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I. On the history of the Württ. Ministry of Justice and its registry relations: The manifesto of organisation of 18 March 1806 determined the business circle of the Minister of Justice and defined the structure of the Department of Justice (Regierungsblatt 1806 p. 6 f., bes. §§ 2, 5, 34-53; cf. F. Wintterlin "Geschichte der Behördenorganisation in Württemberg" 1, 5. 280 f., II p. 140 f.; A. Dehlinger "Württembergs Staatswesen in seiner historlichen Entwicklung bis heute" 1, p. 124 f., 388 f.). The Ministry of Justice experienced a reorganization of its business area, which remained almost unchanged for several decades, through the Royal Decree of 8 November 1816 (Government Gazette 1816 p. 347, especially §§ 5 and 9) and the 5th Organizational Edict of 18 November 1817 (Reyscher III, p. 470). On the day after Mauclers was appointed Minister of Justice, 9 March 1818, a Royal Decree was issued on the "state of affairs at the Chancellery of the Minister of Justice" (E 31 Bü. 204). The head of the chancellery remained the head of the Schwab Tribunal. On 29 February 1818, the Secret Registrar of the Second Section of the Privy Council Amandus Heinrich Günzler was charged with the revision and organisation of the Justice Ministerial Registration Office (Regierungsblatt 1816 S. 396; E 7 Bü. 60: II. Dept. 1818; E 31 Bü. 167; cf. E 1-13 Diarium 1818 Diary No. 2673). The fact that Günzler was occupied with this task at least until March 1819 can be inferred from a letter of thanks of 29 March 1818 addressed by him to the king concerning a gratuity for his activity in the Ministry of Justice (E 5 3d. 61). Hit of the order of the ministerial registration carried out by him one seems to have been generally satisfied. Thus the Minister of Justice expressed himself very appreciatively in the 1820 annual report of the Department of Justice for the year 1818: "For more than ten years this ministry lacked its own registrar; and in spite of all the efforts of the few workers, the number of occupations of the offices of this ministry, which had been identified as highly inadequate for a long time, in the earlier period, neither significant business backlogs nor, in particular, order in the registry system could be prevented. Now this order is perfectly established from the very beginning (1806)" (Annual Report 1818 in 3 33 Ed. 126 and E 302 Ed. 969). File plans, repertories or diaries of the Ministry of Justice have not been preserved, with the exception of a diary kept from 1840 (December) to 1364, which refers exclusively to high treason concerns such as the action against the "Bund der Geächteten" and the "Junge Deutschland" (E 301 Bü. 55 Nr. LV). Nevertheless, the registration scheme introduced in 1813 can be reconstructed on the basis of the subjects and signatures as well as the references to the file covers. The registry was divided into two sections: The first section consisted of the Generalia, later also called General Acts. These have been sorted alphabetically by subject. The individual subjects received up to the letter R including Roman identification numbers, subsequently inserted subjects, but also the subjects from letter 3 remained without such numbers. In the Generalia, the main type of documents is those relating to legislation and individual offences. The second department initially had no name. In order to distinguish it from the Generalia, which used blue file covers, the registry material was deposited in red file covers. Around 1850 this department was given the name "A. o. G." "("General organic articles"). In particular, it was assigned the files on personnel matters of the Department of Justice, the supervision of the judicial authorities as well as the treasury and auditing systems. Over time, the two departments have overlapped (e.g. Gen. Budgeting - A. o. G. Budget; Gen. Holiday Bü. 14 Holiday chamber A. o. G. Holiday chamber). Since November 1921, the A. o. G. files were