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The Kriegsarchiv1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2009

Rainer Egger
Rainer Egger
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Kriegsarchiv
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The history of the Kriegsarchiv, which today constitutes the fourth section of the Austrian State Archives, began in 1711, when, on the initiative of Prince Eugene of Savoy, then president of the aulic war council, the Hofkriegsrätliches Kanzleiarchiv (the aulic war council chancellery archive), or, to use the full title, the Archivum bellicum, Hofkriegsrätliches Archiv, was established. In line with practices in the other court offices, this archive was to preserve all the documents accumulated by the aulic war council since its founding in 1556. In instructions dated April 4, 1711, Bernhard Rosenbaum, the first archivist of the newly-founded repository, was charged with arranging all documentary materials at hand in an orderly manner. At the same time, he was instructed to make lists of the important documents in the archive so that he could readily give out information about military events and organizational matters. Thus, from the very outset, the personnel of the archive was assigned the very important duty of collecting and making available for the army information about past military experiences.

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The Austrian State Archives
Information
Austrian History Yearbook , Volume 6 , January 1970 , pp. 39 - 66
Copyright
Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 1970

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References

2 “See Bittner, Ludwig (ed.), Gesamtinventar des Wiener Haus-, Hofund Staatsarchivs (5 vols., Vienna: A. Holzhausens Nachf., 1936–1940), Vol. II, pp. 347–348.Google Scholar

3 See my discussion of the history of the Kriegsarchiv, ante, pp. 39–41.

4 See Broucek, Peter, “Alexander Ypsilantis Gefangenschaft in österreich,” Mitteilungen des Osterreichischen Staatsarchivs, Vol. XVII-XVIII (1964–1965), pp. 550–559.Google Scholar

5 For a detailed discussion of these changes, see Wagner, Walter, Geschichte des k. k. Kriegsministeriums, Vol. I. In Studien zur Geschichte der Österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie, No. 5 (Graz: Bohlau, 1966)Google Scholar; and Vol. II: 1866–1888. In Studien zur Geschichte der osterreichischungarischen Monarchie, No. 10 (Graz: Bohlau, 1971).

6 For a good discussion of the Hungarian war archive, see Kun, József, “Das ungarische Kriegsarchiv,” Mitteilungen des Österreichischen Staats-archivs, Vol. XVII-XVIII (1964–1965), pp. 672–679.Google Scholar

7 See the section on the Kriegsministerialakten in ante, p. 51.