to the Evangelical Society for Protestant Germans in North America, 1839-1912 (Bestand Altes Archiv); a record of correspondence by the Evangelical Society for Protestant Germans in America, 1913-45 (Bestand Ohl); and four boxes of brochures and yearbooks (1823-1937), including the following material: Jahresberichte des Lutherischen Emigrantenhauses in New York (1880-1911); Jahresberichte der Deutschen Gesellschaft der Stadt New York (1867, 1881, and 1883); Verhandlungen der deutschen Ev.-Luth. Synode von Wisconsin und anderer Staaten (1866-72); Deutscher Kalender für die Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche (1870); and Kirchliches Adreßbuch für Nord-Amerika (1884).

    Finding aids:
    The holdings are made accessible through finding aids with an index. Brochures and yearbooks are also available through a subject-card index.


    61. Nordrhein-Westfälisches Hauptstaatsarchiv

    Mauerstr. 55
    40476 Düsseldorf

    Phone: (0211) 9449-02
    Fax: (0211) 9449-7002
    E-mail: poststelle@has.nrw.de
    Web site: www.archive.nrw.de
    Contact: Mrs. Dr. Schnelling-Reinicke (9449-7123) for Bezirksregierung Köln
    Herr Dr. Klefisch (9449-7218) for pictures and motion pictures
    Frau Dr. Black-Veldtrup (9449-7215) for National Socialism and Denazification
    Herr Dr. Lück (9449-7125) for Bezirksregierung Düsseldorf
    Business hours: 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., Mon.-Fri.

    Holdings:
    The central archive of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf contains extensive material regarding the state's relationship with North America.

  • Photographs and motion pictures: Films about the U.S. (relief campaigns, occupation, ambassadors, buildings-34 units, 1945-68), documentary films: