Directorate correspondence and other documents [FA2/4]* Service

History of the inventor: Joseph Goebbels, who had already been head of the NSDAP's Reich Propaganda Department since 1929, had certainly developed plans for a Ministry of Propaganda even before the seizure of power.(1) The Reichskabinett (Reich Cabinet) dealt with the issue of the Propaganda Department on 11 September. The arguments for the foundation, which the Reich Chancellor (Hitler) himself presented, sounded extremely harmless ex post and far from future realities: "One of the predominant tasks of this ministry would be the preparation of important acts of government. On the oil and fat issue, for example, which now occupies the cabinet, the people should be enlightened in the direction that the farmer would perish if something were not done to improve the sale of his products. The importance of this matter also for the war measures would have to be pointed out ..." Government action would only begin if the awareness-raising work had taken place and worked for some time. ..."(2) On 16 March 1933, however, Goebbels described the future tasks of his ministry programmatically three days after his appointment in a remarkably open manner in front of press representatives: "If this government is now determined never to give way again, never and under no circumstances, then it need not make use of the dead power of the bayonet, then in the long run it will not be able to be satisfied with knowing 52 percent behind it ..., but it will have to see its next task in winning the remaining 48 percent for itself. This is not only possible through objective work". And about the nature of his propaganda he proclaimed: "Not any aesthete can judge the methods of propaganda. A binding judgment can only be given on the basis of success. For propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.(3) A timid attempt by Hugenberg to at least delay the decision to establish the Ministry of Propaganda in the cabinet meeting of March 11, 1933 failed miserably. Already on 13 March 1933 the law on the establishment of the RMVP was signed by the Reich President and the "writer" Dr. Goebbels was appointed minister.(4) Almost three weeks later, on 5 April 1933, Goebbels noted in his diary: "The organisation of the ministry is finished".(5) In difficult negotiations(6) with the ministries, which had to cede parts of their competences to the new ministry, the responsibilities were determined in detail. The RMVP was responsible for all tasks relating to intellectual influence on the nation, advertising for the state, culture and economy, informing the domestic and foreign public about them, and the administration of all institutions serving these purposes. As a result, the business area of the RMVP will be: 1. from the business area of the Federal Foreign Office: News and education abroad, art, art exhibitions, film and sports abroad. 2. From the RMI division: General Domestic Enlightenment, Hochschule für Politik, introduction and celebration of national holidays and celebration of national holidays with the participation of the RMI, press (with Institute for Newspaper Science), radio, national anthem, German Library in Leipzig, art (but without art-historical institute in Florence, copyright protection for works of literature and art, directory of nationally valuable works of art, German-Austrian Convention on the Export of Art, Protection of Works of Art and Monuments, Protection and Maintenance of Landscape and Natural Monuments, Nature Parks, Preservation of Buildings of Special Historical Importance, Preservation of National Monuments, Verband Deutscher Vereine für Volkskunde, Reich Memorial), Music Conservation, including the Philharmonic Orchestra, Theatre Matters, Cinema, Combating Trash and Dirt 3. From the business areas of the Reich Ministry of Economics and the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture: Economic Advertising, Exhibitions, Trade Fairs and Advertising 4. From the business areas of the Reich Ministry of Posts and the Reich Ministry of Transportation: Traffic Advertising Furthermore, all radio matters dealt with by the Reich Ministry of Posts and the Reich Ministry of Transportation are transferred from the business area of the Reich Ministry of Posts, unless they concern the technical administration outside the premises of the Reich Broadcasting Company and the radio companies. In matters of technical administration, the RMVP shall be involved to the extent necessary to carry out its own tasks, in particular in determining the conditions for the awarding of broadcasting rights and the regulation of fees. In particular, the representation of the Reich in the Reichsrundfunkgesellschaft and the broadcasting companies