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srcset="/assets/bundesarchiv/en/_processed_/4/e/csm_BArch_B_198_Bild-2017-0220-001_Videokonferenz_6fb29d08e3.jpg" media="(max-width: 600px)" type="image/jpg"><source srcset="/assets/bundesarchiv/en/_processed_/4/e/csm_BArch_B_198_Bild-2017-0220-001_Videokonferenz_4450c51e80.jpg" media="(max-width: 900px)" type="image/jpg"> <img src="/assets/bundesarchiv/en/_processed_/4/e/csm_BArch_B_198_Bild-2017-0220-001_Videokonferenz_6761c84d78.jpg" title="" alt="Interdepartmental and cross-location video conference between Koblenz and Berlin-Lichterfelde." height="500" width="1440"></picture> <figcaption class="toggle"> <button> <i class="icon" aria-hidden="true"></i> <span class="is-invisible"> Show image description </span> </button> <p> Source: <abbr title="Federal Archives of Germany" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">BArch</abbr>, B 198 Bild-2017-0220-001 / Nobel, Jürgen </p> </figcaption> </figure> <header> <h1 class="exclude-from-search"> Departments </h1> <p>The Federal Archives is divided into 14 departments and the "Foundation Archives of the Political Parties and Mass Organisations of the GDR in the Federal Archives". </p> </header> </div> </div>  <section class="jump-marks" data-unstick=""> <div class="jump-marks__list"> <div class="inner"> <p>Jump to content</p> <ul> <li class="visible-items"> <ul> <li> <button data-to="c54627"> <i class="icon" aria-hidden="true"></i> <span class="marker-text">Directorate K (Communication)</span> </button> </li> <li> <button data-to="c54628"> <i class="icon" aria-hidden="true"></i> <span class="marker-text">Departments Z I and Z II (Central Administrative Matters)</span> </button> </li> <li> <button data-to="c54629"> <i class="icon" aria-hidden="true"></i> <span class="marker-text">Department IT (Information Technolgy)</span> </button> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="hidden-items" id="hidden-marks" aria-hidden="true"> <ul> <li> <button data-to="c54630"> <i class="icon" aria-hidden="true"></i> <span 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Their task is to provide the personnel and organisational resources needed to fulfil specialist archival tasks in the individual departments of the Federal Archives. The headquarters of Department Z I are based in Koblenz; the headquarters of Department Z II are in Berlin; Additional offices are also represented by staff at other locations of the Federal Archives.</p> </div> <div class="article-content is-narrow"> <h2 id="c54629" tabindex="0"> Department IT (Information Technolgy) </h2> <p>The establishment of department IT in March 2019 particularly meets the needs arising from the digital transformation. Represented at almost all locations, the department is dedicated above all to the tasks of planning and developing the archival information technology, the digital archives and the digital intermediate archives.</p> </div> <div class="article-content is-narrow"> <h2 id="c54630" tabindex="0"> Department GW (Policy and Science) </h2> <p>Department GW is responsible for archive-related policy matters and scientific affairs. Its headquarters are located in Koblenz. It coordinates interdisciplinary issues such as forming the archival holdings, public relations, training and education, international relations and issues pertaining to archival law. It also supports the management in strategic planning. Department GW finally comprises the units responsible for the Federal Archives' scientific editions.</p> </div> <div class="article-content is-narrow"> <h2 id="c54631" tabindex="0"> Department AT (Technical Archival Matters and Central Professional Services) </h2> <p>Dissociated from the former department G, department AT was established in March 2015, assuming responsibility for the cross-sectional technical archiving tasks. After the establishment of department IT in March 2019, department AT includes the sections responsible for conservation matters and the administration of the storerooms, including film. It is represented at the sites in Berlin, Koblenz and Hoppegarten.</p> </div> <div class="article-content is-narrow"> <h2 id="c54632" tabindex="0"> Department B (Federal Republic of Germany) </h2> <p>Mainly situated in Koblenz, department B is responsible for the transmission of records from the central civilian authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany, including the western occupation zones. It advises the federal administration on the organisation of their records management and is responsible for the intermediate archives in Sankt Augustin-Hangelar and Hoppegarten. Department B also includes the Equilisation of Burdens Archives in Bayreuth and the archives of the Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes in Ludwigsburg.