Preliminary remark on the retroconversion of the finding aids: At the time of the retroconversion two typewritten repertories were available:1) The files handed down by the administrative department of the Württemberg War Ministry were recorded in 1944 under the direction of Army Archives Director Dr. Hermann Pantlen. The title recordings of the finding aid book preserved from the Heeresarchiv Stuttgart have been transferred unchanged into EDP during the retroconversion. 2) The business diaries in inventory M 1/4 were recorded in 1975 by Dr. Joachim Fischer and Wilhelm Westenfelder. The foreword and foreword of the two find books are reproduced in the following.Stuttgart, July 2008Dr. Wolfgang Mährle 1. The Administrative Department - Files (foreword to the find book 1944): The files of Department B (Administrative Department) were taken over mainly with the remaining files of the Württ War Ministry. Subsequent additions are made:1923by Landesfinanzamt Stuttgart: Files of the former Intendantur XIII. army corps and Württ. war ministry22.11.1936by Heeresarchiv Potsdam: 22 issues Files of the Württ. war ministry (Remonteangelegenheiten)27.04.1937by Landesfinanzamt Stuttgart: 45 bundles of files of the Württ. war ministry (Verwaltungs-/Waffenabteilung and Intendantur XIII.., XIV Army Corps)The archive directory was compiled on 11.12.1931 by today's government inspector Beiermeister and confirmed by the then head of the Reichsarchiv branch, Oberarchivrat von Haldenwang.The repertorisation took place in the years 1942/43 by the then Heeresarchivrat Knoch with the aid of the employee Kohler; in the interest of uniformity, the work Knoch was revised by the undersigned at the end of 1943 and in the first half of 1944, again with the aid of the employee Kohler, and the person and subject index was established with the aid of the employee Landau.In the case of the latter work (establishment of the indices), it was disadvantageous that the files were already stored on a decentralised basis for reasons of air-raid protection, i.e. that the checks resulting from such work could no longer be carried out.The files are not complete. Organizational overviews and business divisions have not been removed, as they have already been compiled into one volume (Württ. War Ministry, Business Divisions) and were no longer present in the files.Heads of Administrative Department B (until 1899 Economics Department) were:Major General von Wundt (later War Minister)09.08.1871 - 23.03.1874Wirkl. Geheimkriegsrat von Mand24.03.1874 - 06.08.1878Wirkl. Geheimkriegsrat von Horion07.08.1878 - 14.12.1900Wirkl. Privy Councillor of Schäfer15.12.1900 - 22.11.1906Wirkl. Privy Councillor of Wunderlich23.11.1906 - 05.19.1915Wirkl. Privy Councillor of Gerhardt06.10.1915 - End of WarStuttgart, 28 June 1944Dr. Pantlen 2. The Administrative Department - Business Diaries (preliminary remark to the 1975 Findbuch): The business diaries of Department A are not recorded in the repertory of the Heeresarchiv Stuttgart for holdings M 1/4 (War Ministry - Department A), which was completed in 1944. The necessary order and distortion of the 287 volumes (11.5 linear metres), to which the journals of the Corps veterinarian XIII Army Corps (cf. volumes 269 and 270) remain assigned, was therefore carried out in 1972 by the contract employee Westenfelder under the supervision of the Oberstaatsarchivrat Dr. Fischer.Stuttgart, in February 1975Fischer

Alfred Graf von Waldersee was born in Potsdam on April 8, 1832, the son of the general of the cavalry Franz von Waldersee. The Waldersees, which originated from an originally Anhalt noble family and later settled in the Mark Brandenburg, served the Prussian state primarily as officers and can therefore be counted among the Prussian military nobility. After his education in his parents' house and in the cadet corps, Waldersee left the latter in 1850 as an officer in the guards artillery and was an adjutant of the 1st artillery inspection in 1858 bus in 1859 and was transferred to the general staff and promoted to major in 1866 by Captain, Prince Charles of Prussia's adjutant in 1865. Waldersee took part in the campaign in Bohemia in the large headquarters, came to the general command of the 10th army corps in Hanover after peace, became military attaché in Paris and aide to the wing in 1870, joined the mobilization as the large headquarters, became chief of the general staff of the army department of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1871 and was chief of staff of the governor of Paris, while German troops stood in Paris, then from June to September business bearer of the German government in the French Republic. Waldersee then retired into practical service as colonel and commander of the 13th Uhlan Regiment, became chief of the general staff of the 10th army corps in 1873, major general and general à la suite in 1880. In 1882 he became Quartermaster General and representative of the Chief of the General Staff of the Army, in the same year Lieutenant General, soon afterwards Adjutant General of the Emperor. Promoted General of the Cavalry