is fully transferred to the RMVP. The RMVP is in charge of all tasks, including legislation, in the designated areas. The general principles shall apply to the participation of the other Reich Ministers." (RGBl. 1933 I, p. 449) These competences were exercised by seven departments, so that the business distribution plan of 1 Oct. 1933 (7) shows the following picture: Ministerial office (with five employees), directly subordinated to the Minister. State Secretary, at the same time Head of Press of the Reich Government I. Administration and Law with one main office Administration, three departments as well as the registry II. Propaganda with 10 departments 1. Positive world view propaganda, shaping in state life, press photography 2. Jewish question, foundation for victims of work, Versailles treaty, national literature, publishing etc. 3. Demonstrations and regional organisation 4. Opposing world views 5. German University of Politics 6. Youth and sports issues 7. Economic and social policy 8. Agricultural and eastern issues 9. Transport 10. Public health III. Broadcasting with three sections 1. Broadcasting 2. Political and cultural affairs of broadcasting 3. Organisation and administrative issues of German broadcasting IV. Press, simultaneously press department of the Reich government with eleven papers V. Film with three papers VI. Theatre, music and art with three papers VII. Defence (defence against lies at home and abroad) with eight papers Goebbels was obviously not satisfied with the official title of his ministry. The extensive tasks in the fields of culture and the arts did not come into their own and the word propaganda, of which he was aware, had a "bitter aftertaste" (8). His proposal to rename his department "Reichsministerium für Kultur und Volksaufklärung", however, met with Hitler's rejection. (9) In July 1933, a circular issued by the Reich Chancellor drew the attention of the Reich governors to the exclusive competence of the Reich or of the new Ministry for the above-mentioned competences and called on them to cede to the RMVP any existing budget funds and offices of the Länder. (10) At the same time, 13 regional offices were established as the substructure of the Ministry, the sprinkles of which corresponded approximately to those of the regional employment offices, and 18 imperial propaganda offices, which subdivided the territory of the regional offices once again. After the Reichspropagandastellen were already converted after short time (approx. 1934) to Landesstellen, in each Gau of the NSDAP a Landesstelle of the RMVP was located. Their leaders were in personal union at the same time leaders of the Gaupropagandaleitungen of the NSDAP, which in its leadership, the Reichspropagandalleitung, was also perceived by Goebbels in personal union. (11) As a result, conflicts of loyalty between the Gaupropaganda leaders/leaders of the RMVP regional offices were unavoidable in disputes between Goebbels and individual Gauleiters. According to theory, the regional offices were supposed to monitor and implement the political decisions made in the ministry in the individual districts, but in practice their heads were often more dependent on their respective Gauleiter than on the ministry due to the above-mentioned personal union. By the Führer decree of 9 September 1937 (RGBl. 1937 I, p. 1009), the Landesstellen were renamed Reichspropagandaämter and elevated to Reich authorities. After the integration of Austria there were no less than 42 Reichspropagandaämter with 1400 full-time employees. (12) In addition to the state offices and Reich Propaganda Offices, a whole range of offices, organizations, associations, societies and societies soon developed, which are to be counted to the subordinate area of the Ministry. (13) Despite the apparently clear regulation on the responsibilities of the RMVP, the 13 years of its existence were marked by disputes over responsibilities with other ministries, in particular with the ministers Rust, Rosenberg and Ribbentrop, of whom Goebbels, as is known, held very little personally. Successes and failures in the competence disputes cannot be followed in detail here; they depended to a large extent on Hitler's relationship with Goebbels. For example, Goebbels did not succeed in extending his competence in theatre to the Prussian State Theatres in Berlin. By contrast, in 1943 the RMVP assumed responsibility for carrying out the Eastern propaganda, while Rosenberg, as Reich Minister for the occupied Eastern territories, was left with only the authority to issue guidelines. (14) In the conflict with the Federal Foreign Office over the delimitation of responsibilities for foreign propaganda, an arrangement was reached in a working agreement in October 