Restitution notification form (cultural property expropriated as a result of Nazi persecution)

for mu­se­ums, li­braries, and archives in Ger­many

re­gard­ing com­plet­ed just and fair so­lu­tions, in par­tic­u­lar the resti­tu­tion of cul­tur­al prop­er­ty seized as a re­sult of Nazi per­se­cu­tion

in im­ple­men­ta­tion of the “Dec­la­ra­tion of the Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment, the Län­der and the cen­tral mu­nic­i­pal as­so­ci­a­tions on the trac­ing and resti­tu­tion of cul­tur­al prop­er­ty seized as a re­sult of Nazi per­se­cu­tion, in par­tic­u­lar from Jew­ish own­er­ship” of De­cem­ber 1999

Ex­pla­na­tion of the on­line resti­tu­tion no­ti­fi­ca­tion form

With the sign­ing of the “Wash­ing­ton Prin­ci­ples” of 1998 and the “Joint Dec­la­ra­tion”, the fed­er­al, state and lo­cal gov­ern­ments rec­og­nize their re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to come to terms with the theft of Nazi cul­tur­al prop­er­ty. Since then, nu­mer­ous works of art, books, and oth­er cul­tur­al prop­er­ty has been resti­tut­ed by the cul­tur­al prop­er­ty preser­va­tion in­sti­tu­tions in Ger­many. Or, in the spir­it of the Wash­ing­ton Prin­ci­ples, oth­er just and fair so­lu­tions have been found. These do jus­tice to the fates of the vic­tims and for­mer own­ers and their sur­viv­ing de­pen­dents as well as to the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty and pub­lic ser­vice mis­sion of mu­se­ums, li­braries, and archives.

Be­cause such so­lu­tions are found in a de­cen­tral­ized man­ner and de­pend on the in­di­vid­u­al cir­cum­stances of each case, the pub­lic – es­pe­cial­ly sci­ence and re­search – have so far lacked a re­li­able and con­tin­u­ous­ly up­dat­ed over­all view that makes progress clear and can serve as an ex­am­ple for un­re­solved is­sues.

The Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion would like to close this gap in ac­cor­dance with its statu­to­ry mis­sion. We there­fore ask all mu­se­ums, li­braries, and archives in Ger­many to in­form the Foun­da­tions about resti­tu­tions or oth­er just and fair so­lu­tions in con­nec­tion with cul­tur­al prop­er­ty seized as a re­sult of Nazi per­se­cu­tion and to use the on­line resti­tu­tion no­ti­fi­ca­tion form for this pur­pose. Please pro­vide us with at least the in­for­ma­tion that you al­so use in your press and pub­lic re­la­tions work.

Pri­vate in­sti­tu­tions are, of course, free to par­tic­i­pate in the on­line resti­tu­tion re­port as well as long as they wish to re­port on a fair and eq­ui­table res­o­lu­tion or resti­tu­tion.

The in­for­ma­tion pro­vid­ed will be col­lect­ed, stored, pro­cessed, and used ex­clu­sive­ly with­in the frame­work and for the ful­fill­ment of the statu­to­ry tasks of the Foun­da­tion. In­so­far as per­son­al da­ta is in­volved, the col­lec­tion, stor­age, pro­cess­ing, and use will take place on­ly to the ex­tent per­mit­ted by the pro­vi­sions of the EU Gen­er­al Da­ta Pro­tec­tion Reg­u­la­tion. Oth­er­wise, par­tic­i­pa­tion in on­line resti­tu­tion re­port­ing is on a legal­ly vol­un­tary ba­sis.