History of tradition History of the authorities Due to the denazification guidelines of the French occupying power of 19 October 1945, cleaning commissions were formed as a second stage at each state directorate in Tübingen. On 18 February 1946 the commissions met for the first time. They had to apply graduated sanctions on the basis of the material prepared by the district investigation committees. On 18 March 1946, the formation of a political cleansing council of representatives of the parties was ordered, which was to ensure the unification of the sanctions and a balanced composition of the cleansing organs. He met for the first time on 6 April 1946. The legal order for political cleansing of 28 May 1946 redesigned the cleansing procedure as a purely administrative procedure and established a State Commissariat for political cleansing as the highest authority with its seat in Reutlingen, to which a political advisory council was attached. The cleaning commissions only had to submit proposals for sanctions. When new evidence was submitted, the State Commissariat was able to order a retrial. With the legal order of 25 April 1947, the system of the Spruchkamm was introduced and the seat of the Staatskommissariat was moved to Tübingen. In 1953, the State Commissariat was abolished by the Law on the Uniform Termination of Political Cleansing. Inventory history and report of the editor The documents at hand were sent to the Sigmaringen State Archives via the Ludwigsburg State Archives in October 1977/29. The employee Rupert Flöß created a very flat directory of available documentation. Since then, finding a single denazification file has required a multi-level search system, essentially using different card indexes and slogans collections. Denazification mainly affected certain professions and in particular public sector workers. The fact that a person completed a questionnaire does not therefore allow any conclusion to be drawn as to their behaviour during the Third Reich. Questionnaires had to be filled out even for numerous persons who had already died. Among other things, they were used to verify pension and reparation rights. For certain professional groups, for example clergy, journalists and members of the chamber of commerce (Reutlingen) own files were led. However, the information contained in the denazification files and so-called sayings varies greatly. For example, the little sayings that were used to decide the procedures of the unencumbered or the under-encumbered contain only minimal information, usually the name, date of birth, place of residence and political evaluation. Nevertheless, even they can provide important information, if these data were not previously known, and they often allow the entry into further research. The other denazification acts are also very different in scope and significance. Often the information value does not go substantially beyond that of the small sayings. Sometimes, however, they contain extensive information about the person, the documentation of a very extensive denazification process and statements by other persons about the person concerned. In these statements of other persons, the so called "Persilscheinen" (due to the "cleansing" of the person to be denazified), some background stories about the life of the person are told. The relief factors mentioned include church commitment, communion or confirmation and negative professional consequences due to the political attitude against the National Socialists. Frequent mention is also made of processes in which one person has not betrayed another after a critical statement or act. Depending on the occupation zone, there were large differences in the implementation of denazification. Unlike in other zones, for example, in the French-occupied territory of Württemberg-Hohenzollern not all residents had to fill out a questionnaire asking, among other things: "Have you ever been a member of the NSDAP?"Have you ever been detained or detained for racial or religious reasons, or because you actively or passively resisted the National Socialists, or because you were restricted in your freedom of movement, establishment or otherwise in your commercial or professional freedom?" and "Has one of your children been on a Napola?". In addition, questions were asked about income, military service and foreign travel, among other things. In 2008, Karin Stolz and Michael Göhner began entering the name, date of birth and, if applicable, the date of death as well as the places of birth, death and residence of the individual persons in the scopeArchiv indexing program. Since November 2008, Dagmar Bohn, Erich Conzelmann, Andrea Glatzer, Anja Grathwohl, Maria Hirtreiter, Alexander Hochhalter, Michael Mendorf, Karl Nolle, Renate Rüppel, Anja Sadowski and Malgorzata Stepko-Pape have also been involved in the recording. Corinna Knobloch, Sofia Brüning, Heidrun Dreher, Maria Hirtreiter, Marion Hofbeck, Bettina Jourdan, Manfred Klawitter, Leon Körbel, Irene Moser, Doris Nußbaum, Beate Oehmichen and Elisabeth Schwellinger carried out editorial rework. In 2011, Michael Mendorf and Andrea Schill began the digitisation of selected archival documents. As a rule, location identification is limited to the information contained in the relevant documents. The occupation was not taken up or indexed. In April 2008, the first development data were exported to the Internet. For reasons of data protection, the online find book is limited to persons who have been proven to have died more than 10 years or who were born more than 110 years ago. In addition, the online find book contains the indexing information of the typewritten find book compiled in 1985. Since May 2011, selected parts of the documents have also been presented as digital reproductions on the Internet. In addition to the historical relevance of the individual persons, the decision on the time of digitisation also depends on the state of preservation of the documents. Sigmaringen, May 2011 Corinna Knobloch Content and Rating Includes: Proceedings of the Chambers of Spreads, cleaning of the clergy and journalists, discounts, revisions, regroupings and regroupings, rejection notices of the military government, matters of grace, announcements of the State Commissariat about the results of the political cleaning in government papers (lists of names), certificates of harmlessness, sayings and decisions of the Chambers of Spreads.
