Translations:BSH Konzernarchiv/12/en

The archiving project commenced with a review of all documents of archival value to be found at company headquarters, leading to an initial estimate of how extensive the archive material might be. As part of this process, information meetings were arranged, primarily with heads of BSH divisions. As well as hearing about the plans for the new corporate archive, the participants were requested to sift through the material in their basements (aided by a particularly knowledgeable employee from their unit) to identify documents worthy of archiving. All in all, around 70 such meetings took place around Germany. In the space of only three months, just less than 150 linear meters of archival material were identified, including BSH business records, large collections of Bosch and Siemens advertising material and the archives of well-known brands such as Neff and Gaggenau.