under Emperor Friedrich in 1888, Waldersee was soon appointed Chief of Staff of the Army as successor of Muldke after the accession to the throne of Emperor Wilhelm II and was also appointed to the manor house and to the Council of State. In 1891 he was appointed commander general of the 9th army corps, in September 1895 general colonel of the cavalry. In April 1898 he was relieved of his commanding general position and appointed Inspector General of the 3rd Army Inspectorate. In May 1901 he was promoted to General Field Marshal. By agreement between the allied powers he was given the supreme command during the Chinese Boxer Uprising in the province of Pechili, which he held from September 27, 1900 to June 4, 1901. After his return to Germany he took over the 3rd army inspection again. Since 1874 Count Waldersee was married to an American, the widow of Prince Noer, Marie Esther Lee. Waldersee died in Hanover on 5 March 1904. The Waldersee estate was transferred to the Prussian Secret State Archives in 1935. The estate was published by H. O. Meisner in "Memories of Field Marshal Alfred Grafen v. Waldersee", 3 vol., Stuttgart - Berlin 1922/23 H. O. Meisner "From the correspondence of the General Field Marshal Alfred Grafen v. Waldersee", vol. 1 1886 - 1897, Stuttgart - Berlin 1928 H. O. Meisner "Briefwechsel zwischen dem Chef des Generalstabes Grafen v. Waldersee und dem Militärattaché in Petersburg Graf York v. Wartenburg", 1885 - 1897, in: Hist. Polit. Archive 1930 Vol. I, p. 133 - 192 Fornaschon, Wolfgang "Die politischen Anschauungen des Grafen Alfred v. Waldersee und seine Stellungnahme zur deutschen Politik", Berlin 1935, Hist. Stud. 273 During the reorganization of the estate, attempts were made to bring related pieces, such as diaries and the private files of Waldersee, which had been torn apart by the processing, back into their original context. In cases where a large number of exhibitors were present, the letters were sorted alphabetically. Individual, already existing folders were only sorted chronologically. The letters were also included individually. This detailed list can be found in Appendix 1 of the repertory. For all other letters, a chronological order has been established and an alphabetical register has been created (Annex 2) to make it easier to find individual persons. The large number of newspaper clippings was also sorted chronologically and placed in individual folders. The relevant register (Appendix 3) contains all the available newspapers, listed separately for German and foreign newspapers. No exact signature is given, only the year has been included. The signatures are completely new. Each number is foil-wrapped, the number of sheets is on the inside cover. Additions to Waldersee's diaries contain the number of pages, marked with the letters a ff. The notes and markings with pencil and crayon originate from earlier adaptations, as well as the cutting up of individual pages. For practical reasons, the subsequent separation of individual numbers into several volumes was made during the bookbinding treatment of the estate. Description: Biographical Data: 1832 - 1904 Resources: Database; Reference book, 1 vol.

Description of the holdings: The personal papers of Ernst Schweninger were transferred to the Reichsarchiv in July 1926 by his widow, Mrs. Lena Schweninger. In September 1936, numerous letters from the Bismarck family to Ernst Schweninger, owned by Mrs. Ingeborg Schulze, Stuttgart, were added. A single volume (N 2281/184) was handed over to the Federal Archives in 2001. In the Second World War, the estate was relocated to the Soviet Union and then transferred to the GDR in two parts - 1950 and 1959 - and transferred to the Central State Archives in Potsdam. There he received the stock signature 90 Schw 4 and was indexed in 1980 by a finding index. In accordance with the agreement, the documents were blocked for any use until December 1956. In the course of German reunification in October 1990, the documents finally reached the Federal Archives and have since been kept under the inventory signature N 2281. In the year 1997 a finding aid book was provided to the existence, which represented a to a large extent unchanged copy of the finding aid file at that time. During the current processing, the archive units were transferred to the archive database BASYS-S. The archive units are now stored in the archive database BASYS-S. Classification, title recordings, terms were checked and partially corrected. Dr. Ernst Schweninger, the personal physician of Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, has conducted extensive correspondence with many well-known personalities of his time, such as Herbert von Bismarck, Bernhard von Bülow, Maximilian Harden, Alfred Krupp and others. The tradition therefore consists mainly of letters from friends, colleagues, patients and not least family members and covers the period 1866 - 1925. Reference: E. Espach: Beiträge zur Biografie Ernst Schweningers. Series of publications of the Munich Association for the History of Medicine, Munich 1979 Citation method: BArch, N 2281/...

