Fonds Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, J 50/1.39 - 1.39 Family papers of Dr. Albert von Pfister, (6 May 1839-19 October 1907), Major General and Member of the Board of the Württembergischer Geschichts- und Altertumsverein (Württemberg History and Antiquity Association)

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Lore <br /><br />Income of Mrs. Renate Fischer, Parkstraße 26, 75233 Tiefenbronn. Further documents, especially photos, were submitted by Dr. Volker Grub on 19.3.2018.<br /><br />Content and evaluation<br /><br />The documents originate from the possession of Dr. Alfred von Pfister and his wife. The two volumes mainly contain greeting cards, invitations to private celebrations, to events of associations, social and other events, newspaper clippings of personalities, partly also correspondence.<br />Alfred Pfister, who came from a Swabian parsonage and whose grandfather, Johann Christian Pfister, was a historian, was born in the Franconian cathedral near Creglingen, but grew up in Hohenacker near Waiblingen. Originally he was also to become a pastor, but after the seminar in Blaubeuern his military inclination prevailed and he went to the war school in Ludwigsburg in 1857. He had a successful military career and in 1890 was appointed commander of infantry regiment no. 124. In the year 1893 he took his military farewell in the rank of a major general. Now he could devote himself to his passion for history. As early as 1862, he had taken a year off to study history at the University of Tübingen. Already during his active time as a soldier he wrote smaller works on military history and several biographies of historical personalities. During his retirement he wrote several volumes about the Napoleonic Wars 1812-15, the history of the 19th century, the poet Heinrich Hansjakob, the American Revolution 1775-1783 and the history of America and the influence of German migrants on its development. He also wrote two books with autobiographical references and a broad history of the time of Duke Karl Eugen von Württemberg. He was a member of many associations in addition to his board activities in the Württemberg Historical and Antiquities Association, the Goethe Association, the Swabian Schiller Association and others. He and his wife spent the rest of their lives in the house they had built in Buoch near Waiblingen. He died of a stroke on 19 October 1907. His wife continued the collection until the time of World War I.<br />The two albums contain interesting documents on the social life of a middle-class family at the beginning of the 20th century in Stuttgart. The collection comprises two albums and a volume of invoices from a brewery in Ludwigsburg. The books that were handed in were integrated into the library holdings of the Hauptstaatsarchiv.<br />Stuttgart, December 2016, March 2018<br />Dr. Peter Bohl

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