„Akten der Reichskanzlei. Weimarer Republik“ online

Meeting minutes and central documents from Scheidemann to Schleicher are now freely accessible on the Internet.

The central source edition on the political history of the Weimar Republic was published in 23 volumes between 1968 and 1990 by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the Federal Archives. It is still a "backbone series" (Hans Günter Hockerts) for research and teaching and has been freely accessible on the Internet since today.

The volumes can be searched in full text and are extensively linked within the documents as well as with relevant specialist historical offers on the Internet. These include the register of the General and New German Biography (ADB / NDB), online finding aids and the estate database of the Federal Archives, the Reichstag minutes, printed matter and handbooks, the Reich Law Gazette and the "Foreign Relations of the United States" edition. In addition, over 3500 short biographies of the persons mentioned were created and compared and linked with the personal name file (PND) of the German National Library. A special service is the cross-edition search across the era boundary in 1945 in the “Reich Chancellery Files. Weimar Republic "(1919-1933) and the" Cabinet Protocols of the Federal Government "(1949-1962).

Retro-digitization is a cooperation project between the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the Federal Archives. The competence center for electronic indexing and publication processes in the humanities at the University of Trier was the partner for entering the full text and programming the comprehensive search. The German Research Foundation funded the project from 2005 to 2007.

Maximilian Lanzinner (University of Bonn) and the academic editor Matthias Reinert presented the online edition on December 4, 2007 at the University of Bonn.