Contains: - Arenberg, Prince v., Berlin: Honorary promotion of Mr. Bachem (Kölner Volkszeitung) 22.6.1898, invitation to the colonial meeting 22.5.1896 - Baden, Friedrich Grand Duke v.: meeting with the Minister of Finance Scholz 29.1.1889, return of a book loaned by the hereditary Grand Duke v. Friedrich from Koblenz 9.3.1897 - Bülow, Fürst, Berlin: sending of an excerpt of the Strasbourg Post with personal remarks by His Majesty 4.3.1905 (missing), request for the admission to a Präparandenanstalt for the son of his clerical valet Tappe 12.3.1905 (missing), acknowledgement of the countess Marie from Berlin for the sent Wilamowitz translations of the Greek tragedies 28.12.1901, greeting cards from Norderney with his picture and the signature of Renvers 8.5.1906 - Bismarck, Prince Otto v., Reichskanzler, Berlin: criticisms of the Reich government published in the Strasbourg Post; with marginal remarks by Möller and by the Regierungsrat du Prel from Strasbourg 4.3.1878 - Donnersmarck, Fürst von, Neudeck: Acknowledgement for the transmission of Paulsens "Philosophia militans" 14.6.1908 (missing), Berlin, In Aussicht-Stellung of his visit15.2.1908 (missing) - Eulenburg-Hertefeld, Philipp v., Prince von Hertefeld, Ambassador, Vienna, Gastein: Request for permanent appointment of Dr. Thiele in Marburg 9.9.1899 - Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst: Honorary salary for Detlev v. Liliencron 27.9.1897 (missing), acknowledgement of the princess for the award of the title "Professor" to the ophthalmologist Dr. Thiele (see also the title "Professor") Fröhlich 18.7.1896, Prince Krafft zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst because of the Matura examination of his nephew 27.11.1898, Prince Alexander from Colmar recommends the Catholic clergyman Dr. Hoch, who is German-minded and therefore sharply attacked by the French clergy 2.2.1903, Prince Krafft from Javorina thanks for the employment of Fräulein Riedel, the daughter of his Oberforstmeister 8.9.1904 (missing) - Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chlodwig, zu Fürst, Reichskanzler, Berlin: Request for employment of Count Rehbinder in the Royal Library 13.10.1896, the Reich Chancellor because of the meeting with the governor of Alsace-Lorraine, v. Hertling-Halley 19.10.1898 - Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Prince Hermann zu, governor of Alsace-Lorraine: Acknowledgment for the memorandum Spahn gegen philosophische Fakultät in Strasbourg 20.10.1901 - Holstein, Günther, Duke v., Schloss Primkenau: Request for the title "Professor" for Dr. Baron von Küster from Berlin 12.8.1907 - Mecklenburg, Johann Albrecht, Duke v., Potsdam: Request to transfer librarian Ockler from Münster to the Royal Library in Berlin 9.8.1890, thanks for the fulfilment of the above wish 14.10.1890 (missing), request for definitive employment of Ockler in the Royal Library 22.3.1892 - Meiningen, Bernhard Erbprinz v., Berlin: Request for a visit by Althoff 14.12.1889, invitation 3.2.1893 (missing), donation to Dr. Ohnefalsch-Richter and advance payment 17.11.1893 - Prince Wilhelm, Colonel and Regiment Commander, Potsdam: Request for an assistant position for the son of the guard Ockler in the Royal Library 28.10.1885 - Kaiser Wilhelm I., Salzburg: transmission of the appointment to the Council of State of Alsace-Lorraine 8.8.1882 (reference see No. 1056) - Emperor Wilhelm II: document of the Royal Crown Order First Class 20.12.1902 (reference see No. 1056), certificate of appointment to the Real Privy Council with the title "Excellency" with countersignature of all ministers 27.1.1907 (reference see no. 1056) - Princess Irene (Henry of Prussia): Children's Hospital in Kiel 26.10.1905 - Radolin, Prince Hugo v., Ambassador, Paris: Proposal for Dr. Hartmann from Münster as successor of the late canon Aegenvoort 14.4.1903, recommendation for Dr. Glaessner, a pupil of Hoffa 8.4.1908 - Ratibor, Duke v., Berlin: Conference with Baron v. Richthofen and Lord Mayor Bender from Breslau 19.2.1901 (missing), Communication about the audience with His Majesty 26.02.1900 (missing) - Henriette, Princess of Schleswig-Holstein, widowed, Real Privy Councillor Prof. von Esmarch, Kiel: Please for the award of the title "Titularprofessor" to W. Reuter from Bad Ems 27.2.1905.

