Contents: An overview of the contents can be found in the classification. History of origins: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Theodor Christoph Heinrich Rehbock (*12.04.1864 in Amsterdam, 17.08.1950 in Baden-Baden) studied civil engineering in Munich and Berlin from 1884 to 1890. After the diploma examination and the government building leader examination he worked from 1890 to 1892 in Berlin at the Reichstag building administration, then from 1893 to 1894 in the Bremen building administration. After passing the government building master examination in 1894, he worked in Berlin as a consulting engineer for hydraulic engineering and undertook journeys through Europe, to Canada and the USA as well as to South America and 1896/97 to southern Africa. In 1899 he was appointed full professor at the Technical University of Karlsruhe, where he established the river engineering laboratory and served as rector in the academic years 1907/08, 1917/18 and 1925/26. In 1934 Rehbock was emeritus. Pre-archival inventory history: Foreword by Klaus-Peters Hoepke in the provisional find book: "The inventory changed location several times between its creation and its transfer to the university archive. In 1943 Rehbock obtained permission from the rector to bring his papers from the river engineering laboratory to his house in Baden-Baden to arrange them. When Baden-Baden became a military restricted area in the autumn of 1944, Rehbock moved it to his alternative quarters in Ried b. Benediktbeuren/Obb. At the end of the war he took her back to Baden-Baden. Since his house was confiscated by the French military administration, he had to move again - taking his papers with him. During Rehbock's lifetime, but at the latest after his death, individual pieces of furniture, parts of his library, these papers - probably supplemented by parts of the written private estate - reached the Technical University of Karlsruhe. In September 1992 Prof. Dr. techn. Peter Larsen and PD Dr.-Ing. Hans Helmut Bernhart of the Theodor Rebock Institute arranged for the fundus to be transferred to the university archive. Furthermore Dr.-Ing. Andreas Richter from the Institute of Hydromechanics handed over a bundle of Rehbock manuscripts of the lecture on weirs to the archive in January 1995; it was added to the collection under the serial number 63a. The inventory listed below is made up of parts of the service room estate and private papers. In view of the distances travelled, experience has shown that it is hardly probable that the fundus that existed around 1943 is still completely preserved. After the war, for example, there must have been two folders with the correspondence that Rehbock had kept with the nestor of German hydraulic engineering, Hubert Engels from Dresden, a colleague he held in high esteem. In any case, the effects of war had destroyed not only countless measurement records, plans, etc. but also the historically valuable and extensive collection of site plans of the Rhine models: According to Rehbock, the already print-ready collection documented "the best I could achieve in the experimental world". (So to Anton Grzywienski, 15.12.1946, no. 162) [...] In Baden-Baden Rehbock actually dealt with arranging his papers. He probably used the registration plan as a basis, according to which he had correspondence, sketches, plans, etc. filed during his active time in the river engineering laboratory. (This registry plan no longer exists, so that the presumed losses can no longer be determined). Above all, Rehbock added explanatory remarks for posterity to individual folders or documents. Many documents then contain underscores, paint strokes or margin notes made with coloured pencils (red, purple or green). Unfortunately, it is not always clear whether these are traces of processing from the course of business or later highlights, which it seemed advisable to place roebuck in view of posterity." Archive history: Most of the documents were transferred from the Theodor Rehbock Institute to the university archive in September 1992. A small levy was made in January 1995 from the Institute of Hydromechanics (No 63a). The Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Cultural Engineering, which emerged from the Theodor Rehbock Institute, submitted further documents in 1996, which Hoepke classified partly in "Signatures" he had created and partly under No. 351-381. Numbers 370-381 included 1,345 photographic glass plates. These were included in a provisional list in late 2003 and filmed and digitised at the turn of the year 2003/04. On 02.06.2008 the addition 29/? was added to the inventory as signature number 406. Explanation of the order: The order of the inventory was established in its basic features according to the order carried out by Theodor Rehbock. Changes took place in the initial stock formation in the university archive (see Archivische Bestandgeschichte) and in the digitisation of the finding aid in 2005. Indexing information: In the second quarter of 2005, the finding aid available in electronic form was easily edited and imported into the finding aid database. The existing classification was adopted largely unchanged. During the digitization of the finding aid, signatures with alphanumeric additions were changed to purely numeric signatures. Classification overview: 1. personalia 2. colonial matters 3. university matters 4. memberships 5. manuscripts 6. divining rod 7. structural engineering 8. technical contacts in the USA 9. tooth sleeper patent and its exploitation 9.0 general 9.1 German projects 9.2 Company Dyckerhoff 9.3 Company Philips

