History of the Inventor: On 21 March 1919, the Admiralty was established as the top authority of the Navy, whose chief stood on an equal footing with the chief of the army command. On 15.9. 1920 the Admiralty was renamed to Marineleitung (ML) and ...
In: Bundesarchiv (Archivtektonik) >> Norddeutscher Bund und Deutsches Reich (1867/1871-1945) >> Militär >> Reichswehr und Wehrmacht 1919 bis 1945 >> Reichsmarine und Kriegsmarine >> Spitzenbehörden
History of the Inventor: 1867 Interim assumption of the foreign policy tasks for the North German Confederation by the Prussian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; on 1 January 1867, the Prussian Ministry of Foreign Affairs took over the tasks of the Nor...
In: Federal Archives (Archivtektonik) >> North German Confederation and German Reich (1867/1871-1945) >> Foreign Affairs, Colonial and Occupation Administration
Inventory description: In order to implement the armistice between Germany and France, the German Armistice Commission, consisting essentially of the Wehrmacht, Army, Navy, Air Force, Armaments and a German liaison delegation to the Italian Armist...
In: Bundesarchiv (Archivtektonik) >> Norddeutscher Bund und Deutsches Reich (1867/1871-1945) >> Militär >> Reichswehr und Wehrmacht 1919 bis 1945 >> Zentrale Einrichtungen der Reichswehr und der Wehrmacht >> Weitere nachgeordnete Einrichtungen
History of the Inventor: The Naval Command Office (A) assumed the function of the Admiral Staff, which had been dissolved as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, and in 1933 was expanded from originally 2 to 5 departments (A I: Operations, A II: ...
In: Bundesarchiv (Archivtektonik) >> Norddeutscher Bund und Deutsches Reich (1867/1871-1945) >> Militär >> Reichswehr und Wehrmacht 1919 bis 1945 >> Reichsmarine und Kriegsmarine >> Spitzenbehörden
History of the Inventor: The naval station of the Baltic Sea, built in 1853 as a naval station command in Gdansk, was moved to Kiel in 1865. The station chief had territorial authority over all naval authorities and naval parts existing in his are...
In: Prussian and Imperial Navy 1849 to 1918/1919 >> commanders
Description of the holdings: In 1920 the attaché service was essentially dissolved. Between 1920 and 1933, no naval attachés were notified to German embassies abroad. From 1933 to 1945, the Kriegsmarine again sent naval attachés to the most import...
In: Bundesarchiv (Archivtektonik) >> Norddeutscher Bund und Deutsches Reich (1867/1871-1945) >> Militär >> Reichswehr und Wehrmacht 1919 bis 1945 >> Reichsmarine und Kriegsmarine >> Weitere nachgeordnete Einrichtungen
History of the Inventory Designer: Skl = Operations Department of the Naval Command Office, Chief of the Authority was Chief of the Staff of the Naval War Command (Skl) from April 1, 1937. In this capacity, in 1938, the former naval intelligence d...
In: Bundesarchiv (Archivtektonik) >> Norddeutscher Bund und Deutsches Reich (1867/1871-1945) >> Militär >> Reichswehr und Wehrmacht 1919 bis 1945 >> Reichsmarine und Kriegsmarine >> Spitzenbehörden
Inventory description: In 1920 a counterespionage group with two departments for espionage and sabotage defense in the east and west was formed in the army statistics department of the troop office. In 1935 it was used as the starting point for th...
In: Reichswehr and Wehrmacht 1919 to 1945 >> Central Facilities of the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht >> Foreign Department/Defense Office
1.1 Prussian Officer's Witwenkasse The Prussian Officer's Witwenkasse was founded in 1792 as an insurance institution for married officers of the Prussian army with state guarantee and support. Active officers were not required to join u...
In: Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage (Archivtektonik) >> PREUSSISCHE ARMEE >> Military administration and troop command >> Central or Upper Administrative and Command Authorities
History of the Inventory Designer: 1907 Formation of the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t from the Colonial Department of the A u s w ä r t i g e s A m t ; 1919 Transformation into a R e i c h s k o l o n i a l ministry and assumption of the liqu...
In: Federal Archives (Archivtektonik) >> North German Confederation and German Reich (1867/1871-1945) >> Foreign Affairs, Colonial and Occupation Administration
History of the Inventor: After the unification of the court organization and the procedural law of the federal states on January 1, 1877, the legal department of the Reich Chancellery became independent as Reichsju‧stizamt (since 1919 Reich Minist...
In: Federal Archives (Archivtektonik) >> North German Confederation and German Reich (1867/1871-1945) >> Justiz
History of the Inventory Designer: The Prisenhöfe - Oberprisenhof Berlin, Prisenhöfe Hamburg and Berlin - were established in September 1939 and March 1941 respectively. Her duties were to initiate proceedings on the ships brought in and, followin...
In: Bundesarchiv (Archivtektonik) >> Norddeutscher Bund und Deutsches Reich (1867/1871-1945) >> Militär >> Preußische und Kaiserliche Marine 1849 bis 1918/1919 >> Weitere nachgeordnete Einrichtungen
History of the Inventor: The Reichsmarineamt (Reichsmarineamt) was created as the successor authority to the Imperial Admiralty with effect from April 1, 1889, in the form of a cabinet order (in addition to the Navy Cabinet and the Navy High Comma...
In: Prussian and Imperial Navy 1849 to 1918/1919 >> top authorities
History of the Inventory Designer: The tasks of the Ship Inspection Commission established in 1903, which began its activities in Hamburg on 01.04.1904, consisted in the examination of merchant ships for their usability for military purposes in wa...
In: Bundesarchiv (Archivtektonik) >> Norddeutscher Bund und Deutsches Reich (1867/1871-1945) >> Militär >> Preußische und Kaiserliche Marine 1849 bis 1918/1919 >> Weitere nachgeordnete Einrichtungen
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 Ch...
In: Bundesarchiv (Archivtektonik) >> Norddeutscher Bund und Deutsches Reich (1867/1871-1945) >> Militär >> Reichswehr und Wehrmacht 1919 bis 1945 >> Luftwaffe >> Spitzenbehörden
