The history of the district governments: The district governments were established by the 4th Edict of 18 Nov. 1817 at the same time as the district chambers of finance were revoked in 1849. Previously, the entire administration in Württemberg had been led by a central government college, in which sections had been formed for the various branches of the administration, in addition to the district governorates, which had only little competence and were called bailiwick bailiwicks from 1810 onwards, as well as the municipal and district authorities. The division of the country into districts and the creation of provincial colleges was modelled on the French Departmental Constitution of 1789, which also formed the basis for a new administrative organisation in other German states at the beginning of the 19th century. In 1818 it was put into effect, and at the same time the sections of internal administration, medicine, roads, bridges, hydraulic engineering, local government and the Commission for Municipal Use and Allodification of Farm Loans existing in the Ministry of the Interior, the section of crown domains, the section of state accounts, the section of agriculture, the section of state coffers in the Ministry of Finance, the section of foundations in the Ministry of Church and Education were abolished.After the instruction of Dec. 21. In 1819, the district governments were the supreme authorities in their area for all matters of state administration in the field of regimes (sovereign administration), the state police and the state economy, and for the administration of the property of municipalities, official bodies and foundations, insofar as these objects were not assigned to other district or central offices (Chambers of Finance as well as Protestant Consistory, Catholic Church Council, Academic Council, Superior Building Council, Provincial Stud Commission, Medical College, Superior Chamber of Accounts, Tax College, Forestry Council and Bergrat).The old 1819 directive was valid for 70 years, it was only replaced by the Decree of 15 Nov 1889 on the organisation of district governments and the course of their business. Their business was handled by a president as a member of the board, administrative councils and collegial assessors as well as the necessary office staff. For the technical consultation a county medical council was temporarily assigned to the health service, for the road, bridge and hydraulic engineering of the municipalities a construction council, another for the building industry of the municipalities and foundations an expert was assigned, for the permissions of steam boiler plants. Business was transacted partly through collegial consultation and decision-making, partly through the office.In the course of time, a number of important tasks were transferred from the original tasks of the district governments to other middle and central authorities, such as the Ministerial Department for Road and Water Construction (1848), the Central Office for Agriculture (1848), the Central Office for Trade and Commerce (1848), the Ministerial Department for Building Construction (1872), the Corporate Forestry Directorate (1875), the Medical College (1881) and the Higher Insurance Office (1912).After 1870, new tasks arose for the district governments through new Reich and state laws, namely the Industrial Code, the laws on the formation of district poor associations, on the administration of administrative justice, on the representation of Protestant church and Catholic parishes and on the compulsory expropriation of land. In addition, at the beginning of the 20th century, the water law was reorganized, social legislation was expanded and direct supervision of large and medium-sized cities and direct supervision of large and medium-sized cities was assigned. In the case of the tasks of the internal state administration to be carried out by the district governments, these were either the deciding or the decreing authority of the first instance, or the supervisory and complaints authority, or the evaluating and mediating authority. 1924, in the course of the removal of civil servants and offices, the district governments were replaced by a new ministerial department for district and corporate administration, subdivided into the Ministry of the Interior, for all competences which did not pass to the upper offices and the Ministry.Literature- Alfred Dehlinger, Württembergisches Staatswesen, 1951 - 1953 (esp. § 127)- Handwörterbuch der württembergischen Verwaltung, edited by Dr. Friedrich Haller 1915- Denkschrift über Vereinfachungen in der Staatsverwaltung vom 27.2.1911, in: Verhandlungen der Württ. Zweiten Kammer 1911/12, Beilage 28, S. 385ff. (Dep. of the Interior). To the district government of Reutlingen: The seat of the government of the Black Forest district, established at the end of 1817, was Reutlingen (Reutlingen district government), which was responsible for the upper offices of Balingen, Calw, Freudenstadt, Herrenberg, Horb, Nagold, Neuenbürg, Nürtingen, Oberndorf, Reutlingen, Rottenburg, Rottweil, Spaichingen, Sulz, Tübingen, Tuttlingen (with exclave Hohentwiel) and Urach. Furthermore, the workhouse for women in Rottenburg, which was affiliated to the prison for female prisoners in Gotteszell in 1907, was subordinated to her. While the number of senior offices in the district government of Reutlingen remained constant until 1938, the districts themselves experienced a decline in the number of senior offices in the district government of Reutlingen as a result of the law of 6 July 1938.1842 on the amendment in the delimitation of the administrative districts subsequent amendments:- from OA Herrenberg the municipality Hagelloch to OA Tübingen, - from OA Neuenbürg the municipalities