With combined forces towards a central history museum of the GDR

The Museum für Deutsche Geschichte (MfDG) was officially founded on 18/19 January 1952 in East Berlin. Time was pressing, because the first permanent exhibition was to open only six months later.
Janine Kersten, provenance researcher at the DHM, sketches the great effort the museum undertook in its founding years to build up its collection as quickly as possible. She pays particular attention to the objects that came to the collection from the Department of Depository Management (Tresorverwaltung) in the Finance Ministry of the GDR.