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An Index of Professors is now available online

What does Max von Pettenkofer have to do with the TUM? And who was Johann Gottfried Asimont? Answers to these questions can be found in the register of professors compiled by Gabriele Lemos and Giada Matheisen from the TUM Archives and now available online via our website.  The professors and external lecturers are listed from the founding of the…

The estate of the philosopher and TUM ordinarius Jan Berg was handed over to the TUM Archive

Exactly seven years ago, in November 2015, TUM received a memorial letter about the Swedish philosopher and TUM professor Jan Berg, who had died unexpectedly a few days earlier. And so this year we were able to receive his estate, which was given to us by his daughter Jenny. Among them are manuscripts, lectures and correspondence as well as Jan…

ICA-SUV Conference in Montréal: The TUM Archive is participating!

The ICA-SUV annual conference on "Commemoration and Archives in Universities and Research Institutions" will take place in Montréal from 7-9 September 2022. Katrin Bäumler will give a lecture on the 8th of September on the student files of the TUM Archives and their significance for the commemoration of victims of totalitarian regimes. For more…

An Index of the TUM Archive's estates is now available online

An index of estates is now available on the TUM Archive's website. It provides an overview of the total of 150 estates of former professors, staff and alumni in the TUM Archive's holdings.

BlogSlam for Archives Day 2022, 5-21 March

The TUM Archive participated in the BlogSlam of the Bavarian archives for #TagderArchive: "Facts, Stories, Curiosities" from 5-21 March 2022 with the article "Technology for All - Johann Bauschinger and the first laboratory of the TUM at the Nuremberg Industrial Exhibition in 1882". For further information see: …

Evaluation - a core task in the archive

Together with the archive of the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, the TUM Archive organised the annual spring conference of group 8 from the Association of German Archivists (VdA), which took place from 5-8 April 2022. The conference venues were the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, the TUM Academy Centre in…

Korbinian Aigner's apple paintings on a visit to Switzerland

From 18.09.2021- 02.01.2022, the artmuseum Chur exhibited 40 paintings by Korbinian Aigner from the TUM archive in the exhibition "Landliebe, Kunst und Landschaft".

53rd German Historians' Conference 5-8 October 2021

The TUM Archive participated in: the blogparade #Deutungskämpfe :  "Techniker mit Doktorhut – 120 Jahre Promotionsrecht an der Technischen Universität München"  Speeddating with 11 Archives from Munich on the 08.10.2021 

National Archives Day 7 March 2020

Field Post to the Institute for Organic Chemistry at the TH Munich. Correspondence from the Second World War between the Nobel Prize winner Hans Fischer and his colleagues An exhibition of the TUM Archive at the Deutsches Museum on the occasion of the National Archives Day. Museums Insel 1, Library Building, 80538 Munich 7 March 2020 │ 10.00 a.m.…