Fonds Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe, 69 Baden, Salem-15 - Press Documentary Prince Max of Baden / Kurt Hahn

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Tradition: The collection of political printed matter in the estate of Prince Max von Baden was probably rebuilt in Salem in the 1960s and not very happily formed, i.e. it was probably tied together to fascicles in a found, disordered state, regardless of the series of years for magazines and doublets for brochures. Although it formed a block in the written estate after storage, its content touched on the Salem library holdings. Thus, the boundaries between the two sides are fluid: brochures and individual journal numbers can be found here as well as inserted in the files and correspondence of the estate; at the same time, the collection of printed matter also contains independent publications that one would rather expect in the library. Even according to its provenance, the collection of printed matter cannot be clearly defined. A not inconsiderable part of this is probably due to Kurt Hahn's work as a press editor in the Federal Foreign Office or from his other areas of interest. Whether the English daily newspapers or the documentaries of Paul Rohrbach (Hahn's superior in the Foreign Office) and others on Eastern European politics were read only by Hahn and not by the prince himself, however, can no longer be clarified. When the Prince's estate was deposited at the General State Archive in Karlsruhe in 2014, the press documentation was selected from the estate in the narrower sense and set up as a separate collection. However, the close ties to the estate itself remain. Only real formation errors were corrected, duplicates usually returned to Salem.<br /><br /> Content and order: The documentation represents in a very dense way the political discourse in Germany on the most important topics of the war and the post-war period. Through leaflets, calls and small brochures, it combines grey literature with regular periodicals and official source publications, especially from the post-war period, such as on the question of war guilt. The rich pictorial material on the situation of the prisoners of war was probably collected by Prince Max himself. The topics of the so-called Heidelberg Association, the working group for a policy of law founded by Prince Max, are present in writings of its members such as Max Graf Montgelas or Hermann Oncken. The debate on French Rhineland policy also plays a major role. The collection was catalogued as part of an inventory project of the Stiftung Kulturgut Baden-Württemberg 2015. Since there was no older order, the writings were editorially grouped into topics of the war and post-war period. Since the time of publication already contributes substantially to the understanding, a ranking according to the author alphabet was omitted; here the person index can substitute. As an exception, a subject index was also created in order to be able to record the journal titles in it. The stock consists of 774 numbers in approx. 11 running meters. Karlsruhe, January 2017 Konrad Krimm

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