THE GERMAN BASIC LAW - DOCUMENTATION OF ITS GENESIS

A big research project by the Forschungsstelle fur Zeitgeschichte des Verfassungsrechts (University of Hanover) is intending to provide a documentation on the genesis of the German Basic Law, put in order of its articles. It deals with the official documents especially of the Convention of Herrenchiemsee and the Parliamentary Council, which are largely unpublished. The paper describes the computer-based realization of this project due to the necessity of attaching parts of the origin texts to different aims (articles of the Basic Law). so that the readers can find there all the relevant texts concerning this article, each of them automatically completed by particular informations.