Formation history: The task of this stage was to supply the army by supplying it with armed forces and other army needs. The resources and supplies of the theatre of war could also be used. To each army belonged a stage inspection; to independent corps and/or army departments a stage command. The stage area was again subdivided into stage command posts, whose remit corresponded to that of a stage inspection. The documents of the following stage commandantures have been handed down in the inventory:Mobile Stage Command Office 43 [Colmar] including the District Directorate Colmar;Mobile Stage Command Office 64 [Laon];Mobile Stage Command Office 84 [Sissonne];Mobile Stage Command Office 104 [Schlettstadt];Mobile Stage Command Office 124 [Villerupt];Mobile Stage Command Office 140 [Busigny];Mobile Stage Command Office 167 [Vervins];Mobile stage command post 172 [Mulhouse in Alsace];Mobile stage command post 173 [Schirmeck];Mobile stage command post 184 [Flobecq];Mobile stage command post 185 [Müllheim];Mobile stage command post 279 [Virton];Mobile stage command post 297 [Arlon];Mobile stage command post 363 [Maniewicze].In addition to the documents of the mobile stage commandant's offices responsible for the stage area, the files of the district director Colmar on the implementation of the surveillance of the civilian population and the recording of the hostages abducted by the French are of particular interest. Inventory history: After the end of the war, the files of the mobile stage commandant's offices remained with the Leib-Grenadier Regiment 109. From January 1920, the establishment of an archive of the XIV Army Corps was begun, in which the archives of the stage commandant's offices were brought together. In autumn 1920 the corps archive moved to the infantry barracks in Heilbronn. From January 1921, the Corps Archives entered the portfolio of the Reich Ministry of the Interior under the name Aktenverwaltung XIV, before being incorporated into the Reichsarchiv in Potsdam as the Heilbronn archive branch on April 1, 1921. As a result of the merger of the Heilbronn and Stuttgart branches of the Reich Archives, the holdings were transferred to Stuttgart in 1924. The Württembergische Archivdirektion, which took over the administration of the holdings of the Army Archives Stuttgart after the end of the Second World War, handed over the XIV Army Corps to the General State Archives Karlsruhe in the years 1947 to 1949. A very detailed history of the holdings is contained in the foreword of the Deputy General Command of the XIV Army Corps (holdings 456 F 8). 460 fascicles with a circumference of 8.80 linear metres are included. References: Die Badener im Weltkrieg 1914/18, edited by Wilhelm Müller-Loebnitz, Karlsruhe 1935.German Military History in six volumes 1648-1939, edited by the Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt Freiburg, Munich 1983.Fenske, Hans: Die Verwaltung im Ersten Weltkrieg, in: Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte, vol. 3, Stuttgart 1984, p. 866-908.Fischer, Joachim: Zehn Jahre Militärarchiv des Hauptstaatsarchivs Stuttgart, in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 37 (1978), p. 362-368.Jäger, Harald: Das militärische Archivgut in der Bundesrepublik für die Zeit von 1871 bis 1919, in: Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen 1968/2, S. 135-138.Overview of the holdings of the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, edited by Joachim Fischer (published by the Staatliche Archivverwaltung Baden-Württemberg, vol. 31), Stuttgart 1983.