Preliminary remark 1976: Already in 1807 King Friedrich had the intention to establish a Württemberg legation in Darmstadt due to the close relationship to the Grand Duchy of Hesse established by the Confederation of the Rhine and in an effort to deepen the friendly relations of the sovereigns. However, the position was not filled until 1818, with general justification. From 1825 it remained vacant until 1852, at the suggestion of the Grand Duke, envoys were exchanged again. Even after the foundation of the Reich in 1871, official diplomatic relations were maintained. The Württemberg representatives at the Darmstadt court were generally certified as envoys at the Bundestag in Frankfurt and at the Kurhessischer court in Kassel, with headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, until 1866, as envoys in Baden, with headquarters in Karlsruhe, from 1867 to 1872, and as envoys in Baden and Bavaria, with headquarters in Munich, from 1873. Until 1866, in the absence of the envoy, the Württemberg representative of the association at the Hessian customs office in Darmstadt was regarded as the official representative of his state.The representatives of Württemberg were:Karl August Freiherr von Wangenheim, Privy Council, Minister of State, extraordinary envoy and authorized minister, November 1818 - November 1823 Freiherr von Blomberg, Privy Legation Council, resident of the Free City of Frankfurt, chargé d'affaires, December 1820, December 1823 - June 1825 by Reinhard, Council of State, extraordinary envoy and authorized minister, November 1852 - November 1865 Freiherr von Linden, Minister of State, extraordinary envoy and authorized minister, December 1865 - September 1866 Oskar Freiherr von Soden, Chamberlain, Legation Councillor, Carrier, January 1867 - October 1868 von Baur-Breitenfeld, Chamberlain, Legation Councillor, Carrier, November 1868 - November 1872 Oskar Freiherr von Soden, Chamberlain, Privy Council, Extraordinary Minister and Plenipotentiary Minister, May 1873 - May 1906 Karl Moser von Filseck, Chamberlain, Privy Legation Council, Extraordinary Minister and Plenipotentiary Minister, June 1906 - 1920.The envoy had mainly formal tasks to fulfill and those of representation, since facts between Württemberg and Hessian authorities were usually conducted directly, not through the envoy. He was usually invited to Darmstadt once or twice a year on the occasion of court festivities. Correspondence, after 1873 between 50 and 70 diary numbers per year, was therefore largely limited to the provision of congratulations, the sending of official printed matter, some enquiries and occasional reporting. When these tasks were almost completely abolished with the end of the monarchy, the activities of the envoy ceased in 1920, and the representation in Hesse was therefore only a secondary function. The small amount of written material was initially incorporated into the registry of the Bundestag legation. Only in 1852 did a separate file under the file number H I (= Hessen I) begin. The tradition of the years 1852 - 1866 arrived in the archive around 1869 with the Bundestag legation about the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and became in the today's stock German Federation under the signature E 65 Verz. 57 Fasz. 414 in custody. The documents from the Karlsruhe period were delivered by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before 1910 with other mixed files and in this association under the signature E 36 Verz. 58 Fasz. 39 No. 86 left. The files that had grown up since 1873 were probably handed over to the archives in 1933 together with the registry of the Embassy in Bavaria and incorporated into the holdings under the signature E 73 Verz. 61 Bü 20b (1873 - 1895), Bü 20c (1896 - 1905) and 20d (1905 - 1920). These parts were removed from their previous context in 1977 - 1979, listed and reorganized as correspondent and fact files according to the scheme used for other legations. This work was supervised by Udo Herkert (54 Bü in 0.1 running m., i.e. the years up to 1866), by Edgar Lersch (32 Bü in 0.05 running m.) and by Udo Herkert (54 Bü in 0.1 running m., i.e. the years up to 1866), the State Archives student Edgar Lersch (32 Bü in 0.05 running m.), The inventory provides an approximate picture of the official activity of the envoy for the years 1852 - 1920 under the aforementioned restrictions. There are narrow limits to the scientific usability, since only the correspondence of the court marshal of Westerweller with the envoy of Soden has a certain weight of its own. The parallel tradition on the Württemberg side is found mainly in the holdings of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The relevant Hessian written material should be kept by the State Archives Darmstadt. 239 Bü in 0.6 m. Stuttgart 1978gez. G. Cordes preliminary remark 1988: The completion of the present finding aid book took place with the help of the data processing on the basis of the program package MIDOSA of the national archive administration Baden-Wuerttemberg in the time from July to September 1988. the title photographs present on index cards were entered without substantial changes over screen into the system. At the same time as the inclusion of the title, the index terms were recorded, with a view to a later general index, broken down into a geographical index, a person index and a subject index. The re-indexing as well as the input was carried out within the framework of the training by the archive inspectors Corinna Pfisterer and Annette Prötzel under the guidance of the undersigned.Stuttgart, October 1988Kurt Hochstuhl

