Jan Ludwig studied Constitutional, Social and Economic History, Economics and Historical Geography at the Rhenish Friedrich-Wilhelm-University of Bonn. Received PhD on ore mining in the Sauerland within a project of the German Mining Museum in Bochum from the University of Bonn. Archival traineeship at the German Federal Archives and the Archives School in Marburg. Since 2012 at the Department R (German Reich) of the German Federal Archives in Berlin-Lichterfelde, until March 2014 consultant for Economics and Finances and since April 2014 consultant for Documentation and the persecution of Jews.
Christian Groh (International Tracing Service – ITS, DE)
Studied History and English Studies in Heidelberg, PhD in History on re-establishment of police force in post-war Germany, Master in Archival Studies, 1998-2014 historian, archivist and finally director at the City Archives of Pforzheim – Institute of Town History, since 2014 head of department at the ITS. Key responsibility of the department: Safeguarding of original documents and improved accessibility for research purposes by means of digitization and indexing.
Karsten Jedlitschka (The Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the Former GDR – Archives, DE)
Studied in Munich and Princeton (USA), and received a PhD from the University of Munich in 2004. Jedlitschka completed his archival education at the Institute for Archival Sciences Marburg and the Saxonian State Archives Dresden. He worked as an archivist at the German Historical Institute in Rome, served as head of archives at the German National Academy of Sciences at Leopoldina, and, since fall 2007, has been the deputy director of the Department of Archives at the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic (BStU) – The Stasi Records Office.
Stefan Aumann (Hessian State Office for Studies in Regional History, DE)
Studied Medieval and Early Modern History, English Studies and Auxiliary Sciences of History in Göttingen and Dublin. Worked at the Max-Planck-Institute for History in Göttingen, at the Herder-Institute in Marburg and at the University Computer Center of the Philipps-University Marburg. Since 2010 research assistant at the Hessian State Office for Studies in Regional History, since 2014 scientific member of the Hessian Historical Commission.
Katrin Marx-Jaskulski (Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, DE)
Director of the central department of Civil Registries and the Land Registries Archives at the Hessian Regional Archives and responsible for conservation and the department of cadastral maps at the Hessian State Archives in Marburg.
Herbert Wurster (Archives of the Diocese of Passau, DE)
Studied History and English Studies in Regensburg and Kent (England). PhD from the University of Regensburg in 1980. Since 1993 Director of the Archives of the Diocese of Passau.
Studied secondary school teaching studies in History, English Studies and Pedagogy at the Philipps University Marburg and the Portsmouth Polytechnic. Archival traineeship at the City Archives of Detmold and the Archives School in Marburg. Since 2006 deputy director of the Hessian State Archives and since 2014 also consultant at the Hessian Regional Archives. Responsible for personnel and planning as well as various collections. Publications in the field of cadastral maps in Hessian-Kassel.
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