General Military Archive of Ávila

It was created to increase the spatial possibilities of the Archival Subsystem of the Spanish Army, whose two main Historical Archives - the Central Archive of the Military Historical Service, now the General Military Archive of Madrid, and the General Military Archive of Segovia - were saturated.

In the former headquarters of the Academy of Intendence of Ávila, located next to the Palace of Polentinos - declared a National Monument - the Spanish Army has a set of facilities that, together with the great cultural value they treasure, allow them to face the growth of their Archives with a clear future perspective.

The initial nucleus of the funds of the General Military Archive of Ávila is the former Historical Archive of the Campaign, which in 1939 unified in a single archive the military documentation of the Francoist Army and the Republican Army. To this initial fund would be later incorporated the National Militia Archive, composed of two funds: on the one hand that of the National Militia units themselves (Falange and Requetés) and, on the other, the fund of the Spanish Division of Volunteers (Blue Division). Both blocks were transferred from the Central Archive of the Military Historical Service, now the General Military Archive of Madrid, in 1994.

In this main nucleus of the Archive, the funds of the institutions and organs of the Central Administration, both before the War, as is the case of the Ministry of the Army, and of the republican and Francoist zone (Ministry of War, Ministry of National Defense, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of State, National Defense Board, Headquarters of the Generalissimo, etc. ).

Likewise, funds are kept from institutions and bodies of the Territorial Administration, such as those of the Government of the Basque Country, the Generalitat de Catalunya, Military Commanders and Governments.

As for the units of the People’s Army, it gathers the documentation of Armies, Armies, Divisions, Mixed Brigades, International Brigades, Columns and Air Forces, among others. The units of the so-called National Army, gather the documentation of the different Armies, Army Corps, Divisions, etc.

To these funds were later incorporated others, such as those of Blood Hospitals, General Captaincies, Military House of Franco, Construction Commanders, Toledo Weapons Factory, documentation of the units located in the territories of Ifni and Sahara, Academies and Teaching Centers, among the most relevant.

The archives complete the various documentary collections of photographs, objects or press clippings, many of them collected and sent by the Military Historical Service and some private archives donated by their owners.

Most of the documentation arrived at the archive organized in some cases by the Military Archives Regulation of 1898, in others by the instruction of 1939 and more recently by the principle of origin, given the circumstance that funds transferred at different times may have arrived classified by different regulations.

Name of the resource	Extreme dates	Number of records	Observations
Index of names cited in nominal relations of the General Military Archive of Ávila	1936-1944	22.732	The following data sets contain an index prepared in the General Military Archive of Ávila during the work of describing files of different documentary series with information on prisoners, working soldiers and working soldiers punished during the Franco Dictatorship. During the descriptive work, the names of the nominal relationships included in the files were dumped in a database to form an index that would facilitate the searches, and the content of which is now made available to the research. Nominal relationships are documents whose content essentially consists of a list of people’s names. Among others, names of people related to the following disciplinary units are included: Concentration Camp of San Gregorio and San Pedro de Cardeña. Disciplinary Battalions of Penalized Working Soldiers No. 92, no. 94, no. 95 and No. 96. Different Battalions of Working Soldiers and Classification Commissions of Prisoners, Escapees and Presented. Most of the names correspond to people who served punishment in those units, although there is also some case in which they are personnel assigned in that unit as escort, watchdog or similar. It is an instrument of nominal description elaborated by the Archive, with reference to the box and folder (sometimes, also to the document and folio), as well as to the title of the file that includes the mention of the name and surnames of each person. Currently, this index consists of 22,732 records, each corresponding to a name and surname. Allows downloading in Excel/CSV.
Inventory of judicial funds from the Military Government of Badajoz	1936-1951	Group 17 boxes	Some names appear in sentences, warfare tips and summits of urgency

Name of the resource

Extreme dates

Number of records

Observations

Index of names cited in nominal relations of the General Military Archive of Ávila

1936-1944

22.732

The following data sets contain an index prepared in the General Military Archive of Ávila during the work of describing files of different documentary series with information on prisoners, working soldiers and working soldiers punished during the Franco Dictatorship.

During the descriptive work, the names of the nominal relationships included in the files were dumped in a database to form an index that would facilitate the searches, and the content of which is now made available to the research.

Nominal relationships are documents whose content essentially consists of a list of people’s names. Among others, names of people related to the following disciplinary units are included:

Concentration Camp of San Gregorio and San Pedro de Cardeña.
Disciplinary Battalions of Penalized Working Soldiers No. 92, no. 94, no. 95 and No. 96.
Different Battalions of Working Soldiers and Classification Commissions of Prisoners, Escapees and Presented.

Most of the names correspond to people who served punishment in those units, although there is also some case in which they are personnel assigned in that unit as escort, watchdog or similar.

It is an instrument of nominal description elaborated by the Archive, with reference to the box and folder (sometimes, also to the document and folio), as well as to the title of the file that includes the mention of the name and surnames of each person. Currently, this index consists of 22,732 records, each corresponding to a name and surname.

Allows downloading in Excel/CSV.

Inventory of judicial funds from the Military Government of Badajoz

1936-1951

Group 17 boxes

Some names appear in sentences, warfare tips and summits of urgency

Information extracted from the Ministry of Defense. General Subdirectorate of Publications and Cultural Heritage

Date of update: 01/27/2023