History of Tradition Preliminary Remark By the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 25. February 1803 came the imperial city Biberach and the area of the hospital Biberach with the places Ahlen, Attenweiler, Bergerhausen, Birkendorf, Höfen, Ingerkingen, Laupertshausen, Muttensweiler, Volkersheim then partly Röhrwangen, Warthausen, Winterreute, Ummendorf, Baltringen, 1/3 of Baustetten, Burgrieden and Oberholzheim an Baden, which built out of it a Biberach upper bailiwick assigned to the "upper principality", which divided into the Ratsvogtei (town bailiwick) and the Vogteiamt (official bailiwick). The immediate imperial counties of Metternich-Ochsenhausen, Törring-Gutenzell, Waldbott-Bassenheim-Heggbach and partly Wartemberg-Rot and Sternberg-Schussenried were formed from the area of the Köster, as far as they belonged to the district, and the possessions of the Salem monastery were assigned to the Prince of Thurn und Taxis. The Rhenish Federal Act of 12 July 1806 brought the city of Biberach and the area of the hospital to Württemberg and the immediate imperial counties under Württemberg sovereignty, but the dominions of Erolzheim and Kellmünz on the Iller under Bavarian sovereignty. Through the state treaty with Bavaria, the left bank of the Iller became Württemberg again. According to the State Manual of 1807 and 1808, the following villages and hamlets belonged to the Oberamt Biberach: Biberach, Ahlen, Attenweiler, Aufhofen, Baltringen, Baustetten, Bühl, Bihlafingen, Bergerhausen, Birkendorf, Bronnen, Burgrieden, Donaustetten, Dorndorf, Hagenbuch, Häusern, Höfen, Holzheim, Hüttisheim, Ingerkingen, Laupertshausen, Muttensweiler, Obersulmetingen, Rißegg, Röhrwangen, Steinberg, Stetten a. d. Rottum, Unterweiler, Volkersheim, Westerflach, Wiblingen, Winterreute. In addition, the following were subordinate to the Oberamt: the patrimonial offices Achstetten, Bußmannshausen, Ellmannshausen, Hürbel, Groß- und Kleinlaupheim and Mittelbiberach and the patrimonial superior servant offices Heggbach, Schemmerberg, Sulmingen and Mistingen and Warthausen. After the abolition of the patrimonial offices (1809) the upper office Ochsenhausen was formed with the places Ochsenhausen, Bellamont, Berkheim, Erlenmoos, Gutenzell, Haslach, Horn-Fischbach, Hummertsried, Hürbel, Kirchberg, Kirchdorf, Maselheim, Edenbachen, Reinstetten, Ringschnait, Rot, Schönebürg, Spindelwag, Steinbach, Tannheim and Ummendorf. The newly created lower office Wiblingen with the villages Wiblingen, Aufhofen, Bihlafingen, Bronnen, Bühl, Donaustetten, Dorndorf, Hüttisheim, Steinberg, Stetten an der Rottum, Unterweiler and the Burgvogtei Illerrieden was subordinated to the upper office Biberach. Already after one year the upper office Ochsenhausen was abolished by the organization manifesto of 27 October 1810 again and subordinated as lower office to the upper office Biberach. At the same time the lower office Wiblingen was raised to a higher office. After these extensive changes, which placed the upper office administratively under the control of the 11th Landvogtei, the "an der Donau", with seat in Ulm, the following municipalities belonged to the upper office Biberach: Biberach, Äpfingen, Ahlen, Altheim, Aßmannshardt, Attenweiler, Aufhofen, Bellament, Bergerhausen, Birkendorf, Birkenhard, Erlenmoos, Erolzheim, Füramoos, Gutenzell, Grodt, Höfen, Hürbel, Ingerkingen, Kirchberg an der Iller, Langenschemmern, Laupertshausen, Maselheim, Mettenberg, Mittelbiberach, Mittelbuch, Muttensweiler, Obersulmetingen, Ochsenhausen, Reinstetten, Reute, Ringschnait, Rißegg, Rottum, Schemmerberg, Steinhausen an der Rottum, Ummendorf, Unterdettingen, Untersulmetingen, Volkersheim, Warthausen, as well as the Thurn und Taxissche Amtsgericht and Amt Obersulmetingen. The Unteramt Ochsenhausen was abolished, like all Unterämter in Württemberg, by the II. organization edict over the Oberamtsverfassung of 31 December 1818. By the law about the change of the upper office districts from 6 July 1842 Alberweiler came from the upper office Ehingen and Stafflangen from the upper office Waldsee to the upper office Biberach. The following reunions were carried out: 1836 a clean-up in the area of the communities Dietmanns and Unterschwarzach, 1844 Winterreute from Ummendorf to Ringschnait, 1846 conversion from Hauerz to Ellwangen, 1854 the Glaserhof from Gutenzell to Oberbalzheim, 1861 the wood mill from Burgrieden to Oberholzheim, 1864 Westerflach from Ingerkingen to Untersulmetingen, 1933 the Halbertshof from Wain to Unterbalzheim, 1933 Ziegolz from Dietmanns to Unterschwarzach, 1933 the book from Steinach (today Kr. Ravensburg) to Mühlhausen, 1951 Rindenmoos from Reute to Rißegg. The following incorporation took place: 1864 Birkendorf into the town of Biberach 1934 Bergerhausen into the town of Biberach 1934 Gemeinde Oberdorf into Mittelbiberach, which had replaced it in 1899, 1935 Gemeinde Hummertsried into Mühlhausen. Steinhausen was connected to Schussenried until 1892. Laupheim became a town in 1869, Schussenried in 1947 and Ochsenhausen in 1950. According to the law of 25 April on the division of the territory, the district of Biberach comprises all the municipalities of the former Oberamtsbezirk with the exception of Volkersheim, which was transferred to the Ehingen district administration; it received the municipalities from the Laupheim district: Achstetten, Altheim, Baltringen, Baustetten, Bihlafingen, Bronnen, Bühl, Burgrieden, Bußmannshausen, Großschafhausen, Laupheim, Mietingen, Oberbalzheim, Oberholzheim, Orsenhausen, Rot