Preliminary remark: After processing the inventory E 130 a, retired government director Karl Elwert began in 1973 with the indexing of the inventory E 130 b (up to Bü. 1069). After his departure at the end of 1975, the undersigned took over this activity, which could not be completed until August 1990 due to several major interruptions. In accordance with the principles set out in the foreword to the finding aid book for fonds E 130 a, fonds E 130 b combines the files filed in the former partial fonds E 130 II and E 130 IV according to the 1928 registration plan. Documents of the former Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which had been transferred to the registry of the Ministry of State after the abolition of the Ministry, were reintegrated into the original context in accordance with the provenance principle. From the extensive series of the yearly formed inputs (approx. 4.4 shelf meters, Az. J 2) the larger part was collected from the year 1920. The remainder, preserved as a representative cross-section, is grouped by subject to facilitate use. In addition, entries can also be found in the respective fact files. Otherwise, cassations were limited to doubles. This collection mainly comprises documents on the period of the Weimar Republic and National Socialism, and to a lesser extent also on the Empire. In view of the responsibilities of the Ministry of State and in view of the fact that the tradition of the specialised ministries, with the exception of the Ministry of the Interior, has largely been destroyed, the documents of the Ministry of State are of particular importance. However, the documents on parties and the series of cabinet minutes from 1932 onwards have not been preserved; even the secret registry has apparently been destroyed. Old file bundles, which were taken over in 1928 into the newly ordered old registry, are identified by a file transfer plan with the new file numbers. The signatures that are now valid are determined by the concordance. The completion of the finding aid book took place with the help of the EDP on the basis of the program package MIDOSA of the national archive administration Baden-Wuerttemberg between summer 1992 and March 1993. The collection of the data records provided in the way of the administrative assistance Mrs. Hildegard Aufderklamm of the national archives Ludwigsburg, the final editorship in the main national archives made Mrs. Gisela Filipitsch and Dr. Roland Müller. The holdings comprise 4 209 archive units in 115 linear metres. Stuttgart, March 1993 Wilfried Braunn Annex 1: Minutes of meetings of the Reichstag Committee for the Reich Budget: 02.10., 04.10., 07.10.1919Bü. 2064 03.10., 08.10.-11.10.14.10.-18.10., 20.10.-25.10., 27.10., 28.10.1919 Bü. 3906 17.12.-18.12.1919 Bü. 3906 30.03.1920Bü. 3907 15.04.-17.04., 19.04.-21.04.1920Bü. 3907 22.04., 28.04.1920Bü. 3646 23.04., 24.04., 26.04.1920Bü. 1967 20.05.1920Bü. 3907 30.06.1920Bü. 3908 01.07., 02.07., 06.07.-10.07., 26.07., 27.07.1920Bü. 3908 27.07.-29.07.1920 Bü. 3909 30.07., 31.07.1920Bü. 1982 04.02., 25.02., 26.02.28.02.1921Bü. 3911 01.03., 03.03., 04.03.1921Bü. 3911 02.03.1921Bü. 1970 28.04.1921Bü. 3385 23.06., 24.06., 27.06.1921Bü. 3912 25.05.1922Bü. 3332 06.07., 12.07.1922Bü. 3332 14.07.1922Bü. 3760 19.10.1922Bü. 1972 6.11.-9.11., 11.11.1922 Bü. 3884 01.12.1922Bü. 3916 02.02.1925Bü. 3471 19.06., 25.06.1925Bü. 3926 22.06.1925Bü. 2007 22.06. - 24.06.1925 Bü. 2075 03.07., 04.07., 07.07.1925Bü. 3926 08.07.1925Bü. 2075 09.11. - 11.11., 25.11.1925 Bü. 1976 26.11., 27.11.1925Bü. 3926 17.12., 18.12.1925Bü. 2972 11.12.1925Bü. 3215 21.01., 22.01.1926Bü. 3926 03.02.1926Bü. 3566 15.02.1926Bü. 2629 20.02., 25.02.1926Bü. 3053 26.03.1926Bü. 2992 27.04., 28.04.1926Bü. 2714 07.05.1926Bü. 3053 18.05., 19.05.1926Bü. 3927 12.06.1926Bü. 3042 23.06.1926Bü. 3642 24.06., 25.06.3053 01.07.1926Bü. 2209 09.09.1926Bü. 3132 06.11.1926Bü. 3216 30.03.1927Bü. 1977 20.06., 24.06.1927Bü. 1977 21.06.1927Bü. 2007 23.06.1927Bü. 1983 22.09.1927Bü. 1978 Nov, Dec. 1927 Bü. 1979 02.02.1929Bü. 1980 22.02.1929Bü. 3057 20.03.1929Bü. 2076 26.04.1929Bü. 3057 29.04., 30.04.1929Bü. 2202 06.06.1929Bü. 3629 30.10.1929Bü. 3885 11.11. 