</p> </div> <div class="article-content is-narrow"> <h2 id="c54633" tabindex="0"> Department BE (Provision of Services for Use) </h2> <p>The former departments R (German Empire) and DDR (German Democratic Republic), whose main tasks for years were to answer inquiries and to support the users in Berlin-Lichterfelde, have merged to become the new department BE. In the long term, department BE is supposed to harmonise and to optimise the workflows of use within the Federal Archives as a whole.</p> </div> <div class="article-content is-narrow"> <h2 id="c54634" tabindex="0"> Department PA (Information on Personal Data related to World Wars I and II) </h2> <p>Department PA in Berlin-Reinickendorf has taken over the remaining tasks of the former German Office for the Notification of Next-of-Kin of the former German Wehrmacht (WASt). One of the central tasks is to provide personal information on the fate of military staff in World Wars I and II. Department PA also assists in war graves matters.</p> </div> <div class="article-content is-narrow"> <h2 id="c54635" tabindex="0"> Department MA (Military Archives) </h2> <p>Department MA in Freiburg is responsible for the documents of military provenance of the Federal Republic and its predecessors. These include documents from the Federal Ministry of Defense and the Federal Armed Forces' Administration, the National People's Army, the Wehrmacht, the Waffen-SS, the Reichswehr, the Schutztruppen and Freikorps, the North German Federal Navy, the Imperial Navy and the Prussian Army from 1867.</p> </div> <div class="article-content is-narrow"> <h2 id="c54636" tabindex="0"> Department FA (Film Archives) </h2> <p>Department FA in Berlin comprises the holdings of the film departments of the Federal Archives (until 1990) and the State Film Archives of the <abbr title="German Democratic Repubic" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">GDR</abbr>. Films are transmitted to the department FA based on the regulations of the Federal Archives Act and the Film Promotion Act as well as a result of active collection. Department FA also includes the unit in charge of pictures, maps, plans, posters and sound recordings based in Koblenz.</p> </div> <div class="article-content is-narrow"> <h2 id="c58959" tabindex="0"> Department AR (Archival Holdings) </h2> <p>Department AR is responsible for cataloguing the documents of the State Security Service of the former <abbr title="German Democratic Repubic" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">GDR</abbr> and for evaluating, organising, cataloguing, conserving and managing the files in accordance with archival principles. To execute these tasks, the department is divided into six offices responsible for cataloguing, research, card indexes, stacks, digitisation and conservation.</p> </div> <div class="article-content is-narrow"> <h2 id="c58960" tabindex="0"> Department <abbr title="working group" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">AU</abbr> (Use of Records from the States Security) </h2> <p>Department <abbr title="working group" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">AU</abbr> of the <abbr title="State Security Service" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">Stasi</abbr> Records Archive is responsible for ensuring that the <abbr title="State Security Service" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">Stasi</abbr> records are made available to citizens as well as to authorities and research and media organisations in accordance with the purposes specified by law and in compliance with the legal provisions. Requests by individuals to view their own personal file, enquiries from public and non-public bodies, rehabilitation agencies and requests from the fields of research and the media are processed by Department <abbr title="working group" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">AU</abbr>, which is also responsible for deciphering the code names of the State Security Service’s unofficial employees.</p> </div> <div class="article-content is-narrow"> <h2 id="c58961" tabindex="0"> Department R (Regional Tasks) </h2> <p>Department R of the <abbr title="State Security Service" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">Stasi</abbr> Records Archive is in charge of the twelve regional offices of the <abbr title="State Security Service" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">Stasi</abbr> Records Archive. The aim of the regional offices is to ensure the preservation and utilisation of the documents of the State Security Service of the former <abbr title="German Democratic Repubic" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">GDR</abbr> in the East German federal states. The regional records of the <abbr title="Ministry for State Security" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">MfS</abbr> are appropriately catalogued in the regional offices. Research on individuals and subjects is also conducted and made available for use.