Description of holdings: Dept. 15 Lebensmittelamt [AUGIAS] Size: 55 archive cartons (= 497 units) Duration: 1916-1924 Dept. 15 of the Stadtarchiv Worms is a collection containing mainly documents on the war economy during the First World War and the time of the subsequent occupation. The name 'Lebensmittelamt' was chosen because most of the files deal with the food supply of the population and the name 'Wirtschaftamt' would be misleading because there was no such office within the city administration. As part of the forced management of food and fuels introduced during the First World War, a food office was established in Worms in 1916. In 1920, under the supervision of a commission of the city council for food supply, there was a food office under the supervision of the 'head of the entire food supply of the city of Worms', to which, among other things, an issuing office for food cards was attached. The office was also associated with the Lohlenkommission, which was entrusted with the fuel supply, and the Ortskohlenstelle. By decision of the city council of 10.3.1924 the food office was abolished. The administrative structure of the food and fuel supply of the city of Worms is derived from the Address Book of 1922 (p. 445) (see also Address Book 1920 p. 477 f.). In addition to the documents on the food and fuel supply, there are also files on supplying the population with clothing and urban shoe care. In addition, there are a few files dealing with the provision of housing and individual files in which the female employees in Worms trade, industry etc. were identified in the course of job creation for war returnees under the direction of the Demobilmachungsausschuss (no. 404 enterprises B, L and no. 404 enterprises K). Three acts dating from 1940/41 which resulted in infringements of the consumption rules (No 124, 125, 126) fall entirely outside the scope of this framework. The documents of Dept. 15 probably came into the care of the archive immediately after the dissolution of the office (probably around 1930/33). The largest part of the abbot 15 was registered from 16 August to 10 September 2004 by the student Marion Bechtold (University of Heidelberg) in the context of a practical course after the bear's principle. The data were entered into the AUGIAS archive program. After completion of the registration work, the collection comprises 497 units, which are stored in 55 archive boxes (8 metres). The temporal emphasis of the tradition lies between 1915 and 1924, beyond that there are individual pieces, which go back to .... and/or up to 1942. It could be established that the files were partly kept in file covers of various municipal provenances, such as 'files of the police administration of the city of Worms (e.g. no. 253, 254, 168), 'files of the Lord Mayor of the city of Worms (e.g. no. 163, 164, 198, 208) and 'Stadtverwaltung Worms' (no. 171). In addition to the files of Dept. 15, there are numerous documents on the food supply in Dept. 5 and Dept. 13; see also Dept. 16 for the period from 1939 onwards. For the area of housing, see Dept. 17 of the Housing Office (by decision of the City Council on 21.1.1919, the establishment of a municipal housing authority). Worms, December 2004 Literature: Süß, Martin: Rheinhessen under French occupation. From the armistice in November 1918 to the end of the Sparatist riots in February 1924, Stuttgart 1988 (=Geschichtliche Landeskunde 31) Metzler, Georg: Das Wohnungswesen in Worms, in: 150 Jahre Wormser zeitung (1776-1926), Worms 1926, pp. 84-87 Bönnen, Gerold: Tumulte und Unruhen in Zeiten der Krise: Das Beispiel Worms (1916 bis 1933), in: Unrecht und Recht. Crime and Society in Change 1500-2000: Joint State Exhibition of the Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland Archives. Scientific Accompanying Volume, edited by Heinz-Günther Borck and Beate Dorfey, Koblenz 2000 (=Publications of the State Archive Administration Rhineland-Palatinate 98), pp. 389-411. Olbrisch, Silke: Die Novemberrevolution 1918 in Worms unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Arbeiter- und Soldatenrates, in: Pujari, Anjali: Worms unter französischer Besatzung (1918-1930) (Written homework within the framework of the First State Examination for the Teaching Profession for the Sec. II, University of Bonn 2001, masch.., 129 S.) Bönnen, Gerold: On municipal housing construction in Worms (1918-1933) in: Wohnungsbau Worms (ed.), 50 years of Wohnungsbau GmbH Worms (1950-2000), Worms 2000, p. 5-20
