History of the Inventor: The Technical Office, established in 1933, set up testing facilities for weapons and equipment at various locations that existed until 1945. Inventory description: KOMMANDO DER ERPROBUNGSSTELLEN According to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty of 1919, the German Reich was prohibited from developing and constructing aircraft for military purposes. Nevertheless, as early as 1920, the Reichswehr Ministry (RWM) set up units with the task of carrying out preparatory work for the creation of development and testing sites for an air force. For example, a "Air Defence" (TA) unit was set up in the Truppenamt (TA) and an aeronautical unit in the Inspektion für Waffen und Gerät (IWG). After the merger of the IWG with the Waffenamt (Wa.A) of the RWM at the beginning of 1927, the aeronautical department became the department 6 F of the testing group (Wa.Prw. 6 F). He was in charge of the development departments disguised as civil engineering offices as well as the test groups in Johannisthal and Rechlin. The testing thus fell within the competence of the testing department of the Weapons Office. At the end of November 1928, the procurement department was also taken over by the Wa.L.Prw. Group. At the end of July 1939, in order to better meet the growing requirements, the Aviation Group in the Weapons Office (Wa.L) was divided into three groups: "Development of aircraft (Wa.L. I)", "Development of equipment" (Wa.L. II) and "Testing" (Wa.L. III). There was also a group on "Procurement" and a group on "Defense Economics and Armaments". On February 8, 1933, on the orders of Reichswehr Minister Blomberg, the Air Protection Office (LA) was formed, which was now also to be responsible for the development, testing and procurement of aircraft, aircraft engines and special aircraft equipment. He was assigned the aviation group in the weapons office, now known as Wa.Prw. 8, as Division L 2. After the transfer of the air-raid protection office to the newly created Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM) in May, the aviation technology department was initially subordinated as the Technical Department (B II) to the General Office (LB) of the RLM, but then, in the course of the reclassification of the RLM to the Technical Office (LC) on October 1, 1933, and, like the latter, directly subordinated to the Secretary of State for Aviation, Colonel General Milch. It was divided into the departments LC I (Research), LC II (Testing) and LC III (Procurement). Colonel Wimmer, as head of the Technical Office, remained responsible for aviation technology, while Captain Freiherr von Richthofen, who headed the LC II department from June 1934, was in charge of the technical aspects of the test centres (e-places). Until the Luftwaffe was unmasked in March 1935, the tests were carried out by the "Test Centres of the Reich Association of the German Aviation Industry" disguised as civilian. The "Commando der Fliegererprobungsstellen" (Command of Pilot Test Centres), which had been established in 1934 and was based in Rechlin, now appeared as the central testing authority. At the head of the command was the commander of the testing stations (K.d.E.), who was at the same time head of the E station Rechlin and superior of the chief of the E station Travemünde. His supervisor was the head of department LC II (Testing). In December 1936, the E posts Rechlin and Travemünde as well as Tarnewitz were directly subordinated to the new Chief of the Technical Office, Colonel Udet, in 1937 and charged with the development and technical testing of the Luftwaffe equipment. In the course of a reorganization of the entire RLM, the Technical Office was directly subordinated to Göring. As a result, Udet changed the organizational structure of the Technical Office again in May 1938 and dissolved the office of Commander of the Test Laboratories. The E posts now received independent command offices, which were technically subordinate to the head of the Technical Office. On February 1, 1939, the Technical Office, the Supply Office and the "Industry and Economy" group of offices were merged to form the new General Airworthiness Inspectorate (GL) and once again placed under the authority of the State Secretary for Aviation. Lieutenant General Udet was appointed General Airworthiness Officer and was now responsible for the management and control of the entire aviation technology as well as for the securing of the entire air force requirement while retaining his function as Chief of the Technical Office. After his suicide on 17 November 1941, the former Secretary of State for Aviation at the RLM, Generalfeldmarschall Milch, assumed these offices in personal union. In autumn 1941 a new command of the testing stations (Kdo.d.E) was established. In technical and operational terms, it was subordinate to the Commander of the Test Centres (K.d.E ), who in turn was subordinate to the Chief of the Technical Office and worked closely with the responsible development departments C to E of the Technical Office (GL/C). This post was held by Major Petersen until the end of the war. After the General Aircraft Master's Office was dissolved on 27 July 1944, the business area and thus the entire technical air armament was transferred to the Chief of Technical Air Armament (Chief TLR). The office was subordinated to the General Staff of the Luftwaffe and thus to the High Command of the Luftwaffe (OKL). The commander of the testing stations was now directly under the command of the Chief of Technical Air Armament, but was then subordinated to the commander of the Ersatzluftwaffe (BdE-Lw) shortly before the end of the war. Until 1945 the following E-positions were established and partially dissolved: Rechlin, Travemünde, Tarnewitz, Peenemünde, Udetfeld, Madüsee, Werneuchen, Süd (Foggia), Munster-Nord, Jesau, Arktis-Finsee, Cazeaux (Süd) and Karlshagen. In addition, a large number of test commands and test squadrons were set up from 1941 onwards, some of which were formed only briefly for the testing of individual aircraft types and quickly dissolved again after testing. ERPROBUNGSSTELLEN Torpedowaffenplatz der Luftwaffe Gotenhafen-Hexengrund (ca. 1942-1945) On April 2, 1942, the Luftwaffe Torpedowaffenplatz was repositioned as a branch office. He was subordinate to the General Airworthiness Officer (Technical Office) in terms of military service and discipline. He was assigned to Luftgaukommando I in terms of war classification, economy and administration. With effect from 1 May 1944, the Torpedowaffenplatz was then placed under the command of the E units. He was responsible for the testing of air torpedoes and associated dropping devices. Jesau (1943-1944) This E-Stelle was founded in 1943 as an outpost of the Peenemünde-West testing station. The main task of the E-Stelle Jesau was the execution of surveying work for distance and proximity fuses as well as the testing of the rocket-powered aircraft Messerschmitt Me 163. In August 1944 the E-Stelle Jesau was dissolved. Munster-Nord (1935-1945) As early as 1916, a test and production facility for gas ammunition was set up in Munster-Breloh for the first time on 6,500 hectares. From 1935, manufacturing and testing facilities for chemical warfare agents were again built on the site and the Munster-Nord Army Experimental Station, which was subordinate to the Army Ordnance Office, was set up. Both the Luftwaffe and the Weapons Office use the area for technical testing of high attack bombs and low attack spray containers. Peenemünde-West, later Karlshagen (approx. 1939-1945) After the start of construction work at the end of July 1937, Peenemünde-West started operations on 1 April 1938. Uvo Pauls was in charge until September 1, 1942, succeeding Major Otto Stams and Major Karl Henkelmann at the end of 1944. The task of the E unit was the testing of rocket engines and rocket-propelled, remote-controlled dropping weapons (e.g. Fi 103, Hs 298). The central group of the test centre was the air traffic control, which was responsible for the deployment of the aircraft fleet. She was also assigned a weather station. The following test groups were active at the experimental site, working on different tasks: E 2: Aircraft and missile systems with rocket propulsion, including support of the troop test commands (Fi 103 and Hs 117) E 3: Engines and fuels E 4: Radio and radio control systems E 5: Equipment (power supply, control systems, image station, measuring base) E 7: Drop systems, target and target training equipment E 8: Ground systems The E station was moved to Wesermünde air base near Bremerhaven in April 1945. Rechlin (approx. 1925-1945) Already planned in 1916, the "Flieger-Versuchs- und Lehranstalt am Müritzsee" started operations in 1918 during the First World War. Due to the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, however, the installations there were dismantled again at the beginning of the 1920s. As part of the camouflaged continuation of pilot testing in the Weimar Republic, a test airfield was built in Rechlin from 1925. On the initiative of Hauptmann Student, the German Aviation Research Institute (DVL) in Berlin-Adlershof set up a new "Department M" specifically for this purpose. The "Luftfahrtverein Waren e.V.", founded in 1925, acquired the necessary area on behalf of the Reich and took over the operation of the new airfield. Factory and flight operations began in the summer of 1926. From 1927/28 Albatros Flugzeugwerke GmbH in Berlin-Johannisthal leased the facility, which was now called the "Testing Department of Albatros Flugzeugwerke Johannisthal". After the Reichsverband der Deutschen Luftfahrt-Industrie (RDL) had taken over the site at the insistence of the Reichswehr troop office at the end of 1929, it was continued under the camouflage name "RDL Erprobungsstelle Staaken". After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the facilities in Rechlin were rapidly expanded to become the largest testing station (E station) for aviation equipment. From 1935, the E-Stelle Rechlin was regarded as a showpiece of the Luftwaffe. Until the end of the war, four large building complexes with different uses were built on the huge area: Group North management and technical administration, air base command and weather station; Testing of airframes (from 1936), of radio and navigation equipment, of aircraft on-board devices and equipment, aeromedical tests as well as high-frequency and ionospheric research Group South Testing of engines, of materials as well as of fuels and lubricants East Group Testing of ammunition for on-board weapons and drop-weapons West Group Military testing (only 1935-1938), test group and shipyard, fracture recovery, training workshop Initially, the focus of testing activities in Rechlin was on flight and engine testing. This included the flight testing of the engines, the measurements on the individual engine components as well as the creation of complete aircraft types. Other areas of activity include the testing of aircraft equipment - from on-board instruments to rescue and safety equipment, hydraulic systems - and radio and navigation equipment. From 1933 the testing of weapons was also carried out in Rechlin. The main focus was on the testing of ammunition for firearms as well as the testing of drop ammunition within the framework of flight testing. After the beginning of the 2nd World War, prey planes were thoroughly tested there and the results evaluated. In addition to the purely technical testing of all land aircraft and their equipment, new aircraft types are tested for their military suitability, especially after the start of the war. For this purpose, the Lärz Test Command was set up, to which these aircraft types were assigned for operational testing. From mid-1944 the testing of the new jet aircraft Me 262, Ar 234 and He 162 received highest priority. The E-Stelle Rechlin has undergone several organisational changes during its existence. An overview of the structure and filling of positions is attached as an annex. This is a compilation from the publication of Beauvais. South (Foggia) (c. 1941-1942) In the second half of 1941, the E-Stelle Süd started operations at the airfield in Foggia, Italy. It was intended for the testing of air torpedoes and underwater weapons, which had to be carried out in Grosseto due to unfavourable conditions. At the end of February 1942, it was decided to move the E-Stelle Süd to the French town of Cazaux, southwest of Bordeaux, and operations began at the airfield in May 1942. The test flights were used for the ballistic measurement of various types of bombs or dropping containers, the testing of target devices and bomb droppings. The commander of the E post was Captain Henno Schlockermann. After Allied air raids in March and September 1944, during which the installations were severely damaged and several test aircraft destroyed, operations had to be restricted and then discontinued altogether. By order of 10 October 1944, the E post was officially closed. Tarnewitz (1937-1945) Construction work began in 1935, and two years later the Tarnewitz electric power station was officially put into operation. The task of the new unit was to test new weapon systems for Luftwaffe aircraft. In addition to machine guns and bombs, this also included the newly developed rocket weapons. The various tasks were performed by the groups W 1 (installation), W 2 (ballistics and sights), W 3 (mountings and air discs) and W 4 (on-board weapons and ammunition). From 1938, the E post was subdivided into the specialist groups machine guns and ammunition, including rocket testing (IIA), mountings and air discs (II D), ballistics and sights (II E), installation of weapons in aircraft (II F). Travemünde (1928-1945) In 1928 a seaplane test centre (SES) was founded in Travemünde under the camouflage name "Reichsverband der Deutschen Luftfahrtindustrie Gruppe Flugzeugbau". Originally planned and established after World War I as a secret testing ground for independent naval aviation, the Travemünde testing ground was subordinated to the RLM in 1934 after the National Socialists seized power and expanded further. The focus of the testing activities in Travemünde was the testing of seaplanes and their equipment, naval mines and air torpedoes as well as special ships and boats for maritime flight operations. This also included testing seaplanes, landing on icy and snowy ground, landing attempts on aircraft carriers and rescue measures on the open sea with the aircraft. The E post was divided into the following groups in 1933: A: Navigation, radio, seaman's equipment, special installations B: Operation of aircraft, ships, docks, catapults and vehicles, ground services E: Flight service, holding pilots ready F: Aircraft testing, preparation, execution and evaluation of measurements, reports, assessments G: Testing of on-board devices, radio measuring devices, laboratory, precision mechanical workshop, photo service, duplication K: Administration, personnel, material, buildings, installations M: engines, propellers, aggregates, workshop and test benches Udetfeld (1940-1945) The Udetfeld electric power station was set up in 1940 near Beuthen/Oberschlesien. At the beginning it was led by Major Werner Zober, later by Lieutenant Colonel Rieser. The test leader was Fl.Stabsingenieur Rudolf Noch. The task of the E-Stelle was the testing of small explosive and incendiary bombs, parachute bombs and special detonators as well as the acceptance blasting of all German bomb types. At times she was also engaged in the testing of parachutes and ejection seats. For this purpose it was equipped step-by-step with a measuring base, several discharge points and a picture position. Last tests and measurements took place until shortly before the invasion of the Soviet army at the end of January 1945. The E-Stelle was dissolved by order of 15 February 1945 and its tasks taken over by the E-Stelle Rechlin. Werneuchen (1942-1945) The E post was established in April 1942 at the air base in Werneuchen. She was responsible for the testing and development of search and target devices for air and sea reconnaissance and worked closely with the Aeronautical Radio Research Institute in Oberpfaffenhofen. Field stations for testing ground radio measuring instruments were located in Weesow and Tremmen. The flight testing of newly developed equipment was initially carried out by the test squadron of the Technical Test Command (TVK), and was then transferred to the newly formed night fighter group 10. Their tasks also included the development and testing of equipment for the defence against interference and deception by the enemy air forces. In Werneuchen, the night hunt radio measuring devices FuG 202 "Lichtenstein", the ship's target search device FuG "Hohentwiel" as well as the ground search devices "Würzburg-Riese" and "Freya" were tested. In February 1945, the E-Stelle was moved to Stade and renamed to E-Stelle Stade in April 1945. The E post was commanded by Major i.G. August Hentz until April 1944, then until its dissolution by Major i.G. Cerener. ERPROBUNGSKOMMANDOS und ERPROBUNGSSTAFFELN Erprobungskommando 4 (ERPROBUNGSSTAFFELN Test Command 4) Set-up by order of 1 December 1944 by air fleet 10. Troop testing of the X4 guided missile and testing of operational procedures and tactical capabilities. Test Command 15 Formed from the Experimental Squadron Hs 293 and intended for troop testing of the Gleitbombe Hs 293. Test Command 16 Set up on the Command Path in April 1942 in Peenemünde-West, at the beginning of September budgeting and transfer to Zwischenahn, then in October to Brandis. Testing of the rocket-propelled hunter Me 163 B "Komet". Dissolution on 14 February 1945. Tasks were to be taken over by Jagdkommando 400, which also received the operational aircraft. Erprobungskommando 17 Transfer of the 2./Kampfgruppe 100 from Hannover-Langenhagen to the French Chartes, renaming into E-Kommando XY in January 1942 and temporarily into E-Kommando 100 (March to May 1942), then budgeted as E-Kommando 17. Further development of the X- and Y-process and deployment against England. Mid-September 1942 Renamed 15th Combat Squadron, 6th Experimental and Training Command, 18, set up on 1 August 1942 in Pillau and subordinated to the General of the Air Force by the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy (Ob.d.M.). Testing of the aircraft types intended for the aircraft carrier "Graf Zeppelin" including the instruction and training of the flying and ground personnel on this equipment. Test Command 19 Deployment on 1 July 1942 at the Castel Benito airfield near Tripoli on the Command Way. Testing of the aircraft types Bf 109 and Fw 109 for tropical suitability as fighter and battle planes. Personnel of the supplementary groups of the fighter squadron 27 and 53, respectively. Test and training command 20 formation on 1 October 1942 in Travemünde (later Kamp). Testing of on-board special aircraft as well as instruction and training of flying and ground personnel for on-board special aircraft. Test and Training Command 21 Set up on 1 August 1942 in Garz/Usedom. Personnel and equipment of the disbanded II. combat squadron 3. troop testing of the bomb PC 1400X. Test and teaching command 22 Set up autumn 1942 in Lärz. Testing of the Fw 190 fighter bomber version with long range (Jaborei). Personnel of the combat squadron 40, of the fighter squadrons 2 and 26 as well as of a destroyer school. Spring 1943 Transfer to St. André in France and use for the formation of the I./Schlachtkampfgeschwader 10. Test and training command 24 formation on 1 March 1943 in Mark-Zwuschen. Testing of aircraft types suitable for reconnaissance purposes, including equipment (navigation and heading devices). Dissolution in October 1944, assumption of the tasks and the personnel by the experimental association OKL. Test Command 25 Set-up in accordance with the order of 17 April 1943. Troop testing of the aircraft required for day hunting, aircraft radio measuring equipment, weapons and combat procedures as well as deployment within the framework of the Reich Defence. Reclassification into hunting group 10 with the same tasks. Test Command 26 Set-up in accordance with the order of 29 December 1943 by renaming the 11th (Pz.)/battle squadron at the airfield of the Udetfeld E station. Dissolution on 14 February 1945 and transfer of personnel to General der Schlachtflieger. Assumption of the tasks of the supplementary squadron of the Schlachtgeschwader 151. Experimental squadron 36 Set up in Garz according to the order of 10 August 1943 by renaming the 13th/fighting squadron 100. Testing of the suitability for troops of the successor models of the Hs 293 as well as briefing of observers on the He 177 equipped with the Kehlgerät FuG 203. Dissolution on 12 July 1944. Transfer of the personnel to the E-Kommando 25 for the continuation of the testing of the fighter missiles. Test Command 40 The Fliegerforstschutzverband was formed on 5 March 1940 as an independent association from the "Pest Control Group" of the Flugkommando Berlin, which had existed since 1936. It was mainly used for forest pest control and from October 1941 also took over malaria control in the occupied territories. Numerous spraying and pollination flights were carried out for this purpose. Another focus of his activities was the sowing of agricultural and forestry seeds and the spreading of artificial fertilizers. After being placed under the command of the E units on 1 January 1944, the Fliegerforstschutzverband was renamed E-Kommando 40. By order of 3 September 1944, the command stationed in Göttingen was dissolved and the remainder of the command was transferred to Coburg in November 1944, where it was used to set up E-command 41. Erprobungskommando 41 Formation on January 22, 1945 from remaining parts of the Erprobungskommando 40 and subordination in military service under Luftgaukommando VII and operational under Luftflottenkommando Reich. Test Command 100 See Test Command 17 Test Command Bf 109 G Report of arrival at Rechlin on 15 March 1942. Equipped with eleven Bf 109 G-1 and seven pilots in July. No more data. Test Command Ta 152 Positioning on the Command Way on 2 November 1944 in Rechlin. In accordance with the order of January 9, 1945, the deployment was extended until April 1945, and the deployment was reorganized into a group staff with a staff company as well as four task forces and a technical testing squadron. No formation of the four operational squadrons due to takeover of troop testing of the aircraft type Ta 152 by III/Jagdgeschwader 301. Dissolution on January 23, 1945. Test command Ta 154 formation on December 9, 1943 at the air base Hannover-Langenhagen. Testing of the front suitability of the aircraft type Ta 154. Dissolution according to the order of August 1, 1944. Transfer of personnel to the E-command Me 262. Test command He 162, deployment order of January 9, 1945 for an E-command in group strength (but not with this designation). Implementation of the operational testing of the aircraft type He 162 by I./Jagdgeschwader 1. Experimental squadron He 177 deployment on 1 February 1942 in Lärz. Testing of the aircraft type He 177. Dissolution on September 20, 1943. Transfer of personnel to combat squadron 40. Test squadron Ju 188 set up on March 1, 1943 in Rechlin. Transfer at the end of July 1943 to Chièvres near Brussels. Used for 4th/combat squadron 66th test squadron Me 210 set up in late spring 1942 in Lechfeld, relocated in July 1942 to Evreux in France. Operational testing of the aircraft type. After temporary renaming into 16th/fighter squadron 6 and 11th/destroyer squadron 1, finally reclassification into test squadron Me 410. Test squadron Ar 234 set up summer 1944 (July) in Lärz. Operational testing of the aircraft type Ar 234 B as a bomber. Personnel of the combat squadron 76th Erprobungskommando Me 262, deployment on 9 December 1943 at the Lechfeld air base. First testing of the V-model Me 262 and personnel supply of the III./Zerstörergeschwader 26 in April 1944. Starting from August 1944 formation of Einsatzkommandoos among other things in Lärz. At the end of September use of parts of the E-command, the III./ZG 26 to form the E-command "Novotny" and a new E-command 262 in Lechfeld. Official dissolution of E-command 262 on 2 November 1944. Test command Do 335 set up on 4 September 1944 by command of the E-positions. Troop testing of the aircraft type Do 335 as a mosquito night fighter, fighter, reconnaissance and combat aircraft. Relocation to Rechlin on 20 November. Revocation of the dissolution order of 14 February 1945. Test command JU 388 set up on 15 July 1944 in Rechlin. Testing the Ju 388 as a night hunter. Dissolution on 14 February 1945. Transfer of personnel to Combat Wing 76, E-Command Do 335 and various units. Test squadron Me 410 See test squadron Me 210. Troop testing of the aircraft type Me 410. Integration as 9th squadron of the combat squadron 101 and renaming into 12./KG 2 in October 1943 and finally April 1944 into 13./KG 51. Test squadron 600 formation according to order of April 1, 1945, intended for testing the rocket-driven interceptor Ba 349 "Natter". No further data known. Test command "Kolb", order of 20 November 1944. No further information known. Test command "Nebel" (Fog), order of 26 July 1944, for the testing and production of the Me 264 aircraft type, then from December 1944 also for the testing of long-range aircraft. Etatisierung des E-Kommandoos Ende Februar 1945. Lehr- und Erprobungskommando (W) After Colonel Wachtel had already been commissioned since April 1943 to carry out the war operation of the Fieseler Fi 103 (camouflage designation Flak sight FZG 76), the establishment of the Erprobungskommando began in June 1943. In military service it was subordinated to the higher commander of the anti-aircraft artillery schools and in questions of training and testing to the general of the anti-aircraft weapon. It was supplied by Luftgaukommando III, to which it belonged in terms of war classification. On 15 August 1943, the Wachtel Command formed the Flak Regiment 155 (W), which was soon transferred to France. Sonderkommando Fähre (Siebel) The Sonderkommando Fähre was responsible for the provision and operation of air force ferries for the transport of air force goods. (The information on the E-positions and E-commands were published in abbreviated form by Heinrich Beauvais/Karl Kössler/Max Mayer/Christoph Regel: Flugerprobungsstellen bis 1945. Johannisthal, Lipezk, Rechlin, Travemünde, Tarnewitz, Peenemünde-West. Bonn 1998). Characterisation of content: The collection mainly comprises work and test reports as well as correspondence between the command of the test centres and the test centres themselves and superior departments and various companies. Most of the test reports are for the two E posts Rechlin (approx. 200 AU) and Travemünde (approx. 160 AU). About 60 volumes of files with pollination and spray reports including the corresponding maps have been handed down by the Fliegerforstschutzverband. Of the remaining e-positions, only minor fragments of files have been preserved. The seven file volumes of the command of the e-offices, which deal with organizational matters of the e-offices and e-commands, are to be emphasized. State of development: Online-Findbuch 2007 Scope, Explanation: 573 AE Citation method: BArch, RL 36/...
On the history of Army High Command 7: The deployment plan for the West Army in a future war against France in 1914 provided for the formation of a total of seven armies on the German western border. The 7th Army, whose jurisdiction extended from the Hagenau-Saarburg line to the Alsatian-Swiss border, had the task of ensuring the protection of the left flank of the Western Army and thus guaranteeing the three so-called encircling armies (1 - 3, see Schliefen Plan) corresponding lateral protection. This 7th Army, which was under the command of the General Colonels of Heeringen, was assigned the General Command of the XV AK (Strasbourg), the General Command of the XIV AK (Karlsruhe) and the General Command of the XIV Reserve Corps at fighting formations. With the exception of a few Prussian and Württemberg troops, most of which were in the 28th Reserve Division, the 55th Mixed Replacement Brigade and the 55th Landwehr Brigade, the majority of the 7th Army (in addition to the units of the XV AK) consisted of the Baden troops of the XIV AK and the XIV Reserve Corps.With these troops, in one of the first battles of the world war, Colonel General von Herringen succeeded in stopping the advance of French units on the Rhine border and throwing them back from the Alsatian plain to the Vosges ridges. the transition from the war of movement to the war of positions, combined with the accelerated exchange of troops within the various army corps and armies, blurred the clear assignability of certain units to larger units. With the calming of the Upper Alsace and Vosges Front in the winter of 1915, larger parts of the fighting Baden troops were withdrawn from the area of responsibility of the 7th Army and replaced by Landwehr formations (also Baden, but also Württemberg, Bavarian and Prussian). These units, which were deployed at almost all theatres of war in the West, generally remained under the command of the 7th Army High Command. While the army groups and army fronts were pronounced intermediate instances of the higher leadership, the "Army High Commands" as command authorities combined combat command with administrative tasks. Their army area was divided into the "operational area" and the "stage" in which the supply facilities of the army were stationed. The allocation of army troops (pioneers, transport troops and air forces) was based on the respective operational objectives and also varied in the area of the 7th Armed Forces. In 1914, however, the air force department, field airship department, telegraph department and a radio command with two heavy radio stations belonged to the "basic equipment" of every army. Inventory history: The knowledge about the original jurisdiction of the 7th Army and the troops that formed it will have been decisive for the fact that the military tradition of this large formation was not transferred to the army archive in Potsdam after the end of the First World War, but remained in the Heilbronn branch archive and later in the army archive in Stuttgart. From there, the closed collection was transferred to the General State Archives in 1949 as part of the transfer of "Baden" military provenances (for the archive history of the XIV Army Corps tradition, see the preliminary remarks on Repertory 456 F 8 - Deputy General Command XIV Army Corps). Order and Distortion: The present inventory was recorded in 1985 by Heinrich Raab, a long-time administrator of the inventory group 456. The title recordings available on index cards were then sorted according to departments in accordance with the military business distribution plan and according to subjects within the departments. When the holdings were repackaged in acid-free archive containers, the undersigned checked and partially supplemented the title records, but the internal order of the holdings was largely retained. In addition, file fascicles found in other holdings of the inventory group 456 were integrated into the inventory according to provenance. Karlsruhe, August 1990Kurt Hochstuhl
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
Contains: Acceptance of the airship Z 1 as well as the use of the national donation for further projects of Count Zeppelin, correspondence between the ministries with marginal remarks of the emperor and statement of the Minister of War Preußisch-Sächsische Verständigung in Sachen der Schiffahrtsabgaben, statement of the Minister of Public Works, Feb. 24, 1909 Course of the English royal visit to Berlin and conduct of the All-German Association, Protocol of the Ministry of State, Feb. 13, 1909. Feb. 1909 Determination of the Imperial Budget 1909 for the Imperial Office of the Interior, Report of the State Secretary of the Imperial Treasury, 16 March 1909 So-called Prussian harmlessness certificate for draft laws of the Imperial State, Letter of the Imperial Chancellery, 14 March 1909 Export of horses to Serbia, Report of the President of the Government in Poznan as well as Decision of the State Ministry, 19th February 1909. March 1909 transit of an imperial mail steamer from Sydney to Apia (Samoa), report of the R e i c h s m a r i n e a m t , 15 March 1909 grouping of the customs supervisors into the pay scale, letter of the Ministry of State, 26 Apr. 1909 indiscretion of an official in connection with press attacks against the RVO, letter of the Ministry of State, 26 Apr. 1909 Protection against acts of terror of the social democratic workers at the Kieler Werft, submission of the National Workers Association for Kiel and the surrounding area, 15 June 1909 applications for the Reich budget for 1910 and the necessity of a reduction of the expenditures, report of the Reich Treasury Office, 26 Aug. 1909 Political situation in North Schleswig, report of the Ministry for Agriculture, Domains and Forests, 30 Sept. 1909 Date for the convening of the Reichstag, letter of the Ministry of State, 23 Sept. 1909 Okt. 1909 Stimmung im Ruhrgebiet, Bericht des Büros für Sozialpolitik, 26. Nov. 1909 Participation of civil servants in the Katowice city elections and their casting of votes for Wielkopolska deputies and transfer of these civil servants by the Royal Prussian Government, report of the District President and discussion of the ministers, 30. Nov. 1909 Miners' movement in the Rhine-Westphalian coal district, report of the President of Police, 23. Nov. 1909 Interpellations in the Reichstag because of the election procedures in Katowice and because of the Mecklenburg constitutional question, statement of the State Ministry, Dec. 14, 1909 use of the Privy Legation Council Klehmet in the Reich Office of the Interior, instruction of the Reich Chancellor, March 8, 1909 request of the Landtag for the absence of the Minister of Culture, reply letter of the State Ministry, March 24, 1909 Apr. 1909 Position of the German Reich Party on inheritance tax rates, position of the Reich Chancellor on a letter from the Duke of Trachenberg, 6 May 1909 Efforts to obtain the title of Privy Government Councillor for Dr. Levin-Stoelping from another side, memo from Jonquieres to the Minister, 29 May 1909 Arbeitskammer-Gesetz as well as the position of the coal industrialists on this, report of the licentiate Mumm, 29 May 1909. Oct. 1909 Sending of persons to the art exhibition in Rome 1911, submission of the German Art Cooperative to Lewald as well as letter from Prof. A. Kampf, 29 Oct. 1909 demonstration in Mulhouse/Alsace, cover letter of the Reich Chancellery, 23 Dec. 1909 investigations after the author of an article in the Weserzeitung, report of the Minister of State Delbrück to the President of the Ministry of State, 29 Dec. 1909
Leaflets, pamphlets, invitations, programmes, commemorative publications, newspapers, articles, disputes, memoranda, speeches, occasional poems - each unique - about Cologne, its past and history. I. Imperial city; Icewalk from 1784, funeral service for Emperor Leopold II, Imperial Post Office in Cologne, pamphlet of the evangelicals against mayor and council in Cologne (Wetzlar 1715), municipal lottery, occasional poems for weddings, individual personalities (Jan von Werth, Frhr. Theodor Steffan von Neuhoff); II. Time of the French occupation 1794-1815: opening of the Protestant church (1802), educational affairs (Collége de Cologne, Université), Heshuisian inheritance, secularization, Peace of Tilsit, election of the department 1804; assignates, dentists, liberation wars; successor society of the society at Wirz, Neumarkt (1813); III. Prussian period (1815-1945): Visit of members of the Prussian royal house, imperial birthday celebrations, cathedral, cathedral building, cathedral completion celebration 1880, cathedral building association; Hohenzollern bridge, southern bridge, monument to Friedrich Wilhelm III, Laying of the foundation stone of the Rhine. Appellhofs (1824), building festival for the town hall (1913), town hall, provost's house at St. Maria ad Gradus; suburbs (terrain in Marienburg, parish St. Marien, Kalk: Fabriken, Arbeiter, 1903); travel brochures, city maps, articles on Cologne for tourism; commemorative and public holidays; revolution 1848; parties, elections (centre, liberal parties, social democratic party); Reichstag elections, city elections; city announcements/publications, decrees concerning the city of Cologne. Debt management (1824), rules of procedure of the city council, census, distribution of business in the administration; announcements of the news office; general comptoir or table calendar 1814-1829 (incomplete); programmes of the Konzertgesellschaft Köln and the Gürzenich concerts (1849-1933); programmes of the chamber music concerts (1897-1914); programmes of the Musikalische Gesellschaft (1900-1916), music festivals, etc. Lower Rhine Music Festivals (1844-1910); Cologne Theater Almanach (1904-1908), City Theater, Schauspielhaus, including program booklets and leaflets; Theater Millowitsch; musical performances at celebrations and festivals, concert programs; Cologne Arts and Crafts Association (Annual Report 1912); Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv: Statutes, Rules of Procedure 1907; Exhibitions, etc. Art in Cologne private possession (1916), Carstan's Panoptikum (1888), German Art Exhibition, Cologne 1906, Deutsche Werkbund-Ausstellung 1914, Exhibition for War Welfare Cologne 1916; Handelshochschule Köln; university courses in Brussels (1918); Women's university studies for social professions (1916/17); music conservatory (1913); grammar schools, further education schools, elementary schools, weaving school in Mülheim, Waldschulhof Brück (1917), elementary school teachers' seminar; scientific conferences: 43. Meeting of German Philologists and Schoolmen 1895, IX. Annual meeting of the Association of Bathing Professionals 1910, 12th Association Day of the Association of German Professional Fire Brigades 1912; occasional poems for family celebrations, weddings; associations; programmes, membership cards, diplomas, statutes of health insurance funds and death funds; Catholic Church: associations, parishes, saints and patrons; Protestant Church: religious service order or Death ceremonies for the chief president Count Solms-Laubach (1822), for Moritz Bölling (1824); inauguration of the new synagogue, Glockengasse (1861); military: regimental celebrations, forbidden streets and restaurants (before 1914); memorandums about the garrison Cologne (1818); food supply in the First World War: food stamps, bread and commodity books, ration coupons and forms, etc.a. for coal purchasing; Einkaufs-Gesellschaft Rhein-Mosel m. b. H.Economy: Stadtsparkasse, cattle market in Cologne, stock exchange, beer price increase 1911; individual commercial enterprises, commercial and business buildings, hotels: brochures, letterheads, advertising cards and leaflets, price lists, statutes; shipping: Rhine shipping regulations, timetables, price lists, memorandums; main post office building, inauguration 1893; Rheinische Eisenbahn, Köln-Gießener Eisenbahn; German-French War 1870/71; First World War, etc.a. Leaflets, war loans, field letters, war poems; cruisers "Cologne"; natural disasters: Rhine floods, railway accident in Mülheim in 1910, hurricanes; social affairs: charity fair, asylum for male homeless people, possibly home for working young girls, invalidity and old-age insurance; St. Marien-Hospital; Sports: clubs, sports facilities, gymnastics festivals; Carnival: programs, carnival newspapers, - songs, - poems; celebrations, ceremonies for imperial birthdays, enthronements of archbishops, celebrations of other personalities; IV. Weimar Republic and National Socialism: floods; churches, treasure chambers; cathedral; individual buildings, monuments, including the old town, town hall, Gürzenich, Haus zum großen Rosendal, Mühlengasse; Revolution 1918: workers' and soldiers' council; gifts, honorary citizenship to NS greats; hanged forced laborers; bank robber Gebrüder Heidger (1928); municipal and other official publications concerning the Weimar Republic and National Socialism. Luftschutz, NSRechtsbetreuungsstelle; Newsletter of the Welfare Office 1937, 1938; Kameradschaftsdienst der Verwaltung für Wirtschaftsfürsorge, Jugendpflege und Sport 1940, 1943, 1944; Müllabfuhr und Müllverwertungsanstalt, Wirtschaftspolitik, Industrieansiedlung, Eingemeindung von Worringen, Erweiterung des Stadtgebiets; political parties: Advertising flyers for elections, pins, badges of DNVP, NSDAP, SPD, centre; camouflage letters of the KPD; appeals, rallies of various political groups, including the Reich Committee for the German Referendum (against the Young Plan, 1929), Reich Presidential Election, referendum in the Saar region, Working Committee of German Associations (against the Treaty of Versailles); Municipal Stages: Periodical "Die Tribüne", 1929-1940, annual reports 1939-1944, programme and cast sheets for performances in the opera house and the Schauspielhaus, also in the Kammerspiele; Lower Rhine music festivals; galleries (Dr. Becker, Goyert), Kölnischer Kunstverein: Invitations to exhibitions (1934-1938), circulars to members; art auctions at Fa. Math. Lempertz (1925-1931); music performances, concerts: Kölner Männer-Gesang-Verein, municipal orchestra, concerts of young artists, Concert Society Cologne; Millennium Exhibition 1925; museums: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Kunstgewerbemuseum (among others monuments of old Russian painting, 1929), Schnütgen-Museum, art exhibitions, among others. Arno Breker (NSDAP-Gaupropaganda-Amt Gau Köln-Aachen), exhibition of works by West German artists (Deutsche Arbeitsfront), Richard Seewald, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Ausstellungsgemeinschaft Kölner Maler; universities, including the University of Cologne (lecture timetables, new building, anniversary 1938), Hochschule für Musik bzw. Conservatory of Music in Cologne; Reich activity reports of the foreign office of the lecturers of the German universities and colleges (1939-1942); Lower Rhine music festivals; scientific and cultural institutions and events and events in the region.a. Petrarca-Haus, German-Italian Cultural Institute, Volksbildungsstätte Köln, German-Dutch Institute, Cologne Meisterschule, Vereinigung für rechts- und staatswissenschaftliche Fortbildung in Köln, Austrian Weeks, Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur e.V.Conferences (Westdeutscher Archivtag 1939, Deutsche Anthropologische Gesellschaft 1927, Rheinische Siedlungstage 1925, Conference for Monument Conservation and Cultural Heritage Protection, Grenzland-Kundgebung der Beamten der Westmark, Cologne 1933, Internationaler Brieftauben-Züchter- Kongress (IBRA) 1939; Schools: Invitations, Testimonials Concerning the German Anthropological Society 1927, Rheinische Siedlungstage 1925, Conference for the Preservation of Monuments and Cultural Heritage, Borderland Demonstration of the Officials of the Westmark, Cologne 1933, Internationaler Brieftauben-Züchter-Kongreß (IBRA) 1939; Schools: Invitations, Testimonials Concerning the German Anthropological Society 1927, Rheinische Siedlungstagestage 1925, Conference for the Preservation of Monuments and Cultural Heritage, Borderland Demonstration of the Officials of the Westmark, Cologne 1933, International Brieftauben Congress (IBRA) 1939) Elementary schools, vocational schools, grammar schools; Sports: Vaterländische Festspiele 1924, Zweckverband für Leibesübungen Groß-Köln, 14th German Gymnastics Festival 1928, II German Fighting Games 1926, Leichtathletik-Welt- und Länderkämpfe, Westdeutscher Spielverband, Hockey-Damen-Länderspiel Deutschland- Australien 1930, Excelsior-Club Köln e.V., XII. Bannerspiele der weiblichen Jugend der Rheinprovinz 1926; Catholic Church (official announcements and publications, e.g. Kirchlicher Anzeiger für die Erzdiözese Köln; pamphlets; programme, prayer slips); British occupation, French colonial troops in the Rhineland, identity cards, passports; British World War I pamphlets; Liberation celebration in Cologne 1926; Second World War: appeals, leaflets concerning the Second World War; information leaflets concerning the Second World War: "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution". Air raids, defence, low-flying combat, darkening, etc.; newspaper articles about air raids on Cologne; advertising: leaflets, leaflets of the advertising office, the Cologne Week publishing house and the Cologne Tourist Association for Cologne, including the surrounding area and the Rhine Valley; invitations, menus to receptions and meals of the Lord Mayor Adenauer (1927-1929); pay slips, work certificates, work books of Cologne companies; Cologne Trade Fair: Programmes, brochures, adhesive stamps, catalogues for trade fairs and exhibitions (1924-1933); food stamps and cards for World War I; announcements; clothing cards, basic cards for normal consumers for World War II; vouchers for the city of Cologne (emergency money) from 1920-1923, anniversary vouchers for Gewerbebank eGmbH Köln-Mülheim, also for Dellbrücker Volksbank eGmbH; savings banks: Annual reports of the Sparkasse der Hansestadt Köln; documents, savings books of the Spar- und Darlehnskasse Köln-Dünnwald, the Kreissparkasse des Landkreises Köln, Bergheim und Mülheim, also the branch Köln-Worringen, the Bank des Rheinischen Bankverein/Rheinischen Bauernbank; Köln-Bonner-Eisenbahnen: Annual reports, balance sheets (1939-1941); trams: Annual Report, Annual Report (1939, 1940), Ticket; Köln-Frechen-Benzelrather Eisenbahn: Tariffs; Shipping: Preussisch-Rheinische Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft zu Köln, Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft für den Nieder- und Mittelrhein zu Düsseldorf (Annual Reports 1938-1940), Köln- Düsseldorfer Rheindampfschiffahrt, Weber-Schiff (Timetables); Kraftverkehr Wupper-Sieg AG, Wipperfürth (Annual Reports 1939, 1940, Advertising Brochure 1937); Advertising brochure of the Airport Administration Cologne (1929); Individual Companies: House announcements, advertising leaflets, cards, brochures, adhesive stamps, receipts from industrial companies (Ford Motor Company AG, Glanzstoff- Courtaulds GmbH, Herbig-Haarhaus, department stores). Department store Carl Peters, insurance companies, newspapers, publishing houses, bookstores, craft businesses, shops (tobacco shops); Cologne bridges (Mülheimer bridge), post office, restaurants, hotels; invitations to festivals, events, anniversaries of associations, programmes; professional associations; cooperatives (Cologne-Lindenthal cooperative savings and building association (1930-1938); social affairs: Cologne emergency aid, housing assistance, sending of children (mostly official printed matter); collecting cards from Cologne and other companies, above all from the food and luxury food industries, such as coffee and tobacco companies, etc.a. the companies Haus Neuerburg, Himmelreich Kaffee, Stollwerk AG, König
Contains among other things: Georg Graf von Herting, 1913 Paul von Hintze concerning naval visit to England, 1907 Fritz Hoenig, 1897 and 1900 Paul Hoffmann concerning cruiser building, 1897 - 1899, 1913 Franz von Holleben, 1907 Georg Graf Hoyos and others concerning German-Austrian naval relations, 1897 - 1901 August von Janson, in particular on the essay "Marineverwaltung, Bureaukratismus und Verwaltungsreformen" published in the "Nauticus", 1910 and 1914, 1910 and 1914. Jellicoe on the losses of the German airships "L1" and "L2" and the British submarine "A7", 1913 - 1914 Robert Katzenstein on the imperial manoeuvre of the fleet, 1912 Walter Frhr. Von Keyserlingk, 1912 - 1913, present: Keyserlingk to the Swedish General Wrangel and to Georg Alexander von Müller for visiting German coastal fortifications, 1912, see also Nos. 179 and 207 Wilhelm Knappe concerning Kiautschou, 1898 Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell concerning fleet laws, Nov. 1905
Tirpitz, Alfred vonContains only: Material on England's military economy calculations for American aircraft deliveries.
