Digital Archive

University Registers

The University Registers (Matrikeln) are some of the most important sources of historical information on the people associated with a university. They originally served as proof that a person had been admitted into the privileged community of a university...

Deeds

The Archive is home to a total of 133 deeds. A small selection, which is to be expanded in the future, has been digitised and made available online...

Minutes

The minutes of the Council and the Senate meetings from 1574 to 1927 have been digitised and made available in a total of 131 digital volumes. The Academic Council, later on the Senior Council and later still the Academic Senate were the central constitutional and self-regulatory bodies of the University...

Ledgers

The University’s ledgers from the years 1566 to 1758, of which there are 180 volumes in total, are now available as a digital resource. The University has never been just a research and teaching institution, it is also an enterprise in an economic sense...

Academic Teaching Records (Fleißlisten)

We have 78 volumes of digitised academic teaching records from the years 1796 to 1866. These records, known as Fleißlisten, were commonly presented to the Registrar – the state-appointed supervisor of the University – as evidence of professorial teaching duties...

Architectural Drawings and Construction Plans

The Archive houses more than 1000 historical construction plans and architectural drawings from the former Academic Building Authority (akademische Bauverwaltung) dating between the years 1883 and 1945, of which a selection of digitised documents is available for viewing...

Estate Maps

The Archive has a total of 360 historical maps illustrating the former estates owned by the University. A selection of these cartographic materials is available in the digital archive...

Archive of Pomeranian Folklore

The Archive of Pomeranian Folklore contains around 20,000 completed questionnaires from about 1100 locations in Pomerania and contains information on harvest traditions, festivities, games, dances, rhymes and many other aspects of Pomeranian folklore and regional customs...