no longer maintained. Classified items that had been removed were marked "closed" on the file covers, all others were transferred to categories of the general files (e.g. A. o. G. Minister ~: "From Nov. 1921 cf. G. Staatsministerium or A. o. G. Gerichtsvollzieher 3: "1922 all items in the files were transferred to G. Gerichtsvollzieher 9 and continued there"). Work on the reorganisation continued until 1923. Since the duration of the files of both departments almost exclusively ends in 1922/23 (exceptions): E 302 Bü. 1: 1922-1936, Bü. 912: 1904-1924, Bü. 1216-1218: 1919-1924, Bü. 1319: 1894-1925), they may have been retired on the occasion of this reorganisation of the registry. In addition to the documents of the two departments just described, the Registry of the Ministry of Justice also kept the files of some abolished authorities and commissions. Although these holdings were preserved as closed registry bodies, they were brought into organic connection with the written records of the Ministry of Justice itself: with the exception of the College of Penitentiaries, which only dissolved in 1921, they were incorporated as special sections of the Generalia Department. In contrast to the Ministry of Justice, most of the diaries and repertories are preserved for these stocks. Altogether, there are six authorities or commissions whose documents were wholly or partially incorporated into the registry of the Ministry of Justice: the Ministerial Commission for the Investigation of the Revolutionary Activities of 1833 in Württemberg, the Mortgage Commission, the Organizational Execution Commission, the Supreme Judicial Review Board, the Commission for the State and Government Gazette, and the College of Prison Officers. The Ministerial Commission established by the Most High Decree of 29 May 1833, to which the President of the Privy Council as well as the Heads of the Departments of Foreign Affairs, Warfare and Justice belonged, was to ensure "coherence, unity and acceleration" of the investigations already initiated into the revolutionary activities discovered in Württemberg in 1833. The Commission existed until 1839. about the files resulting from its activity informs the directory located in inventory E 301 Bü. 18 Unterfaszikel 1 /_ 33. The Mortgage Commission, which had been formed by Royal Resolution of 30 May 1825 ~ 8. 383), was responsible for advising on and implementing the deposit laws and for clearing up the deposits in the municipalities. The board of the commission headed by the Minister of Justice was the director of Schwab. Members were appointed to the Supreme Tribunal Council of Bolley, the Supreme Pupil Council of Steudel and the Reutlingen Chief Official Judge Schickardt. The Commission was empowered to issue instructions to the Higher and Local Courts. It was dissolved by decree of 12 January 1832 (Government Gazette 8.20). The new "Mortgage Commission", which had been set down at the same time, had to deal with the issue of the deposit system for specimens. A first organizing and executive commission entrusted with the implementation of the organizing edicts of 1817 existed from 18 November 1817 to 15 January 1818 (Government Gazette 1817 p. 542 and Government Gazette 1818 p. 21), a second from 27 August 1821 Government Gazette 1821 p. 671) to 15 August 1828 (Government Gazette p. 675). The members of the second commission were the Minister of Justice as head (conductor), the Minister of Finance, the 'head' of the Department of the Interior, as well as the senior tribunal councils of Schwab and von Bolley and the senior government council Waldbauer. A diarium and repertory (E 301 Bü. 140) have been preserved for the period from 27 August 1821 to 10 September 1828. The Commission's registry had classified the documents it had received into two series. In the registry of the Ministry, the files included in the Generalia Department received new signatures, partially disrupting the old order. The Supreme Judicial Review Office, created on 2 November 1807 (Government Gazette 8.537), was headed by the Ministry of Justice and was in charge of reviewing criminal cases. With his dissolution ordered by Royal Decree of 23 September 1817, his portfolio was transferred to the Criminal Senate of the Upper Tribunal (Reyscher Vol. VII 8. 