Soldiers' Council Ludwigsburg
The provisional soldiers' council in Ludwigsburg was founded in the evening at 8 a.m. on November 9, 1918 in Ludwigsburg ( Württemberg ). It consisted of the soldiers:
- Imanuel Beck, private in the train replacement division 13,
- Georg Grieb, Gunner 2nd Substitute Division 29,
- Paul Hennsey, Gunner 2nd Substitute Division 29,
- Friedrich Nuremberg, nurse reserve hospital I,
- Ernst Reiner, Sergeant 2nd Substitute Department 29,
- Johann Sachs, NCO, Substitute Battalion 121.
When the Württemberg soldiers' councils were abolished on June 30, 1919 , Ernst Reiner, Emil Schuler and Gustav Speidel, then chairmen of the Ludwigsburg soldiers' council, prepared an activity report for the chairmen of the Ludwigsburg garrison soldiers' council, August 1919.
He started with the sentences:
“By order of the Württemberg Ministry of War , the Württemberg soldiers' councils were repealed on June 30, 1919. The more important files accumulated in the S. councils should be handed over to the revolutionary archive of the A., B. and S. councils of Württemberg with a brief activity report attached, at the request of the state committee of the S. councils of Württemberg. "
The typewritten version comprises 100 pages and is located in the main state archive in Stuttgart .
The activity report is printed in full in:
- Regional and local council organizations in Württemberg 1918/19, edited by Eberhard Kolb and Klaus Schönhoven. Droste Verlag Düsseldorf. ISBN 3-7700-5084-3
Eberhard Kolb and Klaus Schönhoven note the following in their work cited above about this statement of accounts:
"The very extensive report of the Garrison Soldiers Council Ludwigsburg is printed in full because in this exemplary self-presentation the activities and achievements of a S.-Council are described so vividly and in such detail as in hardly any other source."
literature
- Günter Cordes: The revolutionary year 1918/19 in Württemberg and the events in Ludwigsburg. In: Ludwigsburg history sheets. Issue 32, 1980, ISSN 0179-1842 , pp. 117-138.
- Paul Hahn . Memories from the revolution in Württemberg. “The red rooster. A phenomenon of revolution ”. Berger's literary office and publishing house, Stuttgart 1922.
- Wilhelm Wedge . Experiences of a Social Democrat. Volume 2. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1948.
- Ulrich Kluge: Soldiers' Councils and Revolution. Studies on military policy in Germany 1918/19 (= critical studies on historical science . Volume 14). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1975, ISBN 3-525-35965-9 (also: Berlin, Free University, dissertation, 1972).
- Eberhard Kolb , Klaus Schönhoven. Regional and local council organizations in Württemberg 1918/19 (= sources on the history of the council movement in Germany. Vol. 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1976, ISBN 3-7700-5084-3 .
- Klaus Schönhoven. The Württemberg soldiers' councils in the revolution of 1918/19. In: Journal for Württemberg State History. Vol. 33, 1974, ISSN 0044-3786 , pp. 236-257.
Web links
Oskar Walcker. Contribution to the family chronicle. Pages 20 and 21 (PDF; 161 kB).
