28th Cavalry Brigade: The 28th Cavalry Brigade was formed on 01.07.1871 from the former Baden Cavalry Brigade. First the Dragoner regiments 20 and 22 were subordinated to the brigade. From 1890 the brigade was assigned the Dragoner Regiment 21 to replace the retiring Dragoner Regiment 22. At the time of the mobilization the unit with the regiments assigned to it was subordinated to the 6th Cavalry Division. From February to 10 April 1917 the staff was known as the "Brigade Graf Spee". On 21 May 1918 the unit was renamed Kavallerie-Schützen-Kommando 28. The formation was deployed until 03.11.1914 on the western theater of war and afterwards until March 1918 on the eastern theater of war. From April 1918 it was used again in the West. The commanding generals were:1871 to 1875major General of Willisen1875 to 1882major General Count of Lynar1882 to 1883major General of Hänisch1883 to 1885major General of Strantz1885 to 1888major General Edler of Planitz1888 to 1892major General Baron of Schleinitz1892 to 1893major General of Nickischisch1888 to 1892major General of Schleinitz1892 to 1893major General of Nickischisch1882 to 1883major General of Hänisch1883 to 1885major General of Strantz1885 to 1888major General of Planitz1888 to 1892major General Baron of Schleinitz1892 to 1893major General of NickischischRosenegk1893 to 1897 Major General from Rabe1897 to 1900 Major General Count von Klinckowström1900 to 1903 Major General from Hausmann1903 to 1908 Major General from Keller1908 to 1912 Major General Maximilian Alexander Prince from Baden1912 to 1913 Major General from Arnim1913 to 20.09.1916 Major General Udo von Selchow20.09.1916 to 27.02.1918 Colonel Heribert Count of Spee27.02.1918 to 27.09.1918 Colonel Karl Count of Kageneck03.10.1918 to 08.02.1919Lieutenant Colonel Konrad von Stotzingen. The brigade was subordinate to the following units during the war:01.08.1914 to 14.10.19166. Cavalry Division15.10.1916 to 19.11.1916 Reinforced 45th Cavalry Brigade20.11.1916 to 02.02.1917Cavalry Division A03.02.1917 to 10.02.19174th Cavalry Division11.02.1917 to 07.04.19172. Bavarian Landwehr division08.04.1917 to 08.04.19184. Cavalry division09.04.1918 to 18.04.1918301. Infantry division19.04.1918 to 20.05.19184. Cavalry division21.05.1918 to 11.11.19187. cavalry division (starting from June 7. cavalry shooter division). 13. January 1919 in the Free State Baden the new formation of the Baden people's army began with the acceptance of volunteers. As a reaction to the so-called "Spartacus Uprising" in February 1919, the Reich and Badische Volksregierung had further voluntary associations set up at all units in addition to the existing voluntary formations. 29th Cavalry Brigade: The 29th Cavalry Brigade was set up on 01.07.1871 with its official seat in Freiburg. First the Dragoner regiments 14 and 21 were subordinated to the brigade. From 1890 she was assigned the Dragoner Regiment 22 for Dragoner Regiment 21, which was retiring from the federation. In 1899 the office moved from Freiburg to Mulhouse in Alsace. The Hunter Regiment on Horse No. 5 was assigned to the Brigade for the Dragoner Regiment 14 after its establishment in 1908. The Brigade Staff was disbanded during the mobilization in 1914 and was only re-established in January 1919. For this reason there are no files available for the period from August 1914 to December 1918.The commanding generals were:1871 to 1873General major of Reckow1873 to 1881General major August Count of Solms-Wildenfels1881 to 1886General major of Meyerinck1886 to 1890General major of Knesebeck1890 to 1892General major of Diepenbroick-Grüter1892 to 1895 Major General of Lieres and Wilkau1895 to 1898 Major General of Kuhlmay1898 to 1900 Colonel Seederer1900 to 1902 Major General Knight of Longchamps-Berier1902 to 1904 Major-General of Rothkirch and Panthen1904 to 1905 Colonel of Rauch1905 to 1908 Major-General of Koppe1908 to 1910 Major-General of Bernuth1919 to 1913 Major-General of Dumrath1913 to 1914 Colonel of Graevenitz Inspection of the Replacement Escadrillas of the XIV century Army Corps: The replacement escadrilles left behind during the mobilization of the cavalry regiments leaving for the field to ensure the replacement were subject to the inspection of the replacement escadrilles of the XIV Army Corps, which was established analogously to the mobilization plan. The inspection was also responsible for the reserve replacement escadron newly set up during the mobilization, which was, however, dissolved again with the reduction of the cavalry formations in 1917. One of the main tasks of the inspection was to supervise the training and the horse material. In December 1918 the formation was dissolved during the demobilisation. Inventory history: After the end of the war, the files of the staff of the 28th Cavalry Brigade and the inspection of the replacement escadrilles of the XIV Army Corps remained at the settlement office of the Dragoner Regiment 20 as well as the files of the staff of the 29th Cavalry Brigade at the Dragoner Regiment 22. From January 1920, the establishment of an archive of the XIV Army Corps was begun, in which the archives of the settlement offices were brought together. In autumn 1920 the corps archive moved to the infantry barracks in Heilbronn. From January 1921, the Corps Archives entered the portfolio of the Reich Ministry of the Interior under the name Aktenverwaltung XIV, before being incorporated into the Reichsarchiv in Potsdam as the Heilbronn archive branch on April 1, 1921. As a result of the merger of the Heilbronn and Stuttgart branches of the Reich Archives, the holdings were transferred to Stuttgart in 1924. The Württembergische Archivdirektion, which took over the administration of the holdings of the Army Archives Stuttgart after the end of the Second World War, handed over the XIV Army Corps to the General State Archives Karlsruhe in the years 1947 to 1949. A very detailed history of the holdings is contained in the foreword of the Deputy General Command of the XIV Army Corps (holdings 456 F 8). 64 fascicles with a volume of 1.50 bibliographical references are included in the holdings: Die Badener im Weltkrieg 1914/18, edited by Wilhelm Müller-Loebnitz, Karlsruhe 1935.German Military History in six volumes 1648-1939, edited by the Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt Freiburg, Munich 1983.Fenske, Hans: Die Verwaltung im Ersten Weltkrieg, in: Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte, vol. 3, Stuttgart 1984, p. 866-908.Fischer, Joachim: Zehn Jahre Militärarchiv des Hauptstaatsarchivs Stuttgart, in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 37 (1978), p. 362-368.Jäger, Harald: Das militärische Archivgut in der Bundesrepublik für die Zeit von 1871 bis 1919, in: Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen 1968/2, S. 135-138.Overview of the holdings of the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, edited by Joachim Fischer (published by the Staatliche Archivverwaltung Baden-Württemberg, vol. 31), Stuttgart 1983.
28th and 29th Infantry Division: The XIV Army Corps formed on 01.07.1871 was divided into the 28th and 29th Infantry Division, which was also founded at the same time. The 28th Infantry Division included the 55th and 56th Infantry Brigades as well as the 28th Cavalry Brigade. In 1899 the 28th field artillery brigade was added. The division was located in Karlsruhe.The commanding generals were:1871 to 1875Lieutenant General von Pritzelwitz1875 to 1883Lieutenant General von Willisen1883 to 1887Lieutenant General von Meerscheidt-Hüllessem1887 to 1890General Lieutenant von Keßler1890 to 1892General Lieutenant Weinberger1892 to 1896General Lieutenant von Rößing1896 to 1899General Lieutenant von Grone1899 to 1900General Lieutenant von Oertzen1900 to 1903General Lieutenant von Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg1903 to 1906Lieutenant General von Pfuel1906 to 1910Lieutenant General von Fabeck1910 to 1912Lieutenant General von Krosigk1912 to 1914Lieutenant General von der Goltzab 1914Lieutenant General von Kehler.The 29th Infantry Division was divided into the 57th and 58th Infantry Brigades and the 29th Cavalry Brigade. The 29th Field Artillery Brigade was added in 1899. In the years 1897 and 1898 and starting from 1913 the 84th Infantry Brigade belonged likewise to the range of the division. The division was located in Freiburg.The commanding generals were:1871 to 1873Lieutenant General von Glümer1873 to 1876Lieutenant General von Woyna1876 to 1882Lieutenant General von Scheffler1882 to 1886Lieutenant General von Berken1886 to 1889Lieutenant General von Petersdorff1889 to 1892Lieutenant General von Mantey1892 to 1894Lieutenant General von Schleinitz1894 to 1894 1897General lieutenant Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig von Baden1897 to 1898General lieutenant von Bülow1898 to 1901General lieutenant von Bissing1901 to 1907General lieutenant von Fallois1907 to 1910General lieutenant von Schickfus and Neudorf1910 to 1913General lieutenant von Deimlingab 1914General lieutenant Isbert. 55th, 57th and 58th Infantry Brigade: The 55th Infantry Brigade emerged from the former 1st Baden Infantry Brigade on 01.07.1871. The infantry regiments 109 and 110 were subject to it. The official seat was in Karlsruhe.The commanders were: 1871 to 1874Major General von Neumann1874 to 1878Major General von Bonin1878 to 1881Major General von der Esch1881 to 1884Major General von Grolmann1884 to 1889Major General Roeder von Diersburg1889 to 1891Major General von Rantzau1891 to 1893Major General von Plessen1893 to 1893Major General von Plessen1893 to 1891Major General von Grolmann1891Major General von Diersburg1881 to 1889Major General von Diersburg1889 to 1891Major General von Rantzau1891 to 1893Major General von Plessen1893 to 1893Major General von Plessen1893 to 1893Major General von Diersburg1889 to 1891Major General von Rantzau1891 to 1893Major General von Plessen1893 to 1897General Major from Janson1897 to 1900General Major from Hugo1900 to 1902General Major Lölhöffel from Löwensprung1902 to 1906General Major from Hoffmeister1906 to 1910General Major from Schack1910 to 1912General Major from Omptedaab 1912General Major Knight and Noble von Oetinger.The 57th Infantry Brigade emerged on 01.07.1871 from the former 3rd Baden Infantry Brigade. The infantry regiments 113 and 114 were subject to it. The official seat was in Freiburg.The commanders were:1871Generalmajor Keller1871 to 1873Generalmajor von Weller1873 to 1880Generalmajor von Falkenhausen1880 to 1885Generalmajor von Ditfurth1885 to 1889Generalmajor von Gerhardt1889 to 1890Generalmajor Ziegler1890 to 1893Generalmajor von Fischer-Treuenfeld1893 to 1897 Major-General from Mülbe1897 to 1899 Major-General from Braunschweig1899 to 1901 Major-General from Fallois1901 to 1905 Major-General from Kutzen1905 to 1907 Major General of Tresckow1907 to 1910 Major General Marshal of Sulicki1910 to 1911 Major General of Winckler1911 to 1914 Major General of Kehlerab 1914 Major General of Trotta.The 58th Infantry Brigade was built on 01.07.1871. The infantry regiments 112 and 142 were subject to it. The official seat was in Mulhouse in Alsace. The commanders were:1871 to 1878major General from Sell1878 to 1881major General from Boehn1881 to 1887major General from Reibnitz1887 to 1888major General from Prittwitz and Gaffron1888 to 1890major General from Westernhagen1890 to 1892major General Girschner1892 to 1896major General Berger1896 to 1898major Bock General from Wülfingen1898 to 1899major General Köpke1899 to 1902General Major from Voigt1902 to 1904General Major Nethe1904 to 1906General Major Birnbaum1906 to 1908General Major from Eberstein1908 to 1910General Major from Deimling1910 to 1911General Major from Ompteda1911 to 1912General Major from Schmundt1912 to 1913General Major from Bodungenab 1913General Major Stenger. Inventory history: After the end of the war, the files remained at the processing offices of various infantry regiments. From January 1920, the establishment of an archive of the XIV Army Corps was begun, in which the archives of the settlement agencies were brought together. In autumn 1920 the corps archive moved to the infantry barracks in Heilbronn. From January 1921, the Corps Archives entered the portfolio of the Reich Ministry of the Interior under the name Aktenverwaltung XIV, before being incorporated into the Reichsarchiv in Potsdam as the Heilbronn archive branch on April 1, 1921. As a result of the merger of the Heilbronn and Stuttgart branches of the Reich Archives, the holdings were transferred to Stuttgart in 1924. The Württembergische Archivdirektion, which after the end of the Second World War took over the administration of the holdings of the Stuttgart Army Archives, handed over the records of the XIV Army Corps to the General State Archives in Karlsruhe between 1947 and 1949. A very detailed history of the holdings is contained in the foreword of the Deputy General Command of the XIV Army Corps (holdings 456 F 8). These documents have been handed down in the inventory 456 F 120 fascicles 24 to 29. The inventory comprises 16 fascicles with a circumference of 0.40 running meters. References: Deutsche Militärgeschichte in sechs Volände 1648-1939, ed. by the Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt Freiburg, Munich 1983 Fischer, Joachim: Zehn Jahre Militärarchiv des Hauptstaatsarchivs Stuttgart, in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 37 (1978), p. 362-368 Jäger, Harald: Das militärische Archivgut in der Bundesrepublik für die Zeit von 1871 bis 1919, in: Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen 1968/2, p. 135-138 Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII Royal Württemberg Army Corps 1871 to 1914. Overview of the holdings of the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, edited by Joachim Fischer (publication of the Staatliche Archivverwaltung Baden-Württemberg, vol. 31), Stuttgart 1983.