542). Only the minutes for the years 1807 to 1817 of the documents produced during the Oberjustizrevisorium were transferred to the registry of the Ministry of Justice. The Commission for the State and Government Gazette was established with the publication of a State and Government Gazette ordered by King Frederick on 22 January 1807 (Government Gazette p. 1). In addition to the Privy Council Freiherr von Spittler, which acted as President, seven councils of Stuttgart's central authorities were members of it. Hofrat Werthes was employed as editor of the government journal and secretary of the commission; he died on 5 December 1817. After the death of King Frederick, the commission was dissolved, the supreme supervision and leadership of the government journal "united with the attributions of the Department of Justice" (Reyscher Vol. III 5. 478). The relevant files, which had grown up at both the Commission and the Ministry of Justice, received the signature CLXXIV in the Generalia Department of the Ministerial Registry. They were handed over to the State Archives Ludwigsburg as a separate delivery (Delivery II) in 1939 and recorded by Dr. Max Miller from inventory E 303a in 1948. The Prison Commission formed on 21 December 1824 (Regierungsblatt 1825 3. 1) was given the name Prison College in 1832 (Regierungsblatt 1832 5. 243). This college was responsible for the economic and police administration of all higher prisons as well as the establishment and maintenance of the district court prisons in Württemberg. After it had been repealed with effect from December 1, 1921 (Government Gazette 5. 521), his. functions to the Ministry of Justice. The files of the College of Prisons have been incorporated into the Registry of the Ministry of Justice as an annex to the two departments of Generalia and General Organic Objects. TWO. The documentation of the Württ. Ministry of Justice in the Main State Archive Stuttgart: The documents of the Ministry of Justice, initially kept in the State Archive Ludwigsburg and since 1969 in the Main State Archive Stuttgart, cover a period of about 115 years, i.e. it documents the business activity of the Ministry from its foundation in 1806 until the time after the end of the First World War. The files that grew up after that until the administration of justice was "handed over" at the beginning of 1935 did not reach the State Archives, they perished in the Second World War. Apart from this painful documentation gap, however, for more than a century the written material of the Ministry of Justice, which is to be rated very highly as source material for the modern history of Württemberg, has essentially been preserved and is accessible to scientific research. In accordance with the three stages in which the State Archives Administration has taken over the registry of the Ministry, these documents are divided into three archival holdings: E 301 Ministry of Justice 1 (= 1st delivery 1910), E 303a State and Government Gazette (= 2nd delivery 1939) and E 302 Ministry of Justice II (= 3rd delivery 1962). As a result of this gradual transfer of the documents to the archives administration, which was carried out from the point of view of the files dispensable for the Ministry's operations, the original registry order was torn apart. However, as already mentioned, it could be reconstructed on the basis of the notes on the file covers. This reconstruction of the old registry order and the interlocking of the three deliveries is shown in the following table. III. the order and scientific development of the stock E 302 Ministry of Justice II: While the first two deliveries by the Ministry of Justice in 1910 and 1939 were carried out by way of file separation and the recording of these orderly transferred archival records in the State Archives Ludwigsburg caused no difficulties, the situation was fundamentally different with the so-called third delivery. This stock, which had long been considered lost, was found in 1962 during clearing work at the storage facility of the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court (Urbanstr. 