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History of the Inventory Designer: Lieutenant General, Reichsminister Karl Eduard Wilhelm Groener Life data 22.11.1867 born in Ludwigsburg (Württemberg) 03.05.1939 died in Bornstedt near Potsdam Development 22.11.1884 as a flag squire in the 3rd Württemberg Infantry Regiment No. 121 joined Ludwigsburg 01.04.1890 Battalion adjutant 01.10.1993-July 1896 Commanded to Kriegsakademie 01.04.1897-01.04.1899 Commanded to Großen Generalstab 25.03.1899 Transferred to Großen Generalstab 12.09.1902 Company commander in infantry regiment no. 98 transferred 01.10.1904 to the Great General Staff transferred 01.07.-11.09.1907 to the General Command VII Army Corps commanded 18.04.1908 to the spring voyage of the deep-sea fleet commanded 10.09.1908 with effect from 01.10.1908 to the General Staff of the XIII Army Corps transferred 18.10.1910 as battalion commander in the 7th Württemberg Infantry Regiment No. 125 transferred 13.09.1911 with effect from 01.10.1911 to the Great General Staff commanded 01.10.1912 appointed head of department in the Great General Staff 03.08.1914 chief of the field railway 26.05.1916, leaving his position as chief of the field railways for use at the War Food Office, 01.11.1916 appointed chief of the War Office at the War Ministry and appointed representative of the Prussian War Minister 09.11.1916 appointed Deputy Plenipotentiary of Prussia in the Federal Council 16.08.1917 appointed Commander of the 33rd Infantry Division 20.12.1917 appointed Leader of the XXV Reserve Corps 25.02.1918 appointed Leader of the 1st Army Corps 28.03.1918 appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Army Group Eichhorn - from 08. 08. 1917 appointed Commander of the 33rd Infantry Division 20.12.1917 appointed Leader of the XXV Reserve Corps 25.02.1918 appointed Leader of the 1st Army Corps 28.03.1918 appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Army Group Eichhorn - from 08. 08. 1918 appointed Commander of the 33rd Infantry Division08.1918 Army Group Kiev appointed 15.07.1919 appointed Commander of the Kolberg Command Post 30.09.1919 Approval of his farewell request 25.07.1920-12.08.1923 Reich Minister of Transport 19.01.1928 Reich Minister of Defence 08.10.1931 Reich Minister of the Interior 30.05.1932 Resignation from both offices Promotions 08.08.1885 Ensign 09.09.1886 Lieutenant 18.09.1893 Lieutenant Colonel 25.03.1899 Captain 27.01.1906 Major 01.10.1912 Lieutenant Colonel 05.09.1914 Colonel 26.06.1915 Major General 01.11.1916 Lieutenant General 29.10.1918 I. General Quartermaster Orders and Decorations 01.09.1900 Royal Prussia. Red Eagle Order 4th Class 11.05.1905 Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Royal Württembg. Friedrichs-Order 11.09.1907 Prussia. Crown Order 3rd Class 28.02.1908 Royal Bayer. Order of Military Merit 4th class with crown 09.03.1908 Officer's Cross of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. French Joseoh Order 17.09.1909 Crown to the Royal Prussia. Red Eagle Order 4th Class and Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württembg Crown 13.09.1912 Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Royal Saxon. Albrechts Order with Crown 19.07.1913 Royal Prussia. Red Eagle Order 3rd Class 29.04.1914 Cross of Honor of the Order of the Württembg Crown 17.10.1914 K.u.K. Austrian-Hungarian. Iron Crown 2nd Class 16.11.1914 Iron Cross 2nd Class 05.12.1914 Officer's Cross of the Royal Bavarian. Military Order of Merit with Swords 07.12.1914 Officer Cross of the Royal Württembg. Military Order of Merit with Swords 17.12.1914 Iron Cross 1. Class 29.12.1914 k.u.K. Austrian-Hungarian. Military Cross of Merit 3rd Class with war decoration 14.05.1915 Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords 29.06.1915 Knight's Cross of the Royal and Royal Austro-Hungarian