Akten zur Auswärtigen Politik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (AAPD)Contact:Dr. Ilse Dorothee Pautsch, Senior Editor (pautsch AT ifz-muenchen.de) Dr. Tim Geiger (geiger@ifz-muenchen.de) Institut für Zeitgeschichte c/o Auswärtiges Amt Institut für Zeitgeschichte www.ifz-muenchen.de/en/news/topics/foreign-policy-documentation-aapd |
The series “Akten zur Auswärtigen Politik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland” (Documents on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany, AAPD) consists of annual volumes of about 400 – 500 annotated documents, published immediately after the end of the 30-year classification period. To guarantee academic independence, the German Federal Foreign Office transferred this task to the Institut für Zeitgeschichte München – Berlin (Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History in Munich and Berlin, IfZ), which established a team of historians based within the Foreign Office. Their work is supervised by a board of three university teachers headed since 2015 by Professor Andreas Wirsching, Director of the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History.
Four years after publication (in print and online), AAPD volumes are available in Open Access. Thus, the volumes 1949–1953 and 1961–1989 can already be read and researched free of charge.
Direct access to the open access editions can be found here.
Beyond the AAPD volumes, the editors group also published a special volume on Germany’s unification 1989/90: “Die Einheit: Das Auswärtige Amt, das DDR-Außenministerium und der Zwei-plus-Vier-Prozess” (Unity: The Foreign Office, the GDR Foreign Ministry and the Two Plus Four Process). This volume includes 170 documents from the Federal Foreign Office and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the GDR, dating from summer 1989 to autumn 1990. It can be studied in Open Access here. Moreover, additional documents on German unification which are not included in this edition can be accessed online.
Further part of the editors’ group is the joint German-Russian project “Germany and the Soviet Union, 1933–1941: Documents from Russian and German Archives”. Designed as four volumes edition, this bilateral series focuses on the Relations between the German Reich and the Soviet Union from Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 to the invasion of the USSR in 1941. It includes previously unpublished sources from a number of archives in both countries in addition to essential documents that have been published previously. It takes into account not only diplomatic but also economic, military, cultural, and academic contacts. The first three volumes up to August 1939 have been published in 2014, 2019 and 2023.
Akten zur Auswärtigen Politik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Published volumes of „Akten zur Auswärtigen Politik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland“
1949/50, 1 vol., Munich 1997
1951, 1 vol., Munich 1999
1952, 1 vol., Munich 2000
1953, 2 vols., Munich 2001
1954: 2 vols., Berlin/Boston 2023
1961, 3 vols., Berlin/Boston 2018
1962, 3 vols., Munich 2010
1963, 3 vols., Munich 1994
1964, 2 vols, Munich 1995
1965, 3 vols, Munich 1996
1966, 2 vols., Munich 1997
1967, 3 vols., Munich 1998
1968, 2 vols., Munich 1999
1969, 2 vols, Munich 2000
1970, 3 vols., Munich 2001
1971, 3 vols., Munich 2002
1972, 3 vols., Munich 2003
1973, 3 vols., Munich 2004
1974, 2 vols., Munich 2005
1975, 2 vols., Munich 2006
1976, 2 vols., Munich 2007
1977, 2 vols., Munich 2008
1978, 2 vols., Munich 2009
1979, 2 vols., Munich 2010
1980, 2 vols., Munich 2011
1981, 3 vols., Munich 2012
1982, 2 vols., Munich 2013
1983, 2 vols., Munich 2014
1984, 2 vols., Berlin/Boston 2015
1985, 2 vols., Berlin/Boston 2016
1986, 2 vols., Berlin/Boston 2017
1987, 2 vols., Berlin/Boston 2018
1988, 2 vols., Berlin/Boston 2019
1989, 2 vols., Berlin/Boston 2020
1990, 2 vols., Berlin/Boston 2021
1991, 2 vols., Berlin/Boston 2022
1992, 2 vols., Berlin/Boston 2023
1993, 2 vols., Berlin/Boston 2024