111 years ago, in 1912 the Kingdom of Saxony, the City of Leipzig, and the Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhändler zu Leipzig (German Book Traders’ Association of Leipzig) signed a contract for the foundation of the Deutsche Bücherei.
The library location in Frankfurt am Main was established in 1946 after the partition of Germany.
On 3 October, German Unity Day, our libraries in Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main merged into a single institution. The two locations have since developed into a single modern institution that serves the whole country and has a crucial role to play in the cultural memory of Germany.
111 years after the foundation of the German National Library, we celebrated our anniversary by publishing 111 stories from the German National Library in our blog and holding a variety of events, both online and at our physical locations.