105 sheets, Contains: - Award of orders and decorations: by Alberti (Colonel, Commander of the Infantry Directorate No. 120); Ulderico d'Alessandro (First Lieutenant of the Bodyguard of the King of Italy); by Alten (Lord of the Upper Chamber of Oldenburg); Koziro Amano (Legation Secretary of the Japanese Legation in Berlin); Anselm (Wuerttemberg Second Lieutenant of the Grenadier Regiment No. 123); von Arnswald (commander of the Wartburg); Bahr (German consul in Liverpool); Bayer (Württemberg court architect); Novaria Chevalier Bartolomeo (valet of the king of Italy); Marquis Emmanuel de Beccaria Incisa (First Secretary of the Italian Embassy in Berlin); Baron von Bechtolsheim (Bavarian Bathing Commissioner in Kissingen); Beck (Protestant Pastor in Kissingen); Benignus (Wuerttemberg Second Lieutenant of the Infantry Regiment No. 120); Benischek (Würtemberg chef); Benzinger (Major of the Ulanen Regiment No. 19, Adjutant at the General Command of the 13th Army Corps); von Besserer-Thalfingen I (Württemberg Second Lieutenant of the Grenadier Regiment No. 123); Beyer (bookseller in Bergen); Heinrich Blind (Council of Commerce in Geneva); Bormann (Railway Director, Privy Senior Government Council), Böhlk (Chief Operations Inspector in Oldenburg); Bolfras von Ahnenburg (Major General, Chairman of the Austrian Military Chancellery); Bosisio (Head of the Italian Court Telegraph Office); Alexandre Brancaccio di Carpino (Major, Adjutant of the Prince of Naples); Count von Brühl (Princely Lippe Chamberlain and Councillor); von Bünau (Saxon Captain of the 2nd Symphony of the Italian Court) Grenadier regiment no. 101); Bumiller (retired lieutenant second lieutenant) Officer in the East African Schutztruppe); von Buttel (senior government councillor, lecturer in the state ministry), Carafa di Noja (master of ceremonies of the king of Italy); Chalaupka (official of the Austrian military chancellery); Chan (Hoomphre, attaché of the Siamese extraordinary mission); Edgar von Cramm-Oelber (ducal chamberlain of Brunswick); Baron von Dalwigk (upper court marshal, chamberlain of Oldenburg); Dankl (Austrian captain); von Derenthall (Prussian extraordinary envoy and authorized minister in Weimar); Nai Roy Ek Droos (attaché of the Siamese extraordinary mission); Baron von Eberstein (lieutenant seconde of the reserve, chief of the East African Schutztruppe); Edler (clerical servant at the German embassy in London); von Egidy (Saxon colonel, commander of the 2nd Reich); von Derenthall (Prussian colonel, commander of the German army); von Egidy (German colonel, commander of the German army). Grenadier Regiment No. 101); Ehlers (Africa traveller from Hamburg); Oscar von Ernsthausen (businessman in London); Dr. Eucken-Addenhausen (Lord Mayor in Eisenach); Dr. Graf zu Eulenburg (Prussian extraordinary envoy and authorized minister, Legation Council); Faik Bey (Secretary of the Sultan); Falck (German Consul in Stavanger); Feye (Lippischer Oberforstmeister); Filippi (Secretary in the Italian Ministry of the Royal House); Gioachimo Filippo (Commander of the Legion of the Carabinieri in Naples); von Flatow (Lieutenant Seconde of Württemberg of the Infantry Regiment No. 120); Fleischmann (Württemberg Second Lieutenant of the Grenadier Regiment No. 123); Flor (Minister of Oldenburg); de la Fremoir (Provision Master in the East African Schutztruppe); Freudenberg (Major of the Württemberg General Staff); Baron von Friesen (Chamberlain); Dr. phil. Robert Frühling (Major of the Landwehr in Braunschweig); Fuchs (Mayor of Kissingen); Funk (Württemberg Major of the Grenadier Regiment No. 119); Chevalier Galeazzi (Italian Police Inspector); Glaser (Württemberg Major of the Infantry Regiment No. 119); and 120); Wilhelm Johann Hubert Graven (Chief of the Dutch Criminal and Security Police in Maastricht); Baron von Gravenreuth (Chief of the auxiliary troops of the East African Schutztruppe); Baron von Groß (Real Privy Councillor, Chief of the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Interior in Weimar); Prince Alfred of Great Britain and Ireland; von Grün (Oberhausmarschall, Chamberlain of Oldenburg); Happoldt (Württemberg Major of the Infantry Regiment No. 120); Hasenclever (corvette captain, commands to the embassy in London); Hausmann (staff accountant in Munich); Count Leo Henckel von Donnersmarck (chief of the upper castle, real privy councillor, chamberlain in Weimar); von Heimburg (court marshal, chamberlain, Prussian colonel retired); Hetzel (Württemberg lieutenant premier of the infantry regiment no. 120); Hocke (non-commissioned officer in the East African Schutztruppe); Hoffmann (non-commissioned officer in the East African Schutztruppe); Prince Hermann zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg; Hereditary Prince zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (Second Lieutenant in the 2nd Garde-Dragoner Regiment); von Holleben gen. von Normann (Saxon Lieutenant General, Commander of the 2nd Division No. 24); Illich (Provision Master in the East African Protection Force); Izzet Bey (Turkish Colonel of the Cavalry and Wing Adjutant of the Sultan); Jansen (Minister of Oldenburg); Jenssen (Consul in Drontheim); Jitschin (Württemberg First Lieutenant of the Infantry Regiment No. 120); Jordan (Württemberg Staff Secretary, Privy Court Councillor); Heinrich Jordan (Kammerfourier in Weimar); Mehdi Kuli Khan Kadschar (Intendant of the Persian Empire, Medsch-ed-Dovleh); Reinhold Kassel (Hoffourier in Weimar); Kay (Sergeant in the East African Schutztruppe); Keller (German Consul in Southampton); von Kern (Württemberg Major of the Infantry Regiment No. 120); Abul Kasim Khan (Persian Adjutant General, Naser-el-Mulk); Ali Kuli Khan (Minister of Telegraphs, Mines and Education, Mochber-ed-Dovleh); Dschehangir Khan (Persian Minister of Fine Arts); Gulam Hussein Khan (Secret Secretary of the Persian Shah, Emin-n-Chalvat); Gulam Hussein Khan (First Persian Chamberlain, Sadik-es-Saltaneh); Mirsa Ali Khan (Minister of Posts and Presidents of the State Council, Emin-ed-Dovleh); Mirsa Ali Asger Khan (Persian Grand Minister, Emin-es-Sultan); Mirsa Reza Khan (Extraordinary Persian Minister in Berlin); Emil König (Kitchen Inspector in Weimar); Otto Könnecke (Duke of Brunswick Court Secretary); Dr. Kohlstock (doctor in the East African Schutztruppe); Krenzler (retired Prime Lieutenant), Chief of the East African Protection Force); Kriebel (retired Bavarian Major General, previously commander of the 2nd foot artillery regiment in Metz); Prof. Franz Lange (London); Baron von Liliencron (Lippischer Hofstallmeister and Chamberlain); Juan Rodolfo Leseur (Hamburg merchant); Count Leutrum von Ertingen (Court Marshal of Princess Friedrich von