History of the Inventory Designer: 1.2.1939 Appointment of the "General Aircraft Master", subordinate to the Secretary of State for Aviation and Inspector General of the Air Force, who was in charge of the Technical Office for the Development, Testing and Procurement of Air Force Equipment established on 17.7.1933, as well as the Supply Office in existence since 1.8.1936. At the same time, the "Amtsgruppe Industrie-Plan und Wirtschaft" was established, which from June 1939 was called the "Amtsgruppe Technische Wirtschaft und Haushalt" and from 1941 the "Industriewirtschaftsamt". In 1940/41 a planning office was created at the Generalflugmeister and on 1.3.1944 a fighter staff to increase the production of fighter planes. The Jägestab was under both the State Secretary for Aviation and the Reich Minister for Armaments and War Production, who assumed full responsibility for air force production in 1944. The office of the General Flight Attendant was dissolved on 29.7.1944. The responsibility for testing, developing and taking over the device remained with the Luftwaffe and was assumed by the Chief of Technical Air Defence (ChefTLR). In addition, the Industrial Office, now the "Economic Office", remained in existence. On 15 April 1943, the tasks of the Supply Office had already been transferred to the Chief of the Supply Department, who was subordinate to the General Aircraft Master, who described the inventory: On 17 July 1933, the Flight Technology Department of the General Aircraft Office was made independent as the Technical Office. He was responsible for the development, testing and procurement of the air force equipment. On 1 February 1939 it was subordinated to the newly appointed General Airworthiness Inspector (GL), who was subordinate to the State Secretary of Aviation and General Inspector of the Air Force, and also to the Supply Office, which had existed since 1 August 1936 and whose duties were transferred on 15 April 1943 to the Chief of Supply to the General Quartermaster. At the same time, in 1939, the Industry and Economy Section was set up under GL to carry out development and procurement contracts, to monitor prices, to set delivery conditions and to broker loans. From June 1939 it was called Amtsgruppe Technische Wirtschaft und Haushalt, from 1941 Industriewirtschaftsamt. In 1940/41 a planning office was created at GL and a fighter baton was set up on 1 March 1944 to increase the production of fighter planes. The latter was subordinate both to the Secretary of State for Aviation and to the Reich Minister for Armament and War Production, who finally assumed full responsibility for the production of the Luftwaffe, so that the office of the General Aircraft Master was dissolved on 29 July 1944, while the Inspector General of the Luftwaffe continued to exist as an independent office. Responsibility for testing, developing and taking over the device was transferred to the Chief of Technical Air Defence (ChefTLR). Characterisation of the contents: Only a few documents have survived from the staff of the General Aircraft Master and the Chief Technical Air Defence (ChefTLR). The war diary of the Chief of Technical Air Armament from 18 December 1944 to the end of the war has been preserved. In addition, there is an extensive collection of circulars and minutes of conferences by Göring, Milch, the General Aircraft Master and the Reich Minister for Armaments and War Production as well as the Hunter's Staff. Much of the overdelivery is due to technical documentation and correspondence with companies. Particularly noteworthy here are raw materials, construction and procurement programmes and tables on flight inventory. Pre-archival order: The archive material, which has only been handed down in fragments, originates from the return of files from the USA and Great Britain to the Document Centre of the Military History Research Office, from where it was handed over to the military archive in 1968. Citation style: BArch, RL 3/...
History of the Inventory Designer: Tasks and Organization Essentially follows: (1) Jany, Curt: History of the Prussian Army from the 15th century to 1914, 2nd ed. Edition (= Die Königlich Preußische Armee und das Deutsche Reichsheer 1807 bis 1914, vol. 4), Osnabrück 1967, pp. 294-296. (2) Cron, Hermann: Geschichte des deutschen Armeres im Weltkriege 1914 bis 1918, Berlin 1937, pp. 3-23. (3) PH 3/124 Die Organisation des Großen Generalstabes 1803-1914 (4) PH 3/1026 Die Organisation des Großen Generalstabes (vom 18. Jhr.. until its dissolution in 1919, manuscript by HOAR Stoeckel) (5) PH 3/1272-1273 Graphical representation of the development of the organisation of the Great General Staff 1802-1914 (6) PH 3/310 First introduction to the organisation and activities of the Deputy General Staff of the Armed Forces (1919) (7) Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, MGFA (Ed. by the German Military Historical Research Institute, MGFA) (ed. by the German historian HOAR Stoeckel)): German military history in six volumes 1648 - 1939. Munich 1983 ff, pp. 69-72. (8) Enzyklopädie Erster Weltkrieg, ed. v: Gerhard Hirschfeld, Gerd Krumeich, Irina Renz in conjunction with Markus Pöhlmann, updated and extended study edition, Paderborn 2009, p. 754f. (9) PH 3/3 (10) Waldemar Erfurth: The History of the German General Staff 1918-1945 (= Studies on the History of the Second World War, ed. by Arbeitskreis für Wehrforschung in Frankfurt/Main, vol. 1), Göttingen 1957. 1. Großer Generalstab und Oberster Heeresleitung Großer Generalstab (7) With the Cabinet Order of 24 May 1883, the Generalstab became an Immediatbehörde (Immediate Authority), in fact it had held this position since the Wars of Unification. The General Staff was also assigned independently and directly to the monarch by the War Ministry. The tasks of the War Ministry and the Great General Staff overlapped in part, which occasionally led to conflicts. The position of Chief of Staff of the General Staff was respected, but, apart from operational management in the event of war, it was not endowed with important powers. The General Staff nevertheless exerted a decisive influence on the formation of the army through the training of leaders (the War Academy was subordinate to the Great General Staff), the care for the training of troops in warfare, and the handling of all questions connected with the conduct of a mobilization and a war. His activities included the cultivation of war science education, especially the study and processing of war history, the collection of news and statistical material on foreign armies and the various theatres of war, mapping, investigation and description of his own country. In the peacetime there were no far-reaching changes in the organization of the Grand General Staff, only some expansions due to the increasing scope of the General Staff duties. General Staff of the Field Army and Supreme Army Command (OHL) of the German Army (2) "According to Article 63 of the Constitution of the German Reich of 16 April 1871, the entire land power of the Reich formed a unified army, which was under the Emperor's command in war and peace. In peace, the head of the Great General Staff had practically no power of command and no right of inspection. He merely acted as chief and disciplinary superior of the Grand General Staff. The highest power of command was in fact with the emperor, but in practice it was the chief of the general staff of the army. During the war, the Chief of the General Staff issued operational orders in the name of the Emperor in accordance with the mobilization regulations and was jointly responsible for the management and execution of military operations as well as the other branches of service (ammunition replacement, catering, health, stage service). With the mobilization on August 2, 1914, the chief of the Prussian General Staff of the Army was formed as the "Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army" and the OHL, which was located in the Great Headquarters. The Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army thus embodied the OHL and was always equated with it by concept. On August 5, 1914, the deputy general staff of the army was mobilized in Berlin. The latter remained in existence until 31 January 1919. With the demobilisation, de Große Generalstab resumed its activities on 1 February 1919, with the exception of the positions remaining with OHL. (10) On the basis of the Treaty of Versailles, the dissolution of the Great General Staff was decided and initiated in July 1919. On 4 July 1919 Major General von Seeckt took over the business of the Chief of the General Staff. The name of the service is now "General von Seeckt". On September 30, 1919, the Great General Staff was finally dissolved with the establishment of a liquidation office from part of the central department. The Heads of the General Staff of the Army in Prussia from 1857 to 1918 Field Marshal General Hemuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke 1857-1888 Field Marshal General Alfred Heinrich Karl Ludwig von Waldersee 1888-1891 Field Marshal General Alfred Graf von Schlieffen 1891-1906 General Colonel Helmuth von Moltke 1906-1914 Between 1914 and 1918 a total of four OHLs were formed (8) 1. OHL: General Colonel Helmuth von Moltke, Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army from Aug. 2 to Sep. 14, 1914 2. OHL: General of the Infantry Erich von Falkenhayn, Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army from Aug. 14 to Sept. 14, 1914 2. 3rd Sept. (officially from 3 Sept. 1914) to 29 Aug. 1916 3rd OHL: General Field Marshal Paul von Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg, Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army from 29 Aug. 1916 to 9 Nov. 1916. 1918, Commander-in-Chief of the Field Army from 9 Nov. 1918 to 3 July 1919, assisted by the First Quartermaster General of the Infantry Erich von Ludendorff, First Quartermaster General from 29 Aug. 1916 to 26 Oct. 1918, then Lieutenant General Wilhelm Groener became First Quartermaster General from 29 Oct. 1918 to 3 July 1919 4. OHL: Lieutenant General Wilhelm Groener took over the OHL after the resignation of Hindenburgs on June 25, 1919 until the dissolution on Sept. 30, 1919 3. The organizational development of the Great General Staff The organization of the Great General Staff since April 1, 1889 (1) The Quartermaster General was first abolished again, but on April 1, 1889 three Quartermasters (O.Q.) were established. Central Office (from 1890 Central Division) Oberquartiermeister (O. Q.) I since 1 April 1889: 2nd Division Ordre de Bataille (Battle Regulations) and deployment of the German Army Railway Division Railway Section The Railway Section was responsible for the operation and training of the Railway Regiment, subordinate to the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, and of the Airship Division. Eisenbahn-Regiment Oberquartiermeister (O.Q.) II 4th Section - New Formation for the Affairs of Foreign Fortresses and the Preparation of the Drafts of Attacks, with AKO of Dec. 19, 1889 the Department for Foreign Fortresses was added by the Engineering Committee Geographical-Statistical Department (since 1894 an independent Department) German Section - Affairs of the Academy of War and the Training Trips of the General Staff Oberquartiermeister (O.Q.) III 1st Division (Russia, the Scandinavian states, Austria, the Balkans, etc.) 3rd Division (France, England, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy) Division of War History National Recording The position of the Quartermaster General was abolished. Structure of the Large General Staff of the Army since 1908 (1) Central Division 6th Division (Manoeuvre) Chief Quartermaster (O.Q.) I 2nd Division (Aufmasch) Technical Section (Air Force) 4th Division (Foreign Fortresses of the Western War Theatre) 7th Division (Foreign Fortresses of the Eastern War Theatre) Railway Division Chief Quartermaster (O.Q.) II 3rd Division (O.Q.) Department (Foreign Armies in the West) 9th Department (German Colonies) Oberquartiermeister (O. Q.) III 5th Department (Training Trips of the General Staff) 8th Department (Affairs of the War Academy) Oberquartiermeister IV (newly added since 1 April 1894) 1st Department (Foreign Armies in the East) 10th Department (Foreign Armies in the East) Oberquartiermeister V War Historical Department I and II The Head of the Large General Staff Central Department (Personnel, Organisation, Administration) with Section III b (Communications) 6th Section (Manoeuvres) War History Department II (Older War History) Chief Quartermaster (O.Q.) I. 2. (German Division) - Deployment and Operations Division Railway Division Section 1a (for the revision of the Military Transport Order) 4th Division (Foreign Fortresses) Chief Quartermaster (O.Q.) II 3rd Division (France with Morocco, England with Egypt, Afghanistan) 9th Division (Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Holland, Spain, Portugal, America, German Colonies) Chief Quartermaster (O.Q.) III 5th Division (Operations Studies) 8th Division (Operations Studies) Division (War Academy and General Staff Service) Chief Quartermaster (O.Q.) IV 1st Division (Russia, Nordic States, East Asia, Persia, Turkey) 10th Division (Russia, Northern States, East Asia, Persia, Turkey) Department (Austria-Hungary and Balkan States) Oberquartiermeister V Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung I (neuere Kriege) Kriegsarchiv Kartenarchiv Chief of the Landesaufnahme and Oberquartiermeister Trigonometrische Abteilung Topographische Abteilung Kartographische Abteilung Photogrammetische Abteilung Kolonialsektion Der Chef des Generalstabes des Feldheeres 1914 bis 1918 (2) 1. General Staff Departments Central Department She was responsible for receiving and forwarding correspondence to the relevant departments, in cooperation with the Military Cabinet for Personnel Matters and Administration. The department was headed by Colonel von Fabeck, and from 26 March 1916 it was headed by Colonel Tieschowitz von Tieschowa. Operations Department The department with the closest connection to the Chief of Staff. She was also the office for his personal letters. It was responsible for creating the conditions for all operational measures of the army: to monitor the organisation and organisation of the entire army and to propose improvements as well as the training, armament and operational capability of the units. The Chief of the Opera Department was responsible for advising the Chief of General Staff, drawing up the operational plans of the General Staff and issuing his orders. During the war the department was expanded extensively. Heads: Major General Tappen Lieutenant Colonel Wetzell (since 31 Aug. 1916) Operations Department B On 18 August 1916, a subdivision was set up under the Operations Department which was responsible for the Macedonian and Turkish fronts. Operations Division II On 23 September 1916, the post of Chief of Field Ammunition was dissolved. The tasks of ammunition and equipment replacement were taken over by the ammunition section in the operations department. Subsequently, the ammunition section was merged with the warfare section to form Operations Division II. Chief: Colonel Bauer News Department, since 20 May 1917 Foreign Armies Department She was responsible for the prosecution of military operations abroad, especially for the warfare of the enemy states. She primarily collected information on their organization and distribution of forces. Division III b Your task was to transmit the enemy's messages. This was done by intelligence officers deployed to the armies and at suitable points in the home country. There were also voluntary or paid agents in neutral and hostile foreign countries and the Secret Field Police in the occupied territories. News material was also provided by the border police and the field police, which also served to carry out espionage. The intelligence and counter-espionage services in the homeland communicated with Division IIIb of the Deputy General Staff, which in turn was subordinated to Division IIIb in the Great Headquarters. The guidelines for patriotic education were issued by the department, as was the press service set up to steer public opinion. Political Department since Feb. 10, 1916 Military Political Department It was responsible for the military political affairs of all states, dealt with legal issues and passed on the information to the military attachés and the written authority on peace issues. 2. the Quartermaster General and his subordinates The Quartermaster General was responsible for all the duties relating directly to the relief of the Chief of the Quartermaster General. operations. This included the entire supply, stage and railway system, field post and administration of justice, field medical services and veterinary services. Generalquartiermeister Generalleutnant von Stein since 14 Sept. 1914 Generalleutnant Hahndorff since 16 Jan. 1916 Subordinate positions Generalintendant des Feldheeeres He was responsible for providing the army with food. In addition, he was the head of the field and troop directorships. With the transition to the positional war, the monitoring of the nutrition in the occupied territory was added. In particular the cultivation of the soil and the necessary procurement of the agricultural machine material and the utilization of the harvest surplus for the field army. Later the industrial use of the occupied territories was added. A new economic department was set up for the West with effect from 5 September 1916. With effect from January 1, 1917, the economic department was made independent and expanded and set up on behalf of the General Quartermaster for the Western Theatre of War (B.d.G. West). He was responsible for the administration, management and utilization of the occupied territories in the West. Besides, he was subordinated: - General Wechselamt - art expert for monument preservation - prisoners of war - and civilian worker battalions - electrotechnical workshop West - artillery and training equipment repair workshops - looting and collecting (until subordinated to a special commissioner) At the beginning, the following positions were also subordinated to the Generalquartiermeister: - Chief of field munitions - Chief of field telegraphy - Chief of field railways - Chief of field aviation - Inspector of balloon guns Chief of field medical services General staff physician of the army Prof. Dr. Schiernig headed the medical services in the entire war zone as the highest superior of the medical personnel. His responsibilities included: the medical service, the care and transport of the wounded, the distribution of hospital trains and ships, hospitals in the homeland. Field Chief Postmaster He supervised the postal system on all theatres of war. The Field Oberpost Inspections West and East were set up to relieve him. Second Commander of the Great Headquarters He was responsible for the security and supply of the headquarters and the control of the sub personnel. He commanded the Infantry and Cavalry Staff Guard, a Land Storm Battalion, a Field Gendarmerie Command, Military Police, a motor vehicle spark station and a telephone department, three balloon defence guns (later ducrh replaced two air defence batteries), a headlight train (later expanded into a headlight department), the field directorate of the Great Headquarters together with the field warfare fund, motor vehicle fleet, field post office, Central Postal Surveillance West with the post office monitoring centre of the Great Headquarters, marketing department and reading hall. Secret Field Police cooperated closely with Division III b. During the war, B.d.G.West also added a number of agencies to the Great Headquarters. The commander of the troops, newly created in 1915, was located in Luxembourg. The Chief of Field Service was established at the end of 1916 and placed under the authority of the Quartermaster General. It served to centralise the motor vehicle formations. After the approval of the Generalqaurtiermeister, he was authorized to give instructions to the motor troops of the army high commandos and the staff figures assigned to the army groups in the west. On 17 May 1918, the staff of the commander of the combat vehicle departments was subordinated to the head of the motor vehicle division. The B.d.G. Ost with its seat in Warsaw was responsible for the utilization of the land in the administrative area of the Supreme Commander East and the General Government of Warsaw. Valenciennes Military Mine Directorate It fell under the jurisdiction of the Quartermaster General in September 1917. The mining administrations of Mons and Valenciennes, which until then had been part of the Metz government, were united to form a military directorate. The German representation in occupied Italy Used in February 1918 in Udine with evacuation of the 14th army. It served to assert German interests in the war spoils acquired jointly with Austria. The commander of the 13th Cavalry Brigade and his staff were to regulate the demand for horses on the eastern and western fronts due to the increasing shortage of horses. He was assigned to the GQ on 31 December 1916. In February 1918 he became the Commissioner of the Quartermaster General in equestrian affairs. Commissioner of the General Quartermaster in Berlin In order to reestablish trade relations with the former Russian territories resulting from the treaties with the Allies, coordination between the central authorities and the General Staff was necessary. He also took over the supervision of the import and export points. Commissioner of the Master Quartermaster General for Prey and Collecting This was created with effect from 1 June 1918. It had already been settled in 1917. He was responsible for the administration of the spoils of war and the control of the services. General of the Ammunition Columns and Trains in the Great Headquarters The increase in the number of formations was accompanied by the technical contraction of weapons, which was created in July 1918. Her task was to use the units, to supervise the technical service in the war zone and at home, and to replace the clothing and field equipment. 3. foot artillery and pioneers were among the special weapons and their technical training was monitored by the inspections. The General of the Foot Artillery in the Great Headquarters He was adviser to the Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army on technical matters and the deployment of heavy artillery. In addition, he shaped the training in his home country. He was subordinate to the later established "Inspector of Artillery Metrology" and the "Staff Officer for Heavy Flat Fire". At first he had no direct influence on the general of artillery. This did not change when the OHL introduced the unit staffs "Artillery Generals" instead of "Field Artillery Brigade Commanders" and Foot Artillery Generals to unify artillery. Thus his name was changed to "General von der Artillerie Nr. 1". A month later he became "Inspector General of Artillery Shooting Schools". He was in charge of the shooting training of the entire field and foot artillery in the field and at home. General Inspectors: General of the Artillery of Lauter (until 15 Oct. 1917) Lieutenant General Ziethen The General of the Engineering and Pioneer Corps in the Great Headquarters He was the supreme weapons superior during the war of increasing and specializing formations of the pioneers. He advised the Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army and was responsible for the organizational and technical development of the pioneers. The special services of the pioneers, such as the stage-managers of the mine-throwing machine, in existence since the end of 1915, the inspector of the gas regiments created in 1916 and the stage-manager of the pioneer melee means of close combat established in May 1918. In August 1918 he received the designation General of the Pioneers from the Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army. General der Pioniere: General der Infanterie von Claer bis bis zum 2. Juli 1916 Major General Marschall von Bieberstein seit 28. Aug. 1918 The Chief of the Field Ammunition Service This was initially subordinated to the Generalquartiermeister. His tasks included coordinating the ammunition provided by the War Ministry in conjunction with the Chief of Field Railways as well as the replacement of equipment on the basis of the reports from the Army High Commands and the Stage Inspection. In addition, he was responsible for planning the needs of the army commandos and the stage inspections and reporting them to the War Ministry. With effect from 10 May 1915, he was directly subordinated to the Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army. This should ensure close coordination with the operations department. On 23 September 1916 the position of Chief of Field Ammunition was dissolved. His duties were performed by the Operations Department. The Chief of the Field Telegraphy The Chief of the Field Telegraphy was settled during the first three years of war at the General Quartermaster. He was in charge of the entire intelligence troops and intelligence media of the field army. During the war the news formations were strongly expanded, which caused the army leadership under Hindenburg to carry out a reorganization. A general of the telegraph troops for the western, eastern and southeastern theater of war was created to relieve the field telegraphy chief. These generals were subordinated to the chief of field telegraphy. A new restructuring of the intelligence system took place, with the head of the field telegraphy reporting to it. A new organizational change was made by the Chief of Field Telegraphy to "Chief of Intelligence" and reporting directly to the Chief of General Staff of the Field Army. He also became commanding general. He was now responsible for organisation, use, training, staffing, replacement, replenishment, technical requirements and all German spark telegraphy traffic. Chief: Major General Balck Colonel von Wolff since Dec. 7, 1914 Major General von Hesse since Apr. 9, 1917 The Chief of Field Railways He was initially subordinate to the Quartermaster General. It was not until his replacement in October 1916 that he was directly subordinated to the Chief of the General Staff. His tasks included the complete railway system and the use of the waterways. At the commander-in-chief east he was represented by the field railway boss east. There were also railway officers at the stage commandos and the stage inspections, later there were authorized general staff officers at the allied states in Constantinople, Sofia, Vienna, and from mid-1916 also at the army groups. Further streamlining of the organization was achieved by the creation of independent railway transport departments based at the Great Headquarters in Kowno and Pleßhatten. Heads: Major General Groener until 31 Oct. 1916 Colonel Freiherr von Oldershausen Chief of War Surveying With the war of positions and the production of a wide variety of maps, war surveying became increasingly important. The head of war surveying was to steer this task. Therefore, the authority was created in July 1915. All surveying units were subject to this authority. Depending on requirements, staff figures for surveying were assigned to the army commandos in the west and the army groups in the west. Chief of the military aviation While one was superior to the army airships, one lay back with the planes behind France, with the captive balloons one was set up in something equal. In order to make the air forces more efficient, the chief of the air force was set up in 1915 with the general quartermaster. He ran the aviators, the airmen and the weather service. On 1 July 1915, an inspector of the balloon guns of the General Quartermaster was created for the air defence, which belonged to artillery. On 8 October 1916, Lieutenant General Hoppner was appointed Commanding General of the Air Force by Allerhöchste Kabinettsordrre and the former Chief of Field Aviation, Lieutenant Colonel Thomsen, became his Chief of Staff. All formations of the airmen, the airship, the air defence and the weather service in the field and in the homeland were subordinated to the Kogenluft. This was directly subordinated to the Chief of the General Staff in October 1915. The head censorship office was also integrated into this, which had previously been the organisational office of the deputy commanding generals. The tasks of the War Press Office were to improve cooperation between the home authorities and the Supreme Army Command in the field of the press, to provide information to the authorities and the press, and to ensure that the supervision of the press was uniform. She was also responsible for forwarding the censorship guidelines to the censorship offices. The press office had contact to all departments, the otherwise usual way of appeal did not exist. In October 1918, the War Press Office was subordinated to the War Ministry. Military post of the Federal Foreign Office The post was established on 1 July 1916 and was subordinated to the Supreme Army Command, but was organisationally subordinated to the Federal Foreign Office, Division IIIb of the Deputy General Staff, the War Press Office, the War Ministry, the Admiral Staff and the R e i c h s m a r i n e a m t . She was responsible for the defense against enemy propaganda and for German propaganda at home and abroad. On 30 January 1917, a "Picture and Photo Office" was set up, which in April 1917 was designated as the "Picture and Film Office". In December 1917, Universum Film AG was founded on the initiative of the Picture and Film Office and used for educational purposes. In January 1918, the Bild- und Filmamt was administratively subordinated to the War Ministry. However, the Military Office of the Federal Foreign Office continued to be empowered to issue directives. The organization of the Great General Staff from 1. February 1919 Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army (9) Central Department Chief of the Landesaufnahme General Staff Departments Department Foreign Army Department (F) Railway Department (E) War Economics Department (Kriweis) Economics Department (W) War History Department (K) War History Department (K 1) War History Department (K 2) War History Department (K 3) Description of the Collection: The Federal Archives have a few copies of organisational documents as well as orders, leaflets and reports from the various areas of responsibility, but also individual documents on events of the First World War and lists of formations of the field army. The Railway Department has received some files on individual projects, and the Chief of the Deputy General Staff has duplicated news from the Surveying Department on the evaluation of aerial photographs. Most of the files of the General Staff were destroyed by the effects of war in 1945 during the fire at the Army Archives in Potsdam. What has remained are only fragmented individual pieces that have been handed down. At the beginning of 1994, a large part of the documents again reached the inventory. These remains were originally kept in the military archives of the former GDR. The stock of official printed matter PHD 7 was dissolved and transferred to the stock. The large-format plans and maps were taken from the files, placed in map folders and attached to the holdings. With the exception of the official printed matter (old PHD 7) and the large formats, the stock was microfilmed. Microfilms are available for use. Content characterisation: Based on the area of responsibility, the collection contains documents on the organisation and distribution of responsibilities, on military measures by foreign states and defensive measures by German agencies, reconnaissance reports and news about foreign armies, evaluation of prisoner testimonies as well as on the deployment, use and strength of foot artillery in war. In addition, there are occasionally reproduced organisational documents as well as orders, orders, notices, leaflets and elaborations from various areas of responsibility, but also individual news about war events from the First World War. From the railway department of the Great General Staff a remnant of individual case files on railway projects has been preserved. The head of the deputy general staff has handed down duplicated reports from the surveying department on the evaluation of aerial photographs. A very small number of copies of the files from the First World War were preserved in the National Archives in Washington. Additional copies of these have been delivered here. Replacement traditions, e.g. of fundamental decrees, orders or correspondence of Prussian military and command authorities, which went to civilian or military authorities of the individual states, can be found in the holdings of the respective competent state archives, in particular Bavaria, Württemberg, Baden as well as Saxony. State of development: Invenio Scope, Explanation: Inventory without increase 37.0 m 1006 AE Citation method: BArch, PH 3/...
Publisher: French Ministry of Aviation; graphic: M. Carrère; print: Imprimerie nationale; size: 84 x 52 cm; number: 1; multicoloured graphic: A pilot calling "engagez-vous", above him an airplane dropping leaflets, on which various professions in the Air Force are listed with typical objects.