Dennjächt, Ernstmühl, Liebenzell, Monakam, Unterhaugstett and Unterreichenbach to OA Calw- from OA Nürtingen the municipality Grabenstetten to OA Urach, Hausen am Tann and Roßwangen to OA Rottweil,- from OA Tübingen the municipality Altenriet to OA Nürtingen and- from OA Urach the municipality Pliezhausen to OA Tübingen and the municipality Eningen to OA Reutlingen.The above-mentioned places may therefore appear in the search book under different regional offices, which has to be taken into account in individual cases. Structure, order and distortion of the inventory: Present holdings E 177 I essentially contain the records handed over to the Ludwigsburg State Archives by the registry office of the district government in Reutlingen on December 3, 1924 - a torso in relation to the original records.A considerable number of the registry files had already been withdrawn and collected in 1823, 1835, 1848, 1853, 1863, 1872, 1889 and finally 1924, including the records until 1850, the business diaries until 1870 and the directorates until 1830 (cf. Further files had been handed over to the following offices for reasons of competence:- 1873 to the ministerial department for building construction (building files),- 1908 to the archive of the interior (files of the county Ober- und Niederhohenberg zu Rottenburg, the bailiwicks Black Forest, on the Alb, on the upper Neckar and on the middle Neckar, the Churfürstl. 1924 finally to the 17 upper offices of the district, to the ministerial department for district and corporate administration, to the ministerial department for building construction, to the regional trade office, to the trade and supervisory office, to the catholic high school council, to the ministerial department for higher schools and/or to the ministerial department for the higher schools. The files handed over to the Archive of the Interior as well as parts of the files handed over to the Ministerial Department for District and Corporation Administration and the Higher Offices (above all the Higher Offices Reutlingen and Urach) later came from these offices directly or via successor authorities (District Administrator's Offices) or the Ministerial Department for Technical Schools (see E 177 I Büschel 301 and 4393). In 1937, the State Archives Ludwigsburg, under the direction of the subsequent Director of the State Archives Prof. Grube, undertook a makeshift order and indexing of the holdings, which he described in the find book as follows: "The registry of the Reutlingen district government was handed over to the State Branch Archives in 1924 with an inadequate handover register of 5 pages. The older registry plan (with keyword register) and a keyword register of 1910 designated as "Repertorium", which was also handed over, were also not sufficient for the determination of the actually existing files. Since it is not possible in the foreseeable future to keep an internal order for the somewhat confused holdings and to separate the files that are not worthy of archiving, the present repertory was produced by Hausverwalter Isser in 1935 on the occasion of the external order of the holdings as a temporary auxiliary measure according to the fascicle inscriptions. As part of the revision of the holdings of the district governments in the Ludwigsburg State Archives from 1986 to 1990, the undersigned, together with the temporary employee Karin Steißlinger, who opened up the extensive administrative legal cases, made new title records for the various partial holdings of the Reutlingen district government (E 177 I, E 177 III and without signature). The registry was based on a simple systematic order introduced after 1863 by Registrator Bregizer and Chancellor List Wenz, according to which the files were divided into the main groups A Regiminal and B Police files with 19 and 13 rubrics respectively; the file bundles themselves were correspondingly provided with file signatures, i.e. with letters and numbers of the stands (boxes) and compartments. After the new indexing had been completed, the title records created using the numerus currens-procedure were sorted according to the old file plan, but the structure of the file groups in the finding aid book was made clearer and without the division into two parts of the Regiminal and Police Administration. Of these, 0.5 linear metres were allocated to the files available here (Kreisreg. Ludwigsburg, Ellwangen and Ulm, Commission for the Clean-up of the Official and Municipal Association, Ministerial Department for District and Corporation Administration). The Main State Archives received 0.6 linear metres (mainly old-valued files) and the State Archives Sigmaringen 1.6 linear metres (files of the higher offices), while 0.8 linear metres of files (slaughterhouse and meat inspection fees, office costs of the higher offices, examination of sports invoices) were collected.For 297, plans and cracks still attached to the files as well as 175 newspaper copies proof maps for the holdings JL 590 and JL 430 were produced. 4484 tufts were made for the holdings E 177 I. Ludwigsburg, in November 1990Hofer tufts 4485 to 4499, received from the State Archives Sigmaringen with access 2000/79, were incorporated into the holdings in July 2009. Retroconversion: This finding aid book is a repertory that was previously only available in handwritten or typewritten form and was converted into a database-supported and thus online-capable format according to a procedure developed by the "Retroconversion Working Group in the Ludwigsburg State Archives". This can lead to a certain discrepancy between the modern external appearance and the partly outdated design and formulation of the title recordings. Corrections, deletions and additions were verified and incorporated.

