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

Darin: Membership Directory, 1883.

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: 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).

History of the tradition The documents of the Bihl architectural office

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

• 1868-1901, Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Dept. Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, J 54 Family archive Schmidt-Alberti Contains:<br />Bernhard von Alberti (1868 - 1915), son of Friedrich Ludwig Eduard von Alberti<br />1. Certificates<br />a) Approval for admission to the Protepéefähnrich examination, 1887<br />b) Maturity certificate for the Portepéefähnrich, 1888<br />c) Graduation certificate of the Engers School of War, 1889<br />d) Maturity certificate for the officer, 1889<br />e) Notification of the award of the iron cross<br /> <br />2. Youth letters to his parents, (mostly undated) about 1868, /_1-6<br /> <br />3. China expedition, 1900-1901 (Boxer uprising)<br />a) Newspaper clippings about his participation in the China expedition<br />b) Index of the teams of the 8. Company of the 6th East Asian Infantry Regiment. with ranking of the direct superiors (pp.1-6)); compilation of the armed forces of the United Nations assembled in the province of Petschili (B1.8 -10); military diary of the 6th Company about the events in the Chinese campaign from 17 Aug. 1900 - 11 June 1901 (pp. 13-23) with an insert: Sketch of the German camp in Tientsin, 23 pp, 1900-1901<br />c) Field letters to his parents with diary entries, area sketches (/_37-43, 122), postcards and lecture plan about the experiences, 1900/1901, /_1-198 description: Contains: - Bernhard von Alberti (1868 - 1915), son of Friedrich Ludwig Eduard von Alberti - 1. Certificates - a) Approval for admission to the Protepéefähnrich examination, 1887 - b) Matriculation certificate for the Portepéefähnrich, 1888 - c) Graduation certificate for the Engers School of War, 1889 - d) Matriculation certificate for the officer, 1889 - e) Notification of the award of the Iron Cross - 2. Youth letters to his parents, (mostly undated) about 1868, /_1-6 - - 3rd China expedition, 1900-1901 (Boxer uprising) - a) Newspaper cuttings about his participation in the China expedition - b) List of the teams of the 8th Company of the 6th East Asian Infantry Regiment. together with ranking of the direct superiors (pp. 1-6)); compilation of the armed forces of the United Nations assembled in the province of Petschili (B1.8 -10); military diary of the 6th Company about the events in the Chinese campaign from 17 Aug. 1900 - 11 June 1901 (pp. 13-23) with an insert: Sketch of the German camp in Tientsin, 23 pp, 1900-1901 - c) field post letters to his parents with diary entries, area sketches (/_37-43, 122), postcards and lecture plan about the experiences, 1900/1901, /_1-198

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

• description: Contains, among other things: Letter to Axel Varnbüler by Nico von Below-Saleske, Walter (Wawitsch) by Below-Saleske, Elisabeth and Georg von Erffa zu Wernburg, Rüdiger von Below-Saleske; telegrams 1900, Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Dept. Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, P 10 Archive of the Freiherr Varnbüler von und zu Hemmingen Contains, among other things: Letter to Axel Varnbüler by Nico von Below-Saleske, Walter (Wawitsch) by Below-Saleske, Elisabeth and Georg von Erffa zu Wernburg, Rüdiger von Below-Saleske; Telegrams

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).