12.11., 26.11.1929 Bü. 3885 12.12.1929Bü. 3885 24.01., 25.01.1930Bü. 3056 11.07.1930Bü. 2008 14.02., 15.02., 18.02. - 22.02., 24.02. - 27.02.1930 Bü. 2595 18.03.1931Bü. 3041 21.11.1931Bü. 2008 21.01., 22.01.1932Bü. 2008 02.05.1932Bü. 3377 Appendix 2: Minutes of meetings of the Reich Council: 1919Bü. 1900 21.08.1919Bü. 3368 06.11.1919Bü. 2724 1920Bü. 1900 09.01.1920Bü. 2665 10.01.1920Bü. 2724 05.02.1920Bü. 1427 30.03.1920Bü. 3276 21.05.1920Bü. 1919 04.06.1920Bü. 1919 22.06.1920Bü. 1916 03.07.1920Bü. 1919 30.07.1920Bü. 3854 05.08.1920Bü. 2770 05.08.1920Bü. 3853 12.08.1920Bü. 3910 06.10.1920Bü. 1969 06.10, 07.10, 14.10.1920Bü. 3910 21.10.1920Bü. 1840 21.10.1920Bü. 1943 16.11.1920Bü. 2006 27.11.1920Bü. 2606 15.12.1920Bü. 4025 21.12.1920Bu. 3724 22.01.1921Bu. 2148 17.02.1921Bu. 1136 24.02.1921Bu. 3912 03.03.1921Bu. 2947 10.03.1921Bu. 3759 12.03.1921Bu. 3857 22.03.1921Bu. 3024 22.03.1921Bu. 4038 14.04.1921Bu. 1479 21.04.1921Bu. 2733 25.04.1921Bu. 3641 16.06.1921Bu. 3470 23.06.1921Bu. 2000 05.07.1921Bü. 1971 05.07.1921Bü. 3678 18.11.1921Bü. 3913 1922Bü. 1913 02.02.1922Bü. 3185 28.02.1922Bü. 1992 11.04.1922Bü. 3571 27.04.1922Bü. 2736 13.06.1922Bü. 4074 03.07.1922Bü. 1939 06.07.1922Bü. 1959 13.07.1922Bü. 2653 28.09.1922Bü. 4090 23.10.1922Bü. 1837 16.11.1922Bu. 3989 30.11.1922Bu. 3276 18.12.1922Bu. 1973 1923Bu. 1849 11.01.1923Bu. 2616 20.03.1923Bu. 1975 12.04.1923Bu. 4091 26.04.1923Bü. 3318 02.07.1923Bü. 2822 21.07.1923Bü. 4091 28.07.1923Bü. 4087 28.07.1923Bü. 4121 17.08.1923Bü. 3282 18.09.1923Bü. 2737 27.09.1923Bü. 2913 01.10.1923Bü. 3415 11.10.1923Bü. 2913 18.10.1923Bü. 3990 22.10.1923Bü. 3160 08.11.1923Bü. 2238 15.11.1923Bü. 3214 22.11.1923Bü. 2262 22.11.1923Bü. 3214 01.12.1923Bü. 2238 01.12.1923Bü. 2283 18.12.1923Bü. 3403 1924Bü. 1900 07.02.1924Bü. 4067 21.02.1924Bü. 3919 06.03.1924Bü. 1936 08.03.1924Bü. 3642 08.03.1924Bü. 4043 10.03.1924Bü. 3558 13.03.1924Bü. 2012 27.03.1924Bu. 2921 03.04.1924Bu. 3633 12.06.1924Bu. 2242 24.07.1924Bu. 1997 31.07.1924Bu. 2074 21.08.1924Bu. 2589 21.08.1924Bu. 3561 25.08.1924Bü. 2506 13.11.1924Bü. 3178 21.11.1924Bü. 3922 04.12.1924Bü. 2922 18.12.1924Bü. 3416 1925Bü. 1849 1925Bü. 1913 12.02.1925Bu. 2075 19.02.1925Bu. 3368 09.03.1925Bu. 3583 10.03.1925Bu. 1989 10.03.1925Bu. 3990 19.03.1925Bu. 3416 22.04.1925Bu. 3979 22.04.1925Bü. 3991 28.05.1925Bü. 2951 18.06.1925Bü. 4131 25.06.1925Bü. 2018 05.07.1925Bü. 3877 09.07.1925Bü. 3887 15.07.1925Bü. 2201 16.07.1925Bü. 2208 22.07.1925Bü. 3368 30.07.1925Bü. 3416 08.08.1925Bü. 2922 08.08.1925Bü. 3991 13.08.1925Bü. 4132 03.09.1925Bü. 4132 05.09.1925Bü. 2208 21.11., 26.11., 28.11.1925Bü. 2563 03.12.1925Bü. 4029 09.12.1925Bü. 2992 1926Bü. 1849 1926Bü. 1913 16.01.1926Bu. 3215 28.01.1926Bu. 3642 30.01.1926Bu. 3926 04.02.1926Bu. 1644 20.02.1926Bu. 3215 16.02.1926Bu. 3797 03.03.1926Bu. 3979 31.03.1926Bu. 3929 15.04.1926Bu. 3992 22.04.1926Bu. 2263 22.04.1926Bu. 3797 29.04.1926Bu. 3789 06.05.1926Bu. 3497 04.06.1926Bu. 2490 24.06.1926Bü. 3327 01.07.1926Bü. 2209 08.07.1926Bü. 3132 26.07.1926Bü. 4132 12.08.1926Bü. 2423 24.09.1926Bü. 4045 07.10.1926Bü. 1934 28.10.1926Bü. 2861 04.11.1926Bü. 2828 11.11.1926Bü. 1945 18.11.1926Bü. 3230 09.12.1926Bü. 3992 1927Bü. 1849 1927Bü. 1900 05.04.1927Bue. 1940 07.04.1927Bue. 4092 13.04.1927Bue. 2260 05.05.1927Bue. 2716 19.05.1927Bue. 2935 25.05.1927Bue. 3858 02.06.1927Bue. 4092 07.07.1927Bü. 2277 25.08.1927Bü. 2425 22.09.1927Bü. 1920 29.09.1927Bü. 3219 13.10.1927Bü. 1978 14.10.1927Bü. 3690 27.10.1927Bü. 1108 10.11.1927Bü. 2775 09.12.1927Bü. 4030 15.03.1928Bü. 2430 17.03.1928Bü. 3288 12.07.1928Bü. 2657 13.07.1928Bü. 2280 19.07.1928Bü. 4030 23.11.1928Bu. 4021 1929Bu. 1862 17.01.1929Bu. 3153 05.03.1929Bu. 3945 10.05.1929Bu. 3946 20.06.1929Bu. 4108 02.07.1929Bu. 3259 16.09.1929Bü. 3 234 13.12.1929Bü. 2419 29.12.1929Bü. 3009 1930Bü. 1862 13.03.1930Bü. 2280 13.03.1930Bü. 2475 16.04.1930Bü. 3953 02.05.1930Bü. 3970 14.11.1930Bü. 3957 18.12.1930Bü. 3163 1931Bü. 1862 12.11.1931Bü. 2019 1932Bü. 1862 02.08.1932Bü. 1354

