Foreword: The Tax Directorate was removed from the area of responsibility of the District Directorates by ordinance of 3 March 1826 on the administration of direct and indirect levies (cf. volume 313). After Baden joined the Zollverein, the ordinance of 16.07.1835 established an independent Customs Directorate, which was initially only a section of the Tax Directorate. The year 1909 finally brought the reunification of the two directorates under the name Customs and Tax Directorate. On 01.01.1919 the business of this authority was transferred to the Landesfinanzamt (State Tax Office) established by the Reich (cf. inventory 452). The stock at hand is therefore a mixed stock. The circumference is not particularly large with 4.8 linear metres of shelving. A separation into three stocks therefore did not appear to make sense. The largest part of the inventory is made up of treasure law (tax cadastre), customs law and customs administration. The focus of the files lies on the period between 1815 and 1835. Further documents of the provenance tax directorate could be determined in connection with the provenance regulations for the equalization of holdings with the State Archives Freiburg in the holdings 136, 163, 184, 196, 207, 209, 211, 219 and 225. The present find book was developed as a prototype of a digitisation project in the General State Archives for the conversion of paper into tape repertories. The card index from the 50's was read by scanner and text recognition software and revised by the undersigned. The search possibilities were improved with the help of a concordance as well as place, person and subject indexes. Karlsruhe, June 2001 Johannes Renz
Preliminary remarks on the tape repertory: The list of files on the town of Lörrach was compiled in the 1960s by the retired study council Schweinfurth, edited by the undersigned in 1978 and typed in the town archive of Lörrach. The inventory comprises 3 metres of shelving in 495 file numbers. The tradition reaches from the 16th to the 19th century, whereby the main part lies in the 18th century. Karlsruhe, 1 August 1978 R. Rupp Preliminary remark on data preparation: The present inventory served as a prototype for data preparation in typewritten tape repertories for online capability, whereby the text of the find book was scanned by the undersigned with the aid of OCR technology and further processed with Midosa95 and the indices were recreated. Also the title recordings were partly revised again. Due to the equalization of holdings with the Freiburg State Archives in 2000, the number of file fascicles was reduced, the documents handed over to Freiburg remained in the index, but are marked with the remark "StAF" after the order number. Due to the packaging campaign of the files of the Old Reich which took place shortly thereafter, the size of the stock has nevertheless "increased" to 3.9 linear metres of shelving. Karlsruhe, August 2002 Johannes Renz
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.