Institut für Zeitgeschichte
- Berlin Finckensteinallee 85-87 (lights field )
- Department in the Foreign Office, Berlin
- Documentation Obersalzberg
The Institute of Contemporary History Munich - Berlin ( IfZ ) is a scientific institution for the study of Contemporary History in Munich.
Objective
The main task of the Institute is the scientific analysis of recent German history, the era of Nazi rule was especially in the early days at the center. Of the more than 9000 reports that the IfZ has been created for courts, government agencies and ministries, most related to the period between 1933 and 1945. Besides its own research and publication activities, the institution with archival and library important tool for other researchers available. With over 220,000 media the Library of IfZ is now one of the " leading specialist libraries of contemporary history".
History
The Institute was established in May 1949 under the name " German Institute of History of the National Socialist era " at the suggestion of the Allies as a joint project between the Federal and the State of Bavaria in life. Since 1952 it is known by its present name.
Since 1961, the Institute has the legal form of a public foundation under public law, which is currently supported by the Federal Republic of Germany and the seven states of Bavaria, Baden- Württemberg, Brandenburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine -Westphalia and Saxony. Representatives of these countries are also members of the Board of Trustees. The Institute is jointly funded by the federal and state governments as a research institution member of the Leibniz Association.
The management of the Institute is responsible for its director ( until 1961: Secretary General ). The previous director of the institute were:
- Gerhard Kroll (1949-1951)
- Hermann Mau (1951-1952)
- Paul Kluke (1952-1959)
- Helmut Kraus Nick (1959-1972)
- Martin Broszat (1972-1989)
- Ludolf Herbst ( interim 1989-1992 )
- Horst Möller (1992-2011)
- Andreas Wirsching ( since 2011 )
The Scientific Advisory Board of the IfZ had been chairman the following:
- Bergsträsser Ludwig (1950-1959)
- Hans Roth Rock (1959-1974)
- Karl Dietrich Erdmann (1974-1980)
- Karl Dietrich Bracher (1980-1988)
- Hans -Peter Schwarz (1988-2004)
- Helmut Altrichter (2004-2011)
- Joachim Scholtyseck ( since 2011 )
Departments
A special feature of IfZ is that it meets service functions for the German and international contemporary research. This is done for one of the archive which collects contemporary historical sources, develops and makes available. This is the other, the object of the library, which has a special library with the collection area history of the 20th century with an emphasis on German and European history since 1918 national significance. Archives and libraries are frequented by domestic and foreign users (especially scientists, journalists and students).
In 1994, the Munich IfZ a branch (now Department) in Potsdam, located since 1996 in Berlin light field near the local Federal Archives. The research focus of the department Berlin light field of ICH, is the history of the GDR / SBZ. The Department of the Foreign Office IfZ care since 1990 (initially in Bonn, in Berlin since 2000 ) the publication of a filing Edition Foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany.
On behalf of the Free State of Bavaria, the Institute has developed 1999, the Obersalzberg Documentation on the Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden. Herein suggestively situate exhibition documents in particular the expansion of the Obersalzberg to the residence of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi leadership.
In July 2013, the " Center for Holocaust Studies" was established under the direction of historian Frank Bajohr.
Publications
Quarterly, the Institute since 1953, the Quarterly Journal of Contemporary History ( VfZ ) out which is considered one of the most important journals of German historical research and is supplemented by the annual Bibliography of History. In addition to appearing since 1961 Series of Quarterly Journal of Contemporary History, the IfZ is also the author of other series such as sources and representations of contemporary history, current affairs studies or Biographical sources for contemporary history. The Institute also publishes some extensive editions of contemporary historical documents, including, inter alia, the acts and the external policy of the Federal Republic of Germany and The Diaries of Joseph Goebbels.
Scientific controversies
In 2000, as the " Institute for Contemporary History " was led by Horst Möller, there were several sensational scientific controversies. It went to the one at the eulogy, the Horst Möller held on the excellent with the Konrad Adenauer Prize of Germany Foundation controversial historian Ernst Nolte, on the other, a publication in editorship Horst Möller, entitled " The Red Holocaust and the Germans ".