Wöll remains district archive nurse: Another step into the future!

Wöll remains district archive nurse: Another step into the future!

The happy celebration in the Weilheim-Schongau district brought a good news with it: Bernhard Wöll was reorganized as a volunteer for the next five years. This decision was made unanimously during the district committee on March 21, 2025. The district administrator Andrea Jochner-Weiß ceremoniously presented him with the order certificate on behalf of the State Archives in Munich. This will continue to play a central role in the district's archive work.

Wöll has been in use since 2010 and provides valuable support for communities, administrative communities and municipal associations in the district. His tasks are diverse: he advises on storage, development and securing of historical documents and also provides the legal and foundation supervisory authorities as a consultant. This recovery underlines the importance of municipal archive work, especially at a time when digitization and increasing documentation requirements come into play more than ever.

The role of the archivists in Bavaria

In Bavaria it is common for each district to be appointed one or more volunteer archive nurse, as reported GDA Bayern . These archivists have a crucial function: they take care of all local archives of their sprinkles that are not managed by specialist archivists or full -time. Equipped with an order deed and a civil certificate, you can advise municipalities competently on questions of the municipal archive system.

The important tasks of the archivister is, among other things, preparing archive regulations and usage regulations. They commission employees with the order or support of the municipal archive, create suitable archive rooms and decide on the archiving or destruction of documents. Regular visits to the communities enable them to discuss archive -related problems and report knowledge to the responsible state archive.

with a solid base and a good hand for archive care, Bernhard Wöll will also ensure a proper order in the district's historical documents in the coming years. The gratifying re -ordering shows how important archive work is for local memory, especially in times when the overview of digital and analogous documents is often lost. As a well -known saying says: "The past is the key to the future."