Metadata: Papers of the Union of German Academics in Romania and its successor organisations
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Romania, Sibiu branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naționale ale României, Direcţia Judeţeană Sibiu
- Postal address:
- Arhivele Naționale ale României, Direcţia Judeţeană Sibiu, Strada Arhivelor nr. 3, cod 550164, jud. Sibiu, România
- Phone number:
- +40 269 208 519
- Web address:
- http://www.arhivelenationale.ro/index.php?jud=110
- Email:
- sibiu@arhivelenationale.ro
- Reference number:
- inventar 93, număr curent 325
- Title:
- Papers of the Union of German Academics in Romania and its successor organisations
- Title (official language):
- Fond Asociația Academică a Germanilor din România
- Creator/accumulator:
- Union of German Academics in Romania
- Date(s):
- 1922/1940
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 2.2 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection contains the papers of the Union of German Academics in Romania (Bund Deutscher Akademiker in Rumänien) and its various branches and successor organisations. The papers themselves largely consist of correspondence, meeting minutes, materials from the organisation's conferences and various other administrative directives and documents. For items within the collection which deal explicitly with Jewish-related themes, see the entry for this collection at http://jbat.lbi.org/, subfield ‘contains’, and click on any title.
- Archival history:
- No information is provided as to when these papers were acquired by the National Archives from the association.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Initially, the organisation had a largely social and supportive scope, encouraging international academic exchanges (especially between Romania and Germany), maintaining libraries of speciality books and periodicals and offering career guidance and employment placement services to its members. The organisation always had a nationalist slant, and by the 1930s it was closely aligned with the fascist National Socialist movement in Romania. Beginning in 1931, Ottomar Kratsch made the first moves towards the transformation of the organisation into a more politically aligned and active entity, which were reinforced in 1932 by the involvement of Alfred Bonfert, founder of the Deutsche Volkspartei Rumäniens. In 1937 the union was dissolved because of the increasing conflicts between the two primary German fascist factions in Romania, those of Fritz Fabritius and Alfred Bonfert, and reconstituted as the Deutsche Hochschülerschaft Rumäniens (German Student Organisation of Romania), with the aim of integrating the organisation better into the umbrella organisation of Germans in Romania, the Deutsche Volksgemeinschaft in Rumänien. Former members, however, formed an organisation called the Studentische Kameradschaft (Student Fellowship), which restricted itself exclusively to matters regarding student and university life. For a time, the central committee office was located in Tarutino (now Tarutyne, Ukraine), but eventually it was moved to Bucharest. Although there was strong membership throughout the Romanian state, the Transylvanian Saxon regions maintained important local offices. The organisation maintained strong ties with similar organisations in Germany, as well as with organisations of Germans in former German and Austrian territories such as Yugoslavia, the Czech Republic and Poland.
- Access points: locations:
- Transylvania
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Nationalism
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged by administrative unit – the papers of the central committee form the first large group, followed by papers from various local offices.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Leo Baeck Institute
