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| Historische Kommission für Sachsen | |
|---|---|
| Name | Historische Kommission für Sachsen |
| Formation | 1891 |
| Type | Scholarly commission |
| Headquarters | Dresden |
| Location | Saxony |
| Leader title | Vorsitz |
Historische Kommission für Sachsen is a scholarly commission founded in the late 19th century in Dresden that promotes research on the regional past of Saxony and surrounding territories. It serves as a coordinating body for historians, archivists and editors connected to institutions across Leipzig, Chemnitz and Freiberg, and it supports editions, monographs and source publications relevant to Central European history. The Commission interacts with universities, archives and museums while producing critical editions and organizing conferences, workshops and lecture series.
The Commission emerged amid debates involving scholars from Dresden, Leipzig, Berlin, Munich, Vienna and Prague during the Wilhelminian era and the German Empire, aligning with contemporary efforts by the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, the Historische Kommission für Niedersachsen und Bremen and the Königlich-Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig. Early members included figures associated with Heinrich von Treitschke, Theodor Mommsen, Leopold von Ranke's historiographical legacy, and corresponded with editors of the Deutsche Geschichtsquellen des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. During the Weimar Republic, the Commission maintained links to scholars in Görlitz, Chemnitz, Zwickau and Meissen, while navigating political shifts involving the Reichstag and cultural policies of the Freistaat Sachsen. After 1945 the Commission negotiated continuity and rupture amid institutions such as the Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden, the Staatsarchiv Dresden and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, later reconfiguring ties with universities including Technische Universität Dresden, Universität Leipzig, TU Bergakademie Freiberg and Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Post-reunification, it engaged with federal initiatives like the Bundesarchiv and European research programmes connected to the European Research Council and the Humboldt-Stiftung.
The Commission's remit covers editions of sources, regional prosopography, local chronologies and monument inventories linking projects in Sächsische Schweiz, Vogtland, Erzgebirge and Oberlausitz, cooperating with institutions such as the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, the Grünes Gewölbe, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte. It supports work on figures like Augustus II, Augustus III, Friedrich August I (Sachsen), Johann Gottfried Herder, Richard Wagner, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Georg Baselitz, and on events such as the Thirty Years' War, the Congress of Vienna, the Napoleonic Wars, the 1848 Revolutions, the Industrial Revolution in Saxony and the Peace of Prague (1635). The Commission fosters regional archaeology linked to the Saxon State Office for Monument Preservation, epigraphy associated with the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, and legal-historical studies connected to the Sächsische Verfassung.
The Commission is organized with an elected Vorsitz, stellvertretende Vorsitzende and a geschäftsführender Ausschuss, drawing members from the Universität Leipzig, Technische Universität Dresden, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universität Potsdam, Universität Jena, Universität Halle, Universität Rostock, Universität Greifswald, Universität zu Köln, Universität München, Universität Hamburg and research libraries such as the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel. Honorary members often include directors of the Staatsarchiv Leipzig, the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Sachsen, curators from the Alte Galerie, and editors from publishing houses like Duncker & Humblot, De Gruyter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. International correspondents have hailed from Oxford University, Cambridge University, Sorbonne Université, Université de Strasbourg, Università di Bologna, Università di Padova, Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University and the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The Commission issues source editions, yearbooks and monograph series often published in collaboration with Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Historische Zeitschrift and regional periodicals like the Sächsische Heimatblätter and Mitteldeutsche Zeitung supplements. Notable series parallel to its work include the Quellen und Forschungen zur sächsischen Geschichte, critical editions akin to the Handbuch der historischen Buchbestände, and catalogues comparable to the Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek. Contributors include historians writing on Ernst Haeckel, Max Weber, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Theodor Fontane, Ernst Moritz Arndt, Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gustav Freytag and Wilhelm von Humboldt.
Research projects range from urban history of Dresden and Leipzig to mining history in Freiberg and textile industrialization in Chemnitz, addressing topics connected to the Hanoverian Succession, the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Saxony, the German Confederation, the North German Confederation and the German Reich (1871–1918). The Commission has contributed to prosopographical databases, digital editions similar to Monumenta Germaniae Historica Online, and collaborative projects with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the German Historical Institute London, the German Historical Institute Washington D.C., and the Deutsches Historisches Museum.
The Commission maintains partnerships with archives and museums such as the Stadtmuseum Dresden, the Grassi Museum Leipzig, the Deutsches Museum, the Museum für Naturkunde, the Bundeswehr Historical Office, and networks including the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Historischer Forschungsinstitute, the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, the DFG-Nachwuchsgruppe programmes and European consortia like COST and HERA. It collaborates with foundations such as the Robert Bosch Stiftung, the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung on fellowships and symposia.
The Commission's editorial work engages with holdings in the Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden, the Stadtarchiv Leipzig, the Sächsisches Wirtschaftsarchiv, the Technische Sammlungen Dresden and private archives of families such as the Wettin dynasty, linking editorial principles practiced in projects like the Monumenta Germaniae Historica and the Max Planck digital editions. It sponsors critical source work on charters, inventories, correspondences and parish registers comparable to collections in the Bundesarchiv Koblenz and manuscript codices in the Staatsbibliothek Bamberg.
Category:History of Saxony Category:Historical societies of Germany