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: - Programme speech before the voters' meeting Ebingen, printed, 4.2.1887 - Draft of an election programme, printed, 1888 - "Anniversary tax, official assembly and constitution", printed, end of 1888 - Draft "From laborious governing", mechanical, 1888/1890 - Report on the state parliament session in the Swabian Mercury, printed, 1888 - Draft of an election programme, printed, 1888 - "Jubilee tax, official assembly and constitution", printed, end of 1888 - Report on the state parliament session in the Swabian Mercury, printed, 1888/1890 - Report on the state parliament session in the Swabian Mercury, printed, 1888 - Draft of the election programme, printed, 1888 - "Jubilee tax, official assembly and constitution", printed, end of 1888 - Draft "From laborious governing", mechanical, 1888/1890 - Report on the state parliament session in the Swabian Mercury, printed, printed., 5.4.1889 - Jungfernrede Haussmanns in der Abgeordnetenkammer, ed., 10.4.1889 - Speech in the election challenge debate, ed., 18.6.1889 - Speech on the reintroduction of the election envelope, ed., 19.6.1889 - Newspaper report on a speech by voters in Ebingen, ed., 10.11.1889 - Reichstag speech on the colonial bill, ed, 12.6.1890 (three reports) - lecture about the political situation, printed, 14.9.1891 - speech in the voters' meeting in Tuttlingen, printed, 2.10,1892 - "Der Wegweiser", poem Haussmanns, printed, o.D. - speech in Ebingen, printed, 30.6.1894 - report about party congress of the South German People's Party in Aschaffenburg and the speech Haussmanns in the Aschaffenburger Zeitung, printed, 24.9.1894 - Haussmann's toast to the anniversary of the foundation of the Reich, handschr., January 1895 - "Die württembergische Landtagswahl", printed, 19.2.1895 - "Die politische Indolenz", printed, October 1895 - Reichstag speech on the BGB, printed, 12.12.1895 - "So kann es nicht weitergehen - Gedanken eines Steuerzahlers", printed ca. 1895 - Report of the People's Party to its voters on the Reichstag session 1895/1896, printed, o.D. - Toast to Haussmann on the anniversary of the foundation of the Reich, printed, January 1896 - "Ein Minister über Bord" zur Entlassung Bronsarts, printed, 17.8.1895 - General Assembly of the Bezirksvolksverein in Balingen, printed, 17.1.1897 - "On the Threshold of Reform - Constitutional Revision, Proportional Election and the Attitude of the Parties", ed., 17.1.1897 - Haussmann's Article on "Electoral Victory of Democracy in Norway" in "Dagbladet Kristiania", 9.11.1897 - "From Tedious Governance", mach., September 1897 - "The People's Party in Parliament 1895-1900", ed, o.D. - Election program of the Volkspartei by Friedrich and Conrad Haussmann, printed, 1900 - Speeches by Friedrich and Conrad Haussmann in Heilbronn at the Volksparteitag, printed, 16.11.1902 - Speech on two years of service in the Reichtag, handschr., 1903 - Speech of the Landtag on the Betriebsmittelgemeinschaft, printed, 9.12.1904 - Speech as reporter in the Landtag on the administrative reform, mechanical and manual reform, German, English 1904 - Poem "Berlin Politics", handschr., New Year 1905 - Schiller speech, printed, 7.5.1905 - Draft of a constitutional law, printed by the Landtag, 17.6.1905 - Closing speech to the constitutional revision, handschr., 1905 - "Volksrecht oder Herrenrechte? Speech by Wilhelm Keil, printed, 27.6.1905 - "Zur Verfassungsrevision in Württemberg", printed, 9.7.1905 - "Ein Mahnwort aus der Deutschen Volkspartei", printed, 18.7.1905 - "Die Verfassungsrevision in der Kommission", printed, 18.7.1905 - Notes on an Election Speech, hand printed, 1905 - "Die Auswärtige Lage", mechanical, January 1906 - Election Programme of the People's Party, printed, 18.7.1905 - "Die Auswärtige Lage", mechanical, January 1906 - Election Programme of the People's Party, printed, 18.7.1905 - "Die, 12.11.1906 - "An die Reichstagswähler", printed, New Year 1907 - "An die deutschen Wähler, handschr., o.D. - Rede zum Vereinsgesetz, printed, 1907 - Speech in Spaichingen, printed, 13.1.1907 - "Die Bedeutung der Neuwahlen", speech in Ebingen, printed, 19.1.1907 - "Die Reichstagsstichwahl" in Balingen, printed, 3.2.1907 - "Bülow", without author, printed.., o.D. - "Ultra-Montagnini", printed, o.D. - "Die Wahl", printed, February 1907 - "À vous, Allemands", printed, o.D. - "Die neue politische Saison" by Dr. Heinrich Hutter, printed, 30.11.1907 - "Wahl und Moral", printed, 30.11.1907 - "Die Wahl und Moral", printed, 30.11.1907 - "Die Wahl", printed, o.D. - "Die Wahl", printed, February 1907 - "À vous, Allemands", printed, o.D. - "Die neue politische Saison" by Dr. Heinrich Hutter, printed, 30.11.1907 - "Wahl und Moral", printed, 30.11., February 1907 - "Parliamentarism", printed, o.D. - "Old Chinese Poetry", printed, December 1907 - "The New Problem", printed, September 1907 - "The New Crisis" by Dr. Heinrich Hutter, printed, September 1907 - "The New Crisis" by Dr. Heinrich Hutter, printed, September 1907, 21.1.1908 - "Anti-Prussian sausage-likeness", printed, 4.2.1908 - "Imperial incidents", printed, 1.5.1908 - Speech at the regional election in Frankfurt, printed, 4.2.1908 - "Imperial incidents", printed, 1.5.1908 - Speech at the regional election in Frankfurt, printed, 1.5.1908 - Speech at the regional election in Frankfurt, printed.., 28.5.1908 - "Party Merger", printed, 2.6.1908 - "Asia", printed, 18.8.1908 - "The Moltke Case" by Schücking, printed, August 1908 - "The Interparliamentary Conference" printed, 2.6.1908 - "Asia", printed, 18.8.1908 - "The Moltke Case" by Schücking, printed, August 1908 - "The Interparliamentary Conference" printed, 2.6.1908 - "Asia", printed, 18.8.1908 - "The Moltke Case" by Schücking, printed, August 1908 - "The Interparliamentary Conference" printed, 2.6.1908 -, 2.10.1908 - " Congress?", printed, 16.10.1908 - "Alsatian", printed, November 1908 - Speech to the Daily Telgraph interview, printed, 12.11.1908 - "Before the end of the crisis", printed, 14.11.1908 - Speech in Tübingen "Zur innerpolitischen Lage", printed, 24.11.1908 - "Und nun?", printed, December 1908 - "Anno 1908", printed, 2.1.1909 - "König Eduard in Berlin", printed, 2.2.1909 - "The Renewal of Turkey and the Clumsiness of Europe", printed, 1909 - "The Conservative Leadership" by Dr. Heinrich Hutter, printed, 2.3.1909 - "After the Morocco Agreement", mechanical.., Spring 1909 - Easter article for the Neue Freie Presse Vienna, mechanical, 1909 - "Der Kriegslärm", printed, 1.4.1909 - "Die Finanzmisere", printed, 16.4.1909 - "Bülow am Scheideweg", printed, 1909 - "Geheime Universitätsreserve und Universitätsagenten" by Heinrich Hutter, printed, 1.10.1909 - "In the Air", printed, 4.10.1909 - "Der Parteiitag der Deutschen Volkspartei", by Heinrich Hutter, printed, 15.10.1909 - "Reichstagsbrief", printed, 15.12.1909 - "Die Aufgaben des fünfundes Kanzlers", printed, 19.12.1909 - Open Letter to August Bebel, handschr.

