Identity area
Reference code
BArch, R 187
Title
Schumacher Collection (inventory)
Date(s)
- 1924 - 1945 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
419 Aufbewahrungseinheiten
Context area
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Sammlung Schumacher, 1924-1962
Content and structure area
Scope and content
History of the Inventory Designer: The available documents were compiled by Bruno Schumacher, a German employee of the US Document Center in Berlin (BDC). After the collection was handed over to the Federal Archives, large parts were incorporated into their holdings. Inventory description: With the return of files from the Berlin Document Center in Sept./Dec. 1962, the Schumacher Collection was transferred to the Federal Archives in Koblenz. This collection had been collected by a German employee of the BDC, Bruno Schumacher, in years of work. It contains printed publications as well as files taken from the various provenance and collection holdings kept in the BDC, whereby the selection criterion was the importance, the documentation value, of the material. Archivische Bewertung und Erschließung Schumacher intended to create a material collection of the most important documents on the history of the Nazi era for his hand use and thus to create a key position for himself in the BDC. In selecting and recombining the material, he did not take into account provenance, registry or volume connections, but arranged everything according to a very roughly applied pertinence principle. His memory alone served as a finding aid for the more than 500 volumes. When he retired in 1960, the collection was recorded in lists and an "order scheme" was formed. The aim of the Federal Archives in Koblenz was to dissolve the Schumacher Collection and to assign the documents to the various holdings. In 1963, the official party publications of the Schumacher Collection were incorporated into ZSg. 3 (official party publications). The documents of Bavarian provenance were removed in 1966 and handed over to the Bavarian Main State Archives. Over the years, smaller parts of the collection have been incorporated into the relevant archives and provenance holdings. For example, KPD material from the Schumacher Collection was transferred to the NS 26 Main Archive of the NSDAP (1967). Starting in 2004, the "Research" collection of the former BDC and the subsequent integration of the documents into the Schumacher Collection, now kept in the Federal Archive in Berlin-Lichterfelde, was processed by the project group NS Archive of the MfS. Among other things, it was established here that the indexing information of the archival records recorded at R 187 is partly identical with that of the respective file numbers at "Research". Obvious duplicates and copies have been collected. "Novelties" have been assigned to the Schumacher Collection. Abbreviations BDM Bund Deutscher Mädel or DAF Deutsche Arbeitsfront DRK Deutsches Rotes Kreuz Gestapo Geheime Staatspolizei HJ Hitlerjugend ed. published KJVD Communist Youth Association Germany KPD Communist Party Germany NSKOV NS NS War Victim Care NSDAP National Socialist Workers' Party Germany NSDStB National Socialist German Student Union SAJ Socialist Workers' Youth SD Security Service SPD Socialist Party Germany TeNo Technical Emergency Aid TH Technical University USchlA Committees of Inquiry and Conciliation Content Characterization: The collection contains printed matter, files and other written material from governmental and party-official departments v. a. of the years 1933-1945. State of development: Stock in progress. Citation style: BArch, R 187/...
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Bundesarchiv (Archivtektonik) >> Nachlässe und Sammlungen >> Sammlungen >> Sonstige Sammlungen
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
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Language of material
- German
Script of material
Language and script notes
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Sammlung
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
{{Data Source}} Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- German Labour Front (Subject)
- German Red Cross (Subject)
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
DE-1958_cef590ac-0d78-4920-9726-ca60af0fee4c