In the State Treaty of 7 December 1849, Prince Karl Anton von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, together with Prince Constantine von Hohenzollern-Hechingen, ceded the Hohenzollern principalities to Prussia. After approval by the Prussian chambers, Hohenzollern was united with Prussia by law of 12 March 1850. Following the incorporation of the two principalities into Prussia, the former administrative authorities were retained for the time being. Thus in the lower instance the upper offices Glatt, Haigerloch, Hechingen, Gammertingen, Trochtelfingen, Sigmaringen, Straßberg, Ostrach and Wald became Prussian authorities. When the Haigerloch Oberamt passed over to Prussia, the towns of Bietenhausen, Bittelbronn, Empfingen, Gruol, Haigerloch, Hart, Heiligenzimmern, Höfendorf, Imnau, Stetten bei Haigerloch, Trillfingen and Weildorf were included in the Oberamt district. By decree of 18 January 1854, the Oberamt Glatt was abolished and incorporated into the Oberamt Haigerloch. Thus the places Betra, Dettensee, Dettingen, Dettlingen, Dießen, Glatt and Fischingen came to the upper office Haigerloch. The Haigerloch upper office, enlarged by the Glatter Orte, did not undergo any further territorial changes during its entire existence (until 1925). By notice published in the Official Journal on 1 September 1854, the implementation of the new district organisation, i.e. the transfer of office and establishment of the new district office, was fixed for 28 September 1854 by the Viebig Commissioner-Governing Council. The files and coffers of the former Oberamt Glatt were to have been transferred to Haigerloch by the handover date. Present at the handing over were: Government Councillor and Commissioner Viebig, the former Chief Officer Stehle, the future Chief Office Executive Appellate Judge Emmele and the former administrator of the Chief Office Glatt and now Chief Office Secretary Kordeuter. From 1 January 1858, both official corporations received a joint official treasury and official cash account, the management of which had been taken over by Kordeuter. The law of 7 October 1925 concerning the simplification of the administration of the Hohenzollernsche Lande brought about the end of the Haigerloch Oberamtsbezirk by merging it with the Hechingen Oberamtsbezirk to form the Hechingen district. Until the end of 1851 the administration of the Oberamts Haigerloch Oberamtmann Harz led the Oberamtsassessor Rehmann as Oberamtsverweser from 1 January 1852 to 17 September 1852. From 17 September 1852 Oberamtmann Stehle in Straßberg was in charge of the provisional administration of the Oberamt. He was followed by Appellations Court Referendarius Emele, initially as Chief Administrator from 28 September 1854 and as Chief Administrator from 4 January 1856 until the end of June 1891. He was replaced by the Government Assessor Sauerland, first as Commissarial Chief Administrator from 1 July 1891, then as Chief Administrator from 1 January 1891. February 1892 to February 2, 1902. On February 20, 1902, Schulz-Hausmann was appointed Assessor of the Government as Commissarial Oberamtmann and on August 1, 1902 Assessor of the Government as Oberamtmann until the end of February 1914. He was succeeded on March 5, 1914 by Assessor Großpietsch as Commissarial Oberamtmann and from August 16, 1914 as Oberamtmann. Since Großpietsch was called up for military service during the World War, the business premises of the Haigerloch Oberamt were moved to Hechingen from November 1916 and the administration of the same was taken over by the Oberamtmann in Hechingen. 2nd order of the inventory The files listed here cover the period from 1850 ¿ 1925 and originate from the delivery of the Oberamt Haigerloch from 1925, the newly listed files I and to a small extent also the newly listed files II. All files are stapled according to the Prussian file stapling. This work had to be done by the Regis trator with the scribe's apprentices and the senior civil servant. Since all General Acts contain both Haigerlocher and Glatter documents, it can be assumed that the file stitching only took place after the incorporation of the Glatter Oberamtsbezirk into Haigerloch. In the case files, everything that could be found in a subject was stapled into a file cover. Many of these files therefore begin with the reign of Haigerloch-Wehrstein or the Murian reign of Glatt in the 18th century and even earlier. A separation of these provenances is not indicated because of the stapling. Instead, numerous references were included in the repertories of the princely Oberämter Haigerloch and Glatt as well as in the repertories Herrschaft Haigerloch-Wehrstein and Murische Herrschaft Glatt to complete them. The references of the Prussian Oberamt Hechingen have no numbers in the repertory. There are no land, pledge or target books in the files, because these were handed over to the newly created district court commissions by order of the Commissarius für die Hohenzollernschen Lande von Villers from 24.12.1851 to 1.1.1852. The district court commission in Hechingen was initially responsible for Haigerloch and Glatt. Although these Amtsbücher of 1850 and 1851 were not continued by the Kreisgerichtskommission in the previous form, they could not be taken to the Oberamt Haigerloch because they contain deletion notes and references to files of the Kreisgerichtskommission. In this way, the voluntary jurisdiction of the local authorities, including the keeping of the land and mortgage books, was removed, and the powers of the Oberamts were limited to the punishment of financial offences or tax defraudations (VO-Blatt of 30.1.1852) according to the previous law of 6.3.1840 (G.S. V, p. 144) and of 27.12.1842 (G.S. VI, p. 260). The systematic structuring of the repertory was carried out according to the existing old signatures and the old registry order was largely restored. A repertory of files begun in 1858, in which all accumulated files up to and including 1915 were recorded, leaves nothing to be seen apart from the 17 main groups, as the files were recorded chronologically one after the other. The present inventory comprises 40 linear metres with 2928 serial numbers. In 1968, he was removed from the newly recorded files I and listed by Government Inspector Kungl. The separation of the Haigerloch files from the newly recorded files II and from the delivery in 1925 of the Haigerloch regional office was carried out by the employee Abbot, who also helped with the packaging. Miss Queck produced fair copies and registers. Sigmaringen, summer 1968 Kungl