18). How he had got there could no longer be determined. With the permission of the Ministry of Justice of Baden-Württemberg, the files were transferred to the Ludwigsburg State Archives on 4 October 1962, from where they were transferred to the Stuttgart State Archives in the spring of 1969 as part of the redistribution of the holdings held in the Stuttgart State Archives and the Ludwigsburg State Archives. In the years 1969 to 1972, under the direction of Dr. Sauer, the ladies and gentlemen Dr. Eitel, Beutter, Fruhtrunk, Pfeifle, Rupp, Dr. Schöntag and Steimle recorded a total of 36 ongoing holdings. Since the tufts of files were completely confused and also a part of the tufts was torn open, whereby the contents were confused, the original order of filing had to be reconstructed on the basis of the notes on the file covers, the subjects and the quadrangles. This succeeded surprisingly completely. In the few cases where no signatures could be established, the tufts concerned were classified according to their category. At the end of the inventory, the files of the Prison College and the personnel files of Prussian members of the judiciary who had been transferred from Hohenzollern and the province of Alsace-Lorraine to the Württemberg Judicial Service after 1918 were placed. It would have been obvious to combine the E 302 holdings with the E 301 and E 303a holdings in accordance with the old 'Registraturordnung' to form a complete Württ. Ministry of Justice collection. Since, however, the stocks E 301 and E 303a have already been quoted very frequently in the scientific literature, a "general revision" was omitted and only carried out on paper (cf. the tabular overview in Section II. of the introduction). However, files which, like the "Repertorium über die Akten der vormaligen Criminal-Revisionsbehörde von 1819" or the Büschel "Gerichtliche Verfolgung von an den revolutionären Bewegungen 1849 Beteiligten durch die Untersuchungskommission Hohenasperg", clearly belonged to inventory E 301 were classified there. Archival records and printed matter that were not provenance of the Ministry of Justice or could not be organically included in the holdings E 301 or E 302 were removed and assigned to other archive holdings or to the library (usually the department of official printed matter) according to their provenance: A larger collection of general rescripts from the years 1770-1822 was included in the relevant rescript collections of the HStA. Files from the Stuttgart Regional Court, the Waiblingen Local Court, the district courts, the Ulm prison and the Schwäbisch Hall prison were handed over to the Ludwigsburg State Archives. Issues 3 and 6 of the Atlas zu den Berichte der Cholera-Kommission für das Deutsche Reich (1877 and 1879) as well as the Kriminalpolizeiblatt (Kriminalpolizeiblatt), volume 1938, were added to the library of the HStA. Stuttgart, February 12, 1973 (Dr. Paul Sauer) Supplement (2006): The find book of the present holdings, which had previously only been typewritten, was entered by Silvia Ebinger in Midosa95 in spring 2005 and converted by the undersigned into the new ScopeArchive indexing software. In the course of the revision of inventory E 301 in the same year, the commissions located at the Ministry of Justice were dissolved and the new inventories E 305/1 - E 305/6 were created. In this context, the mixed inventory E 303a (Ministry of Justice: Staats- und Regierungsblatt), which had been catalogued by Max Miller in 1948 and contained files of the Commission for the Staats- und Regierungsblatt (now: E 305/5) as well as of the Ministry of Justice itself, was also dissolved. The latter documents now form the new category "Staats- und Regierungsblatt" (State and Government Gazette) in the existing holdings of the General Files and were given the signatures E 302 Bü 1373a - 1401. In return, the documents of the Prison Commission previously held in holdings E 302 now form holdings E 305/6. The removed files continue to be listed in the finding aid book; the signatures concerned are marked with curly braces. Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, preserved records of the Württemberg Ministry of Justice until 1934/36 and the Württemberg Administration of Justice until 1945, completely indexed according to modern criteria and all finding aids available on the Internet.Stuttgart, January 2006Johannes Renz Registraturplan des Justizministeriums: Registraturordnung des Justizministeriums A. Abteilung Generalia BetreffMinisterialregistraturAblieferung IIIIII E 301E 303aE 302 BüschelBüschel IAblösungsgesetze1-71 8-12,15,17,20-232 243 25,29,32,33,40,444 IV.Administrativjustiz1-45 VI.Advocates1-76 Asylum17 XXXIIIBettler1-37 XXXIVCollection testimonies17 Salaries26 XXXVIIBigamia17 XXXVIIIBittschriften1-37 XXXIXaBlutschande18 Arson18 Fire insurance38 Book censorship18 Civil code7,2. Subsidiary327 XLIBureausystem18 XLIIBurgfrieden18 XLVCassation1,28 LVCorporation1,28 LVIIICriminal-Cornmission110 Criminal detention and penal institutions, improved facilities19 LIXCriminal jurisdiction1-410 LXCriminal legislation1,3-7,9,1010 2259 13,14,1911 1712 1713 LXIIIDeutscher Bund1,3-7,9,11,1214 13-18,22,2415 Service examination, second higher-2 LXIIIDiscipline, penal authority2,316 LXXMarital matters1,319, 10, 11 I,31a13 II,1,2,4-1314-25 II,16-22,26-3026-37 II,3138-42 II,39,4043,44 III,1-2345 III, 24-26, 28, 29, 31,46-63 32-39,42,46,49, 51 LXXIEid1-4, 6, 9, 14, 18, 22, 2465-74 Railways,10,1275, 76 telegraphs Alsace-Lorraine-77 LXXIIIEngland2-4, 778-81 LXXVErbschaften1-3, 6, 7, 11, 12, 18,2182-88 LXXVIErkenntnisse1,1189, 90 LXXVIIEtatswesen1-1392, 93 LXXVIIIExemte1-8,.13,14,17-1994-106 24,26122, 123 LXXXFamily concern-1 '2,7,20,27,40,124-131 kgliche (u.42-44, 46, 50, 51132-137 Court celebrations1ichkeiten) LXXXIFamily laws, foundations, fideikommisse2,II,6,15139-143 LXXXIIFalsification1,4144, 145 LXXXIIIFiskus1-2, 4-9, 18, 19, 22146-156 LXXXIVFleischesvergehehen1-3,5,6157-161 LXXXVForstgesetzgebung1-11'13-15162-175 21176 Forstschutzpersonal1177 Frankfurt1178 LXXXVIFranreich1-19179,183 St.7 Fasz.1184 St.V185 LXXXVIIFrohndienste1,216 XXXVIIIGantsachen1,3-12,18,24,25186-200 26-28,31201-204 Prison Service1205-207 LXXXIXPrisoners and Prisons1,3-5,7,8208-214 14,15,21,25215-218 26,32,36-38219-223 CX (i)Ministers1,2,6224-226 XC aFunds1,2227,228 XCIGeldstrafe1,2,5-7,10229-234 Municipalities1,2,4-16,16235-252 20,26,31-37253-262 40, 42, 44,47263-266 50267 Cooperatives1268,269 XCIII jurisdiction, voluntary1-8273-284 12-18,20285-292 22,23a-i294-303 28-30,32-40304-315 42,46,51,54,57316-321 Courts of Justice1-3, 5-24, 26-30336-366 32-57, 59, 61367-370 66-68, 70, 72371-375 73, 75-81, 87-98376-397 100, 103-105398-401 109, 110402,403 Court costs1-3, 7-10407-447 Jurisdiction1, 3-12, 16, 17, 21451-466 22, 24, 26, 29, 30467-471 33, 35, 38, 41, 43472-476 46477 Bailiffs1 a, b478-484 Missions1-3486-488 Acceptance of gifts1, 2, 4489-491 Courts of jury1; 4; 6; 7; 8, 1-24;492-517 9; 12; 16; 23; 28; 35518-523 38; 45; 48; 50; 51524-526 54; 55; 58; 63; 65529-533 68; 75-80; 82; 85; High treason"; their file plan: "Files of the Ministerial Commission be tr. ..." Aa I-X b I-XII c 1-10 Files of the Ministry of Justice concerning..." BI-LV (files of B also originated at the Commission) Files of the Ministerial Commission I-III18 IV-VIII,X19 XI20 I21 IIa22 IIb23 IIc24 IVa26 IVb27 V30 VI29 VII28 (VIII)28 IX28 Xa31 Xb32 Xc33 XI34 XII35 Ministry of Justice files I-III36 IVa37 IVb40 IVc41 V42 VI-X43 XIa44 XIb45 XII, XIII46 XIV47 XV-XVII48 XVIII-XXI49 XXII50 XXIII51 XXIV-XXXII52 XXXIII53 