Record Group - 02.03.08 Military

The archives of military provenance play a particularly important role in the extensive tradition of the Dresden State Archives. The holdings of the Saxon military administration and the Saxon army comprise about 2,500 linear metres of files from the period from the middle of the 16th to the middle of the 20th century. Besides the Bavarian Main State Archives in Munich and the Main State Archives in Stuttgart, the Dresden Main State Archives are the third regional archives to hold military records. The holdings have a complex history, including war losses.<br/><br/> Since 1838, all older military records from the 17th and 18th centuries have been compiled in the Dresden Main State Archives. An exception were the files of the Secret War Office from 1736 to 1814, which were transferred to the Saxon War Archive, opened in 1897, as were the archival files of the War Ministry after 1830, the War Administration Chamber and the formations of the Saxon army. The Saxon military files from seven storage sites, which were no longer transferred to the Main State Archives after 1840, were transferred to this facility. This formation of official archives in the military sphere led to a fragmentation of the Saxon military holdings, as archival material of the same provenance could be found both in the Main State Archives and in the War Archives.<br/><br/>In the course of the dissolution and liquidation of the Saxon army as part of the Imperial Army and the transfer of remaining parts to the Reichswehr, new arrangements had to be made in 1919 with regard to military archives. With the formation of the Reichsarchiv Potsdam on 01.10.1919, a Reichsarchiv branch was established in Dresden (next to Munich, Spandau and Stuttgart) on 01.04.1920. This Reichsarchiv branch office in Dresden was responsible for the Saxon military records from 1867 to 1918. At the same time, the older records were handed over in their entirety to the Hauptstaatsarchiv. By October 1925, the Main State Archives had received a total of about 4,500 Locate military files (about 1,100 linear metres of files). These levies were reversed in 1937 as part of the reorganisation of military archives in the Third Reich. At the same time, the regular personnel rolls of the Saxon army from 1868 and the holdings of the higher command authorities (army corps and divisions) with the military maps and plans were handed over to the Army Archives Potsdam. These holdings were largely destroyed in Potsdam in April 1945. The files remaining in the Dresden branch of the army archives also suffered losses in the spring of 1945. In the years 1945 to 1948 military files were transferred from Potsdam as well as from Dresden to Leningrad in the Peter-Pauls-Fortress by the archive commandos of the Red Army. In 1955, this archive material was transferred to the later military archive of the GDR in Potsdam, where the files were centrally stored and made accessible.<br/> <br/>The first time, with the German reunification, all records of the Saxon military authorities and army formations were collected until 1921 in today's Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden. On 14.06.1991 the Federal Archives, Military Archives Department, as successor of the military archives of the GDR, handed over the Saxon military holdings in the amount of about 87,000 file units from the period 1831 to 1921. <br/><br/>The traditional file holdings of the Saxon military authorities and army formations document more than 400 years of Saxon military history from 1632 to 1921 and at the same time form an important source basis for German military historiography as a whole. Their importance is all the greater when the archives of military provenance in Prussia were almost completely destroyed in the Allied air raid on Potsdam on 14 April 1945.<br/><br/>Content:<br/>The main focus of the tradition of the former Saxon War Archive is on the holdings of 11237 Geheimes Kriegsratskollegium as the oldest military administration authority, 11241 Musterungslisten and 11242 Monats- (Food-) Lists with family and social history information about all military personnel of the Saxon military units patterned up to 1867, 11248 Sächsisches Kriegsministerium as well as the holdings of the associations and military units of the Saxon army up to 1921. Numerous military maps and plans document all campaigns and wars up to 1918 in which Saxon troops were involved. Photos and drawings show the development of military technology. <br/><br/>For the period of the First World War 1914 / 1918, reference is to be made to the holdings of 11250 Saxon military representatives in Berlin, 11251 Ministry of Military Affairs, and 11252 Heeresabwicklungsamt Sachsen. The military representative mediated business between the Saxon and Prussian war ministers. The fighting actions of the Saxon army during the World War are documented in particular by the holdings of 11355 Army High Command of the 3rd Army, 11347 General Command of the XIIth Army and 11347 General Command of the 3rd Army. Army Corps, 11351 General Command of the XIXth Army Corps, 11356 General Command of the XIIth Army Corps, 11351 General Command of the XIIth Army Corps. Reserve Corps and 11358 General Command of the XXVII Reserve Corps. The 11372 Military History Collection contains the war diaries of King Friedrich August III of Saxony, which contain extensive photos of his front visits. The problems of the home front and questions of the war economy are reflected in the holdings of 11348 Deputy General Command of the XII century. Armeekorps, 11349 Kriegsamtstelle Dresden, 11352 Stellvertretendes Generalkommando des XIX. Armeekorps and 11353 Kriegsamtstelle Leipzig.<br/><br/>The military holdings of the Reichswehr, Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS including the Saxon military formations for the period from 1921 to 1945 are kept by the Bundesarchiv - Militärarchiv in Freiburg.

Saxon State Archives (Archivtektonik) >> Kingdom and Free State of Saxony 1831 - 1945 >> Specialist authorities and subordinate bodies

Es gilt die Sächsische Archivbenutzungsverordnung (SächsGVBl. Jg.2003, Bl.-Nr. 4 S. 79)

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