Contains: Basch, Dr. Franz, German leader in Hungary, German-born Hungarian, leader of the Volksdeutsche Kameradschaft Hungary, founded the "Volksbund der Deutschen in Ungarn" in 1938, 1936 - 1939 Basch, Viktor, President of the French League for Human Rights, 1929 Basedow, Heinz, painter, o.Dat. Basils, Fritz, actor, honorary member of the Bavarian State Theatre, 1931 Basse, Vice Admiral a.D.v., born Kolberger, chairman of the Reichsmarinejugend, naval career from 1871 to 1918?, 1934 Bassermann, Albert, born 07.09.1867 in Mannheim, first active as a chemist, then started his acting career, played e.g. Works by Hauptmann and Ibsen, 1932 - 1936 Bassermann, Dr. Alfred, born 09.02.1856 in Mannheim, Dante researcher, due to his Dante researches and translations he was awarded the degree of Dr. philh.c. awarded, 1936 Bassermann, Dr. August, born 04.12.1848 in Mannheim, Ms. Intendant of the Karlsruher Hoftheater, 1927 Bassermann, Ernst, Führer der Nationallivaralen Partei, 1925 - 1930 Bassermann-Jordan, Dr. Friedrich von, née. 23.03.1872 in Deidesheim, he was awarded: hereditary nobility, the title "Geheimer Rat", Pfälzischer Weingutbesitzer, he wrote: Geschichte des Weinanbau's unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der bayerischen Rheinpfalz et al, 1933 - 1942 Bassewitz, Count Rudolf von, born 21.07.1881 in Weffelsdorf, German diplomat, active in the Foreign Office as Chief of the Protocol, 1936 Basson, Walther, member of the management of the economic group 1935/36, leader of the economic group Wholesale, Import and Export Trade, Foreign Trade Department, 1937 Bast, Wilhelm, writer, colonialist, 1936 Bastanier, Hans, born 24.12.1885 in Berlin, Berlin sculptor and Painter, member of the "Norddeutscher Ring" and the Society for Germanic Prehistory and Prehistory, Chairman of the Reichsverband bildender Künstler Deutschlands f.d. Gau Berlin, 1933 Basters, Pg Otto von, Head of Base, d. c. 17.09.1937 in Jöldingen, 1937 Bastian, Max, born 28.08. in Spandau, German Admiral, President of the Reich Military Tribunal, bearer of the Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross, 1940 - 1945 Bat'a, Jan A., born 1898, shoe manufacturer, founder of Bata-Werke, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bat'a AG, 1936 - 1938 Bata, Thomas, stepbrother of J. Bat'a, Czech industrialist, in an aircraft crash in 1942(32)? fatally injured, 1939;Bathe, Rolf, Doctor, 1939 Batocki, Adolf von, born 31.07.1868, nutrition dictator of the I. Batoloff, Constantine, born 04.01.1878 in Sopot, Bulgarian politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister in the Georgieff Cabinet, 1936 - 1939 Batt William L., Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International Office, 1939 Batten, Jean, born 1910 in New Zealand, first flying woman from England to Brazil, 1939 Battenberg, Princess Beatice von, born 14.04.1857, painter, 1929 Battenberg, Mathilde, painter, 1936 Batzer, Paul, born 18.04.1895 in Hammerstein, 1933 appointed head of the Gaupropagandaleiter of the NSDAP, head of the Senate Department for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, 1933 appointed state commissioner, 1934
Contains: Rahn, Dr. Rudolf, German diplomat, 1943 Raiffeisen, Friedrich Wilhelm, creator of agricultural cooperatives, creator of rural credit organizations, 1938 Raimund, Ferdinand, poet and popular dramatist, humorist, actor, 1940 Rainalter, Erwin H., German writer, 1942 Rainer, Dr.jur. Friedrich, Gauleiter - reichsstatthalter des Reichsgaues Kärnten, SS-Gruppenführer, 1944 Raiser, Dr.jur. Carl, General Director of Württembergische Feuerversicherung AG, Head of the Fire Insurance Division, 1937 Rahobrandt, Arthur, Major a.D.., SA-Gruppenführer, 1936 Rall, Günter, German officer, Jagdfllieger, 1943 Ramche, general of the parachute troop, defender of Brest, 1944 Ramek, Dr. Rudolf, Austrian lawyer and politician, 1935 Ramin, Fürgen von, Bismarks Großneffe (probably), 1928 Ramhorst, Dr. Friedrich, deputy managing director in the Reichsgruppe Industrie, 1936 Ramm, Dr.rer.pol. Eberhard, Prussia. State Secretary, 1936 Ramm, Karl Kraft von, Lieutenant awarded the Iron Cross, 1940 Ramsauer, Dr. Carl, Director of the Research Institute and Deputy Member of the Board of Directors of AEG Berlin, 1940 Ramsay, Lieutenant Colonel "German Kolonialpionier", 1938 Ranft, Hans, member of the bibliographic department of the Börsenverein, 1939 Ranke, Leopold von, historian, 1931 Raust, Herbert, former lieutenant of the German army, specialist for aviation issues, was arrested in France as a spy, 1936 Ranzoui, Hans the Younger, Viennese graphic artist, 1942 Rarkowski, Franz Justus, Apostolic Administrator and Protonotary, Catholic Bishop of the German Wehrmacht, 1938 Rasch, Hugo, German music writer, 1935 Raschdau, Ludwig, Reich Minister, personal assistant to the Reich, 1935 Raschdau, Ludwig, Reich Minister, German Minister of the Interior, Vienna, Vienna, Vienna, Vienna, Vienna, Vienna, Vienna, Vienna, Vienna, Vienna, Vienna, Vienna, Vienna, Vienna, Vienna Employees of Mismark, 1943 Rasche Erwin, Franz, Head of the Rhineland-Palatinate Regional Association in the R.D.P. and main editor of the NSZ Rhine Front, 1936 Rasche, Thea, German aviatrix, 1937 Raschick, Erich, German general, Army, 1939 Rasching, Dr. F., Company Dr. F. Rasching GmbH, Chemische Fabrik, Ludwigshafen a. Rhein - 50 years old Beskhen, 1941 Raschke, Dr.jur. Marie, German women's rights activist, first German lawyer, founder of the company Zentralstelle für Rechtsschutz, 1930 Raschke, Rudolf, Landesbauernführer für das Sudetenland u. SS-Sturmbannführer, 1939 Rasin, Aloois, 1939 Rasien, Dr. Ladislav, Czech-Slovak politician, Tscheche, 1934 Raskin, Dr., Head of the foreign department of the Reichsrundfunkgesellschaft and provisional director of the German short-wave radio station, 1940 Rassow, Berthold, pioneer of chemical-technological education in Germany, 1936 Raszewski Kazimierz, general, former corps commander of the V. Polish army corps in Poznan, 1938
Contains among other things: Chief of the Admiral Staff to Reich Chancellor concerning intensification of the U-boat Trade War, 15.5.1916 battle report of the battle cruiser "Von der Tann" about naval battle in front of the Skagerrak, 8.6.1916 draft of an instruction manual for the case of internment of war vehicles, 18.6.1916 immediate report about experiences of the naval decoding service in the naval battle in front of the Skagerrak, 26.6.1916 "Record about the continuation of the [submarine] trade war", 27.6.1916 "Compilation of the cases in which hostile submarines acted contrary to international law against hospital ships and merchant ships of the Central Powers", 28.6.1916 Immediatbericht betr. Activity of the submarines in connection with the fleet advance to the naval battle in front of the Skagerrak, with marginal remarks of Kaiser Wilhelm II, 26.6.1916 Suggestion of Kaiser Wilhelm II, To use submarines for the procurement of raw materials, with letter of the Secretary of State of the Interior to Chief of the Naval Cabinet of 21.7.1916, 27.7.1916 Overview "State of the Airship and Aircraft Industry at the Outbreak of the War and on 15.7.1916", 25.7.1916 Recruitment of naval officers for submarines and aviation from the fleet; authority of the Chief of the Admiral Staff to issue orders "on the highest order", 27.7.1916 Successes of the submarines of the high seas armed forces and the naval corps since order of 24.4.1916, to wage a commercial war with submarines only according to Prisenordnung, 23.7.1916 Compilation of the "German [merchant] ships lost in the Baltic Sea since the beginning of the war due to mines and submarines", after 19.6.1916 overviews of the stock of submarines on 23.7. and 1.8.1916 as well as the state of readiness of the high seas armed forces on 28.7. and 7.8.1916 "Compilation of the news about the closure of the English Channel by the English in Aug. 1916 1916", 23.7.1916 Correspondence and minutes concerning the fight against allied transport traffic in the English Channel, Aug. and 17.9.1916 Deputy Chief of the Admiral Staff concerning the arming of enemy and neutral merchant ships as well as the use of radio communication equipment in neutral ports, 8.8.1916 Treatment of Swedish merchant ships by "UB 20" in the Gulf of Bothnia, 7. and 17.8.1916 "Successes of the submarines during their military use in July/Aug. 1916", 12.8.1916 Closure of the cog gutter and extension of the so-called timber agreement with Sweden, 20.9.1916 Compilation of the losses and damages caused by mines on the North Sea war scene, 1.7.-16.9.1916, 18.9.1916 regrouping of the linen ships (new formation of the IV. squadron), 1.10.1916 Report of the commander of the auxiliary ship "Rubens" sent to Deutsch-Ostafrika, 1.10.1916 Military action against Denmark and the Netherlands, 20./21.10.1916 Navy activity on the Bulgarian and Romanian coast of the Black Sea, 25.10.1916 Takeover of the Greek fleet by the Allies, 24.10.1916 Record of the meeting of the Chief of Admiral Staff with First Quartermaster General on 20.11.1916 about war cases J u. K, , submarine-trading war according to Prisenordnung and treatment of armed merchant ships as warships Monthly compilation of the enemy's list destroyed by the Central Powers from the beginning of the war to 30.9.1916 Merchant ships Compilation of the merchant ships sunk by submarines in Oct. 1916 and information about merchant ships that could have been destroyed in a reckless warfare War case J against Denmark, 22.11.1916
History of the Inventory Designer: Introduction Prehistory up to 1933 The rapid increase in car traffic after the First World War meant that road construction in Germany had to face up to these new requirements. The aim was to rapidly improve the existing road conditions and adapt them to the new requirements of increasing motorisation by extending the existing country roads and building motorways. Contemporary statistics show that in 1924 every 321st inhabitant in Germany owned a "car", while at the same time in France every 90th, in Great Britain every 71st and in the USA already every 7th inhabitant owned a car. The private German vehicle fleet in the country doubled in the years from 1923 to 1926 from 100,340 cars to 206,456. In 1933, only seven years later, almost 800,000 motor vehicles were registered in Germany. The construction of the Berlin AVUS (Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungs-Straße) in 1921 as well as the activities of the Studiengesellschaft für Automobilstraßenbau (STUFA) played a special role, the latter in particular with regard to the extension of the existing country roads. However, the war and its consequences prevented a resumption of this discussion until the mid-twenties. With the founding of the association HAFRABA and its transition to GEZUVOR, plans for the new motorways in particular took shape, which, after the National Socialists took power, were quickly declared to be the "Führer's Roads". In the course of its work, HAFRABA drew up about 70 plans for a motorway network in Germany. The later central and territorial road construction administrations were able to profit from many results of their complex research, test series, but also from studies for the job creation of larger quantities of labour. The existing conditions with regard to the road administration in the respective sovereign jurisdiction on the one hand and the (Reich) legislator on the other, as well as the increasing blockage of road construction plans from Reich railway and financial circles, but also from the Länder and provinces, forced the necessity of a reorganisation of the road system in Germany to a certain extent, which did not take long after the seizure of power by the Hitler dictatorship. Adolf Hitler was not yet Chancellor of the Reich for two weeks when he put the construction of intersection-free motorways up for discussion in the cabinet. As early as 11 February 1933 he announced the "initiation and implementation of a generous road construction plan", with which both a modern transport system was to be created and unemployment effectively combated, but also reaped the opposition of Reichsbahn General Director Dorpmüller and Reich Finance Minister Count Schwerin von Krosigk. Nevertheless, he was determined to discuss the necessity of motorways with transport experts and leading representatives of the economy. In a conversation with HAFRABA managing director Willy Hof on 6 April 1933, he was informed in detail about the association's plans. As early as 27 June 1933, the Reich government announced, against the will of the Reichsbahn representatives, the formation of the company "Reichsautobahnen", which initially acted as a branch of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft. One day later, Hitler appointed Dr. Fritz Todt, a highly intelligent civil engineer who was loyal to the line, as "Inspector General for German Roads". With the later "Decree on the General Inspector for the German Road System" of 30.11.1933, Todt was also transferred the business area of the company "Reichsautobahnen". The decree states: "For the execution of the construction of the Reichsautobahnen ... a supreme Reich authority shall be established with its seat in Berlin, the head of which shall be given the official title of 'General Inspector for the German Road System'. He is appointed by the Reich President at the suggestion of the Reich Chancellor and reports to the Reich Chancellor. Hitler was convinced of Todt's suitability after he had read his so-called "Brauner Bericht" (Brown Report), a memorandum on "Road Construction and Road Administration", in which Todt deals with the previous conditions of road construction in Germany and formulates objectives for the time of National Socialism. The new authority had the task to organize the construction of the "Reichsautobahnen" and the maintenance of the country roads, as far as they had belonged so far to the responsibility of the Reich Minister of Transport. Legal foundations The "Gesetz über die Errichtung eines Unternehmens Reichsautobahnen" of 27 June 1933, the first ordinance of 7 August 1933 and the "Gesetz zur Änderung Gesetz über die Errichtung eines Unternehmens Reichsautobahnen" of 18 December 1933 provided the Inspector General with a foundation of powers and authority which enabled him to implement the goals set by the Reich leadership as quickly as possible. This included the right to route and design the Reich's motorways as well as the right to levy charges, the right of expropriation and the assumption of state sovereign rights over the motorways. With the "Act on the Temporary New Regulation of the Road System and the Road Administration" of 26 March 1934, the division of roads into 1st motorways, later "Reichsautobahnen", 2nd Reich roads, 3rd country roads of the 1st order, 4th country roads of the 2nd order, was also introduced. The law of the land was amended in accordance with the provisions of the first order, and further regulations were made regarding the distribution of the road construction load, the administration of the Reich roads and the country roads of the first order, the road supervisory authority, etc. A general power of attorney to the greatest extent possible was granted to the Inspector General with the formulation written down in § 1 "The Inspector General for the German Road System determines which roads are subject to the provisions of this Act and which roads have the characteristics of Imperial roads and of Land Roads I. and II. I'll give you the order." The prerequisites created by the aforementioned legal bases were very soon reflected in the structure and organisation of the office of the Inspector General for German Roads. Organization and Structure In 1934, the Inspector General's Division comprised the two major areas of responsibility, Land Roads and Reich Motorways, as well as the resulting connections to the 30 Supreme Road Authorities with 176 State Construction, Road and River Offices of the Länder and Provinces on the one hand and the 15 Supreme Construction Supervisors with 65 Construction Departments for the motorways on the other. As a result, the internal service structure was as follows: Four departments were assigned to the Inspector General for German Roads. 1. department Landstraßen (L), 2. department Administration/Administration (V), 3. department Research/Exhibition/Congress (F) 4. department Reichsautobahnen (A) Furthermore, a landscape consultant was assigned to the Inspector General. In addition to a joint press and socio-political speaker, departments L and A were each assigned 5 speakers (L1 to L5 and A1 to A5), whose fields of work extended to cooperation with the road construction authorities in the Länder and provinces and with the supreme construction managers of the motorways. After that the following (territorial) competences arose: L1: Hanover, Oldenburg, Brunswick, Westphalia, Rhine Province, Hesse-Kassel, Schaumburg-Lippe, Lippe-Detmold L2: Bavaria, Baden, Württemberg, Hohenzollern, State of Hesse, Hesse-Wiesbaden L3: Thuringia, State of Saxony, Upper Silesia, Lower Silesia, East Prussia L4: Brandenburg, Grenzmark, Pomerania, Mecklenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Province of Saxony, Anhalt L5: General affairs of the rural road sector, special tasks Job creation Department A - Reichsautobahnen A1: Site management Stettin, Hannover, Altona, Königsberg A2: Site management Breslau, Dresden, Halle, Kassel A3: Site management Essen, Cologne, Frankfurt/Main A4: Site management Munich, Stuttgart, Nuremberg A5: Special tasks: In the summer of 1934 Todt presented his first report on the activities of his authority. An overview of the road construction authorities from 1935 under the authority of the Inspector General illustrates the striving for a strongly centralised connection of road construction tasks in Germany. After Hitler's declaration on January 30, 1937, that the German Reich had regained unrestricted sovereignty over the Deutsche Reichsbahn and that the Deutsche Reichsbahn had been converted into a pure Reich administration by the law of February 10, 1937, the Reichsautobahnen were to be given a position similar to that of the Deutsche Reichsbahn. This was done in the "Gesetz zur Neuregelung der Verhältnisse der Autobahn" of 1 July 1938 and by the "3. Verordnung zur Durchführung des Gesetz über die Errichtung eines Unternehmen 'Reichsautobahnen'" of 1 June 1938. Fritz Todt was appointed chairman of the board of the Reichsautobahnen. The offices of the company became direct Reich authorities. Thus the company Reichsautobahnen lost its character as a society. The "Führerprinzip" (leader principle) practiced in all authorities of the "Third Reich" dominated the organization of the Reich's motorways at the latest since the enactment of this law. With the rapid progress of the political and economic processes in Germany, with rearmament, with the creation of ever new political and organizational structures in the Reich territory, with the invasion of Austria and the Sudetenland, with the erection of the Westwall after the occupation of the demilitarized Rhineland and finally with the beginning and course of the war, ever new and different organizational units and focal points of work developed within the office. The supreme construction management of the Reichsautobahnen was extended by similar authorities in the occupied areas. In the construction of the Westwall from the middle of 1938 onwards, the 22 superstructure superstructure lines at the German western border were firmly integrated, after Hitler, under heavy accusations against the General Staff of the Army, had given this task to Todt without further ado - it was the hour of birth of the "Organisation Todt". It had its first seat as Abteilung West in Wiesbaden. In the files of the Inspector General for the German Road System, an interweaving of tasks with other ministries (e.g. Reich Ministry of Transport, Reich Ministry of Finance), the NSDAP as well as the cooperation with many other organisations is reflected in many ways, e.g. the National Socialist Association of German Technology (NSBDT), the German Labor Front (DAF), the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK) and the German Automobile Club (DDAC), and many others. The business distribution plan of the Inspector General of October 28, 1938 clearly expresses that the company was already at the level of political development. Directly subordinate to the Inspector General were now not only the 4 departments but also three other business areas: Research, NSDAP compounds, imperial defence and defence (cf. Fig. page XII). Fritz Todt held a number of political offices. From 1933 he was not only Inspector General for German Roads, but also Head of the Main Office for Technology of the NSDAP, 1938 he became General Plenipotentiary for the Regulation of the Construction Industry, 1940 Reich Minister for Armament and Ammunition as well as Inspector General for the Special Tasks in the Four-Year Plan, 1941 Inspector General for Water and Energy. At the height of his political career Todt died in a plane crash on 8 February 1942 near the "Führerhauptquartier" near Rastenburg/ East Prussia. Albert Speer took office on 9 February 1942. Inventory description: Inventory history The inventory summarised in inventory R 4601, General Inspector for the German Road System, consists of several parts from the former GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany. This includes around 2,300 files and almost 1,800 card index sheets from the former Central State Archives of the GDR, which were formerly kept there as holdings 46.01 and were recorded in a finding aid file, some of them with very general and inaccurate title records. The files of the holdings R 65 I to R 65 IV described below were added from the Federal Archives. Here, finding aids with precise title entries and notes on contents were available. In addition to Todt's "Brounen Denkschrift" (Brown Memorandum), the R 65 I holdings included 34 other files from US returns from 1934 to 1945, as well as files from the Building Department Wittlich 1941 (1), the Wiesbaden Department 1938-1943 (2), the Böttger 1938-1945 (11), Bonacker 1937, 1942-1944 (2), Dittrich 1926-1952 (67), Schönleben 1939-1944 (6), and supplements 1939 (1). The collection R 65 II contained 141 files of the Reichsautobahndirektion Berlin and was handed over to the Federal Archives by the Federal Minister of Transport in 1962 (official files of the Federal Archives, file no.: 3115/4, note dated 31 Jan. 1962). The inventory R 65 III was a collection of decrees of the Inspector General. The inventory R 65 IV contained personal files, of which 112 files have been catalogued and a further 12 running metres have not been catalogued. Archival evaluation and processing The inventory was indexed using the above-mentioned finding aids by entering it into the BASYS-S database of the Federal Archives for the purpose of making the finding aid data available online. A physical reception of the files did not take place due to time reasons with some exceptions. The archive signatures of the Potsdam holdings were largely retained during the indexing process, but each volume was given its own archive signature for found files with volume numbers. The signatures begin: at no. 1 for the former stock 46.01, at no. 3001 for the former stock R 65 I, at no. 4001 for the former stock R 65 II, at no. 5001 for the former stock R 65 III, at no. 10001 for the former stock R 65 IV. The 112 personal files already opened up have been newly recorded, but are not part of this finding aid book. The existing classification was largely renewed and is based both on the organizational structure of the inventory generator and on its functional responsibilities. The internal order of the files has been maintained. The inventory has already been moved from standing folders to folders. Characterisation of content: management and organisation of the road sector: legislation, decrees (57). Organization, administration and human resources: General (74), personnel matters (78), land and planning matters (15), public procurement (59), construction machinery, equipment and vehicles (29), motor vehicles (47), construction materials and fuels (47), traffic regulation and safety (27), winter services (90), tourism (25), statistics( 19), Mobilisation, war deployment, occupied territories (27), map system (37), hand-files of leadership (40), hand-files of the department L-Landstraßen (19), hand-files of the department A-Autobahnen (27), hand-files of the department V-Verwaltung (11), hand-files of administrators for special questions of the departments L and A (3). Department West, Wiesbaden (5). Potsdam Alte Zauche alternative (5). Country roads: Imperial roads: General administrative affairs of the Reichsstraßen (32), financing of the Reichsstraßen (90), technical execution of the road construction and execution of construction measures (136), construction project (48), index sheets Reichsstraßen (14), road books Reichsstraßen (133). Roads I. and II. Order: General administrative matters of the country roads I. and II. Order (28), Financing of rural roads - Öffa (20), Building projects (60), Roads map sheets (2). Bypasses, town crossings, feeder roads (105) Individual projects (45). Imperial highways: Legislation and general administrative matters of the Reichsautobahnen (83), financing of the Reichsautobahnen, budget and treasury matters (36), property and spatial planning matters (8), project planning and routing (46), landscape and urban architecture, animal protection, nature conservation, monuments (38), cooperation with other Reich services (27). Material-technical infrastructure and operational services: planning approval and reallocations (13), fuel and petrol stations (15), motorway and road connections with foreign countries (10), operational services (24), building materials, road surfacing (40), technical execution of road construction and execution of construction measures (9). Personnel infrastructure: deployment and accommodation of labour (61), wages, tariffs, special arrangements (29), personnel matters (27). Files of the Reichsautobahndirektion Berlin: Direktionsakten (18), Gebiete der Obersten Bauleitungen (124). Top construction management: Berlin (25), Wroclaw (15), Dresden (12), Essen (18), Frankfurt/Main (25), Halle (6), Hamburg (12), Hanover (3), Kassel (7), Cologne (12), Königsberg (3), Linz (7), Munich (13), Nuremberg (9), Stettin (4), Stuttgart (6), Vienna (5), Wittlich Construction Department of the Reichsautobahnen (1), Dresden (12), Essen (18), Frankfurt am Main (25). Public relations, press matters, lectures (21), accidents (20). Level crossings (45), bridges and structures (63), cycle paths and hiking trails (32), research, development, standardisation (182), congresses, conferences, exhibitions, work of professional associations (50). Personnel files A-Z 1938-1973 (112), 12 running meters untapped. Citation style: BArch, R 4601/...
Contains among other things: War Press Office: "Auszug aus der deutschen Tagespresse" No. 580, 581, 583. Prints, Dec. 1915 War Press Office: "Eindrücke aus der Auslandspresse" Nov.-Dec. 1915. Reprints, Dec. 1915-Jan. 1916 Maintenance costs of the crew of the Small Cruiser "Dresden" interned in Chile for the discussion of violence against German civilians in enemy territory: "Zur Überführung der in Kamerun arrested Germans to England". Reprint, 1915 captivity of Germans on Dutch steamer "Commewijne" in Sept. 1914, 1915-1921 Austrian-Hungarian trade association: "Export and transit bans in Austria-Hungary". Druck, (Nov. 1915) Swiss "List of those categories of goods whose export is prohibited". Print, no date. Internment of the plane 205 in the Netherlands on 22.11.1915 captain to the sea of cool weather: "The undefended London! Reprint, without date.
Contains: air war air mines naval aviation assessment of aircraft types commercial war air raids on British naval forces air fleet 2 fly. Div. 10 (Battle report on attack on English naval forces in the North Sea on 26 Sept. 1939) Fly. Corps X Ice Situation Report (on combat activity over the North Sea) Attacks on Scapa Flow Auxiliary Ship Affairs Kü. Flie. Gr. 106 Case "Yellow" Questions of the creation of a German colonial empire in Central Africa Company "Sea Lion" (Planning) Cooperation Navy - Air Force Heavy Cruiser "Admiral Hipper" Air torpedo question Questions of retaliatory attacks Results of the deployment of the X. Fl. Korps zur bewaffneten Aufklärung am 29. und 30. Jan. 1940 Compilation of the successes of the Luftwaffe in the commercial war with sketches on armed reconnaissance on Feb. 3, 1940 Establishment and expansion of the air force units of the ObdM State and suitability of the Naval Air Force West Expected conversion process of the coastal air force units Summary of all available forces of the Luftwaffe for warfare against England Considerations on the question of the deployment of the K.Fl.Gr. 506 Large aircraft (sea) Coastal pilot group 606 Subordination of reconnaissance forces of the Kriegsmarine under ObdL Sonderunternehmen 8. Air force corps for the occupation of the Channel Islands Jersey and Alderney Expansion of aircraft bases in western France Air force combat forces in Norway Construction of seaworthy air base ships with centrifugal equipment, torpedo aircraft Draft of the Skl for an instruction of the commander (air force units for navy, their equipment and deployment) Reasons for the air force's leadership in the deployment of the air torpedo
The chamber was erected on 13.4.1863 for the area of the former district of Dortmund. The original district did not change its external borders until 1913. The district of Dortmund was divided into the city district of Dortmund (enlarged by incorporation) and the districts of Hörde and Dortmund. In 1913 the chamber district was extended to the district of Hamm (from 1930 the district of Unna). In 1917 the independent town of Hamm was added. With the territorial reform of the years 1926-1929 the offices Sodingen (today town Herne) and Annen (town Witten) left the chamber district. From 1.1.1930, the chamber district comprised the city districts of Dortmund, Castrop-Rauxel, Lünen and Hamm, the district of Unna as well as the city of Schwerte and the Westhofen office from the district of Iserlohn. This district was valid until 31.12.1974 with one exception: in 1944/45 Schwerte was briefly assigned to the district of the Iserlohn office at the Chamber of Hagen. Since the municipal reorganization in 1975, the chamber district comprises the city districts of Dortmund and Hamm as well as the district of Unna. Castrop-Rauxel retired, the municipalities Werne, Selm and the new districts of the cities Hamm and Schwerte were added. In 1935 the IHK Dortmund became the seat of the Chamber of Commerce for Westphalia and Lippe in the course of the development of the commercial economy. Although the Chamber of Commerce was theoretically assigned numerous tasks as a subdivision of the Reich Chamber of Commerce, the independence of the individual Chambers of Industry and Commerce and the Chambers of Crafts was de facto preserved. In 1937 the Chamber of Commerce for Westphalia and Lippe was subdivided into the departments IHKn, Chambers of Crafts, Industrial Department, Trade Department, District Compensation Office for Public Contracts, Honorary Courts of Commerce and Industry. Each of the departments had its own advisory boards. In the course of the war preparations and during the war, the Economic Chamber (and the Chambers of Commerce and Industry) were given tasks within the framework of management. In 1942, chambers of commerce were created analogous to the party organization of the NSDAP. The IHKs finally lost their self-administration tasks. Dortmund became the seat of the Gauwirtschaftskammer Westfalen-Süd [Westphalia South Chamber of Commerce] [for the government district of Arnsberg]. In addition to the chambers of industry and commerce, the regional trade associations were also included. Due to the effects of the war, the organisational structure of the Gauwirtschaftskammer remained a torso. 190 m The collection is divided into several layers, which were created by changes in the registry. There are losses in the older strata. Before 1914 there were already large gaps, and contemporary cassations could be found in the so-called war economy registry. The tradition of the file layer 1918-1930 is largely complete. From the file layer from 1931 to 1945 whole groups of files were destroyed in bomb attacks, furthermore unknown quantities of special registries of the Gauwirtschaftskammerregistratur(en) were lost. The documents from the first period after the end of the war were not included in a systematic file plan until later; individual clerk registries for the period up to 1950 (beginning of a new file layer) are missing, e.g. files on the currency reform of 1948. 1. 1863-1914/1918 President Eduard Kleine 1900-1914 (1); elections 1863-1918 with voter lists (8); annual reports 1889-1913 (1); 50th anniversary 1913 (1); Syndici 1872-1914 (3); budget 1877-1900 (4); chamber building 1898-1913 (1); Chamber organisation 1894-1918 (2); Vereinigung der Sekretäre der Handels- und Gewerbekammern Deutschlands 1875-1899 (1); Vereinigung der Handelskammern des rheinisch-westfälischen Industriegebiets 1903-1918 (2). Local court Aplerbeck 1908 (1); commercial judge elections 1879-1918 (2); articles of association 1884-1918 (4); auditors 1899-1919 (3); commercial chemist 1899-1918 (3); commercial customs 1903-1919 (4). Correspondence with the Chief President of Münster and the government of Arnsberg 1893-1918 (2) and with the Minister of Commerce of Berlin 1882-1914 (6); universal suffrage 1906-1917 (1); coal mining 1886-1918 (2); iron industry 1894-1918 (1); grain and animal feed industry 1917-1918 (1); money transfer 1916-1918 (1). District Railway Council Cologne 1883-1918 (6); railway project Dortmund-Schwerte-Letmathe-Frankfurt 1890-1914 (3); waterway advisory boards for the Dortmund-Ems Canal, including canals 1907-1914 (1); port Dortmund 1886-1918 (1); Dortmund-Ems Canal (4). Customs tariffs 1905-1918 (1); German colonies 1909-1917 (3). Maschinenbauschule Dortmund 1893-1918 (2); Technische Hochschule Dortmund (planned) 1905-1909; Städtische Schifferschule Dortmund 1912-1915 (1); Städtische Fortbildungsschule Dortmund 1881-1918 (5), desgl. Unna 1911-1917 (1); stenographic examination office 1912-1916 (1). Chambers of Commerce 1884 (1); Chambers of Labour 1908-1918 (1); Chambers of Experts 1910-1915 (1); RWWA Cologne 1904-1918 (1); Bismarck Monument 1911-(1927) (1); German Economic Association 1904-1918 (1). 2. War and post-war files 1914-(1930) Certificates for army deliveries 1914-1918 (6); imports, export and transit bans in the First World War 1914-1918 (7); state forced organization (general) 1914-1919 (5); Kriegsausschuß der deutschen Wirtschaft 1914-1918 (1); Economic General Staff 1916 (1); War Bonds 1915-1921 (1); War Gains Tax 1915-1920 (1); War Aid Cashiers 1914-1920 (1); Advice Centres for Trade and Crafts 1914-1916 (1); Emergency Money 1914-1919 (1); Closures 1917 (1); Enemy Assets 1915-1918 (1). Foreign receivables 1914-1921 (5); occupied territories 1915-1918 (3); war and peace goals 1915-1918 (1); demobilisation 1918-1922 (3); civilian food supply 1915-1921 (2); purchasing companies 1915-1921 (5); prices, price testing agencies 1914-1919 (3); Generalkommando Münster 1914-1919 (2); war offices Düsseldorf u. Kriegsamt Düsseldorf (3); war and peace goals 1915-1918 (1); war and peace objectives 1915-1922 (3); shopping companies 1915-1921 (5); prices, price testing agencies 1914-1919 (3); Generalkommando Münster 1914-1919 (2); war offices Düsseldorf u. Münster 1917-1919 (2); demand for demobilisation 1918-1919 (2); cultivation of raw materials 1915-1919 (12). War welfare, war damaged, war survivors 1914-1918 (3); prisoners of war 1915-1917 (1); military service 1914-1918 (8); relief service 1916-1918 (2); armistice, peace treaty 1918-1930 (5); vote in Upper Silesia 1919-1929 (1); Saar region 1919-1931 (1); confiscation of German foreign assets 1919-1931 (3); German foreign receivables 1919-1930 (2); reparations 1924-1930 (8); reconstruction in Belgium and northern France 1919-1921 (1). Ruhr occupation 1923-1930 (3); Ruhrabwehrkampf 1925-1930 (1); economic administration in the occupied territory 1923-1926 (1); railway control 1923-1927 (1); food supply of the Ruhr area 1923-1924 (2); Rhein-Ruhr-Hilfe 1923 (1); customs regulations of the occupation authorities 1923-1925 (2); occupation damages 1923-1928 (20). 3. 1918-1930 Elections to the General Assembly 1919-1930 (6); General Assemblies 1918-1930 (9); Committees (general) 1919-1930 (2); Retail Committee 1919-1932 (2); Transport Committee 1921-1924 (1); Committee on Mining and Iron Industry 1921 (1); Tax Committee 1919-1922 (1); Committee on Motor Vehicles 1925-1929 (1); Deaths, Anniversaries 1921-1930 (5); Press Releases 1922-1930 (3); Lectures in the Chamber 1925-1929 (3); Administration 1920-1932 (2); Budget 1919-1934 (2); Chamber Building 1927-1942 (24); Obituaries Victor Weidtman and Richard Stegemann 1924-1927 (1). Chamber of Commerce Acts 1919-1929 (3); Association of the Managing Directors of the German Chambers of Industry and Commerce 1919-1930 (3); Association of middle officials of the German official industry and trade representations 1919-1930 (1); Pensions Compensation Fund 1924-1932 (1); individual Chambers 1919-1930 (30); DIHT 1918-1930 (3); Committees of the DIHT 1918-1930 (16); State Committee of the Prussian Chambers of Commerce 1919-1931 (4); Foreign Chambers 1918-1930 (4). Association of the Chambers of Industry and Commerce of the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Industrial Area 1918-1930 (7); Association of the Chambers of Industry and Commerce of Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen, Krefeld and Münster 1920-1929 with annual reports (13); Association of the Chambers of Industry and Commerce of the South Westphalian Industrial District 1919-1921 (1); Merger of Chambers 1923-1930 (4); Joint Statistical Office of the Ruhr Chambers with quarterly reports 1921-1929 (3). Law (general) 1919-1931 (5); Imperial Administrative Court 1926-1931 (1); Commercial Courts 1919-1929 (3); Bankruptcy Act, Law 1924-1930 (28); Industrial Code 1921-1930 (1); Intellectual Property 1919-1930 (6); Auctions 1920-1930 (2); Commercial law 1919-1930 (4); unfair competition 1910-1930 (4); sales 1919-1930 (24); gifts, discount savings associations 1924-1930 (2); experts 1919-1930 (17); auditors 1919-1936 (2); information, expert opinions 1918-1933 (32). Correspondence with the Ministry of Commerce 1919-1930 (1) and the government of Arnsberg 1919-1929 (1); Reichszentrale für den Heimatdienst 1919-1930 (3); Reichsverfassung 1918-1930 (3); Bürgerräte 1919-1921 (1); Sozialisierung 1918-1926 (4); tax burden on the economy 1919-1925 (3); Enquête Committee 1926-1928 (2); Economic Democracy 1929-1930 (1); City Regulations 1922-1930 (1); RM Revaluation 1924-1930 (2); plant closures 1919-1930 (4), including Südrandzechen; exhibitions and Trade fairs 1919-1931 (21); dimensions and weights 1924-1930 (1); Siedlungsverband Ruhrkohlenbezirk 1920-1930 (2); Westf. Heimstätte GmbH, Münster 1925-1930 (1); settlement and housing 1919-1931 (4); incorporation 1922-1930 (5); economic situation reports 1920-1930 (12); price statistics 1919-1930 (3); labour market reports of the Landesarbeitsamts Westfalen-Lippe 1919-1931 (10). Hard coal mining 1920-1930 (6); iron and steel industry 1919-1928 (1); metal and others Industries 1919-1931 (2); Mechanical engineering 1919-1926 (1); Gas and gas supply 1926-1930 (6); Electricity supply 1919-1930 (3); Water management 1919-1930 (2); Food and beverage industry 1918-1930 (2); Breweries and distilleries 1918-1930 (1); Clay, stone and earth 1919-1930 (2); Construction 1919-1930 (2); Printing 1919-1929 (1); Restaurants and hotels 1917-1930 (3); Laundries 1920-1928 (1); Currency and emergency money 1918-1930 (4); Money and credit crunch 1922-1930 (4); Cheques and other cheques Bills of exchange 1919-1931 (3); balance of gold and payments 1922-1931 (1); securities 1919-1930 (2); banks and stock exchanges (general) 1919-1930 (3); savings banks and municipal banks 1921-1930 (1); stock exchanges in Dortmund 1921-1930 (2). Trade (general) 1911-1931 (2); wholesale prices 1928-1931 (1); advertising 1921-1930 (1); monopolies 1917-1930 (5); pharmacies 1919-1930 (1); wood, coal, oil, etc. Branches of trade 1917-1930 (19); metal thefts 1920-1930 (1); meat and livestock trade 1917-1930 (4); grain trade 1910-1930 (6); potato trade 1919-1930 (3); food trade 1919-1930 (6); tobacco and wine trade 1917-1930 (3). Retail trade (general) 1918-1931 (4); retail prices 1921-1930 (6); retail outlets 1919-1930 (2); consumer financing 1926-1927 (1); Edeka Association 1922-1930 (1); employee trade 1919-1931 (1); commercial agents 1919-1930 (4); crafts 1920-1930 (3); agriculture 1920-1930 (3); 33rd travelling exhibition of the German Agricultural Society in Dortmund 1927 (6). Transport 1917-1930 (2); railway (general) 1919-1931 (8); railway councils 1919-1930 (4); railway construction projects 1903-1930 (10), etc. Rheinisch-Westfälische Schnellbahn 1922-1927, Dortmund-Münster 1903-1927 (2); railway passenger and baggage traffic 1921-1931 (6); timetables 1925-1931 (3); freight traffic 1918-1931 (6); Private siding connections 1919-1932 (5); railway tariffs 1918-1931 (15); preferential tariffs in the Ruhr area 1927-1930 (4); trams 1921-1930 (1); Ruhr-Lippe-Kleinbahn 1928-1932 (1). Inland navigation (general) 1918-1930 (4); towing monopoly 1919-1930 (1); waterway advisory boards 1919-1930 (4); Hansa canal 1922-1930 (1); Dortmund-Ems canal 1919-1930 (5); Mittellandkanal 1919-1930 (1); canals and canal projects 1919-1930 (5); Lippe side canal 1918-1926 (1); port of Dortmund 1919-1930 (1). Road construction 1920-1930 (6); motor traffic 1920-1931 (5); bus routes 1924-1930 (1); transport companies 1924-1928 (3); air traffic 1919-1930 (2); Dortmund Airport 1921-1931 (5); Luftverkehrs-AG Westfalen (WELU) 1925-1930 (1). Post (general) 1919-1931 (9); telephony and telegraphy 1918-1930 (8); postage 1920-1931 (4); postal cheque office, traffic 1909-1930 (2); radio 1924-1930 (2); tourism 1919-1930 (2). Foreign trade (general) 1919-1930 (7); foreign law 1925-1930 (1); export reports 1925-1930 (1); trade espionage 1919-1930 (6); foreign trade fairs 1927-1930 (2); immigration and emigration, foreign Germans 1919-1930 (2); League of Nations 1926-1928 (2); trade treaties 1920-1930 (2); trade with individual countries 1912-1930 (37), above all with the USSR 1920-1930 (1920-1930); export reports 1925-1930 (1); trade espionage 1919-1930 (6); foreign trade fairs 1927-1930 (2); trade with individual countries 1912-1930 (37), above all with the USSR 1920-1930 (1920-1930); Foreign intelligence services 1919-1930 (11); import and export regulations 1914-1930 (17); foreign exchange trading 1921-1927 (1); consulates 1919-1930 (4); foreign travel 1924-1930 (2); customs (general) 1919-1930 (5); processing traffic 1921-1931 (7); German and foreign customs 1920-1930 (4). Taxes (general) 1919-1930 (3); Reich taxes 1919-1930 (3); financial and tax law 1924-1930 (5); financial equalization 1923-1930 (5); real taxes 1927-1929 (3); financial committees and offices 1921-1930 (8); property taxes 1919-1930 (5); Property tax 1919-1930 (5); turnover and luxury tax 1919-1930 (4); excise taxes 1924-1930 (4); municipal taxes 1921-1930 (7); business taxes 1921-1930 (11); business tax reform 1925-1927 (3); business taxes in individual municipalities: Annen 1920-1929 (3), Aplerbeck 1920-1929 (3), Barop 1922-1929 (3), Brackel 1921-1927 (2), Brambauer 1921-1927 (2), Castrop 1910-1930 (5), Derne 1922-1927 (2), Dortmund 1920-1932 (2), Fröndenberg 1924-1930 (1), Hamm 1906-1930 (4), Hörde 1924-1927 (2), Kamen 1919-1930 (3), Kirchhörde 1920-1929 (3), Lünen 1921-1930 (3), Lütgendortmund 1921-1927 (2), Marten 1921-1927 (2), Mengede 1921-1927 (2), Pelkum 1921-1930 (4), Rauxel 1904-1925 (2), Rhynern 1922-1930 (1), Schwerte 1921-1930 (4), Sodingen 1920-1923 (1), Unna 1924-1930 (1), Wellinghofen 1921-1930 (1), Westhofen 1921-1930 (1). Employees and workers (general) 1918-1930 (3); Labour courts 1921-1930 (1); Works Constitution, Councils 1918-1928 (2); Tariffs and wages 1919-1930 (7); Working time, protection 1919-1930 (5); Strikes 1919-1930 (2); Unemployment of employees 1925-1931 (2), Reich Insurance Ordinance 1919-1930 (3); Accident Insurance 1923-1930 (2); Disability Insurance 1921-1930 (1); Miners' Social Insurance 1925-1929 (1); Unemployment Insurance 1920-1930 (2); Unemployment Welfare 1918-1930 (5); Housing Construction 1926-1930 (1). Education (general) 1923-1930 (4); Vocational training 1919-1930 (9); Shorthand 1920-1930 (4); Mechanical engineering schools 1920-1930 (1); Vocational schools 1918-1930 (6); Vocational school fees in the municipalities of the chamber district 1921-1930 (18); Commercial schools in Dortmund and Unna 1905-1930 (5); Apprenticeship 1924-1929 (3). Chamber of Crafts Dortmund 1900-1930 (1); Chamber of Agriculture 1926-1930 (1); Chamber of Experts 1922-1931 (1); Chamber of Architects 1926-1928 (1); Chamber of Consumers 1920-1922 (1). Associations and federations (general) 1911-1930 (5); industrial associations 1919-1930 (1); CDI 1918-1919 (1), RDI 1919-1930 (3); Langnamverein 1920-1930 (2); Bergbau-Verein 1927-1930 (1); Association of German Iron and Steel Workers 1919-1930 (1); VDMA 1919-1926 (1); Hansabund 1919-1930 (1); Westfälischer Industrieklub 1921-1928 (1); Bund für Nationalwirtschaft und Werksgemeinschaft 1924-1930 (1); Transport associations, mainly VV Industriebezirk 1920-1930 (4); Verkehrsverein Dortmund 1919-1930 (3); Binnenschiffahrtsverbände 1917-1930 (7); Außenhandelsverbände 1920-1925 (1); Russlandausschuss der Deutschen Wirtschaft und ähnlichen Ausschüsse 1919-1930 (56); kaufmännische Verbände und Vereine 1922-1930 (1); Central-Gewerbe-Vereine 1919-1927 (1); Westfälische Kaufmannsgilde, Dortmund 1924-1930 (1); Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kaufmanns-Erholungsheime 1918-1930 (1); Hauptgemeinschaft des Deutschen Einzelhandels 1929-1930 (1); employers' associations 1919-1930 (1); Institut für Konjunkturforschung 1924-1930 (1); RWWA Köln 1919-1929 (1); Volkswirtschaftliche Vereinigung des rheinisch-westfälischen Industriegebiets 1920-1930 (1); Reichsverband der deutschen Volkswirte 1919-1929 (1); Westfälische Verwaltungsakademie, Bochum 1925-1931 (1); Associations for Commercial Education 1912-1930 (2); RKW 1925-1930 (1); Verband der Vereine Creditreform 1919-1929 (1); Deutscher See-Verein 1918-1930 (1); Kolonialvereine 1919-1930 (1); Tannenberg- u.a. Monuments 1927-1930 (2). 