January 26, 2024.- The deputy delegate of the Government, Marian Rueda, visited this morning the Military General Archive of Segovia (AGMS), accompanied by the director of these facilities, Colonel Javier Alonso.
The subdelegate has toured the archive, located in the Alcázar and the House of Chemistry, in a visit in which the head of the AGMS, Mar González, and Lieutenant Colonel Sánchez have also participated.
The AGMS is the oldest national historical archive of the Armed Forces and has 21 warehouses with more than 83,800 boxes and files.
It is estimated to collect between six and seven million files and 13,500 plans, which occupy 16 kilometers of shelves.
The archive was founded by Queen Regent Mª Cristina on June 22, 1898 in the Alcázar of Segovia (which had been restored in 1896), with the aim of concentrating all the documents that had to be kept and were deposited in Alcalá, Guadalajara, Aranjuez, Segovia and Madrid, to which documentation from Cuba, the Philippines, Puerto Rico and the rest of the captaincies was added.
From 1966, the AGMS expanded its facilities, also beginning to house its funds in the House of Chemistry, located in the outer enclosure of the Alcázar.
Among its funds, there are files of professionals of the Spanish Army, pre-20th century troops and personnel of university militias, among which are the corresponding of politicians, engineers, doctors, writers, painters…, distinguished from the Contemporary History of Spain. There is documentation of family interest (baptism certificates, heraldic shields, genealogical trees…), next to the Hota de Servicios.
In the section of ‘War Affairs (1700-1936)’, it compiles 3,769 files referring to competences of the Secretary of State and Dispatch of War, later Ministry, now of Defense.
In the section ‘Material of War (1700-1950)’, there are 1,365 files with files of fortifications, construction and works in barracks, vehicles sanitary material…, used by the Army in the previous three centuries.
During the visit, the Government’s deputy delegate signed the Book of Honor of the Military General Archive of Segovia.