Württemberg); Graf von Leyden (First Secretary of the German Embassy in London); Baron von Lutz (Prime Minister of Bavaria); Baron von Meysenbug (Princely Marshal of the Russian Court in Gera); Baron von Mittnacht (Dr., Württemberg Prime Minister); Möbius (Chancellor of the German Embassy); Möhl (Oberhofgarteninspektor in Munich); Mohr (German Consul in Bergen); Freiherr von Molsberg (Württemberg Lieutenant General and Adjutant General); Alonzo Moore (Attaché of the Siamese Extraordinary Mission); Muarin-el-Mulk (Head of Section in the Persian Ministry of Foreign Affairs); Müller (Commander of the Gendarmerie, Prussian Major a.D.); Müller (Württemberg court gardener); Count of Münster (ambassador in Paris); Muff (Württemberg captain of the Grenadier regiment No. 123); Mother (non-commissioned officer in the East African Schutztruppe); Naeter (sergeant in the East African Schutztruppe); Baron von Neurath (Württemberg Chamberlain); Mirsa Nisam (Persian Adjutant General, Muhandis-es-Memalik); Osman Nizami Bey (Lieutenant Colonel in the Turkish General Staff); Nurisio (Head of Department in the Italian Ministry of the Royal House and Private Secretary to King Humbert of Italy); Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria; Ohrt (garden inspector of Oldenburg); Grand Duke Peter of Oldenburg; Pabst (Lord Mayor of Weimar); von Parseval (Bavarian Lieutenant General and Adjutant General); Petri (Mayor of Detmold); Mom Rajawongse Piya (Private Secretary of Prince Sanitwongse of Siam); Osio (Colonel and Vice Governor of the Prince of Naples); Albert Otto (Duke of Brunswick Minister of State); Mattioli Pasqualini (Attaché of the Italian Embassy in Berlin); Dr. Petersen (First Secretary of the branch of the Archaeological Institute in Rome); Mom Rajawongse Pheen (Attaché of the Siamese Extraordinary Mission); Baron von Plato (Court Marshal of Prince Wilhelm of Württemberg); August Prötzel (Police Director in Braunschweig); Mohamed Bey Raschid (Deputy Governor of Suez); Comendatore Rattazzi (Secretary General in the Italian Ministry of the Royal House); Baron von Redwitz (Bavarian Captain and Chief of Batteries in the 3rd District) Field Artillery Regiment); Baron von Reischach (Württemberg Lieutenant Colonel and Wing Adjutant); Friedrich Wilhelm Reuter (Director of the Braunschweig Fire Brigade); Baron von Richthofen (Lippe Cabinet Minister); Ferdinand Rittmeyer (Mayor of Braunschweig); Count Robilant (Major, Military Attaché at the Italian Embassy in Berlin); Roli (Cabinet Courier of the Italian King Humbert); Vincenzo Rossi Toesca (Attaché of the Italian Embassy in Berlin); Ferdinand Hermann Andreas Ruete (Hamburg merchant); Ruhstrat (Minister of State of Oldenburg); Ruland (Director of the Grand Ducal Museum and the Goethe National Museum in Weimar); Sachs (Austrian Corvette Captain); Grand Duke Carl Alexander von Sachsen-Weimar; Prince Hermann von Sachsen-Weimar; Hereditary Grand Duke Karl August von Sachsen-Weimar; Saglione (personal physician to King Humbert of Italy); Sartorius (stable master, Prussian Major a.D.); Schäfer (Hoffourier in Munich); Schjott (German vice-consul in Dover); Dr. Schmelzkopf (senior physician of the Schutztruppe in East Africa); Schmettau (head of the German embassy office in London); Schmidt (retired lieutenant secretary), Chief of the East African Protection Force); of Schnehen (Deputy Chief Stable Master, Chamberlain, Saxon Major General (retired)), Baron von Schrenk (Lord Mayor of Oldenburg); Baron Henry Schröder; Schütte (Caretaker of Oldenburg); Schröder (Rear Admiral, commanding the embassy in London); Seeger (Württemberg Second Lieutenant of the Infantry Regiment No. 120); Seible (Württemberg Captain of the Infantry Regiment No. 120); Count Umberto Serristori (Attaché of the Italian Embassy in Berlin); Wilhelm Semler (Chairman of the Municipal Assembly in Braunschweig); Prince Chow Sye Sanitwongse of Siam; Phra Anant Sombat (Attaché of the Siamese Extraordinary Mission); Staas (Dutch Captain); Cornel Stadler (Austro-Hungarian Consul in Breslau); Stein (Württemberg Captain of the Infantry Regiment No. 120); von Steinheil (Württemberg Minister of War); Stemrich (Legation Councillor in the Foreign Office); Stichling (Minister of State in Weimar, Real Privy Councillor); von Strauch (Chief Hunter Master and Speaker in the State Ministry in Weimar); Mom Rajawongse Suaphan (Secretary of Prince Sanitwongse of Siam); Sulzer (Second Lieutenant a.D., Marquis de Montri Suriyawongse (extraordinary envoy of the King of Siam in London); Count Széchényi (Austro-Hungarian ambassador in Berlin); Le Tanneux von Saint-Paul-Illaire (general representative of the German East African Society); Dr. Tholozan (personal physician to the Persian Shah); Baron Thumb von Neuburg (Württemberg Colonel and Hereditary Marshal); Baron von Ulmenstein (Princely Lippe Court Marshal); Cavalieri Valenti (Mayor of Frascati); Baron von Valois (First Lieutenant of the Grenadier Regiment No. 119); Baron Ludolph von Veltheim-Veltheim (ducal Brunswick master of ceremonies); von Wachholtz (ducal Brunswick lieutenant general, adjutant general of Prince Albrecht of Prussia); Walther (castle keeper in Munich); Count von Wedel (Oberberschenk, Kammerherr zu Oldenburg); Count Ernst von Wedel (Oberstallmeister and Kammerherr in Weimar); Count Oskar von Wedel (Hausmarschall, Kammerherr, Cabinet Secretary of the Grand Duke in Weimar); Rudolf Wimmer (Portrait painter in Munich); Ludwig Winter (City Planning Officer in Brunswick); Wissmann (Reich Commissioner for East Africa); Wolff (Member of the Railway Directorate, Chief Planning Officer); Duke Albrecht of Württemberg; Count Yamagata (Lieutenant General, Japanese Minister of the Interior); Zanders (Staff Controller in Munich); von Ziegler (Württemberg Prime Lieutenant of the Grenadier Regiment No. 123); Zischwitz (Württemberg Major of the Infantry Regiment No. 120); - appointment as foreign knight of the Order pour le mérite for Sciences and Arts: - appointment to diplomatic posts: von Bergen (previously Consul, now appointed extraordinary envoy in Costa Rica); - military rankings and remittances: von Abercron (lieutenant secretary, commanded to the Embassy in St. Petersburg) Petersburg); von Baumbach (Second Lieutenant of the 2nd Guard Regiment on foot, commanding to the Tehran Legation); Count von Bernstorff (Second Lieutenant of the 1st Guard Regiment on foot, commanding to the Tehran Legation); Count von Bernstorff (Second Lieutenant of the 1st Guard Regiment on foot). Guard Field Artillery Regiment, commanding the Embassy in Constantinople); von Brocken (Second Lieutenant, of the 1st Guard Dragoner Regiment, commanding the Embassy in Bucharest); von Eck (First