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DDR Archiv Scrapbook Collection

Preserved at the Wende Museum in a set of 159 binders, this collection offers a continuous history of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as seen through different aspects of the activities of the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS, Ministry for State Security, Stasi). These are arranged in a linear manner covering the history of the organization’s function in East Germany dating from 1945 and the earliest days of the Soviet Occupation Zone through the mid-1990s and the GDR’s dissolution/Treuhand. In these binders activities of the MfS are seen through compilations of secondary documents such as newspaper clippings, articles, copied documents/reports, photographs, publications and a selection of what look to be primary documents that originate from the MfS office or subsidiary offices of the MfS.

Though only one segment of the GDR governing structure, the Ministry encompassed so many areas of controlling authority as to be practically synonymous with the GDR itself. Best known as the surveillance arm of the government, the MfS was also the fiscal authority behind the military economy, foreign trade, passports and tourism, and all matters of intelligence / counterintelligence.

The cataloging and digitization of this collection was made possible by the support of Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.

Showing search results 106-120 of 159
DDR Archiv : Akten : Dez. 1987
DDR Archiv : Akten : Dez. 1987
Scrapbooks; ring binders; correspondence; texts (documents); photocopies
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.014.003.106
Date Made: December, 1987; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Jan. - April 1988
DDR Archiv : Akten : Jan. - April 1988
Scrapbooks; ring binders; texts (documents); photocopies
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.014.004.107
Date Made: January-April, 1988; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Mai - Juli 1988
DDR Archiv : Akten : Mai - Juli 1988
Scrapbooks; ring binders; correspondence; texts (documents); photocopies
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.014.005.108
Date Made: May-July, 1988; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Aug. - Okt. 1988
DDR Archiv : Akten : Aug. - Okt. 1988
Scrapbooks; ring binders; correspondence; texts (documents); photocopies
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.014.006.109
Date Made: August-October, 1988; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Nov. - Dez. 1988
DDR Archiv : Akten : Nov. - Dez. 1988
Scrapbooks; ring binders; correspondence; texts (documents); photocopies; banners
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.014.007.110
Date Made: November-December, 1988; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Jan. - Febr. 1989
DDR Archiv : Akten : Jan. - Febr. 1989
Scrapbooks; ring binders; texts (documents); photocopies; correspondence; forms (documents); invoices; receipts (financial records); newspaper clippings
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.014.008.111
Date Made: January-February, 1989; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Maerz - April 1989
DDR Archiv : Akten : Maerz - April 1989
Scrapbooks; ring binders; newspaper clippings; photocopies; correspondence; notes (documents)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.015.001.112
Date Made: March-April, 1989; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : 01. - 09. Mai 1989
DDR Archiv : Akten : 01. - 09. Mai 1989
Scrapbooks; ring binders; newspaper clippings; notes (documents); texts (documents); photocopies
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.015.002.113
Date Made: May 1-9, 1989; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : 10. - 31. Mai 1989
DDR Archiv : Akten : 10. - 31. Mai 1989
Scrapbooks; ring binders; newspaper clippings; photocopies; correspondence; notes (documents)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.015.003.114
Date Made: May 10-31, 1989; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Juni, Juli 1989
DDR Archiv : Akten : Juni, Juli 1989
Scrapbooks; ring binders; photocopies; invoices; receipts (financial records); newspaper clippings; texts (documents); rules (instructional materials)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.015.004.115
Date Made: June, July 1989; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : August - Sept. 1989
DDR Archiv : Akten : August - Sept. 1989
Scrapbooks; ring binders; articles; newspaper clippings; texts (documents); photocopies; correspondence; rules (instructional materials)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.015.005.116
Date Made: August-September, 1989; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : Okt. 1989
DDR Archiv : Akten : Okt. 1989
Scrapbooks; ring binders; photocopies; correspondence; newspaper copies; photographs
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.015.006.117
Date Made: October, 1989; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Alex. Schalck Golodkowski : Doku.
DDR Archiv : Alex. Schalck Golodkowski : Doku.
Scrapbooks; ring binders; photocopies; newspaper clippings; texts (documents); articles
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.015.007.118
Date Made: [circa 1989]; 1980s
DDR Archiv : 01. - 20. Nov. 1989
DDR Archiv : 01. - 20. Nov. 1989
Scrapbooks; ring binders; photocopies; correspondence; newspaper clippings; articles; notes (documents); lists (document genre); drawings (visual works); charts (graphic documents); texts (documents)
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.015.008.119
Date Made: November 1-20, 1989; 1980s
DDR Archiv : Akten : 21. - 30. Nov. 1989
DDR Archiv : Akten : 21. - 30. Nov. 1989
Scrapbooks; ring binders; photocopies; correspondence; texts (documents); lists (document genre); newspaper clippings; articles
Maker: [Gerd Heidemann]; Unknown; Various
ID: 2010.103.014.016.001.120
Date Made: November 21-30, 1989; 1980s
Showing search results 106-120 of 159

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