Vision - The Wiesbaden City Archive: Our history. In good hands.
After careful selection, authentic information on the past and present of the state capital of Wiesbaden is transferred to the Wiesbaden City Archive, stored securely and in compliance with data protection regulations, and made accessible to everyone. In doing so, we are guided by five ideas.
The team of the Wiesbaden City Archive 2025.
1. we are part of the diverse cultural life of our city and offer a forum for historical education and cultural experiences. To this end, we preserve historical treasures and bring them to life for people, now and in the future.
As a department of the City of Wiesbaden's Department of Culture, we are an important part of the city's cultural offerings and are committed to achieving the goals expressed in the city's cultural development plan. In this way, we contribute to a cultural identity for Wiesbaden that is committed to the goals of sustainability, diversity, digitality and broad cultural participation. As an institution of cultural moderation, we strive for partnership-based cooperation between municipal, state, civil society and commercial cultural institutions, especially in the field of historical research and communication.
We have set ourselves the goal of developing new and innovative historical education programs by 2025 in cooperation with other players in the "Cultural Heritage" cluster of the state capital of Wiesbaden, which appeal to as diverse a target group as possible and enable cultural participation for all people. To this end, we have restructured and clarified our event program and are increasingly offering digital and hybrid events in addition to traditional formats on site at the city archive.
2. we are a historical service center for the citizens of Wiesbaden and for customers from all over the world. In doing so, we cooperatively support civic engagement and historical research.
We preserve a wide variety of data on the historical development of our city and its inhabitants and make it available for easy and efficient use in analog and digital form. Today, we answer over 3,000 verbal and written inquiries about our archive material every year and welcome several hundred visitors to our reading room and to our exhibitions and events. It is our task to meet the requirements of data protection and free access to information in equal measure. We communicate openly and promptly with our users. Our ideal is to provide the widest possible access to the municipal archives within the framework of the legal regulations on data and copyright protection.
We have set ourselves the goal of further minimizing response and processing times for requests and making three times as many digital records available online for use by 2030. To this end, we will create a digital reading room by 2025 and enable the digital processing of usage and protection period reduction requests.
3. we are an active part of the digitalization of municipal administration and contribute our expertise to the digital transformation. This makes us a formative part of an innovative and dynamic professional field.
We have created the technical prerequisites for archiving the digitization processes of the city administration and creating a meaningful record for historical research, even in times of hybrid file management, which consists of an increasing number of digital components. We are thus building up the digital Wiesbaden City Archive and are cooperating with other archives in the DIMAG network. We are a training archive and train future archivists in a practical way.
We have set ourselves the goal of completely digitizing our internal work processes by 2030 and thus adapting our customer service to the needs of today's world. Wherever possible and sensible, we want to make ourselves available as a pilot organization for digitization processes of the state capital Wiesbaden and actively participate in the development of new electronic standards for the digitization of municipal archives.
4. we provide rapid and well-founded historical expertise for the decision-makers in our city. To this end, we preserve the memory of the past and thus create the basis for social responsibility in the present.
We advise the political decision-making bodies of the state capital of Wiesbaden as well as the city's administration, businesses and foundations with well-founded historical expertise. With our statements, reports and administrative proposals, we help to ensure that democratic decision-making processes take place with the most accurate historical perspective possible. As an administrative body, we take care of the historical places of remembrance, memorials and memorial sites in the state capital and organize contemporary information and remembrance formats on the history of National Socialism and its consequences.
We have set ourselves the goal of making a large part of the knowledge we have produced to date in the course of urban history research, such as our publication series and the city lexicon, available free of charge and digitally by 2025, thus providing young people in particular with new access to Wiesbaden's urban history. In addition, by 2025 we will scientifically evaluate and revise the information provided by the city's memorials and memorial sites and present them in a contemporary way. By 2030, we will comprehensively research new or previously neglected topics of the city's history, such as Wiesbaden's migration history, and make these research findings available to the citizens of our city digitally and free of charge.
5. we act in a resource-conserving and sustainable manner, and we are curious and open to change. The Wiesbaden City Archive is an integrative place where very different people do their best together as colleagues every day.
People with different professional and personal backgrounds, training and qualifications work at the Wiesbaden City Archive. We see ourselves as a working community in which all team members can contribute their skills and strengths and in which cooperation is characterized by mutual respect and recognition. We openly exchange ideas, continuously train ourselves and deal constructively with mistakes. We are guided by innovative management and control methods in order to continuously develop our collaboration and organizational processes.
We have set ourselves the goal of intensifying our efforts by 2025 in order to fulfill our tasks in a resource-conserving and sustainable manner. Together with the entire city administration and in conjunction with the Department of Culture, we want to contribute to achieving the climate and sustainability goals of the state capital of Wiesbaden and will use our expertise accordingly.
