Written: 1947<br />Betr.: man, imperial age, ship boy, ship journeys, America, military service, First World War, officer, German colonies in Africa

Preliminary remark: The present holdings include the files of Section IV e of both the General Command and the Deputy General Command of the XIV Bath. Army Corps, as they came together in 1949 from the Army Archives in Stuttgart to the General State Archives in Karlsruhe. These are individual case files on offences that were subject to the military judiciary in times of peace and war and were reported by it to the superior military authority as special cases.beyond the individual case, both the so-called honorary court files of the officers and the criminal and protective custody files of civilians provide a comprehensive insight into the sphere of activity and validity of military justice in the German Empire. Particularly during the First World War, it became clear that military justice had to fulfil political tasks, and what they had to do. With the unrelenting persecution of those persons who were considered to be "unreliable", their legally highly controversial preventive arrest and subsequent deportation to the interior of the Reich, the extraordinary war courts established for this purpose have acquired a dodgy fame. The fact that they destroyed the successes achieved over decades in integrating Alsace-Lorraine into the Wilhelminian Empire within just a few months is one of the tragic episodes in the history of the Reichland between 1871 and 1918. The present holdings were originally catalogued by a tax register compiled in the Army Archives. This did not meet the archive requirements. In the mid-1980s, the new indexing was started and completed in 1990.Karlsruhe, in November 1990Dr. Kurt Hochstuhl Conversion: In 2008, the indexing data for the present finding aid were converted into the new indexing software scopeArchiv within the scope of the project "Conversion of old finding aid data" of the General State Archive Karlsruhe. Guido Fögler was responsible for the technical implementation of the overall project "Conversion of old finding aid data" and Alexander Hoffmann for support. The editorial finishing of the online version was done by the undersigned.Karlsruhe, January 2009Dr. Martin Stingl

Contains among other things: Committees for the determination of war damages incurred in Alsace-Lorraine; Reichsentschädigungsamt and Spruchkommissionen; establishment plan; Compensation Office and Spruchkommissionen of the Colonial Central Administration; list of employees; establishment of branch offices of the Reichsentschädigungsamt; instructions for the Reichsentschädigungsamt

Corps History: The Corps was established according to the mobilization plan in August 1914 and disbanded during the demobilization in 1918. At the beginning of the war, the corps was subordinated to the 7th Army and divided into two reserve divisions (26th and 28th reserve divisions). During the war it was used only on the western theater of war. The structure of the corps staffs was the same everywhere at the beginning of the war. The Commanding General was assisted by a Chief of the General Staff as co-responsible advisor and superior of all organs of the Staff. The staffs were divided into the General Staff Division I (I a leadership, I b rear services, I c enemy position), Adjutantur II (II a officer's personnel, II b personal service at the General, II c team substitute and horse affairs), Feldjustiz III, Intendantur- und Kassenwesen IV a, Sanitätswesen IV b, Veterinärwesen IV c, Militärseelsorge IV d, Feldpost, Kommandant des Hauptquartiers und Feldgendarmerie. The commanding generals of the XIV Reserve Corps during the war were: General of Artillery Richard von Schubert02.08.1914 to 13.09.1914, Lieutenant General Hermann von Stein14.09.1914 to 28.10.1916, Lieutenant General Georg Fuchs 28.10.1916 to 11.03.1917,Lieutenant General Otto von Moser11.03.1917 to 07.02.1918,Lieutenant General Arthur von Lindequist08.02.1918 to 14.06.1918,Lieutenant General Richard Wellmann15.06.1918 to 23.08.1918,General der Infanterie Kurt von Morgen24.08.1918 bis zur Demobilmachung..In the Free State of Baden the new formation of the Baden People's Army began on 13 January 1919 with the acceptance of volunteers. As a reaction to the so-called "Spartacus Uprising" in February 1919, the Reich and Badische Volksregierung had further voluntary associations set up at all units in addition to the existing voluntary formations. Inventory history: After the end of the war, the files remained with the General Command of the XIV Army Corps. From January 1920, the establishment of an archive of the XIV Army Corps was begun, in which the archives of the settlement agencies were brought together. In autumn 1920 the corps archive moved to the infantry barracks in Heilbronn. From January 1921, the Corps Archives entered the portfolio of the Reich Ministry of the Interior under the name Aktenverwaltung XIV, before being incorporated into the Reichsarchiv in Potsdam as the Heilbronn archive branch on April 1, 1921. As a result of the merger of the Heilbronn and Stuttgart branches of the Reich Archives, the holdings were transferred to Stuttgart in 1924. The Württembergische Archivdirektion, which took over the administration of the holdings of the Army Archives Stuttgart after the end of the Second World War, handed over the XIV Army Corps to the General State Archives Karlsruhe in the years 1947 to 1949. A very detailed history of the holdings is contained in the foreword of the Deputy General Command of the XIV Army Corps (holdings 456 F 8). 848 fascicles with a circumference of 21.25 linear metres are included in the holdings. References: Die Badener im Weltkrieg 1914/18, edited by Wilhelm Müller-Loebnitz, Karlsruhe 1935.German Military History in six volumes 1648-1939, edited by the Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt Freiburg, Munich 1983.Fenske, Hans: Die Verwaltung im Ersten Weltkrieg, in: Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte, vol. 3, Stuttgart 1984, p. 866-908.Fischer, Joachim: Zehn Jahre Militärarchiv des Hauptstaatsarchivs Stuttgart, in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 37 (1978), p. 362-368.Jäger, Harald: Das militärische Archivgut in der Bundesrepublik für die Zeit von 1871 bis 1919, in: Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen 1968/2, S. 135-138.Overview of the holdings of the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, edited by Joachim Fischer (published by the Staatliche Archivverwaltung Baden-Württemberg, vol. 31), Stuttgart 1983.