Division history: The 28th Infantry Division was set up on 01.07.1871 in the XIV Army Corps. At the beginning of the war, the division belonged to the General Command of the XIV Army Corps, analogous to the peace organization. It was responsible for the 55th and 56th Infantry Brigades, the 28th Field Artillery Brigade, the Hunter Regiment on Horse No. 5 and the 2nd and 3rd Company of Pioneer Battalion No. 14. From May 1919 the 28th Infantry Division formed the Resolution Staff 53.The infantry divisions were the lowest command authorities, which had a general staff. The commanding generals were: Lieutenant General Kurt von Kehler since the beginning of the war to 10.01.1915 Major General Franz von Trotta called Treyden11.01.1915 to 07.07.1916 Major General Hermann Heidborn08.07.1916 to 19.08.1916 Lieutenant General Felix Langer19.08.1916 to 18.02.1918 Major General Hans von Wolff19.02.1918 (Illness)Major General Kurt Prinz von Buchau20.02.1918 to 29.05.1918 Major General Gustav Böhm 31.05.1918 to 12.06.1918 Major General Emil Hell13.06.1918 to 06.09.1918 Major General Rudolf from the East07.09.1918 until the demobilisation.In the Free State of Baden the new formation of the Baden People's Army began on 13 January 1919 with the acceptance of volunteers. As a reaction to the so-called "Spartacus Uprising" in February 1919, the Reich and Badische Volksregierung had further voluntary associations set up at all units in addition to the existing voluntary formations. Inventory history: After the end of the war, the files remained at the processing office of the Leib-Grenadier-Regiment 109. From January 1920, the establishment of an archive of the XIV Army Corps began, in which the archives of the processing offices were brought together. In autumn 1920 the corps archive moved to the infantry barracks in Heilbronn. From January 1921, the Corps Archives entered the portfolio of the Reich Ministry of the Interior under the name Aktenverwaltung XIV, before being incorporated into the Reichsarchiv in Potsdam as the Heilbronn archive branch on April 1, 1921. As a result of the merger of the Heilbronn and Stuttgart branches of the Reich Archives, the holdings were transferred to Stuttgart in 1924. The Württembergische Archivdirektion, which took over the administration of the holdings of the Army Archives Stuttgart after the end of the Second World War, handed over the XIV Army Corps to the General State Archive Karlsruhe in the years 1947 to 1949. A very detailed history of the holdings is contained in the foreword of the Deputy General Command of the XIV Army Corps (holdings 456 F 8). 381 fascicles with a circumference of 11.50 linear metres are included in the holdings. References: Die Badener im Weltkrieg 1914/18, edited by Wilhelm Müller-Loebnitz, Karlsruhe 1935.German Military History in six volumes 1648-1939, edited by the Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt Freiburg, Munich 1983.Fenske, Hans: Die Verwaltung im Ersten Weltkrieg, in: Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte, vol. 3, Stuttgart 1984, p. 866-908.Fischer, Joachim: Zehn Jahre Militärarchiv des Hauptstaatsarchivs Stuttgart, in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 37 (1978), p. 362-368.Jäger, Harald: Das militärische Archivgut in der Bundesrepublik für die Zeit von 1871 bis 1919, in: Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen 1968/2, S. 135-138.Overview of the holdings of the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, edited by Joachim Fischer (published by the Staatliche Archivverwaltung Baden-Württemberg, vol. 31), Stuttgart 1983.
Brigade Staff: At the beginning of the war, the brigade belonged to the 29th Infantry Division. The infantry regiments 112 and 142 belonged to it. They belonged during the war to the range of the following higher staffs:01.08.1914 to 27.01.191529. Infantry division28.01.1915 to 06.03.191528. Infantry division07.03.1915 to 07.07.191629. Infantry division08.07.1916 to 13.08.1916 "Division Fortmüller", XII. and VIII. Reserve Corps13.08.1916 to 18.08.191628. Reserve Division18.08.1916 to 11.11.191829. Infantry Division12.11.1918 to 13.11.1918General Command of the I. Bavarian Army Corps14.11.1918 to 15.12.1918232. Infantry Divisionfrom 16.12.1918demobilisation.The commanding generals were: From 1913 to 26.10.1914 Major General Karl Stenger27.10.1914 to 01.05.1917 Major General Otto von Diepenbroick-Grüter01.05.1917 until the demobilisation of Colonel Albert von Hahnke In the Free State of Baden the new formation of the Baden People's Army began on 13 January 1919 with the acceptance of volunteers. As a reaction to the so-called "Spartacus Uprising" in February 1919, the Reich and Badische Volksregierung had further voluntary associations set up at all units in addition to the existing voluntary formations. Inventory history: After the end of the war, the files remained with the settlement office of the infantry regiment 142. From January 1920, the establishment of an archive of the XIV Army Corps began, in which the archives of the settlement offices were brought together. In autumn 1920 the corps archive moved to the infantry barracks in Heilbronn. From January 1921, the Corps Archives entered the portfolio of the Reich Ministry of the Interior under the name Aktenverwaltung XIV, before being incorporated into the Reichsarchiv in Potsdam as the Heilbronn archive branch on April 1, 1921. As a result of the merger of the Heilbronn and Stuttgart branches of the Reich Archives, the holdings were transferred to Stuttgart in 1924. The Württembergische Archivdirektion, which took over the administration of the holdings of the Heeresarchiv Stuttgart after the end of World War II, handed over the records of the XIV Army Corps to the Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe between 1947 and 1949. The infantry brigade for the period before the First World War is preserved in fonds 456 F 62. A very detailed history of the fonds is contained in the preface of the Deputy General Command of the XIV Army Corps (fonds 456 F 8). 105 fascicles with a circumference of 2.50 running metres are in the fonds. References: Die Badener im Weltkrieg 1914/18, edited by Wilhelm Müller-Loebnitz, Karlsruhe 1935.German Military History in six volumes 1648-1939, edited by the Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt Freiburg, Munich 1983.Fenske, Hans: Die Verwaltung im Ersten Weltkrieg, in: Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte, vol. 3, Stuttgart 1984, p. 866-908.Fischer, Joachim: Zehn Jahre Militärarchiv des Hauptstaatsarchivs Stuttgart, in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 37 (1978), p. 362-368.Jäger, Harald: Das militärische Archivgut in der Bundesrepublik für die Zeit von 1871 bis 1919, in: Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen 1968/2, S. 135-138.Overview of the holdings of the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, edited by Joachim Fischer (published by the Staatliche Archivverwaltung Baden-Württemberg, vol. 31), Stuttgart 1983.
Brigade Staff: At the beginning of the war, the 84th Brigade belonged to the 29th Infantry Division. The infantry regiments 169 and 170 were subject to it. From March 1915 the staff was separated from the above-mentioned association and used for the formation of the staff of the 104th Infantry Brigade. After the end of the war the mobile staffs took over the tasks of the dissolving deputy units, the deputy command was again given the designation 84th Infantry Brigade. In May 1919, the Brigade Staff was used to form Resolution Staff 55. Inventory history: After the end of the war, the files remained with the settlement office of the Infantry Regiment 169. From January 1920, the establishment of an archive of the XIV Army Corps began, in which the archives of the settlement offices were brought together. In autumn 1920 the corps archive moved to the infantry barracks in Heilbronn. From January 1921, the Corps Archives entered the portfolio of the Reich Ministry of the Interior under the name Aktenverwaltung XIV, before being incorporated into the Reichsarchiv in Potsdam as the Heilbronn archive branch on April 1, 1921. As a result of the merger of the Heilbronn and Stuttgart branches of the Reich Archives, the holdings were transferred to Stuttgart in 1924. The Württembergische Archivdirektion, which took over the administration of the holdings of the Army Archives Stuttgart after the end of the Second World War, handed over the XIV Army Corps to the General State Archives Karlsruhe in the years 1947 to 1949. A very detailed history of the holdings is contained in the foreword of the Deputy General Command of the XIV Army Corps (holdings 456 F 8). 26 fascicles with a circumference of 0.60 linear metres are included in the holdings. References: Die Badener im Weltkrieg 1914/18, edited by Wilhelm Müller-Loebnitz, Karlsruhe 1935.German Military History in six volumes 1648-1939, edited by the Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt Freiburg, Munich 1983.Fenske, Hans: Die Verwaltung im Ersten Weltkrieg, in: Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte, vol. 3, Stuttgart 1984, p. 866-908.Fischer, Joachim: Zehn Jahre Militärarchiv des Hauptstaatsarchivs Stuttgart, in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 37 (1978), p. 362-368.Jäger, Harald: Das militärische Archivgut in der Bundesrepublik für die Zeit von 1871 bis 1919, in: Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen 1968/2, S. 135-138.Overview of the holdings of the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, edited by Joachim Fischer (published by the Staatliche Archivverwaltung Baden-Württemberg, vol. 31), Stuttgart 1983.