Contains: - Preibisch, Maximilian, city musician, an von Gneisenaus son: von Gneisenau as flute player, Rawicz, 1819, 1831 (2 letters) - Prussia, Wilhelm Prince von (the elder), an von Gneisenaus son Aug.: mostly letter of condolence, 4.9.1831 - Prussia, Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (IV. century) - Prussia, Prussia, Prussia, Prussia, Prussia, Prussia, Prussia, Prussia, Austria), an von Gneisenaus son Aug.: mostly letters of condolence, 10.9.1831 - Prussia, Wilhelm (I.) Prince von, an von Gneisenaus son Aug.: mostly letters of condolence, 29.8.1831 - Prussia, Karl Prince von, an von Gneisenaus son Aug.: mostly letters of condolence, January 1830, 2.9.1831 - Prussia, Friedrich Prinz von, an von Gneisenaus son Aug.: mostly letter of condolence, 27.3.1828, 26.10.1831 - Priesdorff, von, retired prime captain, (later major and chief of 2nd Invalidenkompagnie): request for garrison or invalidity company, Treptow/Rega, 1811 (2 letters), and son; prime lieutenant 2. Infantry Regiment, Stettin, 12.12.1826 - Prince, Ernst-Wallisch, Landwehrmann, Schwarzfärber: Request for Support, 1822 (2 letters) - Prittwitz, (by), Cousin of Gneisenaus; Conradswalde, 1805, 1808, 1811 (?), n.d. (4 letters) - Prittwitz, (from); 1809-1821 (7 letters) - Prittwitz, (from), Government director: Salary increase, Official residence, Kleve, 1816, 1818 (3 letters) - Prittwitz, Theodor (from), Brother-in-law of Gneisenaus: von Gneisenaus Erdmannsdorfer Wirtschaft, Wolmsdorf, Jauer, 1821, 1822, 1824 (3 letters) - Prittwitz, (von), Aggregated Staff Captain 2. Schlesisches Husaren-Regiment: written testimony, Glatz, 10.8.1813 - Prittwitz, (from), Commander 2nd Landwehr-Kavallerie-Regiment: his nephew, Oberjäger Graf von Dyhrn, with the hunter Detach of the Braunschweigischen Husaren-Regiments, Saatz, 8.10.1813 - Prittwitz, Aug. (from); Paris, 24.10.1815 - Prittwitz, (from), Lieutenant a. D.; Steinau/Oder, 12.2.1825 - Pritzelwitz, by, Major and Commander 1st Battalion 13th Landwehr-Infanterieregiment: Meldung von Ernennung, Potsdam, 15.7.1825, Antwortentwurf von Gneisenaus, 25th Landwehr-Infanterieregiment: Report of Appointment, Potsdam, 15th July 1825, Answer Draft von Gneisenaus, 25th Battalion of the German Army, 15th Battalion of the German Armed Forces, 15th July 1825, 15th Battalion of the German Armed Forces, 15th Battalion of the German Armed Forces, 15th July 1825, 15th Battalion of the German Armed Forces, 25th Battalion of the German Armed Forces8.1825 - Pritzelwitz, by, Colonel, and wife Henriette, née von Schladen, Berlin, 1813, 1820 (3 letters, Count von Schladen, former envoy to St. Petersburg, an von Gneisenau, 1813; illness of Captain Schirgel, 1820) - Pückler-(Muskau), Prince von; o. O., 1823, n/a. (2 letters) - Pullet, Samuel, Major General, Inspector 2nd Engineer-Insp.: Reorganization of the Corps of Engineers, Fortress Graudenz, "Calculation of the Time Required to Make 68 Defensive Places Defendable in One Strike and at the Same Time", Fortress Spandau, 1808-1811, 1825, (6 letters; printed at Pick 192,3; cf. No. 719) - Pusch, Battalion Physician: Subsidy for Studies, Berlin, 5.1.1820 - Putbus, M. Fürst zu: Pferdekauf, Berlin, 19.4.1818 - Quadt, von, Oberst und Kommandeur 28. Infantry Regiment: Report of Promotion, Cologne, 7.4.1824..;

1814-1930 (1945) The holdings 70 of the Mainz Municipal Archives comprise all preserved files of the Mainz Municipal Administration from the period 1814/16 to 1930/45, i.e. the period when Mainz belonged to the Grand Duchy or People's State of Hesse, therefore the holdings are also called "Hessian Archives". The "Hessian Archive" also includes the files of the occupation office during the French occupation of 1918-1930 (fonds 71) and the old registry of the Mainz City Library (fonds 72). The personnel files of the Hessian period were also separated and added to the personnel files of the city archive (here: accesses before 1962). The files of the stock 70 originate from the mayor's office of the city of Mainz and from individual municipal offices or companies. Also files of the former district office Mainz are in the inventory. This goes back to the initiative of the former government director Richard Falck, who in the 1920s was active as an assessor in the district office and worked to ensure that the files relating to Mainz were not handed over to the state archives in Darmstadt, but were transferred to the city archives. Apart from a few exceptions, the records of this collection end in 1930. The municipal files from the National Socialist era (1933-1945), which were in the main registry of the town hall, were burned during a bombing raid on Mainz in August 1942. The files were also destroyed at various other municipal offices in 1942-1945. The personnel files that survived the war were not affected. It is not possible to prove for all partial holdings when the files reached the city archives or who handed them in. In the access books from 1909 to 1945, a total of 90 entries of various sizes can be found, which according to their provenance and duration can be assigned to the "Hessian Archive" and which are also largely to be found in today's holdings. Some accesses are no longer to be found and have probably been cashed (e.g. files of the garden administration and the rental agreement office). A large part of the listed deliveries is accounted for by the finance and accounting departments of both the general administration and the city. Companies, but also the local citizen registers, the trade diaries, files on fruit prices and the fruit market, on the poor and welfare, on the electricity and waterworks, election records and various deliveries of school files are mentioned in the access books. A list of the proven accesses can be found in the electronic file of the city