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1. on the administrative history of the Württemberg upper offices: 1. the upper offices in their context (constitutional structure, "Staatsverein"): the administrative structure, which was created at the beginning of the 19th century for the double territory of the kingdom of Württemberg compared to the duchy, remained in place with minor changes until 1938, partly even beyond that. During this period, the Land was divided into 63 senior offices plus the Stuttgart City Council (1). The average area of an upper administrative district was around 1822 5.7 square miles = 316 square kilometres, the average number of inhabitants 20,700 (1926 : 41,604), whereby in the course of time a considerable imbalance resulted (the number of inhabitants per upper administrative district varied 1926 between 18,000 and 341,000). The four district governments, which replaced the twelve bailiwicks established in 1806 (2) in 1817, were the intermediate authorities between the individual upper offices and the ministerial level. The Württemberg constitution in force from 1819 to 1919 (3) was based on the municipalities as the "basis of the state association" (4). The higher offices had the task of bringing the administrative matters directly affecting the individual citizens, which the municipalities dealt with largely on their own responsibility, into the state administration. The problem of the greatest possible integration of all those affected by administrative measures arose for the higher offices as well as the problem of a uniform implementation of domestic government measures. The upper offices were also the constituencies for the elections to the Chamber of Deputies (5). 2. functionariesThe Ministry of the Interior delegated the responsibility for the higher office administrations to one senior official each, since the 1830s as a rule a lawyer with a university degree. As a civil servant, he was responsible for all administrative matters which were not the responsibility of the judicial (6) or fiscal (7) authorities, he was in charge of the police and (in the case of infringements) the penal authorities and he supervised the local authorities. As administrative civil servants, he was subordinate to a senior secretary and (since the second half of the 19th century) a bailiff as deputy. In addition to this administration, there was the official assembly as a body with coordination and integration functions. In it the individual municipalities of an Oberamtsbezirk were combined as an official body. The number of deputies each municipality provided depended on its share of the public burdens to be borne jointly, the "official damage". As an upper limit, a municipality was allowed to provide a maximum of one third (8) of the members of the official assembly, while small municipalities sent a joint representative. The Official Assembly met twice a year. In order to maintain its presence, it elects from among its members an executive committee, an actuary (who was at the same time an assistant to the Oberamts auditor) and appointed the Oberamtspfleger (9) as well as the other officials of the administrative body (10) as responsible for cash and accounting.Thus, according to constitutionalist theory, the responsibility for continuous, active administrative work lay with government officials, while financial regulation and control functions were carried out by a body that brought together those affected by administrative measures and those who financed them. Approaches that went beyond a representative system based purely on control and finance were not evident in the administrative sector, but rather in the area of social tasks and services, where officials of the official corporation were active. 3. limits of the uniform district organisation. It was not possible from the outset for all administrative functions to have an organisation in which (as in the case of the internal and judicial administrations) (11) the administrative districts corresponded to the regional districts. In the case of the deanery offices of the two large churches, it is clear from the regional distribution of the denomination that a district administration was not established for each upper office; nevertheless, as far as practicable, deanery and upper office boundaries were often identical. Where there were practical reasons to do so, the forestry, camera, customs and building inspectorates also had jurisdictional districts which deviated from the upper administrative districts. The decisive disruptive factor for a uniform administrative organisation at district level, the patrimonial jurisdiction of the class lord restored after 1819 by the Federal Act, was eliminated in 1849. The same applies to the special rights of independent royal and noble estates which before 1849 had not been incorporated into the municipal associations and thus not into the district administration. 4. individual important changes in the supreme official organisation1842: Due to excessive distances from the head office or other economic and traffic conditions, individual municipalities are reassigned in 31 head offices (Reg.Bl. 1842, p. 386 - 389).1850 ff: The regionally different development of the country leads to a considerable imbalance between individual districts in the course of time despite the original balance. Changes to individual divisions (e.g. dissolution of the Cannstatt regional office in 1923; dissolution of the Weinsberg regional office in 1926) do not eliminate these differences.1906: The Amtsversammlungs-Ausschuss is given the name Bezirksrat (district council) and is also consulted on the business of state administration. The Official Assembly may set up committees to monitor individual institutions and facilities of the official body. The actuary shall be replaced by a secretary elected for 3 years by the Assembly. 1933: Re-establishment of an official corporation, which is limited to an advisory function and is given the name Kreisverband. The district administrator is appointed the "leader" of the district administration. The terms Kreis (for Oberamt), Kreistag (for Amtsversammlung) and Kreisrat (for Bezirksrat) are introduced. The district council consists of the district administrator as chairman, the district leader of the NSDAP and five other members appointed by the district administrator in agreement with the district leader (Reg. Bl. 1938, pp. 51 - 72, 82, 139, 189).1938: 27 district associations are dissolved and affiliated to the remaining 34 (for the regulations and distribution of the individual municipalities see Reg. Bl. 1938, pp. 155 - 162). The city management district of Stuttgart will continue to exist as a city district. The cities of Ulm and Heilbronn (with Neckargartach and Sontheim) become town districts. Mögle-Hofacker 2. The history of the Backnang upper office: Up to the reorganization of the administration at the beginning of the 19th century, the city of Mögle-Hofacker was a part of the city. At the end of the 19th century, the area of the Backnang upper office consisted of the following parts (12): town and office Backnang (town, Reichenberger office, Ebersberger office), Murrhardt monastery office, individual parts from old Württemberg offices (Marbach office, Weinsberger office - Böhringsweiler lower office), Löwensteinsiche and storm feather possessions (Württemberg fiefdom) as well as possessions of the Schöntal monastery.From 1806 the upper office Backnang was first assigned to the district Heilbronn, belonged after the division of the dukedom into bailiwicks in 1810 to the bailiwick at the lower Necker and was subordinate since 1817 to the district government of the Neckar circle. The composition of the municipalities of the Oberamtbezirk listed below essentially lasted until the National Socialist administrative reform of 1938. As a result of the new district division decreed on 1 October 1938, the Backnang district became the legal successor of the Backnang district (Oberamt). With the exception of Neufürstenhütte, the former communities remained in the Backnang district. Further communities were assigned to him from the following (now dissolved) districts or upper offices: District Gaildorf: Gaildorf, Altersberg, Eutendorf, Fichtenberg, Frickenhofen, Gschwendt, Hausen an der Roth, Laufen am Kocher, Oberrot, Ottendorf, Sulzbach am Kocher and Unterrot.District (Oberamt) Marbach: Affalterbach, Allmersbach am Weinberg, Burgstall, Erbstetten, Kirchberg an der Murr, Kleinaspach, Nassach, Rielingshausen, and Weiler zum Stein.district (Oberamt) Welzheim: Kirchenkirnberg.on January 1, 1973 the district Backnang was finally dissolved. The legal successor became the Rems-Murr-Kreis. 