Fonds Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe, 456 F 126 - Artillery depots in Karlsruhe, Lahr, Rastatt and the Imperial Artillery Depot and Ordnance Office in Ulm

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Contents and evaluation<br /><br />These are the files of the Karlsruhe, Lahr and Rastatt artillery depots, the Ulm Imperial Artillery Depot and the Ulm Ordnance Office.<br />The Prussian Ordnance Office, established in 1898, had the task of bringing together the various weapons, material procurement and maintenance institutions in an organizational manner. It was responsible for the 4 artillery depot inspectorates, also established in 1898. These inspected the artillery depots located in the areas of the individual general commands. The depots stored and managed the equipment and weapons in the event of mobilization. In the event of war, they managed this equipment. In 1920, the artillery depots were reorganized into so-called armouries.<br />In terms of content, the collection mainly consists of the records of the general internal administration of these institutions, their tasks and the guarantee of permanent operational readiness. Particularly noteworthy are the file groups on personnel matters, management regulations, construction matters, mobilization, building management, industrial accidents, the East Asian Expeditionary Corps, ammunition, the organization of the Ulm Armoury and military orders.<br /><br />Formation history: The Prussian Field Armoury, established in 1898, had the task of bringing together the various weapons, material procurement and maintenance institutions in organizational terms. It was responsible for the 4 artillery depot inspectorates, also established in 1898. These inspected the artillery depots located in the areas of the individual general commands. The depots stored and managed the equipment and weapons in the event of mobilization. In the event of war, they managed this equipment. They also manufactured artillery ammunition and repaired infantry weapons. Infantry weapons returning from the field were sorted and repaired at the weapons collection points. In 1920, the artillery depots were converted into armories. After the maintenance of Ulm Fortress was transferred to the German Reich on January 1, 1872, the fortress conditions were reorganized at the same time. The fortress authorities included the imperial artillery depot. Prussian, Württemberg and Bavarian formations were stationed in the fortress. In addition to the imperial artillery depot, there was also the Württemberg artillery depot in Ulm, whose holdings are preserved in the Stuttgart Main State Archives. As it was a Prussian formation, the holdings of the Ulm Imperial Artillery Depot were attached to the Heilbronn branch of the Reich Archives.<br /><br />History of the holdings: From January 1920, work began on setting up an archive for the XIV Army Corps, in which the archives of the processing offices were brought together. In the fall of 1920, the corps archive moved to the infantry barracks in Heilbronn. From January 1921, the Corps Archive became part of the Reich Ministry of the Interior under the name of File Administration XIV, before it was incorporated into the Reich Archive in Potsdam as the Heilbronn Archive Branch on April 1, 1921. As a result of the merger of the Reich Archives branches in Heilbronn and Stuttgart, the holdings were transferred to Stuttgart in 1924. The Württemberg Archive Directorate, which took over the administration of the holdings of the Stuttgart Army Archive after the end of the Second World War, handed over the XIV Army Corps records to the General State Archive in Karlsruhe between 1947 and 1949. A very detailed history of the holdings is contained in the foreword of the Deputy General Command of the XIV Army Corps (fonds 456 F 8). The fonds comprise 166 fascicles with a volume of 4.80 linear meters.<br /><br />Literature references: Die Badener im Weltkrieg 1914/18, edited by Wilhelm Müller-Loebnitz, Karlsruhe 1935. Deutsche Militärgeschichte in sechs Bänden 1648-1939, published by Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt Freiburg, Munich 1983. Fenske, Hans: Die Verwaltung im Ersten Weltkrieg, in: Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte, vol. 3, Stuttgart 1984, pp. 866-908. Fischer, Joachim: Zehn Jahre Militärarchiv des Hauptstaatsarchivs Stuttgart, in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 37 (1978), pp. 362-368. Jäger, Harald: Das militärische Archivgut in der Bundesrepublik für die Zeit von 1871 bis 1919, in: Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen 1968/2, pp. 135-138. Übersicht über die Bestände des Hauptstaatsarchivs Stuttgart, edited by Joachim Fischer (Veröffentlichung der Staatlichen Archivverwaltung Baden-Württemberg, vol. 31), Stuttgart 1983.

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