Fonds Bundesarchiv, BArch RM 9 - Naval Peace Commission (Mafri/Friko) / Naval Ceasefire Commission Spa (Marinewako) and League of Nations Group Marine

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History of the Inventor: Captain at Sea Ernst Vanselow<br />Captain at Sea Ernst Vanselow belonged to the Armistice Commission Berlin as representative of the Chairman State Secretary (later Reich Minister) Erzberger since Nov. 1918. Within the Commission, he headed the Maritime and Food Affairs Department. In this capacity, on behalf of Admiral Scheer, chief of the Skl, he led the negotiations on the draft armistice agreement at the special meeting for naval affairs in Compiègne on 8 November 1918 with the instruction to achieve "mitigations" in individual points, especially concerning the "blockade".<br />Even so he was involved in further negotiations with the Allies until the signing of the armistice agreement on 11 Nov 1918.<br />As an authorized representative alongside State Secretary Erzberger, Major General von Winterfeld and the envoy Count Oberndorf, he conducted the negotiations for the three extensions of the armistice ( Dec. 12, 1918, Jan. 16, 1919, Feb. 16, 1919).<br />Captain at Sea Vanselow was particularly involved in Article V.., Provisions regarding the naval power negotiations on Feb. 15, 1919, alongside Corvette Captain Hintzmann and Lieutenant Captain Kiep.<br />Marine-Friedenskommission<br />The Naval Peace Commission was formed on Nov. 23, 1918 as the "Naval Deputation for the 'German Peace Commission'". It was already apparent in October 1918 that there would be a naval peace commission as the successor organization to the naval ceasefire commission. Captain Ernst Vanselow was described as the "liaison officer with the 'leadership of the peace negotiations' during the preparatory work", "the authorized representative of the Secretary of State of the Reich-Marine-Amts" Rear Admiral Friedrich von Bülow. The Naval Peace Commission was the place for all negotiations between the Navy and the interaligned commissions. It was directly under the head of the Admiralty; its leader acted within his sphere of responsibility on behalf of the head of the Admiralty.<br />The Naval Peace Commission consisted of Rear Admiral von Bülow as head, four members, an Auxiliary Naval War Court Council, a registrar, a secretary and an unskilled laborer.<br />The tasks of the Naval Peace Commission were the following:<br />"a) Conducting all negotiations with the interaligned commissions, unless expressly ordered to do otherwise by the Chief of the Admiralty.<br />b) Mediation of the traffic of these commissions with individual naval offices.<br />c) Preparation and execution of the inspection trips of the interaligned commissions, presentation of the accompanying officers for these trips."<br />d) Mediation of all traffic of the Reich-Marine-Amt with the peace office of the Auswärtiges Amt."<br />On January 16, 1920, the rules of procedure of the Naval Peace Commission were changed. Captain at sea Commodore Freiherr von Gagern became the new chairman of the commission, whose name changed from "chief" to "president".<br />The naval peace commission was structured as follows in the "Structure and Nomenclature of the Naval Peace Commission" of 30 Sept. 1920: at the head was a chairman, captain at sea Max Reymann, among them seven officers. Subcommittee A listed two staff members, Subcommittee B three staff members and Subcommittee D one staff member. Two interpreters and two unskilled workers are also listed. Finally, liaison officers are listed at various locations, namely eight in Berlin, five in Wilhelmshaven, two in Cuxhaven, eight in Kiel, one in Bremen, two in Geestemünde, two in Hamburg, one in Emden and Borkum, one in Flensburg, one in Stettin and one in Pillau. Of these liaison officers, eight served part-time at the Naval Peace Commission.<br />The organization of the Naval Peace Commission was adapted to the organization of the Naval Interallied Commission of Control (Niacc/Niac) by forming subcommittees according to the three subcommittees of the Niacc also in the Mafri "with the difference, that the subcommittee C is not confronted with a similar one, since the defortification of Helgoland, including the destruction of the port, is dealt with by the Reich Treasury, which has set up a special commission for direct communication with the subcommittee C of the Niacc, based in Helgoland". Sub-commissions A and B were responsible for providing information and mediation for sub-commissions A and B of the Niacc, as well as for dealing with non-principal issues with the sub-commissions according to the instructions of the President of the Naval Peace Commission, and for informing the Naval Peace Commission. They were led by the president of subcommittees A and B. The subcommittees were formed in the Admiralty. They only dealt with the Naval Peace Commission and the corresponding subcommissions.