v. Laupheim, Schönenbürg, Schwendi, Sießen, Sinningen, Stetten, Sulmingen, Unterbalzheim, Wain and Walpertshofen; from the district of Leutkirch the municipalities: Berkheim, Ellwangen, Haslach, Kirchdorf, Rot an der Rot, Spindelwag and Tannheim; from the district Waldsee the municipalities: Dietmanns, Eberhardzell, Oberessendorf, Otterswang, Schussenried, Schweinhausen, Steinhausen, Unteressendorf, Unterschwarzach, Winterstettendorf and Winterstettenstadt. The files listed below were handed over to the Sigmaringen State Archives by the Biberach/Riß District Office on 9 November 1948, 4 February 1949, 3 October 1958 and 24 August 1959. The 1948 and 1949 deliveries were already set up in May 1949 in the State Archives according to the principle of provenance. The 1959 Accession was exclusively for steam boiler files, which were further expanded by a delivery from the Sigmaringen Trade Supervisory Office in 1960 (Acc. 24/1960). The present collection comprises 847 numbers in 23, 85 linear metres and the period from 1806-1950. Files of the same provenance from earlier deliveries for the period from 1806 to about 1925 are kept in the Ludwigsburg State Archives in fonds F 155. The order and indexing was carried out by government inspector Kungl, Reinschrift und Register, who was responsible for the order and indexing. Sigmaringen, January 1966 Kungl Government Inspector Supplement to the Foreword The official assembly records with the earlier signatures Wü 65/5 T 3 No. 54-64 and the building records with the earlier signatures Wü 65/5 T 3 No. 387-477 were handed over to the Kreisarchiv Biberach. In the years 2009/2010, the typewritten finding aid was digitized as part of the German Research Foundation (DFG) funded project for the retroconversion of archived finding aids. In cooperation with the Retroconversion Coordination Office at the Marburg School of Archives and the Baden-Württemberg State Archives, the finding aid book was prepared for publication on the Internet. Corinna Knobloch and Silke Schöttle carried out the necessary reworking. The development data has been available on the Internet since June 2010. The citation of the inventory is: Wü 65/5 T 3 Nr. [Order number] Contents and rating Contains: German Reich: elections, referendums; König-Karl-Jubiläumsstiftung; statistics; Oberamt und Amtskörperschaft: personnel and remuneration, accommodation, diaries, Oberamtspflege, Pensionskasse für Körperschaftsbeamte, Oberamtssparkasse; municipality: Local heads, community officials, community colleges, community property, citizen benefits and burdens, community visitation, expenditure and income management, budget plans, debt level; nobility; citizenship and emigration; awards and honors; Germans abroad; surveyors and marker border adjustments; trade tax; military affairs: Recording, military monitoring, neighbourhood services, damage to land, medical care, care of war-affected and surviving dependants, war graves, consequences of war, requisitions; churches: Diaconate, divine service, church and parsonage construction, furnishings, church assets, pastor, sacristan, church and state, congregations, church care, foundations, levies; free religious community; elementary school: Teachers and salaries, school building construction; work schools; secondary schools; welfare for the poor, youth and migrants; welfare for refugees and displaced persons; support, foundations, hospitals; charities; unemployment and voluntary work; civil servants in construction; fire brigade; agriculture and forestry: Field cleaning, irrigation and drainage, field paths, crossing and stairway rights, irrigation, fruit growing, agricultural associations, local livestock insurance associations, goods traders and debt relief, forest management plans, agricultural workers; river and water police: rivers, ditches, bridges, wells, jackdaws; roads: Construction and maintenance, personnel, forced expropriations, snowmobiles; municipal and security police, police hour; political parties; confiscation of printed matter; gypsies; health police: doctors, mentally ill persons, gravediggers, morgue, ambulance crews; veterinarians; commercial, trade and traffic police: Concessions, mill supplies, steam boilers; old-age and disability insurance; health insurance; accident insurance; executions; Jews; provenance royal taxissches Gemeinschaftsliches Amt Obersulmetingen betr. Schemmerberg.
History of tradition History of the authorities Due to the denazification guidelines of the French occupying power of 19 October 1945, cleaning commissions were formed as a second stage at each state directorate in Tübingen. On 18 February 1946 the commissions met for the first time. They had to apply graduated sanctions on the basis of the material prepared by the district investigation committees. On 18 March 1946, the formation of a political cleansing council of representatives of the parties was ordered, which was to ensure the unification of the sanctions and a balanced composition of the cleansing organs. He met for the first time on 6 April 1946. The legal order for political cleansing of 28 May 1946 redesigned the cleansing procedure as a purely administrative procedure and established a State Commissariat for political cleansing as the highest authority with its seat in Reutlingen, to which a political advisory council was attached. The cleaning