History of the Inventory Former: The Bank der Deutschen Luftfahrt, also known as the Aero- or Luftfahrtbank, was formed by the transformation of Luftfahrtkontor GmbH into a public limited company with shareholder resolution of 6 July 1940, the object of which, according to the articles of association of that date, was "the execution of banking transactions of all kinds and of related transactions serving directly or indirectly aviation purposes, as well as the administration and supervision of aviation companies and the execution of all such transactions, including in a fiduciary capacity" [1]. Luftfahrtkontor GmbH had been founded in 1933/34 in the context of the takeover of the Junkers group by the Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM) and in 1938 was responsible for the administration of 1. the Reich-owned facilities leased to companies in the aviation industry, 2. the Reich's holdings in companies in the aviation industry and 3. the investment loans [2]. In the course of the so-called "capital cut" to reform corporate financing, the investment loans granted until then were converted into state aid for special depreciation and firms were encouraged to use more of their own funds and borrowed capital to finance investments. To this end, both the RLM and the Reich Ministry of Finance (RFM) considered it sensible to set up their own commercial bank for aviation, whose loans were intended to stimulate the involvement of other banks and other donors and to which all Reich shareholdings in the aviation industry and aviation were to be transferred. On 9 June 1939 Luftfahrtkontor GmbH received its banking licence from the Reich Commissioner for Banking and quickly acquired the character of a "universal bank for German aviation" [3] after the start of the war. In addition to the conventional investment loans, the Luftfahrtbank increasingly granted the aerospace armaments companies - similar to the Deutsche Industriebank for the suppliers of the army and navy - the credit assistance provided by the Reich Economic Ministry (RWM) for the mobilization of arms production (in short: "mobkredite") with Reich guarantees from autumn 1939 onwards. This resulted in a substantial increase in the Bank's lending volume, which, together with the significant increase in managed participations and deposits from aviation companies, as well as increased activity on the stock exchange and the money market, led to the Bank being renamed "Bank der Deutschen Luftfahrt" and converted into a stock corporation (AG). This was in response to the wish of the General Airworthiness Officer Ernst Udet that "the company's status as a bank should be expressed in the company name" [4]. Like its predecessor Luftfahrtkontor, the Bank der Deutschen Luftfahrt initially resided in Berlin-Schöneberg, Am Park 12. In the night from March 1 to March 2, 1943, Ge‧bäude burned out completely after an Allied air raid, whereupon the bank had to move its Geschäfts‧räume to the center of Berlin (Werderstr. 7). As a result of the fire, loss of files also seems to have been the cause of complaint [5]. Dissatisfied with the accommodation that was not considered to be standes‧gemäß, the bank pushed in the spring of 1944 the efforts that had previously been made by the Jewish company Panofski
Find aids: Findbuch 1978, Revision 1988 (online searchable) Registraturbilder: The DCGG was founded on 12.03.1855 in Dessau on the initiative of the entrepreneur Viktor von Unruh and the Dessau banker Louis Nulandt. At first a gasworks was built in Dessau, which supplied the city with town gas for street lighting from 1856 onwards. This was followed by gas works in cities at home and abroad, such as Mönchengladbach, Magdeburg, Frankfurt/Oder, Mülheim/Ruhr, Potsdam, Warsaw and Lemberg. In 1857, Unruh brought the engineer Wilhelm Oechelhaeuser sen. into the company. In 1859 Nulandt retired after accusations of irregularities and Oechelhaeuser became the sole director general. Both the production of appliances for the sale of gas and the production of gas-consuming appliances themselves grew rapidly. The Centralwerkstatt Dessau was founded in 1871 to convert existing gas meters and to produce new ones. In 1921, the Centralwerkstatt merged with Carl Bamberg Werkstätten für Präzisionsmechanik in Berlin-Friedenau to form Askania-Werke AG. In 1872, Berlin-Anhaltische Maschinenfabrik AG (BAMAG), which manufactured the vertical furnaces used in the gas works, and Dessauer Waggonbau AG, which manufactured gas-powered trams, operated in Dessau. From 1886 Dessau received the second power station in Germany after Berlin. The required generators were developed by Wilhelm von Oechelhaeuser jun. Together with Hugo Junkers, brought into the factory in 1888, they succeeded in using powerful two-stroke counter-piston engines from 1892 onwards. Wilhelm