Lieutenant, of the Ulan Regiment No. 10, commanding the Embassy in Madrid); von Engelbrecht (Major, commanding the Embassy in Rome, appointed the Wing Adjutant of the King, ranked in the General Staff of the Army); von Funcke (Captain, previously adjutant to the Chief of General Staff of the Army, commanded as military attaché to the Embassy in Bern); Freiherr von Kap-Herr I (Lieutenant Seconde of the Leibhusaren Regiment, commanded to the Embassy in Vienna); von Kemnitz (First Lieutenant of the Westphalian Dragoon Regiment No. 7, commanded to the Embassy in Paris); by Lilien (second lieutenant, of the Hessian Field Artillery Regiment No. 25, commanded to the Embassy in Brussels); by the East (second lieutenant of the Hussar Regiment No. 7, commanded to the Embassy in Rome); Count of Radolin (second lieutenant of the Hussar Regiment No. 25, commanded to the Embassy in Rome); by Lilien (second lieutenant of the Hussar Regiment No. 25, commanded to the Embassy in Brussels); by the East (second lieutenant of the Hussar Regiment No. 7, commanded to the Embassy in Rome); Count of Radolin (second lieutenant of the Hussar Regiment No. 25, commanded to the Embassy in Rome). 7, released from command at the Embassy in Rome); Baron Thumb von Neuburg (First Lieutenant of the Hanover Hussar Regiment No. 15, commanded to the Embassy in Vienna); Count von Schmettau (Captain, commanded at the Embassy in Brussels, the General Staff of the Armed Forces aggregated); von Weise (Major of the Great General Staff, appointed Head of Department in the Military Cabinet, relieved of command at the Embassy in Bern); von Villaume (Colonel, military representative at the Russian court, now Brigande commander); Wissmann (Captain, commanding the Foreign Office); Count Yorck von Wartenburg (Captain, commanding the embassy in St. Petersburg, the General Staff of the Armed Forces); from Zansen to Zansen, from the East (named Sekondeleutnannt vom 2. Pommerschen Ulanen-Regiment Nr. 9, hitherto at the Embassy in Brussels, commanded to the Federal Foreign Office) - Transfer to (provisional) retirement: - Granting of assistance: Widow of the Chamberlain von Normann (envoy in Oldenburg) - Holiday permits: from Deines (Major, commands to the Embassy in Vienna); Baron von Hoiningen gen. Huene (wing assistant, commanding to the embassy in Paris); von Rantzau (major, commanding to the embassy in Munich); Graf von Schmettau (major, commanding to the embassy in Brussels) - permits: Acquisition of land in Berlin by Austria-Hungary and payment of the taxes payable on it to the Legation Fund; foundation of Wilhelm Duden, Forest near Brussels, for the benefit of needy officials of the Foreign Office; budget overruns at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1888/89 - transfer of disciplinary penal authority and the power to conduct summary war proceedings in his escort team in South West Africa to Captain von Francois - appointment: - marriage consensus: ; Aberle 2018
1805 - 1943, Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage, XVII HA, Rep. 223 b Local Courts
1912, Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage, XVII HA, Rep. 223 b Local Courts
1 History of the authorities 1.1 Military Provinces 1813-1815 On 15 March 1813, for strategic military reasons, the entire Prussian territory between the Elbe and the Russian border was divided into four military provinces in order to wage war against France. At the same time, the Upper Government Commission founded in Berlin on 20 January 1813 (cf.: GStA PK, I. HA, Rep. 102 Oberregierungskommission zu Berlin) and the General Commission for Accommodation, Meals and Marschesen formed on 24 April 1812 (cf.: GStA PK, I. HA, Rep. 85 General Commission for Accommodation, Meals and Marschesen) were dissolved. Initially, four military provinces were formed for the following areas: 1) for the country between the Elbe and Oder rivers in Berlin, 2) for the country between the Oder and Vistula rivers in Stargard, 3) for the country between the Vistula and the Russian border in Königsberg and 4) for Silesia in Breslau. After the further advance of the Prussian and Allied troops, the formation of the military government for the Prussian provinces took place on the left bank of the Elbe. This was soon divided into the two military provinces for the state between the Elbe and Weser in Halberstadt and for the state between Weser and Rhine in Münster. The military governorates were classified according to purely military or geographical criteria, irrespective of the historical administrative divisions that existed to date. The individual military governorates were directly subordinate to the king or the state chancellor. The ministries lost their competence for all matters concerning warfare for the duration of the military governorates. All authorities in the district were subordinate to military or civil governors in military matters. Only in operational matters of the army was the commanding generals in command. For each military government, one military governor and one civil governor were appointed as equal leaders. In the event of disagreement, the King alone had the power of decision. In the event of imminent danger, however, the military governor had the decisive vote. Part of the tasks of the military government, especially with regard to the provision of food for Russian troops, was transferred to the Major General Friedrich Karl Heinrich Graf von Wylich and Lottum as General Director for the provision of food for Russian troops in Germany on 11 March 1813 (cf.: GStA PK, I. HA, Rep. 128 Registratur[by Friedrich Karl Heinrich Graf von Wylich and] Lottum über Armeeverpflegungsangelegenheiten in den Kriegen 1813 - 1815). After the First Peace of Paris, the four Eastern Elbe military provinces were dissolved by the cabinet of 3 June 1814. The two Westelbian military provinces remained in place for the time being. 