1941. (15) Wehrmacht propaganda also remained long and controversial. Despite many efforts (16), Goebbels did not succeed in making a decisive break in the competencies of the OKW/Wpr department until the end of the war in March 1945. Propaganda into the Wehrmacht and about the Wehrmacht at home and abroad was then to be taken in charge by the RMVP. It is not possible to determine whether the planned organizational consequences have yet been implemented. (17) Another major success for Goebbels was the establishment of the Reichsinspektion für zivile Luftschutzmaßnahmen (Reich Inspection for Civilian Air Defence Measures), which was headed by the RMVP (18), and his appointment as Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War Operations by Führer Decree of 25 July 1944 (19). For the last months of the Third Reich, Goebbels had reached the zenith of power with this function, apart from his appointment as Reich Chancellor in Hitler's last will and testament of April 29, 1945, which had become effective only theoretically. As Reich Plenipotentiary for the total deployment in war, he had extremely far-reaching powers over the entire state apparatus with the exception of the Wehrmacht. (20) Until that date, the competences of the RMVP had changed only slightly in the main features of all disputes over jurisdiction. That it nevertheless grew enormously and steadily until 1943 (21) was mainly due to diversification and intensification in the performance of its tasks. After 1938, the expansive foreign policy of the Third Reich necessitated further propaganda agencies to direct and influence public opinion in the incorporated and occupied territories. In the occupied territories with civil administrations, "departments" (main departments) for "popular enlightenment and propaganda" were usually set up in the territories with military administration, "propaganda departments", which exercised roughly the functions of the Reich Propaganda Offices. Their position between their superior military services and the RMVP, which sought to influence the content of the propaganda and from where part of the personnel came, was a constant source of conflict. As an indication for the weighting of the individual areas of responsibility of the Ministry in relation to each other, the expenditures for the individual areas in the 10 years from March 1933 to March 1943 are mentioned. With a total volume of 881,541,376.78 RM (22), the expenses for the Active propaganda: 21.8 Communications: 17.8 Music, visual arts, literature: 6.2 Film: 11.5 Theatres: 26.4 Civil servants and equipment: 4.3 Salaries, business needs, including film testing agencies and RPÄ: 12.0 By 1942, the RMVP and its division had been continuously expanded, before facilities in the subordinate area were shut down and departments in the ministry were merged as part of the total war from 1943 onwards. The business distribution plan of Nov. 1942 was as follows: (23) Ministerial Office, reporting directly to the Minister with adjutants, personal advisers and press officers of the Minister, a total of 10 employees State Secretaries Leopold Gutterer, Reich Press Head Dr. Otto Dietrich, Hermann Esser Budget Department (H) with 11 departments; reporting to the Head of the Department, the Main Office and the House Administration Personnel Department (Pers) with seven departments Legal and Organisation Department (R) with three departments Propaganda Department (Pro) with the following ten departments: 1. Political Propaganda 2. Cultural Propaganda 3. Propaganda Exploration 4. Public Health, Social Policy 5. Economy 6. Imperial Propaganda Offices 7. Major Events 8. Youth and Sports 9. Representation 10. Budget of the Department, Preparation of the Peace Treaties, Stagma and other Press Department of the Imperial Government I. Department German Press (DP) with 13 Speeches II. Foreign Press Department (AP) with 19 papers III. Journal Press Department /ZP) with five papers Foreign Press Department (A) with the following five groups: 1. Organization 2. Europe and Middle East 3. Non-European 4. Propaganda Media 5. Deployment abroad and in the Reich Tourism Department (FV) with four units Broadcasting Department (Rfk) with the following eight units 1. Coordination, Interradio and others 2. Broadcasting Command Office 3. Mob Department 4. Broadcasting Programme Support 5. Foreign Broadcasting 6. Broadcasting Industry 7. Broadcasting Organisation 8. Rundfunk-Erkundungsdienst Filmabteilung (F) with five departments Schrifttumsabteilung (S ) with eight departments Theaterabteilung (T) with seven departments Bildende Kunst (BK) with four departments Musik-Abteilung (M) with ten departments Reichsverteidigung (RV) with six departments Abteilung für die besetztischen