Fonds Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe, 59 - General Adjutant (inventory)

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Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe, 59

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General Adjutant (inventory)

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  • 1827-1919 (Creation)

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1286 Faszikel (Nr. 1-1283)

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Tradition and order: The General Adjutant's Office delivered older documents itself at the end of 1918, younger ones to the Margrave's Chancellery in Baden-Baden, from there to the Army Museum and in 1946 to the General State Archives. Since in 1909 no repository had been planned for the files of the General Adjutant's Office - with good reason, because it belonged to the "military state" of the Grand Duke, not actually to the court authorities - they were stored in 1918 in the files of the Haus- und Staatsarchiv following the Haus- und Hofsachen; in 1939 the inventory was given the number 59. Julius Kastner produced the present find book in 1964 on the basis of older card indexes. The basic lists and personnel reports about officers in Baden regiments 1858-1870 (59/618-639) and the list of names of the officers buried in the old cemetery in Karlsruhe 1870-1871 (59/404) were dispersed; both indexes are today in the thematic inventories of the General State Archive. In 2009, Kastner's search book was converted into an online search book with funds from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and then edited by Christoph Florian and Alfred Becher. Within the framework of the conversion, however, it was not possible to revise the unsatisfactory state of order. In the future, for example, confusing large categories such as "Rank and Quarter Lists, Personnel Changes, Basic Lists, Personnel Reports, Personnel Sheets", in which several series were mixed together, are to be diffused more clearly; the separation of series, which was caused by the common distinction between peacetime ("military matter") and wartime ("wartime matter"), also has a negative effect; the treatment of the meritorious, but very detailed indices of Julius Kastner remained problematic in the conversion to an online finding aid. For the collection in SCOPE archive the in-depth entries of Kastner were difficult, the result remained unsatisfactory; the indices must be worked on completely again. Since this was not possible within the scope of the finding aid conversion, only a Word version is available for the time being in the printed find book copies of the General State Archives; it was created by Christoph Florian from the typewritten template. Full text search is recommended for online searches. History and content: No written material seems to have survived from the older General Adjutant's Office in Baden, which was abolished in 1832. Grand Duke Leopold confined himself to hiring personal adjutants, some of whom - like Heinrich Krieg von Hochfelden - also had quite different non-military tasks to perform. In 1852 Frederick I, as Prince Regent in the restoration phase after the Revolution, re-established a General Adjutant's Office as the Prince Regent; it formed the link between the Grand Duke, as supreme warlord, and the Baden Army as well as the War Ministry, and after 1871 the XIV (Baden) Army Corps of the Prussian Army. Accordingly, questions of military personnel and contact with troops are at the heart of the tradition. However, since the General Adjutant's duties also included dealing with the military ceremony, the collection also provides information on the bestowal of orders, visits by emperors and princes, anniversaries, unveilings of monuments and other occasions of representation which had a major influence on the increasingly militarised everyday life of the empire. Karlsruhe, October 2009Konrad Krimm

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Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Dept. General State Archive Karlsruhe (Archivtektonik) >> Dynasty and Government >> court authorities >> Generaladjudantur

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      Hansmartin Schwarzmaier/Hiltburg Köckert, Die Bestände des Generallandesarchivs Karlsruhe, Teil 3, Haus- und Staatsarchiv sowie Hofbehörden (46-60), Stuttgart 1991, S. 100-102.

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      Original description: Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek

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