3. statistical data and list of municipalities: Area : 283.44 sqkminhabitants: 31,944municipalities: 30 (2 towns, 28 municipalities)markings: 119places: 1991. Backnang with Mittelschöntal, Oberschöntal, Rötleshof, Sachsenweiler, Staigacker, Stiftsgrundhof, Ungeheuerhof and Unterschöntal2. Allmersbach3. Althütte with Kallenberg, Lutzenberg, Schöllhütte and Voggenhof4. Fracture5. Cottenweiler6. Ebersberg7. Fornsbach with Harnersberg, Hinterwestermurr, Mettelberg and Schlosshof8. Grave-with Frankenweiler, Mannenweiler, Morbach, Schönbronn, Schöntalhöfle and Trauzenbach9. Großaspach with Füstenhof10. Großerlach with Liemersbach, Mittelfischbach, Oberfischbach and Unterfischbach11. Heiningen 12. Heutensbach13. Jux14. Lippoldsweiler with Däfern and Hohnweiler15. Maubach16. Murrhardt with Harbach, Hausen, Hinterbüchelberg, Hintermurrhärle, Hördthof, Hoffeld, Käsbach, Karnsberg, Kieselhof, Klingen, Köchersberg, Sauerhöfle, Schwammhof, Siebenknie, Siegelsberg, Steinberg, Streitweiler, Vordermurrhärle and Waltersberg17. Neufürsten hut18. Oberbrüden with Heslachhof, Mittelbrüden, Rottmannsberg, Tiefental and Trailhof19. Oberweissach with Kammerhof and Wattenweiler20. Oppenweiler 21st Reichenberg with Aichelbach, Bernhalden, Dauernberg, Ellenweiler, Reichenbach an der Murr, Reutenhof, Schiffrain and Zell22. Rietenau23. Sechselberg with Fautsbach, Hörschhof, Schlichenweiler and Waldenweiler24. Spiegelberg with Großhöchberg, Roßstaig and Vorderbüchelberg25. Steinbach26, Strümpfelbach with Katharinenhof27, Sulzbach an der Murr with Bartenbach, Berwinkel, Eschelhof, Eschenstruet, Ittenberg, Kleinhöchberg, Lautern, Liemannsklinge, Schleißweiler, Siebersbach and Zwerenberg28. Lower vapors29. Unterweissach with Mitteldresselhof, Oberdresselhof and Unterdresselhof30. Waldrems with HorbachQuelle: Staatshandbuch für Württemberg. Village directory. Published by the Württemberg State Statistical Office. Stuttgart 1936, pp. 12-18. 4. History of registries and holdings: The holdings F 152 III, which were newly catalogued from July to December 2004, consist of three parts: On the one hand, these are files that were delivered to the Ludwigsburg State Archives by the Backnang branch of the Waiblingen State Health Department in 1976 as part of a larger file delivery and assigned to the Oberamtsbestand (1 m; Bü 1-30). The second and largest part of the collection consists of documents that the District Office of the Rems-Murr District submitted in 1974 and 1975 at the insistence of the State Archives Administration (13.3 mf. m; Bü 31-391 and Bü 393-446)(13) A large part of these files, for which so far no finding aid was available, had been torn from their context of origin by self-proclaimed "district archivists" in the district offices Backnang and Waiblingen. In the Backnang District Office local and material pertinences had been formed which could not be returned continuously to the original order of the records and which were recorded in the last classification point as "local pertinences". In addition, the structure of the entire portfolio is based on the Flattich file plan, which also contained documents with the following third-party provenances that were segregated in the course of the registration work: Oberamtspflege Backnang: Invoice receipts, sorted by property and local pertinence (6.5 m), were assigned to F 717. Oberamt Gaildorf: Property files; partly sorted by municipalities (4 m), will in future form F 166 IV. Oberamt Marbach: Property files; partly sorted according to municipalities (4 m), were included in the inventory F 182 III. Oberamt Welzheim: Property files concerning the parish of Kirchenkirnberg (0.3 m running) form the inventory F 214 III.the files of the district office Backnang (0.4 m running) were included in the inventory FL 20/2 I.the third part of the inventory F 152 III originates from the inventory FL 20/2 I district office Backnang (10.2 m running; Bü 392 and Bü 447-935). These files, which had subsequently been arranged in the registry of the District Office according to the Flattich file plan, had previously only been indexed by a delivery list with file plan numbers and associated package numbers. This information can be found in the present finding aid book as a presignature. In the course of the revision of the inventory FL 20/2 I, documents of the provenances Oberamt Gaildorf (9 linear metres), Oberamt Marbach (1.5 linear metres) and Oberamt Welzheim (0.3 linear metres) were also sorted out and assigned to the respective inventories listed above (F 166 IV, F 182 III and F 214 III).In terms of content, the holdings excellently illustrate the diverse tasks of the Backnang Oberamt in large parts and thus supplement the previous Oberamt tradition, which the Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg holds in the holdings F 152 I, F 152 II (volumes) and F 152 IV (construction files). Also in the inventory FL 20/2 I Landratsamt Backnang there are - especially from the transitional period of the 1930s and 1940s - files that were created in the Oberamt. Further documents of the Oberamt Backnang can be found in the district archive of the Rems-Murr-Kreis in Waiblingen (fonds A1: Oberamt Backnang). Stock F 152 III comprises 935 units of registration, 24.5 metres of shelving. It contains documents with pre- and post-files from the period from 1701 to 1973, with the emphasis of the tradition on the period from the second half of the 19th to the first third of the 20th century. The files with the order signatures Bü 660, Bü 661, Bü 711 and Bü 719 are still subject to the personal blocking periods according to § 6 para. 2 of the Landesarchivgesetz.Ludwigsburg, December 2004Dr. Matthias Röschner NachtragF 152 III Bü 936-976 were spun off there in 2011 by Dorothea Bader in the course of the indexing of fonds F 166 IV and reassigned to the present fonds according to their provenance. Footnotes: (1) 63 of the 65 districts of the Oberamtsbezirk of 1808 remained after 1819: In 1819 the districts Ulm and Albeck had been joined to the Oberamtsbezirk Ulm. In 1811 the intermediate instance (at that time bailiwick bailiwicks), which had been generally inserted for the upper offices, was no longer applicable to the ministerial level of the Stuttgart city administration district. When in 1822 the city directorate of Stuttgart was again aligned with the higher offices, it was nevertheless no longer listed as a higher office, but always independently.(2) The first bailiwicks had been introduced in 1803 for Neuwürttemberg. The district governments existed until 1924.(3) See A.E. Adam. A century of Württemberg constitution, 1919.(4) Constitutional document § 62; Regierungsblatt of 1819, p. 645.(5) The deputies of the Second Chamber, who had not been sent out as representatives of specific interests (knighthood, representatives of both large churches, chancellors of the universities, guided tours), were each elected in the 63 upper offices and the 7 "good cities" (Stuttgart, Tübingen, Ludwigsburg, Ellwangen, Ulm, Heilbronn, Reutlingen).(6) The higher administrative courts established for each higher office in 1811 originally met under the chairmanship of the higher official. Since 1819 (edict about the Oberamtsverammlungen of 31.12.1818) they were independent. The separation of the judiciary and administration was thus completed at district level; the chief magistrate was confronted by the chief magistrate.(7) Property and income of the state were administered by the camera offices (omanial, construction, forestry administration). In the course of the 19th century, they finally developed into district coffers or district tax offices. In 1895 the alignment of the camera office districts with the upper office districts was completed.(8) From 1881 two fifths; cf. Grube, Vogteien, Ämter, Landkreise in der Geschichte Südwestdeutschland, 3rd edition 1975.(9) The senior official nurse received a seat and advisory vote in the official meeting, but was not allowed to be the municipal computer of the senior official city at the same time.(10) Above all, the official doctor, senior official veterinarian, senior official master builder, senior official street builder. (11) Each district court was responsible for one district of the Oberamt.(12) For the history of the authorities of the Oberamt see the preface by Walter Wannenwetsch in the Findbuch des Rems-Murr-Kreisarchivs für den Bestand A1 Oberamt Backnang 1806 - 1938. Edited by Renate Winkelbach and Walter Wannenwetsch. mschr. Waiblingen 1997.(13) Cf. StAL, fonds EL 18, Bü 594: Files discarded at the District Office Backnang as well as the files of the State Archives Ludwigsburg E III 12/19: Files discarded at the District Office Waiblingen

