Fonds Phil.Fak.01 - Phil.Fak.01 - Faculty of Philosophy, Dean's Office 1810-1945

Foreword: Information from the Findbuch, which Archive Director Heinz Kossack compiled in September 1965, with a few more intensive annotations: Foreword: History of the Registratur-Bildners: Die Philosophische Fakultät der Berliner Universität besteht seit der Gründung der Universität im Jahr 1810 besteht. The statutes of the university from 1816 as well as the statutes of the faculty itself from 1838 provide comprehensive information about the tasks and the structure of the faculty. 1) These statutes remained in force until 1923 with some changes, except for a new version in 1912. 2) In July 1923 new statutes were prepared and negotiated on the basis of a decree of the Prussian Minister for Science, Art and National Education of 30 March 1923, which, however, according to the available documents were not concluded. 3) In March 1930, the Prussian State Ministry issued a new statute to the Berlin University, in which the legal status of the faculty as a "corporation and authority" was also stated. 4) As an authority, the faculty had the following tasks: 1. to supervise teaching in its fields and its completeness; 2. to supervise students from a scientific point of view; 3. to grant academic dignity. 5) At the turn of the century, the faculty is also referred to as an "authority" for the tasks of academic self-administration and state administration. It had the status of an independent state authority alongside the rector and senate. 6) The first lectures of the newly founded faculty began in the winter semester 1810/11 in the following scientific fields: Philosophy Mathematical Sciences Natural Sciences Cameralistic Sciences Fine Arts Historical Sciences Classical Studies Philological Sciences Modern Languages and Literature The first Dean of the Faculty was Fichte. With effect from April 1, 1936, the long-considered separation of the humanities and natural sciences was achieved by the formation of an independent Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. 7) This made it necessary to reorganize the faculty. Prof. Dr. Breloer became Dean of the new Faculty of Philosophy. The following institutes and seminars were now part of the Faculty of Philosophy: Philosophical Seminar Psychological Institute Pedagogical Seminar Institute for Political Pedagogy Seminar for Nationalities Studies Institute for Newspaper Studies Institute for Prehistory and Germanic Early History Historical Seminar Seminar for Eastern European History and Regional Studies Seminar for State Studies and Historical Geography Institute for Military Policy and Geography Archaeological Seminar Art History Institute Music History Seminar Institute for Sound Research Institute for Classical Studies Germanic Seminar Theatre Studies Institute Seminar for English Philology Seminar for Romance Philology Institute for Slavic Languages Hungarian Institute Indogermanic Seminar Seminar for Regional Geography Seminar for Languages and Literatures Hungarian Institute for Indo-European Institute for Languages and Literature Seminar for Languages and Literature and Classical Studies of the Orient Sinological Seminary Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies Egyptological Seminary 8) The following changes occurred in the structure of the institutes until 1945: Newly founded: Seminar for German Folklore Institute for Folk Art Research The Seminar for State Studies and Historical Geography was integrated into the Historical Seminar as a department for regional history and historical geography. The Institute for Military Policy and Geography was renamed the "Wehrpolitisches Institut" and the archaeological seminar the "Winckelmann-Institut". The seminars for English and Romance Philology were renamed "English and Romance Seminars". The Seminar for Slavic Languages was given the name "Slavic Institute". Furthermore, the following were newly founded: "Institute for Portugal and Brazil", as well as the "Orient-Institut", into which previous sinological seminaries and the Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies were integrated as departments. The last dean until 8 May 1945 was Prof. H. Grapow. 1) University Archives of Humboldt University: "Faculty of Philosophy." The Statutes of the Faculty, Archive No. 16, p. 144 and Statutes of the University of Berlin, no. J. Section II, p. 6 f (publication) 2) U.A. of the HU: Philos. Fak. Faculty: Ebenda, Archive No. 17, Sheet 181 f 3) Ebenda, B. 194 - 302 4) The Statutes of the Prussian Universities and Technical Colleges, Part 6. The University of Berlin, 1930, Pages 16 - 25. 5) Statutes of the Faculty of Philosophy, Berlin 1912, § 4 (printed). 6) E. Wende: "Grundlagen des Preußischen Hochschulrechts" Berlin 1930, p. 113 7) Official Gazette of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin, B. 7 dated April 1, 1936 8) Amtsblatt der Friedrichs-Universität zu Berlin, Bl. 7 vom 1. April 1936, p. 155 Registratur und Bestandsgeschichte I. Registratur-Verhältnisse The registry of the Faculty of Philosophy has been managed centrally by the university registry since the university was founded. 1) The faculty thus had nothing to do with the keeping of its files. The order within the registry was done in the simplest way in alphabetical keyword order. This order was maintained until 1945. Since the tasks and the structure of the faculty remained constant since its foundation in 1810, the registry conditions also remained unchanged. The formation of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in 1936 and the incorporation of the Faculty of Philosophy into the Faculty of Natural Sciences did not change anything in the existing stock. TWO. Access The holdings have been in the custody of the University Archives since it was founded in 1954. The alphabetical order of keywords was still used, so that its use was extremely difficult. There was also no overview of the existing files. III Archival processing Due to the existing keyword order, there were no factual connections within the holdings. It was therefore necessary to reorganise the stock. Functional groups had to be created and the individual record units assigned to these groups. A draft framework file plan for the scientific institutions facilitated this work. The inventory was first drawn up in order to make it easier to use. The group "Promotions" did not list the 733 volumes of promotion files individually, since they are already indexed by a card index. The order was done after the distortion. The same procedure was followed for the "Habilitations" group as for the doctorates. The existing faculty personal files are recorded in a special index of names. It was therefore decided not to include them again in the search book. On the other hand, the creation of a register of names and objects was recommended to make it easier for the user to work with the holdings. The order and indexing work was carried out in the months of July to September 1965 by the head of the archive, Dr. Heinz Kossack Quellen- und Literaturnachweis I. Quellen: 1. Archivalien Universitäts-Archiv der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Philosophische Fakultät: The Statutes of the Faculty, Archive No. 16 and 17 2. Publications: Statutes of the University of Berlin Statutes of the Faculty of Philosophy, Berlin 1912 The Statutes of the Prussian Universities and Technical Colleges, Part 6, "Die Universität Berlin" Berlin 1930 Official Gazette of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin Bl. 7 of April 1, 1936 Personnel and Course Catalogue of the University of Berlin Winter Semester 1944/45 II. Literature: E. Wende: "Grundlagen des Preußischen Hochschulrechts" Berlin 1930 1) see On this: Findbuch "Rector and Senate of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin, 1835 - 1945" (in German) S. IX, Berlin 1962 in the U.A. of the HUB to Berlin citation way: HU UA, Faculty of Philosophy.01, No. XXX. HU UA, Phil.Fak.01, No. XXX.

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