Contains among other things: - Lists of some of the correspondence partners, n.d. - Althoff, Friedrich Theodor, Minister of Culture, 1900, 1906 - Arlliez (?), 1900 - Baden, Friedrich Grand Duke v., 1896, 1905 - Barnay, Ludwig, actor to Charlotte Rosenstock, 1895 - Berber, Felix, Prof., violin virtuoso (?) to Heinz Braune, 1905 - Bernhardi, Friedrich v., General of the Cavalry, 1899 - Bigelow, Poultney, writer, retired. - Bethmann-Hollweg, Reich Chancellor, 1913 - Bismarck, Herbert Graf v., State Secretary of the Foreign Office, State Minister, 1894 - Bismarck, Otto Fürst v., former Reich Chancellor, 1892, 1896 - Bley, Fritz, 1917 - Bruch, M.., 1900 (?) - Bülow, Bernhard Prince v., Imperial Chancellor: picture-postcard with depiction Bülow, 1907 - Bülow, Marie Princess v., née Princess v. Camporeale, 1901, 1909 - Burmester, Willy, Privy Privy Councillor, Prof., o. D. - Busch, Moritz, writer [to Victor Hehn ? see no. 240], 1883 - Cambon, Jules, French. Ambassador, o.J. - Casement, Sir Roger David, Irish freedom fighter, 1915 - Collier, 1911, retired. - Conze, Alexander, Director of the Archaeological Institute, 1895 - Cornelius, P. v. and ? to Julius Schweitzer: Kopiererlaubnisschein, 1835 - Deines, v. an Focke, 1896 - Delbrück, Clemens v., Deputy Reich Chancellor, 1914 - Delbrück, Hans, historian, 1895 - Eichhorn, Hermann von, General Field Marshal, 1917-18 - End (?), H., Regierungsrat, 1898 - Eulenburg, 1905, 1935 - Faure, Fernand, Director of the "Revue politique

