Fonds Sächsisches Staatsarchiv, 11248 - 11248 Saxon War Ministry

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History: Within the framework of the state reform of 1831, the War Ministry was founded on 07.11.1831 as one of six ministries. It united in itself the tasks of the War Administration Chamber and the Secret War Office, including the military justice authorities previously subordinated to them, as well as the appeal authority in all military and command matters. When it was set up, the Ministry was divided into the departments of Command Affairs and Legal Affairs and the General Directorate. In later years, especially 1848 / 1849 and after 1893, several structural changes took place, which did not change the basic tasks. The Saxon War Ministry existed until 14.11.1918. 1867 and 1871, respectively, military sovereignty was transferred to the North German Federation and the German Reich, respectively, but the War Ministry remained in existence as the central state authority with a mediating function between the Reich Administration and the State Administration.<br /><br />>For further information, see 2.3.8 Military <br /><br />Content: Organization, Formations, Budgets.- Campaigns, mobilizations and executions - medical services - military tribunals - matters of honour - military supplements and dismissals - Administrative affairs - Clothing, armament, orders - Accommodations - Building.cases - Fortifications - Defence.installations - Training.and.exercises - Federal.Affairs.- Ministry.of.War.as.the.upper.recruiting.authority - Personnel.files.- Building of the new garrison hospital in Dresden - Neustadt (1837 - 1839).<br /><br /> Detailed introduction: Introduction<br />History of authorities and competence<br />In the context of the state reform the war ministry was founded on 07.11.1831 as one of six ministries. It united in itself the tasks of the Privy College of War Councillors and the War Administration Chamber, including the military judicial authorities which had been subordinate to them until then, as well as the appeal authority in all military and command matters. In later years, especially 1848/49 and after 1893, there were several structural changes, which did not change the basic tasks. In the period from 01.07.1849 to 01.04.1867 the War Ministry also acted as the supreme command authority. In 1867 and 1871 military sovereignty was transferred to the North German Federation and the German Reich respectively, but the War Ministry remained as the central state authority with the task of mediating between the Reich administration and the state administration. The Saxon War Ministry existed until 14.11.1918.<br /><br />The War Ministry was divided into the Departments for Command Affairs and for Legal Affairs as well as the General Directorate.<br /><br />>In the forties of the 19th century, the Department for Command Affairs was given the designation I. Section A. It kept this designation until its renaming in general army department on 01.03.1893. It remained however further I. department in the war ministry. In 1849 the I. department B was established, to whose tasks the technical affairs belonged. This department received on 01.03.1893 the designation weapons department and became IV. Department. Already on 01.10.1893 the dissolution of the arms department took place. Its tasks were taken over by the General Army Department.<br /><br />The Department for Legal Affairs was called the Second Department in 1849, the Legal Administrative Department. This division was divided into divisions II A - Judicial Affairs Division and II B - Legal and Administrative Affairs Division. On 01.03.1893 the department II A became the V. department as judicial department. At the same time, Division II B was given the name of Disability Division and became Division III. As early as 1894, Divisions III and V were united and designated as Division III - Justice and Supply Division.<br /><br />The General Directorate became Division III (Directorate General Affairs) in 1886. This department received on 01.03.1893 the designation military economy department and became II. Department. In 1899 it was renamed the Army Administrative Department. In 1893 the Department IV for Personal Affairs, the Department V as the Medical Department and the War Archive, which had been subordinated to the General Staff in 1904, were established. They were followed in 1894 by the central registry and administration of printed documents, as well as the position of legal counsel created in 1900 in Division III.<br /><br />With the establishment of a central department on 25 April 1918, the War Ministry received the following final structure:<br /><br />Abt. Z - Central Division<br />Department I - General Armed Forces Division<br />Department II - Army Administration Division<br />Department III - Justice and Supply Division<br />Department IV - Personal Affairs Division<br />Department V - Medical Division<br />Department VI - Weapons and Industry Division<br />Department III - Justice and Supply Division<br />Department IV - Personal Affairs Division<br />Department V - Medical Division<br />Department VI - Weapons and Industry Division<br />Department I - General Armed Forces Division<br />Department II - Armed Forces Administration Division<br />Department III - Justice and Supply Division<br />Department IV - Personal Affairs Division<br />Department V - Medical Division<br />Department VI - Weapons and Industry Division<br />Department VII - Supply Division<br />Department VIII - Deployment Division<br />Department IX - Inspection