Fonds Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, M 430/1 - Personnel files I

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Contents and appraisal<br /><br />The fonds M 430/1 - M 620 comprise personnel files, personnel sheets, rank lists, master rolls, casualty lists, discharge certificates and card indexes. A small part of them, especially card indexes, were created at the Reichsarchivzweigstelle Stuttgart and its successor archives for or during the completion of the respective assigned tasks. The majority, however, originated at various military and civilian offices and were stored there separately from the other records of the respective provenance after their transfer to the archive.<br />The holdings M 430/1 - M 430/4 mainly contain personnel records. These were introduced in Württemberg in 1874 following the Prussian model in place of the previous officers' muster lists and contain all the important information about the origin, denomination, family circumstances, career and decorations of the officer or civil servant concerned in a concise form. The M 430/5 collection also contains personnel sheets, but is otherwise primarily made up of files from numerous military, and in some cases civilian, sources. Quite a few of these personnel records have grown up with staffs, troops and military authorities of the Prussian, Bavarian and Saxon armies and the Reichswehr, but cannot be separated from the other archival records of these fonds because they have been continued or stapled together with files of Württemberg provenance.<br />In contrast to the personnel sheets, which contain information about only one person, the rank lists, which were also kept in Württemberg since 1874 according to the Prussian model, and the master rolls provide information about the personnel of a higher staff or a troop unit. They formed the "basis for all matters relating to the certification of civil status and for the assessment of later pension entitlements". For practical reasons, the peacetime rank lists and master rolls compiled during the peacetime period 1871-1914 had already been separated from the wartime rank lists and master rolls begun after the outbreak of the World War. While officers, medical officers, vets and military officials were entered in the ranking lists, non-commissioned officers and enlisted men were recorded in the master rolls. The rank lists and muster rolls were kept by the respective troop unit, either by the staff or by the individual companies, escadrons or batteries. As a rule - at least in peacetime - separate master rolls were kept for non-commissioned officers, warrant officers and enlisted men. From the period before 1914, there are also often special muster rolls for the regimental staff, the regimental band and for the one-year volunteers, reserve officer trainees, reservists, economists, school board candidates and substitute reservists assigned to the regiment. Some of the peacetime registers also contain punishment books, criminal record books, swearing-in protocols and documents on the personal circumstances of the men.<br />Almost all of the extensive casualty lists and personal files were created during or after the end of the First World War, most of which were compiled by the Records Office (M 585 - M 588, M 590 - M 593, M 595 - M 600, M 602 to M 605, M 607, M 608), but perhaps also by the Department for Personal Affairs (M 610-M 612) and the Department for Weapons and Field Equipment (M 620) of the Ministry of War. In addition to their direct informational value, they can often also serve as an aid for indexing other archival records, especially in the case of questions about personal history.<br />The collection contains personnel files and<br />personnel sheets of officers and medical officers on active<br />and leave of absence who left military service before the First World War, arranged in alphabetical order.

Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart (Archivtektonik) >> Militärische Bestände 1871-ca. 1920 >> Selekte >> Personalunterlagen >> Personalunterlagen von Offizieren und Militärbeamten

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