Fonds BArch, PH 2 - Prussian War Ministry (inventory)

2314 Aufbewahrungseinheiten; 30,1 laufende Meter

Kriegsministerium (Kriegsministerium), 1867-1919

History of the Inventory Designer: Created in 1809 as the highest central authority of the Prussian Army, from 1867 also responsible for the contingents of the North German Confederation, after 1871 also for the troops in the south of Hesse and in Baden. Successor authority 1919: Reichswehrministerium Inventory signature: PH 2 Inventory description: The war ministry created in 1809 by Scharnhorst as the supreme central authority of the Prussian army became responsible from 1867 also for the contingents of the North German Confederation, after 1871 also for the troops in the southern part of Hessen and in Baden. The Prussian Minister of War represented the army administration in the Reichstag, especially in budget matters. Since the 1980s responsible for military administration in the broader sense, the War Ministry, in cooperation with the General Staff, the weapons inspections and the examination commissions, issued orders on the organisation, equipment, armament and maintenance of the army and laid down training principles for crews and non-commissioned officers. With the participation of the General Staff and the civilian authorities, the Minister of War had to draw up the annual mobilization plan. In the course of the First World War, the importance of the War Ministry receded behind the leading institution of the General Staff of the Field Army. Since November 1916, however, the War Office, which was subordinate to him and in which the War Economic Departments of the War Ministry, above all the Raw Materials and Replacement Departments, were combined, had gained considerable importance. Subordinated to him were the weapons and ammunition procurement office (Wumba) as well as war offices in the districts of the (deputy) general commandos. Content characterization: Received are individual pieces of decrees and orders, isolated correspondence with other military or command or civil authorities. In addition, there are isolated records on warfare (such as troop command, mobile and demobilization cases, weapons and ammunition), army administration (care and assistance, food and shelter), the war economy (war office and war offices), medical care and prisoner of war. There are also volumes on political associations against which the armed forces appeared necessary to intervene or against whose influence the troops were to be shielded. Also preserved is a small remainder of files of the Military Investigation Office of the First World War for martial law violations as well as a few files of the Secret War Office. In addition, official publications have been handed down which were transferred from the former military archives of the GDR to the Federal Archives in 1994. State of indexing: Findbuch Vorarchivische Ordnung: The files of the War Ministry, together with the documents of the former Prussian Army, were burned in the Army Archives in Potsdam in 1945 as a result of the effects of war, except for a few surviving remains. In 1994, some documents were added to the remaining files handed down in the Military Archives of Freiburg, which were originally located in the Military Archives of the former GDR. Scope, explanation: Holdings without increase 30.1 linear metres 801 AU Citation method: BArch, PH 2/...

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Verwandtes Archivgut im Bundesarchiv: <br />
PH 3 Großer Generalstab<br />
PH 6 Generalkommandos<br />
PH 7 Stellvertretende Generalkommandos<br />
N 23 Nachlass Scheuch, Heinrich<br />
N 95 Nachlass Goßler, Heinrich von<br />
N 112 Nachlass Bergh, Ernst van den<br />
N 46 Nachlass Wilhelm Groener
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Amtliche Druckschriften: <br />
PHD 3 Etatsmäßige Druckvorschriften<br />
PHD 5 Technisch- Etatsmäßige Druckvorschriften<br />
PHD 2 Rang- und Quartierlisten der Preußischen Armee<br />
PHD 6 Kriegsministerium
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Literatur: <br />
Meisner, Heinrich Otto: Der Kriegsminister 1814-1914. Ein Beitrag zur militärischen Verfassungsgeschichte. Berlin 1940.<br />
Gliederung des preußischen Kriegsministeriums nach dem Stande zu Kriegsbeginn, vom Frühjahr 1916 und vom Sommer 1918 . In: Dieckmann, W : Die Behördenorganisation in der deutschen Kriegswirtschaft 1914-1918. Hamburg 1937.<br />
Cron, Hermann: Geschichte des deutschen Heeres im Weltkrieg. Berlin 1937.<br />
Handbuch zur deutschen Militärgeschichte. Hrsg. vom Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt. Frankfurt/M. 1968.<br />
Wurzer, Georg: Die Kriegsgefangenen der Mittelmächte in Rußland im Ersten Weltkrieg. Tübingen 2000.<br />
Oltmer, Jochen (Hg.): Kriegsgefangene im Europa des Ersten Weltkrieges (Krieg in der Geschichte, Bd. 24). Paderborn 2006.<br />
Jones, Heather: Violence against prisoners of war in the First World War: Britain, France and Germany 1914 - 1920. Cambridge 2011.<br />
Ullrich, Anna: "Nun sind wir gezeichnet". Jüdische Soldaten und die "Judenzählung" im Ersten Weltkrieg. In: Heikaus, Ulrike/Julia B. Köhne (Hg.): Krieg! 1914-1918. Juden zwischen den Fronten. Jüdisches Museum München 2014, S. 215-238.

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