Preliminary remark: The present collection of material on biographies was received by the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart in December 1975 as a gift from Freiherr Meinrad von Ow, Munich. It formed part of the written estate of General Franz Freiherr von Soden (1856 - 1945) and was collected by him in the years 1919 - 1945. The original reason for this may have been Sodens' plan to "compile a book of honour for the higher leaders". In 1921 or 1924, he succeeded in enriching his collection with material that had grown up in the years 1916/17 to about 20 officers killed in World War II under Lieutenant Colonel Osterberg (cf. No. 379 of the holdings), then Chief of the War Archive, von Soden's collection united documents on the biographies of military personnel, in particular of Württemberg officers, but also of men and women of general importance, as well as of persons who for various reasons found Soden interesting. This writing is of very different nature and quality. It mainly includes obituaries and newspaper articles, often written by Soden, concepts and manuscripts of Sodens on congratulations, eulogies and obituaries, as well as correspondences of Sodens with individual persons represented in the collection and the like. The note "very important" on one of the folders in which the collection was previously kept shows that it was of high value to von Soden. Today it is a welcome addition to the official files, which have not been fully preserved, especially for personnel matters. The collection, which comprised 6 folders when it was transferred to the archive, was created by superimposing the individual documents, newspaper clippings and the like from Soden and giving them a number. The documents received at different times for one and the same person were therefore usually not available. Since the collection lacked an internal order and since von Soden did not create an index either, it was neither usable in practice nor needed consideration of its previous state of order in the current reorganization, in which the material available for each person was combined and the inventory was based on an alphabetical classification. As a rule, the information in the title recordings was taken from the holdings themselves. Only the life data, partly also the first names and with officers the contingent affiliation were often supplemented with other aids (above all the archival holdings M 430/1 - M 430/5 general reference books and biographical encyclopaedias). However, it would only have been possible to achieve completeness in these additions, which are marked as such by square brackets only in justified exceptional cases, with a workload that would be out of proportion to the source value of the holdings. Unless otherwise stated, the officers are always members of the Württemberg army. The note "died" means both "died" and "fallen" or "died as a result of injury". The stock comprises 602 numbers (0, 85 linear metres). It was recorded at the beginning of 1977 by the archivist Herrmann under the supervision of Oberstaatsarchivrat Dr. Fischer, who was also responsible for the revision of the title recordings and the elaboration of the repertory. Stuttgart, August 1977(Fischer)

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

Content and Assessment This collection contains the documents collected by the US military government in the Schwäbisch Gmünd district to document the affiliation and proximity of individuals to the National Socialist regime. With the goal of denazification in mind, the Americans confiscated "incriminating" records wherever they could get their hands on them: essentially the records of the NSDAP and its divisions, but to a lesser extent also those of the district offices, documents of the public prosecutor's offices as well as records of the communities or the local police authorities; in addition, there is sporadic material produced by the military government itself. By their very nature, the crewing authorities did not take into account the original registry connections when preparing the personal dossiers. Part of the evidence is attached to the files of the Spruchkammer proceedings, the remainder was kept separately and, together with the files of the Spruchkammer, was transferred to the Ludwigsburg State Archives after the end of the political cleansing. There, separated from the procedural files, it was first formed into an inventory under the signature PL 502/12 with the inexact title "NSDAP-Kreisleitung Schwäbisch Gmünd". As far as was concerned, a project financed by the Stiftung Kulturgut (Foundation for Cultural Heritage) for the cataloguing of the holdings group PL 501-523 between May 2004 and February 2007 reconstructed factual interrelationships and old registry orders, leaving the personal units, on the other hand, primarily where the external scope of the existing dossier made this appear justified. The inventory, ordered and listed by Dr. Carl-Jochen Müller, comprises 467 units = 0.9 m running time.