1.2 Military and civil government for the provinces between the Elbe and Weser The "Military government for the Prussian provinces on the left bank of the Elbe" was formed by the Kabinettsordre of 9 April 1813 and Wilhelm Anton von Klewiz was appointed civil governor. Major General Philipp of Ivernois was appointed military governor, but he died on June 1, 1813. The new military governor was Major General Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig von Krusemark. Since most of the West Elbian areas were still occupied by French troops, it took some time before the military government was able to take up its activities in full. The seat of the military government was initially still in Berlin and was moved provisionally to Halle/Saale only in October 1813. As a result of the advance of the Prussian and Allied troops, the area to be administered by the military government had assumed too great an extension. For this reason, the Cabinet of 19 November 1813 divided it into two independent military provinces for the provinces between the Elbe and Weser and between the Weser and Rhine. The former civilian governor of Klewiz, who held this office until the dissolution of the civilian government, was appointed civil governor of the military government for the provinces between the Elbe and Weser rivers. The new military governor was Major General Ludwig Wilhelm August von Ebra (1759-1818). The military government now comprised the following former Prussian territories: the Altmark, the Duchy of Magdeburg, the Principality of Halberstadt, the County of Mansfeld, the County of Hohenstein, the Principality of Eichsfeld and the Principality of Erfurt. The seat of the government administration was moved to Halberstadt in December 1813. Although a division of responsibilities between the military governor and the civilian governor would have been legally permissible, all business of the military government was handled jointly and amicably by both governors. In the event of absence, there was mutual representation. The office and the registry were managed jointly. Even after the peace agreement of May 30, 1815, the military government remained in place and was not dissolved until July 12, 1815. The military tasks were transferred to the General Command for the provinces between the Elbe and Weser rivers. The remaining business was provisionally continued by the former civil governor of Klewiz until the appointment of the chief president and the district presidents on 1 April 1816. The main task of the military government was to reorganize the administration and ensure the efficiency of the Prussian army in the provincial district. These included above all the formation of troops, feeding the Prussian and Allied troops and supplying the military hospitals. For this purpose, the military government had to raise the necessary funds through tax collections and carry out requisitions. The higher and security police were also directly exercised by the military government. However, the mining and metallurgy sector was directly subordinated to the Minister of Finance and the postal sector to the General Postmaster. In order to carry out individual tasks of the military government, several subordinate offices and authorities were formed, which were also based at the civil governor's place of work in Halberstadt. This included the Finance Commission, which exercised control over the management of direct and indirect taxes, domains and forests. This commission was dissolved on 24 February 1814. Its tasks were largely transferred to the Provincial Commission, which was also based in Halberstadt. This commission consisted of six councils and served to advise the civil governor, on whose decisions it was also dependent. It was therefore not an independent intermediate instance between the civil governor and the subordinate authorities. On behalf of the Military Government, the Higher Regional Court Council Dalkowski conducted investigations against a number of persons suspected of espionage and spying for the French or Westphalian High Police or army. The basis for these investigations was the Royal Order of 17 March 1813 for punishment of crimes against the security of the armies (cf.: Collection of Laws for the Royal Prussian States, 1813, p.34f.) and the Decree of 15 January 1814 for investigation and punishment of the illicit traffic with the enemy (cf.: Collection of Laws for the Royal Prussian States, 1814, p. 5-7.). However, under Article 16 of the First Paris Peace of 30 May 1814, these investigations had to be stopped. In November 1813, the Provincial War Commission was formed to carry out the requisitions and supply the Prussian and Allied troops. This office, headed by the provincial war commissioner Rhades and, from February 1814, his successor Lehmann, existed until 1816 and a surgical staff was formed for the organization of the provincial hospital system. This staff existed until November 1815 and was responsible, among other things, for the purchase of medicines and hospital utensils, the recruitment and remuneration of medical personnel and the supervision of the individual provincial hospitals. At the end of 1813, the territory of the military government was divided into three departments, each headed by a national director. These national directorates were intermediate instances between the civil governor and the district administrators or the subordinate authorities. The three departments can be regarded as predecessors of the administrative districts that were later formed. The first department roughly corresponded to the former Westphalian Elbe department and consisted of the districts Salzwedel, Stendal and Neuhaldensleben. Due to the occupation by French troops, the city of Magdeburg was no longer under direct administration until May 1814. The second department, which roughly corresponded to the Westphalian Saale Department, consisted of the Saalekreis and the districts of Wansleben, Calbe/Saale, Mansfeld, Eisleben, Halberstadt and Osterwieck. The 3rd department consisted of the Prussian parts of the former Westphalian Harz Department and was divided into the districts of Heiligenstadt, Duderstadt and Hohenstein. In addition, there was the area of Erfurt and Blankenhain, which formed its own circle and was administered by its own vice director (as permanent representative of the country director). The national directorates in the 1st and 2nd departments were dissolved in February 1814 and the competencies were transferred to the civil governor or the responsible councillors. However, due to the long distance until the dissolution of the civil government on 31 March 1816, the Regional Directorate of the 3rd Department remained in place. When the administrative districts of the province of Saxony were later formed, the previous territorial structure of the three departments was largely retained. The administrative district Magdeburg corresponded approximately to the 1st department, the administrative district Merseburg to the 2nd department and the administrative district Erfurt to the 3rd department. 