Preserving history, telling stories, building bridges
DLR Central Archive
Preserving history, telling stories, building bridges – the DLR Central Archive safeguards the past, the present and ideas for the future.
DLR Central Archive
Paper treasures
Originals from 1897 of student research projects by DLR’s founding father Ludwig Prandtl are treated with great care.
The Central Archive of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) documents DLR's historical information and preserves it for the future. Its main task is to store, evaluate and catalogue the documents created by DLR and its predecessor organisations and to make them available to the scientific community and the interested public.
The contents of the DLR Central Archive
The Central Archive records date back to the late 19th century. The documentation focuses on the period after 1969, when the modern DLR was formed by the merger of the German Aeronautics Research Institute (Deutsch Versuchsanstalt für Luftfahrt; DVL), the Aerodynamics Research Institute (Aerodynamischen Versuchsanstalt; AVA) and the German Aeronautical Research Institute (Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luftfahrt; DFL).
Record overview
- documents from the Executive Board and other decision-making and advisory bodies
- administrative documents
- research reports and other scientific documents
- research project documents
- official documents from scientists
- patent documents
- image materials
- design and construction drawings
The online Archive catalog is available for extensive research in our records.
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Contact
Jessika Wichner
Head of Central Archive
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Central Archive
Bunsenstraße 10, Göttingen