Das Landesarchiv NRW
New president for the Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen
Dr. Tobias Herrmann to take over on 1 December 2025

The Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen has a new president: Dr. Tobias Herrmann will take over as head of the largest archive in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia on 1 December 2025.
Born in Aachen in 1975, he studied history, political science, economics and German philology at the universities of Aachen, Nottingham and Bonn from 1994 onwards. In 2006, he obtained his doctorate in medieval and modern history from the University of Bonn with a thesis on ‘The beginnings of municipal writing – Aachen in the European context’. From 2006 to 2008, Dr. Herrmann completed a traineeship for the higher archival service at the Federal Archives in Koblenz, Berlin and Freiburg, as well as at the Marburg Archival School. He then served as head of the Ludwigsburg branch of the Federal Archives until 2012, where he was responsible for the records of the Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes. From 2012 to 2023, Tobias Herrmann was responsible for press and public relations, strategic planning, management support and international relations in the Department for Technical Policy Matters at the Federal Archives in Koblenz. In 2021, he was appointed Permanent Representative of the Department Head for Policy and Science. Since 2023, he has been head of the Federal Republic of Germany Department of the Federal Archives and is responsible for analogue and digital record keeping and the use of Federal Republic documents.
Dr. Tobias Herrmann was also a member of the board of the Association of German Archivists (Verband deutscher Archivarinnen und Archivare e.V.) from 2017 to 2021.
He succeeds Dr. Frank Bischoff as President of the North Rhine-Westphalia State Archives, who retired on 31 August 2025. Dr. Tobias Herrmann brings with him extensive experience in addressing key archival challenges such as digital transformation, sustainable cultural heritage protection and modern access to archival material. He aims to further strengthen the archive as the state's central memory institution and to continue national and international professional exchange.
The colleagues at the Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen look forward to working with the new president.
The headquarters of the Landesarchiv and its president are located in Duisburg
Schifferstraße 30
47059 Duisburg
Email: poststelle[at]lav.nrw.de
Telephone number: +49 203 98721-0
Postal address:
Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen
40208 Düsseldorf
East Westphalia-Lippe Department
Willi-Hofmann-Straße 2
32756 Detmold
Email: owl[at]lav.nrw.de
Telephone number: +49 5231 766-0
Postal address:
Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen
40208 Düsseldorf
Schifferstraße 30
47059 Duisburg
Email: rheinland[at]lav.nrw.de
Telephone number: +49 203 98721-0
Postal address:
Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen
40208 Düsseldorf
Bohlweg 2
48147 Münster
Email: westfalen[at]lav.nrw.de
Telephone number: +49 251 4885-0
Postal address:
Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen
40208 Düsseldorf
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