On the history of Army High Command 7: The deployment plan for the West Army in a future war against France in 1914 provided for the formation of a total of seven armies on the German western border. The 7th Army, whose jurisdiction extended from the Hagenau-Saarburg line to the Alsatian-Swiss border, had the task of ensuring the protection of the left flank of the Western Army and thus guaranteeing the three so-called encircling armies (1 - 3, see Schliefen Plan) corresponding lateral protection. This 7th Army, which was under the command of the General Colonels of Heeringen, was assigned the General Command of the XV AK (Strasbourg), the General Command of the XIV AK (Karlsruhe) and the General Command of the XIV Reserve Corps at fighting formations. With the exception of a few Prussian and Württemberg troops, most of which were in the 28th Reserve Division, the 55th Mixed Replacement Brigade and the 55th Landwehr Brigade, the majority of the 7th Army (in addition to the units of the XV AK) consisted of the Baden troops of the XIV AK and the XIV Reserve Corps.With these troops, in one of the first battles of the world war, Colonel General von Herringen succeeded in stopping the advance of French units on the Rhine border and throwing them back from the Alsatian plain to the Vosges ridges. the transition from the war of movement to the war of positions, combined with the accelerated exchange of troops within the various army corps and armies, blurred the clear assignability of certain units to larger units. With the calming of the Upper Alsace and Vosges Front in the winter of 1915, larger parts of the fighting Baden troops were withdrawn from the area of responsibility of the 7th Army and replaced by Landwehr formations (also Baden, but also Württemberg, Bavarian and Prussian). These units, which were deployed at almost all theatres of war in the West, generally remained under the command of the 7th Army High Command. While the army groups and army fronts were pronounced intermediate instances of the higher leadership, the "Army High Commands" as command authorities combined combat command with administrative tasks. Their army area was divided into the "operational area" and the "stage" in which the supply facilities of the army were stationed. The allocation of army troops (pioneers, transport troops and air forces) was based on the respective operational objectives and also varied in the area of the 7th Armed Forces. In 1914, however, the air force department, field airship department, telegraph department and a radio command with two heavy radio stations belonged to the "basic equipment" of every army. Inventory history: The knowledge about the original jurisdiction of the 7th Army and the troops that formed it will have been decisive for the fact that the military tradition of this large formation was not transferred to the army archive in Potsdam after the end of the First World War, but remained in the Heilbronn branch archive and later in the army archive in Stuttgart. From there, the closed collection was transferred to the General State Archives in 1949 as part of the transfer of "Baden" military provenances (for the archive history of the XIV Army Corps tradition, see the preliminary remarks on Repertory 456 F 8 - Deputy General Command XIV Army Corps). Order and Distortion: The present inventory was recorded in 1985 by Heinrich Raab, a long-time administrator of the inventory group 456. The title recordings available on index cards were then sorted according to departments in accordance with the military business distribution plan and according to subjects within the departments. When the holdings were repackaged in acid-free archive containers, the undersigned checked and partially supplemented the title records, but the internal order of the holdings was largely retained. In addition, file fascicles found in other holdings of the inventory group 456 were integrated into the inventory according to provenance. Karlsruhe, August 1990Kurt Hochstuhl
Formation history: The Baden artillery brigade set up on 01.07.1871 was renamed to 14th field artillery brigade on 18.07.1872. It received on 01.10.1899 the new designation 28. field artillery brigade. The field artillery regiments 14 and 50 were assigned to it, and in February 1917 the higher artillery command was reorganized. The previous staffs of the field artillery brigades were dissolved and an artillery commander was formed for each division as commander of the entire artillery belonging to and assigned to it. As a result of this reorganization, on 28.02.1917 the association received the designation Artillery Commander 28. The commanders of the formation were: Mobilisation until 24.12.1914 Major General Siegfried Fabarius24.12.1914 until 27.10.1917 Major General Karl von Herff28.10.1917 until 23.05.1918 Lieutenant Colonel Richard von Laer23.05.1918 until 16.02.1919 Lieutenant Colonel Ludwig Bissinger.The unit was subject to the following higher staffs during the war: mobilisation until 04.10.191628. Infantry Division04.10.1916 until 04.11.191611. Reserve Division04.11.1916 until 03.07.191828. Infantry Division03.07.1918 until 04.07.191887. Infantry Division05.07.1918 until the end of the war28. The formation participated in the following battles:09.08.1914 to 10.08.1914Fights near Sennheim and Mulhouse20.08.1914 to 22.08.1914Battle in Lorraine23.08.1914 to 14.09.1914Battle near Nancy ¿ Epinal15.09.1914 to 30.09.1914Fights near Flirey13.10.1914 to 08.05.1915Position fights in French Flanders and in Artois14.10.1914 to 24.12.1914Battle in French Flanders14.01.1915 to 21.01.1915Battle at the Loretto height03.03.1915 to 08.03.1915Battle at the Loretto height15.03.1915 to 24.03.1915Battle at Ablain15.04.1915Battle at Ablain09.05.1915 to 13.06.1915Battle at La Bassée ¿ Arras15.06.1915 to 16.07.1916Position fights in the Champagne23.07.1916 to 04.11.1916Battle at the Somme06.11.1916 to 24.01.1917Position fights in the Champagne25.01.1917 to 11.08.1917Position fights before Verdun12.08.1917 to 17.09.1917Defensive Battle at Verdun29.09.1917 to 23.10.1917Positional Battles in Upper Alsace29.10.1917 to 02.11.1917Fighting at the Ailette03.11.1917 to 24.11.1917Positional Battles at the Ailette25.11.1917 to 29.11.1917Battle at Cambrai30.11.1917 to 05.12.1917Assault Battle at Cambrai20.01.1918 to 19.02.1918Position fights in the Champagne20.02.1918 to 20.03.1918rest period behind the 18th army21.02.1918 to 06.04.1918Great battle in France07.04.1918 to 22.04.1918Fights at the Avre near Montdidier and Noyon27.05.1918 to 13.06.1918Battle at Soissons ¿ Reims27.05.1918Storming of the heights of the Chemin des Dames28.05.1918 to 01.06.1918Chase fights between Oise and Aisne and over the Vesle to Marne14.06.1918 to 04.07.1918Position fights between Oise, Aisne and Marne05.07.1918 to 07.07.1918Position fights between Aisne and Marne08.07.1918 to 17.07.1918Position fights west of Soissons18.07.1918 to 25.07.1918Defensive battle between Soissons and Reims26.07.1918 to 30.07.1918rest period behind the 7th army31.07.1918 to 30.08.1918Position fights in the Champagne01.09.1918 to 14.09.1918Position fights at Reims15.09.1918 to 26.09.1918Position fights in the Woëvre plain and west of the Mosel27.09.1918 to 04.10.1918Defensive battle in the Champagne and at the Maas05.10.1918 to 06.11.1918Defensive battle between Argonne and Maas07.11.1918 to 11.11.1918Deployment of the occupied territory and march to the homeland. Inventory history: After the end of the war, the files remained with the Field Artillery Regiment 14. From January 1920, the establishment of an archive of the XIV Army Corps was begun, in which the archives of the processing centres were brought together. In autumn 1920 the corps archive moved to the infantry barracks in Heilbronn. From January 1921, the Corps Archives entered the portfolio of the Reich Ministry of the Interior under the name Aktenverwaltung XIV, before being incorporated into the Reichsarchiv in Potsdam as the Heilbronn archive branch on April 1, 1921. As a result of the merger of the Heilbronn and Stuttgart branches of the Reich Archives, the holdings were transferred to Stuttgart in 1924. The Württembergische Archivdirektion, which took over the administration of the holdings of the Army Archives Stuttgart after the end of the Second World War, handed over the XIV Army Corps to the General State Archives Karlsruhe in the years 1947 to 1949. A very detailed history of the holdings is contained in the foreword of the Deputy General Command of the XIV Army Corps (holdings 456 F 8). 161 fascicles with a circumference of 4.50 linear metres are included. References: Die Badener im Weltkrieg 1914/18, edited by Wilhelm Müller-Loebnitz, Karlsruhe 1935.German Military History in six volumes 1648-1939, edited by the Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt Freiburg, Munich 1983.Fenske, Hans: Die Verwaltung im Ersten Weltkrieg, in: Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte, vol. 3, Stuttgart 1984, p. 866-908.Fischer, Joachim: Zehn Jahre Militärarchiv des Hauptstaatsarchivs Stuttgart, in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 37 (1978), p. 362-368.Jäger, Harald: Das militärische Archivgut in der Bundesrepublik für die Zeit von 1871 bis 1919, in: Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen 1968/2, S. 135-138.Overview of the holdings of the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, edited by Joachim Fischer (published by the Staatliche Archivverwaltung Baden-Württemberg, vol. 31), Stuttgart 1983.
Transit camps: The stock contains the release certificates of the German prisoners of war returning home via the transit camps in alphabetical order. Inventory history: From January 1920 onwards, the establishment of an archive of the XIV Army Corps was begun, in which the archives of the settlement agencies were brought together. In autumn 1920 the corps archive moved to the infantry barracks in Heilbronn. From January 1921, the Corps Archives entered the portfolio of the Reich Ministry of the Interior under the name Aktenverwaltung XIV, before being incorporated into the Reichsarchiv in Potsdam as the Heilbronn archive branch on April 1, 1921. As a result of the merger of the Heilbronn and Stuttgart branches of the Reich Archives, the holdings were transferred to Stuttgart in 1924. The Württembergische Archivdirektion, which took over the administration of the holdings of the Army Archives Stuttgart after the end of the Second World War, handed over the XIV Army Corps to the General State Archives Karlsruhe in the years 1947 to 1949. A very detailed history of the holdings is contained in the foreword of the Deputy General Command of the XIV Army Corps (holdings 456 F 8). 18,784 fascicles with a circumference of 9.50 linear metres are included in the holdings.