Contains mainly: Financing of the Lepsius office in The Hague

Contains among other things: Speeches by Prince Max in the First Chamber (1917) and at the Baden Constitutional Celebration (1918); Heidelberg Association

Contains among other things: Colonial societies; third party expeditions; Stuttgart Higher Commercial School; publishers; correspondence with Helene von Falkenhausen on a training farm for young girls in South West Africa

Contains: Duplicated, partly printed minutes of board meetings, invitations, agendas and individual correspondences (amendment of articles 1885).

Contains among other things: German-Southwest Africa project of his brother Hans; marriage [to Otto Bally] (1910)

History of tradition History of the authorities Born from the idea of enlightenment and the doctrine of humanity, the social situation of the peasantry, to which the majority of the population belonged, was also to be raised in Hohenzollern. Thaer's teaching on more rational cultivation and the chemical research results of Justus von Liebig in agriculture and animal nutrition made it possible to put this endeavour to intensify agriculture into practice. In Hohenzollern, the "backward peasants" were officially taken care of, and they joined together in agricultural associations. The spread of the liberalist idea - to generate profit and spend more money on the mechanization of agriculture - made it necessary to unite the peasants. The farmer should not cultivate the field by hand alone, he should manage his farm as a business economist with consideration and calculation and thus he was made in those days from farmer to farmer. In 1841, the farmers' associations that had opened up in the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen merged to form the "Verein zur Beförderung der Landwirtschaft und Gewerbe in Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen". By sovereign decree of 02 April 1841 (Collection of Laws Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen Vol. VI, p. 14) the statutes of the association became legally binding. The purpose of the association was: "For the purpose of the revival and spreading of the agricultural and commercial industry and for the promotion of economic prosperity in general". His main tasks were: Arable farming, meadow farming, fruit growing, horticulture, forestry and livestock breeding. Furthermore, the association tried to find the trades that had the closest connection to the agricultural enterprises, such as breweries and distilleries. On the other hand, it promoted non-profit economic institutions and enterprises, such as community baking ovens, etc. A central office of the Association for Agriculture and Trade was established as a link between the government and the farming community. Three district offices stood under this central office as the actual executive and effective organs. The district of the first district office comprised the offices of Sigmaringen, Ostrach, Wald and Achberg. The second district included the offices of Gammertingen, Strassberg and Trochtelfingen, while the third district was established for the offices of Haigerloch and Glatt. The said statute of 02.04.1841 determines in § 4 ff. the composition and the tasks of the central office. The central office, as the leading authority of the whole, has its seat in Sigmaringen and consists of at least 9 members to be appointed by the Reigning Prince for a period of 3 years each, from which the Board and its deputies are appointed by equal appointment. The central office was the organ through which, on the one hand, the government negotiated with the district associations. On the other hand, requests, requests from clubs to the government. In addition to managing the general affairs of the association, the sphere of activity of the central office included: 1. the editing of the Association Gazette 2. correspondence with foreign associations and institutions, insofar as this was the association as a whole. 3 With the approval of the supreme state authority, the Central Office was able to distribute contributions from the State Treasury for the purposes of the Association. 4. to supervise all the institutions of the Association; 5. to draw up and publish their own annual accounts; 6. to arrange agricultural feasts with the cooperation of the District Office concerned after obtaining the highest prior approval; 7. to distribute prizes and premiums for those items which could not be taken into account by the District Associations, or to receive such prizes for direct distribution from the funds of the Central Office; 7. to take over such prizes from the funds of the Central Office; 4. to supervise all the institutions of the Association; 4. to supervise all the institutions of the Association; 7. to prepare and publish their own annual accounts; 7. to distribute prizes and premiums for those items which could not be taken into account by the District Associations, or to take over such prizes for direct distribution from the funds of the Central Office; 4. to supervise all the institutions of the Association; 4. to supervise the institutions of the Association; 4. to supervise the institutions of the Association; 4. to supervise the Association; 4. to supervise the Association; 6. to publish their own annual accounts; 7. After the Hohenz. Land in the Kingdom of Prussia had merged, the association revived in 1852. By order of the royal Prussian government to Sigmaringen of 18.08.1853 the association was extended on whole Hohenzollern. In the Principality of Hohenzollern-Hechingen only private agricultural associations existed until 1848, which were financially supported by the sovereign. When the new association was founded, the management of the entire association remained in the hands of the central office. It consisted of elected and appointed members. After the new company was founded, the central office was divided into a department for agriculture and forestry and a department for trade and industry. With the expansion of the association to the whole of Hohenzollern, a new division of territory had become necessary and a new district association was founded for the district of Hechingen. The Strassberg Upper Administrative District was separated from the second Gammertingen-Trochtelfingen District Association and assigned to the Sigmaringen-Wald-Ostrach Upper Administrative District Association. Further district associations were formed in 1872, 1873 and 1875 for the district of the former Glatt upper office, for the Achberg municipal district and for the Ostrach upper office district with the municipalities Kalkreute, Habsthal and Rosna. The association as a whole used the "Mitteilungen zur Beförderung der Landwirtschaft und der Gewerbe" (Mitteilungen zur Beförderung der Landwirtschaft und der Gewerbe, published since 1841) as a publication medium. In addition, annual "annual reports" of the association followed. The central office of the Association for Agriculture and Trade was replaced by the Chamber of Agriculture. In order to safeguard the overall interests of agriculture and forestry, a chamber was also established in Hohenzollern on the basis of the Prussian Law on the Chambers of Agriculture of 30.06.1894, by ordinance of 06.03.1922 (G.S. p. 55). These agricultural chambers were replaced in 1933 by the "Reichsnährstand" and were only rebuilt after the collapse in 1946. The files of the "Zentralstelle des Vereins für Landwirtschaft und Gewerbe in Hohenzollern" (Central Office of the Association for Agriculture and Trade in Hohenzollern) remained as old registry with the following authorities. It was not until 1950 that the files, insofar as they still existed, were taken over by the Sigmaringen State Archives (Acc. Jour. 1950 No. 10) and set up as holdings Ho 420 "Zentralstelle des Vereins für Landwirtschaf und Gewerbe in Hohenzollern". This list was drawn up according to the old registry signatures. Due to a lack of numbers in the individual subject areas, the files concerned are often housed in the following subject area. The "Zentralstelle" also had an extensive specialist library. We have an exact list of the books from 1876 in the catalogue published by H. Grube in 1877. The library was fragmented after the political collapse in 1945. In 1951, the holdings were sorted, repertorised and packaged and magazined by K. Herzog, an employee of the State Archives. In the course of the standardization of the repertory writings of the State Archives, the repertory, which was still written by hand in 1951, was revised by Government Inspector Kungl and the fair copy was brought into its current form by the employee Mrs. Kalkuhl. Sigmaringen, November 1967