1.3 Senior Officials Military Governors: April 1813 - June 1813: Major General Philipp von Ivernois (1754-1813) (Cf.: Priesdorff, Kurt von: Soldatisches Führertum, Hamburg 1937-1942, Vol. 3 (Part 5), p. 275f.) Oct. 1813 - Nov. 1813: Major General Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig von Krusemark (1767-1822) (Cf.: Priesdorff, Kurt von: Military Leadership, Hamburg 1937-1942, Vol. 3 (Part 5), pp. 329-331) Nov. 1813 - July 1815: Major General Ludwig Wilhelm August von Ebra (1759-1818) (Cf.: Priesdorff, Kurt von: Military Leadership, Hamburg 1937-1942, Vol. 3 (Part 5), pp. 368-370). Civil Governor: April 1813 - March 1816: Wilhelm Anton von Klewiz (1760-1838) (Cf.: Straubel, Rolf: Biographisches Handbuch der Preußischen Verwaltungs- und Justizbeamten 1740 - 1806/15, Vol. 1, Munich 2009, p. 497f.). Regional Director in the 1st Department of Stendal and Magdeburg: End 1813 - Febr. 1814: Friedrich von Koepcken (1770-nach 1825) (Cf.: Straubel, Rolf: Biographisches Handbuch der Preußischen Verwaltungs- und Justizbeamten 1740 - 1806/15, Vol. 1, Munich 2009, p. 515). State director in the 2nd department of Halberstadt: End of 1813 - February 1814: Friedrich Freiherr von Schele (1782-1815) (Cf.: Straubel, Rolf: Biographisches Handbuch der Preußischen Verwaltungs- und Justizbeamten 1740 - 1806/15, Vol. 2, Munich 2009, p. 857f.). Country director in the 3rd department of Erfurt: End of 1813 - March 1816: Joseph Bernhard August Gebel (1772-1860). Vice-Country Director for the area of Erfurt and Blankenhain: End of 1813 - 1816(?): August Heinrich Kuhlmeyer (1781-1865) (Cf.: Straubel, Rolf: Biographisches Handbuch der Prußischen Verwaltungs- und Justizbeamten 1740 - 1806/15, Vol. 1, Munich 2009, p. 541). 2. inventory history After the dissolution of the military government, some of the files were taken over by the head presidential registry and were transferred via the Magdeburg government archive to the Magdeburg state main archive. The files, which concerned the areas of the later administrative districts of Merseburg and Erfurt, were first transferred to the responsible government archives in Merseburg and Erfurt and were later added to the holdings of the Magdeburg State Main Archives. By order of the Director General of the Prussian State Archives of May 1, 1883, the files of the military government (with the exception of the military government for the land between the Elbe and Oder or Oder and Vistula) were either transferred from the Secret State Archives to the provincial archives concerned or left in their original state. In the state capital archive of Magdeburg the archival material of the military government was divided into the following holdings (cf.: Gringmuth-Dallmer, Hanns: Gesamtübersicht über diebestände des Landeshauptarchivs Magdeburg, Vol. 3,1, Halle/Saale 1961): - Rep. C 1 Preußisches Militärgouvernement für die Provinzen zwischen Elbe und Weser zu Halberstadt - Rep. C 1 a Prussian military government for the provinces between Elbe and Weser to Halberstadt - Rep. C 1 b Prussian military government for the provinces between Elbe and Weser to Halberstadt concerning administrative district Erfurt - Rep. C 1 c Prussian military government for the provinces between Elbe and Weser to Halberstadt - Civil administration - Rep. C 2 Prussian Civil Government for the provinces between Elbe and Weser to Halberstadt - Rep. C 2 a Prussian Civil Government for the provinces between Elbe and Weser to Halberstadt concerning the later administrative district Magdeburg - Rep. C 2 b Prussian Civil Government for the provinces between Elbe and Weser to Halberstadt concerning the later administrative district Erfurt - Rep. C 2 c Prussian Civil Government for the provinces between Elbe and Weser at Halberstadt concerning the later administrative district Merseburg (Saalkreis and Mansfeld) - Rep. C 3 Commission of the Higher Regional Court Council Dalkowski for the investigation of political offences - Rep. C 7 Finance Commission at Halberstadt - Rep. C 8 Government War Commission (War Commissioner Lehmann) - Rep. C 11 Surgical Staff. On 26 and 27 April 1972 the above holdings were transferred by the Landeshauptarchiv Magdeburg to the Deutsches Zentralarchiv, Dienststelle Merseburg (see: GStA PK, I. HA, Rep. 178 E Geheimes Staatsarchiv PK, Dienststelle Merseburg, Nr. 331 Aktenzugänge, Bd. 1). However, not all stocks from the transitional period were transferred. Thus, for example, the holdings of the three state directorates remained in the Magdeburg State Main Archives. On 21 October 1986, 0.1 running metres of files were subsequently taken over and assigned to the holdings (cf.: GStA PK, I. HA, Rep. 178 E Geheimes Staatsarchiv PK, Dienststelle Merseburg, Nr. 1037 Bestandsakte I. HA Rep. 91 C). The holdings taken over from the Magdeburg State Archives were combined into one holdings and initially recorded in a find file by employees of the German Central Archives, Merseburg Office. In the process, the contemporary titles were obviously adopted without any discernible new titles being formed. In addition, the portfolio was rearranged according to thematic criteria. It has not yet been possible to determine the date of the order, the original distortion and a later revision of the file titles. This revision, which was still carried out on the index cards, led to a partial correction and standardisation of the file titles, which however remained incomplete and inconsistent. Following the retroconversion of the find file by typists of the Secret State Archives PK, the holdings were edited in 2008 and 2009 by archive employee Guido Behnke. The classification has been revised. In addition, the existing file titles were checked and, if necessary, standardized or corrected. In some cases, individual files had to be redrawn. The existing place names were adapted as far as possible to the current spelling. 3. note on use The holdings were arranged according to subject matter. However, the files of classification group 02.01.03 are sorted by the names of the individual towns. These are files relating to the accounting, the debts, the public buildings, the leasing of land and the local taxes of the respective municipalities. Also the files of the classification group 03.03.01.03, which concern the church, parish and school affairs, are arranged according to place names. The files relating to staff matters (e.g. employment, remuneration, dismissal, misconduct) of officials should be sought in the various thematic classification groups. For example, the files on civil servants employed directly by the Military Government are in classification group 01.02, municipal civil servants in classification group 02.01.04 and judicial officers in classification group 02.03.01.09. 