von Oechelhaeuser jun. followed his father in 1889 as general director. Under the management of Bruno Heck, the company achieved a dominant position in Central Germany in 1917 with the founding of Elektrizitätswerke Sachsen-Anhalt AG in Halle. When the property located in the Soviet occupation zone was expropriated after the end of the war, the company moved its headquarters to Hagen/Westphalia in 1947. The alleged transfer of assets was the reason for the GDR's first Stalinist show trial, which was negotiated in 1950 under Hilde Benjamin in Dessau and ended with high prison sentences. The inventory is supplemented by the deliveries of the E-Werke in Bernburg, Dessau and Coswig. Inventory information: The collection was handed over in 1967 by the archive of the VEB Energieversorgung Halle to the then Historische Staatsarchiv Oranienbaum, now Abteilung Dessau. Small supplements were added in 1978. Included photos: 110
Foreword: * 24.04.1904 † 1996 Wilhelm Sachsenberg's father was co-owner of the Sachsenberg shipyard in Roßlau. From 1920-1925 he was a Sachsenberg volunteer with Junkers, 1926/27 he received his aeronautical training with Raab-Katzenstein. 1928-1929 pilot and organizer of flight days at RAKA-Flug in Kassel; 1929 entry into the service of the German Aviation Association. Since 1931 he was managing director of the Südwestdeutsche Sportfliegervereinigung. 1934-1935 Speaker for powered flight of the Landesgruppe Westfalen. 1934-39 Responsible manager and organizer of the international flight competitions of the 1936 Olympics, after 1950 he was still active in various air sports organizations. The collection contains documents of his aviation activities (badges, orders, memoirs, photos), e.g. at Raab-Katzenstein from the time before 1945 and his collection of material on aviation after 1950. The estate was handed over to the archive in 1995. It has a scope of 79 units of distortion with a duration of 1910-1992
Foreword: * 25. January 1897 in Brüx, Bohemia † 24. December 1982 in Freiburg im Breisgau After completing a civic school, the training as a technician took place on the Königshöhe in Teplitz. During the First World War he took part in the battle of Skagerrak as a war volunteer in the Kriegsmarine on the cruiser Lützow. At the beginning of 1917 he was transferred to the II. seapilot department. There a practical training took place at the Wilhelmshaven seafaring station on a 3-leg Friedrichshafen biplane with a 150 HP petrol engine. At the end Loose was used as a station pilot of the bomb school for observers at the Baltic Sea. In the spring of 1918 he was assigned as a front pilot at the North Sea flight station Helgoland, then to List on Sylt, where he flew naval reconnaissance until the end of the war and received the golden sea pilot badge. After his release from military service, Loose was with the North Sea Volunteer Airmen's Department in support of North Sea mine sweepers. At the end of September 1920, however, the Allies imposed a general ban on flying and destroyed the aircraft. In 1920 he got a job in Dresden in the motor vehicle department of the police headquarters. In his spare time he worked on the construction of the first glider of the Flugtechnische Verein in the workshops of the TH Dresden. This was called "Schweinebauch" and was a single-stemmed biplane. Fritz Loose soon became a flight attendant at this club and took part in the beginnings of gliding in Germany. Loose received the glider pilot's license No. 23, issued on June 17, 1922. So far Loose had only flown planes made of wood and canvas. The landing of the Junker pilot Wilhelm Zimmermann on the Elbe in 1922 with the all-metal Junkers F 13 aircraft inspired him to apply to the Junkers Air Transport Department. In January 1923, Loose received practical and extensive training as a pilot at the Junkers headquarters and passed the flight test to obtain a civil pilot's license in Berlin. His first cross-country flight took him from Dessau to Berlin in a Junkers F 13 with a Mercedes 160 hp six-cylinder engine. He worked as an experimental pilot on behalf of the Reichswehr and transferred Junkers machines to the customers. In Stockholm he received his Swedish aviation license. Further flights led to Izmir and Spain. He participated in wound transports for the Spanish Red Cross on the Moroccan front in the war against the Rifkabylen. After the merger (1926) of Junkers-Luftverkehr and Deutsche Luftreederei Aero Lloyd to form Deutsche Luft Hansa, Loose Werksflieger remained with Junkers. Demonstrations, flyovers, approaches and record flights of various types were among his tasks. He also flew as chief pilot of Professor Junkers personally in the F 13 directional aircraft with the registration D-282 (until 1929). On 1 March 1930 Fritz Loose was appointed flight captain of Junkers