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 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: Baranof, Class, Dalldorf, German-Levantine Cotton Society, Dinkelacker, Duvernoy, Euringer (1935), Förster, Fiebrig, Foy, Frankenberg, Friederici, Gabriel, South Cameroon Society

Contains: 1) Report of Lieutenant Colonel F. v. Winkelmann to the Württemberg Minister of War; Samarang, 6 Aug. 1807, copy Maschinenschr. 16 Sheet 2) Correspondence of Lieutenant Fr. v. Winkelmann with the Dutch Governor of Java, Nikolaus Engelhard March-April 1808, copy Maschinenschrift 3) Letter of the former Karlsakademist, Captain Philipp Gaupp to his former classmate Fr. Carl von Adelsheim, Kgl. Lieutenant Oberleutnant a.D.; sd., copy machine 2 sheet with explanations for family history 4) Testament of Lieutenant Wilhelm Max Frhr. von Hügel, Samarang, 11 May 1821 with inventory of his property. Copy 5) The Württemberg Cape Regiment of Major General a.D. von Loeffler in special supplement of the State Gazette for Württemberg No. 15-18 1896 6) Franz August Trefz in Sunday supplement to the Swabian Mercury No. 587, from Dec. 1925 7) Fatherland History (of the Cape Regiment in East India) in Swabian Kronik No. 191, 14 Aug. 1887 8) The cave of Amboina by Helmut Gaupp, (2 newspaper clippings) 9) A Great Britain captain from the margraviate of O. E. Sutter in the pyramid weekly of the Karlsruher Tagblatt 23. Jg.Nr. 39, 30. Sept. 1934 10) Gaupp, life fate of my grandfather in the pyramid 23. Jg. Nr. 47-49, Nov.-Dec. 1934 11) Pedigree book of the field preacher M. Johannes Haas. Extracts print

