Fonds Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe, N Fehrenbach - Estate of Constantin Fehrenbach (1852-1926): President of the Weimar National Assembly, Imperial Chancellor, Member of the Reichstag and the Baden State Parliament

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Lectionary history<br /><br />1974, larger parts 2008 and 2011 as a gift of the family to the General State Archive<br /><br />Content and Evaluation<br /><br />>Act of Constantin Fehrenbach as attorney and city councillor in Freiburg, as a member of the state parliament of Baden of the Center, as a member of the state parliament of Baden, president of the state parliament and chancellor of the Reich (1920/21)<br /><br />Lectionary: The estate of Constantin Fehrenbach was kept in the family of his son-in-law Wilhelm Rosset. In 1974, his son Clemens Rosset donated part of the papers from Fehrenbach's political activities to the General State Archives, among which the material for the Zabern speech in 1913 - a much-noticed criticism by Fehrenbach, a member of the Reichstag, of the emperor's conduct in the Zabern affair - took the most important place (No. 1-21). Clemens Rosset's son Dr. Christoph Rosset and daughter Angela Rosset supplemented this collection through the mediation of the Friedrich-Ebert Memorial in Heidelberg (Dr. Bernd Braun) in December 2008 with files, pictures and printed matter in their possession; only then was it possible to comprehend the entire broad spectrum of Fehrenbach's activities as a lawyer and city councillor in Freiburg, as a Baden state parliament representative of the Center, as a Reichstag parliament representative, Reichstag president and Reich Chancellor (No. 22-111). In 2011, Christine Rosset/Kirchzarten - again mediated by Dr. Bernd Braun - added a further part of the estate, especially with events from the time of the Reich Chancellor, extensive letters by Fehrenbach from Berlin to his daughter and son-in-law, letters of condolence regarding his death, newspapers and a record of Fehrenbach's Reichstag speech of 2 January 2011.10.1918 (No. 112-160).<br /><br />Order and content: The present transfer list can only provide an initial overview of Fehrenbach's various fields of activity. The detailed inventory of the 1974 levy is integrated; the greater part of the inventory, however, has so far only been recorded in keywords and provisionally structured according to political milestones. The most obvious are probably the design possibilities that a high-profile centre delegate had in the Reichstag before, during and after the First World War, and which found their reflex in the press. The political role as Imperial Chancellor in the short span of 1920/21 is reflected above all in fragments of official records, some of which remained with him in the original, some in copies; the essential tradition of this lies in the Federal Archives. The file parts are supplemented by extensive press material, even from remote journals. Above all photos of the Catholic student fraternity Hercynia outline the importance of group bonding in the society of the empire. Finally, Fehrenbach's regular letters to his family in Freiburg, from whose series probably only a few years are missing, bring together private life, everyday political life and world affairs. The actual legacy is supplemented by documentations of the descendants of Constantin Fehrenbach, as they are reflected in obituaries, commemorations until 1986, scientific essays and others. Already some of the letters of condolence to Fehrenbach's daughter Elisabeth Rosset provide information beyond the conventions of the genre; Walter Simons, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Fehrenbach Cabinet, sums it up: "If we failed together in the task we were given politically, it was not due to good will, but apart from certain internal difficulties mainly to the unsolvable entanglement of foreign policy" (31.3.1926, N Fehrenbach No. 135). - An appendix, a small collection of stamps and Anischts postcards, is not directly related to Fehrenbach; the collection has come together in the family, as a source of cultural history it has its own value. Due to the distance in time between the individual entrances, the inventory was not quite easy. Since the stock had already been used for well over 30 years, it was forbidden to dissolve old formations again or to change them substantially. Thus, materials on the same topics are now partly next to each other, which could also be combined in one number. This deficiency can be overcome by the constant, only refined structure. In the context of the digitisation project "From the Monarchy to the Republic", Frank Bauer, a member of the project team, developed the inventory in greater depth. The Fehrenbach estate was recorded again in a single sheet and provided with local and personal indices. Where appropriate, the notes on contents were supplemented. The structure described above remained unaffected by these events.<br /><br />Other visual and audio documents: A speech by Fehrenbach to the Reichstag on 5 October 1918 has been preserved as a sound recording, cf. Die Reichskanzler der Weimarer Republik in Originaltonaufnahmen, CD, edited by the Friedrich-Ebert-Gedenkstätte Heidelberg (Stimmen des 20. Jahhrunderts, Deutsches Rundfunk-Archiv), 2003. A film of Fehrenbach's funeral in 1926 was handed over to the Bundesarchiv by the family in 1980. Karlsruhe, September 2011 Konrad Krimm<br /><br />Literature: Peter Wulf (editor), Das Kabinett Fehrenbach : 25 June 1920 to 4 May 1921 (files of the Reich Chancellery 4), Boppard 1972. Astrid Luise Mannes, Reich Chancellor Constantin Fehrenbach : a biography, Berlin 2006.

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Peter Wulf (Bearb.), Das Kabinett Fehrenbach : 25. Juni 1920 bis 4. Mai 1921 (Akten der Reichskanzlei 4), Boppard 1972.<br />Astrid Luise Mannes, Reichskanzler Constantin Fehrenbach : eine Biographie, Berlin 2006.<br />Die Reichskanzler der Weimarer Republik in Originaltonaufnahmen, CD, hg. von der Friedrich-Ebert-Gedenkstätte Heidelberg (Stimmen des 20. Jahhrunderts, Deutsches Rundfunk-Archiv), 2003

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