History of the authorities: The former Landesanstalt für Pflanzenbau, since 2006 a branch of the Agricultural Technology Centre Augustenberg, was founded in 1917 by the Badische Landwirtschaftskammer (Baden Chamber of Agriculture) as an experimental and teaching material. In 1927 the Tobacco Research Institute was renamed and established. In 1936 the sponsorship changed to the German Reich. The institute now received the name Reichsanstalt für Tabakforschung. In 1945, the institution was integrated into the Baden district under the new name of Tabakforschungsinstitut (Tobacco Research Institute), and in 1952 it was reinstated under the auspices of the newly founded state of Baden-Württemberg. In 1953, the company again changed to the Federal Government under the name of Bundesanstalt für Tabakforschung (Federal Institute for Tobacco Research). In 1970 it was reintegrated into the state of Baden-Württemberg under the name Landesanstalt für Tabakbau und Tabakforschung. In 1972 he took over tasks in the field of general plant cultivation. In 1979, the Donaueschingen Seed Institute (investigations and research in the field of potato cultivation) was integrated into the company and operated together under the new name Landesanstalt für Pflanzenbau und Tabakforschung (State Institute for Plant Production and Tobacco Research), renamed Landesanstalt für Pflanzenbau in 1985. On 1.1.2007, the Landesanstalt für Pflanzenbau was integrated into the Agricultural Technology Centre Augustenberg and has since been run as a branch office in Forchheim. The documents of the Landesanstalt came to the General State Archives in Karlsruhe in 1993 and 2007 and mainly comprise documents from the time as a tobacco research institute as well as the Reichs- und Bundesanstalt für Tabakforschung. In 2007, the extensive tobacco collection of the institution was also transferred to the General State Archive Karlsruhe and shown as holdings 576-1.signed. Dr. Jürgen Treffeisen(December 2009)
History of tradition: The Department of Justice, created in 1807, was upgraded to the Ministry of Justice in 1808/09, but was abolished in 1819. Its tasks were initially performed by the Ministry of the Interior and the Court of Appeal, but then mainly by the Justice Section set up within the Ministry of State. But as early as 1825 the Ministry of Justice was newly established. In the years 1871-1876 it was also responsible for foreign affairs, 1871-1881 for the Grand Ducal House and 1881-1911 for cult and education, science and art. In 1911 - as in 1871 - the departments of the Grand Duke's House, Justice and Foreign Affairs were merged, but in 1919 the new Baden constitution was to reduce the Ministry of Justice to its actual core areas again. In 1933, the two ministries of justice and cult and education were reunited. In 1934, within the framework of the National Socialist Gleichschaltung, his powers were transferred to the Reich Ministry of Justice. Processing: The previous card index was digitised with the support of the DFG in 2012. The title recordings were checked, supplemented if necessary and rearranged. The old tape repertory for the personnel and examination files (1999) was incorporated into the finding aid. Content: In addition to the files of the Ministry of Justice itself, the collection also contains documents of the Justice Examination Office, the two Protestant and Catholic church sections (from 1843 Oberkirchenräte) located at the Ministry of the Interior as well as the Compensation Commission for the distribution of church property in the Rhine-Palatinate.
History of tradition: The Ministry of the Interior was founded in 1808. He was in charge of the General Study Commission, the Medical Commission and the State Institution Commission. After the reorganizations of the years 1809 and 1812, the 1st department was responsible for the areas of sovereignty, police and economy, while the 2nd department was responsible for Protestant and Catholic Church affairs, which were dealt with in the respective church sections. After only a brief contact with the Ministry of Justice in 1854-1859, economic powers were transferred to the Ministry of Trade, established in 1860, which was dissolved again in 1881. In order to compensate for the business area thus regained, responsibility for culture, education, science and the arts has now been transferred to the Ministry of Justice. The separation of the Ministry of Labour in 1919 lasted only until 1924, when the war destruction of the Ministry of the Interior in 1945, during which the registry was also destroyed, meant an irreplaceable loss for the tradition from the first half of the 20th century. Processing: The previous card index was digitised as part of a DFG project in 2012. The title recordings were checked, supplemented if necessary and rearranged. The previous tape repertory on the airplane damage of the Second World War (1984) and the thematic inventory of the Central Office of the Agricultural Association (1990) were incorporated into the finding aid.