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

Preliminary remark: The district Esslingen of the NSDAP comprised the upper office and/or the district Esslingen in its respective extent. Eugen Hund, a commercial employee, acted as district leader from 1933 to 1943 and Eugen Wahler, a senior teacher and district leader in Nürtingen from 1943 to 1945, acted as district leader from 1933 to 1943. the records of the district leadership have been preserved only to a small extent, after the mass of the files had presumably been destroyed in accordance with the general order immediately before the invasion of the allied troops. The military government and the Spruchkammer in Esslingen then compiled the documents still available, mixed with those from numerous other sources, in rudimentary form according to personal subject, in order to obtain suitable examination material for denazification in this way. A smaller part of this was also formally integrated into the newly formed fascicles of the arithmetic chamber, while the larger part remained separate. This latter document arrived in the archives with the tradition of the Spruchkammer and - in a few individual pieces - of the military government and was formed here in 1974/75 according to the content assumed to be predominantly "NSDAP-Kreisleitung Esslingen" under the signature PL 502/9.After a protracted splitting into the provenances listed below, the remaining documents of the district administration were recorded in November 1988 and, since it was not possible to determine the order plans from the time of origin, they were arranged according to the scheme developed for the holdings of the NSDAP district administration in Ulm. In view of the decidedly accidental preservation of individual documents, the activities of the district management can only in a few cases be deduced from the holdings. It now comprises 66 tufts in 0.5 metres of shelving. Further material of the same provenance can, as indicated, be presumed to have been found in individual cases before the Spruchkammer. For the directly personal archive records, the restrictions on use specified in the State Archives Act must be observed until about 2015, i.e. 90 years after the birth of the younger NSDAP members.Ludwigsburg, December 1988 (signed Dr. Cordes) Outsourced foreign provenances: Ministerial Department for Secondary Schools, Personnel IndexMinisterial Department for Elementary Schools, Personnel IndexMinisterial Department for Vocational Schools, Personnel Index [Landespolizeidirektion]Oberamt/Landratsamt EsslingenAmtsoberamt StuttgartLandesarbeitsamtReichsarbeitsdienst Arbeitsgauleitung Nr. 26Reichsbahndirektion StuttgartReichsluftschutzbund Landesgruppe Württemberg-BadenReichsnährstand Landesbauernschaft WürttembergViehwirtschaftsverband WürttembergReichsstand des Deutschen Handwerks LandeshandwerksmeisterWürttemberg und HohenzhollernStadt Esslingen am NeckarGemeinden des Landkreises EsslingenNSDAP-Gauleitung Württemberg-HohenzollernNSDAP-Ortsgruppen des Kreis EsslingenSA-Gruppe SüdwestSA-Standarte 51SA-Standarte 121 und StürmeSA-Standarte R 121 und StürmeSA-Standarte 123 und StürmeSA-Standarte R 123SA-Standard 247 and StürmeSA-Reiter-Standarte 55 and StürmeSS-Standarte 63SS-Standarte 769NSFK-Gruppe 15NSFK-Standarte 101NSFK-Motorsturm M 55HJ-Gebiet 20HJ-Bann 365NS-Frauenschaft-Gaukassenverwaltung Württemberg-HohenzollernNS-StudentenbundDAF-Gauverwaltung Württemberg-HohenzollernDAF district administration EsslingenDAF court of honour and disciplinary court Gau Württemberg-HohenzollernKdF-Gaudienststelle WürttembergNS-Altherrenbund der Deutschen StudentenReichskolonialbund Gauverband Württemberg-HohenzollernAmerican military government in Esslingen

Content and Assessment This collection contains the documents collected by the US military government in Aalen County to document the affiliation and proximity of individuals to the National Socialist regime. With the goal of denazification in mind, the Americans confiscated "incriminating" records wherever they could get their hands on them: essentially the records of the NSDAP and its divisions, but to a lesser extent also those of the district offices, documents of the public prosecutor's offices as well as records of the communities or the local police authorities; in addition, there is sporadic material produced by the military government itself. By their very nature, the crewing authorities did not take into account the original registry connections when preparing the personal dossiers. Part of the evidence is attached to the files of the Spruchkammer proceedings, the remainder was kept separately and, together with the files of the Spruchkammer, was transferred to the Ludwigsburg State Archives after the end of the political cleansing. There it was, separated from the procedural files, under the signature PL 502/1 first with the inexact title "NSDAP-Kreisleitung Aalen" formed to a continuance. As far as was concerned, a project financed by the Stiftung Kulturgut (Foundation for Cultural Heritage) for the cataloguing of the holdings group PL 501-523 between May 2004 and February 2007 reconstructed factual interrelationships and old registry orders, leaving the personal units, on the other hand, primarily where the external scope of the existing dossier made this appear justified. The inventory, ordered and listed by Dr. Carl-Jochen Müller, comprises 1995 units = 6.2 m running metres.