Vorbemerkung: Im Rahmen des Aufbaus der NSDAP in 4 Stufen: Reich, Gau, Kreis, Ort, wurde die NSDAP-Kreisleitung Ulm, am 1. Oktober 1932, als übergeordnete Parteistelle aller im Oberamt Ulm befindlichen Ortsgruppen errichtet. Damit wurde die ehemalige NSDAP-Bezirksleitung "Ulm Fils", die 7 Oberämter umfasste, aufgelöst. Die größte nachgeordnete Parteistelle der neugegründeten Kreisleitung, die Ortsgruppe Ulm, gegründet 1925, wurde von Neu-Ulm getrennt und in 7 Ortsgruppen gegliedert. Außerhalb der Stadt gab es noch 6 Ortsgruppen, die den Stützpunkten, Zellen und Blocks aller Orte des Oberamts vorstanden; zu erwähnen wäre die Ortsgruppe Ulmer Alb, die 20 Ortschaften umfasste. Der sprunghafte Anstieg der NSDAP- Mitglieder nach der Machtergreifung (30.1.1933), führte zur Gründung immer neuer Ortsgruppen (1935 waren es schon 24). 1936 wurden die NSDAP-Kreise Ulm und Laupheim zur Kreisleitung Ulm-Laupheim vereinigt. Die so entstandene Kreisleitung wurde am 1. Juni 1937 mit der ehemaligen Kreisleitung Blaubeuren zusammengelegt. Die Gliederung der NSDAP-Kreisleitung Ulm in 64 Ortsgruppen fand 1938 nach deren Anpassung an den neugegründeten Landkreis Ulm ihren Abschluß. Auf der Stufe des Kreises Ulm war der Kreisleiter der verantwortliche Hoheitsträger der NSDAP und politischer Führer. Der 1932 ernannte Kreisleiter Eugen Maier, ehemaliger Bahnarbeiter aus Geislingen, war auch Gauinspekteur der Gauinspektion II Süd-West. Nach dessen Tod im Januar 1940 folgte der städtische Angestellte Christian Binzinger als ehrenamtlicher kommissarischer Kreisleiter. Er war gleichzeitig auch Ortsgruppenleiter von Ulm-Neustadt und Kreisamtsleiter für Kommunalpolitik. 1942 wurde der ehemalige Kreisleiter von Heidenheim, Wilhelm Maier, zum hauptamtlichen Kreisleiter von Ulm ernannt. Von den 21 Kreisamtsstellen der Kreisleitung Ulm waren nur 4 - 5 hauptamtlich, die anderen ehrenamtlich besetzt. Diese waren 1937 folgende: Geschäftsführung (Emil Bertsch, hauptamtlich); Organisationsamt (Karl Hospach, hauptamtlich); Kassenamt (Hans Weller, hauptamtlich); Propaganda mit 7 Hauptstellen: aktive Propaganda, Kultur, Film, Funk, Feiergestaltung, Presse - Propaganda, Verbindungsstelle (Max Hörburger, hauptamtlich); Hauptstelle Registratur (Hans Zahn, hauptamtlich); Schulungsamt; Kreisausbildungsleiter; Personalamt; NS-Betriebszellenorganisation der Deutschen Arbeitsfront (NSBO-DAF); Amt für Erzieher; Amt für Volkswohlfahrt; Amt für Beamte; Amt für Agrarpolitik; Amt für Technik; Kreiswirtschaftsberater; Presseamt; Kreisbeauftragter für Rassenpolitik; Amt für Kriegsopferversorgung. Zu den hauptamtlichen Mitarbeitern der NSDAP-Kreisleitung gehörten noch 3 - 4 Schreibkräfte und bis 1940 der Adjutant des Gauinspekteurs. Ein Teil der ehrenamtlichen Kreisamtsleiter war im öffentlichen Dienst tätig. Sie wurden oft von ihren beruflichen Pflichten befreit und konnten dadurch viel Zeit der Parteiarbeit widmen. Die NSDAP-Kreisgeschäftsstelle befand sich in Ulm, Karlstrasse 44 (nach 1937 wurde die Karlstrasse in Wilhelm Murr-Strasse umbenannt). Sie wurde während des Luftangriffs auf Ulm am 17.12.1944 "restlos ausgebombt" und mußte umgesiedelt werden. Es ist möglich, daß hierbei ein Teil des Schriftguts der Kreisleitung zerstört wurde. Kurz vor dem Einmarsch der alliierten Truppen in Ulm (24.4.1945) floh die Kreisleitung nach Babenhausen, wo sie von der Front eingeholt wurde. Es kann nicht festgestellt werden, ob das Schriftgut der Kreisleitung bei der Flucht mitgenommen worden ist, oder ob es in Ulm von den alliierten Truppen beschlagnahmt wurde. Der nachstehend verzeichnete Bestand enthält nur einen Teil des Schriftguts der Registratur der NSDAP-Kreisleitung Ulm, so sind z.B. nicht alle Ortsgruppen belegt und bei den alphabetisch geordneten Auskünften über Personen sind nur die Buchstaben A, B, F, Sch, U, V, W vorhanden. Dennoch belegt der Bestand, mehr oder weniger, den gesamten Aufgabenbereich der Kreisleitung Ulm, ihrer nachgeordneten Parteistellen, Gliederungen und angeschlo ssenen Verbände und spiegelt prägnant ihre Tätigkeit als Teil des Unterdrückungs- und Terrorsystems der NS-Herrschaft wider. Das erhaltene Schriftgut der NSDAP-Kreisleitung Ulm wurde bei der Spruchkammer Ulm mit Akten einer Vielzahl anderer NS-Registraturen in Ordner abgelegt und mit Buchstaben von A bis Z und Zahlen von 1 bis 263 willkürlich durchnumeriert. Hierbei wurde teilweise die Aktenfolge der Registraturen nicht verändert. Ein Registraturplan ist nicht gefunden worden. Es konnte aber festgestellt werden, daß die Akten in der Registratur der NSDAP-Kreisleitung, soweit dieses möglich war, nach Ortsgruppen abgelegt worden ist. Zwar wurde ein Aktenplan der "Kreisleiter-Arbeits-Akten", der Handakten des Kreisleiters Eugen Maier, aufgefunden, der alphabetisch geordnete sich wiederholende und überschneidende Sachbetreffe enthält, und für die Neuordnung des Bestandes nicht verwendbar ist. Diese mußte daher anhand des vorhandenen Schriftguts erfolgen, wobei die Organisation, der Aufgabenbereich und die dienstlichen Beziehungen zu den über- und nachgeordneten Parteistellen, berücksichtigt wurde. Angesichts der unterschiedlichen Struktur des Schriftguts wurde eine Aufgliederung des Bestandes in Serien-Korrespondenz, Sachakten und Karteien notwendig, die sich inhaltlich z.T. überschneiden. Die gesamten, aus der Gauinspektionstätigkeit des Kreisleiters Eugen Maier hervorgegangenen Akten, sind bei der Registratur der Kreisleitung eingelaufen und sind da auch abgelegt worden. Sie sind dem vorliegenden Bestand als Anhang zugeordnet worden. Im Zuge der Entnazifizierung wurden dem vorliegenden Bestand zahlreiche Schriftstücke entnommen und den Spruchkammerakten als Beilagen zugeordnet, wobei an Stelle der entfernten Akten teilweise Leihzettel gelegt worden sind, die aber oft keine Angaben zu Personen enthalten und nicht in allen Fällen eine Identifizierung der entnommenen Schriftstücke erlauben. Bei den Ordnungs- und Verzeichnungsarbeiten des ursprünglich 21 lfd. m umfassenden Bestandes wurden Fremdprovenienzen im Umfang von etwa 10 lfd. m ausgehoben. Kassiert wurden nur Mehranfertigungen sowie die bei der Spruchkammer angelegten Aktendeckel und Ordner. Der Bestand wurde 1987 - 1988 unter Anleitung von Oberstaatsarchivrat Dr. Günter Cordes durch den Zeitangestellten Rainer Gross bearbeitet und umfaßt nunmehr 236 Büschel in 9,1 lfd. Regalmetern. Ludwigsburg, im März 1988 Rainer Gross 1. Allgemeines: Bü Büschel Schr. Schriftstücke o.D. ohne Datum v.a. vor allem

