Translation of "Restituieren" in English

Louis XIV kept his left-Rhine acquisitions, but had to restitute Freiburg, Breisach and Kehl.

This account was also presented to the Beratende Kommission (Advisory Commission), which recommended in 2014 against the restitution of the Guelph Treasure.

The museum has decided that, once attempts to identify the heirs have been completed – a process that is proving to be very difficult –, it will restitute loans from victims of National Socialism to the legal successors on its own initiative.

It called on all museums, libraries and archives to search their inventory and restitute where necessary.

That the Enlightenment could become one of the quite few key-concepts of the universal-historical reflection about the character and the visage of the Modern Age, is the consequence of the relevant facts, just in the historical-theoretical perspective, that the classical Enlightenment (as well as its potential successors) could never really be restored, from its classical time up today, as a large and homogeneous current, although its components (in the later language usage: liberalism, socialism, scientism, criticism of religion, in a certain sense even also the nationalism and the conservatism!)

The Vienna Municipal Council votes in favor of the restitution of works of art and cultural assets, which were acquired during the National-Socialist era by museums, libraries, archives and collections of the City of Vienna by purchase or dedication and are to be classified as spurious acquisitions (confiscation, seizure, expropriation, etc.), to the original owners or their legal successors.

It has been established that the purchases by the Municipal Collections, as it was at the time, from Vugesta, which from its establishment in early autumn 1940 until the end of the war ’disposed of‘ 5,000 to 6,000 items of property as well as the furniture and fittings from the homes of at least 10,000 escaping or deported Jewish families, and from Julius Fargel, who was expert assessor of paintings for Vugesta and art restorer for the Municipal Collections, were seized from Jews and should be returned.

Yet far removed from only maintaining order or restoring it as divine order, they produce new orders.

Since then the Austrian National Library has taken pains to find the legitimate owners or inheritors, so as to give back the objects as quickly as possible.

How far are the ideas of presence and of the processes of ordering being reflected in such belated arrangements?

The Polsterers could say that their Aryanized property was forcibly restituted in 1950 and then legally repossessed by them a few months later from the then rightful heirs,4 fair and square, for 3.500 schillings.

It is also likely that some of the purchases from the auction house Dorotheum, art and antique dealers and the donations from public bodies were auctioned or sold in the wake of National Socialist persecutions and should be returned to their original owners or legal successors.

It legally obliges national museums and collections to search their inventories for Nazi-looted objects and to restitute these if possible.

So fantastic was the quality that the king himself, when he tried it, he decided restore the title of "Baron".

The University Library of Salzburg is not a national institution and as such not bound to the national restitution law. However, it decided in 2009 to explore its history from 1933 to 1938, to examine its inventory for Nazi-looted books, and to return these to their rightful owners.

The University Library of Salzburg therefore decided to restitute this book to the rightful owner’s grandson, Miguel Herz-Kestranek.

With its structure and appearance remaining intact to the greatest possible extent, the project aims—with this gesture of public disclosure—to give something back to the public, to restitute the archive in a certain sense, to transform it into a common space, without holding anything back and thus freeing it up for new interpretations.

After the war, she worked for the Commission de Récupération Artistique (Commission for the Return of Art) and significantly contributed to the restitution of Nazi-looted art.

The books will be handed over in Berlin on 27 July 2017, on the occasion of a meeting arranged simultaneously with the University Library of Leipzig and the Central and State Library of Berlin, by which books are restituted as well.

I would say that with these "ethnographic" museums there are three options: you bury the collections through systems of isolation and heightened security, you give them back as restitution, or you remediate them.