archives under Findmittel/Sonstiges. Also after 1945 still files were handed over, which were assigned to the existence 70, in the activity report of 1948-1950 9 Faszikel air-raid protection files (cf. 70/1028 ff.) are mentioned, 1951/52 4 volumes citizen registers of the 19th century are mentioned. Ordnungsarbeiten ab 1935 (nach den Tätigkeitsberichten des Stadtarchivs) The order of the files of the Hessian period was the responsibility of the administrative secretary Wilhelm Danz from April 1935, who was active in the archive from that time. In the year 1940 4533 file bundles were formed. In 1943 390 ordered bundles were added. The type of content of the order is not reported in the activity reports. During the Second World War, a total of 92 bundles of today's 70 files had been moved to the Heldburg in Thuringia. Until 1960, there was no evidence in Mainz for these outsourced files. The files reached the central archives of the GDR in Potsdam via a collection depot in Merseburg and were not returned to the city archives until December 1986. In the "Verzeichnis der von der DDR zurückkommenen Archivalien" these bundles are listed under the numbers 586-678. After their return, they were sorted into the "Hessische Archiv" (Hessian Archive), which had meanwhile been arranged according to the file plan, and before the files were renumbered they bore the signatures "DDR-Akten Nr. [Bündelnummer lt. o. g. Verzeichnis]". During the Second World War, the archive holdings remaining in the house had to be moved several times due to the air raids. On 27.02.1945, "a small, not important, archive of modern records" was destroyed. The two upper floors of the municipal library burnt out, causing the remaining files in the house to become very disordered and the staff had to clean them of debris and dust. The files of the stock 70 were also completely confused. City secretary Danz began anew with a reorganization, in 1948 the ordered stock comprised 291 running meters, in 1952 more than 400 running meters, in 1954: 600 running meters. In 1952 there is still talk of a "jumble of single leaf pieces which are read out of the rubble or come to light from the torn, fallen apart bundles". At that time the collection was divided into 13 sections, which were listed in the activity report for 1950/51-1951/52. In his annual report for the years 1952/53-1953/54, Wilhelm Diepenbach cites an example of the work of organizing single sheets: "In earlier decades, the local court also had to deal with matters of poor law. Consequently, documents relating to this matter were classified under the factual term "local court". Now all such documents are taken out and classified in the civil alphabet under surnames." In the 1950s, Wilhelm Danz had separated out a mountain of files from the Hessian period and planned them for cassation (among them were the files on the Jewish community!); the timely intervention of his archive colleagues prevented the destruction of these valuable archival records. In 1957/58, after the departure of Danz, the archivists noticed that the system according to which the bundles of files had previously been set up (the 13 departments mentioned above) no longer met the requirements, and they had to begin anew with reordering work. The holdings were roughly sorted according to alphabetical keywords, thus preparing the final reorganization. Whether this refers to the order according to the Hessian municipal file plan of 1908 cannot be inferred from the activity reports, but is probable. Wilhelm Danz's successor was the archivist Siemsen, followed by Mrs. Schmelig. As late as 1963, Ludwig Falck, who later became archive director, wrote in the commemorative volume "De Bibliotheca Moguntina": "The uniform order ... is still in progress and will take a long time, since this work has been made very difficult by all kinds of adverse fates." After the conclusion of the order work and the listing of the file bundles formed and inscribed by the archivists according to the registration plan for Hessian mayor's offices from the year 1908, the files could be found with the help of the file plan and by examination in the magazine whether files were available to a file plan department. There wasn't a list of files. The departments and sub-items of the file plan were considered signatures. A first list of files was drawn up in the 1980s by Doris Braun, a graduate archivist. It comprised 1406 numbers and the file plan departments I (head of state) to XII (church affairs) and thus about the first quarter of the entire stock. In 2003, Ursula Kwasniewski, an archivist, began to enter the existing list of files into the archive database "Faust". The unrecorded files were then numbered consecutively and these new file signatures, together with the file titles and file numbers on the file covers, were recorded in the database. The building files in the inventory deviate from this numerical order. They had already been entered some years earlier according to the sections "Bauakten vor 1900" and "Bauakten nach 1900" and within these groups alphabetically according to building owners. This registration corresponded and corresponds to the physical order of the building files which are at the end of the inventory. After entering the approximately 22,000 file titles, Ramona Göbel (later: Weisenberger), a graduate archivist, read the titles on the basis of the database Correction and created a classification, which is largely based on the preliminary order according to the registry plan of 1908. Mainz, November 2008 Ramona Weisenberger

