Hermann Pantlen
Hermann Pantlen (born October 22, 1887 in Cannstatt , † April 10, 1968 ) was the Army Archives Director in Stuttgart .
Life
Hermann Pantlen received his doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. and took over as Major a. D. in 1935 took over the management of the Reichsarchivzweigstelle Stuttgart, which was renamed the Army Archives a little later. He saved a large part of the holdings by relocating them to Schloss Neuenstein from destruction in the Second World War and in April 1945 prevented the office building from being blown up. Hermann Pantlen married Vera von Kries, one of the three daughters of the married couple Luise and Wolfgang von Kries . The daughter Marie-Luise emerged from the connection. Pantlen is buried in the Uff churchyard in Bad Cannstatt.
History of the archive
After the organizational issues after the end of the First World War had been resolved, a Reichsarchiv was founded in Potsdam in 1919 , in which military documents were to be kept. However, this archive was not automatically responsible for documents from the military authorities of Bavaria , Saxony and Württemberg . Military documents from Württemberg from the time before the establishment of the Reich in 1871 were finally declared as the property of Württemberg, later documents as the property of the Reich. Thereupon the Potsdam archive requested the transfer of the corresponding documents from Württemberg, but this was rejected by Württemberg. Therefore, in 1920 it was decided to set up branches of the Reich Archives, each of which should be responsible for a former army corps. Thus the records of the XIII. Army Corps in Württemberg. A war archive had existed here since 1906, which had been subordinate to the Württemberg War Ministry until its dissolution in 1919. However, this was not with the administration of the materials of the XIII. Army Corps, but the file management XIII.AK was launched, which was housed in Gutenbergstrasse 109/111 and was run as an independent work of the Wuerttemberg Army Processing Office from 1920. After several name changes, it became the Reichsarchivzweigstelle Stuttgart in 1921 and was thus assigned to the department of the Reich Ministry of the Interior. From 1923 this branch was directly subordinate to the Reichsarchiv Potsdam. In 1936 it was assigned to the Army Archives Administration and initially functioned as an Army Archives branch, from 1937 on as the Army Archives Stuttgart. After the end of the Second World War, this branch had to give up its holdings to the main state archive in Stuttgart , which from 1969 had a military archive department.
The institution contained the military records of Württemberg from the Thirty Years' War to the end of the First World War, although only the archives from the establishment of the Reich remained permanently in the Army Archives. The older holdings had to be handed over to the Stuttgart Archives Directorate in 1930. In 1939, the Army Archives also had the archives of the air forces of the XIII. and XIV. Army Corps. They were handed over to the military science department of the General Staff of the Air Force and were lost during the Second World War. From 1938 war diaries were assigned to the Army Archives by the Reich Archives; furthermore, the collections were expanded, especially by Hermann Pantlen.
The first director of the archive was Maximilian von Haldenwang . After his retirement in 1935, Hermann Pantlen took over this task. Pantlen relocated a large part of the holdings to Neuenstein Castle and thus saved them from destruction in the Second World War. He also prevented the office building from being blown up in April 1945. On the other hand, at the same time he followed orders to destroy "historically unimportant secret files". In 1946 parts of the inventory were apparently also collected .
After the Army Archives had been taken over by the Main State Archives, it was no longer a separate department. This ended a large part of the office files in the Army Archives. The main state archive soon passed on the files of the Reichsarchivzweigstelle Heilbronn and the archives of the XIV Army Corps to the General State Archives Karlsruhe ; the remaining holdings remained in Stuttgart. They were found during a sighting and re-registration by senior state archivist Dr. Fischer in the 1970s as being quite disorderly and diverse; Some of the files were handed over to the military archive in Freiburg im Breisgau , where they belonged according to their provenance. Further files were collected as not worth archiving. The legacies of the two archive managers from Haldenwang and Pantlen, on the other hand, were included in the inventory under the designation M 660.
The finding aid, which had been typed up to this point in time, was digitized in 2008/2009 and made available online from 2009.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bundesarchiv ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Baden-Württemberg State Archives
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pantlen, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Army archive director in Stuttgart |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cannstatt |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1968 |