4. References to other holdings and bibliographical references 4.1 Holdings in the Secret State Archives PK A larger number of files relating to the Military Government between Weser and Elbe are in the holdings: - GStA PK, I. HA, Rep. 87 Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forestry - GStA PK, I. HA, Rep. 151 Ministry of Finance. In some cases, files are still available in the following holdings: - GStA PK, I. HA, Rep. 89 Secret Civil Cabinet, recent period - GStA PK, I. HA, Rep. 93 B Ministry of Public Works - GStA PK, I. HA, Rep. 103 General Postmaster or General Post Office - GStA PK, I. HA, Rep. 121 Ministry of Trade and Commerce, Mining, Iron and Steel Works Administration - GStA PK, I. HA, Rep. 128 Registratur[des Friedrich Karl Heinrich Graf von Wylich und] Lottum über Armeeverpflegungsangelegenheiten in den Kriegen 1813 - 1815 - GStA PK, I. HA, Ministry der Auswärtigen Angelegenheiten - GStA PK, III. HA, MdA - Ministry of Foreign Affairs - GStA PK, V. HA Kingdom of Westphalia. The archival records of two other military provinces can be found in the following holdings: - GStA PK, I. HA, Rep. 91 A Military Government between Elbe and Oder - GStA PK, I. HA, Rep. 91 B Military Government between Oder and Vistula. 4.2 Holdings in other archives The following holdings from the transitional period 1806-1816 are available in the main archive of Saxony-Anhalt, Department Magdeburg (see: Gringmuth-Dallmer, Hanns: Gesamtübersicht über diebestände des Landeshauptarchivs Magdeburg, Vol. 3,1, Halle/Saale 1961): - Rep. C 4 Landesdirektion des I. und II. Departments (former Elbe and Saale Department) - Rep. C 5 Regional Directorate of the IIIrd Department (former Harz Department) of Heiligenstadt - Rep. C 6 Vice-Department of the IIIrd Department of Erfurt together with the chamber of Blankenhain - Rep. C 9 Commission of the Francke Provincial Council - Rep. C 10 War Commissariats - Rep. C 12 Lazarette - Rep. C 13 Magdeburg Tax Directorate - Rep. C 19 Commissions of the Military Government for the provinces between EIbe and Weser. The following holdings are located in the Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, Abteilung Westfalen, Münster (cf.: Die Bestands des Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen - Staatsarchiv Münster, Münster 2004, p. 272): - B 99 Civil Government between Weser and Rhine. The holdings of the military government for the land between the Vistula and the Russian border (most recently in the Potsdam Army Archive) and the military government for Silesia (most recently in the Wroclaw State Archive) were probably destroyed during the Second World War. 4.3 Literature (selection): - Gouvernementblatt für die königlich-preußischen Provinzen zwischen der Elbe und Weser, Halberstadt 1814-1816 - Intelligenz-Blatt für den Bezirk des Königlichen Appellationsgericht zu Halberstadt, Halberstadt 1814-1849 - History of the organisation of the Landwehr in the Militair-Gouvernement between Elbe and Weser, in the Militair-Gouvernement between Weser and Rhine in 1813 and 1814, Supplement to the Militair-Wochenblatt, Berlin 1857 - Gringmuth-Dallmer, Hanns: General overview of the holdings of the Landeshauptarchiv Magdeburg, vol. 3.1, Halle/Saale 1961 (Sources on the History of Saxony-Anhalt 6) - Tumbler, Manfred: Lazarethe in the Prussian provinces between Elbe and Weser by number of patients, cost of money and mortality 1813-1815, in: Deutsches medizinisches Journal, vol. 15, Berlin 1964. 5. 5. notes, order signature and method of citation Scope of holdings: 5427 SU (128 running metres) Duration: 1721 - 1820 Last issued signature: 5398 The files are to be ordered: I. HA, Rep. 91 C, No () The files are to be quoted: GStA PK, I. HA, Rep. 91 C Militär- und Zivilgouvernement für das Land zwischen Weser und Elbe zu Halle bzw. Halberstadt, Nr. () Berlin, December 2010 (Guido Behnke) finding aids: database; finding guide, 4 vol.
12 double sheets, Contains a. o.: - Reports on the plantation and its management - Minutes of the negotiations between Mr Winter, as representative of the Deutsch-Ostafrikanischen Gesellschaft, and Mr Wyneken and John Booth, as administrator and first official of the plantation, respectively, on the property (copy) - Contract of employment between the representative of the plantation (Mr Wyneken) and Mr P. van Swieten (copy) - Request for farewell from the Count [von der] Schulenburg; old property BPH.
122 sheets, Contains and others: - Foundation of a high altar for the St. Joseph Church built by the St. Benedictus Mission Society St. Ottilien in Dar es Salaam by Wilhelm II, 1904/1905 - Relocation of the headquarters of the Protestant Mission Society for German East Africa from Berlin to Bethel near Bielefeld, 1906 - Appointment of the Governor of German East Africa, Albrecht von Rechenberg, as representative of Wilhelm II at the solemn consecration of the high altar of St. Wilhelm's Church in Berlin. Josephskirche in Daressalam, 1908 - Approval of a support for the education of the children of the missionaries of the Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft für Deutsch-Ostafrika, 1909 - Approval of the donation contract concluded between the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft in Barmen and the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft für Südwestafrika for a property located in Lüderitzbucht as well as approval of the acquisition of a property in Windhoek by the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft in Barmen, 1909 - The first edition of the newspaper "Rafifki yangu" ("My Friend"), published by the Catholic Mission Dar es Salaam in January 1910, is sent with the editorial for Wilhelm II's birthday. by the Bishop and Apostolic Vicar of Dar es Salaam Thomas Spreiter OSB [with explanations on the Kiswahili language and the translation of the editorial], 1910 - Approval of the acquisition by the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft in Barmen of the farm "Gaub" located in German Southwest Africa, 1910 - Approval of the acquisition of the farms "Omburo" in the district of Omaruru and "Ouises" in the district of Rehoboth, situated in German Southwest Africa, as well as of land in Usakos by the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft in Barmen, 1910 - Approval of the acquisition of the farm "Korab-Ost" by the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft in Barmen, 1910 - Award of the Red Eagle Order 4. Class to the Director of the North German Mission Society in Bremen August Wilhelm Schreiber and award of the Crown Order 4th Class to the missionaries Jakob Spieth and Gottlob Däuble in Togo, 1911 - Approval of the acquisition of a property of the Berlin Mission Society in Berlin situated in Dar es Salaam by the Mission Institute of the Protestant Brotherhood in Herrnhut, 1911 - Award of the Red Eagle Order 3rd Class to the Apostolic Provicar and Vicar General (ret.) Stephan Baur in Zanzibar, 1912 - Approval of the proposals of the Protestant and Catholic committees for the distribution