Identity Statement

Reference Code

HU OSA 408-6

Title

Records of the East German Ministry of State Security (Stasi)

Date(s)

1950 - 2007

Description Level

Subfonds

Extent and medium (processed)

11 Archival boxes, 1.38 linear meters

Context

Archival history

The original place of preservation of the documents is the Archives of the State Security Service of the German Democratic Republic (Bundesbeauftragten für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, BStU).

Content and Structure

Scope and Content (Abstract)

László Varga researched the operation and records of the Eastern German state security service (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, commonly known as Stasi) in 1993. In cases he came up against research restrictions or missing files, he turned to BStU (Bundesbeauftragter für die Stasi-Unterlagen, the so called Gauck Office).

On a grant from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Varga spent two months in Berlin in 2000 to research the files, and after this period the Gauck Office kept sending him copies of files for years; these documents make up the first series of the subfonds.

A year before, in cooperation with the Budapest City Archives the Gauck Office’s travelling Stasi exhibition was on show in the National Széchenyi Library, Budapest in summer 1999.

The exhibition makes up the second series in the sub-fonds.

This subfonds is the most important collection of Stasi files in Hungary.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information

No destruction took place when processing the material.

Accruals

Not Expected

Conditions of Access and Use

Conditions governing access

The general rules of research in OSA Research Room apply.

Conditions governing reproduction

A dokumentumok oktatási és kutatási célból digitálisan másolhatók az OSA kutatótermében.

Description Control

Archivist's note

Processed by László Varga and Örs Lehel Tari, March 24, 2015.