<br />As a supplement to the subcommissions A and B of the Mafri, Subcommission D was founded. According to the "Organisation für die Suberkommission D. der Marinefriedenskommission" of 29 Jan. 1920 its task consisted in the "provision of information and mediation for the interalied branch subcommission Kiel in the matter of fortifications, information of the naval peace commission [and] settlement of not fundamental questions with the interalied branch commission according to the instructions of the president of the naval peace commission". Already on March 6, however, their tasks were "limited to the North Sea fortification".<br />structure (as of Nov. 28, 1918, dissolved on January 31, 1927): RM 8 F 7841 Notifications ff Bd. 1)<br />Hef für Karten: Rear Admiral of Bülow<br />Fr I (Captain at Sea Vanselow)<br />Law and Economic Affairs<br />Fr II (Frigate Captain Freiherr von Gagern)<br />Military Affairs<br />Fr III (Corvette Captain Humann)<br />General Naval Affairs, Foreign service and French translations<br />Fr IV (Kapitänleutnant Kiep)<br />Adjutant, Personnel matters and English translations<br />Fr I,1 (Scheurer)<br />Hilfsmarekargsgerichtsrat<br />FR (zu Klampen)<br />Registratur<br />Fr III,1 (Sekretär Wachenheimer)<br />Fr I, 2 (Hilfsarbeiter Picht)<br />Völkerbundgruppe Marine<br />At the Naval Headquarters on 4. A new group called 'League of Nations Group Marine' (VGM)' was formed. It was "the organ of the naval leadership in the international negotiations of the League of Nations and was assigned by the Naval Command Office." This consisted of the subgroups VGM I for field service and VGM II for service in the home country. The head was Rear Admiral Freiherr Freyberg-Eisenberg-Allmendingen. The term "Mafri" ceased to exist from that date.<br />On 31 Jan 1927, the Niacc/I.M.K.K. left the country. Germany, so that the Army and Navy Peace Commissions ceased their activities on the same day by order of the Reich Minister of Armed Forces. The subgroup VGM II took over the remaining tasks as well as the handling of the Mafri. She now conducted "her entire correspondence as part of the VGM within the framework of the Naval Command Office".<br />On 30 Sept. 1930, the previously independent registry VGM was finally dissolved. The registry business of the VGM was carried out by the registry A (A I) from 1 October 1930.<br /><br /> Description of inventory: During the Second World War, the naval documents were transferred 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"). In the 1960s, the marine files were returned to the Federal Republic of Germany as part of the file repatriation 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 dating from 1968, the files were transferred from the Document Centre to the Federal Archives. They finally ended up in the Federal Archives Military Archives, which had been moved from Koblenz to Freiburg.<br />The files were left in the order they had found. Only two large formats were removed from their ancestral records (RM 9/42) and attached to the inventory for the purpose of preserving the inventory.<br /><br />Content-related characterization: The documents handed down from 1918 to 1921 essentially concerned armistice claims, the delivery of German submarines, organizational questions, and claims for damages by the Allies. From 1926 onwards, documents on League of Nations issues, press matters and the disarmament conferences in Geneva and London are available.<br /><br />Condition of development: 1-49, archive records<br /><br />Capacity, Explanation: holdings without increase<br />35.0 lfm 1315 AE<br /><br />Citation: BArch RM 9/...

Völkerbundsgruppe Marine (V G M), 1918-1935

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Verwandtes Archivgut im Bundesarchiv: RM 6 Oberbefehlshaber der Kriegsmarine<br />RM 8 Kriegsgeschichtliche Forschungsanstalt der Marine (Marinearchiv)<br />RM 8/1905 Aktenverzeichnisse von an das Kriegsarchiv abgegebenen Akten<br />RM 8/1909 Aktenverzeichnisse der Marine-Friedenskommission<br />RM 20 Marinekommandoamt der Reichsmarine und Kriegsmarine<br />RM 21 Allgemeines Marineamt der Reichsmarine und Kriegsmarine<br />RM 23 Marineverwaltungsamt der Reichsmarine und Kriegsmarine<br />R 904 Deutsche Waffenstillstandskommission<br /><br />Literatur: HILDEBRANDT, Hans H.: Die organisatorische Entwicklung der Marine nebst Stellenbesetzung 1848 bis 1945, Osnabrück 2000

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