Contains: 1. individual correspondence on Brazilian affairs, 1884-1891; 2. information trip by Professor Keller-Lenzingen, Stuttgart, to Brazil on behalf of the Colonial Society to examine the conditions of settlement; reports by Professor Keller; letters of recommendation for the Nuncio in Brazil and the Emperor of Brazil from Cardinal Gustav zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst; requests from Keller for assistance in finding a suitable position or for use in the service of the Colonial Society, 1885-1887; 3. information trip by Professor Keller-Lenzingen, Stuttgart, to Brazil on behalf of the Colonial Society to examine the conditions of settlement; 4. letters of recommendation for the Nuncio in Brazil and the Emperor of Brazil from Cardinal Gustav zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst; requests from Keller for assistance in finding a suitable position or for use in the service of the Colonial Society, 1885-1887; 4. Reports by Jorge Jenckner on the journey undertaken in part with Keller-Lenzingen, 1886-1887; 4th exploratory journey by Dr. Hermann Soyaux to Brazil, 1885-1887; 5th exploration trip by Dr. Hermann Soyaux to Brazil, 1885-1887. Correspondence with the half-brother of the Emperor of Brazil Baron de Capanéma, director of the Brazilian Telegraph Company, about possible land assignments of the Brazilian government to the Kolonialverein, 1885-1887; 6th foundation of a company for German settlement in South America "Herman", 1886-1894.