4. 1931-1945 Statutes 1932-1939 (1); Executive Board/Committee 1931-1942 (6); Members of the General Assembly 1932-1941 (3); General Assemblies 1930-1934 (1); Committees 1931-1941 (2); Retail Representation of the Chamber 1934-1941 (4); Anniversaries 1931-1941 (22); Lectures 1932-1940 (1); Journal "Westfälische Wirtschaft" 1932-1937 (3). Chamber organization (general) 1931-1941 (8); staff of the chambers 1932-1942 (6); IHK special-purpose associations 1929-1937, especially for the chambers Bochum, Dortmund, Essen, Münster (5); Vereinigung der IHKn des niederrheinisch-westfälischen Industriegebiets 1931-1935 (1); Arbeitsgemeinschaft der westf. Chambers of Industry, Commerce and Crafts 1933-1935 (1); Chambers of Foreign Trade 1931-1944 (5); International Chamber of Commerce, Paris 1931-1944 with German Group (2); DIHT with committees 1930-1934 (4). Imperial, state and municipal law 1927-1942 (4); citizenship 1931-1939 (2); arbitration courts and courts of honour 1931-1943 (8); settlements and bankruptcies 1929-1940 (27); debt settlement 1939-1943 (5); industrial property law 1927-1943 (39); unfair competition 1930-1942 (4); Unification Offices for Competition Disputes 1932-1940 (6); Out and Final Sales 1927-1939 (2); Prohibitions on Allowances 1931-1943 (3); Cartels and Syndicates 1931-1938 (1); Auctioneers 1931-1942 (2); Commercial Law 1932-1943 (1); Joint Stock Companies 1931-1939 (2); Stock Corporation Law 1931-1939 (2); GmbH Law 1937-1940 (1); Terms of Delivery and Payment 1931-1938 (3); Experts, Experts, Auditors 1931-1944 (36); Information 1931-1937 (8); Baumeister Titles 1931-1936 (4); Economy 1931-1939 (3); Eastern Aid 1930-1933 (1); Consequences of the Versailles Treaty 1931-1940 (2); NSDAP 1933-1944 (1); DAF 1933-1944 (2); organization of the economy / development of the commercial economy 1932-1944 (5); Reichsnährstand 1933-1938 (1); Reichskulturkammer 1933-1939 (1); technical division of the commercial economy 1934-1940 (5) and of industry 1934-1939 (2); delimitation of trade, crafts and industry 1934-1943 (5); urban development 1931-1937 (3). Reichswirtschaftskammer 1934-1939 (2); Gauwirtschaftskammern (general) 1938-1940 (1); Reichswirtschaftsgruppen 1934-1940 (3); Jewish businesses 1938-1939 (3); Ernährungsamt beim Oberpräsidenten Münster 1939-1944 (16); economic situation reports (general) 1931-1939 (2); Situation reports of the IHKs Dortmund 1931-1939 (11), Essen 1931-1937 (3), Düsseldorf 1931-1939 (2), Bielefeld 1936-1939 (2), Hagen 1936-1939 (2), Duisburg 1936-1939 (2), the joint statistical office of the IHKs Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen, Krefeld, Münster 1931-1937 (2); economic situation reports for mining 1936-1939 (2); RKW 1931-1938 (4). Imperial agencies (monitoring agencies) for wool 1934-1941 (2), silk 1936-1941 (1), cotton 1934-1942 (2), bast fibres 1934-1942 (1), rubber and asbestos 1934-1940 (1); leather management 1934-1942 (6), textile management 1934-1941 (3); iron and steel industry 1934-1941 (2), silk 1936-1941 (1), cotton 1934-1942 (2), bast fibres 1934-1942 (1), rubber and asbestos 1934-1940 (1); leather management 1934-1942 (6), textile management 1934-1941 (3); iron and steel industry 1934-1941 (3) Steel management 1934-1941 (6); Metal management 1934-1941 (7); Coal management 1939-1941 (4); Price formation and monitoring 1931-1942 (13); Monthly price reports 1937-1940 (4); Trade fairs at home and abroad 1930-1939 (7); Settlement association Ruhr coal district 1931-1939 (2). Insurance 1931-1941 (1); Money, coins and currency 1931-1936 (1); Banking 1931-1939 (1); Gas, electricity, water 1931-1937 (2). Retail trade (general) 1931-1938 (2); trade in milk products 1927-1939 (2), margarine 1933-1939 (3), potatoes 1931-1937 (1), furniture 1937-1938 (1); pharmacies, drugstores 1930-1932 (8); sales representatives 1931-1939 (2). Wholesale (general) 1933-1941 (2); grain trade 1931-1939 (3), trade in base metals 1931-1936 (1); Committee on Agricultural Market and Sales Issues in the Rhine-Westphalian Industrial Area 1930-1932 (1); agricultural debt settlement 1932-1937 (1); press, printing industry 1931-1939 (6). Oberhausen freight base 1930-1936 (2); traffic (general) 1930-1939 (1); overall traffic plan Ruhr area 1937 (1); postal services (general) 1931-1941 (6); telegraph and telephone services 1931-1941 (2); railway traffic (general) 1927-1939 (3); Railway and motor vehicles 1931-1939 (3); rail freight transport 1930-1939 (4); private sidings 1931-1939 (2); rail passenger transport, tariffs 1931-1941 (12); timetables 1931-1943 (3); sea and inland waterway transport (general) 1930-1944 (1); Canals (general) 1931-1944 (2); Dortmund-Ems Canal 1931-1942 (3); Inland navigation statistics 1931-1939 (1); Port of Dortmund 1930-1944 (1); Air traffic 1931-1940 (1); Air protection 1931-1942 (1); WELU 1930-1938 (1); Dortmund airport 1930-1942 (1); Local public transport in Dortmund 1931-1943 (1); small trams and streetcars 1931-1944 (1); motor vehicles (general) 1931-1940 (5); petrol stations 1934-1942 (1); long-distance goods transport 1931-1939 (5); motorways 1933-1937 (2). Foreign Germans, emigration 1931-1940 (1); "Propaganda" abroad 1931-1940 (2); Foreign trade (general) 1931-1939 (5); Trade with foreign states 1930-1944 (6); Russian Committee of the German Economy 1931-1941 (4); Foreign Trade Office for Westphalia and Germany 1931-1941 (4); Foreign Trade Office for Westphalia and Germany 1931-1940 (2); Foreign Trade (general) 1931-1939 (5); Foreign Trade with Foreign States 1930-1944 (6); Russia Committee of the German Economy 1931-1941 (4); Foreign Trade Office for Westphalia and Germany 1931-1941 (4); Foreign Trade Office for Westphalia and Germany 1931-1940 (6); Foreign Trade (general) 1931-1939 (5); Foreign Trade with Foreign States 1930-1944 (6); Russia Committee of the German Economy 1931-1941 (4) the Ruhr district, Hagen 1931-1943 (13), their special reports 1939-1942 (3); import restrictions 1931-1935 (3); foreign exchange control 1931-1941 (44); export promotion 1931-1939 (3); clearing with foreign states 1932-1936 (6); compensation 1934-1936 (1); German customs duties 1931-1941 (2); processing traffic 1931-1934 (2). Public finance 1930-1942 (7); tax offices 1931-1934 (2); taxes (general) 1931-1941 (3); tax consultants 1931-1939 (1); Reich taxes 1931-1937 (2); Motor vehicle taxes 1930-1942 (1); income tax 1931-1941 (3); turnover tax 1931-1939 (4); municipal taxes 1931-1939 (1); business taxes 1931-1937 (1), in Dortmund 1931-1936 (1) and 1931-1936 (1). in the district of Unna 1931-1938 (1). Work assignment 1931-1940 (8); wages and tariffs in individual Westphalian branches 1931-1938 (3); payments under the collective bargaining agreement 1933-1938 (3); labour market situation, unemployment in Westphalia-Lippe 1931-1939 (7); granting of leave 1931-1939 (2); remuneration in the public service 1931-1940 (2); performance competition of German companies 1937-1940 (3); unemployment 1930-1939 (3); Emergency situation of older employees 1932-1938 (3); job creation 1932-1936 (1); social security (general) 1931-1939 (1); welfare 1931-1939 (2); collection and support 1931-1939 (1); Adolf Hitler Donation of the German Economy 1933-1939 (3); Winter Relief 1931-1937 (3); Settlement and Housing 1931-1940 (3); Barracks for Foreign Workers 1942-1945 (1949) (1). Bochum Administrative Academy 1931-1943 (1); Haus der Technik, Essen 1931-1941 (2); scientific institutes 1930-1943 (3); vocational training 1931-1943 (9); shorthand 1931-1942 (3); Vocational and technical schools in the chamber district 1931-1943 (4); vocational school contributions 1929-1942 (3); apprenticeship 1931-1939 (8); young skilled workers 1936-1937 (1); apprenticeship 1935-1941 (3); examinations 1936-1943(58). Chambers of Trade and Agriculture 1931-1944 (1); associations and federations (general) 1931-1943 (7); Hansabund 1931-1933 (1); intergovernmental trade associations 1931-1940 (2); RDI 1931-1933 (1); Langnamverein 1931-1935 (4); Haus- und Grundbesitzervereine 1931-1937 (1); political associations 1931-1938 (1); Raiffeisen-Genossenschaften 1930-1933 (1); congresses, conferences, events (especially in Dortmund) 1932-1944 (4). 5. 1945 to June 1950 Presidium 1945-1950 (1); General Assembly, Elections 1947-1950 (8); Joint Economic Policy Committee 1946-1949 (1); Retail Representation 1948-1950 (1); Committees 1946-1949 (5); Administration 1945-1950 (2); Budget (1942) 1945-1950 (2); Reconstruction of the Chamber building 1946-1951 (2); Personnel 1929-1951 (3); Anniversaries 1945-1950 (4); Lectures in the Chamber 1946-1950 (1); Newsletter of the Chamber 1946-1950 (1); Activity reports 1946-1950 (5);0 former Gauwirtschaftskammer 1945-1954 (1). Chamber organisation, law 1945-1950 (9); staff of the chambers (1937)-1950 (1); individual chambers 1945-1950 (5); regional and supraregional chamber organisation (1943) 1945-1949 (7); DIHT 1949-1950 (3); chamber association NRW 1946-1950 (6); joint statistical office of the NRW chambers 1946-1955 (1). Constitution and Administration (general) 1946-1950 (3); War Damage Law 1943-1949 (5); Burden Compensation 1948-1950 (2); Industrial Law (general) 1946-1950 (1); Auctions 1948-1950 (1); Competition Law 1946-1950 (6); Industrial Property Law 1946-1950 (6); Honorary Commercial Courts 1944-1950 (1); Bankruptcy law 1948-1950 (1); settlement of debts 1945-1950 (1); commercial law 1945-1950 (1), register 1945-1950 (3); stock corporation law 1943-1949 (1); cartels 1946-1950 (1); deliveries and payments 1945-1950 (2); expert opinions, information 1945-1950 (3); experts (1937) 1944-1950 (3); trade customs 1948-1950 (1). Economic Council of the United Economic Area, Frankfurt 1947-1948 (2); District Economic Office Dortmund 1946-1949 (2); Arnsberg Government 1945-1949 (1); Military Government 1945-1950 (3); War Economy (1933) 1945-1947 (1); Reparations, Dismantling 1947-1950 (6); Claims on the State, Wehrmacht, NSDAP 1945-1949 (6); requisitions by the occupying forces 1945-1948 (5); war equipment 1945-1948 (5); denazification 1945-1950 (5); appointment of trustees 1945-1950 (2); restitution 1947-1950 (2). Economic policy (general) 1945-1950 (4); Ruhr problems 1945-1950 (2); food industry 1945-1950 (1); permits 1945-1947 (12); reconstruction (general) 1945-1950 (1); situation reports (general) 1945-1950 (1), of companies 1945-1950 (5); Economic statistics (general) 1943-1950 (6); statistics of retail trade 1945-1946 (1), iron and steel industry 1930-1954 (3), textile industry 1948-1950 (2), rolling mills 1945-1946 (1), coal mining 1936-1949 (1); Rheinisch-Westfälisches Firmenjahrbuch 1947-1951 (3). Management of goods (general) 1945-1950 (5), iron and steel 1945-1950 (1), non-ferrous metals 1945-1950 (1), paper 1945-1949 (1); petroleum 1945-1948 (1), explosives 1945-1948 (1), textiles 1946-1949 (1), coal 1945-1946 (1); Prices, price monitoring 1945-1950 (7); trade fairs and exhibitions 1945-1950 (8); new settlement of industrial enterprises 1945-1950 (1); machine tool inventory in the chamber district 1945-1949 (3). Iron and steel industry 1945-1950 (1); breweries 1945-1950 (1); electricity and gas 1945-1950 (6); mining 1945-1950 (1); light industry 1945-1950 (9); construction 1945-1950 (5); Service industries 1945-1950 (1); hotels and restaurants 1945-1950 (1); crafts 1945-1950 (1); architects 1945-1949 (1); commerce (general) 1945-1950 (3); retail trade (general) 1945-1950 (5); wholesale trade (general) 1945-1950 (2); Factory trading 1946-1950 (1); interzone trading 1945-1948 (5); shop closing 1945-1950 (1); individual branches 1945-1950 (4); mail order 1945-1950 (2); spirits trading 1948-1950 (2); cooperatives 1944-1950 (1); Insurance industry 1945-1950 (2); monetary affairs, banks, savings banks 1944-1950 (4); agency services, exchange offices 1945-1950 (2); press 1945-1950 (2); newspapers, magazines 1945-1950 (4). Transport (general) 1945-1950 (1); Transport statistics (1936)-1948 (1); Transport losses 1945-1952 (1); Transport industry 1945-1949 (2); Rail transport (general) 1945-1950 (5); Timetables 1945-1950 (3), Rail tariffs 1945-1950 (1); Aviation 1948-1950 (1); Dortmund-Ems canal, Dortmund port 1945-1950 (2); sea and inland waterway transport and statistics 1945-1950 (4); motor vehicles (general) 1945-1950 (2); trams and light rail vehicles 1945-1950 (1); buses 1945-1950 (2); fuels, petrol stations 1945-1950 (1); tourism, travel agencies 1945-1950 (1). Foreign trade (general) 1945-1950 (9); Foreign trade information service 1947-1950 (3); Foreign trade meetings of the chambers 1946-1950 (5); Foreign trade statistics 1946-1949 (1); Foreign trade with individual countries 1947-1950 (4); Imports (general) 1946-1950 (2); Export markets 1945-1950 (2); Customs 1946-1950 (1); German foreign assets 1948-1950 (1). Public finances and taxes 1945-1950 (1); income tax 1944-1950 (2). Labour market statistics 1939-1950 (5); housing statistics 1933-1949 (1); social policy, labour law 1945-1950 (2); employment offices 1945-1950 (1); working time, wages, salaries 1945-1950 (6); company social policy 1945-1950 (1); trade unions 1945-1950 (1); Co-determination 1945-1950 (1); labour force deployment 1945-1950 (3); refugees 1945-1950 (2); rationalisation 1945-1950 (3); war-damaged, survivors 1946-1950 (1); accident insurance 1945-1950 (1); housing 1944-1950 (1). Vocational guidance 1946-1950 (1); Vocational training 1946-1950 (2); Vocational training officers of the chambers 1945-1950 (1); Centre for industrial vocational education of the [German] Chamber of Industry and Commerce, SitzDortmund 1946-1950 (1); Vocational and technical schools 1945-1950 (3); Apprenticeship 1945-1950 (2); Apprenticeships 1941-1950 (4); Books, libraries 1945-1950 (4). Associations and associations (general) 1945-1950 (3); employers' associations 1945-1950 (1); industry associations 1945-1950 (2); working group of small and medium-sized enterprises 1948-1950 (1); trade associations 1945-1950 (3); transport associations 1946-1950 (1); educational associations 1945-1950 (1); events in Dortmund 1946-1948 (3); art exhibitions, including correspondence with sculptor Benno Elkan 1950-1970 (1). 6. from 1950 debtor lists 1948-1965 (3); company identification and signets 1954 (3); reparations and dismantling 1950-1960 (1); weekly markets 1948-1951 (1); water management 1950-1952 (1); electricity management 1950-1960 (2); energy management general 1950-1961 (1); industry and situation reports of individual companies 1950-1967 (44); map collection approx. 1930-1970 (1); Statistical Service of the Chambers 1951-1953 (7); Workplace census in the chamber district 1950 (1); Air pollution control and noise abatement 1950-1965 (2); Insurance industry 1950-1955 (1); Registration of craftsmen in the commercial register 1950-1960 (1); Alweg-Hochbahn 1950-1957 (1); trams 1945-1956 (1); Dortmund-Ems-Kanal 1948-1953 (1); ports in Dortmund, Hamm and Lünen 1948-1973 (3); Dortmund airport 1948-1969 (1); Export financing 1950-1957 (1); foreign representation of chamber firms 1950-1952 (1); housing construction 1950-1952 (2); housing construction for refugees in Dortmund 1950-1954 (3); subsistence aid, emergency aid and refugee loans 1950-1952 (1); Vocational training departments of the chambers 1953 (1); statistics of vocational schools and students in the chamber district 1951-1959 (9); file regulations of the chambers 1951-1954 (1); working group of German commercial airports 1950-1951 (1); art exhibitions of the chambers 1953 (1); statistics of the vocational schools and students in the chamber district 1951-1959 (9); file regulations of the chambers 1951-1954 (1); working group of German commercial airports 1950-1951 (1); art exhibitions of the chambers 1953 (1); statistics of the vocational schools and students in the chamber district 1951-1959 (9); file regulations of the chambers 1951-1954 (1); working group of German commercial airports 1950-1951 (1); art exhibitions of the chambers (1)
On 19 May 1856 the Chamber of Commerce was established by Royal Decree for the district of Bochum. Gustav Müllensiefen, Crengeldanz, was the chairman when the company was founded. From 1872 to 1897 Louis Baare, director of the Bochumer Verein, presided. Changes in the district boundaries resulted mainly from changes in the area of the city and rural districts: from 1885, the Chamber of the City of Bochum and the districts of Bochum and Gelsenkirchen. The cities of Gelsenkirchen (1897), Witten (1899) and Herne (1906) left the counties. 1929 Chamber for the city districts Bochum, Gelsenkirchen (with Buer and Horst), Herne, Wanne-Eickel, Wattenscheid and Witten as well as Hattingen and further ten municipalities from the Ennepe-Ruhr district. 1943 in the course of the formation of the Gauwirtschaftskammern (chambers of commerce), spin-off of the city district of Gelsenkirchen (Reg.-Bez. Münster); Gelsenkirchen became a district of the IHK Münster; this regulation was not revised after 1945. After the communal reorganization in 1975 the affiliation of the cities Hattingen and Witten from the Ennepe-Ruhr district to the district of the Bochum Chamber of Commerce was controversial. 1982 they came after administrative court judgement finally to the chamber Bochum, which covers thus the city districts Bochum, Herne as well as the cities Hattingen and Witten from the Ennepe Ruhr district. 65 m Within the group of chamber archives, the collection contains the richest materials on the history of the Ruhr area from 1870 to 1914. Due to the rich recipient tradition, the collection contains information that goes far beyond the boundaries of the chamber. Statutes and rules of procedure 1879-1933 (5); correspondence of the management with the chairmen, including Louis Baare and Theodor Müllensiefen 1861-1934 (5); elections 1882-1929, 1947 (29); electoral rolls 1905-1933 (9); plenary assembly 1860-1974 (38); presidium 1945-1972 (4); activity reports of the in-house lawyer 1906-1916 (4); committees 1877-1910 (6); small and medium-sized enterprises, respectively Retail trade committee 1907-1937, 1975-1983 (10); wholesale trade committee 1975-1983 (1); landlord committee 1921-1925 (1); building committee 1950 (1); traffic committee 1966-1984 (2); right and tax committee 1925-1926, 1947-1959 (2); publications, periodicals 1897-1936 (10); congratulations, condolences 1933-1961 (9); Lectures and meetings 1920-1938 (8); anniversaries 1906-1932 (6); economic chronicle of the companies of the chamber district 1907 (1); general administration 1877-1933 (10); personnel administration 1900-1956 (6); finances and budget 1866-1950 (11); member companies 1923-1954 (47); buildings 1897-1960 (13). Minutes of plenary and committee meetings 1856-1920 (16); annual reports 1932-1951 (3). Chambers of Commerce (general) 1860-1936 (5); legal bases of the chambers 1896-1932, 1946-1952 (4); German (Industrie- und) Handelstag 1889-1973 (70); Working Committee on Transport at the German Industrie- und Handelstag 1950-1971 (5); budget plans and auditing 1927-1949 (2); Chamber of Commerce reforms 1919-1934 (4); reorganization of the chambers 1945-1951 (3); Chamber officials 1891-1940 (4); Association of the Managing Directors of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce 1916-1932 (2); Association of Middle-Class Officials of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce 1920-1934 (39); Pension Compensation Fund 1926-1936 (4); Versorgungsverband deutscher Wirtschaftsorganisationen 1943-1949 (1); International Chamber of Commerce 1925-1937 (3); German Chambers of Commerce Abroad 1897-1936 (4); Chamber Law (after 1945) 1948-1961 (2). Special-purpose chamber associations in Rhineland Westphalia 1919-1932 (22); joint tax committee 1923-1936 (2); state committee of the Prussian chambers of commerce 1920-1927 (2); unification of the chambers of commerce of the Lower Rhineland Westphalian industrial district and of the Lower Rhineland Westphalian industrial district, respectively Successor 1891-1929 (16); Zweckverband nordwestdeutscher Wirtschaftsvertretungen 1920-1933 (7); Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Industrie- und Handelskammern des Vereinigten Wirtschaftsgebietes bzw. Vereinigung der Industrie- und Handelskammern in der britischen Besatzungszone 1945-1949 (5); Kommission für Absatzwirtschaft der Internationalen Handelskammer 1952 (1). (Gau-)Wirtschaftskammer Westfalen-Lippe 1935-1946 (2); Bezirksausgleichsstelle für öffentliche Aufträge, Dortmund 1936-1942 (1); retail representation of IHKs in the fiduciary district of Westfalen 1936-1942 (1). Chambers of Labour 1908-1929 (3); Chambers of Agriculture 1926-1934 (3); Chambers of Consumers 1921-1922 (1); Chambers of Architects and Engineers 1926-1936 (1); Reichskulturkammer 1935-1936 (1). Law (general) 1870-1936 (7); judicial reform 1906-1932 (29); courts of honour of IHKs, commercial arbitration courts 1897-1937 (6); chambers of commerce 1861-1896 (8); bankruptcies and settlements 1860-1958 (14); individual bankruptcies 1926-1954 (21), etc. Küchel-Rottmann Group, Cologne, Gelsenkirchen 1929; Industrial Code 1856-1937 (6); Patents, Design and Trademark Protection 1897-1937 (8); Stock Corporation Law 1920-1937 (5); Examination of stock corporations 1886-1935 (9); Commercial Register (general) 1862-1950 (12); Commercial Register Bochum 1897-1938 (10); Gebr. Alsberg AG / Kaufhaus Kortum AG, Bochum 1933-1939 (1); Gebr. Fuchs, Wuppertal 1934-1938 (1); Commercial Register Gelsenkirchen 1925-1936 (4), Hattingen 1913-1937 (2), Herne 1892-1937 (4), Wanne-Eickel 1932-1935 (1), Wattenscheid 1901-1936 (3), Witten 1873-1931 (4); Antitrust law 1900-1937 (4); Westfälisches Kokssyndikat, Bochum 1896 (1); Verkaufsverein rheinisch-westfälischer Cementwerke GmbH 1904-1905 (1); Westdeutscher Zement-Verband GmbH, Bochum 1932-1933 (2); unfair competition, sales, conciliation offices 1894-1938 (15); premiums and discounts 1928-1940 (5); experts 1864-1954 (26); information on companies 1902-1951 (14); Expert opinions to authorities 1858-1918 (9), to private individuals 1965-1933 (5); commercial practices 1897-1926 (10); chartered accountants 1937-1952 (4); industrial monitoring 1947-1954 (1); absence guardianship for Fa. mouchel
1st Biographical Information on Wolfgang Kapp Wolfgang Kapp was born in New York on July 24, 1858, the son of the lawyer Friedrich Kapp, who had played an important role in the bourgeois-democratic revolution of 1848 and had to emigrate to the United States because of his participation in the Baden uprising. Wolfgang Kapp's mother was Louise Engels and was the daughter of the Major General and Commander of Cologne Engels. The family was originally called d'Ange and immigrated from France to Germany in 1687 after the Edict of Nantes. In 1870 Friedrich Kapp returned to Germany with his family; he lived in Berlin and was a national liberal, later a liberal member of the Reichstag from 1872-1877 and 1881-1884; he also worked as a renowned historian. Friedrich Kapp died in 1884, his son Wolfgang studied in Tübingen and Göttingen. He completed his studies in 1880 with a doctorate. Probably in 1881 Wolfgang Kapp married Margarete Rosenow, the daughter of a landowner in Dülzen (district Preußisch Eylau). After his marriage Kapp seems to have familiarized himself with the administration of a large agricultural business on his father-in-law's estate, because it was not until 1885 that he began his actual professional career as a trainee with the government in Minden. In 1886 he joined the Ministry of Finance, Department II, Administration of Direct Taxes, as a government assistant. From 1890 to 1899 he was district administrator in Guben. In 1890, at the beginning of his time as district administrator, Kapp bought the Rittergut Pilzen estate near the Rosenov estate and thus entered the circle of the East Prussian Great Agrarians. Out of his interest for the interests of agriculture a work of agricultural policy content arose in Guben, which attracted a great deal of attention in the Ministry of Agriculture, so that an appointment as a government council followed in 1900. Kapp was appointed to the I. Dept. Administration of Agricultural and Stud Affairs, Department of Agricultural Workers' Affairs, but during the era of Reich Chancellor von Bülow as Commissioner of the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture he was primarily active in the preparation of the customs tariff of 1902 and in the initiation of the new trade agreements of 1904-1906. Kapp gained his first foreign policy experience in negotiations with representatives of foreign countries. Kapp soon gained a closer relationship with the then Reich Chancellor von Bülow, with whom he shared similar political views. During his time at the Ministry of Agriculture, Kapp seems to have had ambitious plans for his future professional and political career and at least aspired to the position of district president. That his plans went even further can be seen from the recording of a conversation between Kaiser Wilhelm II and the General Field Marshal von der Goltz, in which the possibility of Kapp's successor in the Reich Chancellery was considered. However, this conversation, whose date lies between 1909 and 1911, took place at a time when Kapp had already left the Prussian civil service. The reason for his resignation from the Ministry of Agriculture seems to have been his annoyance at not taking his person into account when appointing district presidents. On 5 April 1906, the East Prussian countryside elected the owner of the Pilzen manor as general landscape director. It is very characteristic of Kapp's personality under what circumstances he became known in East Prussia through a trial he conducted against the landscape. The landscapes of the Prussian provinces were self-governing bodies and as such primarily representations of landowners. But the landscape also served as a representative body for state fiscal policy. Its real task, of course, lay outside the political sphere in granting credit to cooperatives. However, the credit policy has had a decisive influence on the distribution of property and the social structure of the provinces and has thus had political repercussions. Through the incorporation of agricultural banks and fire societies in the 19th century, the landscapes had become efficient organisations at provincial level. Kapp took on the new tasks with his own vehemence. He continued the landscape in the specified direction, primarily by developing the branch network of the Landschaftsbank, by merging the landscape with the East Prussian Feuersozietät, by granting more loans, particularly for small property, and by increasing the landscape funds. His policy was aimed at freeing agriculture, which was in a serious crisis at the beginning of the 20th century, from its dependence on state aid and enabling it to help itself by means of credit policy measures. In the course of these efforts, Kapp tackled three major tasks. First and foremost the question of agricultural debt relief, which the Prussian state initiated in 1906 with the law on the debt limit. Kapp was the first to try to make this framework law effective from the initiative of the parties themselves without further state aid by showing different ways of debt relief. The inclusion of life insurance as a means of reducing debt proved particularly effective. Instead of debt repayment, the premium payment was made to an agricultural life insurance company. This ensured that a certain amount of capital was available for debt reduction in the event of death. The second task resulted from the former. The desire to combine public-law life insurance with debt relief necessitated the creation of a number of public-law life insurance institutions, which were merged into an association chaired by Kapp. These facilities were especially designed to prevent the outflow of premium money from the countryside to the large cities, where it had been used especially for the construction of tenements. However, the outflow of capital was only one danger, the other was the rural exodus that began in the 19th century. He tried to strengthen small agricultural holdings with a colonization and agricultural workers' bill, which was accepted by the General Landtag in 1908. This measure was based on the recognition of the untenability of the institution of instants and deputants, who were in the closest dependence on the lord of the manor and who emigrated from this situation in masses to the large cities, where they strengthened the ranks of the industrial proletariat. The organ for settlement policy should be a landscaped settlement bank. The third task that Kapp set himself was the creation of a public-law national insurance scheme following the public-law life insurance scheme. This measure was primarily directed against the Volksversicherungsanstalt "Volksfürsorge", created by the Social Democrats, and was intended to secure capital for agricultural workers to buy their own farms by means of abbreviated insurance. These plans did not lead to the hoped-for success, but ended in a bitter feud with the private insurance companies, especially the Deutsche Volksversicherungs-Aktiengesellschaft. In addition to his functions within the East Prussian landscape, Kapp was also active in various other bodies. In December 1906 he was appointed to the Stock Exchange Committee of the Reichsamt des Innern and in 1912 to the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank. The First World War gave Kapp's life and work a whole new direction. Kapp's biography is too little researched to judge how far he had buried his ambitious plans, which apparently pushed him to the top of the Reich government, or postponed them only for a better opportunity. Although Kapp had been a member of the German Conservative Party since at least 1906, he did not take the path of an existing party to make a political career. This path probably did not correspond to his personality, described as authoritarian, ambitious and independent. He made the great leap into high politics through his sensational conflict with Reich Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg. In his memo of 26 May 1916 "Die nationalen Kreise und der Reichs-Kanzler", which he sent to 300 public figures, including Bethmann Hollweg himself, he sharply criticised what he considered to be the weak policy of the Reich Chancellor, to whom he v. a. accused him of his alleged pacting with social democracy, his reluctance to America and his rejection of the unrestricted submarine war demanded by extremely militaristic circles, but also of a false war economic policy. The sharp reaction of Bethmann Hollweg, who spoke in a Reichstag session of "pirates of public opinion", among others, who abused "with the flag of the national parties", Kapp perceived as a personal affront to which he reacted with a demand for a duel. On the contrary, Kapp had to take an official reprimand and his re-election as General Landscape Director, which had taken place in March 1916 on a rotational basis, was refused confirmation by the Prussian State Ministry. Since his friends held on to Kapp in the East Prussian landscape, he was re-elected in 1917. This time - since Bethmann Hollweg had been overthrown in the meantime - he was able to take up his post as general landscape director again. At first, the events of 1916 led him even more into politics. Here he expressed solidarity with a circle of extremely reactionary and aggressive military forces around General Ludendorff and Grand Admiral von Tirpitz, who pursued a ruthless internal perseverance policy that tightened up all the forces of the people and a policy of unrestrained annexation and total warfare towards the outside world. Emperor Wilhelm II, who in principle sympathized with this extreme direction, had to refrain from supporting this group out of various considerations of public opinion and the negative attitude of the party majorities in the Reichstag. Kapp and his comrades-in-arms assumed in their political ambitions the complete certainty of the German final victory. They closed their eyes to the already looming possibility of defeat for Germany, especially after America entered the war. The war and peace goals they represented, especially the annexation plans at the expense of Russia and Poland, which were later only surpassed by Hitler, were marked by uncontrolled wishful thinking that in no way corresponded to objective reality. His extreme attitude drove Kapp into a blind hatred against any social and democratic movement; his fierce opposition against social democracy was mainly based on the legend of the dagger thrust against the imperialist Germany struggling to win. This military and National Socialist sharpening, for which Kapp found moral and financial support in certain circles of military leadership, but also among a number of university professors, writers, local politicians, agriculturalists, industrialists and bankers, culminated in the founding of the German National Party, which took place on 2 September 1917 (the "Sedan Day") in the Yorksaal of the East Prussian landscape. Although Kapp was clearly the spiritus rector of this "collection party", two other persons were pushed into the foreground, intended for the eyes of the public: These were the Grand Admiral von Tirpitz as 1st chairman and Duke Johann Albrecht von Mecklenburg as honorary chairman of this party. The German Fatherland Party did not seek seats in the Reichstag, but saw itself as a pool of national forces to bring about Germany's final victory. The statute provided for the immediate dissolution of the party once its purpose had been achieved. In addition to mobilising all forces to achieve military victory, Kapp's founding of the party also had another purpose that was not made so public. Tirpitz, then 68 years old, was to be launched as a "strong man" to replace the "weak" chancellors Bethmann Hollweg and Michaelis. It was obvious that in this case Kapp would join the leadership of the imperial government as advisor to the politically ultimately inexperienced Grand Admiral. The November Revolution of 1918 and the immediate surrender of Germany put an abrupt end to these lofty plans. But Kapp and his friends did not admit defeat. Although the German Fatherland Party was dissolved in December 1918, it was immediately replaced by a new party, the German National People's Party, which developed into a bourgeois mass party during the Weimar Republic, but no longer under Kapp's leadership. After the fall of the Hohenzollern monarchy, Kapp immediately opposed the revolution and the Weimar Republic. He could not or did not want to accept the social and political conditions that had arisen in the meantime; his goal was clearly the restoration of pre-war conditions. The sources, which were only incomplete at that time, do not show when the idea of a coup d'état was born and how the conspiracy developed in all its branches. A close associate of Kapp's, Reichswehrhauptmann Pabst, had already attempted a failed coup in July 1919. Together with Kapp, Pabst created the "National Unification" as a pool of all counter-revolutionary forces and associations. This Reich organisation was to coordinate the preparations for the coup in Prussia and Bavaria, while Kapp was to develop East Prussia into the decisive base of counterrevolution. From here, with the help of the Freikorps operating in the Baltic States, the Reichswehr and the East Prussian Heimatbund, whose chairman was Kapp, the survey was to be carried to Berlin with the immediate aim of preventing the signing of the Versailles Treaty. The approval of the Versailles Treaty by the parliamentary majority has created a new situation. Now Ludendorff, one of the co-conspirators, proposed to carry out the coup directly in Berlin, whereby the Baltic people, who were disguised as work detachments on the large Eastern Elbe goods, were to take over the military support. Meanwhile, the conspirators, headed by Kapp and Reichswehr General Lüttwitz, tried to gain the mass base absolutely necessary for the execution of the coup d'état through a broad-based nationalist smear campaign. The company was already at risk before it could even begin. Kapp had demanded that his military allies inform him at least 14 days before the strike so that he could make the necessary political preparations. That the coup d'état had just begun on 13 March 1920 depended not so much on carefully considered planning, but on coincidences that were not predictable. One of the reasons for the premature strike was the dissolution of the Freikorps, especially the Ehrhardt Brigade, decided by the Reich government. This revealed the fact that, in the absence of a party of their own, the conspirators were unable to avoid relying on the loose organization of the resident defence forces, which to a certain extent were also influenced by social democracy. The whole weakness of the company was evident in the question on which forces the new government should actually be based. While the military saw an arrangement with the strongest party, social democracy, as unavoidable, Kapp categorically rejected pacting with social democracy. He wanted to put the Social Democrat-led government as a whole into protective custody. But now the government was warned; for its part, it issued protective arrest warrants against the heads of the conspirators and left Berlin on March 12. In the early morning of March 13, the Navy Brigade Ehrhardt marched into Berlin without encountering armed resistance, as would have been the duty of the Reichswehr. Kapp proclaimed himself Chancellor of the Reich and began with the reorganisation of the government. The order of the new rulers to arrest the escaped imperial government and to remove the state government if they did not stand on the side of the putschists was only partially executed by the local commanders. The proclamation of the general strike on 13 March and the reports arriving from the most important cities and industrial centres about joint actions of the working class prompted the indirect supporters of Kapp, the large industrialists and the Reichswehr generals, to adopt a wait-and-see attitude. Kapp had to see the hopelessness of his company. Eyewitnesses reported that Kapp had spent almost 3 days of his time as Chancellor of the Reich "with gossip". On March 15, the "adventure" was over. Kapp apparently stayed hidden with friends near Berlin for some time after the failed coup and then flew to Sweden in a provided plane. Here he initially lived under different false names in different places, at last in a pension in Robäck, but was soon recognized and temporarily taken into custody. The Swedish government granted asylum to the refugee, but he had to commit himself to refrain from all political activities. When the high treason trial against the heads of the March company in Leipzig began, Kapp was moved by the question of his position in court. At first, he justified his non-appearance with the incompetence of the Ebert government and with the constitution, which in his opinion did not exist. Kapp said that there was no high treason in the legal sense against the "high treason" of social democracy. When in December 1921 one of the co-conspirators, the former district president of Jagow, was sentenced to a fortress sentence by the Imperial Court, Kapp changed his mind. Still in Sweden he worked out a justification for the process ahead of him, in which he denied any guilt in both an objective and a subjective sense. On the contrary, he intended to appear before the court with a charge against the then government. It didn't come to that anymore. Kapp had already fallen ill in Sweden. At the beginning of 1922 he returned to Germany and was remanded in custody. On 24 April 1922, he underwent surgery in Leipzig to remove a malignant tumour from the left eye. Kapp died on 12 June 1922; he was buried on 22 June at the village churchyard in Klein Dexen near his estate Pilzen. 2. inventory history The inventory, which had been formed in its essential parts by Kapp himself, was transferred by the family to the Prussian Secret State Archives as a deposit in 1935. Here the archivist Dr. Weise started already in the year of submission with the archival processing, which could not be completed, however. In the course of the repatriation of the holdings of the Secret State Archives, which had been removed during the Second World War, the Kapp estate was transferred to the Central State Archives, Merseburg Office. In 1951, Irmela Weiland, a trainee, classified and listed the stock here. As a result of the processing a find-book was created, which was until the new processing in the year 1984 the kurrente find-auxiliary. 1984 the stock was to be prepared for the backup filming. It turned out that the processing carried out in 1951 did not meet today's archival requirements, so that a general revision was considered necessary. The graduate archivists Renate Endler and Dr. Elisabeth Schwarze rearranged and simply listed the holdings according to the principles of order and indexing for the state archives of the German Democratic Republic, Potsdam 1964. The found file units were essentially retained, in individual cases they were dissolved and new indexing units were formed. In addition, 0.50 m of unprocessed documents were incorporated into the estate. The old regulatory scheme, which was essentially broken down chronologically, was replaced by a new regulatory scheme based on Kapp's areas of activity. In the course of the revision, the portfolio was re-signed. The relationship between the old and the new signatures was established through a concordance. The new find book replaces the previously valid find book from 1951. The stock is to be quoted: GStA PK, VI. HA Family Archives and Bequests, Nl Wolfgang Kapp, No... 3) Some remarks on the content of the holdings The Kapp estate contains 7.50 running metres of archival material from the period from 1885 to 1922, including some earlier and later individual pieces. The holdings mainly contain documents from Kapp's official and political activities, to a lesser extent also correspondence within the family and documents from the administration of the Knights' Manor Pilzen. The density of transmission to the individual sections of Kapp's professional and political development is quite different. While his activities with the Minden government, in the Prussian Ministry of Finance and as district administrator in Guben are relatively poorly documented, there is a rather dense tradition about his activities as director of the general landscape and as chairman of the German Fatherland Party. The documentation on the preparation and implementation of the coup shows gaps which can be explained, among other things, by the fact that important agreements were only reached orally at the stage of preparing the coup. Moreover, Kapp, who had to flee hastily to Sweden after the coup d'état failed, was no longer able to give this part of his estate the same care as the former one. Overall, however, it is a legacy of great political importance and significance. Merseburg, 2. 10.1984 signed Dr. Elisabeth Schwarze Diplomarchivar Compiled and slightly shortened: Berlin, April 1997 (Ute Dietsch) The clean copy of the find book was made by Britta Baumgarten. Note After the reunification of the two German states, the Merseburg office was closed, the archival records and thus also the Kapp estate were returned to the Secret State Archives in Berlin (1993). From the inventory maps, this reference book was created after maps that no longer existed were replaced (post-distortion of files). XIII Bibliography (selection) Bauer, Max : March 13, 1920 Berlin 1920 Bernstein, Richard : Der Kapp-Putsch und seine Lehren. Berlin 1920 Brammer, Karl : Five days of military dictatorship. Berlin 1920 Documents on the Counterrevolution using official material: The same: Constitutional Foundations and High Treason. According to stenographic reports and official documents of the Jagow trial. Berlin 1922 Erger, Johannes : The Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch. Düsseldorf 1967 Falkenhausen, Fri. from : Wolfgang Kapp. In: Conservative Monthly July/August 1922 Kern, Fritz : Das Kappsche Abenteuer. Impressions and findings. Leipzig/Berlin 1920 Könnemann, Erwin : Residents' Weirs and Time Volunteer Associations. Berlin 1971 Noske, Gustav : From Kiel to Kapp. Berlin 1920 Rothfels, Hans : Article "Wolfgang Kapp" in: Deutsches biogra- phisches Jahrbuch Bd 4 (1922) Berlin/Leipzig 1929, correspondence. 132-143 (Here also a drawing of the works Kapps) Schemann, Ludwig : Wolfgang Kapp and the March company. A word of atonement. Munich/Berlin 1937 Taube, Max : Causes and course of the coup of 13 March 1920 and his teachings for the working class and the middle classes. Munich 1920 Wauer, W. : Behind the scenes of the Kapp government. Berlin 1920 Wortmann, K. Geschichte der Deutschen Vaterlandspartei In: Hallische Forschungen zur neueren Geschichte. Volume 3, Hall 1926 Contents I. Introduction Page II 1 Biographical Information on Wolfgang Kapp Page II 2 History of the Collection Page X 3 Some Remarks on the Content of the Collection Page XI 4 Literature in Selection Page XIII II Structure of the Collection Page XIV III Collection Page XVII (Order Numbers, Title, Duration Page 1-106)) XVII III. holdings (order numbers, file title, duration) Description of holdings: Lebenssdaten: 1858 - 1921 Finds: database; find book, 1 vol.