Preface The beginnings of the Prussian army as a standing army lie in the reign of the Brandenburg Elector Friedrich Wilhelm, the Great Elector (1640 to 1688). At a meeting of the Privy Council on 5 June 1644, it was decided to set up a standing army. It was also Frederick William Elector of Brandenburg who enforced the essential principles of the later Prussian army: 1. connection of the advertising system with the duty of local peasant sons, 2. recruitment of officers from the local nobility, and 3. financing of the army by the electoral domain income. Military legislation to discipline the army became indispensable in the course of building a standing army. The GStA PK, IV. HA Preußische Armee, Rep. 16 Militärvorschriften (Prussian Armed Forces, Rep. 16) collection at hand comprises for the most part a collection of photocopies and copies of General Administrative, Command and Control and Service Regulations (including drill regulations for infantry and cavalry), regulations on troop administration, troop service, officer corps, engineering and fortifications as well as on the Landwehr from the former Bundesarchiv Militärisches Zwischenarchiv Potsdam. A smaller part of the military regulations comes from the former holdings GStA PK, IV HA A Prussian Army Archives and GStA PK, IV HA B Army Historical Collection, which originated mainly from the acquisition of files (purchases, gifts etc.) after 1967 in the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage. Since 1966/68 the Secret State Archives PK and the Federal Archives Dept. Military Archives Freiburg have had a regulation according to which the files dated before 1 January 1867 belong to the Secret State Archives PK and those dated after 31 December 1866 belong to the Federal Archives Dept. Military Archives. In the course of this delimitation regulation, a joint meeting of representatives of the Privy State Archives PK, the Federal Archives Department Military Archives Freiburg and the Federal Archives Military Intermediate Archives Potsdam took place in Potsdam on 16 September 1992. In this session, the delimitation issues of the Prussian army, which had been handed down in the Federal Archive Military Intermediate Archive Potsdam, were discussed. Besides the files that were taken over from the former Soviet Union in 1988, there were already extensive documents of the Prussian army there. After these files had been handed over in December 1995, the Secret State Archive PK began to merge the files handed over from the former Federal Archive Military Intermediate Archive Potsdam to Dahlem with the files of the holdings GStA PK, IV. HA A Prussian Army Archive and GStA PK, IV. HA B Army Historical Collection handed down in the Secret State Archive PK. In this context, the designation IV HA Prussian Army Archives in IV. HA Prussian Army changed. The partial stock of military regulations was given the Repositurnummer Rep. 16. For the stock there is a finding index from the former Bundesarchiv Militärisches Zwischenarchiv Potsdam. This was reorganized in 1997 by Prof. Dr. Kloosterhuis. The entry into the Augias database was made in 1998 by Mrs. Koegel and was revised by undersigned. Some file titles and notes on contents were checked and partially supplemented. Parallel to the development work the magazine-technical processing took place. The files were resigned, provided with new signature plates and packed in file boxes. How to order and quote: The records listed here are kept in the magazine in Dahlem. The pink order forms must therefore be used. The files shall be ordered as follows: IV. HA, Rep. 16, No. to quote: GStA PK, IV. HA Preußische Armee, Rep. 16 Militärvorschriften, Nr. Inventory volume: 4.6 lfm 748 VE (=zeichnungseinheit) Duration: 1635 - 1912 Last number assigned: 748 Berlin, February 2011 Irina Fröhlich (Archivoberinspektorin) Finding aids: Database; Findbuch, 1 vol.

Preface The present collection GStA PK, IV HA Prussian Army, Rep. 15 B Military History mainly comprises a collection of files on war and army history as well as biographical materials from the former holdings GStA PK, IV HA A Prussian Army Archive and GStA PK, IV HA B Military History Collection, which was created mainly through acquisitions of files (purchases, gifts etc.) after 1967 in the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Property. 14 files from the former Bundesarchiv Militärisches Zwischenarchiv Potsdam have been classified. Since 1966/68, the Secret State Archives of the PK and the Federal Archives of the Freiburg Military Archives have been regulated that the files dated before January 1, 1867 belong in the Secret State Archives of the PK and after December 31, 1866 in the Federal Archives of the Military Archives. In the course of this demarcation regulation, a joint meeting of representatives of the Geheimes Staatsarchivs PK, the Bundesarchivs Abt. Militärarchiv Freiburg and the Bundesarchivs Militärisches Zwischenarchiv Potsdam took place in Potsdam on 16 September 1992. In this meeting the questions of demarcation of the Prussian army, which were handed down in the Bundesarchiv Militärisches Zwischenarchiv Potsdam, were discussed. In addition to the files, which were taken over from the former Soviet Union in 1988, there were already more extensive documents of the Prussian army. After these files were handed over in December 1995, the Secret State Archive PK began to merge the files transferred from the former Federal Archive Military Interim Archive Potsdam to Dahlem with the files of the GStA PK, IV HA A Prussian Army Archive and GStA PK, IV HA B Collection of Military History. In this context the designation IV HA Prussian Army Archive in IV. HA Prussian Army changed. The partial stock of military history was given the repository number Rep. 15 B. Mrs. Fröhlich has been entering the data into the Augias database since 1996. Some file titles and contained notes were checked and in some cases supplemented. Parallel to the development work, the magazine-technical processing took place. The files were re-signed, provided with new signature plates and packed in file boxes. How to order and quote: The archives listed here are stored in the magazine in Dahlem. The pink order forms must therefore be used. The files are to be ordered as follows: IV. HA, Rep. 15 B, no: GStA PK, IV HA Prussian Army, Rep. 15 B Military History, No. Volume: 2.8 m 268 units (=registering unit) Duration: 1604 - 1993 Last assigned number: 268 Berlin, April 2011 Irina Fröhlich (Chief Inspector of Archives) Resources: Database; Collections Manual, 1 vol. (for IV HA, Rep. 13, 14, 15 B)