Darin: several illustrations of Ernst II.

Contains: Printed matter (minutes of meetings and other materials from the Reichstag, the Bundesrat and the Reichstag Commission for the Reich Budget).

Contains: Correspondence of Ernst II. with the President (concerning Ernst's elections to the Executive Board); circular letter; meeting documents (e.g. documents, lists of names, reports); report of the Finance Commission, with account for 1931 and estimate for 1932 (financial crisis of the Colonial Society) Darin: Druckschriften (Jahresberichte für 1920, 1929 u. 1932; Tagungbericht (2 vol.), 1928; Wesen und Ziele der deutschen Kolonialbewegung, 1928).

Contains: Correspondence of Ernst II concerning, among other things, the whereabouts of the Grand Dukes, the refusal of the German side to end the exile, Ernst II's trip to Finland, inquiries about possible bank deposits of the Grand Dukes in the German Empire, political activity of the Grand Dukes and travel requests of supporters of the Grand Dukes.

Contains among other things: Submission of Ernst II; Letter of Poeplaus to Ernst II and subsequent correspondence of Ernst II with the State Secretary of the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t Bernhard Dernburg concerning an incorrect accusation of Poeplaus by Ernst II in the course of the interrogation.

Contains: Subpoenas before local courts in Berlin and Langenburg; concept of a letter from Ernst II asking for his appearance in Berlin to be waived; letter from the court on the subject of the interrogation (comments by the defendant on the exploitation of the monopoly position in transport traffic with South West Africa by the Wörmann company at the expense of the Reich).

Contains: Copies (in extracts) of the request of the Regional Court of Ravensburg to the District Court of Berlin-Mitte for the interrogation of Ernst II and of the incriminated newspaper article by Erzberger; inquiries of the District Courts of Berlin and Langenburg to Ernst II regarding the interrogation date; concept of a reply letter.

Contains: Karl Abetz; Zur Frage der Erhaltung der Forstlichen Lehrstätte an der Universität Freiburg, 1934; Minutes of a discussion with Rector, President of the Forest Directorate and Württ. university lecturer; Agreement between the Ministries of Württemberg and Baden; Accommodation of the institutes; Report on a trip to Berlin for the preservation of the forest sciences by O. Kerber, 1935; Script by Otto Kerber: Die kulturelle und nationalenpolitische Sendung der Stadt Freiburg im Breisgau und die Schwierigkeiten, welche der der Erfüllung ihrer Grenzlandaufgaben obstand, 1935; Examination Regulations 1938; Forms, Guidelines; Study Regulations for the Timber Industry, 1941; Colonial Studies, 1942; Practical apprenticeship for female students; Study of Forestry, 1942; Individual Cases;

Contains: Correspondence of Ernst II with Imperial Chancellor Prince Bernhard von Bülow and King Edward VII of Great Britain [uncle 3rd degree].

1 On the biography of Princess Alexandra zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg: Princess Alexandra Luise Olga Viktoria zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg was born on 1 September 1878 as the fourth child of Duchess Marie (daughter of Tsar Alexander II of Russia) and Duke Alfred (son of Queen Victoria of Great Britain) of Edinburgh in Coburg. She spent most of her childhood and youth in England and Malta, where her father was stationed from 1886 to 1889 as commander of the British Navy, and in the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg-Gotha, which Alfred ruled from 1893 onwards. Alexandra met her cousin of the 3rd degree and later husband, Hereditary Prince Ernst II of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1863-1950) at an early age on the occasion of his many journeys to England. At the age of 15, she caught his eye especially, and after a fierce advertising campaign with her mother Marie, Ernst received permission to become engaged in 1895. In 1896 the wedding finally took place in Coburg. Alexandra moved with her husband to Langenburg, where he began to prepare for his role as heir to the family estate. Soon the first son Gottfried was born, followed by Marie Melita, Alexandra and Irma and Alfred, who died shortly after his birth. But the plans of the young family changed when in 1899 and 1900 Alexandra's brother Alfred and her father died shortly after each other. Ernst took over the regency in the duchy Saxony-Coburg-Gotha for the still minor heir to the throne Duke Eduard von Albany, so that the new centre of life lay for some years in the Thuringian residences. even after the end of the regency 1905 the hereditary princess stayed with her children except in Langenburg from time to time in Coburg at the court of her mother, while Ernst was often absent because of his political ambitions. Alexandra also undertook numerous journeys, above all to southern France, where her mother owned a country estate near Nice, as well as to Romania, to her sister Queen Mary and to Switzerland. In 1913 at the latest, when Ernst II inherited his father as prince, Langenburg Castle finally became the main residence of the family. Nevertheless, during the First World War, the new prince was again absent for a longer period of time. Due to his leading functions in voluntary nursing, he spent most of his time on the Eastern Front. Alexandra took advantage of this time by also being involved in war care and from 1914 to (at least) 1917 she worked as an assistant nurse in the war hospital in Coburg herself.After the war and the political upheavals in Germany, Ernst withdrew largely into private life, so that his wife was now also able to fully fulfil her role as Princess on the Langburg estates, only interrupted by occasional journeys. Princess Alexandra died on 16 April 1942 in the Deaconess Hospital in Schwäbisch Hall and was buried in Langenburg. 2 On the estate and its treatment: The estate of Princess Alexandra consists mainly of correspondence and contains only very few 'fact files', which largely corresponds to her rather withdrawn role at the side of her husband, who is much more active publicly and organizationally. The documents were probably handed over to the Hohenlohe Central Archives in the 1960s and 70s and roughly sorted there. In the process, it was possible to fall back on Alexandra's own disciplinary measures, which enclosed old envelopes with inscriptions in the sense of a file title with part of the written material. The current distortion was also based on these original file titles, but the depth of development went far beyond this. Hardly any transformations had to be carried out, and only a slight mixing with files of other provenance was found, so that few documents were to be removed. However, numerous fascicles were added to the collection, which were found during the processing of other langenburg estates - in particular those of the husband Ernst II and the daughters Alexandra and Irma - and La 143 Nachlass Fürstin Alexandra, which was arranged and recorded in December 2004 by archivist Thomas Kreutzer as part of a project sponsored by the Kulturstiftung Baden-Württemberg. It comprises 2.4 linear metres. Files and volumes in 107 units with a running time of [ca. 1880]-1942.Neuenstein, in April 2005Thomas Kreutzer 3. further materials:: La 102 Fürstliche HofverwaltungLa 95 Domänenkanzlei LangenburgLa 142 Nachlass Fürst Ernst II. 4. Note: This online finding aid lacks some title records of archival records from the 20th century which are not yet fully accessible. In the Hohenlohe Central Archives there is a complete finding aid book, which also contains the not yet freely accessible archive units.Neuenstein, September 2005Dr. Schiffer