- biography: Karl Joseph Wilhelm Florestan Gero Crescentius Prince of Urach Count of Württemberg was born on 15 February 1865 in Ulm as the younger son of Wilhelm (I.) Duke of Urach and Florestine Duchess of Urach née Princess of Monaco (1); the prince attended the primary school and the Jesuit grammar school in Monaco (2) together with his older brother Wilhelm (II.) Duke of Urach. In 1877 he moved to the Jesuit educational institution of Our Lady Stella matutina in Feldkirch. After a further change of school in 1881, he graduated from the Karlsgymnasium in Stuttgart in 1883 and studied for two semesters at the University of Munich (3) from 1883 to 1884. There he attended lectures in metaphysics and history of Greek philosophy with the professor of philosophy and later Bavarian Prime Minister and German Chancellor Georg Graf von Hertling (1843-1919) as well as lectures in political science with the journalist and writer Professor Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl (1823-1897). 1883 he was appointed second lieutenant à la suite of the Ulan regiment King Karl (1st Württ.) No. 19 (4). In April 1886 Prince Karl entered the active service of this regiment, but had to leave the active service due to illness. In March 1887, the prince retired as an officer à la suite from the active service of the regiment. In the following years the prince was granted the usual promotions for a member of the House of Württemberg under the position à la suite of the regiment: in 1887 he was appointed prime lieutenant, in 1891 cavalry master, in 1899 cavalry major and in 1906 lieutenant colonel. From 1884, Karl Fürst von Urach travelled extensively (5): from 1884 to 1886 he travelled South America, visiting the Cordilleras and studying the Indian tribes on the upper reaches of the Amazon (6). He later handed over the ethnological collection he acquired during his journey to the Linden Museum in Stuttgart. Also in the time after 1887 he often stayed in Italy, Greece, in the Balkans, in Egypt, where he owned real estate in Heliopolis near Cairo (7), and in the Ottoman Empire. In 1891 he took part in an expedition to Spitsbergen (8), in 1893 the prince travelled to the USA(9). The few documents on the trip to the USA (especially letters of recommendation) (10) that are preserved in the present inventory suggest that this trip was also used for ethnological studies of Indian tribes. So he learned Turkish, Arabic and Persian. Last but not least, between 1893 and 1925 the prince had Arab rooms (11) built into his palace on Neckarstraße in Stuttgart, which he decorated with furniture, carvings, tiles, works made of plaster stucco, carpets and other antiques from the Orient. During the First World War, Prince Karl was finally able to use his language skills and the knowledge he had acquired about this region during his many journeys to the Orient for his work as a German liaison officer in the Ottoman Empire (12). He performed this function between 1916 and 1917, when Prince Karl took over several honorary offices. He was president of the Württemberg group of the German Colonial Society (13) and member of the Württemberg regional association of the German Fleet Association (14). He supported the Society for the Promotion of German Settlements in Palestine (15). He also supported the work of the airship designer Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin by subscribing to shares in the company for the promotion of airship travel (16).Karl Fürst von Urach was awarded numerous orders in the course of his life (17): in 1883 the Prince received the Monegasque Order of Saint Charles, in 1889 the Grand Cross of the Persian Order of the Sun and Lions (18), in 1897 the Ottoman Order of First Class, in 1899 the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Medal. In 1910 he was awarded the Prussian Red Eagle Order. In 1916 he received the Wilhelmskreuz with swords and crown, one year later the royal Hungarian Order of Saint Stephen and the Iron Cross 2nd class. Karl Fürst von Urach died on 5 December 1925 in Stuttgart. He was buried in the Catholic section of the crypt of the castle church Ludwigsburg. 2. to the order and distortion of the stock:: Together with the Archive of the Dukes and Princes of Urach Grafen von Württemberg, the GU 120 collection was deposited in the Main State Archives in 1987. There, the archives of the House of Urach form the GU series of inventories within the inventory classification (tectonics). During the reorganization of the archive by Wolfgang Schmierer, Director of the Archive, the documents on Karl Fürst von Urach were given the signature GU 120, and since the materials were in a poor state of order, the units of registration had to be formed for the most part first. Where it made sense, the existing units were retained. During the indexing work, extensive documents were removed from the GU 120 holdings and assigned in particular to the GU 96 (Miscellaneous and Unclear), GU 100 (Foreign Archives and Other Collections), GU 107 (Florestine Duchess of Urach), GU 117 (Wilhelm (II.) Duke of Urach) and GU 202 (Bertha Freiin von Biegeleben) holdings. Moreover, it cannot be ruled out that further material of the provenance of Karl Fürst von Urach may be found in the as yet unlisted holdings of the House of Urach. by far the largest part of the holdings consists of the extensive correspondence of the Prince (category 2), above all with his mother (category 2.1.1) with his brother Wilhelm and his family (category 2.1.2) as well as with Bertha von Biegeleben (category 2.1.5). The latter was the court lady of his mother Florestine and a close confidante of the prince. In addition, correspondence with representatives of the German and European ruling and former ruling princely houses can be found in the holdings (Section 2.5). Karl Fürst von Urach also corresponded with numerous public figures (section 2.7), including scholars. Almost all correspondence is so-called unilateral correspondence, that is, only the letters of the correspondence partner are found in the existing stock. If there are isolated letters or drafts of letters from the Reigning Prince to the respective addressee, this is expressly mentioned in the title recording. Usually these are letters of the prince returned to the prince or his family afterwards. It should also be noted that Prince Karl did not make any copies of his correspondence. The correspondences can be regarded as an interesting source for the history of everyday life and mentality of the nobility. They show the manifold contacts which the prince maintained with members of other noble families. They also certainly offer details of the Prince's numerous journeys. However, it was not possible to index the contents of the correspondence due to the time and effort involved. Unfortunately, the correspondences and correspondence series contained in this collection sometimes have smaller gaps. It is not possible at the present time to answer the question of whether the previously unlisted holdings of the archives of the House of Urach still contain correspondence of the prince. Besides the correspondence, the extensive collections of photos and photographs (category 10) form the second largest part of the holdings in terms of the number of title recordings. Of particular interest are the photos and photo albums with photos from the Prince's numerous travels to South America, Egypt, the Ottoman Empire and the Balkans (Section 10.2.2). There are also photos taken during the aforementioned activity of the prince as a liaison officer in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War (section 10.2.4). Prince Karl's interest in Islamic (Arabic) art is also reflected in the numerous photographs of buildings and artworks of Islamic art, which are combined in section 10.3. Of the other materials preserved in the present collection, the Prince's manuscripts with literary and art-historical texts and a memorandum on the political reorganization of Europe by Germany in the First World War should also be mentioned, as well as interesting documents on the associations and societies in which the Prince was active and in which he was active. In an appendix (column 16) photos, an album and seal from the possession of the Wera Duchess of Württemberg née Grand Duchess of Russia are united, which after the death of the Duchess were handed over by her daughter Olga Prinzessin zu Schaumburg-Lippe to Karl Fürst von Urach.In addition, correspondences of the brother of Karl Fürst von Urach, Wilhelm (II.) Duke of Urach, to Charlemagne's estate, to the Arab rooms and to a newspaper article about the princes were added to the collection (19). Since these materials refer to Karl Fürst von Urach, the classification into the present holdings seemed to be reasonable. As expected, documents on Karl Fürst von Urach are also available in other holdings of the archives of the House of Urach. In particular the holdings GU 99 (photo albums and collections), GU 107 (Florestine Herzogin von Urach née Prinzessin von Monaco), GU 117 (Wilhelm (II.) Herzog von Urach) and GU 202 (Bertha von Biegeleben) are to be mentioned here. the archives of the holdings may only be inspected with the prior permission of the chief of the House of Urach. the holdings GU 120 were catalogued by the undersigned from autumn 2004 to April 2005. It comprises 4.6 running meters with 318 numbers.Stuttgart, in April 2005Eberhard Merk footnotes: (1) For Karl Fürst von Urach see above: Article by Wolfgang Schmierer in: The House of Württemberg. A biographical encyclopedia. Edited by Sönke Lorenz, Dieter Mertens, Volker Press. Stuttgart 1997. p. 390. Heinrich Fischer: Prince Karl von Urach as a research traveller. In: Swabian Mercury of 11 December 1926 pp. 17f. (Sunday supplement to the Swabian Mercury No. 580). Newspaper articles and obituaries in M 743/2 Bü 542.(2) See also Bü 1 (serial number 1) in this inventory. Schmierer does not mention attending school in Monaco. The data on the school attendance of Karl Fürst von Urach were taken from the short curriculum vitae written by Wilhelm (II.) Duke of Urach in Bü 21 (Ordnungsnummer 11).(3) See Bü 11 (Ordnungsnummer 2).(4) On military careers see the personal file of Fürst Karls in: M 430/1 Bü 2797, also Bü 7 (serial number 3), 121 (serial number 98).(5) A list of the Prince's travels, prepared by Karl's brother Duke Wilhelm (II.), is kept in Bü 21 (serial number 11). This list also served Heinrich Fischer as the basis for his article (loc. cit.)(6) See the manuscript of the prince in Bü 269 (Ordnungsnummer 145). A detailed description of the itinerary of the South American trip can be found in the article by Heinrich Fischer (loc. cit.)(7) Bü 297, 298 (serial number 208, 211)(8) Cf. the correspondence of Max Graf von Zeppelin in Bü 161 (serial number 118) and the manuscript of the prince in Bü 273 (serial number 146). Photos of Spitzbergen and Norway can be found in Bü 59 (serial number 247).(9) There are no photos of this trip in this collection.(10) Bü 177 (serial number 138)(11) See Bü 20 (serial number 217), Bü 80 (serial number 288), Bü 83 (serial number 202), Bü 316 (serial number 198). An impressive description of the Arabic spaces provides: Claus Mohr: Arab Art in Stuttgart. In: Deutsches Volksblatt 1926 No. 170 of 28 July 1926(12) See also Bü 108, 293 (serial numbers 5 and 6). Photos from this period have been preserved in Bü 42 (serial number 264).(13) There are no materials on the prince's work in the D e u t s c h e K o l o n i a l g e s c h e l l l s c h a f t in this collection.(14) Bü 285 (serial number 193)(15) Bü 294 (serial number 191)(16) Bü 296 (serial number 189)(17) See also Bü 6, 101 (serial numbers 7 and 8)(18) The award was made on the occasion of the state visit of Schah Nasir-el-din in 1889 in Stuttgart(19) Bü 10 (serial number 9), Bü 21 (serial number 11), Bü 23 (serial number 216)
History of the Inventory Designer: 17. July 1905 born in Konia/Kleinasien; 1907-1909 the family lived in Jerusalem, from 1909 in Haifa; 1917 Death of his father in Damascus, 1925 Abitur, then officer's service, 1928-1934 in Deutsch-Krone (Vorpommern), 1930-1932 pilot training, 1933 aerial photo officer of the reconnaissance squadron in Neunhausen/East Prussia, 1936/37 Spanish war, 1940/41 commander of the telecommunications reconnaissance troop in Brussels, 1941 major, transfer to Berlin, until 1942 personal reporter for Joseph Goebbels, 1943-1945 service on the western front, after 1945 in captivity, 1947/48 summons as witness at the Nuremberg trials, 1956 construction of the flying school near Fassberg and Fürstenfeldbruck, until 1964 general of NATO in Ramstein, afterwards freelancer at a construction company 1975 retirement, deceased on 14. January 1944 December 2003 in Nuremberg citation method: BArch, N 1581/...
Preliminary remark: Karl Ludwig Eugen Schall (born on 25 November 1885), died on 30 January 1980) joined the Grenadier Regiment of Queen Olga (1st Württembergische) No. 119 in 1904 as a junior flag officer, reached the rank of lieutenant general there until World War I, after the outbreak of the war took part as company officer in the battles of the regiment on the West and East Front and was wounded twice. From 1915 Schall worked as a captain and general staff officer, often occupying changing general staff positions at General Command XIII Army Corps, at the 26th Infantry Division, the 14th Infantry Division, General Command V, and at the General Command of the German Armed Forces. Army Corps, 18th Reserve Division, General Command IV Reserve Corps and 10th Reserve Corps. He participated in the fights in Flanders, in the Somme, in the Champagne, in the Ardennes and Argonne, in the Meuse and near Verdun until his demobilisation in 1918. He was mainly concerned with strength and loss reports, interrogation of prisoners, evaluation of aerial photographs, mapping, position building and pioneer questions. From 1933 he again held several changing positions in the General Staff of the V. Army Corps as a Major, in 1939 was Commander of the Stuttgart II Military District as Lieutenant Colonel, from 1940 as Lieutenant Colonel, later as Colonel General Staff Officer in the 554th Army Corps. Infantry Division, with the Army Group A, with the Commander-in-Chief in Serbia, then Chief of the Field Commandantur 747 in Nîmes and was last transferred in 1944 against his own wishes as a war history teacher to the Kriegsakademie. As a pensioner Schall still studied archaeology in Tübingen until his doctorate. Further information on Karl Schall's life can be found in a handwritten curriculum vitae in Bü. 182, in the diaries in Bü. 181 and in the personal file in stock M 430/2, Bü. 1804 with information on his military career until 1919.Parts of the estate of Karl Schall, above all written material from his military service and extensive collections, were offered to the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart by his son Brigadegeneral a.D. Wolfgang Schall in March 1980 and, after an initial inspection at the estate's premises in April 1980, were handed over to the library of the Hauptstaatsarchiv and the archival records in Department IV (Military Archives) have since formed the M 660 estate of Karl Schall. Since the estate of Karl Schall got into complete disarray and no pre-archival classification scheme was recognizable, it was necessary to develop a classification scheme after the indexing, which should do justice to the multi-layered structures and most different documentation forms, particularly since in the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart no uniform classification scheme for estates finds application. The documents from the officers' activities, correspondence and personal papers, which besides their general historical significance have a close personal connection to the deceased, were clearly separated from the multi-layered collections. The structure of the documents from the officer's activity reflects the military career of Schall. These are mostly personal copies of official documents in the form of hectographies, prints and other copies, as well as drafts and private documents. A document, which had been taken from the business transactions of the office, was reintegrated into the relevant holdings of the military unit in the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart. There is a reference in this repertory. The private correspondence was sorted according to correspondent groups and correspondents. Posters and wall attacks, military maps and non-military maps were incorporated into the corresponding collections of the Main State Archives J 151, M 640 and M 650 mainly for conservation reasons. Nevertheless, these pieces have also been incorporated into the present repertory in the form of references, whereby the ordering scheme of the map holdings M 640 for military maps and M 65 0 for non-military maps has been adopted. Maps which have a recognisable connection to documents in Part A have been left there or reunited and have also been incorporated into the collections of the estate as references. For the collection of newspaper clippings, individual newspapers, printed publications and manuscripts from the fields of history, contemporary history, politics, religion, language, literature, science and technology, it seemed necessary to develop as finely structured a classification scheme as possible, since this collection, with approx. 500 numbers, represents the largest part of the collection and was previously only divided into the categories1. Military, 2nd Politics and Contemporary History, 3rd Science and within these categories only chronologically ordered, which made the chronological classification of the frequently undated newspaper clippings possible. It seemed appropriate to make the very multi-layered estate accessible by means of as comprehensive a list of subjects, places and persons as possible. Only a few small map sections from maps that are already available, sketches and notes that seemed to be no longer comprehensible individually and were not in any recognizable connection to other documents, file folders and packaging material were collected. The estate of Karl Schall contains above all informative material about the type of warfare in the First World War. Of particular importance is also the material on non-Württemberg units, most of whose records were destroyed in a bombing raid on Potsdam in April 1945. The drawings on the maps from World War I provide extensive information on the course of the front, combat directions, troop movements, position building and destruction in the front areas and thus complement the M 640 map holdings well. Also noteworthy is the extensive written material on the trials before the military tribunal in Nuremberg against the generals Curt Ritter von Geitner, Hubert Lanz, Karl von Roques and Eugen Wössner, which contains excerpts from the indictments and defence material. In the collections the history of the 20th century up to the 70s is reflected in an astonishingly comprehensive and descriptive way. The collection is not subject to any restrictions of use. In January and February 1984, the M 660 estate of Karl Schall was listed and arranged by Markus Baudisch, a candidate archive inspector, as a rehearsal work in the context of the state examination for the upper archive service and comprises 697 books in 1.55 metres.
Personal history: When he entered the war school in Ludwigsburg (1855), Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin decided to pursue a military career. After his appointment as lieutenant (1858) he was subordinate to the Generalquartiermeisterstab. Commanded to study at the University of Tübingen for a year, he was temporarily transferred to the Corps of Engineers in Ulm after the outbreak of the French-Austrian War (1859) and soon afterwards to the Generalquartiermeisterstab in Ludwigsburg. After various journeys, including to the scenes of the American Civil War, Count Zeppelin was promoted to the Adjutant's Office of King Charles in 1865. At his own request, in April 1868 he was assigned to the tactical department of the Great General Staff in Berlin, but already in the autumn of the following year he was recalled to the Württemberg General Quartermaster Staff. At the beginning of the Franco-German war in 1870/71, Count Zeppelin was assigned to the Württemberg cavalry brigade as a general staff officer. His daring exploration ride through Alsace on 24/25 July 1870 and its distribution in the national press made Count Zeppelin famous and popular for the first time in wide sections of the population. After the war he was entrusted with changing commandos over various cavalry regiments until 1884 when he was appointed colonel of the Württemberg military in Berlin. Allegedly because of an unsuccessful manoeuvre, Count Zeppelin retired in 1890 at the age of 52 as General à la suite of the King of Württemberg. During the American Civil War and in Paris in 1870, Count Zeppelin had become acquainted with the military use of open-air balloons. Already in 1887 he had developed his ideas about the possibilities of airship travel in a memorandum presented to the King of Württemberg. His first airship (LZ 1) ascended on 2 July 1900. In 1906 LZ 2 and LZ 3 started, both designed by the engineer Ludwig Dürr. Graf Zeppelin suffered a severe setback on August 5, 1908, when LZ 4 went up in flames on his 24-hour journey to Echterdingen after loading. Graf Zeppelin achieved the final breakthrough and general social recognition of his idea with the launch of LZ 5, which landed in Berlin on August 25, 1909. With regard to military deployment, Graf Zeppelin had considerably overestimated the possibilities of his airships: 72 of the 96 airships built during the war were lost. Nevertheless, Count Zeppelin accused Reich Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg of obstructing the full deployment of the airships against England. The only letter of Count Zeppelin received in this estate also refers to this controversy with the Reich government that arose shortly before his death (1917). Inventory history: Count Zeppelin's only daughter Hella had married Alexander von Brandenstein in 1909. At least a part of the estate listed here must have been in their possession or that of their heirs, because some archival records were marked with the stamp "Graf von Brandenstein-Zeppelin'sches Familienarchiv". The estate of Count Zeppelin in M 660/157, which comprises 14 archive units (0.1 m), was recorded in September 1994.Stuttgart, in September 1994Dr. Margit Müller
Inventory Description: The Naval Airship Department was established by Allerhöchste Kabinettsordre on 3 May 1913 from the "Aviation Personnel of the Imperial Navy" next to the Naval Airship Department as an independent department with the temporary location Johannisthal. (1) The commanders of the departments were given "judicial, disciplinary and leave powers". In all training and technical matters, both departments were under the control of the State Secretary of the Reichsmarineamt, in all others of the inspection of coastal artillery and mines, as well as the head of the "North Sea Naval Station". (1) The State Secretary of the Reich Naval Office, Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, established 1 June as the day of formation by order of 8 May 1913. (2) As early as April 1912, members of the navy, including Corvette Captain Friedrich Metzing, were commanded for training at Deutsche Luftschifffahrts-AG. The airship command was subordinated on 15 July 1912 under the designation "Luftschiff-Detachement" with the Johannisthal site near Berlin Metzing as commander. (3) After the death of the commander of the naval airship department Friedrich Metzing in the accident of "L 1" on 9 September 1913, Corvette Captain Peter Strasser became his successor. Responsibility for the airship sector in the navy lay with the BX "Luftschiff- und Fliegerwesen" department of the shipyard department of the Reichsmarineamt formed on 12 October 1912. On 1 April 1913 an organisational change followed: Department BX was restructured to become the "Aviation Section" (Section BX with Divisions BXa and BXb). (4) At the beginning of the First World War, the command structure of the Naval Airship Division changed. By the Most High Cabinet Order of 29 August 1914, the office "Commander of the Aviation Departments" was created as the highest central command post of the entire naval aviation. (5) The Naval Airship Department and the Naval Aircraft Department were subordinated to this. The cabinet order assigned the following tasks to the new commander: Provision and training of personnel, management of schooling outside departments, test drives and maintenance of aircraft operational capability. The Most High Cabinet Order of May 1, 1916 assigned the naval airship division Cuxhaven (Nordholz) as a new location and divided the division into airship troops. (6) On November 23, 1916, the Naval Aviation Departments were divided into the Airship and Aircraft divisions by the Most High Cabinet Order. (7) The post of Commander of the Naval Aviation Divisions was transformed into Commander of the Naval Aviation Division and the Commander of the Naval Airship Division was elevated to "Chief of Naval Airships". The newly appointed Naval Airship Leader was in charge of the Naval Airship Division and the Naval Airships. The newly created position was subordinate to the command of the high seas armed forces in "matters of use and training of the North Sea front airships, to the State Secretary of the R e i c h s m a r i n e a m t , in technical and experimental matters and in matters of the school and experimental airships, and in all other matters to the naval station command of the North Sea". (7) For the airships deployed in the Baltic Sea, a new "Airship Ladder East" was formed as division commander. (7) The latter acted independently or according to the orders of the Commander-in-Chief of the Baltic Sea, but remained subordinate to the Commander of the Naval Airships. (8) The post of Airship Manager East was vacated in November 1917 due to staff shortages and the cessation of airship operations in the Baltic Sea. (9) This structure remained in place until the end of the war. After Strasser's death in the "L 70" on 5 August 1918, the post of commander of the naval airships was not reoccupied. (10) Due to the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles to abandon military aviation in Germany, the Naval Airship Department was dissolved in Nordholz on 10 December 1920. (11) During the First World War, naval airships were used for reconnaissance in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, securing and supporting mine search units, sighting and reporting of enemy naval forces and mine barriers, reports on merchant shipping and for offensive voyages, in particular on Great Britain. Commander of the Naval Aviation Departments 29 August 1914 - 23 November 1916 Rear Admiral Otto Philipp Leader of the Naval Airships 23 November 1916 - 5 August 1918 Frigate Captain Peter Strasser from 5 August 1918 August 1918 unmanned (representative: Hans-Paul Werther) Airship Leader East 23 November 1916 - November 1917 Corvette Captain Hans Wendt Naval Airship Troops Status: May 1916 (12) I. Nordholz II. Fuhlsbüttel III. Ahlhorn IV. Hage V. Tondern VI. Seerappen VII. Seddin VIII. Düren IX. Wainoden Status: November 1918 (13) I. Nordholz III. Ahlhorn IV. Wittmundhaven V. Tondern VI. Seerappen VII. Seddin-Jeseritz XI. Wainoden Characterisation of the contents: The collection covers the period 1914 to 1938, with a focus on the deployment of the naval airship department in the First World War from 1914 to 1918. The records also include other provenances based on circulars and forwarded communications from other or superior agencies such as the Navy Admiral Staff, the Commander of the Reconnaissance Ships of the Baltic Sea or the Commanding General of the Air Force, etc. The collection is also available in German. The operations of the naval airships are reflected in the tradition. The focus is on the operational and enterprise files for the reconnaissance voyages in the North Sea and Baltic Sea as well as the attack voyages, especially in Great Britain. War diaries and orders are available on a large scale for this purpose. The war diaries were created for individual airships or naval airship troops. Further few file complexes are found to the organization and to the personnel of the naval airship department. The structure of the documents mainly consists of war diaries, orders (daily and departmental orders) and so-called driving reports of the numerous reconnaissance and attack drives. The trip reports contain information on the trip task, names of crew members, weather conditions, technical data and square maps with the marked route. In addition, there are radio messages (some encrypted), spark telegraphy bearings, weather and barometer maps and telegrams. The collection also includes photographs, press articles, technical drawings, sketches and a large number of maps. The overdelivery is not complete. Only the war records have survived. Documents from the pre-war and post-war periods may have been destroyed in the air archives in 1945. State of development: Online-Findbuch Vorarchivische Ordnung: Bestandsgeschichte After the end of the First World War, the documents of the disbanded naval services, including the Naval Airship Department, were collected in the War History Department of the Admiral Staff of the Navy (established on 15 February 1916) for the purpose of setting up a new naval archive. From 1919 the name of the naval archive was changed to "Head of the Institute for Naval History and Chairman of the Naval Archive". A second renaming took place on 22 January 1936 in "Kriegswissenschaftliche Abteilung der Marine". However, this did not belong to the Reichsarchiv, but was subject until 31 March 1934 to the Inspectorate of Naval Education, then to the Chief of Naval Management, and later as a subordinate authority to the Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine. During the First World War some war diaries (RM 116/185-199) were already forwarded to the admiral's staff of the Navy for information and were thus integrated into his written material, but are handed down in this inventory. During the Second World War, naval records were moved to Tambach Castle near Coburg on 22 November 1943. (14 ) After the end of the war, the archives were confiscated by US troops and taken to London. There the files were filmed on a large scale, combined into bundles, provided with consecutive F-numbers ("Faszikel", "File" or "Fach") and partly with a seven-digit number with the prefixed letters "PG" ("pinched from the Germans"). The archives were then handed over to the British Admiralty. In the 1960s, the marine files were returned to the Federal Republic of Germany as part of the process of returning files and were transferred to the Document Centre of the Military History Research Office in Freiburg i.Br. With the transfer of the Document Centre in 1968, which is based on the 1968 interministerial agreement between the Federal Ministry of Defence and the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the documents were transferred to the Federal Archives and Military Archives moved from Koblenz to Freiburg. In 1977 an access with a photo album to the naval airships (access number 2005/77) took place, which was transferred under RM 116/200 into the inventory. An LL signature (LL 410) refers to a storage in the air archive. A note in English on the file cover indicates a seizure by British and/or US troops. During the file repatriations, the photo album was also handed over to the Document Centre at the Military History Research Office, where it received an I L signature (I L (B) 11). (15 ) The tradition is not complete. A large part of the documents may have been transferred to the Luftarchiv at that time and destroyed in 1945. In 1936, the Luftwaffe set up its own archive under the name "Kriegswissenschaftliche Abteilung der Luftwaffe" (War Science Department of the Air Force) and collected the entire archives of the Air Forces of the Army and the Navy Air Forces. (16) It may have included parts of the naval airship department files, which would justify the small size of the file delivery. Archivische Bearbeitung A rough list of files was available on the holdings, which contained only imprecise file titles and durations as well as old signatures. An evaluation of the documents was not carried out due to the loss of written records and the resulting gaps in the records before 1945. The existing rules of procedure were retained. The documents had already been formed; most of them were in Prussian thread stitching, a small part in archive folders. The file structure is uneven; thus, in part, uniformly formed and coherent files were found for a task or an assignment. On the other hand, there were also documents with heterogeneous contents, such as aerial reconnaissance and attack drives. The inventory of the stock was carried out with the archive management system of the Federal Archives BASYS-S-2. The files were recorded and classified on the basis of the specified overdelivery due to a lack of organisational documents. The old signatures F and PG numbers as well as the file numbers were recorded. The terms "Detachement" and "Trupp", for the units subordinated to the Naval Airship Department, were not used uniformly in the files despite the same meaning. The collection contains numerous photographs and maps, the content of which is linked to the files and have therefore been left in their context. Only the oversized maps which were not sewn in due to damaged files were removed for conservation reasons and are now stored together in a map folder in the inventory under RM 116/201. The files are in a poor state of conservation. The damage ranges from dissolved thread stitching, mechanical damage as a result of use, to paper decay and ink corrosion. The collection needs to be restored soon. The stock is not completely foliated. Scope, explanation: Holdings without increase 7.4 linear metres 198 AU Citation method: BArch, RM 116/...