- to the biography: Friedrich Facius was born on 17.8.1907 in Winzlar (GDR). After graduating from high school in 1927-1933, he studied history, German and Latin in Berlin, Jena and Heidelberg. He completed his studies with a doctorate from Willy Andreas, to whom he later felt a lifelong connection. In 1933 he began his preparatory service for the archive career in the Weimar State Archives. From 1935 to 1947 he headed the Landesarchiv Altenburg (Saxony), but remained in Weimar during this time. In 1939, he became State Archives Councillor. From 1952 to 1961 he was at the Federal Archives Koblenz, then the first State Archives Council at the branch of the Main State Archives Stuttgart in Ludwigsburg; there he became Chief State Archives Councilor in 1962. The last station of his professional life was Freiburg i. Br., where from 1967 to 1972 he was Director of the State Archives at the then branch of the General State Archives in Karlsruhe. Until shortly before his death in 1983 he was still scientifically active. 2nd inventory history: In 1983, his wife handed over the extensive estate of Friedrich Facius to the General State Archive in Karlsruhe. From its large library, the archive only took over the historical works and the Badenia. The publications of Friedrich Facius deal with topics of Thuringian regional history as well as industrial and economic history; in the latter he has worked intensively into the history of Baden, of which numerous publications on the F1uss-, shipping and port history of the Upper Rhine area bear witness. He has also dealt with the history of landscape design over many years and has published several essays on it. Friedrich Facius was a member of the Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Deutschen Rheinschifffahrtsmuseums in Mannheim e.V. (Society for the Promotion of the German Rhine Navigation Museum in Mannheim), the Kirchengeschichtlichen Verein für das Erzbistum Freiburg (Association for the History of the Church in the Archdiocese of Freiburg), the Alemannisches Institut (Alemannic Institute), the Kommission für Gesch. Regional studies in Baden-Württemberg and the Breisgau History Association. He was also a member of the scientific working group for Central Germany and the Fürst-Pückler-Gesellschaft. The estate of Friedrich Facius was already handed over to the General State Archives in a preliminary form, whereby the contents were summarized: For example, correspondence on individual issues was enclosed with the corresponding publications and lectures. The editors have now made an effort to bring the material into a systematic order. Membership in historical associations and general correspondence were put at the beginning under the heading 'Personal'. By far the largest part of the estate is, however, the scientific work of Friedrich Facius. It is now arranged thematically in 9 points. A collection of special editions was dissolved and material collections on various historical topics, which - as far as can be seen - did not give rise to any publications or lectures, were collected in accordance with the corresponding norms. The indexes to the bibliography have also been classified under this heading. The Facius estate now comprises 117 fascicles, housed in 18 boxes. The regulatory and registry work was carried out by M. Reiling and R. Gomringer under the supervision of the undersigned. The repertory was prepared as part of the MIDOSA project of the State Archive Administration. Mrs. L. Hessler took care of the title recordings and the corrections. Karlsruhe spring 1985 M. Salaba
Corps History: The Corps was established according to the mobilization plan in August 1914 and disbanded during the demobilization in 1918. At the beginning of the war, the corps was subordinated to the 7th Army and divided into two reserve divisions (26th and 28th reserve divisions). During the war it was used only on the western theater of war. The structure of the corps staffs was the same everywhere at the beginning of the war. The Commanding General was assisted by a Chief of the General Staff as co-responsible advisor and superior of all organs of the Staff. The staffs were divided into the General Staff Division I (I a leadership, I b rear services, I c enemy position), Adjutantur II (II a officer's personnel, II b personal service at the General, II c team substitute and horse affairs), Feldjustiz III, Intendantur- und Kassenwesen IV a, Sanitätswesen IV b, Veterinärwesen IV c, Militärseelsorge IV d, Feldpost, Kommandant des Hauptquartiers und Feldgendarmerie. The commanding generals of the XIV Reserve Corps during the war were: General of Artillery Richard von Schubert02.08.1914 to 13.09.1914, Lieutenant General Hermann von Stein14.09.1914 to 28.10.1916, Lieutenant General Georg Fuchs 28.10.1916 to 11.03.1917,Lieutenant General Otto von Moser11.03.1917 to 07.02.1918,Lieutenant General Arthur von Lindequist08.02.1918 to 14.06.1918,Lieutenant General Richard Wellmann15.06.1918 to 23.08.1918,General der Infanterie Kurt von Morgen24.08.1918 bis zur Demobilmachung..In the Free State of Baden the new formation of the Baden People's Army began on 13 January 1919 with the acceptance of volunteers. As a reaction to the so-called "Spartacus Uprising" in February 1919, the Reich and Badische Volksregierung had further voluntary associations set up at all units in addition to the existing voluntary formations. Inventory history: After the end of the war, the files remained with the General Command of the XIV Army Corps. From January 1920, the establishment of an archive of the XIV Army Corps was begun, in which the archives of the settlement agencies were brought together. In autumn 1920 the corps archive moved to the infantry barracks in Heilbronn. From January 1921, the Corps Archives entered the portfolio of the Reich Ministry of the Interior under the name Aktenverwaltung XIV, before being incorporated into the Reichsarchiv in Potsdam as the Heilbronn archive branch on April 1, 1921. As a result of the merger of the Heilbronn and Stuttgart branches of the Reich Archives, the holdings were transferred to Stuttgart in 1924. The Württembergische Archivdirektion, which took over the administration of the holdings of the Army Archives Stuttgart after the end of the Second World War, handed over the XIV Army Corps to the General State Archives Karlsruhe in the years 1947 to 1949. A very detailed history of the holdings is contained in the foreword of the Deputy General Command of the XIV Army Corps (holdings 456 F 8). 848 fascicles with a circumference of 21.25 linear metres are included in the holdings. References: Die Badener im Weltkrieg 1914/18, edited by Wilhelm Müller-Loebnitz, Karlsruhe 1935.German Military History in six volumes 1648-1939, edited by the Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt Freiburg, Munich 1983.Fenske, Hans: Die Verwaltung im Ersten Weltkrieg, in: Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte, vol. 3, Stuttgart 1984, p. 866-908.Fischer, Joachim: Zehn Jahre Militärarchiv des Hauptstaatsarchivs Stuttgart, in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 37 (1978), p. 362-368.Jäger, Harald: Das militärische Archivgut in der Bundesrepublik für die Zeit von 1871 bis 1919, in: Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen 1968/2, S. 135-138.Overview of the holdings of the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, edited by Joachim Fischer (published by the Staatliche Archivverwaltung Baden-Württemberg, vol. 31), Stuttgart 1983.
Demolition of the organisation of justice in the "Third Reich" until 1935: By a decree of the Ministry of Justice of 20 April 1933 on the competence of the ministries, a new Ministry of Culture, Education and Justice was formed from the previously independent Ministries of Culture and Education and the Ministry of Justice. The Justice Department resided in the old premises of the Ministry at Herrenstraße 1 in Karlsruhe. Reichskommissar Otto Wacker became head of the new ministry. With the "Law on the Reconstruction of the Reich" of 30 January 1934, the sovereign rights of the Länder were transferred to the Reich. Thus also the entire administration of justice became a matter for the Reich. Initially, however, the administration of justice continued to be administered by the Länder on behalf of the Reich (1st Ordinance of the Reich Minister of the Interior on the Reconstruction of the Reich of 2 February 1934). The Reich Law of 5 December 1934 created a department Württemberg-Baden with a branch in Karlsruhe at the Reich Ministry of Justice, which from 1 January to 31 March 1935 temporarily continued the business of the Baden Ministry of Justice. On April 1, 1935, the administration of justice was finally taken over by the Reich in all German states. Any remaining business of the former Baden Ministry of Justice that was not affected by the release was transferred to the President of the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court and the General Prosecutor's Office. A separate administrative department was set up at the Higher Regional Court for this purpose. With the German occupation of Alsace in 1940, the jurisdiction of the Prosecutor General also partly extended to Alsace. Inventory history: In 1987, the present inventory reached the General State Archives in a disordered manner and without a list of consignments. The registry office of the Attorney General was located in the old premises of the former Baden Ministry of Justice at Herrenstraße 1 in Karlsruhe. As can be seen from handwritten notes on two file books (order numbers 281 and 1563), a considerable part of the files stored in the registry was probably burnt by the effects of war on 27 September 1944. After the annexation of Alsace in 1940, the registry was divided into two partial registries with their own business marks (Z4 for Baden and Z5 for Alsace). The files were arranged according to the general file plan of the judiciary and were left in this order at the time of recording. Some of the files were continued beyond the end of the war in 1945, and the order and registration work was carried out by archive inspector Bernd Breitkopf from March 1989 to June 1990. Mrs. L. Hessler took care of the title recordings and corrections. References to related holdings in the General State Archives: Individual further files of the Attorney General from the time of the "Third Reich" can be found in holdings 309, 309-2 and 309 access 1996-66. Together with the files of the present holdings, documents of the administration department of the Higher Regional Court Karlsruhe were also handed over to the General State Archives (240 access 1987-53). The files of the presidential department of the Higher Regional Court were completely destroyed by the effects of war in 1944. Karlsruhe, March 1991Bernd Breitkopf Conversion 2014: In 2014, this finding aid was converted in order to prepare it for the Internet. The conversion and data processing was done by Mr. Alexander Hoffmann, the final editor of the undersigned.Karlsruhe, in March 2014Dr. Martin Stingl Literature selection (as of 1991): Verfolgung und Widerstand unter dem Nationalsozialismus. The situation reports of the Gestapo and the General Prosecutor Karlsruhe 1933-1940, edited by Jörg Schadt, edited by the Stadtarchiv Mannheim, Stuttgart 1976, in the name of the people. Justice and National Socialism. Catalogue for the exhibition of the Federal Minister of Justice. Conception and text: Gerhard Fieberg, Cologne 1989.Rehberger, Horst: Die Gleichschaltung des Landes Baden 1932/33, Heidelberg 1966 (Heidelberger Rechtswissenschaftliche Abhandlung N.F. 19).
Preliminary remark: The present holdings include the files of Section IV e of both the General Command and the Deputy General Command of the XIV Bath. Army Corps, as they came together in 1949 from the Army Archives in Stuttgart to the General State Archives in Karlsruhe. These are individual case files on offences that were subject to the military judiciary in times of peace and war and were reported by it to the superior military authority as special cases.beyond the individual case, both the so-called honorary court files of the officers and the criminal and protective custody files of civilians provide a comprehensive insight into the sphere of activity and validity of military justice in the German Empire. Particularly during the First World War, it became clear that military justice had to fulfil political tasks, and what they had to do. With the unrelenting persecution of those persons who were considered to be "unreliable", their legally highly controversial preventive arrest and subsequent deportation to the interior of the Reich, the extraordinary war courts established for this purpose have acquired a dodgy fame. The fact that they destroyed the successes achieved over decades in integrating Alsace-Lorraine into the Wilhelminian Empire within just a few months is one of the tragic episodes in the history of the Reichland between 1871 and 1918. The present holdings were originally catalogued by a tax register compiled in the Army Archives. This did not meet the archive requirements. In the mid-1980s, the new indexing was started and completed in 1990.Karlsruhe, in November 1990Dr. Kurt Hochstuhl Conversion: In 2008, the indexing data for the present finding aid were converted into the new indexing software scopeArchiv within the scope of the project "Conversion of old finding aid data" of the General State Archive Karlsruhe. Guido Fögler was responsible for the technical implementation of the overall project "Conversion of old finding aid data" and Alexander Hoffmann for support. The editorial finishing of the online version was done by the undersigned.Karlsruhe, January 2009Dr. Martin Stingl
Origin and editing: During the formation of the large selection stock "Haus- und Staatsarchiv" in the 1870s and 1880s, the group "Staatssachen" was formed as Section III. The editor Ludwig Dietz mainly assembled files from the Margravial Archives, the Foreign Ministry (Diplomatic Section), Secret Cabinets, the War Ministry, and the Baden Army Commandos, and, as an exception, from the conversion, it seemed advisable to intervene editorially in order to make the online finding aid more user-friendly and clearer, at least in wording and textual form, without being able to make a new indexing: The title recordings were streamlined and provided with an additional "Contains" note. Also, in the area of name and location details in particular, clarifications had to be made. The expressly mentioned provenance data were noted in the field "Final provenance". Content: The originally so-called "Secret State Archives" mainly comprise the main and state actions of the state of Baden. Foreign policy and the war and military affairs of the early modern period and the 19th century form a focal point here. In addition to the files on the German Confederation, particular attention should be paid to those on the acquisition of the state and the territorial and succession issue. Reference should also be made to the group of treaties. Transitions to stocks I. Personalia (46) and II. Household and farm objects (47) of the Haus- und Staatsarchiv, the Großherzogliches Familienarchiv, the Geheimer Kabinett (60), the Staatsministerium (233) and the Kriegsministerium (238) are fluid. Usage: The stock is microfilmed. Use only via microfilm. Literature: Hansmartin Schwarzmaier/Hiltburg Köckert, The holdings of the General State Archive Karlsruhe, Part 3, Haus- und Staatsarchiv sowie Hofbehörden (46-60), Stuttgart 1991, pp. 38-50.