of Security Forces<br />N.B. - Bureau of Records<br />P.Z. - Press Office<br />R.I. - Remonte Inspector<br />J. - Legal Adviser<br />Headquarters for Homeland Service, Dept. Saxony (only affiliated)<br /><br />The competence of Division I during the First World War extended to mobilization, the formation of war formations, troop training, applications for deferment from the front, promotions, and marriage permits. Department II had to provide clothing, food and equipment including reassembly. In addition there was the accommodation of prisoners of war and the war grave care. Military justice was in Division III, as were pension matters and disability care. It also housed the Press Agency, since August 1914 the Press Centre, which as the central office was responsible for providing information and military news to the press. This post was directly under the jurisdiction of the War Ministry. Division IV was responsible for officer appraisals, promotions and award ceremonies. Medical officers, military hospitals, drug supply and nursing were part of the remit of Division V. With the beginning of the First World War, the Arms and Industry Division was formed as Division VI, divided into Sections A, Arms and Ammunition, B, Pioneer and Transportation, C, Factory and D, War Raw Materials and Industrial. Section D was also responsible for mediation between the War Raw Materials Department of the Prussian War Ministry and the War Raw Materials Departments of the Prussian War Ministry. Before the establishment of the Supply Department (VII) on 30 October 1916, its business was carried out by Section B of the Justice Department. During the first days of the war, the office of records was set up as an independent department. The Office of Evidence was responsible for the publication of the loss lists and for providing information on the whereabouts of the Saxon military personnel. After the November Revolution of 1918 and the associated dissolution of the Imperial-German army and the Saxon army, the War Ministry was transformed into the Ministry of Military Affairs. Since the entire army administration was transferred to the Reich, the Saxon army administration also lost its independence. The Ministry for Military Affairs was formed on 15.11.1918 and dissolved on 04.05.1920.<br /><br />The transfer of troops and military authorities on the territory of Saxony to the Reichswehr and the dissolution of troop units and military authorities took place through settlement agencies. In September 1919 the Army Processing Office Saxony was established, which had to carry out this transition in Saxony. While the organisational tasks remained with the settlement office after 1920, the operational functions were transferred to the military district command IV (Dresden) in 1920. The Army Processing Office Saxony was dissolved on 31.03.1921.<br /><br /><br />Saxon War Minister<br />1831-1839 Johann Adolf von Zezschwitz<br />1843-1846 Gustav von Nostitz-Wallwitz<br />1847-1848 Karl Friedrich Gustav von Oppel<br />1848-1849 Albrecht Ernst Stellanus von Holtzendorff<br />1849 Karl Friedrich August von Buttlar<br />1849-1866 Bernhard von Rabenhorst<br />1866-1891 Alfred von Fabrice<br />1891-1902 Paul von der Planitz<br />1902-1914 Max Klemens Lothar von Hausen<br />1914-1916 Adolph von Carlowitz (three times short term, in between Viktor von Wilsdorf)<br />1916-1918 Viktor von Wilsdorf<br />1918-1919 Hermann Fleißner<br />1919 Gustav Neuring<br />1919 Bruno Kirchhof<br /><br />Environmental history and records<br />The formation of archives in the military sector led to a fragmentation of the Saxon military holdings, because archival material of the same provenance sites was to be found both in the main state archives and in the war archives. It was not until German reunification that all the records of the Saxon military authorities and army formations up to 1921 were brought together in today's Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden.<br /><br />The present holdings of 11248 Saxon War Ministry also have a complex history of tradition. As early as 1960, find books (3 volumes, of which 1 volume was personal files) on the war ministry files kept there were compiled in the former Dresden Regional Archives. Around 1964, the former military archive of the GDR in Potsdam also opened up extensive files of the war ministry until they were ready to be found (3 vols.).<br /><br />This is not a re-drawing, rather it unites the drawings made in Dresden and Potsdam on the basis of the retro-conversion carried out in 2008. It also contains a supplementary list completed in 2010, including lists of losses from the First World War. As part of the overall packaging process, the inventory was re-signed in 2004. A concordance to the old signatures can be found at the end of the find book.<br /><br /><br />Literatur<br />Gebhardt, Peter v., Aus der Tätigkeit des Königlich Sächsischen Kriegsministeriums während der Weltkrieges, in: Hottenroth, Johann Edmund (ed.), Sachsen in großer Zeit. Commonly understood Saxon war history and patriotic commemorative work of the World War in words and pictures. According to official sources Vol. 3, Leipzig 1923, pp. 117-1140.<br /><br />Königlich Sächsisches Militär-Verordnungsblatt, edited by the Saxon War Ministry, <br />Jg. 1. 1892 - Jg. 29. 1920.<br /><br />Meisner, Heinrich Otto, The War Minister 1814-1914. A contribution to military constitutional history, Berlin 1940.<br /><br />Mertens, Peter, Civil-military cooperation during the First World War. The

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