Content and Assessment This collection contains the documents collected by the US military government in the Öhringen-Künzelsau district to document the affiliation and proximity of individuals to the National Socialist regime. With the goal of denazification in mind, the Americans confiscated "incriminating" records wherever they could get their hands on them: essentially the records of the NSDAP and its divisions, but to a lesser extent also those of the district offices, documents of the public prosecutor's offices as well as records of the communities or the local police authorities; in addition, there is sporadic material produced by the military government itself. By their very nature, the crewing authorities did not take into account the original registry connections when preparing the personal dossiers. Part of the evidence is attached to the files of the Spruchkammer proceedings, the remainder was kept separately and, together with the files of the Spruchkammer, was transferred to the Ludwigsburg State Archives after the end of the political cleansing. There it was, separated from the procedural files, first formed under the signature PL 502/23 with the inexact title "NSDAP-Kreisleitung Öhringen-Künzelsau" to a stock. As far as was concerned, a project financed by the Stiftung Kulturgut (Foundation for Cultural Heritage) for the cataloguing of the holdings group PL 501-523 between May 2004 and February 2007 reconstructed factual interrelationships and old registry orders, leaving the personal units, on the other hand, primarily where the external scope of the existing dossier made this appear justified. The inventory, ordered and listed by Dr. Carl-Jochen Müller, comprises 691 units = 4.7 m running metres.

Contains: 1. reports of the district governor of Usambara, Major Krenzler, 1891; 2. letter of Major H. Wißmann, 1891-1892; 3. letter of J. Rindermann to the secretariat of the German Colonial Society, 1897.

Contains: 1st colony Dona Franziska in Brazil, 1897; 2nd liberation of Carl Neufeld, captured in Sudan, 1898; 3rd offer for sale of files from the time of the foundation of the German Colonial Society by Richard Jakob, 1898-1899; 4th promotion of the German settlement in Palestine (Prince Carl von Urach), 1899; 5th liberation of Carl Neufeld, captured in Sudan, 1898; 4th promotion of the German settlement in Palestine (Prince Carl von Urach), 1899; 5th liberation of Carl Neufeld, captured in Sudan, 1898. South West African Shepherding Society (former Minister of State v. Hofmann), 1901; 6th Railway Construction Project Porto Alegre-Pelotas (Carl Bolle), 1901; 7th Safata Samoa Society, 1903; 8th Evangelical Africa Society, 1903; 9th Fazenda do Baranco Branco in Matto Grosso, Brazil, 1908.

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.

Includes: 1. project to establish a land acquisition company in Mexico, 1889-1890; 2. project of a German colony in the Mexican province of Chihuahua, 1893-1894.

Contains: 1. letter to Count Hatzfeld about the foundation of a South American trading company, 1883; 2. foundation of a South American colonization company by Prof. Ernst Hesse, Leipzig, 1883,1887; 3. project of the foundation of a colony New Germany by Dr. Bernhard Förster in Paraguay; suicide of Förster, 1883, 1885-1889; 4. letter of the German ambassador in Brazil, Holleben, about the conditions in Paraguay, 1884-1886.

Contains: 1st plan of a planting and trading company for the Bismarck archipelago; 2nd transmission of South Sea curiosities to Langenburg; 3rd Reichstag printed matter 210 on the Samoa question; 4th questions on the situation in New Guinea.

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 .

Darin: Kolonialzeitung; Afrika, Monatsschrift für die morliche und soziale Entwicklung der deutschen Schutzgebiete; minutes of meetings of the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft and others.

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.