It was the year 1949 – the same year in which the MGH came to Munich and moved in to their new quarters in the quondam Nazi "Führerbau" (now Katherina-von-Bora street 10) – as the „Institut zur Erforschung der nationalsozialistischen Politik“, later renamed as the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (IfZ), took up work in Reitmorstraße 29, some 2,5 km away. As the digital chronicle published online by the IfZ on the occasion of its jubilee records, the institute started with a staff of two, a half-day secretary, and 28 boxes full of papers from the Nuremberg Processes. („Das Institut startet mit zwei Angestellten, einer Halbtagsschreibkraft – und 28 Kisten Papier aus den Nürnberger Prozessen“)
The IfZ, originally dedicated to the study of the Nazi dictatorship and now more generally to contemporary history, has firmly supported the Monumenta Germaniae Historica with its expertise in our efforts to reappraise our own institutional history. The institute’s 75th jubilee is a good occasion for us to express our thanks!
The IfZ and the MGH are partners in the Kompetenzverbund Historische Wissenschaften München.