Digitisation of archival sources of the collection "L79/Lippische Regierung" in the State Archives of North Rhine-Westfalia, Department East Westphalia-Lippe

• Applicant: Dr. Frank M. Bischoff
• Subject Area: Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: from 2020 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 442126576

The collection "L 79/Lippische Regierung (jüngere Registratur)" represents the backbone tradition of the former principality, then state of Lippe for the late 19th and the first decades of the 20th century. The description of the collection was essentially carried out between 1991 and 1993. The finding aids are available in the reading rooms and online.L 79 is the archival and temporal link between the collection group "L 77 A-C (Lippische Regierung ältere Registratur)", which focuses on the 18th and 19th centuries and is currently being digitised, and the collection group "L 80.1-22 (Lippische Regierung/Landesregierung)", which is particularly relevant for the first half of the 20th century until the end of the independence of the Land Lippe (1947) and beyond. The Lippe governments of the 19th and 20th centuries formed the hinge between the authorities of the lower municipal level and the highest state authorities (cabinet ministry, later state ministry and state presidium) and were therefore concerned with almost all political and administrative fields from the level of the "Reich" to the village level. In their thematic breadth, the documents also contain many relations and references to other holdings, both at higher and lower administrative levels.The holdings are actively used by academic research as well as by local history and family research. It has served and serves as a source for numerous scientific publications.The files from the Ostwestfalen-Lippe department are to be digitised by a service provider. On the Internet, the digital copies will be referenced using the finding aids provided in the "Archive in NRW" and "Archivportal D" portals and will thus be available for use. The aim is to make a backbone Collection for the history of Lippe widely accessible for research and teaching.

• DFG Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)