of the national donation for the Christian missions in the German colonies and protectorates (Kaiser Wilhelm donation for the Christian missions in the German colonies and protectorates), 1913 - Assumption of the protectorate via the foundation "Deutsche Evangelische Missions-Hilfe" and delegation of a member to the board of the foundation, 1913 - Draft of the constitution of the foundation "Deutsche Evangelische Missions-Hilfe". Berlin] [1913] (print) - Constitution of the Foundation "Deutsche Evangelische Missions-Hilfe" of 6 December 1913. [Berlin] [1913] (print) - List of members of the Administrative Council of the Deutsche Evangelische Missions-Hilfe. Berlin [1913] (print) - permission of the foundation "Deutsche Evangelische Missions-Hilfe" as well as appointment of the Oberhofprediger D. Ernst Dryander as member of the board, 1913 - permission of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft in Barmen to acquire pasture land at the southwest border of the farm "Ghaub" and the farm "S 37" in the district Grootfontein, 1914; archives closed for conservation reasons! Digitalization available!
- description: - Preliminary remark - - History of institutions - The Secret Upper Tribunal was formed on 30 November 1782 in the course of the judicial reform of the Grand Chancellor v. Carmer. With extended jurisdiction and as an independent all-Prussian court, it continued the functions of the Higher Appellate Court (1703-1748) [see inventory "GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 97 A Higher Appellate Court"] and the Tribunal as the 4th Senate at the Court of Appeal (1748-1782) [see inventory "GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 97 Court of Appeal"]. This brought to a conclusion a development that had already been prepared in the increasingly autonomous jurisdictional functions and in the constantly growing territorial jurisdiction of the Tribunal. The Court of Justice ruled in the third instance and in the appeal instance and was directly subordinate to the Department of Justice and from 1808 to the Ministry of Justice. - The territorial competence of the Secret Upper Tribunal for all Prussian provinces was restricted only for a short time due to the autonomy claim of the Neumark. The appeal rulings in Neumark affairs were initially drawn up in the name of the Privy Council of State. The territorial expansion of Prussia's territory in the 19th century resulted in the temporary division of the appeal instance into several courts on several occasions. This division of territorial competence was accompanied by important organisational changes. At the beginning of the 19th century, for example, the expansion of tasks made it necessary to delegate the appeal proceedings to higher regional courts with a dispute value of less than 500 talers from 1803 or less than 2000 talers after 1815. Furthermore, since 1815 the Province of Neuvorpommern and the Province of Poznan had their own courts of appeal in the Court of Appeal in Greifswald and in the 2nd Senate of the Higher Court of Appeal in Poznan. An essential restriction of the territorial competence of the upper tribunal meant the secondary order of a Rhenish Court of Appeal and Cassation for the territories of French law since 1819. In order to reduce this fragmentation, the delegation of appeal proceedings to higher regional courts was abolished in 1833 and the appeal senate in Posen was dissolved in 1834. - The jurisdiction of the upper tribunal was considerably restricted by the fact that the appeal in political criminal cases had been transferred to the Privy Judicial Council at the Court of Appeal since the beginning of the trials against the bourgeois-democratic movement. - The revolution of 1848/49 partially enforced the bourgeois demand for state legal unity in Prussia. The Prussian National Assembly included a provision in its draft constitution to unite the supreme courts. The demand continued in the constitutional debate of the two chambers of the Landtag in March 1849 could be enforced against the resistance of the Rhenish jurists, so that the announcement of a uniform court also passed from the imposed to the agreed constitution. This constitutional principle was implemented according to the law of March 1852. Already after the January regulation of 1849 the upper tribunal had been declared the highest instance in cases also from the district of the appellate court Greifswald. On January 1, 1853, the upper tribunal was merged with the Rheinischer Revisions- und Kassationshof (Rhenish Court of Appeal and Cassation), which meant that the Geheimer Justizrat (Privy Judicial Council) was joined by a unified supreme court, whose name was changed from Geheimes Obertribunal to Obertribunal (Privy Upper Tribunal) as a result of the public nature of the court hearings introduced in 1849. Its territorial competence was extended in 1851 to the newly accrued Hohenzollern principalities. - A temporary change in the leadership of the Prussian court organization occurred once again as a result of the 1866 war. Of the annexed areas, only the courts of the city of Frankfurt (Main) were directly assigned to the upper tribunal as an appeal instance. For the provinces Schleswig-Holstein, Hannover, Hessen-Nassau as well as for the duchy Lauenburg and the principalities Waldeck and Pyrmont a new court of appeal was formed in Berlin in 1867. It was united with the Supreme Tribunal in February 1874, and from 1851 the Supreme Tribunal was joined by the Disciplinary Court and the Formally Independent Court for Church Affairs, established in 1873 as a result of the Kulturkampf. The institutional historical development of the Upper Tribunal is characteristic of the efforts to achieve formal legal unity in Prussia, which was documented in its Supreme Court. - The mostly erratic expansion of the task area is also reflected in the inner structure of the upper tribunal. The Court had begun its work in the 18th century with a Senate occupied by a chief president, nine tribunal councils and a protonotarius of the upper tribunal. After 1874 it was divided into eight senates, in which one president, five vice-presidents and 62 supreme tribunal councils were active as judges. This resulted in a subdivision into a Senate for Personal Law, two Senates for Property Law, one Senate for Obligatory Law, two Senates for Civil Law of the Rhineland and the territories annexed in 1866, one Senate for Criminal Matters and one Senate for Disciplinary Investigations against Judicial Officials. The highest body was the plenum, which united all senates. The Upper Tribunal received a considerable increase in personnel when one of the main demands of the