Fonds Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, E 297 - Military personnel documents

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Transmission history<br /><br />At various times in the registry of the War Ministry, or directly in the War Archives.<br /><br />Contents and evaluation<br /><br />Contains: Enlistment lists 1812-1819; Contingent lists 1820-1870; Discharge lists 1816-1829; Enlistment books, (lists),<br />enlistment lists 1828-1868; Anciennity, division, rank, master and national lists of officers and military officials (1789) 1800-1873 (1889); Master lists, national lists and other personnel records of individual units (1763) 1806-1905.<br /><br />I.: The fonds listed below comprise most of the personnel records of the military administrative and command authorities as well as the formations of the Württemberg army from 1806 onwards, insofar as these were kept separately. Individual personnel records - i.e. personnel list extracts, strength reports, field muster lists or similar - usually remained in the respective file context in which they were created. The assent lists (see fonds E 271l), which as minutes and diaries tend to belong to the files, also remained in their registry context. Conversely, a few documents that were closely related to the present personnel records were filed here. The personnel documents were brought together as a select collection primarily because in many cases it was not possible to classify the documents according to their provenance, and also because they were largely uniform series, the listing of which as a select collection makes them much easier to use and, last but not least, because they were already listed in the complete overview by K. O. Müller, more or less well recorded holdings.<br /><br />II.: All documents prior to 1806 were added to the old Württemberg holdings (A series) in accordance with the tectonics of the series of the Stuttgart Main State Archives; volumes that began before 1806 and ended during the period concerned here, however, remained. The same applies to the boundaries to the M fonds: Some lists and volumes continued beyond 1871, but were nevertheless included. The transitions here are more fluid than at the boundary to the A collections. The M series also contain documents that begin before 1871. However, as these are integrated into well recorded holdings, no changes were made here. The dating of volumes posed a particular problem. The criterion was always the duration. In many cases, however, it was not possible to determine exactly whether and in which period a volume was kept continuously or whether it was created all at once. In such cases, the period covered by the volume in question was used as a basis - i.e. usually from the oldest date of birth to the most recent identifiable year. These are the following sub-collections: 1) Enlistment lists: These were kept annually by the recruitment commission or section from 1812 to 1819. They previously formed volumes 1-21 of fonds E 287 (Chapter I). The classification criterion is the duration by year; the chronological order, as already given in fonds E 287, could be retained. 2) Contingent lists: They were compiled annually by the Chief Recruiting Council and continued the conscription lists until 1870. They listed the conscripts who had been conscripted, sorted according to districts and higher offices, with details of the community of origin and the date of "induction", later also the profession and body length, as well as the father and mother and their place of residence, and finally also whether a conscript had been called up or whether there was a reason why the conscript had not been inducted. The contingent lists previously formed Group II of the E 287 fonds (volumes 22-75). Keeping them by year allows a clear chronological order, which already existed in fonds E 287. 3) Discharge lists: Between 1816 and 1829, they were first kept by the Recruitment Commission, then by the Assenting Commission - initially at irregular intervals, then annually from 1820 onwards. They contain information on the place of birth or the district office from which the person was discharged, the date and reason for discharge, and later also information on height, marital status, religion and occupation. They are usually organized by unit. As in the old fonds E 287, of which they formed group V (nos. 76-93), the discharge lists can be clearly arranged chronologically. 4) Enlisted men's books, enlisted men's lists, enlisted men's lists: They list the name of the enlisted man, i.e. those conscripts who provided a substitute by paying a deposit, the amount of the deposit, the name of the enlisted man, the origin of both, the body measurements of the enlisted man, the length of service, the respective regiment and the number of the promissory bill, occasionally also comments on discharge, wounding, relief and the like. Later, general overviews were also kept by unit. The lists were kept by the Chief Recruiting Council and are available from 1828 to 1868. A clear chronological order resulted from the year-by-year management; this also applied to the order of K. O. Müller within fonds E 287, group IV of which the fonds formed. 5) Anciennity, division, rank, master and national lists of officers and military officials: They were probably mostly held by the Ministry of War or the higher command authorities (where the provenance is clear, it was indicated). The duration of the volumes is often not clear; some were kept consecutively, i.e. have a real duration, while others were probably created all at once and may have been supplemented. In these cases, only the periods covered by the entries could be used for classification (see above). On the one hand, the inventory includes a part of the inventory recorded by K. O. Müller under the shelfmark D 64, from which only the master lists from 1689 to 1789 were extracted and placed in the A series. The period from 1789 to 1818, on the other hand, was recorded in one volume and therefore had to remain there. Conversely, a few corresponding items from the old holdings D 58, War Department with War College, and E 271, War Ministry, were added. The lists are exclusively compilations of the officers of the entire Württemberg army or individual large formations down to brigade level; all officer lists of individual units, which were also in the old fonds D 64, were moved to Section 7 for reasons of clarity. The documents primarily include lists of the respective military careers of the officers, mostly in alphabetical order (Stammlisten), as well as lists of officers, mostly arranged by unit, with details of age, length of service, sometimes origin and - as a rule - date of patent (Anciennitäts-, Einteilungslisten). 6) Conduit lists, lists of customs and skills: Closed series have been preserved from the years 1814 to 1829 and 1868 to 1869; they contain assessments of officers and lists of their special skills. They were probably initially kept by the Ministry of War, then by the Corps Command in 1868/69. They are mostly organized by unit. They were arranged chronologically according to the time of their creation (generally chronologically unambiguous). They originate exclusively from the old fonds E 271. 7) Master lists, national lists and other personnel records of individual units: These personnel records, also known as national books or muster rolls, were kept for each unit and contain all the data necessary for the individual military personnel - such as origin, body measurements, occupation, religion, length of service, service-related fates, for example participation in battles, and in some cases also punishments. The majority of these records were previously held in fonds E 288/289 according to the complete overview by K. O. Müller. Documents from the old fonds D 64 have now been added, insofar as these were records of individual units from the regiment or comparable formations downwards. There are also some conduct and anciennity lists relating to several units. This group also includes a few personnel records from other fonds (old shelf marks D 63, E 271, campaign files II/III), which were isolated there. The documents were generally organized by unit, hierarchically within the unit and chronologically within the same level (according to the principles defined above).<br /><br />III: All documents were transferred via the Kriegsarchiv to the Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg, where they were indexed in the manner described above under the direction of K. O. Müller, and in 1969 to the newly founded Militärarchiv of the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart. There they were newly recorded in 1984 by Werner Urban under the direction of Dr. Günter Cordes as part of the re-cataloging of all military holdings in Württemberg from 1806 to 1871. Dr. Bernhard Theil then carried out their final arrangement from August to October 1993 and revised the title records. Werner Urban finally arranged the collection and compiled the repertory (including index and concordance). The collection comprises 614 numbers (= 29.20 linear meters). Stuttgart, October 1993 Bernhard Theil

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