A national archive or state portal · Koblenz, Germany · A catalogue entry — not photographed
Bundesarchiv
The German Federal Archives. Civil and military administration of the Prussian provinces, the wartime records, and the card indexes of the expelled — much of it for ground that is no longer German.
https://www.bundesarchiv.de/ ↗
Last checked 2026-09-22. Tell us if this has changed.
The ground it holds
Record regions whose registers are filed here, and for which years.
- 1871–1918 German Empire — Province of Posen
- 1939–1945 German occupation — Reichsgau Wartheland
- 1938–1945 Sudetenland and the Reichsprotektorat
- 1938–1945 Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren
- 1525–1871 Duchy, then Kingdom, of Prussia
- 1871–1945 German Empire — Province of East Prussia
- 1945–2026 Russia in the north; Poland in the south; Lithuania at Memel — THE BIGGEST TRAP OF ALL, AND IT RUNS THE OTHER WAY. The population fled or was expelled and — unusually — MANY OF THE CHURCH REGISTERS WENT WEST WITH THEM. East Prussian Protestant registers are largely in Berlin and Leipzig, NOT in Kaliningrad. Looking for Königsberg records in Russia is the classic wasted year of German genealogy.
- 1871–1919 German Empire
- 1920–1939 Germany; Danzig a Free City
- 1939–1945 German occupation
- 1940–1944 German annexation
- 1939–1945 German annexation of the whole
- 1940–1991 Soviet Union — Estonian and Latvian SSRs, with a German occupation 1941–44
- 1939–1945 The General Government and the annexed western districts
- 1941–1945 Partitioned between Germany, Italy and Hungary
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This map knows Bundesarchiv covers DE, PL, RU, LT, but nobody has walked its catalogue into the shelf. That is a gap in this map, not a gap in the record. Help fill it →