Eckart Family Archive

The family archive was created in 1930 by Otto Eckart (1877 to 1942). He launched a foundation for this purpose. The Deed of Foundation, dated December 22, 1930, reads:

"Even though the Eckart Family Archive does not contain any major valuables at present, I still feel obliged to determine that the Eckart Family Archive shall never be the private property of a single person. Instead, only rights of administration are granted according to this Deed of Foundation, as it constitutes a coherent whole, and descendants of the person currently managing the archive shall be regarded as the future safekeepers of the same. On the death of the current safekeeper, further safekeeping of the archive will at first be delegated to his eldest son (eldest of the family), or, in accordance with the above-stated provisions, the interested party with time and space at his disposal; however, as long as there are bearers of the name Eckart descended from myself, these shall be preferred over female descendants under any circumstances."

Picture galleries

• Pictures of the Hawaiian line of the Eckart family
• Childhood in the Eckart family – then and now
• Impressions of Johannes Eckart’s canning factory in Zamdorf, Germany, dating from 1915
• Picture gallery with impressions from the history of the Pfanni factory

Sources related to the archive

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  Deed of Foundation for the Eckart Family Archive, signed by Otto Eckart on December 22, 1930.

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