</p> </div> <div class="article-content is-narrow"> <h2 id="c58962" tabindex="0"> Department VF (Education and Research) </h2> <p>The Education and Research Department (VF) fulfils the <abbr title="State Security Service" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">Stasi</abbr> Records Act’s mandate to educate and teach. This mandate is fulfilled by preparing historical sources in a user-friendly, scientifically sound manner and providing information through contemporary methods. </p> <p>This department has five specialised divisions: VF G is responsible for the principles and management support of the <abbr title="State Security Service" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">Stasi</abbr> Records Archive. VF 1 develops and supervises educational programs and archive pedagogy for the <abbr title="State Security Service" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">Stasi</abbr> Records Archive and the entire institution; VF 2 is responsible for creating exhibitions and specialised studies on the <abbr title="State Security Service" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">Stasi</abbr> Records Archive as well as meeting the exhibition needs of the entire institution and for the publicly accessible library of the <abbr title="State Security Service" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">Stasi</abbr> Records Archive; VF 3 is responsible for the development of the “Stasi Headquarters. Campus for Democracy” in Berlin-Lichtenberg as well as for the supervision of events organised by the regional offices; VF 4 develops findings in scientific research projects from the perspective of source studies and publishes them for various user groups. It is supported in this work by the Publications Department, which oversees the editing, producing and marketing all of the department’s publications.</p> </div> <div class="article-content is-narrow"> <h2 id="c58963" tabindex="0"> “Foundation Archives of the Parties and Mass Organisations of the GDR” in the Federal Archives (<abbr title="Political Parties and Mass Organisations of the GDR" lang="en" class="dreipc-abbreviation">SAPMO</abbr>) </h2> <p>SAPMO is a dependent foundation under public law within the Federal Archives.</p> <p>The <a href="https://www.bundesarchiv.de/das-bundesarchiv/organisation/abteilungen/gruendung-der-stiftung-archiv-der-parteien-und-massenorganisationen-der-ddr-im-bundesarchiv/" target="_blank">SAPMO</a> <u>i</u>n Berlin-Lichterfelde makes archive material available that was created outside the state authorities of the GDR as part of political decisions to regulate and manage the state and society. It was subject to strict secrecy until 1990 and is now freely accessible with the exception of documents relating to individuals. SAPMO includes a library with the holdings of more than 30 former institutions and organisations, which have been transferred with their archival material to the Federal Archives. The library offers its own reading room, local and interlibrary loans, and an online catalogue.</p> <h3>The Archival Material  </h3> <p>The archival material includes the files of the SED Politburo and the offices of individual functionaries, the Central Committee with its departments and the Party’s own training centres from 1946 to 1990. The archives of the German Communist Party (KPD), which were kept in the SED Party Archive from its inception in 1919 until the illegal activity ended in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1971, were also transferred to SAPMO along with the Party Archive. The collection also contains extensive trade union holdings, including documents on social insurance and the holiday service. Documents from other mass organisations, such as the FDJ with the Ernst Thälmann pioneer organisation, the Cultural Association and the Society for German-Soviet Friendship as well as over 400 bequests are also available for use.</p> <h3>The Library Holdings </h3> <p>The academic specialised library and staff library in Berlin-Lichterfelde forms the professional centre of the Federal Archives library with six decentralised staff libraries. Around 1.7 million volumes can be used in the foundation, including grey literature from the parties and organisations of the GDR and the former Eastern Bloc countries. In Berlin-Lichterfelde, the official printed publications of authorities, associations and organisations of the German Reich and the GDR are largely complete.</p> <p>New acquisitions are focused on publications on and from the period of the GDR and Germany before 1945 as well as on the history of the former socialist states, the history of the international labour and trade union movements and individual parties, trade unions, organisations and political groups from the mid-19th century to the present day. User copies supplement the collections.</p> </div> <div class="article-content is-narrow"> <h2 id="c54637" tabindex="0"> Organisational Chart  </h2> <p>The organisational chart or organigram is a schematic presentation of the structure of the Federal Archives with its various departments and the “Foundation Archives of the Parties and Mass Organisations of the GDR” in the Federal Archives. 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