The Prussian legation to the Kingdom of Italy evolved from the Turin and Florence legations. After the Franco-Italian successes in the war against Austria, Tuscany was annexed by the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont in 1859. As a result of the annexation of the kingdom of both Sicily, King Victor Emmanuel II was proclaimed King of Italy on 17 March 1861. The international recognition of the title was one of the main tasks of the king in the following years. This should be seen as part of the overall effort to unify Italy. Initially, the legation in Turin was responsible for representing Prussian interests in the Kingdom of Italy. The extraordinary envoy Willisen was replaced at the end of 1863 by Guido von Usedom, who had just been elevated to the rank of Count. Together with the court, Usedom moved from Turin to Florence on 13 June 1865, taking over the existing infrastructure of the former legation of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. His most historically significant news was the "Stoß-ins-Herz-Depesche" of 17 June 1866, published by the former Italian Prime Minister La Marmora in 1868. In it Usedom demanded the advance of Italian troops directly to Vienna (GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 81 Florence (Italy), No. 8, fol. 376-387). Due to a dispute with Prime Minister Bismarck, Usedom retired from office in 1869. Around this time, the legation in Florence hired its own pharmacist. His successor, Count von Brassier, took office on 1 January 1870 in the name of the North German Confederation. The last documents of the collection end in the autumn of 1870 with the relocation of the Italian capital to Rome as a result of the Franco-German war. The inventory allows only a few statements on the history of the authorities in the narrower sense, as it deals only with the political reports to the ministry and the decrees and copies of other legation reports sent by the ministry. Personnel and organizational files are not included in the inventory. Carl Schmitz, a merchant born in Stolberg near Aachen, offered the legation an open house for its official purposes. In return, he was first appointed agent and later consul. Extraordinary envoys and authorized ministers 1862-1863 Friedrich Adolph (from 1863: Freiherr) von Willisen 1863-1869 Carl Georg Ludwig Guido Graf von Usedom 1869-1872 Maria Anton Joseph Brassier de St. Simon Inventory history The first delivery of 10 volumes took place on 12 July 1870, the day before the appearance of the Emser Depesche, by the Chancellor of the North German Confederation. On 28 July 1882, the German Foreign Office delivered 25 files of the former Royal Legations of Florence and Naples to the Prussian Secret State Archives, where they were classified as Repositur 81 Florence or Naples. The last major access took place in 1900 and the first inventory revision took place in October 1923. In 1943 the stock was transferred to the salt mines Staßfurt and Schönebeck as part of the I. Main Department, Repositur Gesandtschaften and Consulates. After the end of the war, Soviet troops confiscated the stock and transferred it to Moscow. It was not until 1955 that it was returned to the Merseburg Department of the German Central Archives. Further revisions took place here (1955 and 1986). The holdings were filmed in February 1962. It was not possible to find out more about the non-existence of the numbers 22 to 27 (political reports and correspondence up to the end of 1872) listed in the Altfindmittel. In 1923 they still existed, the revision of 1955 marked them as missing. It was not possible to identify any indications of an inventory delimitation with the Reich Archive or the Political Archive of the Federal Foreign Office. In the course of German reunification, the inventory of the I. HA Rep. 81 legations and consulates was returned to Berlin as part of the holdings of the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage in accordance with the Unification Treaty. They have been stored in the Westhafen magazine since 1993. In July 1990, the GStA PK acquired two letters, which in 2011 were assigned to the holdings Rep. 81 Florence/Italy (GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 81 Florence (Italy) after 1807, No. 22). In May and June 2011, the new indexing and creation of the finding aid was carried out by Archivassessor Dr. Andreas Becker. finding aids: database; finding aid book, 1 vol.
Foreword On 24 February 1812 an alliance treaty was signed between Prussia and France (Paris Convention), which obliged Prussia to provide military support to France in all wars in Europe - except in Spain, Italy and Greece. The French troops were allowed to march through Prussia with food and horses. The French commanders received extensive powers, so that Prussia was in fact again under French occupation. Major General Friedrich Karl Heinrich Graf von Wylich und Lottum was entrusted with the implementation of the Paris Convention of 24 February 1812, as far as the supply of the reserve magazines at home and abroad and all negotiations with the French General Director Matthieu Graf Dumas were concerned. Major General Count von Wylich und Lottum had already been head of the old army catering system (field catering department, general catering department and general catering directorate) since November 1810. As General Commissioner he conducted the army catering negotiations with the French Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout (Prince Eckmühl) in Szczecin in March and April 1812. After the return of the Major General Count von Wylich and Lottum to Berlin in April 1812, the office for feeding the French troops was set up, which was then called the General Commissariat for feeding the French and Allied troops. The present files originate from the negotiations between Major General Count von Wylich and Lottum and the French Marshal Davout (Prince Eckmühl) in Stettin (Stettiner Akten) and were not combined with the files of the office for the catering of the French troops. Only a few volumes of the Szczecin files were continued in Berlin, which were integrated into the GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 130 Generalkommissariat to feed the French and Allied troops. The holdings GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 129 A Registratur[by Friedrich Karl Heinrich Graf von Wylich and] Lottum about the catering of French troops (army catering negotiations) comprises 11 sections, most of which are still divided into several parts. An inventory file could not be found in the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage, which is why the details of the inventory history are unknown. For the inventory, there is a register of authorities, which was prepared by the secret registrar and privy councillor Schmidt. The collection was revised in October 1969 in the former Central State Archives of the GDR Merseburg office. In 2007, the register was entered into the Augias database by the archival inspector Verena Kohnke and revised, partly rearranged and classified by the undersigned. Some file titles and contained notes were checked and in some cases supplemented. In addition, the portfolio was re-signed in 2007 by Mr. Szal. How to order and quote: The archival documents listed here are stored in the external magazine. The yellow order forms must therefore be used. In addition, waiting times may have to be accepted for operational reasons. The files are to be ordered as follows: I. HA Rep. 129 A, No. to quote: GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 129 A Registratur[des Friedrich Karl Heinrich Graf von Wylich und] Lottum über die Mehrung der französischen Trots (Armeeverpflegungsverhandlungen), Nr. Volume: 0,4 lfm 45 VE (= Verzeichnungseinheit) Duration: 1812 Last assigned number: 45 Berlin, December 2011 Irina Fröhlich (Archivoberoberinspektorin) Findmaterial: Datenbank; Findbuch, 1 vol.