Execution: Handdruck von kolorierter Zeichnung Persons and institutions involved in the creation: gez. Scott, Georges Bildträger: Halbkarton, 5 drawings in folder II Image and sheet size: 35.5 x 24 cm; 59 x 42 cm Remarks: Folder title: Le soldat francais pendant la guerre, Picture title: Tirailleurs Algériens, picture foxing, French provenance

Contains: above all: requirement notifications, distribution lists, and so on: Reference to war kitchens of the companies Cornelius Heyl and Doerr

Includes: Paulo da Cunha, former Portuguese Foreign Minister: "Africa's decisive role in the balance of world politics. The value of the Portuguese experience". Not for publication, 1960 correspondence material on German Jews during the First World War material on colonial history in Portugal, England and France

View of a tropical landscape Undescribed

Half appeared submarine in inclined position, with two men looking out of the hatch, one of them looking through binoculars, field post from Rastatt ("I have [...] learned that you and the neighbourhood [in Karlsruhe] were spared by the French gang")

Native soldier of the German Schutztruppe, with rifle and German Reich flag Undescribed

Contains among other things: Credit campaign for the small injured; Exposé: Is an economic merger of the rebuilding foreign and colonial Germans necessary?; Organization of the reconstruction work of the injured; Of the economic importance of the foreign Germans Contains also: Credit bank for foreign and colonial Germans - Statute 1927 and annual report 1928

English Tuppen in Tsingtau in the German colony Kiautchou in the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

German occupying troops in Tsingtau in the foreland of the fortress. The soldiers with rifles are lying in wait for the enemy / Photographer: Scherl

Fights in Tsingtau in the German colony Kiautchou in the First World War

Houses in ruins in Dar es Salaam after the firing of English ship guns / Photographer: Scherl

A gun from the cruiser 'Königsberg' in position at the mouth of the Rufidji in German East Africa in the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Colonial troops with carrier column on the march in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a during the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

The surveying ship 'Seagull' was hit in the bay of Dar es Salaam and lies down on its side before sinking. / Photographer: Scherl

10,5 cm gun of the cruiser 'Königberg' mounted on a mobile carriage. / Photographer: Scherl

Askari and Rugaruga on Kiomboni East (Rufiji Estuary) in the colony of D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a during the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Celebration at the foot of Kilimanjaro after arrival of the first victory news. / Photographer: Scherl