Flugzeugwerke. From the Aero-Club of Germany he was entrusted with a Junkers A 50 for the inspection flight of the Europa-Rundflug in 1930. The competition management denied him the right to participate in the actual 10,000 kilometre round flight, as he had already flown the route and was thus in an advantageous position. Afterwards Loose made a trip to the USA to participate in the National Air Races in Chicago on an airplane of the Italian Savoia-Marchetti-Werke. In 1931 Loose was employed as a pilot of the Junkers Aircraft Department (Jfa). In this function a Cierva-Autogiro C-19 Mk III gyrocopter approved in England was demonstrated by Fritz Loose on behalf of Deutsche Lufthansa at many flight days and caused a sensation. Altogether he flew this plane for about 30 hours and covered about 4500 km. It was the forerunner of today's helicopters. During the aviation advertising campaign The German Youth of Hajo Folkerts, the son-in-law of Prof. Junkers, he took over the leadership of the 6-seater Junkers F 13 from A. Grundke and carried out 12,000 take-offs and landings on more than 70 provisional airfields with more than 80,000 children and young people until 1933. In 1933 Loose became a training officer and flight instructor at the German Air Sports Association in Dresden. From 1934 to 1938 he built up a mission flight service for the Lutheran Church (ALC) with a converted Junkers F 13 in New Guinea. After his return to Germany in 1939, Fritz Loose was a pilot and flight operations manager at the Junkers plants in Dessau, Bernburg and Leipzig, which had since been nationalised, until 1945. There he flew in about 1000 Junkers Ju 88. Loose spent the time after the war with relatives in the Erzgebirge and fled to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1952. In 1955 Fritz Loose came to Bonn-Hangelar and took over the office of an airfield manager, which he held until 1968. He once again acquired the newly introduced private pilot's license. In addition, he was honorary representative of the air surveillance and member of the examination board for powered flight of the regional council in Düsseldorf. With his retirement he moved to Freiburg im Breisgau. The collection contains documents from his entire career (correspondence, photo albums, films) as well as some private documents. The estate was purchased by the family in 1998. It has a scope of 75 units of description with a duration of 1914-1988.
Foreword: * 26. 04.1896 in Frankfurt am Main † 17. 11.1941 in Berlin Ernst Udet was a fighter pilot during the First World War in the Fliegertruppe of the German Army. After Manfred von Richthofen he achieved the highest number of shootings among the German hunting pilots. During the National Socialist era, Udet was responsible for the technical equipment of the Luftwaffe in the Reich Air Ministry and from 1939 held the office of General Aircraft Master of the Wehrmacht, the last rank being that of General Superior. Ernst Udet's parents were the engineer Adolf Udet and his wife Paula, née Krüger. He grew up in Munich and attended the Stielerstraße elementary school there and from 1906 the Theresien-Gymnasium Munich. Udet became enthusiastic about the still young aviation at an early age. In 1909 he became a member of a model aircraft club, in 1910 he attempted gliding flights. In addition, he worked in his father's boiler workshop and in 1913 acquired the one-year certificate. Thanks to his flying skills he was the star at all air shows of his time. Apart from him, nobody could pick up a handkerchief from the ground with the wing of his machine. Udet has also promoted the career of the German record pilot Elly Beinhorn. After his rather average grades at school, he voluntarily joined the military at the beginning of the First World War. After a short phase as a motorcycle detector in the 26th Württemberg Reservation Division on the western front, he financed his pilot training at the flying school of Gustav Otto Flugmaschinenwerke in Munich. In April 1915, he acquired a civil pilot's license, which led to his being transferred to the army air force. From June 1915 he served in the ground company of the Griesheim air replacement department. In a two-seater he flew after the field pilot test until 1916 observation flights over the western front. After several risky flight manoeuvres and a crash he suffered a nervous breakdown. In March 1916 he was transferred to the Artillery Flight Department 206 stationed near Colmar, which was equipped with Fokker E.III fighters. After his third air victory on 24 December 1916, he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class. In 1917 he received the command of the hunting squadron 37 (Jasta 37), which he led until March 1918. In March he was requested by Manfred von Richthofen to lead the Jagdstaffel 11. In April 1918 