Contains: - Richter, Gom.-Pred.; Kolberg, 1808 (2 letters), with answer draft by Gneisenaus, 8.1.1809; 1809 - Judge, Gottfried Ernst, retired forestry official: Forstkauf bzw, Bookbinder: Stage Collection, Rudelstadt, 9.8.1820 - Judge, Lieutenant a. W.: Application for Support, Münsterberg, 20.9.1825 - Judge, Criminal Judge: Institute for the Improvement of Neglected Children, Königsberg, 10.12.1827 - Richthofen, R. Baron von; Barzdorf, 6.8.1808 - Richthofen, Friederike von, née Princess of Schleswig-Holstein-Beck; 1809, 1818, 1829 (4 letters) - Richthofen, Baron von, District Administrator; Würgsdorff, 1816, 1818 (2 letters); wife, née Nicolovius; 1820 (2 letters); son Oswald, Portepée-Fähnrich 2nd Silesian Hussar Regiment; 25.8.1816 - Richthofen, Charlotte Freiin von, née Freiin von Nordeck zur Rabenau; Conradswaldau, 10.3.1826 - Richthofen, Friedrich Daniel Freiherr von, Council of Justice; Breslau, 23.6.1819 - Ricoeur, von; Breslau, 6.2.1827 - Riedesel zu Eisenbach, Dorette von: Death of his daughter Agnes, Schlangenbad, 24.7.1822 - Riegel, F., bookseller: family tree of the House of Hohenzollern by K. von Reinhard, Potsdam, January 1826 - Ries, Ferdinand: his concert, Berlin, 22.1.1827 - Riesenthal, Ch.., Building inspector widow, née Renck; 1825, 1826 (3 letters) - Riesenthal, Jul. von, son of the previous ones; 1823, 1824, 1825 (3 letters) - Rietz: Writing about Stralsund's defence 1628, Stralsund, 30.7.1828 - Rigel, F. H.., Bat. captain: his work: The 7-year fight on the Pyrenean peninsula, Rastatt, December 1819 - Ristow, Ludwig, Gardejäger: employment in the forestry, Sagersberg, 29.8.1817 - knight; Königsberg, 15.2.1809 - knight, Prof. C.; Berlin, 28.2.1822 - knight, G. F.., Gunsmith; Oldenburg, 30.3.1826 - Robinski, NCO, Rider: dismissed from Gneisenaus Dienst, Berlin, 18.2.1818 - Roche aymon, Comte de la; pair de France, 1811, 1817, 1821 (3 letters) - Rochow, Theodor von, Major; Fischbach, 1830 (2 letters) - Rode, J. P. von, Major General; 1810, 1824 (2 letters) - Roebel, Fr. von; Berlin, 28.11.1811..;

Inventory description Inventory history The entire file inventory was essentially the old file registry of the Buea governorate, which had been left there when it was evacuated in 1914. The holdings were later divided between the English administration in Buea and the French administration in Yaounde and merged in 1974 in the National Archives in Yaounde. After the evacuation of Yaounde on 1 January 1916, after the destruction of the unneeded parts, the files went to Spanish-Muni, from there via Fernando Poo to the seat of the Madrid embassy governorate. In 1919 the files were transferred to the Reichsarchiv, where a large part was destroyed as not worthy of preservation. The rest fell victim to a bombing raid on Potsdam on 20 April 1945. Thus the files kept in the National Archives in Yaounde - apart from the preserved files of the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t - constitute the only official written record of the period of German colonial rule in Cameroon. Archival evaluation and processing The Federal Archives' efforts to secure and film the files stored in Cameroon from the time of the German colonial administration date back to 1970. Through the mediation of the Federal Foreign Office and the German Embassy, the Federal Archives were able to offer the Director of the National Archives in Yaounde Cameroon the opportunity to send a German archivist to Cameroon for a limited period of time in order to arrange and record the German holdings together with local staff. The project was approved on 6 August 1971. After solving various organizational, financial and personnel problems, the project was realized in 1974/75. In a subsequent phase of the project, beginning in 1983, the files were to be filmed by means of microfilm exchange, whereby the technical equipment was to be left to the National Archives, after local staff had received appropriate training during the filming campaign. The films exposed in Cameroon were developed, controlled and duplicated in the Federal Archives. The National Archives in Yaounde received a duplicate film.

Received reply from Count Clemens Droste on Vischering, who is relying heavily on the continued cooperation of Arenberg and Bachem. Arenberg will not continue to do this, "because he can do a bit of work very well. Thank you for the bishop's address. He also received a telegram from Dr Karl Hespers. In the evening Arenberg is ordered to dinner with Cardinal Georg Kopp, "who is ordered to Potsdam for breakfast today. On Saturday he is in Berlin for the board meeting of the Kolonialgesellschaft, where a petition damaging the Catholics has to be averted. Persons and corporations involved: Arenberg, Franz Prinz von (1849-1907), diplomat, member of the Prussian House of Representatives and the Reichstag, Zentrumspartei.Droste zu Vischering, Clemens Heidenreich (1832-1923), Prussian landowner, Reichstag deputy, Zentrumspartei.Hespers, Franz Karl (1846-1915), cathedral capitular in Cologne, long-time chairman of the Afrika-Verein deutscher Katholiken.Kopp, Georg (1837-1914), bishop of Fulda 1881-1887, prince-bishop of Breslau 1887-1914, member of the Prussian manor.