History of the Baden embassies: Until 1871 Baden had maintained its own missions to the German Confederation, in Bavaria, Belgium, France, Hanover (until 1866), Hesse (Grand Duchy of Hesse), Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Prussia, Saxony, Switzerland and Württemberg, as well as numerous overseas consulates (8 in the USA alone). The same states were also represented in Baden. With Baden's entry into the German Reich, his foreign powers were transferred to it and all Baden embassies were dissolved; only the embassy in Berlin remained in existence until 1918 or 1945. The legations in Stuttgart and Munich were re-established in Munich in 1894 in personal union and functioned until 1919. Conversely, in Karlsruhe after 1871, there were still legations from Bavaria, Belgium, Brazil, Great Britain (chargés d'affaires), Prussia, Russia and Spain, albeit with smaller personnel and fewer competences. Furthermore, numerous consulates remained as before, most of which were based in Mannheim. Tradition: The files of the legations dissolved in 1871 were handed over by the State Ministry to the General State Archives in 1887 with the condition that they be kept as a whole, i.e. not to be torn apart. Friedrich von Weech therefore established a "Gesandtschaftsarchiv" at the Haus- und Staatsarchiv as its abbot IV in accordance with the provenance. In 1934, the files of the Baden legations in Berlin were submitted from 1884 and Munich from 1894 onwards, others followed until 1951. Development: In 1907-1909, the legation files submitted until then were recorded, renumbered after 1950 and copied by typewriter in 1966; in 2010, Ms Sigrun Gees produced an online version of them. Parallel holdings: holdings 48, here: Diplomatic correspondence (counter tradition of the Baden government), embassies, consulates, fonds 233, here: Legations, especially no. 34795-34836 (reports of the Baden legation in Berlin 1874-1933) and no. 34863-34871 (reports of the Baden legation in Munich and Stuttgart 1894-1919). Literature: Günther Haselier, Die Badenische Gesandtschaft in München, in: Archivalische Zeitschrift 73 (1977), p. 99-111; Hansmartin Schwarzmaier/Hiltburg Köckert, Die Bestände des Generallandesarchivs Karlsruhe, Teil 3, Haus- und Staatsarchiv sowie Hofbehörden (46-60), Stuttgart 1991, p. 51-56; Jürgen Schuhladen-Krämer, accredited in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Darmstadt ... Baden envoy between 1771 and 1945, Karlsruhe 2000.
Regiment history: The regiment was rebuilt on 22 October 1852 as the 3rd Line Infantry Regiment. On 1 July 1871 it was renamed the 3rd Baden Infantry Regiment. As a result of the military convention concluded with Prussia and the associated numbering of the units, the addition no. 111 was added at the same time, following the Prussian model. From 18 December 1892, the unit was given the final designation of 3rd Baden Infantry Regiment Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm No. 111. When war broke out, the regiment belonged to the 56th Infantry Brigade (28th Infantry Division). At the beginning of the war, each infantry regiment, including the Reserve and Landwehr infantry regiments, had set up a replacement battalion for the training of replacements. In January 1915, a further replacement battalion was ordered. In addition to the training of the army replacement, new units were also formed by the replacement battalions. The 1st replacement battalion was erected on 2 August 1914 and stationed in Rastatt. The 2nd replacement battalion was also formed in Rastatt in February 1915. As a result of the demobilisation, from 2 May 1919 only the General Command, four higher dissolution staffs and one liquidation post each for each of the infantry and artillery regiments that were part of the peace budget before 1914 remained in the area of the XIV Army Corps. As a reaction to the so-called "Spartacus Uprising" in February 1919, the Reich and Badische Volksregierung had further voluntary associations set up at all units in addition to the existing voluntary formations. Inventory history: After the end of the war, the files remained at the processing office of Infantry Regiment No. 111. From January 1920, the establishment of an archive of the XIV Army Corps began, in which the archives of the processing offices were brought together. In autumn 1920 the corps archive moved to the infantry barracks in Heilbronn. From January 1921, the Corps Archives entered the portfolio of the Reich Ministry of the Interior under the name Aktenverwaltung XIV, before being incorporated into the Reichsarchiv in Potsdam as the Heilbronn archive branch on April 1, 1921. As a result of the merger of the Heilbronn and Stuttgart branches of the Reich Archives, the holdings were transferred to Stuttgart in 1924. The Württembergische Archivdirektion, which took over the administration of the holdings of the Army Archives Stuttgart after the end of the Second World War, handed over the XIV Army Corps to the General State Archives Karlsruhe in the years 1947 to 1949. A very detailed history of the holdings is contained in the foreword of the Deputy General Command of the XIV Army Corps (holdings 456 F 8). 317 fascicles with a circumference of 8.5 linear metres are included. References: Die Badener im Weltkrieg 1914/18, edited by Wilhelm Müller-Loebnitz, Karlsruhe 1935.German Military History in six volumes 1648-1939, edited by the Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt Freiburg, Munich 1983.Feill, (Heinrich): Das 3. Badische Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 111 in the campaign 1870/71 along with a short prehistory of the Baden troops from 1604 to 1850 and of the establishment of the regiment 1853 to 1870, Berlin 1884.Feill, (Heinrich): Das 3. Badische Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 111 from 1852-1888, Berlin 1895. Fenske, Hans: Die Verwaltung im Ersten Weltkrieg, in: German Administrative History, vol. 3, Stuttgart 1984, p. 866-908. Fischer, Joachim: Ten Years Military Archive of the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 37 (1978), p. 362-368 [Infantry Regiment 111]: Experiences of a deserter of the regiment Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm (3rd Baden) No. 111 in the French Foreign Legion 1889-1896, Baden-Baden 1898.Infanterie-Regiment 111]: Ehren-Tafel, list of the officers, non-commissioned officers and crews of the Infanterie-Regiment Markgraf Ludwig Wilhelm (3. Badisches) No. 111, Karlsruhe 1924 who remained in the field of honour. [Infanterie-Regiment 111]: Festbuch, Regimentstag on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the I. regiment.R. 111, Rastatt 1927.Jäger, Harald: The military archival material in the Federal Republic of Germany for the period from 1871 to 1919, in: Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen 1968/2, pp. 135-138.Kilian: Stock list of the officers' corps of the infantry regiment Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm (3rd ed. 1968/2, pp. 135-138). Baden) No. 111, 1852-1912, Rastatt 1912 Merz, Johann: Experiences of a soldier of the 3rd Baden Infantry Regiment Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm No. 111 in the campaign 1870/71, Karlsruhe 1897.Overview of the holdings of the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, edited by Joachim Fischer (publication of the Staatliche Archivverwaltung Baden-Württemberg, vol. 31), Stuttgart 1983.Zahn, Th.: Das Infanterie-Regiment Margraf Ludwig Wilhelm (3. badisches) Nr. 111 im Weltkriege 1914-1918, Wiesbaden 1936.
Regiment history: The regiment was established on 1 April 1890. At the outbreak of war, it was part of the 58th Infantry Brigade (29th Infantry Division). at the beginning of the war, each infantry regiment, including the Reserve and Landwehr Infantry Regiments, had set up a replacement battalion for the training of replacements. In January 1915 the erection of another replacement battalion was ordered. In addition to the training, new troops were set up by the replacement battalions. The 1st Replacement Battalion was erected at the beginning of August 1914 and stationed in Müllheim. The Second Replacement Battalion was erected in February 1915 and moved to Heitersheim. As a result of the demobilisation, from 2 May 1919 only the General Command, four higher dissolution staffs and one liquidation post each for each of the infantry and artillery regiments that were part of the peace budget before 1914 remained in the area of the XIV Army Corps. As a reaction to the so-called "Spartacus Uprising" in February 1919, the Reich and Badische Volksregierung had further voluntary associations set up at all units in addition to the existing voluntary formations. Inventory history: After the end of the war, the files remained with the settlement office of Infantry Regiment No. 142. From January 1920, the establishment of an archive of the XIV Army Corps began, in which the archives of the settlement offices were brought together. In autumn 1920 the corps archive moved to the infantry barracks in Heilbronn. From January 1921, the Corps Archives entered the portfolio of the Reich Ministry of the Interior under the name Aktenverwaltung XIV, before being incorporated into the Reichsarchiv in Potsdam as the Heilbronn archive branch on April 1, 1921. As a result of the merger of the Heilbronn and Stuttgart branches of the Reich Archives, the holdings were transferred to Stuttgart in 1924. The Württembergische Archivdirektion, which after the end of the Second World War took over the administration of the holdings of the Stuttgart Army Archives, handed over the records of the XIV Army Corps to the General State Archive in Karlsruhe between 1947 and 1949. References: Die Badener im Weltkrieg 1914/18, edited by Wilhelm Müller-Loebnitz, Karlsruhe 1935.German military history in six volumes 1648-1939, edited by the Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt Freiburg, Munich 1983.Fenske, Hans: Die Verwaltung im Ersten Weltkrieg, in: Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte, Vol. 3, Stuttgart 1984, p. 866-908.Fischer, Joachim: Zehn Jahre Militärarchiv des Hauptstaatsarchivs Stuttgart, in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 37 (1978), p. 362-368.Gaedecke, Arnold v.Former 7th Baden Infantry Regiment No. 142, Berlin 1938.Jäger, Harald: Das militärische Archivgut in der Bundesrepublik für die Zeit von 1871 bis 1919, in: Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen 1968/2, p. 135-138.Schmidt, Walter: Das 7th Baden Infantry Regiment No. 142 im Weltkrieg 1914-1918, Freiburg 1927.Overview of the holdings of the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, edited by Joachim Fischer (Publication of the Staatliche Archivverwaltung Baden-Württemberg, vol. 31), Stuttgart 1983.