XXXV-XLI54 XLII-LV55 Flight, Time 56 Writings Mortgage Commission157-67 Commission File Plan a) Books b) Files GeneraliaA,B,C,D SpezialiaI -VI CXXXILehengüter1-9,l0a,b68 1169 16,17,2070 CXXXII Characteristic1,271 CXXXIVLosungsrecht172 Münzwesen1-5, 7,873 Notare57a579, 580 Novalzehnten1, 374 Patrimonial-Verhaltennisse1-374 Polizeibehörden1-8, 11 Organisation-, Voll- Ziehungs-Kommission, in the Ministerial registry structured according to the following plan 1,I75 1,II77 1' III78 1' IV79 1,V83 1,VI85 2,I88 2,II90 392 495 598 6,I100 6,II101 6,III104 7106 8,I107 8,II110 8,III113 8,IV116 9119 10121 The original signatures of the Commission's registry were: 1-1175 1276 13-2077 21-3078 32a79 32b80 32d81 32e82 33,3583 36,3784 38a85 38b,c86 40-4587 1107 2110 3113 4116 5106 6a,b119 6b120 797 8a,b .98 8b99 996 l0a88 l0a89 l0a91,120 l0b,c90 20121,122 22138 24123 25132 27a133 27b134 27c,e135 28a-f136 28c119 33a-f137 34139 36a95 Protocols128-130 Diarium, Repertorium140 Revision of the Supreme Court1, I141 1, II143 Proceedings of the Supreme Judicial Review154 CLXXIRechtspflege1-5155 CLXXVRegierungsblatt116 217 821 1330 1425 CLXXVReichsgericht und Reichsgerichtliche Akten1,2,10157 Reichsversammlung1, 6, 7-13, 15156 Staatsorganisation1-4, 6, 7158 8-10159 State treaties England1, 2581'582 France1, 2583,584 Professional RegisterI589,590 I, VII591,592 I, VIII593,594 I,IX595 (I,X)596,597 I,XI598-600 Profile3,4601,602 Stamping and Taxation2-9,11-18603-620 Taxes1-8,11,18, 621-630 19,20631-634 22,26635,636 Prisons and prisoners, older files1-17,19,20,638-656 23-30657-664 Prisons, newer filesl a-y,2-8,665-694 12-14,20-23,26,695-702 27,34;34,1;703-709 34,c;41,44,710-712 48 a,b713,714 Prisoners1,1-15; 2, 7a, b;715-719 8,10,12b I,720-722 12b II,723 16,18-25724-732 30,44,51 733-735 Criminal Code, design160 I161 II163 III164 IV166 V168 VI170 VII172 IX176 X177 XI178 XII179 XIII-XV180 XVI181 XVII184 XVIII186 XIX187 XXI-XXII191 PrejudiceIV-VIII188 IX-XIII189 XIV, XVI-XXIV190 Criminal CodeVII736 XVI737, 738 XXIV739, 740 Code of Criminal Procedure192 VII, 1-33202 VIII203 IX, 1-16742 Criminal offence, Criminal Dicts1-8, 11-17, 19, 20,746-743 23, 25-29765-771 Articles 57772 wills1, 2, 4-8774-780 Thuringia and Anhalt1781 Death sentences and death penalties1, 2, 4, 7, 190, 15782-788 Tortur1203 University(s)1-4, 6, 8-15789-801 17, 19-22, 25, 27802-808 Untergänger und Ugangsgerichte1-4, 6809-813 Documents2814 Vacation1,2,4,5,7,9,11815-821 14822 Vagantes and vagantes Jauner1, 2, 4, 6204 3205 Miscellaneous7, 10, 11, 12a, b823-827 13-16, 18, 20, 21828-834 Lost1, 3, 4838-840 Powers of attorney1841, 842 Weapons (weapons of the people)2843 Orphan dishes1, 2844,845 Waldeck1847 Forests1, 2848,849 Resistance1850 Restoration of851 Civil Honor Poaching, Wildschaden1-7852-858 Wilhelmsdorf1, 2861, 862 Württemberg1-3,5,7,8,10863-869 11, 12, 14870-872 Wucher1-4, 7873-875 Zehenden1-4206 Testimonies, Witnesses, and Testimonies5, 6, 11, 20876-880 Interest1, 2881-882 Customs, Customs1-6, 8-19883-901 Punishment, body-1-6207 B. Department General Organic Items SubjectMinisterial RegistryDelivery III TuftsTufts Official Judge suitable for collegiate serviceI902 II903 III904 Requests for employment905-907 Certifications908-911 Fires912 Books913-915 Firewood916 Concept-Decrees917 Dispositionsfonds918 Recommendations919, 920 Budget921-946 Holiday Chambers947-950 Salary cutsI951, 952 II953, 954 III955 Expeditors' salary advance956-958 Jurisdiction, voluntary1969 2960 Courts961 '962 Bailiffs1963-965 2966 3967 Annual reports968-1058 Property book mattersI1059, 1060 II1061-1125 Main overview (sports overviews)1126-1129 Marriage permits1130-1132 Depositing1133 Treasurers1134 Cash reports, Regiegefängnisse1135 Lifelong employment1136-1138 Military pensions11139 21140 Minister11141 21442 Secondary business11143 Notarial matters1144-1169 Personal circumstancesIV1170-1175 VII1176-1180 X1181 Pension time overviewsI1183 II1184 Postporto1196-1198 Council clerk1199-1204 Statements of account1205 Reichslimes, Travel