Class - Ministry of War

History of transmission<br /><br />The military records of Württemberg include files from the 16th century to the beginning of the 1920s. They originate from the area of the royal cabinet, the administration, i.e. the central authorities responsible for the subject and their subordinate offices, the command offices and higher staffs as well as the troop formations.<br />A small part of these files came into the ducal selection archive in the course of the 16th to 18th centuries and formed the membrum "Rais, Folg und Musterung", which came into the Royal State Archives with the rest of the ducal archive at the beginning of the 19th century and today forms an A collection (see also: Overview of the holdings of the Stuttgart Main State Archives: Old Württemberg Archives (A holdings). Edited by Hans-Martin Maurer, Veröffentlichungen der Staatlichen Archivverwaltung Baden-Württemberg 32, Stuttgart 1975). A further - larger - part of the documents created up to that point was apparently transferred to the Archive of the Interior shortly after its establishment in 1818 and from there, around 1910, also to the Stuttgart State Archive, from which a small part was in turn transferred to the Ludwigsburg State Archive. Another part remained in the provenance office until the respective authority was dissolved, sometimes even until it was reorganized, and was transferred to the old registry of the Ministry of War in the course of the 19th century.<br />After the conclusion of Württemberg's military convention with Prussia on 21/25 November 1870, a large part of the still curent files were closed and file management was changed to the Prussian model. The closed files were transferred to the old registry of the Ministry of War and merged with the existing old files, in some cases already mixed together.<br />In accordance with the changing needs of the XIII (Württemberg) Army Corps, numerous new files were created, which were then transferred to the newly established Reichsarchiv branch office, later the Heeresarchiv Stuttgart, after the Württemberg troops were disbanded in the years 1919 to 1921. After the establishment of the Military Archives of the Main State Archives in 1969, they were given the group shelfmark M (see also: Overview of the holdings of the Main State Archives Stuttgart: M-Bestände des Militärarchivs. 2nd expanded edition edited by Joachim Fischer, Veröffentlichungen der Staatlichen Archivverwaltung Baden-Württemberg 31, Stuttgart 1983).<br />The files created up to 1871 initially remained in the War Ministry and were transferred to the newly established War Archives in 1907, after a transfer to the State Archives in Stuttgart in 1900 had apparently been reversed apart from a few remnants. After the end of the First World War, the files were declared the property of the Württemberg state, but initially remained in the Reich Archives branch, from where they were transferred to the Ludwigsburg State Archives in 1930. In the years that followed, work began there on cataloguing the archival records, which were divided into almost 30 collections, mostly organized according to subject matter. The majority of the documents from the period before 1803 were organized in the holdings of the old Württemberg archives - A 30 and A 32 in K. O. Müller's complete overview from 1937 -, some of the archival records from the period between 1803 and 1816 in the holdings of the transitional period - D 57 to D 67 in the complete overview - and some of the records created after 1816 in the series "More recent records of the central and intermediate authorities" - E 271 to E 294. However, a large proportion of the files could not yet be newly indexed at that time and therefore remained in the old pertinence-based order, which is why they do not yet appear in the 1937 overview. The newly indexed fonds were also often mixed fonds; for example, fonds D 57-58 contained files of the War Department "and other military authorities" (K. O. Müller p. 157), fonds E 271-E 278, War Ministry, "files of the War Ministry Chancellery and other military authorities concerning the administration of military affairs - without campaign files" (ibid. p. 188). The term "campaign files" was also retained as the inventory designation (cf. D 63, E 284-E 286).<br />As this situation was not appropriate, a complete reorganization and reclassification was begun in the Military Archives after 1969, which was completed in 1994. Initially, the archival records prior to 1806 were assigned to the A series; the remaining D holdings were integrated into the E holdings, which now comprise all Württemberg military records created between 1806 and 1871. The result of their reorganization is reflected in the following overview.<br />If their demarcation from the A series is comparatively simple - given the small size of the collection, only a few files from the period before 1806 form such a unit with the documents created afterwards that a separation was not possible - the boundary line from 1871 cannot be drawn so clearly. Numerous documents created before 1871 were continued in the new registries after 1871 or integrated into them, as they were still needed. Conversely, a whole series of documents that share the history of the holdings from 1806-1871 were apparently not completed until after 1871 and then ended up in the old registry of the Ministry of War. When the fonds were reorganized, the files created after 1871 were separated as far as possible and assigned to the corresponding M fonds (see above).<br />The structure of the military E fonds is based on the organization and hierarchical structure of the Württemberg military and the registry principle. At the top are the files created in the immediate vicinity of the king, followed by the files of the relevant ministerial authorities (with the offices that emerged from them) and the subordinate military offices and administrative authorities, including those of a temporary nature, and then the immobile and mobile command authorities, to which the files of commanders - both of the permanent command offices and of changing formations - were also attached, Finally, the files of the individual troop formations, in which no distinction was made between mobile and immobile formations due to the small volume of peacetime documents, and in which similar units were grouped together. The final groups are "Selekte" (personnel records, invoices) and "Bundesmilitärbehörden" (8th German Federal Army Corps). The provenance of both the personnel documents and the invoices is often difficult to determine; a provenance-based classification would have broken numerous information links. Although the files of the 8th German Army Corps are not Württemberg files, they were probably transferred to the Württemberg War Ministry after the dissolution of the corps archive in Heilbronn and share the fate of the other military E fonds.<br />Only the fonds E 272, Conference Ministry concerning militaria, and E 273, Military records, were incorporated unchanged - and not newly recorded. Militaria, and E 273, Army Ministry, which did not follow the same path as the other fonds and were therefore not mixed with other fonds.<br /><br />Contents and evaluation<br /><br />This group includes all military documents of Württemberg created between 1806 and 1871. As part of a reorganization and reclassification completed in 1994, the older documents were assigned to the A fonds, the documents created after 1871 to the M fonds.<br />The structure of the military E fonds corresponds to the hierarchical organization of the Württemberg military and the registry principle.

Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart (Archivtektonik) >> Kabinett, Geheimer Rat, Ministerien 1806-1945

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