Vormärz and the Revolution of 1848/49, namely the publicity of civil and criminal proceedings, was enforced. In 1852, a Prosecutor General's Office was formed as an independent structural part of the Upper Tribunal, consisting of one Prosecutor General and three Prosecutors General. In addition, there were the lawyers admitted to the upper tribunal, whose number rose to 19 after the takeover of the so-called Public Ministry of the Rhineland Court of Appeal and Cassation. Since 1856 there has also been an honorary council of lawyers at the upper tribunal, which was renewed every two years. An administrative office of the Upper Tribunal had been available since the 1930s and was eventually staffed by 15 officials. - The Upper Tribunal was personally connected to the Higher Censorship Court constituted in 1843, three of whose members belonged to the Upper Tribunal. The chief presidents of the upper tribunal, mostly former ministers of justice, were directly responsible to the king until 1857 and were subordinated to the minister of justice. Members of the upper tribunal included such important bourgeois jurists as Carl Gottlieb Suarez and Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Bornemann. - The competence of the upper tribunal was comprehensive for the area of civil law. It extended to appeals and nullity appeals in civil trials, even when they concerned military personnel. It covered the following subjects: Personal law, professional and ethical law, rights and duties of companies, corporations, municipalities, schools and institutions for the poor, leasehold and tenancy matters, land, domains, regalia, jurisdiction, obligations, commercial and property matters. In criminal proceedings, on the other hand, only appeals for annulment belonged before the Supreme Tribunal in third instance. As stated above, the Supreme Tribunal was not responsible for political criminal cases. Additional areas of responsibility of the upper tribunal were conflicts of jurisdiction between courts of appeal and lower courts, complaints against court orders in procedural matters and disciplinary matters of all judicial officials, including military judges. In addition, on the basis of special treaties, the Obertribunal acted as supreme court for some German states, namely for the principalities Waldeck and Pyrmont in criminal cases and for the Duchy of Anhalt-Bernburg in criminal cases and disciplinary cases of the judges. Finally, the Obertribunal was also elected several times as Austrägalgericht for the decision of disputes between German princes. - The plenum of the Supreme Tribunal heard decisions of a Senate which deviated from a principle of law or a statutory provision, as well as all legislative matters, important disciplinary inquiries and judgments of general interest. Influence on contemporary jurisprudence was exerted by the publication of about 500 important decisions from the years 1836 to 1879 in a state publication series. - After the foundation of the North German Confederation and the German Reich, jurisdictional powers were increasingly transferred to the Reich. Initially, the last instance in commercial and bill of exchange matters was transferred to the Bundesoberhandelsgericht, the later Reichsoberhandelsgericht, founded in August 1870 in Leipzig. In the context of the Reichsjustizreform the national liberals with support of the Prussian Minister of Justice Leonhardt enforced the court constitution law from January 1877 against the Bavarian separatism. The Reichsgericht (Imperial Court) ordered in this law commenced its activities in Leipzig on 1 October 1879. At the same time the Prussian upper tribunal was abolished, 25 of its employees were appointed to the Reichsgericht, while 19 judges were retired. - Presidents of the upper tribunal: - 1782 - 1784 Münchhausen, Ernst Ferdinand Freiherr v. - 1784, 1788 - 1802 Reck, Eberhard Friedrich Rudolph Ludwig Freiherr v. d. - 1785 - 1788 Doernberg, Wolfgang Ferdinand v. - 1802 - 1805 Könen, Johann v. (since 1802) - 1805 - 1833 Grolman, Heinrich Dietrich v. - 1833 - 1844 Sack, Dr. Wilhelm Friedrich - 1844 - 1854 Mühler, Heinrich Gottlob v. - 1854 - 1878 Uhden, Carl Albrecht Alexander v. (since 1871) - - - - - - History and Inventory - After the dissolution of the Upper Tribunal in 1879, the organisational and administrative files were initially handed over to the Court of Appeal, the trial files to the Prussian Ministry of Justice. It is likely that the majority of the case files were collected by the Court of Appeal after 1880. The transfer of files from the Upper Tribunal to the Secret State Archives took place in 1880, 1911 and 1927, so that in 1928 the archiving of the only incompletely preserved holdings was largely completed. From 1932 to 1939, the order was mainly based on fundamental judgments and organizational acts. A motive report from 1939 on the archival evaluation of the files can be found in the file "I. HA Rep. 178 Generaldirektion der Staatsarchive, Nr. 604". The preserved files on proceedings in third instance until 1786 were simultaneously made available for use by old administrative repertories. The tradition of the Upper Tribunal, together with that of the old Higher Appeal Court and that of the Tribunal (4th Senate) at the Court of Appeal, formed the combined holdings of Rep. 97a. - After the Second World War, the holdings were transferred to the Central State Archives of the GDR in Merseburg without any losses during the war, where they were initially restored to their old signatures. For the lost find book a new one was made. In 1973 a new inventory was established, which was based on the decisive organisational caesura of 1782 with the foundation of the independent upper tribunal. The holdings of the old Higher Appeal Court and the Tribunal of the Court of Appeal from 1703 to 1782 [now: "GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 97 A Oberappellationsgericht] were separated from the holdings of the Upper Tribunal from 1782 to 1879. The upper tribunal was subsequently restructured and listed anew. At the beginning of the nineties he was transferred to the care of the Geheimes Staatsarchiv PK zu Berlin and transferred there in 1993. - Scope of stock: 1093 file units (20 linear meters), 1704-1910 - - The files are to be ordered as: - I. HA Rep. 97a, No. ### - - - The files are to be quoted as: - I. HA Rep. 97a Obertribunal, Nr. ### - - - - The last assigned number is: 1075 - - - - - - Author of the present introduction from 1975: - Dräger, Diplomarchivar - - - Revision in March 2010 by: - Dr. Kober, Archivrat - - Findmittel: Database; Findbuch, 1 Vol.* Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage, I. HA Rep. 97a