Recommendations1206 Travel Expenses11207, 1208 Stationery Invoice1209 State Manual, Official CalendarI1210 II1211 III1212 State Budget(splan)1213-1220 DeathsI1221 II1222 Criminal MattersI,1-251224-1237 II,1-311238-1261 III,1-341262-1295 IV, 1-131296-1308 V1309, 1310 VI1311 VII1312 Surpluses1313-1316 Translations1317 Transfer1318, 1319 Description1320, 1321 Deposit sacbenIII1322, 1323 IV, V1324-1339 Dedications1340-1342 Württembergische Justizverwaltung1343 Delivery officials1344-1346 "Acten des königlichen Strafanstalten-Collegiums" II 131347 II 231348-1349 Personal files from Hohenzollern and Alsace-Lorraine of taken over members of the judiciary1350-1372

History of the authorities: The institution of the public prosecutor developed in Baden according to the French model since 1831 and was fully developed until 1845. The main task of the public prosecutor's offices was to investigate punishable acts according to the principle of legality, to bring charges if necessary and to make the evidence available to the court. In addition, they initially also had tasks in the field of voluntary (guardianship matters) and contentious jurisdiction (inheritance and incapacitation matters). As a consequence of the Reichsjustizgesetze of 1879, however, they lost their tasks in the area of voluntary jurisdiction. As a rule, the public prosecutor's offices at the district courts also performed the duties of the district attorneys at the district courts. The Freiburg public prosecutor's office had had a branch in Lörrach since 1919; it was closed in 1931, but reestablished three years later in 1934. Inventory history: The newly formed inventory A 40/1 - Public Prosecutor's Office Freiburg consists of various inventories and parts. The documents of the Freiburg public prosecutor's office previously held under the signatures A 40/1, A 40/2, A 40/3 and A 40/4 were brought together by way of systematic stocktaking by the higher authorities of the judiciary. In addition, in the more recent deliveries of the public prosecutor's offices in Freiburg and Lörrach, the documents that had been created before 1945 were determined and also assigned to the existing holdings. The allocation criterion was the file number assigned by the public prosecutor's office. Thus extensive documents from the holdings F 176/1, F 176/3, F 176/6, F 176/13, F 176/14, F 176/19 as well as F 177/1 and F 177/2 came into the present holdings. He now unites all documents of the Freiburg Public Prosecutor's Office and his Lörrach branch that were created before 1945 and that reached the Freiburg Public Archives. In addition, it also contains documents that were created in the course of the prosecutor's activity as senior prosecutor at the Special Court of Freiburg and that were partly included in the above-mentioned deliveries, partly from the splinter inventories A 47/2 and A 47/3 were attached to the present inventory. according to the year of the investigation,2. according to the place of residence of the suspect,3. according to the alphabet of namesCollecting files: thematic and chronologicalPublic Prosecutor at the Special Court Freiburg:1. according to the year of the investigation,2. according to the place of residence of the suspect,3. according to the alphabet of namesIn addition to the capital crimes (above all murder, arson, fraud, etc.), the investigation files contain numerous political investigation proceedings. The Lörrach riots in connection with the murder of Walter Rathenau are to be mentioned separately, as are the documents on the early history of the NSDAP in the Freiburg area and the numerous political offences in the Third Reich. 770 order numbers in 10.2 m have now been added to the collection. The overall index refers to the order number, concordances between the former Freiburg signature and the now valid order number facilitate the retrieval of the documents already frequently cited in scientific and local historical literature. Freiburg in May 2005 Kurt Hochstuhl