commissions only had to submit proposals for sanctions. When new evidence was submitted, the State Commissariat was able to order a retrial. With the legal order of 25 April 1947, the system of the Spruchkamm was introduced and the seat of the Staatskommissariat was moved to Tübingen. In 1953, the State Commissariat was abolished by the Law on the Uniform Termination of Political Cleansing. Inventory history and report of the editor The documents at hand were sent to the Sigmaringen State Archives via the Ludwigsburg State Archives in October 1977/29. The employee Rupert Flöß created a very flat directory of available documentation. Since then, finding a single denazification file has required a multi-level search system, essentially using different card indexes and slogans collections. Denazification mainly affected certain professions and in particular public sector workers. The fact that a person completed a questionnaire does not therefore allow any conclusion to be drawn as to their behaviour during the Third Reich. Questionnaires had to be filled out even for numerous persons who had already died. Among other things, they were used to verify pension and reparation rights. For certain professional groups, for example clergy, journalists and members of the chamber of commerce (Reutlingen) own files were led. However, the information contained in the denazification files and so-called sayings varies greatly. For example, the little sayings that were used to decide the procedures of the unencumbered or the under-encumbered contain only minimal information, usually the name, date of birth, place of residence and political evaluation. Nevertheless, even they can provide important information, if these data were not previously known, and they often allow the entry into further research. The other denazification acts are also very different in scope and significance. Often the information value does not go substantially beyond that of the small sayings. Sometimes, however, they contain extensive information about the person, the documentation of a very extensive denazification process and statements by other persons about the person concerned. In these statements of other persons, the so called "Persilscheinen" (due to the "cleansing" of the person to be denazified), some background stories about the life of the person are told. The relief factors mentioned include church commitment, communion or confirmation and negative professional consequences due to the political attitude against the National Socialists. Frequent mention is also made of processes in which one person has not betrayed another after a critical statement or act. Depending on the occupation zone, there were large differences in the implementation of denazification. Unlike in other zones, for example, in the French-occupied territory of Württemberg-Hohenzollern not all residents had to fill out a questionnaire asking, among other things: "Have you ever been a member of the NSDAP?"Have you ever been detained or detained for racial or religious reasons, or because you actively or passively resisted the National Socialists, or because you were restricted in your freedom of movement, establishment or otherwise in your commercial or professional freedom?" and "Has one of your children been on a Napola?". In addition, questions were asked about income, military service and foreign travel, among other things. In 2008, Karin Stolz and Michael Göhner began entering the name, date of birth and, if applicable, the date of death as well as the places of birth, death and residence of the individual persons in the scopeArchiv indexing program. Since November 2008, Dagmar Bohn, Erich Conzelmann, Andrea Glatzer, Anja Grathwohl, Maria Hirtreiter, Alexander Hochhalter, Michael Mendorf, Karl Nolle, Renate Rüppel, Anja Sadowski and Malgorzata Stepko-Pape have also been involved in the recording. Corinna Knobloch, Sofia Brüning, Heidrun Dreher, Maria Hirtreiter, Marion Hofbeck, Bettina Jourdan, Manfred Klawitter, Leon Körbel, Irene Moser, Doris Nußbaum, Beate Oehmichen and Elisabeth Schwellinger carried out editorial rework. In 2011, Michael Mendorf and Andrea Schill began the digitisation of selected archival documents. As a rule, location identification is limited to the information contained in the relevant documents. The occupation was not taken up or indexed. In April 2008, the first development data were exported to the Internet. For reasons of data protection, the online find book is limited to persons who have been proven to have died more than 10 years or who were born more than 110 years ago. In addition, the online find book contains the indexing information of the typewritten find book compiled in 1985. Since May 2011, selected parts of the documents have also been presented as digital reproductions on the Internet. In addition to the historical relevance of the individual persons, the decision on the time of digitisation also depends on the state of preservation of the documents. Sigmaringen, May 2011 Corinna Knobloch Content and Rating Includes: Proceedings of the Chambers of Spreads, cleaning of the clergy and journalists, discounts, revisions, regroupings and regroupings, rejection notices of the military government, matters of grace, announcements of the State Commissariat about the results of the political cleaning in government papers (lists of names), certificates of harmlessness, sayings and decisions of the Chambers of Spreads.