he was awarded the Pour le Mérite. After Richthofen had fallen, Udet took over the leadership of Jasta 4. In August 1918 he succeeded in shooting down 20 enemy aircraft. He scored his last two air victories a month later. Ernst Udet survived the war as first lieutenant and second most successful German fighter pilot; he was able to record a total of 62 shootings. After the First World War, Udet earned his living with shoplifts. In the summer of 1921, despite the restrictions of the Versailles Peace Treaty, he founded Udet Flugzeugbau GmbH with funds from the American donor William Pohl, which he left in 1925. He then devoted himself increasingly to art and show flights, in which he often performed spectacular flight manoeuvres. 1925 he founded the Udet-Werbeflug GmbH, 1927 the Udet Schleppschrift-GmbH. In 1929 Udet took part as a mountain pilot in the silent movies of the mountain film director Arnold Fanck Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü and in 1930 in Stürme über dem Mont Blanc. From 1930 to 1932, he was also involved in other feature films in Fliehende Schatten, 1932/1933 in SOS Eisberg and 1935 in Wunder des Fliegens. He always played the saviour in need, who frees other people from dramatic situations through his flying skills. Udet was able to attend the demonstration of the Curtiss Hawk II in the United States in the early 1930s and was able to have the Luftwaffe finance the purchase of two aircraft for private use on the condition that they could be thoroughly studied after delivery. He was so impressed by the effectiveness of the concept of the dive bomber that he later postponed all bomber projects that were not suitable for dive bombing. Nazi dictatorship In April 1933 he was appointed vice-flight commander of the German Air Sports Association and on May 1, 1933 Udet, persuaded by Hermann Göring, joined the NSDAP. At the instigation of Göring, Udet joined the newly founded Luftwaffe on 1 June 1935 in the rank of colonel. On September 1, 1935, he became inspector of the fighter and dive fighters. As successor to General Wimmer, he became head of the Technical Office of the Reich Aviation Ministry. Furthermore he organized show flights, among other things in the context of the Olympic Games 1936. On April 1, 1937 Ernst Udet was appointed Major General and on November 1, 1938 he was promoted to Lieutenant General. Udet is considered jointly responsible for the misdirected German air armament during the first years of the war, which suffered above all from its enormous inefficiency and the fact that the political objectives and the actual course of the war were completely contrary. On February 1, 1939, Göring assigned him the new office of General Aircraft Master. In this function Udet was subordinated to the State Secretary of the Reich Aviation Ministry and Inspector General of the Air Force Erhard Milch. This expanded the competence of the Technical Office now headed by Udet, which was now not only responsible for the entire aircraft development and production, but also for procurement, replenishment and supply. If it was already a mistake to let Udet lead this office, this was all the more true now, since Udet had already had trouble filling the post before. From then on he was in charge of 26 departments with 4000 officers, civil servants and engineers, who were responsible for everything, but not for anything themselves.[3] The office of the General Aircraft Master meant a further competence cut for Erhard Milch, who resignedly stated: "In Udet's hands everything becomes dust. Udet, art and air shovel trailer, filmmaker and propaganda figure of the NS state, had excellent flying experience, but no technical or organizational abilities. Although he admitted these weaknesses himself, Göring prevailed and promised him all the necessary personnel assistance for the office. Udet's real task was to persuade the aircraft manufacturers to join forces, create synergies and avoid redundancies in development in order to optimize the air armament. Instead, he became the plaything of the particular interests of Messerschmitt, Heinkel and Junkers, who time and again succeeded in getting him enthusiastic about their projects regardless of the actual benefits and costs, so that Udet did not do his job well enough. On 19 July 1940, after being awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, he was promoted to Colonel General. In the last years of his life Udet consumed more and more excessive amounts of stimulants and intoxicants such as tobacco, alcohol and pervitine. With caustic mockery he drew numerous caricatures of his employers and himself. Among other things, he caricatured himself as an airman chained to his desk in the Reich Aviation Ministry. After the failures in the air battle for England and the ensuing hostilities by Göring and some other NS greats, Udet shot himself in his apartment in Berlin on 17 November 1941. On the front wall of his bed he had previously written the accusation directed at Göring: "Iron man, you have left me". Hitler ordered a state funeral. The suicide was kept secret. NS propaganda informed the public via the press that he had lost his life trying out a new weapon on a serious injury sustained in the process. For propaganda purposes, the newly established air force training and testing ground in the Warthenau district in occupied Poland was named after him Udetfeld.