Preface: Johannes Christoph Ferdinand Lippert was born on 07.08.1875 in Sulzbach-Rosenberg as one of six children. In 1906 he married Elisabeth Serr in Germersheim (Palatinate). Hans Lippert was head of the Donauwörth Agricultural Office from 1925 to 1938. During these years he has been extraordinarily involved in the history of his homeland and from 1930 he was chairman of the Historical Association for Donauwörth and the surrounding area. During this time, he mainly took up a wealth of motifs in his Sprengel, which make up the unique value of the so-called Lippert picture collection. In 1938, Lippert resigned from the Gleichschaltung des Historischen Vereins. After his move to Fürth, he worked for many years as a volunteer in the local city archive and in the state archive of Nuremberg (e.g. state archive of Nuremberg, holdings: Reichsstadt Nürnberg, Losungsamt, city accounting records) (friendly note from Mr. Erich Hofgärtner). He lived until his childless death in Fürth (Königswarterstraße 72) and died as a retired Oberregierungsbaurat on 01.08.1961 in Fürth (Jakob-Henle-Straße 1). His will of 10 April 1939 does not contain any dispositions regarding his collection of pictures. The estate file is archived in the Nuremberg State Archives (District Court Fürth VI 843/1961; friendly note from Mrs. Magerla, Nuremberg State Archives). The image collection comprises a total of 2,431 photographs of all types of buildings, including interior and exterior views, mainly from the Donauwörth district. The main holdings of 1884 objects were taken over by the Augsburg State Archives in 1992 (Archivalienzugangsbuch-Nr.: 36/1992) and in 1993 (Archivalienzugangsbuch-Nr.: 14/1993) from the Land- und Universitätsbauamt Augsburg. In addition, the Donauwörth City Archives have a smaller collection of 547 objects, some of which are interlinked with those of the Augsburg State Archives. The photographs kept in the city archives became the property of the Historical Association for Donauwörth and its Surroundings, whose chairman Lippert was until 1938. The Augsburg State Archives took over the collection in 1992 and 1993, which is kept in a specially made wooden cabinet. After an initial review by Dr. Gerhard Hetzer, Bernhard Stadler and Simon Lutz (the latter formerly employed by the Landbauamt Donauwörth), handwritten lists for determining the motifs of the negatives were drawn up in addition to an already existing older list of slides. Mr. Richard Helfrich then numbered the photographs from 1 to 3202 without separating them into different series (narrow, typewritten stickers), with the slides retaining their old numbers, noted in pencil on the originals in one corner. The old parchment bags of the negatives, which are provided with explanatory inscriptions or contain enclosed loose labels, only partially carried older numbers. The numbering was done in view of a security filming in the Herrmann und Kraemer GmbH u. Co KG laboratory in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Prior to the security filming, Mr. Simon Lutz, in consultation with Dr. Seitz, the official board member, removed the originals numbered by Mr. Helfrich, No. 2366 to 2999, from the picture collection, as they did not belong to it (mainly photographs of persons). In the laboratory, the image collection was divided into two groups for technical reasons: Negatives or Series A (1096 objects) Contains original glass plate negatives (format 13 x 18 cm, 9 x 11.5 cm, 6.5 x 9 cm), original film negatives (6 x 8.5 cm), negative duplicates (10.5 x 14.5 cm) and photographic prints (10.5 x 14.5 cm). Slides or Series B (759 objects) Contains original glass plate slides (format 9 x 12 cm), negative duplicates (10.5 x 14.5 cm) and photo prints (10.5 x 14.5 cm). The negative duplicates and photo prints were placed in a glassine bag in the laboratory with the originals; the bags were labeled with the order number (= order number) in the upper left corner with a black pen. In the Augsburg State Archives, the negative duplicates and photo prints (for submission to users) were separated from the originals by working students and provided with sub-numbers, since the older parchment bags often contained several originals. The trainees created, separately according to the formats of the originals, with typewriter several directories. In 2004, Florian Anton Kofler used the Excel program to record the holdings of the Augsburg State Archives and the Donauwörth City Archives on behalf of the Swabian District. Mr. Kofler also listed some older photo prints from the remaining disordered appendix (negatives on film strips as well as older photo prints) of the picture collection, for which a small series C (so far 29 objects) was formed. Mr. Kofler has kindly left his data records to the Augsburg State Archives, on the basis of which, after importing them into the Faust database program, the following finding aids with registers could be created: - Augsburg State Archives, Donauwörth Land Construction Office, Lippert Picture Collection. This archive stock has been added to the finding aids database. - Donauwörth City Archive, Historical Society, Lippert Picture Collection. This find book is located in the Augsburg State Archives as an external repertory. In addition, two files in the inventory LANDBAUAMT DONAUWÖRTH are to be referred to: J 63: Heimatschutz und Denkmalpflege with 36 photos, 1935-1940. J 65: Heimatschutz und Denkmalpflege with 11 photos, 1921-1929. Literature: Ottmar Seuffert "Hans Lippert, Chairman of the Historischer Verein für Donauwörth und Umgebung e.V. (Historical Association for Donauwörth and Surroundings) In difficult times (1930-1938)", in: Mitteilungen des Historischen Vereins für Donauwörth und Umgebung 2000, pp. 67-81. Augsburg, Günter Steiner, 6 April 2005
