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Reports Vol. 2
Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz, VI. HA, Nl Schnee, H., Nr. 25 · File · 1932 - 1937
Part of Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage (Archivtektonik)

Contains: contains and others: - Ada Schnees descent (1932); - Joined the NSDAP (1933); - Tasks after joining the NSDAP. Part 1 (1933); - Tasks after joining the NSDAP. Part 2 (1933); - My acquaintance with Schacht (1933); - Interview with Hitler (1933); - Composition of the new Reichstag (1933); - Jewish question and foreign policy: VI. Commission of the League of Nations Assembly (1933); - Negotiations of the Congress of the World Association of League of Nations Societies (1933); - Report on the treatment of the question of the government measures taken against Jewish population groups in Germany (1933); - Visit to Lord Snowden (1943); - Schnee Speech in Folkestone (1934); - England and the East African Mandate (1934); - Events of the 30th World War of Nations (1933); - Events of the 30th World War of Nations (1933); - The World War of Nations (1934); - The World War of Nations (1933); - The World War of Nations (1934); - The World War of Nations (1934); - The World War of Nations (1934); - The World War of Nations (1934) June 1934; - Schnee over Schleicher and Papen (1934); - Discussion with de Valera (1934); - Meetings of the World Association of League of Nations Societies in Geneva (1934); - Conference of the World Association of League of Nations Societies in Folkestone (1934); - Conference in Folkestone (1934); - Speech in Folkestone (hs. manuscript) (1934); - Discussion with State Secretary Vansittart from the British Foreign Office (1935); - Interview with Major v. Stephani from the "Stahlhelm" (1935); - Supervision of letter and telephone traffic and the police spying system (1935); - Ribbentrop and Rosenberg (1935); - Visit by Lord Buxton (1937); - The Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft from its foundation in 1887 until its dissolution in 1936 (1937); - A few things about the Lord Mayor, and his wifea. about Konrad Adenauer, former Lord Mayor in Cologne (1937).

Schnee, Heinrich
Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz, VI. HA, Nl Schnee, H. · Fonds · 1867-1949
Part of Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage (Archivtektonik)

Curriculum Vitae Dr. jur.; Dr. rer. pol. h. c.; Real Privy Counsel; Governor a. D., Excellenz; MdR. Born 4.2.1871 in Neuhaldensleben. Father: District Court Councillor Hermann Schnee. Mother: Emilie, née Scheibe. - Married to Ada Adeline, née Woodhill, from New Zealand, whose father was an Englishman from Birmingham and whose mother was Irish from the old O'Donnell family. Schnee attended high school in Nordhausen, studied law and political science in Heidelberg, Kiel and Berlin, passed the bar exam in 1892 and received his doctorate in law in 1893. He then turned to the study of Swahili and colonial science at the Oriental Seminar Berlin and passed the examination as a government assessor in 1897. He joined the Foreign Office, Colonial Department, in 1898 and worked as Richter and deputy governor in German New Guinea. In 1900 he became district administrator and deputy governor in Samoa. 1904: Legation Council in the Colonial Department, 1905: Colonial Advisory Council at the Embassy in London. 1906: Lecturer Council, 1907: Conductor, 1911: Ministerial Director in the Reich Colonial Office and Head of the Political and Administrative Department. In 1912, Schnee became Real Privy Counsel with the title of Excellency. From 1912 - 1919 he was Governor of German East Africa. The Prussian Academy of Sciences awarded Schnee the Leibniz Gold Medal. He received an honorary doctorate in political science from the University of Hamburg in 1921 and was a member of the Reichstag (German People's Party) from 1924. 1925: President of the Working Committee of German Associations, 1926: President of the Association of Foreign Germans. 1930: President of the German Colonial Society. 1931: President of the German World Economic Society. As a member of the Interparliamentary Union and as a delegate of the World League of League Societies - Schnee was also president of the German League for League of Nations - he participated several times in international congresses. In 1932 he was delegated by the Foreign Office to the Manchuria Commission (Lytton Commission). In 1933, after one - the only - meeting with Hitler, Schnee resigned almost all presidential offices, unless they had been equalized or dissolved. Only he was head of the German Society for League of Nations, later renamed the "German Society for International Law and World Politics", until 1945. Heinrich Schnee's main literary works are: Pictures from the South Seas. Reimer, Berlin 1904 German East Africa at War. well

Schnee, Heinrich