Contains: Marine War Reporter Company North: War Reporter Walter Melms, "Räumboote auf Kriegsmarsch", Feb 17, 1941; Marine War Reporter Company North: War Reporter Walter Melms, "Wir räumen englische Minen", Feb 17, 1941. 1941; Marine War Reporter Company North: War Reporter Walter Melms, "From Montevideo to an M-Boat", Feb 17, 1941; Marine War Reporter Company North: War Reporter Walter Melms, "Minensucher Shoot Down a Torpedo Airplane", Feb 17, 1941; Marine War Reporter Company North: War Reporter Walter Melms, "Minensucher Shoot Down a Torpedo Aircraft", Feb 17, 1941. Feb. 1941; Navy War Reporter Company North: War Reporter Walter Melms, "Feuererlaubnis - Gerät schlippen!", Feb. 16, 1941; Navy War Reporter Company North: War Reporter Walter Melms, "9 o'clock: ready for sea", Feb. 17, 1941; Navy War Reporter Company North: War Reporter Walter Melms, "9 o'clock: ready for sea", Feb. 17, 1941 1941; Marine War Reporter Company North: War Reporter Kurt Pieper, "Twenty-five shots in front of the bow (Surprising Overhaul of Norwegian Coastal Navigation - Frivolous Passenger Ship Captains)", Feb. 21, 1941. 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterabteilung West, 5th platoon Le Havre: War correspondent Josef Vidua, "Stützpunkte des neuen Europa (Streiflichter aus einem Hafen an der Kanalfront - Es wird wieder gearbeitet)", 24th Febr. 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie Nord, Aarhus: Sonderführer (M. A.) Karl Eschenburg, "Kriegswache an den Minensperren", Feb 24, 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterabteilung West, 1st Platoon: Kriegsberichter W. I. Rempel, "Seamen und Stoßtruppler", Feb 18, 1941; Kriegsberichter W. I. Rempel, "Seamen und Stoßtruppler", 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterabteilung West, 1st Platoon: Kriegsberichter W. I. Rempel, "Seamen und Stoßtruppler", 18th Febr. 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterabteilung West, 1st platoon: Kriegsberichter Eberhard Hübner, "Antje hat's ihnen angean", 26th Febr. 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterabteilung West, 2nd Company, 4th platoon Belgium: Kriegsberichter Marine-Artillerist Hugo Bürger, "Blasenbahn hinterbord voraus", Im Febr. 1941; Naval War Reporter Company North, 1st Platoon Aarhus: War Reporter Otto Pautz, "Ihr Ballett tanzte für unsere Soldaten in Dänemark", Feb. 22, 1941; Naval War Reporter Division West, 3rd Platoon Aarhus; Naval War Reporter Division West, Feb. 3, 1941. Zug Channel Coast: Wortberichter Hans Weissert, "'Greetings and Thanks' to the former allies' (English bombs on French houses), Feb 24, 1941; Marine War Reporter Company North: War Reporter Kurt Pieper, "English guns against England", 22nd century. Feb. 1941; Navy War Reporters Department West, 3rd Zug Canal Coast: Wortberichter Hans Weissert, "A Race through the Canal", Feb. 19, 1941; Navy War Reporters Department West, 2nd Company 4. Zug Belgium: Kriegsberichter Leisegang, "Das sind unsere blauen Jungs", Im Febr. 1941 oder 26. Febr. 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie Nord: Kriegsberichter Martin Jente, "Schnellboot crackt zwei Britenfrachter", 20. Febr. 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie West, 2. Zug: War reporter Hans Dietrich, "Blaue Jungen erleben Land und Leute der Bretagne", Feb. 19, 1941; Naval War Reporter Department West, 2nd Zug: War reporter Hans Dietrich, "Lachsalven an der Atlantikküste" (German Navy visits a front theatre), 17th Feb., 1941. Feb. 1941; Naval War Reporters Division West, 2nd Platoon, 4th Platoon Belgium: Naval artillerist Bürger, "Es pfeift in Leinen und Antennen" (In Wind und See mit "M." in den Atlantik), Im Febr. 1941 oder 27. Febr. 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterabteilung West, 2nd platoon: Kriegsberichter Fritz Nonnenbruch, "Die Bordflieger", Febr. 27, 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterabteilung West, 2nd company, 4th platoon Belgium: Kriegsberichter Leisegang, "In der Funkbude eines Schnellboots", Im Febr. 1941 or 1 March 1941; Navy War Reporter Company North, 1st Platoon Aarhus: War Reporter Marine Artiller Otto Pautz, "Young Ensigns as Medical Students", 6 Feb 1941; Navy War Reporter Company North, 1st Platoon Aarhus; Navy War Reporter Company North, 6 Feb 1941; Navy War Reporter Company North, 1 Platoon Aarhus, 6 Feb 1941; Navy War Reporter Company North, 1 Platoon Aarhus, 1 Platoon Aarhus, 6 Feb 1941; Navy War Reporter Company North, 1 Platoon Aarhus, 1 Platoon Aartiller, 6 Platoon Aar. Zug Aarhus: war correspondent naval artillerist Otto Pautz, "With Remscheid's coat of arms against England", Feb. 5, 1941; naval war correspondent company North, 1st Zug: special leader (Lieutenant M. A.) Karl Eschenburg, "submarine ... all times lucky trip", Feb. 14, 1941; Navy War Reporter Department West, 2nd Platoon: War Reporter Wilhelm Richrath, "Das war so ein Einsatz!", Feb. 15, 1941; Navy War Reporter Department West, 6th Platoon Bordeaux: Photo Reporter Walter Schöppe, "Bordleben" (A day in our navy during a time in port), 16th Platoon: "The Navy War Reporter Department West", "Das war so ein Einsatz! Feb. 1941; Navy War Reporters Department West 2nd Platoon: War Reporter Fritz Nonnenbruch, "78,000 tons of sunken English merchant ship space lie behind us", Feb. 15th 1941; Navy War Reporters Department West, 5th Platoon Le Havre: War Reporter Josef Vidua, "Every Situation Grows: The Spies! Soldier, Administrative Officer and Comrade in One Person", Feb. 23, 1941; Naval War Reporting Department West, 6th Platoon Bordeaux: Sonderführer Leutnant (M. A.) Anton Deininger, "It were hard hours ..." (in German) (Artillery duels of an Italian submarine), mid-Feb 1941 or 3 March 1941; Naval War Reporter Company North: War Reporter Leo de Laforgue, "A British Aircraft Torpedoes Itself", 28 Feb 1941; Naval War Reporter Company North, 1st Platoon Aarhus: War Reporter Lieutenant M. A. Curt E. Schreiber, "On Weather and Weather Makers in the War at Sea", 14 Feb 1941; Naval War Reporter Company North: Leo de Laforgue, "A British Aircraft Torpedoes Itself", 28 Feb 1941; Naval War Reporter Company North, 1st Platoon Aarhus: War Reporter Lieutenant M. A. Curt E. Schreiber, "On Weather and Weather Makers in the War at Sea", 14 Feb 1941. 1941; Navy War Reporter Company North, 1st Platoon Aarhus: War Reporter Sailor Walter Melms, "Was Matrosen lesen", Feb 21, 1941; Navy War Reporter Company North, 1st Platoon Aarhus; Navy War Reporter Company North, 1st Platoon Aarhus, "Was Matrosen lesen", Feb 21, 1941; Navy War Reporter Company North, 1st Platoon Aarhus, "Was Matrosen lesen", 21 Feb 1941. Zug Aarhus: War correspondent Walter Melms, "Danes see new German raw materials", Feb. 24, 1941; 2nd Marine War correspondent company War correspondent Adolf Ried, 3rd Platoon, "Spring in Flanders", March 3, 1941; Navy war correspondent company North, 1st Platoon, Feb. 24, 1941; 3rd Platoon, "Spring in Flanders", March 3, 1941; Navy war correspondent company North, Feb. 1, 1941. Zug Aarhus: Kriegsberichter Walter Melms, "From D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a to Kiel" (From English Internment Camp to German Navy), Feb 25, 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie 2: Kriegsberichter Hans Biallas, from the 3rd Platoon, "Künder deutscher Seegeltung", Feb 26, 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterabteilung West, 3rd Platoon Channel Coast: Kriegsberichter Hans Biallas, "Deutsche Seenotbojen unverwüstlich", 25th Platoon, "Deutsche Seenotbojen unverwüstlich", 1941. Feb. 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie Nord, 3rd platoon: War correspondent Paul Reymann, "Torpedoboot wieder klar", March 1, 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie 2: War correspondent Hans Biallas, 3rd platoon, "Die Tanker sollen nicht vergessen", Feb. 28, 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterabteilung West II, 3rd platoon Channel coast: War correspondent Hans Weissert, "Can we enter Dover?"Feb. 28, 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterabteilung West 1. Zug: War Reporter W. I. Rempel, "Nachtgespenster", Feb. 22, 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie Nord, 1. Zug Aarhus: War correspondent Walter Melms, "Fliegeralarm, Konservendosen und Matrosenbräute", Feb. 28, 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie Nord, 1st Zug Aarhus: War correspondent Otto Pautz, "Bei einer deutschen Seefunkstation", Feb. 27, 1941. 1941; Marine War Reporter Division West 2nd Company, 4th Platoon Belgium: War Reporter Leisegang, "Flanders Spring!", March 1941 or 7th March 1941; Marine War Reporter Division West, 5th Platoon Belgium: War Reporter Leisegang, "Flanders Spring! Zug Le Havre: War correspondent Josef Vidua, "Vorfrühlingsfahrt an der Kanalküste", 3 March 1941; Naval War Reporting Department West, 2nd train: War correspondent Wilhelm Richrath, "So'n Ubootsmutje", Im Febr. 1941 or 7 March 1941; Naval War Reporters Department West, 5th Platoon Le Havre: War Reporters Josef Vidua, "Naval Construction Supervision in French Shipyards", 28 Feb 1941; Naval War Reporters Department West, 2nd Company 3rd Platoon Canal Coast: Word Reporter Hans Weissert, "Finkenwerder Fischer im Dienst der Kriegsmarine", 2 March 1941; Naval War Reporters Company 2: War Reporters Hans Biallas, 3rd Platoon Le Havre: War Reporters Department West, "Naval Construction Supervision in French Shipyards", 28 Feb 1941; Naval War Reporters Department West, 2nd Company 3rd Platoon Canal Coast: Word Reporter Hans Weissert, "Finkenwerder Fischer im Dienst der Kriegsmarine", 2 March 1941; Naval War Reporters Company 2: War Reporters Hans Biallas, 3rd Platoon War Reporters, 3rd Platoon Zug, "Nur die Kartoffelkiste hat sich selbständig gemacht" (Minensuchboote bei grober See), (The boy is called like the whole flotilla), March 1, 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie Nord, 1st Zug Aarhus: War Reporter Seaman Walter Melms, "Soldaten im Maschinenraum", February 20, 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterabteilung West, 4th Zug Belgium: War Reporter WB. Sonderführer (Leutnant M. A.) Kurt Parbel, "One fell where four thousand died", March 16 or March 10, 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie 2: Kriegsberichter Hans Biallas, from the 3rd platoon, "Wir fegen die Straßen vor des Tommys Haustür", March 5, 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie 2: Kriegsberichter Adolf Ried from the 3rd platoon, "Wir fegen die Straßen vor des Tommys Haustür", March 5, 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie 2: Kriegsberichter Adolf Ried from the 3rd platoon, "Wir fegen die Straßen vor des Tommys Haustür", March 5, 1941. Zug, "Die deutsche Wehrmacht steht Sprungbereit", March 4, 1941; Navy War Reports Department West, 1st Zug Cherbourg: War reports Special Leader Lieutenant M. A. Hans Arenz, "Vorpostenboots-Kommandanten", March 10, 1941; Navy War Reports Company North, 3rd Zug: War reports J. G. Bachmann, "'Ursula' in Nöten! (Minensucher put English submarine), March 4, 1941; Marine War Reporter Company North: War Reporter Gerhard Ludwig Milau, "Minen um Mitternacht vor Tommies Tor", 7. March 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie Nord: War correspondent Jochen Brennecke, "'Schweinsgeige' greets 'Rübenschwein'" (A strange encounter in the middle of some ocean), March 7, 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie Nord, 1st Platoon Aarhus: War correspondent sailor Walter Melms, "In the soldiers' home they met again ...", March 7, 1941. Zug Bordeaux: Kriegsberichter Sonderführer Lieutnant M. A. Anton Deininger, "Auf einsamem Posten im Ozean" (On a lonely post in the ocean), end of February 1941 or 10 March 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterabteilung West, 5. Zug Le Havre: War correspondent Josef Vidua, "French Channel Ports under German Flak Protection", 5 March 1941; Naval War Reporter's Department West, 6th Zug Bordeaux: War correspondent Walter Köhler, "A freighter makes it through!"Early March 1941 or 11 March 1941; Naval War Reporters Division West, 1st Platoon Cherbourg: Naval Artillerist Schwarz, "Wir fischen einen englische Sperrballon", 11 March 1941; Naval War Reporters Division West, 2nd Company, 4th Platoon Belgium: Special Leader (Lieutenant M. A.) Kurt Parbel, "Seemannsgräber in Feindesland", 9 March 1941; Naval War Reporters Division West, 1st Platoon Zug: War correspondent Eberhard Hübner, "Eine Porzellanfahrt" (With German minelayers on the English coast), March 1, 1941; Marine War correspondent company North: War correspondent Theo Janssen, "Kameradschaft gestaltet Feierstunde", 14th century. March 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie Nord: War Reporter G. L. Milau, "Die Zange wird schärfer", 7 March 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterabteilung West, 4th Platoon Belgium: War Reporter Wb. Naval artillerist Hugo Bürger, "4,000 crosses somewhere in Flanders ...", 7 March 1941; Naval War Reporter Company North, 3rd platoon: War Reporter J. G. Bachmann, "The Patron Saint", 14 March 1941; Naval War Reporter Division West, 6th platoon Bordeaux: Special Leader Lieutenant M. A. Anton Deininger, "Ein Tanker als Prise aufgebracht" (With 15,400 t petrol and 218 prisoners reached the port of destination), mid-March 1941 or 18 March 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie Nord, 1st Platoon Aarhus: Kriegsberichter Walter Melms, "Matrosenhosen sind nie weit genug", 28. Feb. 1941; Navy War Reporters Department West, 1st Platoon: War Reporters Eberhard Hübner, "Der Schalk auf der Brücke", 14 March 1941; Navy War Reports Department West, 5th Platoon Le Havre: War Reporters Fritz Nonnenbruch, "Der Torpedo", 10th Platoon: War Reporters Fritz Nonnenbruch, "Der Nonnenbruch," "Der Torpedo," 10th Platoon: War Reporters Eberhard Hübner, "Der Schalk auf der Brücke,", 14 March 1941; Navy War Reports Department West, 5th Platoon Le Havre: War Reporters Fritz Nonnenbruch, "Der Torpedo," 10th Platoon: "Der Torpedo," 10th Platoon: War Reporters Eberhard Havner, "Der Schalk auf der Brücke,", 14 March 1941. March 1941; Naval War Reporting Division West, 2nd Company 4th Platoon Belgium: Sonderführer (Lieutenant M. A.) Kurt Parbel, "Unsere Zerstörer", March 13, 1941; Naval War Reporting Division West, 1st Platoon: Sonderführer (Lieutenant M. A.) Fritz Ehrhardt, "Na denn, Hartwig! (German Soldier Humor), 11 March 1941; Navy War Reporters Division West, 2nd Company 4th Platoon Belgium: Sonderführer (Lieutenant M. A.) Kurt Parbel, "Unsere Schnellboote!", 13 March 1941; Navy War Reporters Company North, 3rd Platoon: War Reporters J. G. Bachmann, "Kanal-Alltag" (Heroes between Mainland and Island), 11 March 1941; Navy War Reporters Division West, 2nd Company 4th Platoon Belgium: Sonderführer (Lieutenant M. A.) Kurt Parbel, "Unsere Schnellboote! March 1941; Naval War Reporters Division West, 2nd Company 4th Platoon Belgium: Naval artillerist Dr. Hanskarl Kanigs, "The Weapons of the Navy", 18 March 1941; Naval War Reporters Company North, 1st Platoon Aarhus: War Reporters Walter Melms, "Airmen, Mines, Submarines ..." (From the War Diary of an Outpost Flotilla), 10 March 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie Nord, 1st Platoon: War Reporter Walter Melms, "Deutsche Kriegslotsen helfen der Handelsschiffahrt", 10 March 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterabteilung West, 1st Platoon Cherbourg: War Reporter Wilhelm Brink, "Gedichte 'Kriegsmarine'", 13th Platoon: War Reporter Wilhelm Brink, "Kriegsberichter", 13th Platoon: War Reporter Walter Melms, "Deutsche Kriegslotsen helfen der Handelsschiffahrt", 10th Platoon Cherbourg: War Reporter Wilhelm Brink, "Gedichte 'Kriegsmarine'", 13th Platoon: War Reporter Walter Melms, "Deutsche Kriegslotsen helfen der Handelsschiffahrt", 10th Platoon: War Reporter Walter Melms, 1st Platoon Cherbourg: War Reporter Wilhelm Brink, "Gedichte 'Kriegsmarine'", 13th Platoon: War Reporter Wilhelm Brink, 13th. March 1941; Marine War Reporters Department West, 1st Platoon Cherbourg: War Reporter Wilhelm Brink, "Three Crosses in Normandy", March 13, 1941; Marine War Reports Department West, 5th Platoon Le Havre: War Reporter Marine Artiller August Heinrich Esser, "In einer nordfranzösischen Hafenkneipe", 14th Platoon Le Havre, "In einer nordfranzösischen Hafenkneipe", 14th Platoon March 1941; Navy War Reporters Department West, 1st Platoon: War Reporter W. I. Rempel, "Die Jubiläumsmine", 10 March 1941; Navy War Reports Department West, 2nd Platoon: War Reporter Horst Scharfenberg, "Auf Stichfahrt mit Sperrbrecher X", 13 March 1941; Navy War Reports Department West, 2nd Platoon: Kriegsberichter Dr. Fritz Schwiegk, "Ärztliche Betreuung auf Kriegsschiffen", 14 March 1941; Naval War Reporter Company North, 3rd Platoon: War Reporter J. G. Bachmann, "Ein Dutzend weißer Wimpel", 8 March 1941; Naval War Reporter Company North, 3rd Platoon: War Reporter J. G. Bachmann, "Den nächsten Torpedo übernehmen wir", 10th Platoon: War Reporter J. G. Bachmann, "Ein Dutzend weißer Wimpel", 8 March 1941. March 1941; Marine War Reporter Company North: War Reporter Dr. Curt Weithas, "Kanonier - Dolmetscher - Kriegsberichter", March 14, 1941; Marine War Reporter Company North, 3rd Platoon: War Reporter Paul Reymann, "Kameraden in Übersee", March 7, 1941; Marine War Reporter Company North, 1st Platoon: War Reporter Paul Reymann, "Kameraden in Übersee", March 7, 1941; Marine War Reporter Company North, March 7, 1941; Navy War Reporter Company North, March 7, 1941; Navy War Reporter Company North, March 7, 1941; Navy War Reporter Company North, March 7, 1941; Navy War Reporter Company North, March 7, 1941; Navy War Reporter Company North, March 7, 1941; Navy War Reporter Company North, March 7, 1941; N. Zug Aarhus: War correspondent Walter Melms, "Fliegerkameraden aus deminenfeld gerettet", March 12, 1941; Marine War correspondent company North, 3rd train: War correspondent J. G. Bachmann, "Unser Stabsarzt fährt mit", March 21, 1941; Marine War correspondent department West, 2nd company 4th train Belgium: War correspondent Marine Artillerist Dr. Hanskarl Kanigs, "Auf Vorposten im Kanalnebel", 19 March 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterabteilung West, 6th Platoon Bordeaux: War Reporter Sonderführer (Lieutenant M. A.) Anton Deininger, "Neunzehn Monate unterwegs", mid-March 1941 or 24 March 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie Nord, 3rd Platoon: War Reporter Oberleutnant zur See Dr. Walter Lohmann, "Auf Pirschfahrt an Englands Ostküste", March 20, 1941; Marine War Reporters Department West, 6th Platoon Bordeaux: War Reporters Willy Beilstein, "Auf einsamer Position im Weltmeer", March 18, 1941; Marine War Reporters Company West, 2nd: War Reporters Hans Biallas, of the 3rd Platoon: "Die Kanalküste: Eine deutsche Festung", 18th Platoon: "The Channel Coast: A German Fortress", March 18th, 1941. March 1941; Marine War Reporter Division West, 2nd Company 4th Platoon Belgium: War Reporter Sonderführer (Lieutenant M. A.) Kurt Parbel, "Minenräumschiff auf Position", March 18, 1941; Marine War Reporter Division West, 5th Platoon Le Havre: War Reporter Fritz Nonnenbruch, "Die Ballade von der 'Paris'", March 18, 1941; Marine War Reporter Division West, 1st Platoon, March 1, 1941; Navy War Reporter Division West, March 1, 1941. Zug: War correspondent Dr. C. Coler, "Minenräumboote an Frankreichs Küste", 19 March 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie West, 2nd division: War correspondent Hans Biallas of 3rd Zug: "Nächte throw der Tommy Minen", 18 March 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie West, 2nd division: War correspondent Hans Biallas of 3rd Zug: "Nächte throw der Tommy Minen", 18 March 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie West, 2nd division: War correspondent Hans Biallas of 3rd Zug: "Minen Throw der Tommy Throws", 18 March 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie West, 2nd division: War correspondent Hans Biallas of 3rd Zug: "Minenräumboote an Frankreichs Küste", 19 March 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie West, 2nd division: Marine-Kriegsberichter Hans Biallas of 3rd Reich. Train: "Outpost Boat in the Channel", 17 March 1941; Navy War Reporter Company West, 2nd Division: War Reporter Helmut Ecke, 3rd Train: "Our Commander is soo!", 17 March 1941; Navy War Reporter Division West, 2nd Train: War Reporter Heinrich Schwich, "Remembrance of the Narvik Arch Line", 21st Division: "Our Commander is Soo! March 1941; Marine War Reporters Division West, 2nd Company 4th Platoon Belgium: War Reporters Leisegang, "Fools of Yesterday - Heroes of Today", 26 March 1941; Marine War Reporters Division West, 2nd Company 4th Platoon Belgium: War Reporters Leisegang, "Snapshots from Bord", 26 March 1941; Marine War Reporters Division West, 2nd Platoon Belgium: War Reporters Leisegang, "Snapshots from Bord", 26 March 1941; Marine War Reporters Division West, 2nd Platoon Belgium: War Reporters Leisegang, "Naval Heroes of Today", 26 March 1941; Navy War Reporters Division West, 2nd Platoon Belgium: War Reporters Leisegang, "Snapshots from Bord", 26 March 1941; Navy War Reporters Division West, 26 March 1941; Navy War Reporters Division West, 26 March 1941; Navy War Reporters Division West, 2nd Platoon, 2nd Platoon Belgium Company 4th Platoon Belgium: War correspondent M. A. Gefreiter Dr. Ulrich Blindow, "Das sind unsere Sperrbrecher", 26 March 1941; Naval War Reporter Department West, 5th Platoon Le Havre: War correspondent August Heinrich Esser, "'T 3'wird geborgen", 20 March 1941; Naval War Reporter Department West, 1st Platoon Le Havre, "T 3'wird geborgen", 20 March 1941; Naval War Reporter Department West, 1st Platoon Le Havre, 26 March 1941; Naval War Reporter Department West, "T 3'wird geborgen", 20 March 1941; Naval War Reporter Department West, 1st Platoon Le Havre, 5th Platoon Le Havre, 5th Platoon Le Havre, 1st Platoon Le Havre, 20 March 1941, 20 March 1941, 20 March 1941, 20 March 1941, 1. Zug Cherbourg: War Reporter Wilhelm Brink, "Unser Wesen", 17 March 1941; Naval War Reporter Division West, 2nd Company 4th Platoon Belgium: War Reporter M. A. Gefreiter Dr. Ulrich Blindow, "Es geht nicht ohne Fiffi und Molli", 26 March 1941; Naval War Reporter Division West, 2nd Company 4th Platoon Belgium: War Reporter M. A. Gefreiter Dr. Ulrich Blindow, "Batterien, Molen und eine Straße", 26 March 1941; Marine War Reporters Department West, 2nd Company 4th Platoon Belgium: War Reporter M. A. Gefreiter Dr. Ulrich Blindow, "Get a bucket of compressed air", 26 March 1941; Marine War Reporters Department West, 1st Platoon: War Reporters Dr. C. Coler, "Bunte Flaggen über dem Hafen", 22 March 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterabteilung West, 2nd Platoon: War Reporter Fritz Huck, "Wir fahren 'Geleit' im Atlantik", 29 March 1941; 8th Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie: War Reporter Sonderführer (Lieutnant M. A.) Kurt Parbel, "Kriegsberichter in den Kämpfen um Narvik", 29th Reich War Reporter in the Fights for Narvik", 29th Reich War Reporter in the Fights for Narvik, 29th Reich War Reporter in the Fights for Narvik. March 1941; 8th Navy War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Kurt Parbel, "Die 'Nordwacht' nördlichste deutsche Soldatenzeitung", 29 March 1941; 8th Navy War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Kurt Parbel, "Über die Erzbahn von Narvik nach Sildvik", 29 March 1941; 8th Navy War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Kurt Parbel, "Über die Erzbahn von Narvik nach Sildvik", 29 March 1941; 8th Navy War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Kurt Parbel, "Die 'Nordwacht' nördlichste deutsche Soldatenzeitung", 29 March 1941; 8th Navy War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Halbkompanie: War Reporter Kurt Parbel, "Über die Erzbahn von Narvik nach Sildvik", 29 March 1941; 8th Navy War Reporter Halbkompany: War Reporter Kurt Parbel, 29 March 1941 Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie: Kriegsberichter Kurt Parbel, "Die letzten Wochen der Kämpfe um Narvik", March 29, 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie West: Kriegsberichter Hans Kreis, "Junge Unterseebootsfahrer am Feind", March 12, 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie 2, West: Kriegsberichter Hans Biallas, vom 3. Zug, "Hurra, die erste Mine gekrackt! Department: War correspondent Hans Biallas from 3rd Platoon: "Wenn der Schuss nach hinten geht", 19 March 1941; 8th Navy War correspondent Half Company: War correspondent Leisegang, "Nachchtliche Minensuche im Kanal", 28 March 1941; Navy War correspondent North: War correspondent Werner Franck, "Wir fahren Schleife", 25 March 1941; Navy War correspondent North: Werner Franck, "Wir fahren Schleife", 25 March 1941. March 1941; Naval War Reporters Department North: War Reporter Gerhard Ludwig Milau, "One Year with the Navy in Denmark: Sketches from Skagen", March 29, 1941; 8th Naval War Reporters Half Company: War Reporter Special Leader (Lieutenant M. A.) Kurt Parbel, "Commodore Bonte, the Hero of Narvik! Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie: Kriegsberichter Sonderführer (Lieutenant M. A.) Kurt Parbel, "Der Kampf um das Erz", March 27, 1941; 8th Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie: Kriegsberichter M. A. Gefreiter Ulrich Blindow, "Wir suchen nach Minen!", March 26, 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie Nord: Kriegsberichter Jakob Maria Wallacher, "Die Männer vom Vorpostenboot X", March 31, 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterkompanie Nord: Kriegsberichter Jakob Maria Wallacher, "Die Männer vom Märzboot X", March 31, 1941. March 1941; Marine War Reporter Company North: War Reporter Leo de Laforgue, "Da raasten die Minensuch - Kutterläufer ...", March 31, 1941; Marine War Reporter Company North: War Reporter Matthias Hanf, "Geleit nach Norden", March 31, 1941; Marine War Reporter Company North: War Reporter Werner Franck, "Die Nummer 1 auf Bord", March 31, 1941; Navy War Reporter Company North: War Reporter Werner Franck, "Die Kummer 1 auf Bord", March 31, 1941. March 1941; 3rd Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie: Kriegsberichter Oberleutnant zur See Dr. Walter Lohmann, "Das war eine Schnellbootsnacht!", March 24, 1941; 7th Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie, Marine Propaganda-Abteilung Nord: Kriegsberichter Helmut Ecke, "Auch den Vorposten scheint mal die Sonne", 28th Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie, "That Was a Speedboat Night", March 24, 1941; 7th Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie, Marine Propaganda-Abteilung Nord: Kriegsberichter Helmut Ecke, "Auch den Vorposten scheint mal die Sonne", 28th Marine-Kriegsberichter Helmut, "Auch die Sonne scheint", 28th Marine-Kriegsberichter Helmut Ecke, "The Sun Shines for a Time", 28th Marine-Kriegsberichter Helmut Ecke, "The Sun Shines for a Time. March 1941; Marine Propaganda Division North: 2nd Marine War Reporter Semi-Company: War Reporter M. A. Otto Pautz, "From the History of a Successful Submarine", March 30, 1941; Marine Propaganda Division North: 2nd Marine War Reporter Semi-Company Aarhus: War Reporter Corporal Walter Richleske, "Exciting Voyage Along Norway's Coast", March 28, 1941; Navy Propaganda Division North: 2nd Marine War Reporter Semi-Company Aarhus: War Reporter Corporal Walter Richleske, "Exciting Voyage Along Norway's Coast", March 28, 1941. March 1941; Marine Propaganda Division North: 2nd Navy War Reporter Half Company Aarhus: War Reporter Special Leader (Lieutenant M. A.) Walter Melms, "Die Werftliegezeit 'Erholungsurlaub' eines Schiffes", 28 March 1941; Navy Propaganda Division West: 5th Navy War Reporter Half Company Aarhus: War Reporter Special Leader (Lieutenant M. A.) Walter Melms, "Die Werftliegezeit 'Erholungsurlaub' eines Schiffes", 28 March 1941; Navy Propaganda Division West: 5th Navy War Reporter Half Company Aarhus: War Reporter Special Leader (Lieutenant M. A.) Walter Melms, "Die Werftliegezeit 'Erholungsurlaub' eines Schiffes", 28 March 1941 Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie: War Reporter Helmut Haring, "Rums - und ab war der 'Spargel'", March 31, 1941; Marine-Propaganda-Abteilung West: 5th Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie: War Reporter Dr. Wilhelm Maus, "Wache, Zeitung" (As a Newspaper Driver in a Marine-Propaganda-Company), April 1, 1941. 1941; Naval Propaganda Department North: War Reporter Leo de Laforgue, "Minensuchboote auf der Werft", March 29, 1941; Naval Propaganda Department North: War Reporter Werner Franck, "Unter der Back," March 29, 1941; Naval Propaganda Department North: War Reporter Heinz Beckmann, "Minensuch hat Ruh! March 1941; Navy Propaganda Division North: War Reporter Matthias Hanf, "Was Bonzo, der Bordhund, erlebte", 26 March 1941; Navy War Reporter Company North, 3rd Platoon: War Reporter Paul Reymann, "Schnellboote zwischen Abend und Morgen", 20 March 1941; Navy War Reporter Company North, 3rd Platoon: War Reporter J. G. Bachmann, "Schnellboote bleiben am Feind", 21 March 1941; Marine-Propaganda-Abteilung Nord: 2nd Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie Aarhus: Kriegsberichter Sonderführer (Lieutnant M. A.) Hans Giese, "Mutter - so died Dein Sohn!", 2 April 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichterabteilung West, 2 Zug: Kriegsberichter Dr. Fritz Schwiegk, "Englands-Blockade - tatsächlich und rechtlich wirksam", 21 March 1941; Marine Propaganda Department North: War Reporter Richard Kaufmann, "Ein Minensuchboot geht auf Schlip", 28 March 1941; Marine War Reporter Company North: War Reporter Werner Franck, "Vom Einsatzhafen zur Heimat", 14 March 1941; 3. Navy War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Sailor Dr. Horst-Gotthard East, "Rhine and Ruhr Help Rotterdam", 31 March 1941; Navy Propaganda Department North: 2nd Navy War Reporter Half Company Aarhus: War Reporter Marine Artillerist Otto Pautz, "A Life in the Service of Submarine Weapons", 4 Apr. 1941.