Preliminary remark: With the First Law on the Transfer of the Administration of Justice to the Reich of 16 February 1934, the judicial authorities of the Länder became Reich authorities. In Baden, the Ministry of Justice was replaced by the Württemberg-Baden Department of the Reich Ministry of Justice on the basis of the Second Transition Act of 5 December 1934. The President of the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court ran the business on the premises of the former Ministry in Herrenstraße 1. In 1944 this building was destroyed; almost all files of the "Presidential Department" were burned. On the other hand, the files of the ¿administrative department¿ in Herrenstraße - or in the Oberlandesgerichtsgebäude in Hoffstraße? - to have remained largely intact. Together with the administrative files of the Attorney General at the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court (309 access 1987-54), which were at least for the most part rescued, these files therefore form a source basis, which cannot be overestimated, for researching the justice system in the Nazi state. Since 1940 Alsace also belonged to the Sprengel of the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court. Since both the files of the Higher Regional Court and those of the General Prosecutor have been destroyed in Stuttgart, the Karlsruhe tradition has a significance that goes far beyond the narrower area of responsibility. Only files which contained nothing or only collections of official printed matter of the Reich Ministry of Justice other than the cover page were cashed. The basic drawing comes from Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schmitt/Heidelberg, who thankfully retired from this task out of legal-historical interest. His title recordings were revised and supplemented by archive inspector Andrea Rumpf and archive referees Irmgard Becker, Peter Exner and Christoph Popp. The classification of the general file plan of the judiciary according to the status of 1941 remained unchanged. Since the positions of the file plan on the file level are frequently occupied several times, even the lowest level of the file plan was treated as a category and placed before the title entries accordingly; this seems unusual in individual cases and as a superfluous doubling of the file title, but as a rule it is easier to recognize the togetherness of general, collective (individual case) and accessory files. The texts were entered by Mrs. Edeltraud Reibenspies, Mr. Ralf Quellmalz made the registers; the final editing was done by the undersigned. The collection comprises about 12 m in 114 archive containers. Karlsruhe, March 1997Konrad Krimm Conversion: In June 2014, the cataloguing data for the existing holdings were imported into the archive software Scope Archiv. Individual structural inconsistencies between file and data stock were resolved and the few existing content errors in the original data were corrected. The structure found was essentially retained and only slightly streamlined. The conversion and structural verification of the data was carried out by Alexander Hoffmann, the final editorial work was carried out by the undersigned.Karlsruhe, June 2014Martin Stingl
History of the possession of the island Mainau: After the abolition of the Kommende of the Teutonic Order on the island Mainau in 1805, the Kommenden possession first fell to the Baden state; today the Kommenden archive in the General State Archives consists mainly of the holdings 5 (documents Mainau) and 93 (files Mainau). After a rapid change of ownership - 1827 from Baden to Prince Nikolaus von Esterhazy, 1827 from his son Nikolaus Freiherr von Mainau to Katharina Gräfin Langenstein - Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden bought the island from Langenstein¿schem in 1853 with funds from the private box and made the Teutonic Order palace a secondary residence. With advancing age, the stays of the Grand Duke and his wife Luise became increasingly frequent; the park owes its design largely to Frederick's initiative. In 1907 the Grand Duke of Mainau died. After her death in 1923, the widow's residence of the Grand Duchess was transferred to her son Frederick II, and from him to his sister Victoria, Queen of Sweden. In 1930, their grandson Lennart, now Count Bernadotte, took possession of the Mainau. History and notes on tradition: The Schlossarchiv, which was handed over to the General State Archives in 1997 as a deposit of Blumeninsel Mainau GmbH, depicts the history of possession and the court holdings of the Grand Ducal couple rather fragmentarily. Only the planned stock has survived as a closed overdelivery complex. After the death of Frederick I, Grand Duchess Luise decided that neither the castle nor the park could be altered in any way, so the plans provide a good overview of the conversion of the old Kommende buildings and the layout of the park from the Grand Ducal period to the Bernadotte era. Almost all the plans came from the architects of the Grand Ducal Court Building Office (Dyckerhoff, Hemberger, Amersbach), a few from the Court Garden Centre, from commissioned companies and from the Constance District Building Inspectorate. Outside the island, only the St. Katharina estate near Litzelstetten and a park bench near Constance are documented. The plans were recorded in detail by Ms. Kreyenberg before they were handed over to the General State Archives; her index continues to serve as a finding aid for the plan inventory, while the file part of the archive consists only of fragments. There are internal and external reasons for this. The changing courtly style between Karlsruhe, Baden-Baden, Badenweiler and Mainau may have brought with it a transport of written documents, which in all residences allowed half site-related, half accidentally left behind layers of files to emerge. In many respects, the Mainau holdings correspond almost perfectly to the files that have been kept in the General State Archives since 1995 from the tradition in the New Palace in Baden-Baden: Here and there the boundaries between the files of the court authorities, the daily ceremony and the personal, princely estate can hardly be drawn exactly, here and there correspondence and telegram series, diaries and notebooks, private entries and greeting addresses, documents of the wide-ranging charity work of Grand Duchess Luise and much more can be found. (cf. GLA 69 Baden, Collection 1995 A, B, D, F I, FII, G , K). In a nutshell, the Mainau collection - insofar as it does not directly refer to the Mainau court - microscopically depicts the Baden-Baden manor; both collections relate primarily to Grand Duchess Luise, and only in the second to her husband and children. As in Baden-Baden, the Mainau collection also includes a large group of photographs documenting, among other things, the close ties to relatives of the imperial family. Unlike in Baden-Baden, however, the fragmentary character of the Mainau archive also seems to be due to unintentional interventions. In the summer of 1945, the castle served as a military hospital for former concentration camp prisoners; during this time, they are said to have burned the archives, the bookkeeping and the more recent documentation of the island and to have taken documents with them when they were released in September (Alexander and Johanna Dées de Sterio, Die Mainau, Stuttgart / Zürich 1977 p.93). It will no longer be possible to reconstruct exactly what kind of archive this was; in any case, it must have been the written records of the goods administration which were taken over by the successors of the Teutonic Order and continued through the 19th century. Only fractions of files from this area have actually survived in today's inventory. Editor's report: Because of the difficult history of tradition, the order of the remaining holdings was not easy either. A separation according to personnel and court office conveniences would have made little sense and would also have been hardly possible in view of fragments that could hardly be allocated. Thus special occasions (such as birthdays and anniversaries) and special source genres (such as notebooks or telegrams) now form the highest order criteria, then the reference to persons or events and finally, within a unit of records, the chronological order; however, most of these units of records had to be formed first, since at the time the inventory was taken over any order of parts was not recognizable; as a rule they were loose, connected sheets.In August and September 1998, in the context of the training for the Higher Archive Service, the holdings were arranged by Claudia Maria Neesen and Christof Strauß under the guidance of the undersigned and recorded and indexed with the help of the MIDOSA programme package of the Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg. Karlsruhe, June 1999Konrad Krimm Conversion: The finding aid was converted in 2015. The final editing was carried out by Sara Diedrich in April 2016. The plans and building drawings were added under the inventory designation 69 Baden, Mainau K to the inventory 69 Baden, Mainau and listed under the signatures 69 Baden, Mainau K 1 to 69 Baden, Mainau K 209.
History of the authorities: The establishment and expansion of a military medical service took place in the second half of the 19th century. A Prussian medical corps had been in existence since 1873, headed by the General Staff physician of the army, who was also head of the medical department of the War Ministry, director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy for Military Medical Education and chairman of the scientific senate there. He was also responsible for the personal affairs of the military doctors and other medical personnel. Since 1906, the four medical inspectorates in Poznan, Berlin, Kassel and Strasbourg have held the liaison from the General Staff Physician to the medical offices of the army corps established in the second half of the 19th century, which in turn were under the exclusive supreme command of the Reich in accordance with the Military Convention of 25 November 1870. In 1912 another inspection was set up in Gdansk. Among senior general practitioners in the rank of Major General, as the supreme supervisory authorities, they covered the territory of several army corps, each of which was assigned a medical office under a corps general practitioner. Personally subordinate to the commanding general and the general staff physician of the army, he was the medical-technical advisor of the general command in all questions of health and medical care as well as head of the medical office as military-medical provincial authority of their area of competence. In the case of the medical office of the XIV Army Corps, these were the lands of Baden and Hohenzollern as well as parts of the Upper Alsace with the exception of the Baden and Hohenzollern areas, which were part of the fortresses of Germersheim, Strasbourg, Neubreisach and Idstein. His tasks in peace included health and medical service in the army and military institutions as well as all preparations and facilities required for military medical service. Organizationally, a distinction was made between the medical service of the troops, which included all units, military authorities, institutions, etc., and the military hospitals. Their administration was shared between the Sanitätsamt and the Korpsintendantur (at the XIV AK, Divisions IV b and VI were responsible), the former being responsible for medical matters, the latter for economic and administrative matters. In the event of war, a deputy corps general physician assumed the tasks, duties and rights of the corps general physician assigned to the field army and thus the responsibility for the organization of the medical service in the home area. In this capacity, he is responsible for the construction of reserve hospitals in suitable buildings, their staffing with medical and nursing staff and the training of substitute reservists as military nurses. If several reserve hospitals were set up in one place, he could delegate the overall management of these hospitals to an older medical officer as reserve hospital director. The latter had to inspect the military hospitals under his authority and to report grievances, which he was not able to rectify on his own responsibility, to the medical office, which in turn informed the deputy directorate if necessary. The deputy general corps physician was also responsible for all voluntary nursing facilities, in particular the club hospitals, convalescent homes and private nursing homes. Her supervision he shared with the Territorial Delegate of Voluntary Nursing. Inventory history: The archive history of the Sanitätsamt des XIV. Armeekorps is identical with that of the Deputy General Command and can be read in the Repertorium Abt. 456 F 8 Stellvertretendes Generalkommando XIV. Armeekorps (1914-1924). The only thing to note here is that, in accordance with the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, the formations of the imperial army had to be dissolved. For this purpose, a civilian authority was created, the so-called Winding-up Office of the former XIV Army Corps, and the dissolution and descendants of the former XIV Army Corps were renamed Winding-up Offices. Accordingly, the department responsible for the Sanitätsamt was the Sanitätsabteilung 14, where the files of the Sanitätsamt and the individual military hospitals were collected until 1922. Via Heilbronn, where the settlement office had been moved to under pressure from the Allies in 1920, the files first reached its successor authority, the Reichsarchiv branch office Heilbronn, after the dissolution of the settlement office in 1921, and via this branch office in 1924 to the Reichsarchiv branch office Stuttgart. According to the register of deportees drawn up there (EV 113), the stock originally comprised 740 units, of which 73 were already indicated as missing in the register of deportees and 59 units were accounted for by the Deputy General Command. Before the XIV Army Corps was handed over to the General State Archive in Karlsruhe in 1949386, 33 of these units were destroyed as part of the General Command IV b. Processing report: The present holdings were recorded in June and July 1989 by the State Archives referees Norbert Haag and Dieter Speck under the guidance and supervision of the undersigned as part of the training for the higher archival service. Thereby 4 federations, which had arisen at the General Command of the XIV Army Corps, Dept. IVb, were eliminated and classified according to provenance. The collection now includes documents from the Sanitary Office XIV Army Corps (Peace), the Sanitary Office XIV Army Corps (War) and the Sanitary Department XIV with a total of 6 metres. Kassationen were not accomplished Karlsruhe, in October 1989Kurt high chair
Formation history: The task of this stage was to supply the army by supplying it with armed forces and other army needs. The resources and supplies of the theatre of war could also be used. To each army belonged a stage inspection; to independent corps and/or army departments a stage command. The stage area was again subdivided into stage command posts, whose remit corresponded to that of a stage inspection. The documents of the following stage commandantures have been handed down in the inventory:Mobile Stage Command Office 43 [Colmar] including the District Directorate Colmar;Mobile Stage Command Office 64 [Laon];Mobile Stage Command Office 84 [Sissonne];Mobile Stage Command Office 104 [Schlettstadt];Mobile Stage Command Office 124 [Villerupt];Mobile Stage Command Office 140 [Busigny];Mobile Stage Command Office 167 [Vervins];Mobile stage command post 172 [Mulhouse in Alsace];Mobile stage command post 173 [Schirmeck];Mobile stage command post 184 [Flobecq];Mobile stage command post 185 [Müllheim];Mobile stage command post 279 [Virton];Mobile stage command post 297 [Arlon];Mobile stage command post 363 [Maniewicze].In addition to the documents of the mobile stage commandant's offices responsible for the stage area, the files of the district director Colmar on the implementation of the surveillance of the civilian population and the recording of the hostages abducted by the French are of particular interest. Inventory history: After the end of the war, the files of the mobile stage commandant's offices remained with the Leib-Grenadier Regiment 109. From January 1920, the establishment of an archive of the XIV Army Corps was begun, in which the archives of the stage commandant's offices were brought together. In autumn 1920 the corps archive moved to the infantry barracks in Heilbronn. From January 1921, the Corps Archives entered the portfolio of the Reich Ministry of the Interior under the name Aktenverwaltung XIV, before being incorporated into the Reichsarchiv in Potsdam as the Heilbronn archive branch on April 1, 1921. As a result of the merger of the Heilbronn and Stuttgart branches of the Reich Archives, the holdings were transferred to Stuttgart in 1924. The Württembergische Archivdirektion, which took over the administration of the holdings of the Army Archives Stuttgart after the end of the Second World War, handed over the XIV Army Corps to the General State Archives Karlsruhe in the years 1947 to 1949. A very detailed history of the holdings is contained in the foreword of the Deputy General Command of the XIV Army Corps (holdings 456 F 8). 460 fascicles with a circumference of 8.80 linear metres are included. References: Die Badener im Weltkrieg 1914/18, edited by Wilhelm Müller-Loebnitz, Karlsruhe 1935.German Military History in six volumes 1648-1939, edited by the Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt Freiburg, Munich 1983.Fenske, Hans: Die Verwaltung im Ersten Weltkrieg, in: Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte, vol. 3, Stuttgart 1984, p. 866-908.Fischer, Joachim: Zehn Jahre Militärarchiv des Hauptstaatsarchivs Stuttgart, in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 37 (1978), p. 362-368.Jäger, Harald: Das militärische Archivgut in der Bundesrepublik für die Zeit von 1871 bis 1919, in: Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen 1968/2, S. 135-138.Overview of the holdings of the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, edited by Joachim Fischer (published by the Staatliche Archivverwaltung Baden-Württemberg, vol. 31), Stuttgart 1983.
