Andreas Hedwig (born in 1959) is a German archivist and since 2014 the head of the Hessian State Archive.
Born in Leverkusen, Hedwig completed a teacher training and completed this in 1986 with a second Staatsexamen. He then received his doctorate in 1989. In 1990/91 he was Research Assistant at the University of Bremen. Between 1991 and 1993 he completed a referendariat. In 1993 he took a position as a staff member at the Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv in Wiesbaden. Since 2001 he has been head of the Hessian State Archive Marburg , has taught at the Archivschule Marburg since 2003 and at the University of Marburg since 2008. Since 2014 he has been head of the Hessisches Landesarchiv . [1] Hedwig was appointed honorary professor at the University of Marburg in 2016. The appointment as President of the Hessian State Archive followed in April 2018.
Since 2005 Hedwig has been chairman of the Historische Kommission für Hessen .