[5] Udet was buried at the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin. Werner Mölders died in a plane crash at Breslau airfield on 22 November 1941 on his way to the State Act. He then also found his final resting place in the Invalidenfriedhof, opposite Udet's grave. Shortly thereafter the Jagdgeschwader 3 was given the traditional name "Udet". Awards Iron Cross (1914) II. and I. Class Prussian Military Pilot Badge Cup of Honor for the winner of the air battle Württemberg Wilhelmskreuz with Swords Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords Hanseatic Cross of the Hanseatic Cities Lübeck and Hamburg Wounded Badge (1918) in Silver Pour le Mérite 9. April 1918 Wehrmacht-Dienstauszeichnung IV. Klasse Brache zum Eisernen Kreuz II. und I. Klasse Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes am 4. Juli 1940 Pilot and Observer Badge in Gold with Diamonds Bulgarian Military Order of Merit, Grand Officer's Cross with Swords Own Publications Neck and Leg Fracture. Funny cartoons, with verses by C. K. Roellinghoff. Traditional publishing house Rolf
History of the Inventory Designer: 08.01.1871 - 13.03.1939, Rear Admiral, Police President of Berlin, Member of the German Parliament (NSDAP, 1932-1933) Inventory description: Correspondence and records from military service, etc. as Chief of the Operations Department in the Command of the High Sea Armed Forces (1916-1917), as Chief of the Staff of the Naval Fleet Association for the Conquest of the Baltic Islands (1917), as Chief of the Staff of the Naval War Command (1918) and as Chief of the Naval Station of the Baltic Sea during the Kapp Putsch (1920) as well as from the activities at Junkers (1924-1932) and for Wilhelm II (1928-1932). State of development: Publication index Citation method: BArch, N 239/...
Inventory description: Abt. 209 Postcards Size: approx. 9000 pieces in 9 wooden boxes and 4 cartons, including 1. 3730 original postcards Worms/Umland and approx. 80 digital copies = 3521 registered pieces 2. approx. 5700 pieces other postcards without Worms or regional reference as well as duplicates Duration: after 1880 - 2001 How the postcards came into the archive and in which period the postcard collection was built up is not known. It is likely that these are mainly individual donations from users and smaller purchases. The collection also includes digital copies based on original originals in private ownership. In January 2006, the postcards of Mrs. Gerlinde Mauer, a temporary worker at the Jewish Museum, were re-sorted, while the existing group sorting was retained. From March to November 2011 the motifs related to Worms and its immediate surroundings as well as the military postcards were scanned with 300 dpi in original size and described by Mrs. Ingeborg Abigt in Augias until February 2012. For this purpose, a new classification was developed based on the old one. In addition, more postcards have been added ever since. The collection is stored in 10 wooden boxes in the magazine, shelf no. 46. The focus of the postcard collection is on collected views of Worms sights and views of the churches. The collection also contains a large number of military and propaganda cards, as well as postcards relating to the Grand Ducal Family. One part is unmarked, another has been sent by post and is marked with text, addressee and stamp. Since these are already published pictures, the stock is released for use. Reproductions, however, can only be made for private purposes due to the predominantly unclear legal situation. Exceptions are postcards of the publishers Christian Herbst and Füller, which can also be used for commercial projects and publications, as the city of Worms owns the rights, and postcards older than 70 years and therefore in the public domain. The find book was printed and bound in May 2012: Literatur Reuter, Fritz (Ed.), Worms in alten Ansichtskarten, Frankfurt 1979 Worms, postcards of Kunstverlag Christian Herbst, Worms 1903 Klug, Ernst, Worms in alten Ansichten, Zaltbommel/Niederlande 1978 Schwarzmaier, Hansmartin, Geschickte Illusion und erlebte Wirklichkeit. Picture postcards from the 1st World War, Karlsruhe 2003 (DD 15) Photographers Aero-Lux, aerial photographs, Frankfurt am Main Angermüller, Heinz Atelier Giesinger