History of the Commission: On 14 January 1811, King Friedrich of Württemberg ordered the establishment of a General Administration Commission (GAK) to regulate the economic affairs and debt management of his brother Duke Ludwig of Württemberg. Johann Heinrich von Menoth, Director-General of the Cabinet, was appointed Chairman of the Commission. Other members were Johann Friedrich von Dünger, Director of the Upper Chamber of Finance, and the two Upper Economic Councillors Georg Friedrich Sommer and Ernst Heinrich Faber, the latter in his capacity as Treasurer and Managing Director. The GAK was commissioned on 21 January to be set up by Finance Minister Graf von Mandelslohe on behalf of Cabinet Minister Graf von Taube, who was ill; the next day the constituent meeting took place. The task of the GAK was to confiscate and inventorise the entire furniture assets of Duke Ludwig in the Kingdom of Württemberg, to determine the Duke's assets and liabilities, to draw up a debt repayment plan and to administer the funds set aside for the maintenance of the Duke and his family. The property granted to Duchess Henriette and the ducal children as private property was to be separated from the remaining assets. The reason for the establishment of the GAK lay in the total over-indebtedness of Duke Ludwig, which had already begun during his time in Polish service at the end of the eighties of the 18th century and continued beyond the Prussian and Russian periods of service until Ludwig's move to Württemberg and became increasingly acute. On 17 February 1810 an administrative commission had already been set up with the aim of using part of the ducal Apanage for the repayment of debts, at least to the domestic creditors of Württemberg, and to run Ludwig's court economically. The committee, which was under the responsibility of the Minister of Finance and later referred to as the Particular Administration Commission (PAK), consisted of the Oberfinanzkammerdirektor von Dünger and Ernst Heinrich Faber, who had recently been appointed to the Oberökonomierat (Upper Chamber of Finance Director) and who had already been entrusted with accounting transactions at the court of Duke Ludwig since the end of 1808. This estate, which had served the ducal family at times as a residence, had been given to the duke in 1804 by Tsar Alexander for 50 years for use with all his income. A trip of Ludwig to Russia at the beginning of May 1810, however, had the consequence that this important source of income also soon dried up. In order to protect his valuables remaining in Würzau from the Russian creditors, Ludwig had them shipped to Stuttgart, where they were auctioned off to a large extent by the GAK in the spring of 1811. The tsar then had the Würzau estate's income frozen for four years to satisfy Ludwig's Russian creditors. Seven days after his arrival in Warsaw, on 10 November 1810, the Duke, who was on his way back, was taken into custody by his main Polish creditors. Only after an agreement of his brother, king Friedrich, with the creditors the duke was released from the arrest. An essential part of the agreement was the formation of the GAK, whose unrestricted competence for all of Ludwig's economic affairs was recognised in Warsaw on 26 January 1811, and the determination of assets and liabilities by the GAK was almost completed at the beginning of November 1811. The figures presented to the King in a report showed total assets of 38,943 fl., which were offset by claims of well over one million fl., of which 160,000 fl. were from domestic creditors alone. To make matters worse, the budget set for the two ducal court holdings in Stuttgart and Kirchheim unter Teck was far from sufficient. Therefore, on 13 November 1811, the King ordered the transfer of the bankruptcy proceedings to the Oberappellationstribunal in Tübingen, to which the GAK had to transfer the relevant files for this purpose. The Tutelary Councillor Maximilian Friedrich Römer was appointed bankruptcy trustee, GAK was dissolved in December 1811 and its managing director Faber was dismissed from his position at his own request. The supervision of the economic management of the farm continued to be the responsibility of a commission consisting of Cabinet Minister Graf von Taube, Cabinet Ministerial Director von Menoth and Oberfinanzkammerdirektor von Dünger. Carl Christian Helfferich, the mayor and hospital keeper of Kirchheim, became the managing director of the farm, which is now limited to Kirchheim for cost reasons. Inventory history: Even before the GAK was dissolved, its registry was torn apart by Royal Decree of 13 November 1811. All files necessary for the winding-up of the bankruptcy proceedings should be handed over directly to the Oberappellationstribunal in Tübingen. Since the GAK was still dependent on a part of the registry for the continuation of the remaining business, it was decided to copy the entire file material and to transfer only copies to Tübingen. In the course of copying, however, it turned out that it was not possible to complete this work within a reasonable period of time. On 21 and 29 November, the copies completed by then and the original documents not required by the GAK were sent to Tübingen with a list. While the files sent to Tübingen were sent to the Württembergische Hausarchiv via the later Stuttgart Higher Regional Court in at least two deliveries by July 1906 (today as Bü 18-22, 32-34 of the holdings G 246 in the Main State Archives Stuttgart), the files remaining at the GAK were transferred to the registry of the Cabinet and the State Archives in Stuttgart. They were transferred to the Haus- und Staatsarchiv between 1870 and 1900 as part of a more extensive delivery series. Processor's report: The 30 fascicles of GAK files which had been deposited in the Main State Archives belonged to the E 36 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs I) until the present new indexing as index 28. It is clear from the list of documents submitted that only part of the documents were in a systematic order. Obviously, it was only during the copy campaign carried out in November 1811 that attempts were made to give the files a systematic order. The incomplete file plan, evident from the list of documents submitted to Tübingen, has the following structure:I. GeneraliaII. files referring to the interest of the Duchess Duchess Highness and the Serene Most ChildrenIII. files because of the horse and effect transport from WürzauIV.Highest Resolutions, Decrees and other documents relating to the furniture property, its sale, etc.V.Inventories and inventories of the furniture propertyVI.The active state concerningVII.The passive state concerningVIII.The ducal court keeping in the whole concerning.IX.The economy and its needs concerningVII.The economy and its needs concerningVII.The active state concerningVII.The passive state concerningVIII.The ducal court keeping in the whole concerning.IX.The economy and its needs concerningVII.The economy and its needs concerningVII.The economy and its needs concerningVIII.The economy and its needs concerningVII.The economy and its needs concerningVIII.The economy and its needs concerningVIII.the active state concerningVII.the passive state concerningVIII.the ducal court keeping in the whole concerningV IX.The economy and its needs concerningV.The list of the files entered into the Main State Archives contains the categories:I.