The holdings of the DSHI
Originals:
- Deeds (DSHI 010)
- Bequests (DSHI 100)
- Family and company archives (DSHI 110)
- Associations, societies, organisations (DSHI 120)
- Cities (DSHI 130)
- Small acquisitions (DSHI 140)
- LAR – Reklaitis Lithuanian Archive (DSHI 150)
- DBKA – Baltic German Church Archive (DSHI160)
- Collections (including posters, plaster casts, insignia) (DSHI 170)
- German Baltic dictionary (DSHI 180)
- Baltic knights (DSHI 190)
- Herder Research Council and Herder Institute (DSHI 200)
Copies
There are copies in the DSHI of the Baltic archive films, which were produced in 1940, in association with the resettlement of the Baltic Germans in Riga, Dorpat and Reval. There are around 800,000 microfilms. The holdings of the Reval City Archive (approx. 140 metres of shelving) is on permanent loan from the Federal archive for the purpose of copying. In total, the following groups of holdings exist:
- Deed collections (DSHI 500)
- 510 city archives (DSHI 510)
- Guilds in Riga (DSHI 520)
- Archives of the Baltic Knights (DSHI 530)
- KHA – Courland Ducal Archive (DSHI 540)
- Swedish and Russian government administration (DSHI 550)
- Court matters (DSHI 650)
- University of Dorpat and academic associations (DSHI 570)
- Small acquisitions (DSHI 580)
- KLA – Courland state archive [microfilms] (DSHI 590)