Contains: Naval Propaganda Division North: War Reporter Matthias Hanf, "English Flyers Get a Rejection", 15 Apr. 1941; Naval Propaganda Division West: 6th Naval War Reporter Semi-Company Bordeaux: War Reporter Eberhard Moes, "Flowers from Arcachon", n. d.; 3. Marine-Kriegsberichter-Kompanie War Reporter Dr. Horst-Gotthard Ost, "Night work of our clearance boats in the canal", 8 Apr. 1941; 3rd Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie: Kriegsberichter von Reuber-Paschwitz, "Wunschkonzert auf hoher See", 20 March 1941; 5th Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie Brest: Kriegsberichter Dr. Siegwalt Benatzky, "Der täglichen Dienst", o. Dat.; Navy Propaganda Division North: War Reporter Jakob Maria Wallacher, "Männer der See - Kameraden, Soldaten", 21 Apr. 1941; Navy Propaganda Division North: War Reporter Jakob Maria Wallacher, "Vorpostenboote auf Position", 21 Apr. 1941; Navy Propaganda Division North: War Reporter Jakob Maria Wallacher, "Der Zeit Dienst", o. Dat. Apr. 1941; Navy Propaganda Division North: War Reporter Heinz Beckmann, "The Four Hours of the Sailor", 21 Apr. 1941; Navy Propaganda Division West: 5th Navy War Reporter Semi-Company: War Reporter Fritz Nonnenbruch, "Setting up a Mine Search Flotilla", o. Date; Naval Propaganda Department North: War Reporter Dr. Fritz List, "Hilfskreuzer gibt 170 Gefangene von Bord", 10 Apr. 1941; Naval Propaganda Department North: War Reporter Matthias Hanf, "Volksstimme gegen Müßiggänger! 1941; Naval Propaganda Department North: War correspondent Heribert Augst, "German soldiers save English sailors at night at their own peril", 24 Apr. 1941; Naval Propaganda Department North: War correspondent Herbert Wendt, "'Nußschale' vernichtet Britenbomber" (evaluation of a war diary), 10th century, 1941; Navy Propaganda Department North: War correspondent Herbert Wendt, "'Nußschale' vernichtet Britenbomber" (evaluation of a war diary), 10th century, 1941. Apr. 1941; Marine-Propaganda-Kompanie Südost: War Reporter Dr. Egon Figlhuber, "Unternehmen Petz" (Blue Boys Save Wounded Mountain Fighters' Lives) , 24. Apr. 1941; 10. Semi-Companie Südost: War Reporter Artillery-Maat Hans Järisch, "Liebe Kameraden", 4. May 1941; 10th Marine War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Hans Järisch, "Silent Ports", 4 May 1941; 7th Marine War Reporter Half Company Troop Le Havre: War Reporter Special Leader (Lieutenant M. A.) WB. Leisegang, "The Kriegsmarine will know how to prevent this too" (English aviators bombard French fishermen), 26 Apr. 1941; Marine-Propaganda-Abteilung West: 5th Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie Brest: Kriegsberichter Dr. Fritz Nonnenbruch, "Fliegergriffen auf kleine Kriegsschiffe", 14. May 1941; Navy Propaganda Department West: War correspondent Hans Arenz, "Schatten geistern durch die Nacht", May 8, 1941; 8th Navy War Reporter Semi-Company: War correspondent Hellmuth Baumann, "Minensucher stehen am Feind", o. Date; Navy Propaganda Division West: 8th Navy War Reporter Semi-Company: War Reporter Navy Artillerist Dr. Hanskarl Kanigs, "Lock Breaker on Enemy Drive", o. Date.Marine War Reporter Semi-Company: War Reporter W. I. Rempel, "Three Tommy's plunged into the sea", May 7, 1941; Marine Propaganda Division North: 2nd Marine War Reporter Semi-Company Aarhus: War Reporter Walter Melms, "A Submarine Flotilla Fishes Cod", n.d.; Marine Propaganda Division North: 2nd Navy War Reporter Walter Melms, "A Submarine Flotilla Fishes Dorsche", n.d.; Navy Propaganda Division North: 2nd Navy War Reporter Walter Melms, "A Submarine Flotilla Fishes Cod", n.d. Naval War Reporter Half Company Aarhus: War Reporter Walter Melms, "Submarine in the 'Laundry Room'" (Untiring Exercises for the Fight against England), n. d.; Naval Propaganda Division North: 2. Naval War Reporter Half Company Aarhus: War Reporter Walter Melms, "Seamen travel as passengers", n. d.; Naval War Reporter Troop South: War Reporter (Lieutenant M. A. (S)) Bernhard Müllmann, "Bei der italienischen Marine Artillerie", n. d.; Marine-Propaganda-Abteilung West: 6. Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie Bordeaux: Kriegsberichter Marine-Artillerist Eberhard Moes, "Zwiesprache mit einem Koffer", n. d.; naval propaganda department West: 6. Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie Bordeaux: war correspondent Marine-Artillerist Eberhard Moes, "Zwiesprache mit einem Koffer", n. d.5th Marine War Reporter Semi-Company Troop Cherbourg: War Reporter Dr. C. Coler, "The L I.", May 8, 1941; Naval Propaganda Division West: 7th Marine War Reporter Semi-Company Troop Le Havre: War Reporter Marine Artillerist WB. August Heinrich Esser, "Rees-Stunde im Nebel" (From the History of a Mine Search Boat), May 9, 1941; Naval Propaganda Division North: 2nd Naval War Reporter Semi-Company Aarhus: War Reporter Werner Franck, "Auf Vorposten in der Nordsee", n. d.; Naval Propaganda Division North: War Reporter Jakob Maria Wallacher, "Die Geschichte vom harten Brot", 6. May 1941; Marine-Kriegsberichter-Trupp Süd (Italy): War correspondent Fritz Böltz, "An Bord eines italienischen Kreuzers, im Mai 1941", n. d.; Marine-Propaganda-Abteilung Nord: War correspondent Jochen Brennecke, "Ein Englischer Admiral fährt in den Tod", 25. Apr. 1941; Marine Propaganda Company South East 10th Marine War Reporter Company: War Reporter Bernd Richter, "Auf Fahrt in der Ägäis", 24th Apr. 1941; 8th Marine War Reporter Half Company Ostend: War correspondent Paul Engels, "The narrowest point in the canal", n. d.; 3rd Marine War Reporter Semi-Company: War Reporter Reuber-Paschwitz, "The Logbook of the Naval Cadet X.", May 6, 1941; Marine War Reporter Troop South: War Reporter Kurt von Steinitz, "Escort in the Mediterranean Sea", n. d.; 3rd Navy War Reporter Semi-Company: War Reporter Reuber-Paschwitz, "The Logbook of the Naval Cadet X.", May 6, 1941; Navy War Reporter Troop South: War Reporter Kurt von Steinitz, "Escort in the Mediterranean Sea", n. d. Date; Navy Propaganda Department North: War Reporter Carl von Bremen, "Birthday Party on Board", May 15, 1941; 3rd Navy War Reporter Semi-Company: War Reporter P. P. Möbius, "Minenräumen in der Nordsee", o. Date; Naval Propaganda Abbey North: 2nd Navy War Reporter Half Company Aarhus: War Reporter Walter Melms, "Takeover of the Sick on the High Seas", n. d.; 1st Navy War Reporter Half Company Kiel: War Reporter Herbert Wendt, "Soldiers Should Feel at Home", 17th Century; Navy War Reporter Half Company Aarhus: War Reporter Walter Melms, "Sick Acceptance on the High Seas", n. d.; 1st Navy War Reporter Half Company Kiel: War Reporter Herbert Wendt, "Soldiers Should Feel at Home", 17th Century May 1941; Navy Propaganda Division West: 5th Navy War Reporter Half Company Brest: War Reporter Herbert Sprang, "Der Rudergänger", 17 Apr. 1941; 8th Navy War Reporter Half Company Ostend: War Reporter (Lieutenant M. A.) Hugo Bürger, "Expelled by Navy Artillery", 17 May 1941; Naval Propaganda Division West: 5th Navy War Reporter Semi-Company: War Reporter Dr. Ulrich Blindow, "Steamship in Convoy", 17 May 1941; Navy Propaganda Division North: 2nd Navy War Reporter Semi-Company Aarhus: War Reporter Special Leader (Lieutenant M. A.) Walter Melms, "Once a sailor on duty with the Führer - today submariners against England", n. d.; 3rd Marine War Reporter Semi-Company: War Reporter Peter-Paul Möbius, "Speedboats", n. d.; 5th Marine War Reporter Semi-Company Cherbourg: War Reporter W. Brink, "A Maritime Officer as a Flak Gunner", 16th Century; 3rd Century War Reporter Peter-Paul Möbius, "Speedboats", n. d.; 5th Century War Reporter Cherbourg: War Reporter W. Brink, "A Maritime Officer as a Flak Gunner", 16th Century. May 1941; Naval War Reporter Trupp Süd: War Reporter (Lieutenant M. A.) Kurt von Steinitz, "Italian Naval Reconnaissance Soldiers on the Mediterranean", n. d.; 5th Naval War Reporter Semi-Company Brest: War Reporter Dr. Ulrich Blindow, "This Is Him Commander", 22. May 1941; Marine-Propaganda-Abteilung Nord, Wilhelmshaven: Kriegsberichter (Gefreiter) Langemann, "Auf allen deutschen Werften Hochdruckarbeit!", n. d.; 7. Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie: Kriegsberichter W. I. Rempel, "Monsieur Pierre geht in den Hafen" (Marine-Küstenpolizei überwacht Hafenanlagen und Fischfang), 17. May 1941; 3. Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie Scheveningen: War Reporter Otto Bohm, "Geleitfahrt", May 20, 1941; Navy Propaganda Department Southeast Sofia: War Reporter Theo Janssen, "Berlin Chamber Musician in Sofia," May 22, 1941; 5th Navy War Reporter Semi-Company Trupp Cherbourg: War Reporter Eberhard Hübner, "Räumboote machen Sonntag," May 16, 1941; Navy Propaganda Department Southeast Sofia: War Reporter Theo Janssen, "Berlin Chamber Musician in Sofia," May 22, 1941; 5th Navy War Reporter Semi-Company Trupp Cherbourg: War Reporter Eberhard Hübner, "Räumboote machen Sonntag," May 16, 1941. May 1941; Air Force War Reporter Company (mot) 7: War Reporter Wilhelm Reinartz, "Mit einem Minensucher ins Mittelmeer", 15 May 1941; Naval Propaganda Department Southeast: 10. Marine War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Hans Järisch, "Munitionsdampfer in Fliegeralarm", May 22, 1941; 7th Marine War Reporter Half Company Troop Le Havre: War Reporter Special Leader (Lieutenant M. A.) WB. Leisegang, "Germany's Fight under the Midnight Sun", May 15, 1941 Naval Propaganda Division North: 2nd Naval War Reporter Semi-Company Aarhus: War Reporter Special Leader (Lieutenant M. A.) Otto Pautz, "They Build Our Fleet", April 24, 1941; Naval Propaganda Division West: 5th Naval Propaganda Division Aarhus: 2nd Naval War Reporter Semi-Company Aarhus: War Reporter Special Leader (Lieutenant M. A.) Otto Pautz, "They Build Our Fleet", April 24, 1941; Naval Propaganda Division West: 5th Naval Propaganda Division Marine War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Dr. Fritz Nonnenbruch, "Vacation and Return on Board", May 13, 1941; 5th Marine War Reporter Half Company Cherbourg Troop: War Reporter W. Brink, "Mine Search Boat on the Home March", May 12, 1941; Naval Propaganda Department West: 8. Marine War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Marine Artillerist Dr. Hanskarl Kanigs, "The Commander has Birthday", n. d.; Marine Propaganda Division West: 8th Marine War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Marine Artillerist Hanskarl Kanigs, "Before the Engine and the Boilers", n. d.; 9th Naval War Reporter Half Company: "The Commander has Birthday", n. d.; 8th Naval War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Navy Artillerist Hanskarl Kanigs, "Before the Engine and the Boilers", n. d.; 9th Naval War Reporter Half Company: "The Commander has Birthday", n. d. Marine War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Helmut Schieck, "Devil's Eggs around Greece", 5 May 1941; Marine Propaganda Division North: 2nd Marine War Reporter Half Company Aarhus: War Reporter Richard Kaufmann, "Dental Treatment on the Bridge Deck", o. D.; 3rd Marine War Reporter Half Company Scheveningen: War correspondent J. Hans Eichen, "Hauruck! Throw that thing outboard", May 15, 1941; Naval War Reporter Trupp Süd: War Reporter (Lieutenant M. A.) Bernhard Müllmann, "As War Reporter on an Italian Torpedo Boat," n. d.; 5. Marine War Reporter Semi-Company Troop Cherbourg: War Reporter Dr. C. Coler, "Transformation of a Fishing Steamer", May 10, 1941; Marine Propaganda Division North: War Reporter Jakob Maria Wallacher, "Commanders", 14. May 1941; Navy Propaganda Division North: 2nd Navy War Reporter Semi-Company Aarhus: War Reporter Werner Franck, "A Ship's Crew Celebrates Farewell", n. d.; Navy Propaganda Division North: War Reporter Leo de Laforgue, "An Invention of the Devil" (The Development of the Sea Mine and Its Impact on England), 24. Apr. 1941; Navy War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter (Lieutenant M. A.) (S) Dr. Harald Busch, "Lauter neue Kumpels" (First Evening on a U-boat), n. d.; Navy Propaganda Division North: 2. Naval War Reporter Half Company Aarhus: War Reporter (Lieutenant M. A.) Curt Eugen Schreiber, "Waving flag sunk in battle with enemy superiority", o. Date; Navy War Reporter Troop South: War Reporter (Lieutenant M. A.) (S) Kurt von Steinitz, "Eight Minutes of Attack and Five Hours of Nerve Test", May 1941; Navy Propaganda Division West: 8th Navy War Reporter Semi-Company: War Reporter (Schreibermaat) Paul Engels, "Drift Mines Before the Bow! Marine War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Arnold Prokop, "Walking at Sea", n. d.; Marine Propaganda Division North: 2nd Marine War Reporter Half Company Aarhus: War Reporter Walter Melms, "New heaviest batteries are being installed", n. d.; Marine War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Sailor Dr. Harald Busch, "Underwater ...", n. d. Date; Marine War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Sailor Dr. Harald Busch, "Northern Lights", n. d.; Marine War Reporter Troop South: War Reporter (Lieutenant M. A.) (S) Herbert Nolte, "Das sind Italiens Torpedomänner", n. d.; 5. Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie Trupp Cherbourg: Kriegsberichter Dr. C. Coler, "Zerstörer und Torpedoboot", May 12, 1941; 5. Marine War Reporter Half Company Cherbourg Troop: War Reporter Dr. C. Voler, "Battery Brommy Shoots Block", n. d.; Naval Propaganda Department West: 8. War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Naval Artillery Dr. Hanskarl Kanigs, "You Must Be Back", n. d.; Naval Propaganda Department West, 5. d.; Naval Propaganda Department West, n. d. Naval War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Helmut Haring, "Our Comrade - The Red Cross Sister", n. d.; Naval Propaganda Division West, 8th Naval War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Naval Artillerist Dr. Hanskarl Kanigs, "Die 'Alten' wieder in vorderster Front", without date; 7. Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie Trupp Le Havre: Kriegsberichter Sonderführer (Leutnant M. A.) WB. Leisegang, "Reconstruction in the Service of the Navy", May 20, 1941; Navy Propaganda Department West: Navy War Reporter Semi-Company Bordeaux: War Reporter Marine Artillerist Eberhard Moes, "Feldpostbrief an mein Töchterchen", no date.Marine Propaganda Division North: War Reporter Otto Bohm, "Torpedoboote auf großer Fahrt", 21 May 1941; Marine Propaganda Division West: 6th Marine War Reporter Semi-Company Bordeaux: War Reporter Eberhard Moes, "Rivierakurs", o. Date; Navy Propaganda Division North: 2nd Navy War Reporter Half Company Aarhus: War Reporter Walter Melms, "From D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a to Kiel", n. d.; War Reporter Dr. Fritz Olbert, "8.000 ton tanker burned in the night", 26 May 1941; 6th Naval War Reporter Semi-Company Bordeaux: War Reporter Hans Fischnaller, "Il nostro camerata Prien" (The Italian U-boat Weapon Mourns Prien), 24 May 1941; 6th Navy War Reporter Semi-Company Bordeaux: War Reporter Hans Fischnaller, "Il nostro camerata Prien" (The Italian U-boat Weapon Mourns Prien), 24 May 1941. May 1941; 5th Navy War Reporter Half Company Brest: War Reporter Herbert Sprang, "... and don't forget your toothbrush", May 26, 1941; Navy War Reporter Half Company Kernevel: War Reporter Dr. Wolfgang Frank, "Günter Prien zum Gedächtnis", May 25, 1941; N. N. "Abschied von der Bügelfalte" (from the "bathing guest" of a long-distance submarine trip), n. d.; Naval Propaganda Department North: 2nd World War, 1941. Marine War Reporter Half Company Aarhus: War Reporter Richard Kaufmann, "Dental Treatment on the Bridge Deck", n. d.; Marine Propaganda Division North: 1st Marine War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Herbert Wendt, "The Steering Wheel on the Sleeve", 22nd Century, Navy War Reporters Half Company: Navy War Reporter Herbert Wendt, "The Steering Wheel on the Sleeve", 22nd Century, Navy War Reporters Richard Kaufmann, "Dental Treatment on the Bridge Deck", n. d. May 1941; 10th Marine War Reporter Half Company Southeast: War Reporter Marine Artillerist Maat Hans Järisch, "On the Day of Crete on Tatoi", 23 May 1941; 3rd Marine War Reporter Half Company Scheveningen: War Reporter Heinz von Rebeuer-Paschwitz, "Nocturnal Return from Convoy", May 30, 1941; 9th Naval War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Egon Figlhuber, "Gefallen vor Kreta", n. d.; 12th War Reporter Figlhuber, n. d. Naval War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter (Lieutenant M. A.) (S) Herbert Kühn, "Musterung" ("in memoriam"), n.d.; 10th Naval War Reporter Half Company Southeast: War Reporter Marine Artillerist (Maat) Hans Järisch, "His Last Journey", 18th Century; Navy War Reporter Half Company, "Naval Artillerist" (Maat) Hans Järisch, "His Last Journey", 18th Century. May 1941; Naval Propaganda Division North: War Reporter Matthias Hanf, "Letzte Vorbereitung zum Einsatz auf Bord eines Schlachtschiffes", May 14, 1941; 9. Marine War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Egon Figlhuber, "We're Drifting the Cliffs", n.d.; 8th Marine War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Special Leader (LieutenantM. A.) Hugo Bürger, "From the Lazarett Bound on Board", n.d.; N. N. Kriegsberichter (Uffz.) Wolf, "Immer im Einsatz", May 12, 1941; 5th Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie Brest: War Reporter Dr. Ulrich Blindow, "Im harten Dienst", May 29, 1941; 7th Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie Trupp Le Havre: Kriegsberichter Sonderführer (Leutnant M. A.) WB. Leisegang, "At the Lone Pier Post", May 24, 1941; N. N. War Reporter Herbert Nolte: "Speedboats Attacked Cruisers", n. d.; Navy Propaganda Department North: 2nd Navy War Reporter Half Company Aarhus: War Reporter Walter Melms, "In Night and Fog Behind the Convoy", n. d.; "In Night and Fog Behind the Convoy", n. d.; n. Date; 4th Marine War Reporter Parade in Bergen: War Reporter (Lieutenant M. A.) (S) Gerhard Ludwig Milau, "Eight Hundred Norwegians Return Home", 7 May 1941; 3rd Marine War Reporter Half Company Scheveningen: War Reporter J. G. Bachmann, "Wie wir Deutschland wiedersehen", 28 May 1941; Marine Propaganda Division West: 5th Marine War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Helmut Haring, "Bratkartoffeln zwischen Dover und Calais", o. Dat.; 3rd Marine War Reporter Half Company Scheveningen: War correspondent Otto Bohm, "Fourteen Three Shot Down", 30 May 1941; Navy Propaganda Department West: 8th Navy War Reporter Semi-Company: War Reporter Navy Artillery Dr. Hanskarl Kanigs, "Axel, the 'Eye of the Fleet'", n. d.; Naval Propaganda Department West: 8th Naval War Reporter Semi-Company: War Reporter (Schreibermaat) Paul Engels, "Wounded Transport by Sea", 19th Century, "The Eye of the Fleet", n. d.; Navy Propaganda Department West: 8th Navy War Reporter Semi-Company: War Reporter (Schreibermaat) Paul Engels, "Wounded Transport by Sea", 19th Century, "Wounds Transport by Sea", 19th Century, "Wounds Transport by Sea", 19th Century, "Wounds Transport by Sea", 19th Century, "Wounds Transport by Sea", 19th Century, "Wounds Transport by Sea", 19th Century, "Wounds. May 1941; Navy Propaganda Division West: 8th Navy War Reporter Semi-Company: War Reporter (Schreibermaat) Paul Engels, "New Ships in Foremost Front", n. d.; 9th Navy War Reporter Semi-Company: War Reporter Josef Vidua, "With Mountain Fighters in Two Sea Battles", 22nd Navy War Reporter (Schreibermaat) Paul Engels, "New Ships in Foremost Front", n. d.; 9th Navy War Reporter Sem-Company: War Reporter Josef Vidua, "With Mountain Fighters in Two Sea Battles", 22nd Navy War Reporter Josef Vidua, "With Mountain Fighters in Two Sea Battles", n. d. May 1941; 9th Marine War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Bernd Richter, "Jetzt war ma amol auf See!", May 24, 1941; 9th Marine War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Josef Vidua, "Hemmungslose Mordgier des Tommys im Kretischen Meer", May 26, 1941; 5th Marine War Reporter Half Company Brest: War Reporter Georg Ronge, "Addi, der Koch", May 30, 1941; 9th Marine War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Josef Vidua, "Hemmungslose Mordgier des Tommys im Kretischen Meer", May 26, 1941; 5th Marine War Reporter Halbkompany Brest: War Reporter Georg Ronge, "Addi, der Koch", May 30, 1941. May 1941; War correspondent Heribert Augst, "Gefangene gehen von Bord" (English prisoners leave ship), o. Dat.; 1st Marine War correspondent Half Company Kiel: War correspondent Herbert Wendt, "Skagerrak - Tradition und Verpflichtung", 31 May 1941; 3rd Marine War correspondent Half Company Scheveningen: War Reporter J. G. Bachmann, "Die entzauberte englische Mine", 31 May 1941; 9th Marine War Reporter Half Company Volos: War Reporter Helmut Schieck, "... Weg ist minenfrei", o. Dat.; 10th Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie Südost: War Reporter Horst Scharfenberg, "Drei fröhliche Stunden am Schwarzen Meer", May 14, 1941; 7th Marine-War Reporter, Southeast: War Reporter Horst Scharfenberg, "Drei fröhliche Stunden am Schwarzen Meer", May 14, 1941; 7th Marine-War Reporter, Southeast: War Reporter Horst Scharfenberg, "Drei fröhliche Stunden am Schwarzen Meer", May 14, 1941; 7th Marine-War Reporter, "Drei fröhliche Stunden am Schwarzen Meer", May 14, 1941. Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie Boulogne: War Reporter (Lieutenant M. A.) (S) Hans Biallas, "Five English Torpedoes Went Away", 30 May 1941; 3rd Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie Scheveningen/Den Haag: War Reporter J. G. Bachmann, "Mit Englischer Mine durch Schwpf und Morast", 29 May 1941; Marine-Propaganda-Abteilung West: 5. Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie: Kriegsberichter Dr. Ulrich Blindow, "Das hat sitzt" (Alarm on a harbour protection boat of the Kriegsmarine./Hit in the belly of a British bomber), 20 Apr. 1941; 3. Marine-Kriegsberichter-Halbkompanie Scheveningen: War Reporter J. Hans Eichen, "Mine Search Boats of a Convoy Destroy Two English Bombers", 31 May 1941; 5th Marine War Reporter Half Company Brest: War Reporter (Lieutenant M. A.) (S) Hans Arenz, "Our Flotilla Doctor", 26 May 1941; 3rd Marine War Reporter Half Company Scheveningen: Kriegsberichter J. Hans Eichen, "A mighty blow hits our ship ...", May 31, 1941; 9th Naval War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Walter Hoffmann, "One against eight" (Italian torpedo boat sinking an English cruiser out of a strong enemy unit), 24. May 1941; 9th Naval War Reporter Semi-Company: War Reporter Josef Vidua, "4 men from the Navy and 132 Tommies" (The armoured motor schooner 'Trinity' is applied to the island of Milos), 17th century. May 1941; 9th Marine War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Adolf Ried, "In the Port of Piraeus (The Last Hours Before Leaving for Crete)", n.d.; 9th Marine War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Bernd Richter, "Bravura Attack of Italian Torpedo Boats", 24 May 1941; Naval Propaganda Department West: 8th Navy War Reporter Half Company: "In the Port of Piraeus (The Last Hours Before Leaving for Crete)", n.d.; 9th Navy War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Bernd Richter, "Bravura Attack of Italian Torpedo Boats", 24 May 1941; Navy Propaganda Department West: 8th Navy War Reporter Half Company: "In the Port of Piraeus (The Last Hours Before Leaving for Crete)", n.d.; 9th Navy War Reporter Half Company: "In the Port of Pirae", n. Marine War Reporter Semi-Company: War Reporter (Schreibermaat) Paul Engels, "Kriegsmarine macht einen Tanker flott", n. d.; Marine Propaganda Department West: 5. Navy War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Helmut Haring, "Once upset by the French and now back under German flag", n. d.; 6th Navy War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Hanns H. Reinhardt, "The Brown Sails of La Rochelle", n. d. Date; Navy Propaganda Department West: 5th Navy War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Helmut Haring, "Mine Seeker" (Always on Enemy - Always Ready), no date; 9th Navy War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Helmut Haring, "Mine Seeker" (Always on Enemy - Always Ready), no date; 9th Navy War Reporter Half Company Navy War Reporter Half Company Athens: War Reporter Bernd Richter, "Flakferien zwischen Sonne und Kakteen", n. d.; 12th Navy War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter M. A. Gefreiter Heinz Werseck, "Lamor Plage ... in Sunshine and Rain", n. d.; 9th Marine War Reporter Half Company: War Reporter Adolf Ried, "Italian Torpedo Boat Sunk from Sixfold Superiority English Destroyer", n. d.; 12th Marine War Reporter Half Company Trupp La Baule: War Reporter (Lieutenant M. A.)) Hans Kreis, "Five torpedoes - four tankers flew into the air", May 23, 1941; 7th Navy War Reporter Semi-Company Boulogne: War Reporter Werner Denckler, "18 bombs fell into the water" (clearance boats in battle with English bombers), June 5, 1941; Navy War Reporter Troop South: War Reporter (Lieutenant) (S) Karl Judmaier, "In bocca al lupo! (Italian destroyers at the enemy - English submarine sunk) o. Dat.
Publisher: French Ministry of Aviation; Print: Blondel la Rongery, Paris; Size: 80 x 59.5 cm; Quantity: 1
History of the Inventor: On 29.8.1914, the Commander of the Naval Aviation Departments was appointed, who in 1916 became Commander of the Naval Aviation Departments, later Chief of Naval Aviation and to whom the commanders of the aircraft were subordinated. The naval flight chief was responsible for the provision of all flight personnel and for fulfilling the military requirements for seaplanes and ground organisation. The Naval Air Force consisted of seaplane and naval land flight departments, seaplane and naval land flight stations, training and special units as well as front units of the naval pilots. The seaplane stations also included floating seaplane stations, i.e. aircraft mother ships, and the land-based flight stations also included the fortress (land) flight stations and the Wainoden indoor protection station. (Cf. Hildebrand, Hans H.: Die organisatorische Entwicklung der Marine sowie Stellenbesetzung 1848 bis 1945. Volume 2, Osnabrück 2000, p. 8; Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt (Ed.): Deutsche Militärgeschichte in sechs Voländen, Volume 5, Munich 1983, p. 300f.) During the First World War, seaplane stations were built on the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. Some of the stations were located in occupied Belgian territory (e.g. sea flight stations Flanders I and II) and Russian territory (e.g. sea flight station Kerch) or on the territory of allies, e.g. the Ottoman Empire (e.g. sea flight station Chanak). Among the North Sea's seaplane stations were: Borkum Flandern I (=Seeflugstation Zeebrügge) Flandern II (=Seeflugstation Ostend) Helgoland List/Sylt Norderney (See Köhler, Karl: Strukturungs- und Organisationsgeschichte der Marineluftkräfte, Manuskript, 1969, in: MSG 2/1866, S. 5. according to this, the command of the II Seaflieger-Abteilung included the front flight stations Borkum, Norderney, Helgoland and List as well as the air base Tönning. For the history of these sea flight stations see ibid. pp. 20-23 (Borkum), 24-26 (Norderney), 27-29 (Helgoland), 30f (List). For the history of the two naval flying stations in Flanders see Köhler, Karl: Strukturungs- und Organisationsgeschichte der Marineluftkräfte, manuscript, 1969, in: MSG 2/1867, pp. 5-7 (Flanders I), 8-10 (Flanders II). There is no record of the naval flying station Flanders III (naval airfield Nieuwmunster/Neumünster), see ibid., pp. 11-13. On the organisation of the air forces of the naval corps in Flanders see also Hildebrand, Hans H.: Die organisatorische Entwicklung der Marine sowie Stellenbesetzung 1848 bis 1945, Volume 3, Osnabrück 2000, pp. 60-62.) The sea flight stations at the Baltic Sea included: Angernsee (near Engure, west of Riga, Latvia) Apenrade Arensburg (Kuressaare, Ösel/Saaremaa Island, Estonia) Bug on Rügen Flensburg (see RM 113) Hadersleben (moved to Apenrade in March/April 1915), see RM 112/13) (Kiel-)Holtenau Köslin-Nest (Koszalin, Poland) Liebau (Liepâja, Latvia) Papenholm/Papensholm (west of Kihelkonna, island Ösel/Saaremaa, Estonia) Putzig (Puck, Poland (since 1919)) Reval (Tallinn, Estonia) Stralsund and Wiek on Rügen Warnemünde Wiek on Rügen (see Stralsund) Windau (Ventspils, Latvia) (On the history of these naval flying stations see Köhler, Karl: Gliederungs- und Organisationsgeschichte der Marineluftkräfte, Manuskript, 1969, in: MSG 2/1866, p. 46 (Hadersleben), 47 (Apenrade), 48-50 (Flensburg), 51-53 (Holtenau), 56 (Warnemünde), 57f (Bug on Rügen, Stralsund and Wiek on Rügen), 59f (Köslin-Nest), 61f (Putzig), - subsequent stations were built on occupied territory - 75f (Libau), 79-81 (Windau), 82f (Angernsee), 84 (Arensburg), 85 (Papensholm), 87 (Reval).) (Due to unfavourable geographical and meteorological conditions, the main operation of the station was relocated from Stralsund to Wiek on Rügen in 1916. In Stralsund, a partial operation was maintained. See also RM 112/170, Incidents 6 Nov. 1915 and Köhler, Karl: Gliederungs- und Organisationsgeschichte der Marineluftkräfte, manuscript, 1969, in: MSG 2/1866, p. 57.) Among the sea flight stations on the Mediterranean were: Agha Liman and Mersina (southern coast of Anatolia, north of the eastern tip of Cyprus) Chanak (on the southern shore of the Dardanelles near Canakkale) Xanthi (northern shore of the Aegean Sea, Greece (since 1920), see RM 110/22) (On the geographical location and history of the naval flight stations, see Köhler, Karl: Strukturungs- und Organisationsgeschichte der Marineluftkräfte, manuscript, 1969, in: MSG 2/1867, p. 64f, 70f (Chanak), 76f (Mersina). Only the stock RM 110 (RM 110/22) contains a record of the Xanthi sea flight station, for the Xanthi sea flight station see also ibid. p. 79f. For the organization of the seaplanes within the framework of the Sonderkommando Turkey see Hildebrand, Hans H.: Die organisatorische Entwicklung der Marine sowie Stellenbesetzung 1848 bis 1945, Volume 3, Osnabrück 2000, p. 63f.) The seapilot stations on the Black Sea were among the most important: Babadag (Romania) Duingi (near Constanta, Romania) Kawak/Kavak (eastern bank of the Bosporus) Kertsch (Crimea, Ukraine) Konstanza/Constanza (Constanta, Romania) Odessa (Ukraine) Sebastopol/Sewastopol (Crimea, Ukraine) Varna (Varna, Bulgaria) (For the geographical location and history of the sea flight stations see Köhler, Karl: Structure and Organisation History of the Naval Air Force, manuscript, 1969, in: MSG 2/1867, S. 64 and 78 (general), 73 (Kawak), 81f (Varna), 83 (Constanza), 84 (Sebastopol), 85 (Duingi), 86 (Babadag).) The floating seaplane stations included: S.M.H. Answald S.M.H. Glyndwr (see RM 99) S.M.H. Oswald (see also RM 99) S.M.H. Santa Elena S.M.S. Stuttgart (see RM 110/62) (On the history of the floating naval flight stations see Köhler, Karl: Strukturungs- und Organisationsgeschichte der Marineluftstreitkräfte, manuscript, 1969, in: MSG 2/1866, p. 99f (general), 102f (S.M.H. Santa Elena), 104f (S.M.H. Answald), 106 (S.M.H. Oswald), 107 (S.M.H. Glyndwr). The S.M.S. Stuttgart was a Small Cruiser converted into an aircraft mother ship (also known as an aircraft cruiser), see ibid., p. 101.) The naval land flight stations included: Barge Großenhain Hage Kiel Nordholz-Cuxhaven Schlüterhof-Tuckum Speckenbüttel-Geestemünde Tondern Wainoden (see also RM 116/193) Wilhelmshaven-Wangerooge (On the history of the land flight stations see Köhler, Karl: Strukturungs- und Organisationsgeschichte der Marineluftkräfte, manuscript, 1969, in: MSG 2/1866, p. 54f. (Fortress Land Flight Station Kiel); Köhler, Karl: Strukturungs- und Organisationsgeschichte der Marineluftkräfte, manuscript, 1969, in: MSG 2/1867, p. 98-101 (general), 102f (Nordholz), 104f (Barge), 106f (Hage), 108f (Tondern), 110 (Speckenbüttel), 138-140 (Wilhelmshaven). Processing note: The classification of the stock took place in a first step by differentiating between seaplane flight stations, aircraft mother ships (= floating seaplane flight stations) and naval land flight stations in order to show in particular the group of aircraft mother ships separately. The second - and central - classification level is represented by the individual stations or aircraft mother ships. In this way, the overdelivery for a station can be determined. In the case of the maritime stations Flanders I and Flanders II, a more detailed classification at third level was also necessary. In these cases, war diaries, reports and orders/instructions, technical documentation and, in the case of Flanders II, personnel matters, as well as various documents form subordinate classification points. The classification level 'Miscellaneous documents' had to be created because of the heterogeneity of some files. For war diaries in several volumes, corresponding volume sequences were created. The formation of series was dispensed with. In principle, the archival processing was based on the processing of the related stock RM 110 (Command Posts of the Naval Air Force). A provisional finding aid book was available for the inventory, but it did not contain any notes. In addition, titles had to be converted several times (see explanations below). The classification of the preliminary finding aid into seaplane stations and naval land stations was supplemented by the classification point of the floating seaplane stations (aircraft motherships) and deepened in the case of the stations Flanders I and Flanders II (see above). Due to the otherwise retained classification and sorting of the provisional finding aid book, the classification largely coincides with the (ascending) numbering of the files, since the files were sorted and signed on the basis of the stations in the course of the provisional recording. File titles such as "Ganz Geheim" were dissolved and archived titles were created instead. If due to the heterogeneous content only the possibility existed to form a title such as "Various affairs", more extensive content notes were written. In the title field of war diaries, additions such as "Ausfertigung für den Admiralstab der Marine" and "Entwurf" were added in brackets to make it possible to distinguish between the war diaries of the Admiral Staff and those of the respective stations. The latter were only partially identified as drafts by the file-maintaining bodies; an addition to the title of the record was only made in these cases. A further addition to the titles of the war diaries - which necessarily had to be included - was the excerpts. All war diaries were indexed uniformly, taking into account these additions in the title recording. The additions to the title also made it justifiable not to record the organizational unit in charge of the records, since the title specification makes it possible to distinguish between the war diaries of the Admiral Staff and those of the war stations. The (volume sequence) titles each contain the name of the corresponding station; the redundancy with the classification points was accepted in BASYS S for the purpose of searchability. The tape sequence numbers were created for archiving purposes, which can mean that they may differ from those on the file covers. If, for example, only volumes 3, 4 and 5 of a war diary have been preserved, these were recorded as volumes 1, 2 and 3. In the field "File number" in BASYS S only the "Lu", "Ef" and "MK I" file numbers and old signatures (see below) were noted. Other file numbers (e.g.: Ca VIII), some of which also existed, were not included, since they were only present in parts and the field file number in these cases was already assigned the MK I signature. However, the corresponding information can be reconstructed using the file covers. In the case of files in the former folder form, the lid was severed and placed on top in the folder. It is unclear to what extent the MK I numbers are actually file numbers and not rather old signatures. The following indications speak for the latter: - The MK I numbers have been applied in a different colour than the A or C file numbers, which were partly applied in the same colour - and presumably at the same time - with the title - Provided that MK I numbers were present, there was usually also a sticker "Archiv der Marine. War records." the MK I numbers could have been signatures of the Marine Archives. - MK I numbers are comparatively consistently available, as if it were a complete transmission, while large gaps can be observed in the area of A and C file numbers. The latter appears more plausible in view of the cassation decisions made during the (first) archiving in the Navy archives and due to war losses. - A deeper classification or structuring of the MK I signatures does not exist, rather more than 300 consecutive numbers are available, whereas A and C file numbers are partly more deeply structured (e.g. "Ca"). The latter seems more probable for the registry of the Commander of the Naval Corps Fliers (Kofl. M.K.) than a purely sequential numbering. The attempt to reconstruct the file plan on the basis of the preserved file covers appears very difficult, if not impossible, due to large gaps. The F numbers (for files or subject) and any existing PG numbers were entered in separate old signature fields in the Old signature field. It should be noted that an F number usually includes several files; F numbers can therefore occur several times. The old signatures of RM 112/49-56 from the RM 110 inventory were also included (formerly RM 110/612-619). An index of objects, places and persons was not compiled. Description of the holdings: After the end of the First World War, the documents of the disbanded naval stations, including the various commanders of the naval pilots, were collected in the War History Department of the Admiral Staff of the Navy, which had already been established on 15 February 1916, for the purpose of establishing a new naval archive. From 1919 the name of the naval archive was changed to "Head of the Institute for Naval History and Chairman of the Naval Archive". A second renaming took place on 22 January 1936 in "Kriegswissenschaftliche Abteilung der Marine". However, this did not belong to the Reichsarchiv, but was subject until 31 March 1934 to the Inspectorate of Naval Education, then to the Chief of Naval Management, and later as a subordinate authority to the Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine. During the Second World War, naval records were moved to Tambach Castle near Coburg on 22 November 1943. After the end of the war, the archives were confiscated by US troops and taken to London. There the files were filmed on a large scale, combined into bundles, provided with consecutive F-numbers ("Faszikel", "File" or "Fach") and partly with a seven-digit number with the prefixed letters PG ("Pinched from the Germans"). The archives were then handed over to the British Admiralty. In the 1960s, the marine files were returned to the Federal Republic of Germany as part of the file return process and were transferred to the Document Centre of the Military History Research Office (MGFA) in Freiburg. On the basis of an interministerial agreement between the Federal Minister of Defence and the Federal Minister of the Interior from 1968, the files were transferred from the Document Centre to the Federal Archives. They were finally transferred to the Federal Archives Military Archives, which had been moved from Koblenz to Freiburg. (See the inventory description for RM 110; Author: Michael Weins) The inventory comprises 234 storage units from various sea and land flight stations of the Imperial Navy. With two exceptions (RM 112/44, 137), the duration of the files does not extend beyond the period between 1914 and 1918, i.e. the First World War and the immediate post-war period. Most of the war diaries of the individual stations - both the (draft) copies kept at the stations and the copies for the admiral's staff - have survived; only war diaries of several stations are available. An exception to this is the tradition of the maritime flight stations Flanders I and Flanders II, which also contain reports and documents on personnel and technology. The tradition of the Flanders II seafaring station thus forms the largest portion in RM 112 (53 files). Of the sea flight stations (Kerch, Odessa and Sevastopol) which were not put into operation until 1918 as a result of the occupations in the Ukraine, as well as the stations in Turkey (Agha Liman/Mersina, Chanak and Kawak), Bulgaria (Varna) and Romania (Babadag, Duingi and Constanza), only one or two war diaries are available. Content characterization: War diaries, orders of the day, weekly reports and daily reports are available from various sea flight stations. In addition, collections of orders and activity reports, as well as files on weapons technology and questions of deployment and personnel matters have been handed down from the Flemish Flanders II seaport station. The naval land flight stations are represented with war diary documents. A large part of the documents may have been transferred to the Luftarchiv at that time and destroyed in 1945. The war diaries, reports and commands available from several sea flight stations in the eastern Baltic Sea region (Angernsee, Arensburg, Liebau, Papenholm, Windau and floating sea flight stations S.M.H. Answald and S.M.H. Santa Elena) offer partly illustrated information on the preparation and execution of the "Enterprise Albion". In 1916 and 1917 reconnaissance flights and partly also bombing raids took place especially from the Angernsee seaport station on Riga Bay, which were partly documented photographically. The Russian warships off Arensburg were photographed several times (RM 112/2-5), as well as the destruction of the Russian radio station on Runö (RM 112/4). Since the "Company Albion" is to be regarded as the first joint operation of the German armed forces, i.e. a combined army, navy and partly also air force operation, the relevant documents in inventory RM 112 form an important supplement for research, as they document the role of the air forces (operating under supreme command of the Navy). The files on personnel and technical matters received from the Flanders II naval flying station describe - despite the existing gaps in transmission - several aspects of the everyday operation and profile of a naval flying station and can be used as examples for other naval flying stations. However, it must be pointed out that the equipment and operational profile of the maritime flight stations in Flanders differed from those behind the front due to their proximity to the western front. State of development: Online-Findbuch Scope, Explanation: Stock without increase 5.4 lfm 234 AE Citation method: BArch, RM 112/...