Empire. Leopold Order with War Decoration 11.09.1915 Order pour le mérite 15.12.1915 Commander's Cross 2nd Class of the Royal Saxon. Albrechts-Ordens mit Schwertern 21.01.1916 Großoffizierkreuz des Kgl. Bulgar. militär-Verdienstorden mit Schwertern 10.04.1916 Komturkreuz 1. Klasse des Großhzgl. Bad. Order of the Zähringer Lion with Swords 23.08.1916 Commander Cross of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Franz Joseph-Ordens 27.10.1916 Bremer Hanseatenkreuz 08.11.1916 Hamburg Hanseatenkreuz 05.01.1917 Commturkreuz des Kgl. Bayer. Militär-Max Joseph-Ordens 22.03.1917 Cross of Merit for War Aid 07.06.1917 K.u.K. Österr.-Ungar. Iron Crown 1st Class with War Decoration 02.08.1917 Commander Cross of the Royal Württembg. Friedrichs-Order with Swords 16.08.1917 Royal Prussia. Red Eagle Order 2nd Class with Crown and Swords 31.08.1917 Cross of Honour 1st Class of the Princel. Hohenzollern House Order with Swords 15.06.1918 Star to the Royal Prussia. Red Eagle Order 2nd Class with Crown and Swords 27.06.1918 Grand Cross of the Royal Württembg. Friedrichs-Orden with Crown and Swords Description of the Collection: The collection includes, among others..: Memoirs 1867-1919; personal war diary, e.g. as chief of the field railways (1914-1916), chief of the war office (1916-1917); as First Quartermaster General (1918-1919); correspondence with Ebert and Hindenburg, among others; manuscripts mainly on the First World War, e.g. on the Schlieffen Plan and on field railways; material collections mainly of a war-historical and war-economical nature; political documents as Reich Minister of Transport (1920-1923), Reich Minister of the Armed Forces (1928-1932) and acting Reich Minister of the Interior (1931-1932). Further parts of the estate can be found in the Main State Archives in Stuttgart and in private hands. References to other stocks PH 3 Großer Generalstab RH 26-33 33. infantry division R 4101 Reichseisenbahnamt R 1501 Reich Ministry of the Interior R 5 Reich Ministry of Transport [online finding aids] Citation method: BArch, N 46/...

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: Wilhelm Souchon, Vice Admiral born on 02 June 1864 in Leipzig, died on 13 January 1946 in Bremen married to Violet (née Lahusen) 1881: Sea cadet on SMS Leipzig; 1894: Commander of the mine training ship SMS Rhein, promotion to Captain Lieutenant 1900: I. Officer/Commander of SMS Odin 1900-1903: promotion to Corvette Captain 1903: Chief of Staff of II. (Reserve) Wing 1904: Chief of the Staff of the Cruiser Wing in East Asia on the SMS Fürst Bismarck 1906: Promotion to Captain at Sea, Employment in the Naval Office 1907: Commander of the SMS Wettin 1909: Chief of the Staff of the Naval Station Baltic Sea 1911: Promotion to Rear Admiral, 2nd Admiral of the II. 1913: Commander of the Mediterranean Division 1914: Commander-in-Chief of the Ottoman and Bulgarian Navy 1915: Promotion to Vice Admiral 1917: Commander of the 4th Battle Squadron of the Baltic Sea Fleet 1918: Chief of the Naval Station of the Baltic Sea, Governor of Kiel 1919: Pension Awards: Iron Cross I. and II. Class Pour le Mérite Red Eagle Order II. Class with star, oak leaves and swords Crown Order II. Class with Star Prussian Service Award Cross Lippisches Kriegsverdienstkreuz Commturkreuz I. Class of the Albrechts Order Grand Cross of the House Order of the White Falcon with Swords Cross for Merits in War Description: Correspondence, inter alia with Wilhelm II. and Tirpitz; lectures and elaborations on naval history; memoirs and diaries; documents from military service, including as chief of the Mediterranean Division (1911-1915), as commander-in-chief of the Turkish and Bulgarian navies (1915-1917) and as chief of the IV Squadron (1917-1918). State of development: Special conditions of use Citation method: BArch, N 156/...