Contains among other things: Activity report of Flugmaschine Wright Gesellschaft mbH from June 1911 to June 1912; questionnaire of the Potsdam Chamber of Commerce, Berlin, for the purpose of preparing the annual report for 1913; implementing provisions for the contract with the flight students; Walter Fröbus: Flug Berlin-Petersburg im Wright-Apparat. In: German Aeronautical Magazine, Official Gazette of the German Aeronautical Association. Special print. born 1912, no. 18-20. Berlin 1912; correspondence of the Luftfahrzeug-Gesellschaft mbH about aircraft for and flight expedition in D e u t s c h - S ü d w e s t a f r i k a; contract with the R e i c h s k o l o n i a m t for experiments in D e u t s c h - S ü d w e s a f r i k a; endurance flight world record Bruno Langer

Contains among other things: Living with the Curtius family in Strasbourg and Heidelberg; [Johann Jakob] Jaus, missionary of the Basel Mission in Kalkultta (5.6.1916); painting for war-damaged (23.10.1916 et al.); Swiss attitude towards Germany (9.8.1919)

Preliminary remark: At the beginning of the First World War, the German field army was divided into nine armies according to the mobilization plans, seven of which marched on the German western border, the eighth in East Prussia. The Supreme Army Command (OHL) already had to learn in the first months of the war that the original concept of the leadership - direct instructions to the army high commandos under its command - led to considerable frictional losses due to the increase in the mass of troops. Early on, army groups were set up as distinct intermediate instances of the higher leadership in order to subject the military administrative tasks to central completion in addition to the uniform conduct of operations. On 25 February 1917, the Württemberg War Ministry was given the order to set up a new army group under the supreme command of Duke Albrecht of Württemberg, the previous commander-in-chief of the 4th Army. Like the other three army groups in the West, "Crown Prince of Bavaria", "German Crown Prince" and "Gallwitz", it was intended to facilitate the organisational preparation and implementation of the major planned Western offensives. With the establishment of the Herzog Albrecht Army Group, the Army Divisions A and B operating in the southern part of the Western Front were merged with the fortresses of Metz and Strasbourg, which had previously been under the control of the German Crown Prince Army Group, and placed under the control of the new Army Group. It thus encompassed an area from the Swiss border in the south via the almost unchanged frontal course in the Sundgau and the Vosges Ridge, which had remained virtually unchanged since August 1914, along the Franco-German border to the area of Pont-à-Mousson. The command area is almost identical with the Alsace-Lorraine Reichslanden, which had been incorporated into the German Reich since 1871. Strasbourg became the seat of the High Command of the Army Group, and the head of the General Staff of the Royal Bavarian Army. Lieutenant General Krafft v. Dellmendingen, previously Commanding General of the German Alpine Corps, was appointed. From September 9, 1917, the Colonel i. G. Heye took office as his successor. The subordination of the individual units was regulated by the regulation "Subordination of the Army Forces of the West", 1917, issued by the Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army (cf. After the conclusion of the armistice agreements and the associated demobilization, the High Command of the now Army Group D moved its headquarters to Freudenstadt with a subcommand in Durlach/Karlsruhe. In the spring of 1919, both the Army Group and its descendants were finally dissolved, and the files were transferred from the Heilbronn branch of the Reich Archive to the Stuttgart branch of the Reich Archive. In September 1921, even before even a cursory list was drawn up by the military officers working there, parts of the holdings - above all the documents on the "Vaterländischen Unterricht" (fatherland instruction), on the reconnaissance of the troops and on the defence against "American propaganda" - were sent to the Reichsarchiv Potsdam, where they apparently became a pillage of flames together with the rest of the archive during the last days of World War II. In 1923 and 1924, the holdings were recorded for the first time in a list at the Reichsarchiv branch in Stuttgart.1931 large parts of the holdings were temporarily transferred to the Heeresarchiv Potsdam; however, they were not completely returned to the Heeresarchiv Stuttgart, as the Reichsarchiv branch had been called since 1936. For the holdings of the Herzog Albrecht Army Group, only the listing of the archival records from 1923/24 was available as an archival finding aid. It by no means met the requirements placed on modern archive finding aids, especially as it had become unclear and hardly usable due to numerous entries. In the months of May 1988 - March 1989, therefore, a comprehensive new indexing and first structuring of the existing archive holdings took place. Its new formation was based on the business distribution plan of the Supreme Command of the Army Group of 15 October 1917 (cf. Bü 346). Within the individual departments, a factual order was carried out by the processor. A few foreign provenances were separated and included in the corresponding holdings of the Stuttgart Military Archives. A concordance between the new order number and the old tuft number in the previous file index allows the retrieval of already cited archival documents. The present finding aid book was completed with the help of the MIDOSA program package of the State Archive Administration Baden-Württemberg in Karlsruhe in the months of August 1990 to March 1991. The stock now comprises 377 order numbers in 15.1 linear metres. The index refers to the order numbers, i.e. the sequence of title entries in the present Findbuch.Karlsruhe, April 1991Kurt Hochstuhl