| German: Bundesarchiv | |
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 The Federal Archives in Koblenz | |
| Archive overview | |
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| Formed | 2 March 1952 |
| Status | Active |
| Headquarters | Potsdamer Straße 1 56075 Koblenz 50°20′32.712″N 7°34′21.216″E / 50.34242000°N 7.57256000°E |
| Annual budget | €54.6 million (as of 2009[update])[1] |
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| Parent department | Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media |
| Website | www |
| Map | |
  Location on a map of Rhineland-Palatinate | |
The German Federal Archives or Bundesarchiv (BArch) (German: Bundesarchiv, lit. "Federal Archive") are the National Archives of Germany. They were established at the current location in Koblenz in 1952.
They are subordinated to the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media (Claudia Roth since 2021) under the German Chancellery,[2] and before 1998, to the Federal Ministry of the Interior.[1]
On 6 December 2008, the Archives donated 100,000 photos to the public, by making them accessible via Wikimedia Commons.[3]
- ^ a b "2009 - Einzelplan" [2009 - Budget] (PDF). German Federal Ministry of Finance (in German). 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 July 2011.
- ^ "Die Staatsministerin und ihr Amt" [The Federal Commissioner and her Office]. Staatsministerin für Kultur und Medien (in German).
- ^ "Wikipedia Receives German Pictorial History". Deutsche Welle. 6 December 2008. Archived from the original on 18 January 2021.
The German Federal Archives has provided online encyclopedia Wikipedia with 100,000 historical images for free public access. The donation was the largest ever to the Wiki Commons media page. The images were made available to the Wikimedia Commons page, a database of over three million freely usable media files, from Thursday, Dec. 4. The donated pictures cover periods such as the Weimar Republic, the German colonial era, the Third Reich and Germany after reunification. It was the largest donation of media to the Commons page since it was set up in September 2004.