Preliminary remark: Already in the 18th century a street inspector and a street deputation for the improvement of the streets had been established in Württemberg. In 1819 the kingdom was divided into 10 districts for road inspectors. The second district of the Jagst district, which was responsible for the upper offices Künzelsau, Mergentheim, Gerabronn, Hall and Öhringen, was created as a result and became the road construction inspection Künzelsau (Regierungsblatt p. 163ff.). As a result of the increasing length of state roads, road construction inspections were repeatedly increased in the 19th century, which also changed the administrative districts. Since 1836 (Regierungsblatt p. 655ff.), the Künzelsau Road Construction Inspectorate had no longer been responsible for the Hall Upper Office, which had come to the Gmünd Inspectorate, and since 1846 (Regierungsblatt p. 160ff.) had no longer been responsible for the öhringen Upper Office, which was now looked after from the newly established Hall Inspectorate. The resulting area of responsibility, which only included the upper offices of Künzelsau, Mergentheim and Gerabronn, remained unchanged when the road construction inspectorates, which were also responsible for hydraulic engineering, were renamed road and hydraulic engineering offices in 1919. A change in the official area only occurred when the upper office Gerabronn was integrated in the course of the National Socialist administrative form into the administrative district Crailsheim. At the same time, in 1938, the existing roads and hydraulic engineering offices were abolished and divided into 15 new districts. While the new district of Crailsheim was assigned to the Hall Road and Hydraulic Engineering Office, the Künzelsau Office was given responsibility for the districts of Künzelsau and Mergentheim (Regierungsblatt p. 229). On July 1, 1953, the newly established Water Management Offices in Hydraulic Engineering took over the tasks of the Road and Hydraulic Engineering Offices, which continued to exist as Road Construction Offices with a reduced scope of duties, including the Road Construction Office in Künzelsau (Official Gazette, p. 31 et seq.). In 1973, in the course of the district reform, a road construction office was established in Bad Mergentheim, which was responsible for the Hohenlohe and Tauber districts (Gesetzblatt p. 431). The Künzelsauer Straßenbauamt was thus appointed construction supervisor for the Hohenlohe district as of January 1, 1974. The following inventory is composed of deliveries from the following offices in 1976, 1986 and 1987: Road Construction Office Schwäbisch Hall (Bü. 1-66 and 141 - 178) Water Management Office Schwäbisch Hall (Bü. 309 - 320) Road Construction Office Bad Mergentheim, Construction Management Künzelsau (Bü. 67 - 76, 179 - 308 and 321 - 528) * Water Management Office Künzelsau (Bü. 77 - 140) The building of the stock is based on the separation of the areas of responsibility road and hydraulic engineering in 1953. Documents created after 1st July 1953 have been assigned to the Straßenbauamt Künzelsau (FL 40/6), the title recordings were made in 1986 and 1987 by Emma Edling, a temporary employee. The undersigned checked the indexing work on a random basis in 1988, structured it on the basis of the "Registraturplan für die Straßenbauinspektionen und die Wasserbau-Inspektion" (Registration Plan for Road Construction Inspections and Hydraulic Engineering Inspection) from the beginning of the 20th century (print, o.D.), which was handed down in Bü. 201, and created the computer-aided index. Mrs. Hildegard Aufderklamm was responsible for the computer recording. When using the finding aid book, the following must be observed:1 The classification of the road construction files (Section 4.3) is based on the allocation to individual streets and then on the running time of the bundle. A detailed grouping according to individual road sections or construction measures was not meaningful due to overlapping local subjects.2 A particular problem was the renumbering and reclassification of streets during title recording and classification. The indexing is based on the prearchival file titles, which only partially take into account such changes - for example in the form of additions or notes. A continuous allocation to the current road network was refrained from. (3) The geographical index covers all locations mentioned in the title records, but only border locations of route sections if the construction is not restricted to a closer location within the section. The index only takes into account subjects that cannot be determined using the classification system. Stock F 225 has a circumference of 16.7 linear metres (= order no. l - 528; order numbers 343 - 352 are not assigned). Ludwigsburg, October 1988 Dr. Kretzschmar Note on the pre-signatures: Two different signature layers can be identified for the pre-signatures, whereby the signatures of both layers are noted on numerous files. If there is only one pre-signature of the second layer on the file cover, this is at the end of the title recording only with 2)... is specified.

Robert Koch (center with tropical helmet) and the German governor of New Guinea Rudolph von Benningsen (3rd from right) on the malaria expedition to New Guinea / Photographer: Scherl

Contains also: files of the Reichs-Marine-Amt (1903-1922) and the Landesverwaltung des Gouvernements Kiautschou (1903-1914)

Preliminary remark: The contents of the present repertory are files of the Royal Cabinet, which were handed over to the State Archives with two summary indexes after the Revolution. Since these lists proved to be insufficient, a new, extensive repertory was created. The original collection has been preserved in its entirety, with the exception of a few insignificant fascicles, not listed in the old registers, which have been excreted; they have remained essentially in their original order; only in a few places has it been modified in favour of a more summarised or systematic classification.

Deputy Director since 1925, Director 1926-1929; Appointment Certificate as Deputy Director, 1925; Acceptance of Vocation, 1925; Correspondence, 1927-1929; Letters to him during his visitation, especially Insp. A. Hoffmann about events in Barmen, 1928-1929; Obituaries of Deputation and the Family, Sept. 1929; Order of the Memorial Service, Dr.., 1929; Description of the illness and its causes by the son, 1929; condolences and telegrams, 1929; obituaries in various newspapers, 1929; correspondence with the family, 1956-1964