Preliminary remark on the retroconversion of the finding aids: At the time of the retroconversion two typewritten repertories were available:1) The files handed down by the Department for General Army Affairs of the Württemberg War Ministry were recorded in 1944 by Army Archives Director Dr. Hermann Pantlen. The title recordings of the finding aid book preserved from the Heeresarchiv Stuttgart have been transferred unchanged into EDP during the retroconversion. 2) The business diaries in inventory M 1/4 were recorded in 1975 by Dr. Joachim Fischer and Wilhelm Westenfelder. The foreword and foreword of the two forewords are reproduced below.Stuttgart, April 2008Dr. Wolfgang Mährle 1. The Department for General Army Affairs - Files (foreword to the foreword to the foreword 1944): The Department for General Army and Personal Affairs (A) is from the Military Department of Württ. The latter formed the most important department of the Württ. War Ministry from 29 September 1871 (Military Handbook for the Kingdom of Württemberg, Stuttgart 1913, page 46). On 12 September 1906 the abbreviated designation (A) came into force. Heads of department of the department were from 1871: 1871Kgl. Preuß. Major von Lattre, 1873 Lieutenant Colonel 01.08.1873 - 23.03.1874 General Major von Gleich24.03.1874 - 18.09.1874 General Major von Wundt19.09.1874 - 14.06.1883 Lieutenant Colonel von Steinheil, from 22.09.76 Colonel 15.06.1883 - 29.12.1886 Colonel von Finckh04.01.1887 - 08.10.1889 Colonel von Breyer09.10.1889 - 24.03.1893Mayor von Bilfinger, from 01.04.90 Lieutenant Colonel 03.02.93 Colonel25.02.1893 - 27.01.1895Oberst von Schnürlen02.02.1895 - 21.03.1897Lieutenant Colonel von Freudenberg,ab 18.04.96 Colonel22.03.1897 - 25.11.1898Colonel von Münzenmaier26.11.1898 - 03.07.1900Colonel von Marchtaler04.07.1900 - 24.04.1904Lieutenant Colonel Freiherr von Mittnacht,from 27.01.1903 Colonel25.04.1904 - 16.03.1905Colonel von Schaefer17.03.1905 - 20.04.1911Lieutenant Colonel von Graevenitz,from 11.09.07 Colonel21.04.1911 - 15.12.1914 Lieutenant Colonel von Schroeder,from 25.02.12 Colonel 19.08.14 General Mayor16.12.1914 - 25.07.1917 Colonel von Magirus,from 25.02.15 General Major26.07.1917 - 08.11.1918Lieutenant Colonel von Haldenwang (Richard) or 01.04.1919from 23.03.18 Colonel 2. History and record keeping of the holdings: The files with the files of the former Württ. War Ministry came directly from Olgastraße 13 to the former Reichsarchiv branch in Stuttgart. At the same time, the same repertory of authorities came with them (annual, self-contained registers of persons and subjects with reference to the journal books). The same are useful when it is a matter of finding a specific person or when the subject of a letter is sought. The registers and journals, however, did not make the establishment of an archive directory superfluous. The same was set up by the then Assistant, now Reg. Inspector Beiermeister, in the months of August, September 1931 - that is, at the end of the orderly work. Since the takeover of the Reichsarchiv branch, I have been striving to expand the archive directory into an archive repertory. The execution of this work became possible when I returned in December 1941 from a 1 1/2 year command as the Commissioner of the Chief of Army Archives for Metz and Strasbourg. The work became important in the course of 1942 because I was circumventing it with the intention to decentralize the holdings of the former Württ. War Ministry in view of the aggravating air situation. The files were transported to Neuenstein in October 1943, where they were stored for safekeeping at all times. During a detailed inspection, certain gaps in the files were discovered. Attempts to close them were made both by the Oberarchivrat von Haldenwang, the brother of the last head of department, and by myself, without the same having been successful. The index of persons and objects was compiled by the then Heeresarchivrat Knoch in the first half of 1943 and personally revised by me in February 1944 to facilitate its insertion into the General Index of the Army Archives.No organisational overviews or business divisions were added to the repertory, since none could be taken from the volumes of files and since a volume "Geschäftsenteilung des Württ. Stuttgart, 28 February 1944Dr. PantlenHeeresarchivdirektor 1. The Department for General Army Matters - Business Diaries (preliminary remark on the Findbuc: In the repertory of the Army Archives Stuttgart for the holdings M 1/4 (War Ministry - Department A) completed in 1944, the business diaries of Department A are not recorded. The necessary order and distortion of the 287 volumes (11.5 linear metres), to which the journals of the Corps veterinarian XIII A.K. were assigned, was thus not possible. (cf. volumes 269 and 270), was carried out in 1972 by Westenfelder, a member of the contract staff, under the supervision of Oberstaatsarchivrat Dr. FischerStuttgart, in February 1975Fischer-Oberstaatsarchivrat