[missing]II.The interest of the Lady Duchess (Henriette) Highness and the Serene Children in III. files because of the transport of horses and effects from WürzauIV.The existing furniture property, its sale etc.V.Inventories and directories of the furniture propertyVI.The activity concerning VII.[missing]VIII.The ducal court keeping in the whole concerning IX.Economy and its needsX.The accounting of the economy concerning XI.The use of stamps at the administration commissionThe larger remainder of the written property, mostly account books and business books, older invoices and receipts, was not subject to any rubric order. To all appearances, only the material that could be considered for the Upper Appellate Tribunal had been classified accordingly. The copying work, however, only reached up to column IX, so that the uncopied backs of the writings remained with the GAK or, like the majority of the creditor documents, were handed over in the original to Tübingen. In order to reconstruct the records of the GAK, not only the files listed here, but also the files that have entered the Württembergische Hausarchiv via the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court, the successor institution of the Higher Appeal Tribunal, must be consulted. Further files on Duke Ludwig's debt management, which were not kept by the GAK but by the Ministry of Housing itself, can be found in holdings E 55, Bü 462 and 464 of the Main State Archives.For the new indexing, which was carried out within the scope of the legal clerkship training of the undersigned, an ideal-typical registry order was taken as a basis, which as far as possible is based on the fragmentary file plan of the GAK. 2.1 m in 72 tufts. Stuttgart, in October 1993Dr. Franz-Josef Ziwes Land- und Stadtkreiskennzeichen: BYBayreuth ES Esslingen LBLudwigsburg SStuttgart
Preliminary remark: 1. the older Ministry of Finance Administration from 1806 - 1850 originally consisted of three separate departments, namelya) from 1806 - 1817b) from 1818 - 1835 andc) from 1836 - 1850. the first department was transferred to the Financial Archives in general in the years 1858 and 1866, the second and third in 1892 (see General Repertory p. 93 and 96). In 1900 and 1903 further files were added to these files and to facilitate the registration in Stuttgart (see Verw. Fasz. No. 1.6 Qu. 4), which do not only originate from the period 1806 - 1850, but partly extend into the 1880s.2According to this, the older part of the Finance Ministry registry incorporated into the archive, as described in the present repertory, generally understands the years 1806 - 1850 (without, however, exhausting these, since not all files of the period mentioned were transferred to the Finance Archive), aqber frequently continues. Files from the time before 1806 also appear from time to time.3 After the two departments had been incorporated into the financial archive from 1818 - 1850, the lack of a uniform and good order immediately became palpable. From the outset, therefore, it was envisaged that the registry would be completely new. For this purpose first extensive excretions of dispensable files took place, about which the reservations in the old repertories and the lists lying with the manual files Qu. 151, 171 and 178 give information, at least as far as whole fascicles come into consideration. The remaining files were completely rearranged under the union of the various registry departments and the present repertory was produced about them, which work came to an end in October 1904.4 It should be noted in this connection that, as a rule, no reservation was made in the case of other classifications of files in the registry diaries. When searching for files according to the registration numbers, which is rare in the archives, it should therefore always be noted that the classification of the files was exclusively based on the main contents of the same and on the new classification.5 The registry is housed in the giant building on the ground floor of rooms 60 and 61 (formerly the meeting room of the Kreisfinanzkammer with adjoining room). The registry diaries from 1807 - 1850 and the records from 1817 - 1846, which were brought here with the files, are set up there. For retroconversion of stock: The list of deliveries to stock A 221 established at the beginning of the 20th century was supplemented over the years by numerous supplements - e.g. numerous documents from the Ministry of Finance on the University of Tübingen were found during a delivery by the Ministry of Culture in 1906 - and thus appeared rather confusing. In addition, the original title recordings made in German writing are difficult to read and the original finding aid is also endangered from a conservation point of view. However, a thorough new indexing in the archives cannot be realized for years to come due to the size of the stock and the increasingly scarce personnel resources. For this reason, a retroconversion measure was initiated, in which outdated file titles were slightly revised if necessary. In those cases where knowledge of palaeography was required for reading the titles, it was carried out by the undersigned in the summer of 2007. The more legible supplements and additions were entered by the archive clerk Anna-Maria Diener. The numerous special files on individual locations, which were separated in the course of a renumbering of the holdings, had so far largely no information on duration and extent. To complete them, the files concerned were examined, but the titles, which usually only contain the local subject, were not completed. In addition to the undersigned, Lisa Hauser and Stephanie Kurrle, two archive inspector candidates, were involved in this measure, which took place from November 2007 to February 2008. The stock comprises 4530 tufts or 154 running metres of shelving.Stuttgart, March 2008Johannes Renz