Preliminary remark: The holdings 465 d contain documents of the Baden-Alsatian NSDAP and its divisions, which had been confiscated by American troops in 1945, transported to America and registered and filmed there at the Alexandria/Virginia collection point. Little by little, these files came back. The Federal Archives in Koblenz took over the distribution role (as with the other federal states) for this purpose and since 1963 had delivered the Baden provenances in larger or smaller consignments to the General State Archives. Since 1971, this route has also been used to bring isolated material from the American Document Center in Berlin to Karlsruhe; these were mainly SA files, which, unlike the Alexandria holdings, had neither been filmed nor registered. A small part of the archival records received could be integrated into the existing holdings of the General State Archives (such as the Ministry of the Interior, the Oberfinanzpräsidium, etc.). The files of the "Außenhandelsstelle für Baden und Westmark" (Mannheim) (Foreign Trade Office for Baden and Westmark) today form the holdings 501 as a deposit of the Federal Archives. From the very beginning, regional provenances of southern Baden had been delivered to the branch of the General State Archives in Freiburb, today's State Archives of Freiburg. At first, it was impossible to produce a clear repertory of the core holdings of the archival records (465 d), as new deliveries from the Federal Archives were constantly coming in; so a continuous index had to be made do with (produced in 1970 and supplemented ever since). The provisional conclusion of this process in 1974 enabled a complete re-drawing and systematic order. Although preserved to very different extents, this order is based on the provenances of the individual party offices. Their order is based on the "Rang- und Organisationsliste der NSDAP" (Stuttgart, 2nd edition, 1947) and the "Organisationsbuch der NSDAP", edited by the Reichsorganisationsletter der NSDAP (Munich, 2nd edition, 1937). The latter is also taken from the latter the division of departments within a party office, as far as a more precise subdivision at all appeared sinnvolì. Apart from the three Gauämtern (training, NSV, local politics), these provenances were only marginally preserved anyway; therefore the higher and lower instances - i.e. the Reich or district level - which only occur fragmentarily, were not taken into account in the structure and were objectively assigned to the corresponding Gauämtern. The separate associations, which were either affiliated to a Gauamt or disciplinary directly subordinated to the Gauleiter (like the "Deutsche Arbeitsfront" and "Kraft durch Freude", Winterhilfswerk, Reichsbund Deutscher Schwestern etc.), were classified between the Gauämter. 3 working students under the guidance of Messrs. K. Krimm and Dr. H. Schadek redrawed the files in summer 1974; the files were numbered and repackaged according to the new system. Since then, the holdings have been supplemented by further small deliveries from the Federal Archives. NSDAP conveniences of the Gauebene and lower levels are also to be found in the 465 c population group. The allocation of the preserved NSDAP files to the former GLA holdings is partly due to coincidences in the history of tradition. For example, the files of the Main Personnel Office are divided into the stocks 465 c and 465 d.Karlsruhe 1974/1988/2016 K. Krimm, B. Vogler, M. Stingl Conversion: The indexing data of the 1980s were converted to the available finding aid by Alexander Hoffmann in 2015 and processed into an online finding aid. Subsequently, the data found were edited with the aim of making the personnel files of the political directors of the Main Personnel Office, which had previously only been recorded in summary form, and the requests for information, which had formed into collective files, searchable at the individual level. The entire editorial office was with the undersigned.Karlsruhe, February 2016Dr. Martin Stingl Literature reference: Wilhelm Rohr: Mikroverfilmung und Verzeichnung deutscher Akten in Alexandria, USA, in: Der Archivar 19, 1966, Sp. 251-259.
Formation history: By order of the "Army Group Gaede", control of border traffic between the Grand Duchy of Baden and Switzerland was organised militarily as early as October 1914. The catenary of the border guard was transferred to Colonel von Liebenstein. The staff began its work on 2 November 1914 in Lörrach. Landstorm units were assigned to him to fulfil his tasks. The scope of duties included protection against the import and export of unauthorized information, the prevention of espionage, the surveillance of the movement of goods, the control of persons and the search for deserters and escaped prisoners of war. Inventory history: After the end of the war, the files remained with the clearinghouse of the infantry regiment 114. From January 1920, the establishment of an archive of the XIV Army Corps began, in which the archives of the clearinghouses were brought together. In autumn 1920 the corps archive moved to the infantry barracks in Heilbronn. From January 1921, the Corps Archives entered the portfolio of the Reich Ministry of the Interior under the name Aktenverwaltung XIV, before being incorporated into the Reichsarchiv in Potsdam as the Heilbronn archive branch on April 1, 1921. As a result of the merger of the Heilbronn and Stuttgart branches of the Reich Archives, the holdings were transferred to Stuttgart in 1924. The Württembergische Archivdirektion, which took over the administration of the holdings of the Army Archives Stuttgart after the end of the Second World War, handed over the XIV Army Corps to the General State Archives Karlsruhe in the years 1947 to 1949. A very detailed history of the holdings is contained in the foreword of the Deputy General Command of the XIV Army Corps (holdings 456 F 8). 20 fascicles with a circumference of 0.30 linear metres are included in the holdings. References: Die Badener im Weltkrieg 1914/18, edited by Wilhelm Müller-Loebnitz, Karlsruhe 1935.German Military History in six volumes 1648-1939, edited by the Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt Freiburg, Munich 1983.Fenske, Hans: Die Verwaltung im Ersten Weltkrieg, in: Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte, vol. 3, Stuttgart 1984, p. 866-908.Fischer, Joachim: Zehn Jahre Militärarchiv des Hauptstaatsarchivs Stuttgart, in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 37 (1978), p. 362-368.Jäger, Harald: Das militärische Archivgut in der Bundesrepublik für die Zeit von 1871 bis 1919, in: Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen 1968/2, S. 135-138.Overview of the holdings of the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, edited by Joachim Fischer (published by the Staatliche Archivverwaltung Baden-Württemberg, vol. 31), Stuttgart 1983.
Instructions for use: The inventory contains the personnel files of those officers who belonged to the formations which had their replacement troop part in the area of the XIV Army Corps. In addition, personal files of military doctors, pharmacists, paymasters, armoury staff, military officials and some non-commissioned officers are also archived. The personnel files were used for military monitoring and were usually kept by the district offices and the Karlsruhe Landwehr Inspectorate. The dates given for the early terms refer mainly to file entries and do not relate to the actual times when the files were created. Inventory history: After the end of the war, the files remained with the relevant settlement agencies. From January 1920, the establishment of an archive of the XIV Army Corps was begun, in which the archives of the settlement agencies were brought together. In autumn 1920 the corps archive moved to the infantry barracks in Heilbronn. From January 1921, the Corps Archives entered the portfolio of the Reich Ministry of the Interior under the name Aktenverwaltung XIV, before being incorporated into the Reichsarchiv in Potsdam as the Heilbronn archive branch on April 1, 1921. As a result of the merger of the Heilbronn and Stuttgart branches of the Reich Archives, the holdings were transferred to Stuttgart in 1924. The Württembergische Archivdirektion, which took over the administration of the holdings of the Army Archives Stuttgart after the end of the Second World War, handed over the XIV Army Corps to the General State Archives Karlsruhe in the years 1947 to 1949. A very detailed history of the holdings is contained in the foreword of the Deputy General Command of the XIV Army Corps (holdings 456 F 8). 16,686 fascicles with a circumference of 85.50 linear metres are included in the holdings.
