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Preface: With the acceptance of the royal dignity at the end of 1805, Friedrich von Württemberg dissolved the Ducal Privy Council and replaced it with the Royal State Ministry. The Ministry of State was responsible for advising the monarch on general matters of state. After King Wilhelm I took office on 8 November 1816, the Privy Council was re-established as the supreme state authority directly subordinate to the king. It was composed of the ministers or heads of the various departments and of members appointed by the King. His work consisted of examining the requests and proposals of the ministries and forwarding them to the King with his expert opinions. In his capacity as the monarch's supreme advisory authority, he was also in charge of all matters relating to the estates, applications for the dismissal or retirement of civil servants, disputes between the judicial and administrative authorities, the relationship between the Church and the State, and matters specifically entrusted to him by the King. In administrative disputes, the Privy Council acted as the decisive and enacting authority, for example in appeals against decrees of the heads of department and penal findings of the administrative offices. He mediated the communication between the king and the estates, whereby he could decide independently whether or not applications from estates were suitable for submission to the king. With the establishment of the State Ministry in 1876, the Administrative Court in 1877 and the Court of Jurisdiction in 1879, the Privy Council lost much of its importance. It was repealed by the law of 15 June 1911 and, in accordance with the prominent position of the Privy Council in 19th-century state administration, its documents are of outstanding historical documentary value. The partial stock E 31 (Königlicher Geheimer Rat I), comprising 32.5 linear metres and arranged according to a rubric scheme, was probably delivered to the State Archives soon after 1876 and was used very frequently, but has so far only been insufficiently catalogued. It was therefore urgently necessary to re-draw the inventory scientifically, taking into account the existing content structure of the stock. It was carried out between December 1969 and March 1974 by the archive inspector candidates Michael Kuthe, Eric Elwert, Walter Wannenwetsch and Magdalene Rüther as well as by the State Archive referees Dr. Wilfried Schöntag, Dr. Peter Eitel, Dr. Hermann Ehmer and Dr. Norbert Georg Hofmann. The final editing of the repertory was carried out by Luise Pfeifle, archivist. She also made the register.Stuttgart, 2 November 1978Paul Sauer President of the Privy Council: Hans Otto von der Lühe18. November 1817 - 29 July 1821 Christian Friedrich von Otto29 July 1821 - 15 November 1831 Eugen von Maucler15. November 1831 - March 1848 Constantin von Neurath8. May 1851 - 27 April 1867 (- 24 April 1855 only acting) Ludwig von Golther27. April 1867 - 23 March 1870 Karl von Varnbüler23. March 1870 - 31 August 1870 Hermann von Mittnacht31. August 1870 - 10 November 1900 Max Schott von Schottenstein10. November 1900 - 15 April 1901 Wilhelm August von Breitling15. April 1901 - December 3, 1906 Karl von Weizsäcker4. December 1906 - June 15, 1911