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Code: 6.02.0 Inventory profile: Inventory name: Estate of the von Buchka family Content: Files, photos, documents, letters, Bible, war diary Duration: 1801-1935 Scope: 4 linear metres, approx. 160 units of description Cataloguing: database, find book, FINDBUCH.Net Citation method: Universitätsarchiv Rostock, 6.02.0, Signatur Vorwort: The estate of the von Buchka family contains mainly private and professional personal documents, letters and memoirs: the pastor Gottlieb Buchka (1788-1863), his son, the State Councillor Hermann von Buchka (1821-1896) and his son Gerhard von Buchka (1851-1935), Director of the Colonial Department of the Foreign Office and later Vice-Chancellor of the University of Rostock. The estate of the von Buchka family was handed over to the Rostock University Archive on 21.02.2005 by Hans-Joachim von Buchka, great-great grandson of Hermann von Buchkas, then Chancellor of the University of Wuppertal. Nine other pieces of the estate were taken over in 2017, including an anniversary bible from 1850, two letters from Fritz Reuter to Hermann Buchka from 1863, the nobility diploma from 1891 and a war diary from 1812. In the history of the von Buchka family there were many points of contact with the University of Rostock, so that the estate and the holdings of the university archive complement each other in their tradition. The surviving family archive mainly contains private and professional personal documents, letters and memoirs: of the pastor Gottlieb Buchka (1788-1863), his son of the State Councillor Hermann von Buchka (1821-1896) and his son Gerhard von Buchka (1851-1935) Director of the Colonial Department of the Foreign Office and later Vice-Chancellor of the University of Rostock. A list of the estate from 1955, which was probably made after the death of Else von Buchkas (14.02.1955), served as the transfer list. This list formed the basis for the order and recording of the estate in the university archives from February to April 2005. The comparison revealed that some items from the list were missing, that the titles only partly corresponded with the contents and that some documents were not listed. In order to understand earlier connections, the list numbers have been included in the database as "old archive signatures". According to the order and distortion of the inventory, 147 file units were created from the 47 items. The concordance was filed under the signature 136. Of great use for the identification of the documents was the genealogical table of 29.09.2004, filed under the signature 135. All information only suspected at the time of the recording was marked by a question mark. The estate mainly contains private and professional personal documents, letters and memoirs of the pastor Gottlieb Buchka (1788-1863), his youngest son, the State Councillor Hermann von Buchka (1821-1896) and his eldest son, Gerhard von Buchka (1851-1935), director of the Colonial Department of the Foreign Office. In the history of the von Buchka family there were many points of contact with the University of Rostock, so that the estate and the holdings of the university archive complement each other. Hermann von Buchka was habilitated in 1843 by the Faculty of Law of the University of Rostock. His brother Carl Friedrich had already studied law here in 1838. From 1843 to 1847, Hermann von Buchka worked as a private lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Rostock and in the Spruchkollegium. He received his honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Medicine in 1890 and from the Faculty of Theology in 1891. His sons Gerhard, Johannes and Heinrich Buchka studied law at the University of Rostock. Gerhard von Buchka was enrolled from 1871 to 1873 as a student at the Faculty of Law of the University of Rostock. He received his doctorate from the Faculty of Law in 1873 and was later Vice-Chancellor of the University of Rostock from 1902 to 1929. His son Gerhard received his doctorate from the Faculty of Law of the University of Rostock in 1903. The corresponding student, doctoral and personnel files are preserved in the university archives. The estate of the family registered here is a great enrichment for the University Archive Rostock and will hopefully attract many more generations of archive users. We thank Mr. Hans-Joachim von Buchka for his generous contribution.