Contains: Correspondence of Ernst II (among others with Kaiser Wilhelm II, Reich Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow, Prince Hermann zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Ernst's successor as deputy head of the Colonial Department Bernhard Dernburg); commissioned as deputy head of the Colonial Department (copy); diploma of appointment as Imperial Plenipotentiary to the Federal Council (copy); letter of congratulations; notes on the emoluments of Ernst II.Newspaper clippings (including an excerpt from a speech of Ernst II by the Reichstag) Darin: Edition of "Die Zukunft" (The Future) with mocking article about Ernst II. "("Ubi Bubi?"), 1906 (printed); correspondence between Prince Hermann and Wilhelm II concerning the appointment of Ernst II.

Contains: Correspondence of Ernst II with snow and with the Commissioner and Military Inspector of Voluntary Nursing Prince Hermann von Hatzfeldt-Trachenberg.

Contains: political and private correspondence of Ernst II during his trip through Bulgaria and Romania as well as during his stay in Constantinople (among others with the State Secretary in the Foreign Office Jagow, King Ferdinand [Uncle 4. Grades] and Queen Eleonore of Bulgaria as well as members of the German Embassy in Constantinople); hand drawing of the Turkish Minister of War Enwer Pasha on the transfer of territory from Turkey to Bulgaria; passes; inscription list in Bucharest; congratulatory letter on the start of the journey; official farewell letter of the diplomatic corps in Constantinople; manuscript of a speech of Ernst II.Invoices, receipts, account statement; remuneration documents; business cards Darin: excerpts from the Turkish newspapers "La Defense" and "Hilal" with articles about Ernst II. (and one illustration); postcards from Kalisch (war destruction) and Constantinople among others; 8 photographs of Ernst II in connection with an audience with the Sultan, a stay at the Black Sea and a visit to the imperial steamship "Goeben" [separated; now in Bü 914].

Contains: Ernst II's correspondence on political matters and with his successor in the office of Bernhard Dernburg; memorandum on the restructuring of the colonial administration; Ernst II's proposals for obtaining the approval of the R e i c h s t a g to the colonial budget (draft letter to R e i c h s c h s c h e Chancellor von Bülow); Ernst II's resignation. (concept); Imperial letter of dismissal (copy); Imperial diploma on the bestowal of the Red Eagle Order 1st Class diamonds on Ernst II; letter of sympathy; newspaper clippings (with illustrations of Ernst II and his successor Bernhard Dernburg).

Contains among other things: Correspondence of Ernst II, Draft of an ordinance and memorandum concerning the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t ; conditions of the German Schutztruppe in South West Africa (including the Herero Uprising, railway construction, port facilities, organisational issues) ; border issues (including correspondence with King Leopold II of Belgium) ; business distribution plans ; budget for 1906 ; newspaper clippings Darin: overview plan of the railway line Windhuk-Rehoboth ; caricature from the "Kladderadatsch" (with illustration of Ernst II).

Contains: Letter from Dr. Solf, State Secretary at the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t, to Ernst II. (with concept of an answer); manuscript of a lecture from the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t .

Contains: Correspondence concerning planning and financing (e.g. creation of an expedition fund) as well as follow-up (e.g. operation of the order award to the patron Hugo von Gahlen, owner of factory and manor); scientific expert's opinion: drawn map of Central Africa; reports on the expedition in the "Tägliche Rundschau" (mainly parts of the travel report "Ins Innerste Afrikas", 1908, written by Adolf Friedrich himself).

Contains: Correspondence of Ernst II. with the members of the Committee Ministerialdirigent Prof. Dr. Kirchner and Dr. Katz as well as with the State Secretary of the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t Solf concerning the use of the funds made available by the Committee to the Colonial Office; copy of the correspondence of the State Secretary with the Governor of D e u t s c h - S ü d w e s t a f r i k a and Prof. Kirchner on the same matter; copy of the minutes of a meeting of the Committee.

Contains: Correspondence of Ernst II (e.g. with Kaiser Wilhelm II); congratulatory letter and letter of sympathy; Ernst II's application for leave (approved by Reich Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow); memorandum on the planned reconstruction of the Colonial Administration (copy); newspaper clippings Darin: Reichstagdrucksachen (Results of the nominal votes on the Colonial Office budget, 29th ed.30.3. and 26.5.1906; draft budget for the Reichskolonialamt for 1906 (with memorandum), [1905]; minutes of meetings concerning the colonial budget, 1904/05).

Contains: Letter from the Marineintendantursekretärs in Wilhelmshaven Ernst Voigt and the Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz concerning Voigt's application for a post in the governorate of Kiautschou; letter from the Mayor of the municipality of Friedrichroda concerning railway taxation.

Contains among other things: List of officials ready for deployment in the Colonial Administration (1940)