Contains: Foundation of the association of the organizing institutions, planning, program, correspondence, exhibition cinema, procurement of doll bodies, exhibits of the Württemberg Natural History Collection, commemorative plaque on colonial history, tour description; survey of art publishers for postcards with colonial motifs.

Darin: 1. statute of the association for trade, commerce and agriculture in Palestine, 1884; 2. photograph of the entertainment of the music band of the ship "Moltke" on the Württemberg colony Haifa, 1896.

Also contains: Deutsche Marokko-Zeitung, No. 105 from 27.10.1908; Deutsche Marokko-Korrespondenz, No. 46 from 5.11.1908 (?); Memorandum and documents about German mining interests in Morocco, (1806-1909), 1910 (?); Inquiry in the Württemberg Parliament about the German action before Agadir, 1911; Consultation about the amendment of the Schutzgebietgesetz, 1911; Material betr. the concessions in the French Congo, Nov. 1911; two maps, 1911, 1914; reports and minutes of meetings of the R e i c h s t a g , Nov. 1911; Franco-Spanish Agreement on Morocco, (1904, 1905), 1911; memorandum on the replacement of four French companies in Cameroon, 1914.

Mild-Misch, among others from the above mentioned

Darin: 1st Deutsche Kolonial-Frauen-Schule zu Witzenhausen an der Werm (opening April 1908), print; 2nd Statutes "Deutsche wissenschaftliche Vereinigung", print

Contains among other things: Dispensing of duplicates of ethnographic objects; founding of a colonial home of the D e u t s c h e K o l o n i a l s c h e s e l l l s c h a f t , Dept. of St. Arold; meetings and congresses; lectures Darin: 1. founding and statutes of the Moroccan Society; 2. submission to the Royal Ministry of Church and Education for exchange of ethnographic objects

Contains among other things: Ethnologists and ethnology museums; exchange of publications with the Deutsches Museum, Munich; list of a collection of loans from Colombia; foundations of ethnological objects from Borneo, Sumatra and China; offers of ethnological objects Darin: 1. list of Japanese objects stolen in the Lindenmuseum on 2.5.1939; 2. exchange list for the Ethnology Museum in Frankfurt; 3. list of loans from the Lindenmuseum for a colonial exhibition in Aalen

Denkschriften und Petitionen an den Reichskanzler und den Kaiser (Samoafrage, Kamerun).

Contains: Bill of lading about ethnografica announced by ship; lectures; offers and photos of collections; exchange with magazines; founding of the German Society for Islamic Studies; provisional agenda of the German Georgaphen Day in Innsbruck; installation of an electric light guide; German motorboat expedition through Africa to explore New Cameroon; delivery of exhibition cabinets; lending of ethnografica

Contains mainly: Letters from Major von Raben to Sauter together with the corresponding photographs from Cameroon (above all Letters from Major Dinkelmann, Colonel General von Linsingen, General Heye, General Wilhelm Groener, Generals Hoch and Föhrenbach, General Goßler, Major Anwaerter and Major Dinkelmann; Letter draft from Sauter to General Heye Darin: Fotografie von Sauter; Entlassung Sauters aus dem Heer, 31.1.1941

Expedition zur Unterstützung Emin Paschas, Verwendung der zu diesem Zweck gesammelten Gelder u.a..

Contains among other things: Writing by Helmuth von Moltke, Eduard von Capelle, Alfred von Tirpitz, Erich von Falkenhayn, Erich Ludendorff, Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Max Prinz von Baden, Gustav Stresemann, Archbishop of Breslau Bertram

Contains among other things: Lectures; financial investments; exchange of Pfandbriefe for war bonds at the Königlich Württ. Hofbank; estates in favour of the Lindenmuseum; takeover of the exhibits of the former Colonial Museum in Berlin.

Contains mainly: Lecturer; Reichsverband der Kolonialdeutschen, Berlin; Craftsmen's Companies

Contains among other things: Award of the Comthur Cross II. Class of the Order of Frederick; congratulations and commemorative sheet on the occasion of the 70th birthday; correspondence on the lecture programme of the association; Helene von Falkenhausen; German South Polar Expedition; German Colonial Society; obituary by Kurt Lampert

Contains among other things: Living with the Curtius family in Strasbourg and Heidelberg; [Johann Jakob] Jaus, missionary of the Basel Mission in Kalkultta (5.6.1916); painting for war-damaged (23.10.1916 et al.); Swiss attitude towards Germany (9.8.1919)

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).