The archive of the Fritz Bauer Forum, founded in 2020
Long-term security
As part of its research, publication and exhibition activities, the Fritz Bauer Forum collects various sources such as files, grey literature, leaflets, magazines, posters, photos and audiovisual media on contemporary history. The focus is on the life story of Fritz Bauer, the Nazi injustice and the fight against impunity, the history of resistance and survival (biographies) as well as cultures of remembrance worldwide.
Furthermore, a large part of the collection consists of the “Bochum Political Archive”, a newspaper and magazine archive dating back to the 1960s, which was taken over in April 2022. Anti-racism, subculture, critical theories, the labour movement, ecology and internationalism are the main topics.
Over time, the archive will be expanded to include new materials on resistance as a history of the struggle for human rights. We are grateful for enquiries and information on collections. Digital finding aids will be made available in the coming years.
The Fritz Bauer Archive has a magazine and workstations. Please register your visit.
The archive will be open to users from the end of 2025.
Archive records
Here you will find an overview of our collections, of which the “Fritz Bauer Collection” and the “Bochum Political Archive” are the most extensive. Due to the protection periods, not all archive records can be presented. Protection periods can be partially shortened upon request.
Collection on the biography and impact history of the lawyer, social democrat and Holocaust survivor, 1903-today.
Collection on the social movement in Bochum in the broadest sense, since the beginning of the 1960s
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Archive records
Here you will find an overview of other collections. Due to the protection periods, not all archive records can be presented. Protection periods can be partially shortened upon request.
Collection of texts, letters, photos and caricatures by the journalist on the website kurt-nelhiebel.de
Newspaper articles on denazification, Nazi trials, right-wing radicalism and anti-fascism in the FRG and GDR, 1949-2015.
Collection on the research project “Exile in Chile” with archival documents and interviews from Chile, Israel, Germany, Uruguay and Argentina, 1989-1994.
Letters, photographs, documents of a Berlin Jewish family who became victims of the Holocaust, 1933-1945.
Correspondence of the historian and SZ journalist on publications, collection of articles on the Eichmann trial, drawings, 1960-1995.
Association documents, correspondence, newsletter, interviews with survivors from Bochum and Wattenscheid, 1990-1996.
Would you like to visit our archive and find out more about one of our collections? Please write or call us and we will be happy to provide you with information.
Jennifer Haas
Library and archive
Phone
+49 (0) 1573 2562413email address
jennifer.haas@fritz-bauer-forum.deOpening hours will follow