The Presidents of the State District of Baden: With the decree of the American military government of 13 July 1945, the emeritus literary scholar Prof. Dr. Karl Holl was appointed Chief President of the Landeskommissarbezirk Mannheim. His work remained limited in the first few weeks to Mannheim and the surrounding area. Karlsruhe was initially under French occupation. By reorganizing the French and American zones, the Americans extended Holl's sphere of competence to the Baden part of the newly formed state of Württemberg-Baden. On September 3, 1945, Holl was released in the course of an American denazification measure. On September 10 Dr. Heinrich Köhler was appointed. While the individual ministries of the state of Württemberg-Baden in Stuttgart communicated with the Württemberg authorities without intermediate authority, in the American zone of the Baden state territory the state district administration of Baden was interposed, with the exception of the organisation of the administration of justice, which consisted of five departments: President - Internal administration - Labour, social affairs and reconstruction - Cult and education - Finance. The documents of these departments were included in the files of the later Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe. With the death of Heinrich Köhler on 6 February 1949, the time of a full-time state district president in Baden was over. The position of state district president was only filled on a provisional basis. In this function, Gustav Zimmermann initially held office until his death on August 1, 1949. Until January 11, 1951, Dr. Edmund Kaufmann also served only briefly as provisional state district president. He was succeeded by Ministerial Director Dr. Hans Unser until his death on 27 November 1951. The last president was Dr. Hermann Veit. The formation of the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952 with the establishment of the four administrative districts unified the administrative division in the new federal state. Tasks and powers of the President: The individual departments of the state district administration were responsible for the specialist tasks. The President, who was able to intervene in the competence of the departments, reserved the right to participate in all fundamental matters as well as in the appointment and promotion of civil servants. In March 1947 the course of business of the presidential office was reorganised. President Köhler reserved the right to sign in draft and in execution all decisions of fundamental and political importance, certain decisions in personnel matters, all matters reserved by the President for signing, all lectures to the State Ministry and letters to the Ministries in Stuttgart. In 1950, the then President Dr. Kaufmann reorganised his competences and tasks within the Baden district administration. He stressed that he should be involved in all administrative matters of fundamental, political and financial importance. In addition, all personnel matters of fundamental or political importance were reserved for the President. The other competences of the President are resolutions of fundamental, political, organisational and financial importance for the district of Baden or which affect the business activities of all the regional district directorates, complaints of official oversight, draft budget for information, notification of budget overruns of a certain amount, representation of the district administration in its entirety, certification of subsidies in excess of DM 200, publication of the official gazette of the district of Baden. Structure and organization of the Presidential Department: In 1947, the Presidential Department was divided into two departments: Department 1: Head of Service, Presidential Affairs, County Council Affairs, State Ministerial Affairs, Representation Affairs, Legal Affairs, Presidential Staff, Motor Affairs, Press Affairs, Official Gazette of the County Administration, Correspondence on more important matters and those of fundamental importance from Department 2. Unit 2: Civil servants' and salaried staff's rights and collective bargaining regulations for civil servants and public sector workers (general), appointment and dismissal of civil servants and recruitment of employees, right to travel and removal expenses (general), State budget matters, factual and personal expenditure of the Bureau, co-administration of representation matters, disposition funds, certifications (legalisation of documents), special mandates of the President, deputisation for Unit 1.A slightly different picture was provided by the business distribution plan of 5 May 1950. The tasks of the Presidential Office were now divided into three units. Unit 1 was called "President", Unit 2 "Legal Unit", Unit 3 "Human Resources and Budget Unit". Traditional history: The written records of the presidential office of the president of the state district of Baden are always singular if they were created within the exclusive competence of the personally small presidential office, i.e. for representation matters, contacts with the press, approval of support, various honours and partly in personnel matters. A typical feature of a large part of the files is the numerous newspaper clippings that they contained, which served to inform the President. This collection forms a unique source for the immediate post-war period. Not only does it document the structure of the German administration in the North Baden area and the beginnings of the new state structure in the German southwest, but it also reflects the misery and the manifold problems faced by the population, administration and politics in view of the catastrophic consequences of the war and the collapse, and the way in which they were coped with. The registry of the president of the Baden district filed the documents in accordance with the Badische Amtsregistraturordnung by H. Fackler (1905). The main headings of this classification were retained in the reorganisation of the stock. Further literature: The President of the State District of Baden (1945-1952). President's Office. Inventory of the holdings 481 in the General State Archive Karlsruhe. Edited by Jürgen Treffeisen, Stuttgart 1997 (Booklets of the State Archive Administration Baden-Württemberg. Published by the Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg. Series E General State Archive Karlsruhe Issue 1). Conversion of the finding aid: The inventory 481 was ordered and recorded by Dr. Jürgen Treffeisen in the years 1991 to 1993. He provided the finding aid book with a detailed account of the history of the authorities, which is still valid and on which the abridged explanations in this finding aid are based, and a detailed report by the editor. The inventory was printed in 1997. The indexing data for inventory 481 were transferred to the software ScopeArchiv as part of the project "Conversion of old finding aid data" of the General State Archive Karlsruhe, which was carried out by Guido Fögler in the years 2006-2008, in order to be able to produce an online finding aid from it. The project was supervised by Alexander Hoffmann, who - apart from very little remaining work by the undersigned - also took over the final editing of the converted finding aids. Because corrections had to be made and supplements inserted, the converted finding aid replaces the content of the old finding aid book from 1993 and the printed inventory from 1997.Karlsruhe, January 2011Dr. Martin Stingl
Characteristics: The collection 229 is the most important of the General State Archives in terms of size and fascicle number (118,938 numbers). As its name suggests, it contains "special files of the smaller offices, towns and rural communities", i.e. provenances from the numerous territories and dominions which, at the beginning of the 19th century, were wholly or partly absorbed in the then newly created Grand Duchy of Baden. It is a classic, topographically related pertinence stock. According to the Brauer archive regulations of 1801, in the 19th century the "special files" or "specialia" - local subjects - falling under the "special categories" of the individual places - were filed according to alphabetical categories borrowed from the legal terminology of that time and chronologically sorted within these categories. Inventory history: Initially, several special file collections existed side by side, such as Baden-Baden, Baden-Durlach, Pfalz, Breisgau, Bruchsal and a forest file archive. It was not until 1874/75, in the interest of easier handling, that these previously independent special departments were merged into a single collection comprising around 14,000 volumes, and in 1878, the indexing of these collections began. Although the principle of provenance had also been applied in the General State Archives since 1887, the monstrous collection of local records continued to be preserved and experienced numerous growths until the 1930s. The inventory number plan introduced in 1939 gave him the number 229, which is still valid today; before, however, the files of offices and cities (inventories 129 to 228) had been spun off. The individual fascicles were numbered consecutively in the middle of the 1950s. However, the indexing work was not completed until the mid-1970s. Provenances: At its core, the collection comprises documents that fell to Baden with the archives of previous territories or monasteries, but also files that, as far as they refer to places in Baden, were extracted from Bavaria or Württemberg to Baden. This tradition is more or less poor in the case of places which belonged to the former dominions of the nobility mediatized in 1806, because the nobility - both the princely and count's lords (Wertheim, Leiningen, Fürstenberg etc.) as well as the members of the former imperial knighthood (in Odenwald, Kraichgau, Ortenau, Hegau etc.) - were left with their archives; corresponding material is therefore to be found in the respective archives of the nobility. Contents: The temporal spectrum of the tradition preserved in fonds 229 essentially ranges from the 17th to the early 19th century. It is rare to find an original document from the 15th century in it, but much more frequently one comes across such documents from the 16th century. From old habit, however, files of the 19th century were often also sorted here. The whole range of village legal life is represented in terms of content. Indexing: The index presented below, compiled with great care by Reinhold Rupp in 1990 and only carefully revised for the Internet presence, cannot, of course, index the contents of the individual files kept at the various locations. Rather, it aims to give researchers interested in local history an impression of the amount of material available in each case, according to the number of fascicles, the amount in running metres and the duration of the tradition. The keyword-like mention of older political contexts is understood as an indication of which other holdings of the General State Archives might require further research. The description of the content highlights selected subjects, places and persons, stating the respective duration, as far as these can claim interest beyond the actual local history. In addition, the local rulers are mentioned, so that in many cases the relevant provenances are also mentioned; the main provenance is occasionally highlighted.The introductory information on the individual communes is structured according to a fixed structure: current administrative affiliation: commune/county district, in brackets: information on which district office the town belonged to in 1898Landesherchaft around 1800 / Ortsherrschaft, if different from the Landesherrschaft (Knight canton for knightly towns)associated places of residencescope according to number of fascicles (duration) Scope in running time. m Contents: e.g. subject, place and personal matters (in selection)PolicyholdersProvenience (in part)The information is identical with: The holdings of the General State Archive Karlsruhe. Part 7: Special files of the Baden villages (229), edited by Reinhold Rupp (Publications of the State Archive Administration Baden-Württemberg, vol. 39/7). Stuttgart 1992.
Formation history: After the army had undergone an enormous enlargement as a result of the constitution of the German Reich, an army inspection was formed for three to four army corps together. In 1877 the V. Army Inspection was set up in Karlsruhe. Grand Duke Frederick I of Baden was appointed General Inspector in his capacity as Colonel General of the Cavalry and was responsible for the XIV, XV and XVI Army Corps. By 1913, the number of inspections had increased from four to eight. The general inspectors were intended to lead the armies to be deployed in the event of war. In peacetime, they only had the right to inspect the army corps subordinated to them. Since they lacked the command over the assigned commanding generals of the army corps, they also had no military staffs. When the war broke out in 1914, the V Army Inspectorate in Karlsruhe was headed by Grand Duke Friedrich II of Baden as Colonel General with the rank of Field Marshal General. The V Army Inspectorate was assigned the VIII, XIV and XV Army Corps at the outbreak of war. Inventory history: After the end of the war, the files remained in the area of the XIV Army Corps. From January 1920, the establishment of an archive of the XIV Army Corps was begun, in which the archives of the settlement agencies were brought together. In autumn 1920 the corps archive moved to the infantry barracks in Heilbronn. From January 1921, the Corps Archives entered the portfolio of the Reich Ministry of the Interior under the name Aktenverwaltung XIV, before being incorporated into the Reichsarchiv in Potsdam as the Heilbronn archive branch on April 1, 1921. As a result of the merger of the Heilbronn and Stuttgart branches of the Reich Archives, the holdings were transferred to Stuttgart in 1924. The Württembergische Archivdirektion, which took over the administration of the holdings of the Army Archives Stuttgart after the end of the Second World War, handed over the XIV Army Corps to the General State Archive Karlsruhe in the years 1947 to 1949. A very detailed history of the holdings is contained in the foreword of the Deputy General Command of the XIV Army Corps (holdings 456 F 8). 22 fascicles with a circumference of 0.30 linear metres are included in the holdings. References: Die Badener im Weltkrieg 1914/18, edited by Wilhelm Müller-Loebnitz, Karlsruhe 1935.German Military History in six volumes 1648-1939, edited by the Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt Freiburg, Munich 1983.Fenske, Hans: Die Verwaltung im Ersten Weltkrieg, in: Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte, vol. 3, Stuttgart 1984, p. 866-908.Fischer, Joachim: Zehn Jahre Militärarchiv des Hauptstaatsarchivs Stuttgart, in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 37 (1978), p. 362-368.Jäger, Harald: Das militärische Archivgut in der Bundesrepublik für die Zeit von 1871 bis 1919, in: Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen 1968/2, S. 135-138.Overview of the holdings of the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, edited by Joachim Fischer (published by the Staatliche Archivverwaltung Baden-Württemberg, vol. 31), Stuttgart 1983.