Fonds BArch, RH 4 - OKH / head of transportation (stock)

789 Aufbewahrungseinheiten; 2,1 laufende Meter

Oberkommando des Heeres/Chef des Transportwesens, 1919-1945

Inventory description: In the General Army Office, Group C of the Army Department also carried out military transport until the Transport Department was created at the beginning of 1920. It was entrusted with the use of the railway network and shipping routes for military traffic and regulated the execution of troop and supply transports. She was also responsible for railway protection and operational supervision of the armoured trains. Since 1 July 1935, it formed the 5th section of the General Staff of the Army and was finally subordinated directly to the Chief of the General Staff in 1939 as Chief of Transportation. It was responsible for the entire Wehrmacht's transport system and the preparation of transport routes - railways, inland waterways and roads - for military use. At the same time, she represented the interests of the Wehrmacht vis-à-vis the Reich Minister of Transport (Deutsche Reichsbahn) and the Inspector General for German Roads. It also ensured that transport interests were taken into account in the construction of military installations. From August 1939 onwards, the head of the Transport Department also held the post of head of the Wehrmacht's transport department, who, as an OKW official, had to issue decrees and orders for transport concerning all three parts of the Wehrmacht. In his home war zone as well as on the individual theatres of war, the transport chief was responsible for the offices and troops of various kinds that carried out the tasks assigned to him. In the case of the former, a distinction was made according to their structure and training for deployment between transport services at command authorities (General of the Transport Sector, Authorized Transport Officers, Transport Connection Centres, Transport Officers) and transport processing services (Wehrmacht Transport Lines, Wehrmacht Traffic Directorates, Transport Command Offices) and monitoring and field services (Station Command Offices, Unloading Commissioners, Forwarding Offices). See Appendices 1-3: Organization sketches (from Rohde: Das deutsche Wehrmachttransportwesen im Zweiten Weltkrieg) by: 1. Der Chef des Transportwesens in der Spitzengliederung des OKW (1939-1945); 2. Der Stab des Chefs des Transportwesens 1939 und 1945; and 3. Unterstellungsverhältnisse der Dienststellen und Truppen des Chefs des Transportwesens (1939-1945). Preproveniences: Group C of the Army Department in the General Staff Office and the 5th Dept. of the General Staff of the Army Content Characterization: The documents of the 5th Dept. of the General Staff of the Army were classified into the stock of the Chief of Transportation on the basis of the organizational and registry connections. In addition to fragments of files on the organisation of the transport system, documents on transport exercises (pre-war period) and on the development and usability of transport routes have been handed down. War diaries or activity reports are available to a very limited extent for the period from 1939 to 1941. The mass of the written legacy of the Chief of Transport refers to the period before 1939. Supplementary documents can be found at ministerial level, in the area of official printed matter, in some estates as well as at troop associations, command posts, offices and territorial commanders (e.g. transport officer authorized by an army or army group; general of transport of an army group). 3.2 Other holdings, information R 5 Reichsverkehrsministerium (in BA, department R) R 4601 General Inspector for German Roads (in BA, department R). R) RH 20 Armies (Authorized Transport Officers) RH 47 Associations and Units of the Railway Troops and Technical Troops RH 66 General of the Railway Troops RW 18 Transport and Traffic Command Offices N 407 Legacy of Colonel Teske (General of Transportation Mitte) N 532 Legacy of Lieutenant General Wilhelm Mittermaier (Wehrmacht Traffic Directorate Brussels) MSg 2/1470-72, 1474-75, 1477-78 Military Historical Collection (various reports by Max H.) Bork to the Wehrmacht transport system, via supply roads, railways and other transport routes) State of development: Online-Findbuch Umfang, Explanation: 300 AE (partly still old signatures) Citation method: BArch, RH 4/...

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Verwandtes Archivgut im Bundesarchiv: <br />
Bestände:<br />
N 119 (Nachlass Kutzbach, Friedrich): u.a. Unterlagen zum Transportwesen
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Amtliche Druckschriften: <br />
RHD 20<br />
RWD 15 (Wehrmacht-Verkehrs- und Transportdienststellen)<br />
RWD 58 (Befehlshaber der Eisenbahnpioniere)
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Literatur: <br />
Rohde, Horst: Das deutsche Wehrmachttransportwesen im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Entstehung - Organisation - Aufgaben. Stuttgart 1971<br />
Ziel, Ron und Gottwald, Alfred: Eisenbahn im 2. Weltkrieg. 2 Bde. Stuttgart 1973/74

Original description: Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek

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