Section of Archival Collections of the State Security Service (StB) and ČSR Ministry of the Interior


Department of Archival Collections of the State Security Service (StB)

  • Contact person: Mgr. Světlana Ptáčníková
  • Location: Kanice
  • Mailing address: P.O.Box 29, Vlkova 2481/4, 628 00 Brno
  • Telephone: +420 603 191 433
  • Fax: +420 545 227 563
  • E-mail: badatelna.kanice@abscr.cz

The Department of Archival Collections of the State Security Service (StB) administers the collections of individual components of the former State Security Service (mainly regional and district), part of the collections of the Ministry of the Interior, the collections of forced labor camps, internment camps and the Prison Guard Directorate. The department administers their records, organizes them and inventorizes them. Part of the archival material overlaps with materials stored in the Department of Archival Collections of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. Department staff look up and – pursuant to archival law no. 499/2004  Coll. – make accessible relevant archival materials to private and official applicants, make extracts and copies of them, and carry out thematic research. Most important is the ability to track within the StB files data on persons of interest about whom dossiers were maintained. Of course, a part of the dossiers was shredded in December 1989 or earlier. Often the information in these now non-existent, or shredded, dossiers can be very well compensated for using data from work plans, evaluations, reports on various issues, summary reports, reports from inspections carried out in individual units, etc.

Pursuant to Act No. 412/2005 Coll., the department looks up records for security screenings carried out by the National Security Office (Národní bezpečnostní úřad – NBÚ). It further looks up records for the Security Section of the Ministry of the Interior, to be used as groundwork for the issuing of clearing certificates pursuant to Act No. 451/1991 Coll., which stipulates some further conditions for the execution of certain positions in state organs and organizations.

Department of Archival Collections of the ČSR Ministry of the Interior

  • Department Head: PhDr. Iva Kvapilová
  • Location: Kanice
  • Mailing address: P.O.Box 29, Vlkova 2481/4, 628 00 Brno
  • Telephone: +420 545 227 302
  • Fax: +420 545 227 563
  • E-mail: badatelna.kanice@abscr.cz

The Department of Archival Collections of the ČSR Ministry of the Interior administers the archival collections of the unitary Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Socialist Republic, Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic, and collections of the former Public Security Service (Veřejná bezpečnost – VB), including its central and territorial units from the years 1945-1991, or as the case may be, 1992. Stored here as well are archival materials of some central police schools and their predecessors, the SNB schools.

Department staff ensure expert archival care of archival materials in their charge. They take them over from their originators, register them, and gradually process them into archival inventories. Pursuant to archival law no. 499/2004 Coll., staff look up and render accessible documents from the above mentioned sources for the scientific and study objectives of the wider research public and process requests of an administrative nature from individual institutions as well as physical persons. They further make excerpts and copies¨and carry out thematic research using the corresponding archival materials.

Document Preparation Group (Kanice)

  • Preparation Group Head: Mgr. Kateřina Urbánková
  • Location: Kanice
  • Telephone: + 420 545 227 563
  • Fax: + 420 545 227 563
  • E-mail: badatelna.kanice@abscr.cz

The group renders documents accessible pursuant to legal regulations; ensures the proper operation of research rooms, including the activity of the supervisor with respect to the researcher; administers appropriate records on researchers and the archival materials presented to them; selects archival material from relevant departments for the researcher; is responsible for the timely and complete presenting of archival materials for researchers’ study, the complete return of archival materials back to the relevant department, and the maintenance of research room facilities; makes copies for researchers; and carries out further tasks arising from the group’s work.

Operations Group (Kanice)

  • Operations Group Head: Pavel Novotný
  • Location: Kanice
  • Telephone: + 420 221 008 164
  • E-mail: pavel.novotny@abscr.cz