Ulrike Höroldt takes over the management of the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage
Press release from 12/13/2016
In July 2017, Prof Dr Jürgen Kloosterhuis will retire from his position as Director of the Prussian Secret State Archives after more than 20 years. He will be succeeded by Prof Dr Ulrike Höroldt, who currently heads the State Archives of Saxony-Anhalt. This was decided unanimously yesterday by the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.
Ulrike Höroldt, born in 1961, studied history and German language and literature at the Universities of Bonn and Munich and completed her doctorate in 1991 on a topic of medieval history. After completing her traineeship in archives in Baden-Württemberg, she worked as an archivist at the State Archives in Oranienbaum from 1995. She has held management positions since the end of 2001, initially briefly as head of the Braunschweig City Archives before becoming head of the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives in 2002. She still holds this position today. Ulrike Höroldt is also a long-standing member of various committees, such as the Conference of Heads of the Federal and State Archive Administrations and the Advisory Board of the German Lost Art Foundation. In 2011, she was also appointed honorary professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg for the subject of historical auxiliary sciences.
In recent years, Ulrike Höroldt's work as Archive Director has focussed on strategic conservation, the expansion of the Internet offering including online research, preparations for the development of a digital archive and the strategic and structural development of the various locations of the Saxony-Anhalt State Archive.
For the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Ulrike Höroldt's main concerns are not only the appropriate storage of the archive records, but also their digitisation and the expansion of the archive's internet presence. She would also like to promote academic work with and about the material in the Secret State Archives PK and international co-operation.