History of the Inventory Designer: Tasks and Organization Essentially follows: (1) Jany, Curt: History of the Prussian Army from the 15th century to 1914, 2nd ed. Edition (= Die Königlich Preußische Armee und das Deutsche Reichsheer 1807 bis 1914, vol. 4), Osnabrück 1967, pp. 294-296. (2) Cron, Hermann: Geschichte des deutschen Armeres im Weltkriege 1914 bis 1918, Berlin 1937, pp. 3-23. (3) PH 3/124 Die Organisation des Großen Generalstabes 1803-1914 (4) PH 3/1026 Die Organisation des Großen Generalstabes (vom 18. Jhr.. until its dissolution in 1919, manuscript by HOAR Stoeckel) (5) PH 3/1272-1273 Graphical representation of the development of the organisation of the Great General Staff 1802-1914 (6) PH 3/310 First introduction to the organisation and activities of the Deputy General Staff of the Armed Forces (1919) (7) Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, MGFA (Ed. by the German Military Historical Research Institute, MGFA) (ed. by the German historian HOAR Stoeckel)): German military history in six volumes 1648 - 1939. Munich 1983 ff, pp. 69-72. (8) Enzyklopädie Erster Weltkrieg, ed. v: Gerhard Hirschfeld, Gerd Krumeich, Irina Renz in conjunction with Markus Pöhlmann, updated and extended study edition, Paderborn 2009, p. 754f. (9) PH 3/3 (10) Waldemar Erfurth: The History of the German General Staff 1918-1945 (= Studies on the History of the Second World War, ed. by Arbeitskreis für Wehrforschung in Frankfurt/Main, vol. 1), Göttingen 1957. 1. Großer Generalstab und Oberster Heeresleitung Großer Generalstab (7) With the Cabinet Order of 24 May 1883, the Generalstab became an Immediatbehörde (Immediate Authority), in fact it had held this position since the Wars of Unification. The General Staff was also assigned independently and directly to the monarch by the War Ministry. The tasks of the War Ministry and the Great General Staff overlapped in part, which occasionally led to conflicts. The position of Chief of Staff of the General Staff was respected, but, apart from operational management in the event of war, it was not endowed with important powers. The General Staff nevertheless exerted a decisive influence on the formation of the army through the training of leaders (the War Academy was subordinate to the Great General Staff), the care for the training of troops in warfare, and the handling of all questions connected with the conduct of a mobilization and a war. His activities included the cultivation of war science education, especially the study and processing of war history, the collection of news and statistical material on foreign armies and the various theatres of war, mapping, investigation and description of his own country. In the peacetime there were no far-reaching changes in the organization of the Grand General Staff, only some expansions due to the increasing scope of the General Staff duties. General Staff of the Field Army and Supreme Army Command (OHL) of the German Army (2) "According to Article 63 of the Constitution of the German Reich of 16 April 1871, the entire land power of the Reich formed a unified army, which was under the Emperor's command in war and peace. In peace, the head of the Great General Staff had practically no power of command and no right of inspection. He merely acted as chief and disciplinary superior of the Grand General Staff. The highest power of command was in fact with the emperor, but in practice it was the chief of the general staff of the army. During the war, the Chief of the General Staff issued operational orders in the name of the Emperor in accordance with the mobilization regulations and was jointly responsible for the management and execution of military operations as well as the other branches of service (ammunition replacement, catering, health, stage service). With the mobilization on August 2, 1914, the chief of the Prussian General Staff of the Army was formed as the "Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army" and the OHL, which was located in the Great Headquarters. The Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army thus embodied the OHL and was always equated with it by concept. On August 5, 1914, the deputy general staff of the army was mobilized in Berlin. The latter remained in existence until 31 January 1919. With the demobilisation, de Große Generalstab resumed its activities on 1 February 1919, with the exception of the positions remaining with OHL. (10) On the basis of the Treaty of Versailles, the dissolution of the Great General Staff was decided and initiated in July 1919. On 4 July 1919 Major General von Seeckt took over the business of the Chief of the General Staff. The name of the service is now "General von Seeckt". On September 30, 1919, the Great General Staff was finally dissolved with the establishment of a liquidation office from part of the central department. The Heads of the General Staff of the Army in Prussia from 1857 to 1918 Field Marshal General Hemuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke 1857-1888 Field Marshal General Alfred Heinrich Karl Ludwig von Waldersee 1888-1891 Field Marshal General Alfred Graf von Schlieffen 1891-1906 General Colonel Helmuth von Moltke 1906-1914 Between 1914 and 1918 a total of four OHLs were formed (8) 1. OHL: General Colonel Helmuth von Moltke, Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army from Aug. 2 to Sep. 14, 1914 2. OHL: General of the Infantry Erich von Falkenhayn, Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army from Aug. 14 to Sept. 14, 1914 2. 3rd Sept. (officially from 3 Sept. 1914) to 29 Aug. 1916 3rd OHL: General Field Marshal Paul von Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg, Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army from 29 Aug. 1916 to 9 Nov. 1916. 1918, Commander-in-Chief of the Field Army from 9 Nov. 1918 to 3 July 1919, assisted by the First Quartermaster General of the Infantry Erich von Ludendorff, First Quartermaster General from 29 Aug. 1916 to 26 Oct. 1918, then Lieutenant General Wilhelm Groener became First Quartermaster General from 29 Oct. 1918 to 3 July 1919 4. OHL: Lieutenant General Wilhelm Groener took over the OHL after the resignation of Hindenburgs on June 25, 1919 until the dissolution on Sept. 30, 1919 3. The organizational development of the Great General Staff The organization of the Great General Staff since April 1, 1889 (1) The Quartermaster General was first abolished again, but on April 1, 1889 three Quartermasters (O.Q.) were established. Central Office (from 1890 Central Division) Oberquartiermeister (O. Q.) I since 1 April 1889: 2nd Division Ordre de Bataille (Battle Regulations) and deployment of the German Army Railway Division Railway Section The Railway Section was responsible for the operation and training of the Railway Regiment, subordinate to the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, and of the Airship Division. Eisenbahn-Regiment Oberquartiermeister (O.Q.) II 4th Section - New Formation for the Affairs of Foreign Fortresses and the Preparation of the Drafts of Attacks, with AKO of Dec. 19, 1889 the Department for Foreign Fortresses was added by the Engineering Committee Geographical-Statistical Department (since 1894 an independent Department) German Section - Affairs of the Academy of War and the Training Trips of the General Staff Oberquartiermeister (O.Q.) III 1st Division (Russia, the Scandinavian states, Austria, the Balkans, etc.) 3rd Division (France, England, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy) Division of War History National Recording The position of the Quartermaster General was abolished. Structure of the Large General Staff of the Army since 1908 (1) Central Division 6th Division (Manoeuvre) Chief Quartermaster (O.Q.) I 2nd Division (Aufmasch) Technical Section (Air Force) 4th Division (Foreign Fortresses of the Western War Theatre) 7th Division (Foreign Fortresses of the Eastern War Theatre) Railway Division Chief Quartermaster (O.Q.) II 3rd Division (O.Q.) Department (Foreign Armies in the West) 9th Department (German Colonies) Oberquartiermeister (O. Q.) III 5th Department (Training Trips of the General Staff) 8th Department (Affairs of the War Academy) Oberquartiermeister IV (newly added since 1 April 1894) 1st Department (Foreign Armies in the East) 10th Department (Foreign Armies in the East) Oberquartiermeister V War Historical Department I and II The Head of the Large General Staff Central Department (Personnel, Organisation, Administration) with Section III b (Communications) 6th Section (Manoeuvres) War History Department II (Older War History) Chief Quartermaster (O.Q.) I. 2. (German Division) - Deployment and Operations Division Railway Division Section 1a (for the revision of the Military Transport Order) 4th Division (Foreign Fortresses) Chief Quartermaster (O.Q.) II 3rd Division (France with Morocco, England with Egypt, Afghanistan) 9th Division (Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Holland, Spain, Portugal, America, German Colonies) Chief Quartermaster (O.Q.) III 5th Division (Operations Studies) 8th Division (Operations Studies) Division (War Academy and General Staff Service) Chief Quartermaster (O.Q.) IV 1st Division (Russia, Nordic States, East Asia, Persia, Turkey) 10th Division (Russia, Northern States, East Asia, Persia, Turkey) Department (Austria-Hungary and Balkan States) Oberquartiermeister V Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung I (neuere Kriege) Kriegsarchiv Kartenarchiv Chief of the Landesaufnahme and Oberquartiermeister Trigonometrische Abteilung Topographische Abteilung Kartographische Abteilung Photogrammetische Abteilung Kolonialsektion Der Chef des Generalstabes des Feldheeres 1914 bis 1918 (2) 1. General Staff Departments Central Department She was responsible for receiving and forwarding correspondence to the relevant departments, in cooperation with the Military Cabinet for Personnel Matters and Administration. The department was headed by Colonel von Fabeck, and from 26 March 1916 it was headed by Colonel Tieschowitz von Tieschowa. Operations Department The department with the closest connection to the Chief of Staff. She was also the office for his personal letters. It was responsible for creating the conditions for all operational measures of the army: to monitor the organisation and organisation of the entire army and to propose improvements as well as the training, armament and operational capability of the units. The Chief of the Opera Department was responsible for advising the Chief of General Staff, drawing up the operational plans of the General Staff and issuing his orders. During the war the department was expanded extensively. Heads: Major General Tappen Lieutenant Colonel Wetzell (since 31 Aug. 1916) Operations Department B On 18 August 1916, a subdivision was set up under the Operations Department which was responsible for the Macedonian and Turkish fronts. Operations Division II On 23 September 1916, the post of Chief of Field Ammunition was dissolved. The tasks of ammunition and equipment replacement were taken over by the ammunition section in the operations department. Subsequently, the ammunition section was merged with the warfare section to form Operations Division II. Chief: Colonel Bauer News Department, since 20 May 1917 Foreign Armies Department She was responsible for the prosecution of military operations abroad, especially for the warfare of the enemy states. She primarily collected information on their organization and distribution of forces. Division III b Your task was to transmit the enemy's messages. This was done by intelligence officers deployed to the armies and at suitable points in the home country. There were also voluntary or paid agents in neutral and hostile foreign countries and the Secret Field Police in the occupied territories. News material was also provided by the border police and the field police, which also served to carry out espionage. The intelligence and counter-espionage services in the homeland communicated with Division IIIb of the Deputy General Staff, which in turn was subordinated to Division IIIb in the Great Headquarters. The guidelines for patriotic education were issued by the department, as was the press service set up to steer public opinion. Political Department since Feb. 10, 1916 Military Political Department It was responsible for the military political affairs of all states, dealt with legal issues and passed on the information to the military attachés and the written authority on peace issues. 2. the Quartermaster General and his subordinates The Quartermaster General was responsible for all the duties relating directly to the relief of the Chief of the Quartermaster General. operations. This included the entire supply, stage and railway system, field post and administration of justice, field medical services and veterinary services. Generalquartiermeister Generalleutnant von Stein since 14 Sept. 1914 Generalleutnant Hahndorff since 16 Jan. 1916 Subordinate positions Generalintendant des Feldheeeres He was responsible for providing the army with food. In addition, he was the head of the field and troop directorships. With the transition to the positional war, the monitoring of the nutrition in the occupied territory was added. In particular the cultivation of the soil and the necessary procurement of the agricultural machine material and the utilization of the harvest surplus for the field army. Later the industrial use of the occupied territories was added. A new economic department was set up for the West with effect from 5 September 1916. With effect from January 1, 1917, the economic department was made independent and expanded and set up on behalf of the General Quartermaster for the Western Theatre of War (B.d.G. West). He was responsible for the administration, management and utilization of the occupied territories in the West. Besides, he was subordinated: - General Wechselamt - art expert for monument preservation - prisoners of war - and civilian worker battalions - electrotechnical workshop West - artillery and training equipment repair workshops - looting and collecting (until subordinated to a special commissioner) At the beginning, the following positions were also subordinated to the Generalquartiermeister: - Chief of field munitions - Chief of field telegraphy - Chief of field railways - Chief of field aviation - Inspector of balloon guns Chief of field medical services General staff physician of the army Prof. Dr. Schiernig headed the medical services in the entire war zone as the highest superior of the medical personnel. His responsibilities included: the medical service, the care and transport of the wounded, the distribution of hospital trains and ships, hospitals in the homeland. Field Chief Postmaster He supervised the postal system on all theatres of war. The Field Oberpost Inspections West and East were set up to relieve him. Second Commander of the Great Headquarters He was responsible for the security and supply of the headquarters and the control of the sub personnel. He commanded the Infantry and Cavalry Staff Guard, a Land Storm Battalion, a Field Gendarmerie Command, Military Police, a motor vehicle spark station and a telephone department, three balloon defence guns (later ducrh replaced two air defence batteries), a headlight train (later expanded into a headlight department), the field directorate of the Great Headquarters together with the field warfare fund, motor vehicle fleet, field post office, Central Postal Surveillance West with the post office monitoring centre of the Great Headquarters, marketing department and reading hall. Secret Field Police cooperated closely with Division III b. During the war, B.d.G.West also added a number of agencies to the Great Headquarters. The commander of the troops, newly created in 1915, was located in Luxembourg. The Chief of Field Service was established at the end of 1916 and placed under the authority of the Quartermaster General. It served to centralise the motor vehicle formations. After the approval of the Generalqaurtiermeister, he was authorized to give instructions to the motor troops of the army high commandos and the staff figures assigned to the army groups in the west. On 17 May 1918, the staff of the commander of the combat vehicle departments was subordinated to the head of the motor vehicle division. The B.d.G. Ost with its seat in Warsaw was responsible for the utilization of the land in the administrative area of the Supreme Commander East and the General Government of Warsaw. Valenciennes Military Mine Directorate It fell under the jurisdiction of the Quartermaster General in September 1917. The mining administrations of Mons and Valenciennes, which until then had been part of the Metz government, were united to form a military directorate. The German representation in occupied Italy Used in February 1918 in Udine with evacuation of the 14th army. It served to assert German interests in the war spoils acquired jointly with Austria. The commander of the 13th Cavalry Brigade and his staff were to regulate the demand for horses on the eastern and western fronts due to the increasing shortage of horses. He was assigned to the GQ on 31 December 1916. In February 1918 he became the Commissioner of the Quartermaster General in equestrian affairs. Commissioner of the General Quartermaster in Berlin In order to reestablish trade relations with the former Russian territories resulting from the treaties with the Allies, coordination between the central authorities and the General Staff was necessary. He also took over the supervision of the import and export points. Commissioner of the Master Quartermaster General for Prey and Collecting This was created with effect from 1 June 1918. It had already been settled in 1917. He was responsible for the administration of the spoils of war and the control of the services. General of the Ammunition Columns and Trains in the Great Headquarters The increase in the number of formations was accompanied by the technical contraction of weapons, which was created in July 1918. Her task was to use the units, to supervise the technical service in the war zone and at home, and to replace the clothing and field equipment. 3. foot artillery and pioneers were among the special weapons and their technical training was monitored by the inspections. The General of the Foot Artillery in the Great Headquarters He was adviser to the Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army on technical matters and the deployment of heavy artillery. In addition, he shaped the training in his home country. He was subordinate to the later established "Inspector of Artillery Metrology" and the "Staff Officer for Heavy Flat Fire". At first he had no direct influence on the general of artillery. This did not change when the OHL introduced the unit staffs "Artillery Generals" instead of "Field Artillery Brigade Commanders" and Foot Artillery Generals to unify artillery. Thus his name was changed to "General von der Artillerie Nr. 1". A month later he became "Inspector General of Artillery Shooting Schools". He was in charge of the shooting training of the entire field and foot artillery in the field and at home. General Inspectors: General of the Artillery of Lauter (until 15 Oct. 1917) Lieutenant General Ziethen The General of the Engineering and Pioneer Corps in the Great Headquarters He was the supreme weapons superior during the war of increasing and specializing formations of the pioneers. He advised the Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army and was responsible for the organizational and technical development of the pioneers. The special services of the pioneers, such as the stage-managers of the mine-throwing machine, in existence since the end of 1915, the inspector of the gas regiments created in 1916 and the stage-manager of the pioneer melee means of close combat established in May 1918. In August 1918 he received the designation General of the Pioneers from the Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army. General der Pioniere: General der Infanterie von Claer bis bis zum 2. Juli 1916 Major General Marschall von Bieberstein seit 28. Aug. 1918 The Chief of the Field Ammunition Service This was initially subordinated to the Generalquartiermeister. His tasks included coordinating the ammunition provided by the War Ministry in conjunction with the Chief of Field Railways as well as the replacement of equipment on the basis of the reports from the Army High Commands and the Stage Inspection. In addition, he was responsible for planning the needs of the army commandos and the stage inspections and reporting them to the War Ministry. With effect from 10 May 1915, he was directly subordinated to the Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army. This should ensure close coordination with the operations department. On 23 September 1916 the position of Chief of Field Ammunition was dissolved. His duties were performed by the Operations Department. The Chief of the Field Telegraphy The Chief of the Field Telegraphy was settled during the first three years of war at the General Quartermaster. He was in charge of the entire intelligence troops and intelligence media of the field army. During the war the news formations were strongly expanded, which caused the army leadership under Hindenburg to carry out a reorganization. A general of the telegraph troops for the western, eastern and southeastern theater of war was created to relieve the field telegraphy chief. These generals were subordinated to the chief of field telegraphy. A new restructuring of the intelligence system took place, with the head of the field telegraphy reporting to it. A new organizational change was made by the Chief of Field Telegraphy to "Chief of Intelligence" and reporting directly to the Chief of General Staff of the Field Army. He also became commanding general. He was now responsible for organisation, use, training, staffing, replacement, replenishment, technical requirements and all German spark telegraphy traffic. Chief: Major General Balck Colonel von Wolff since Dec. 7, 1914 Major General von Hesse since Apr. 9, 1917 The Chief of Field Railways He was initially subordinate to the Quartermaster General. It was not until his replacement in October 1916 that he was directly subordinated to the Chief of the General Staff. His tasks included the complete railway system and the use of the waterways. At the commander-in-chief east he was represented by the field railway boss east. There were also railway officers at the stage commandos and the stage inspections, later there were authorized general staff officers at the allied states in Constantinople, Sofia, Vienna, and from mid-1916 also at the army groups. Further streamlining of the organization was achieved by the creation of independent railway transport departments based at the Great Headquarters in Kowno and Pleßhatten. Heads: Major General Groener until 31 Oct. 1916 Colonel Freiherr von Oldershausen Chief of War Surveying With the war of positions and the production of a wide variety of maps, war surveying became increasingly important. The head of war surveying was to steer this task. Therefore, the authority was created in July 1915. All surveying units were subject to this authority. Depending on requirements, staff figures for surveying were assigned to the army commandos in the west and the army groups in the west. Chief of the military aviation While one was superior to the army airships, one lay back with the planes behind France, with the captive balloons one was set up in something equal. In order to make the air forces more efficient, the chief of the air force was set up in 1915 with the general quartermaster. He ran the aviators, the airmen and the weather service. On 1 July 1915, an inspector of the balloon guns of the General Quartermaster was created for the air defence, which belonged to artillery. On 8 October 1916, Lieutenant General Hoppner was appointed Commanding General of the Air Force by Allerhöchste Kabinettsordrre and the former Chief of Field Aviation, Lieutenant Colonel Thomsen, became his Chief of Staff. All formations of the airmen, the airship, the air defence and the weather service in the field and in the homeland were subordinated to the Kogenluft. This was directly subordinated to the Chief of the General Staff in October 1915. The head censorship office was also integrated into this, which had previously been the organisational office of the deputy commanding generals. The tasks of the War Press Office were to improve cooperation between the home authorities and the Supreme Army Command in the field of the press, to provide information to the authorities and the press, and to ensure that the supervision of the press was uniform. She was also responsible for forwarding the censorship guidelines to the censorship offices. The press office had contact to all departments, the otherwise usual way of appeal did not exist. In October 1918, the War Press Office was subordinated to the War Ministry. Military post of the Federal Foreign Office The post was established on 1 July 1916 and was subordinated to the Supreme Army Command, but was organisationally subordinated to the Federal Foreign Office, Division IIIb of the Deputy General Staff, the War Press Office, the War Ministry, the Admiral Staff and the R e i c h s m a r i n e a m t . She was responsible for the defense against enemy propaganda and for German propaganda at home and abroad. On 30 January 1917, a "Picture and Photo Office" was set up, which in April 1917 was designated as the "Picture and Film Office". In December 1917, Universum Film AG was founded on the initiative of the Picture and Film Office and used for educational purposes. In January 1918, the Bild- und Filmamt was administratively subordinated to the War Ministry. However, the Military Office of the Federal Foreign Office continued to be empowered to issue directives. The organization of the Great General Staff from 1. February 1919 Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army (9) Central Department Chief of the Landesaufnahme General Staff Departments Department Foreign Army Department (F) Railway Department (E) War Economics Department (Kriweis) Economics Department (W) War History Department (K) War History Department (K 1) War History Department (K 2) War History Department (K 3) Description of the Collection: The maps from the former inventory KART 3 were transferred to the inventory PH 3-KART. Content characterization: The map inventory contains maps of various types (section maps, location maps, position maps, operation maps, photo maps, artillery maps, map sheets, map sketches, etc.) of the theatres of war of the First World War. The maps were produced by the cartographic department of the Deputy General Staff of the Field Army and by the surveying departments and map offices of the command authorities and associations. The majority of the maps refer to the western theater of war, especially Belgium, France and Luxembourg. Only a small part of the documents refers to the eastern theater of war, especially Russia. State of development: Invenio citation: BArch, PH 3-KART/...
Contains among other things: Question of the defence of Kiautschou and the participation of the cruiser squadron in it, Aug. 1914 The Dutch merchant ship "Tubantia" is seized and dismissed by Great Britain after 100 crates of Argentine gold were confiscated and destined for a German bank. 19./20.8.1914 Chief of the Admiral Staff concerning approval of the intention of the Chief of the Mediterranean Division to promote the war readiness of the Turkish Navy, 18.8.1914 question of the unhindered export of food by Denmark to Great Britain, Aug. 1914 formation of the commanders and chiefs of the ships and boats as well as the associations of the light naval forces. Druck, Aug. 1914 Return of Italians living in Germany to their homeland, 21.8.1914 Difficulties with Vice Admiral v. Usedom as chief of the German naval mission in Turkey, 22.8.1914 Question of the publication of the German losses in the sea battle near Helgoland on 28.8.1914 Postponement of airship attacks on England, 4.9.1914 Question of the laying of defensive mine barriers in the German Bight, Sept. 1914 Emperor Wilhelm II. Proposes the advance of 2-3 battle cruisers against the blockade line in the northern North Sea, 10. and 17.9.1914 Deputy Chief of Admiral Staff against early announcement of ship losses, 13. and 15.9.1914 Provision of a landing corps for deployment at Memel, Sept. 1914 Question of the radius of action of the submarines, Sept. 1914 Question of the blocking of the flint channel against the intrusion of British submarines into the Baltic Sea, Sept.Oct. 1914 Order of Emperor Wilhelm II to disrupt the troop transports in the English Channel by submarines, 2nd and 3rd October 1914 Question of a joint airship attack of army and navy on London, Oct. 1914
History of the Inventory Designer: 1.2.1939 Appointment of the Chief of Training to relieve the General Staff of the Luftwaffe. At first he was directly subordinate to the Inspector General of the Luftwaffe, since April 1940 to the intermediate Chief of the Air Force. The inspections that had existed since 1935 for the individual branches of the armed forces were transferred to the Chief of Training. During the war, they were overwhelmingly converted into arms generals and mostly subordinated to the Chief of the Air Force General Staff. In the spring of 1943, the office of Chief of Education was closed. Some of the tasks were entrusted to the "General of Flight Training", who from July 1944 was subordinated to the Chief of the General Staff of the Luftwaffe and in October 1944 also took over the training area of the Luftwaffe Command Staff I a with the chart system. Overview of the names of the inspections / weapon generals L In 1 1936 - Jan. 1939: Inspection of the reconnaissance pilots and the aerial photography Febr. - Sept. 1939: Inspection of the army pilots, plus General of the Lw. at the ObdH Oct. 1939 - Spring 1942: Inspection of the reconnaissance pilots Spring 1942 - Autumn 1943: General of the reconnaissance pilots and General of the Lw. at the ObdH from autumn 1943: General of the reconnaissance pilots L In 2 1937 - Jan. 1939: Inspection of the combat pilots Febr. - Sept. 1939: Inspection of the combat, Stuka and reconnaissance pilots Oct. 1939 - Sept. 1941: Inspection of the combat and Stuka pilots from Sept. 1941: General of the combat pilots L In 3 1936 - 1937: Inspection of the fighter and Stuka pilots 1938: Inspection of the fighter and Stuka pilots 1938: Inspection of the reconnaissance pilots L In 2 1937 - Jan. 1939: Inspection of the fighter, Stuka and reconnaissance pilots Oct. 1939 - Sept. 1931: Inspection of the fighter and Stuka pilots from Sept. 1941: General of the fighter pilots L In 3 1936 - 1937: Inspection of the fighter and Stuka pilots 1938: 1939 - 1941: Inspection for technical training 1942 - May 1943: Inspection for technical troop service, equipment and weapons L In 6 From 1937: Inspection of motor vehicles L In 7 Inspection of air intelligence L In 8 Inspection of seaplanes Febr. 1939 - March 1940: Inspection of Naval Pilots Apr. 1940 - Apr. 1942 Inspection of Maritime Aviation L In 9 Inspection of Pilot Schools L In 10 Inspection of Education and Training, plus Command of the Air War Schools June - Dec. 1944: Inspection for Troop Service and Education in the Air Force L In 11 1939: Inspection of the Airborne and Parachute Troops, plus Commander of the Air Force Division 7 L In 12 1939 - Jan. 1944: Inspection of the Airborne and Parachute Troops L In 11 1939: Inspection of the Airborne and Parachute Troops, plus Commander of the Airborne and Parachute Division 7 L In 12 1939 - Jan. 1944: Inspection of the Airborne and Parachute Troops L In 11 1939: Inspection of the Airborne and Parachute Troops, plus Commander of the Airborne and Parachute Troops 7 L In 12 1939 - Jan. 1939 1941: Inspection for air navigation (blind flight and meteorological service inspection) L In 13 1939 - 1942: Inspection of civil air defence since 1942: Inspection of air defence L In 14 1939 - 1944 Inspection of medical service L In 15 Inspection of air defence zones L In 16 Inspection of maritime emergency service L In 17 June 1942 - Spring 1943: Inspection of air force construction forces Spring 1943 - Apr. 1944: Air force inspection for construction troops and prisoners of war May - Sept. 1944: Inspection of air force pioneers and prisoner of war camps From Oct. 1944: Inspection of the air force pioneers and prisoner of war camps from Oct. 1944: Inspection of the air force pioneers and prisoner of war camps from Oct. 1944: Inspection of the air force pioneers and prisoner of war camps from Oct. 1944: Inspection of the air force pioneers and prisoner of war from Sept. 1944: Inspection of the air force pioneers and prisoner of war from Oct. 1944: Inspection of the air force pioneers and prisoner of war from Sept. 1944: Inspection of the air force pioneers and prisoner of war from Oct. 1944 In 18 Dec. 1942 - Beginning of 1944: Inspection of the air force field units Inventory description: The department Chief of Training (Chef AW) was formed in February 1939 to relieve the 3rd (training) department of the General Staff, which had emerged in 1937 from the training department of the Luftkommandoamt (Air Command Office) in existence since 1934 and was subordinate to the Air Force Inspector General. The 3rd section of the General Staff was limited to tactical training, while the Chief AW had to carry out the entire remaining training of the Luftwaffe according to the instructions of the Reich Minister of Air Force (Ob.d.L.). Equipped with the status and disciplinary powers of a Commanding General, he had the right to supervise the training orders issued and to attend the service of the units in order to check the level of training of the troops. However, he did not exercise direct command over the troops. At first, the Chief AW was also directly responsible to the Inspector General of the Luftwaffe (Gen.Insp.d.Lw.), but since April 1940 to the intermediate Chief of the Air Force. In addition to the training department, the staff included the regulations and teaching material department, the strength and equipment department and the aerial photography department, which was spun off from Luftwaffeninspektion 1 (L In 1), the former army aircraft inspection. The air force inspections 1-14, which had also been under the control of the Gen.Insp.d.Lw. since their formation in 1935, now fell under the authority of the Chief AW, although from April 1940 only the inspections 1-3, 8-10 and 12 remained in his area of responsibility. In the spring of 1943, the Aerial Photogrammetry Department, together with the Air Force's Main Photogrammetry Department, was affiliated with the General of Reconnaissance Aircraft (formerly L In 2) in order to serve as the basis for reconnaissance work there. Surveying was assigned to the 7th department of the General Staff; only Group V (film) and the main film station remained with the Chief AW. Renamed in "General der Fliegerausbildung" (Gen.d.Fl.Ausb.)(Kreipe) the former chief AW remained limited to his main task of troop training. From July 1944 on he was subordinated to the Chief of the General Staff (Chief Gen.St.) and in October of the same year the training area was taken over by the Luftwaffe Command Staff Ia (training dept.), where already since 1942 the map system was integrated. The "General of the reconnaissance pilots" (v. Barsewisch), who at the same time also held the functions of General d. Lw. at the Commander-in-Chief of the Army (Ob.d.H.) (taken over from L In 1, Insp. d. Heeresflieger), was responsible for the organisation and conversion of the reconnaissance units and for the development of aircraft. Due to his impressions during inspections, he was able to make training demands on the general of the pilot training and even provide for the training of officers in reconnaissance supplementary units. In spring 1945 his duties were taken over by the 7th abbot of the Lw.Führungsstab (Lw.F.St.). The purpose of the air force inspections was to monitor and supervise the training, personnel and equipment of the various branches of the armed forces and other facilities of the air force. They made suggestions for improvements and advised the Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe (Ob.d.L.) during the war - partly with the powers of a Commanding General and renamed to weapon generals. The weapon generals were directly under the control of the chief of the general staff, thus in contrast to the inspections they were equal to the chief of AW/Gen.d.Fl.Ausb. New services have been created or areas of responsibility moved as needed. Thus the L In. 1 (inspection of the army pilots) with the range aerial photography and the connection to the army was divided between the boss AW and the Gen.d.Aufkl.flieger or took over later completely from the latter. Since January 1940 the L In 4 (Flakart.) and the L In 13 (Luftschutz) were subordinated to the general of the anti-aircraft artillery (Flakwaffe) (Rüdel, afterwards v. Axthelm) since January 1940; the latter became from October an independent mechanism. From April 1940, inspections 5 (flight safety), 6 (motor vehicles) and 14 (medical services) were directly under the command of the Air Force Chief - no longer under the command of AW. who in turn was subordinated to the Gen.Insp.d.Lw. At the end of 1944 all inspections were subordinated to the weapon generals. In May 1943, the "General der Truppentechnik" was appointed as successor to the Technical Office of the General Aircraft Master. In 1944 the "General der Fliegerbodenorganisation" emerged from the 2nd department of the General Quartermaster. Characterisation of the content: The Chief AW and the General of Flight Training have mainly passed down provisions on the training of the different types of armed forces, in particular the Air Force, as well as on staffing and organisation. The richest survivor is the general of reconnaissance pilots, whose written records contain most of the relatively extensive documents on aerial photography. The general of the anti-aircraft weapon as well as the inspections of the medical service and the civil air-raid protection are also handed down with noteworthy documents, the latter with experience reports about heavy air attacks on German cities. Remains of documents have been deposited in the Federal Archives by the generals of fighter, fighter and battle pilots as well as by the General of the Naval Sector, to whom the naval and sea pilots were technically subordinate, mostly in the form of leadership principles, guidelines for deployment and cooperation with the army and navy (with experience reports), technical requirements, development programmes, lists of the armament status and staffing of positions. State of preservation: Findbuch 1990 Vorarchivische Ordnung: The archive material, which has only been handed down in fragments, originates from the return of files from the USA and Great Britain to the Document Centre of the Military History Research Office, from where it was handed over to the military archive in 1968. Scope, explanation: 692 AU Citation method: BArch, RL 4/...
Contains: among others: Garden Associations; Student Associations; Hiking Associations; Schools; Music Associations; Association for the German Abroad; Hausfrauenbund; Lecture Doegen, Prussian State Library; Women's Associations; Anthroposophical Society; Himmelsbach Company; Caritas; Sports Associations; Swiss Benefit Society; Singing Associations; German National Association of Assistants; Reichsbund der Kriegsbeschädigten etc.; Christian Community e.V.Freiburg Student Aid; Association of Catholic Academics; German Officers' Association; Friends of the City's Art Collections; Breisgau Association for Aviation; Nature Research Society; Baden Home; Art Research Society; Business and Professional Associations; German Institute for Scientific Education; Social Democratic Party; National Association Against Alcoholism; German Reich Railway; Breisgau Association Schauinsland; Protestant Association of the Gustav Adolf Foundation; Görresgesellschaft; Catholic Assembly 1929; Reichsbund der Kinderreichen; Marianische Kongregation; VolkshochschuKolonialgesellschaft; Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobilclub; Akademisch Literarische Gesellschaft; III Internationaler Friedenskongress; Süddeutscher Rundfunk; City of Freiburg; Studiengesellschaft für Automobilstraßenbau; Süddeutscher Jugendbund; Internationale Arbeiterhilfe; Gefangenenfürsorge; Überlassung für politische Veranstaltungen, allgemein; Darin: "3. International Peace Congress Freiburg im Breisgau, 1923;
Contains among other things: Expenditure in the field of food and grain management; establishment and tasks of the "Reichsnährstand"; enterprises involved in the Reich: Mundus GmbH and its subsidiaries, Überseeische Gesellschaft/Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft, Isteg Steel, Luxembourg, Isteg Stahl, Vienna, Nordag, Oslo, Förlagsaktiebolaget Illustra AG, Stockholm, Optische Werke, C.A. Steinheil Söhne, Munich, Societé Maritime Universelle, Paris, Slovak-Deutsche Handelskanzlei, Preßburg, Vereinigte Industrieunternehmungen AG - Viag, Berlin, Reichskreditgesellschaft, Borussia-Beteiligungs GmbH, Bank der deutschen Luftfahrt, Aero Bank, Paris; official and private war grave welfare; foreign exchange protection commands (organisation); foreign teacher (permanent positions, civil service security); German Labour Front (Financial Foundations); Deposit money at Berlin banks before surrender; Military expenditure in the accounting year 1938; The German monetary system; Reich participation in economic enterprises in Baden; Foreign workers in the German Reich 1942-1944; Tax revenues 1933-1944; Budget revenues and expenditures 1940-1944; Customs duties and excise taxes in Austria since 1945 (as of 1945): Jan. 1949); buildings for the "Führer and Reich Chancellor"; real property of the German Reich in Paris; objects of war loot of the Prince of Monaco and the Rothschild family; registration of foreign securities; principles for drawing up the Reich budget plans before and after 1933; value and specific duties
Contains: with: Preparations (for withdrawal) of Finland from the war Naval coastal artillery Deployment of light naval forces and security forces, submarines Fuel situation Waste of Finland Deployment of submarines in the eastern Baltic Sea Company "Tanne" Merchant ship affairs Coastal defence of West Denmark Army troops Geb. AOK 20 Surveillance against sabotage and illegal passenger traffic in Danish waters as well as after Sweden Evacuation of the sea area of the naval commander R. Enemy situation inner Kronstadt bay Use of the Peipus Sea flotilla Situation in the Finn bust Planned settling movement from Luga bay area Preparations Withdrawal Army front in line Hungerburg - Narwa Action "Forwards" Defense of Estonia Mine situation in western Baltic Sea Enemy news on the use of the Soviet Baltic fleet Enemy and ice situation in the Finn bust Material on the enemy situation East, Soviet Union, Baltic Sea Threatening situation Narwa-Front Use of heavy cruisers "Prince Eugene" and resulting change in the command organisation in the northern area Hunting protection in the Finnish bosom Report on the political situation Finland's enemy air mine deployment in the Baltic Sea area Night hunting escort vessel "Togo" Occupation of the Aaland Islands and the island Hochland Command Army Group North for coastal protection on the north coast of Estonia Directive for companies "Tanne" Practice firing Protection of the bridges important for transport over the emperor's seaWilhelm-Kanal in case of a hostile landing Night hunt against hostile mine planes Communiqué of the Finnish government on the negotiations with the Soviet Union Material on the enemy situation East (Baltic Sea) Memorandum of the ObdM on the significance of the Narwa position for the overall warfare Dredging work in the port of Libau Operation order for keyword "Leipzig" Status Transfer of combat vehicles for Peipus Sea on 9. Apr. 1944 Reinforcement of combat forces in the Skagerrak area Termination of deliveries to Finland Statistics for month Apr. 1944 Expansion of Reval as a fixed place Code name "Rotbuche" Report on enemy air raid on Kiel (including damage to the Germania shipyard) Führer's order concerning removal of the 20th Lw Field Division from area W.Bfh. Denmark to Ob. Southwest to Northern Italy Mining Sea urchin barriers Land target shooting Use of school vehicles and inspections to clear mines in the Baltic Sea Closure planning in the Finnenbusen Possibilities of repatriating people and material from Estonian area Russian attack on the Karelian isthmus Location Finnenbusen Defence of the Koivisto offshore islands Guideline No. 50 Evacuation of the Koivisto islands Short report on companies against Narvi
Publisher: French Ministry of War; Graphic: Paul Colin; Print: Hachard