Ostgebiete (Ost) with twelve departments Generalreferate with State Secretary Gutterer directly subordinated: 1. Exhibitions and Fairs 2nd General Cultural Department (General Cultural Department for the Reich Capital) 3rd General Department for Reich Chamber of Culture Matters 4th Technology (propaganda, radio, film, sound, stage, press, service installations of the RMVP) Press Recording Office for the PK reports of the Press Department of the Reich Government (directly subordinated to the Reich Press Head) A major change in this distribution of responsibilities took place in September 1944 (24). The art departments of theatre, music and visual arts were dissolved and merged into a single department of culture (cult). The East Department was integrated into the Propaganda Department as a main department, the Tourism Department was shut down and the General Departments of the Reich Cultural Chamber, Armaments and Construction and Propaganda Troops were dissolved. Notes (1) J. Goebbels: Vom Kaiserhof zur Reichskanzlei, p. 28. (2) R 43 II/1149, p. 5, excerpt from the minutes of the ministerial meeting of 11 March 1933. (3) R 43 II/1149, pp. 25 - 29, wording of Goebbels' speech of 16 March 1933 according to W. T. B. (4) R 43 II/1149, RGBl. 1933 I, p. 104 (5) J. Goebbels: Vom Kaiserhof zur Reichskanzlei, p. 293 (6) In an elaboration presumably by Goebbels on a "Reichskommissariat für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda" to be created (R 43 II/1149, pp. 49 - 53) further competences had been demanded. In particular, additional responsibilities were demanded of the German section of the RMI and section VI of the AA, as well as in foreign propaganda. (7) R 43 II/1449, pp. 126 - 133. Heiber gives a diagram of the organisational development of the RMVP at department level with the names of the department heads on the inside of the cover of his Goebbels biography. (8) See speech to representatives of the press on the tasks of the RMVP of 16 March 1933 in R 43 II/1149. It was not without reason that there was a language regulation for the press according to which the term propaganda was to be used only in a positive sense (R 55/1410, Decree of the RMVP to the RPA Nuremberg, 8 Nov. 1940). (9) R 43 II/1149, p. 169, Note by Lammers of 9 May 1934 on a lecture to the Reich Chancellor. (10) R 43 II/1149. (11) After the establishment of the Reichskulturkammer organization, they were also state cultural administrators in the substructure of the RKK. (12) Boelcke, Kriegspropaganda, p. 185. (13) Ebendort, p. 136 ff. there are hints for some institutions. (14) The Führer's order concerning the delimitation of responsibilities dated 15 Aug. 1943, cf. R 55/1435, 1390. (15) Boelcke, Kriegspropaganda, p. 126/127. (16) Lochner, Joseph Goebbels, p. 334, p. 442. (17) R 55/618, p. 123; cf. also the depiction of Hasso v. Wedel, the propaganda troops of the German Wehrmacht. Neckargemünd 1962, Die Wehrmacht im Kampf, vol. 34 (18) Führer decree of Dec. 21, 1943, R 55/441 (19) RGBl. 1944, p. 161, R 43 II/664 a. (20) This competence is virtually not reflected in the RMVP files available in the BA. However, it is well documented in R 43 II. See R 43 II/664 a. (21) See the annual budget negotiations on increasing the number of posts in R 2/4752 - 4762. (22) R 55/862, Statistical overview of monetary transactions. Accordingly, 88,5 % of the expenditure was covered by the licence fee. It remains unclear whether the old budgetary expenditure has been taken into account. (23) R 55/1314 According to this schedule of responsibilities, the files held in the Federal Archives were essentially classified. (24) Newsletter of 13 Sept. 1944 in R 55/441. Inventory description: Inventory history The RMVP records have suffered substantial losses, although the main building of the Ministry, the Ordenspalais am Wilhelmplatz, was destroyed relatively late and almost accidentally in March 1945. Large parts of the old registries, including the previous files from the Federal Foreign Office and the Reich Ministry of the Interior (1), had already been destroyed by air raids in 1944. Moreover, in the last days of the war before and during the conquest of Berlin by the Soviet Russian army, files were also systematically destroyed. (2) In view of the total collapse and devastation of Berlin by the air war, it is not surprising that hardly any manual or private files of RMVP employees have been handed down. Notable exceptions are, in particular, documents from Ministerialrat Bade (press department) (3) and hand files of the head of the broadcasting department, Ministerialdirigent Fritzsche. In this context, the diaries of Goebbels should also be mentioned, which, with the exception of those edited by Lochner in 1948, had been lost for almost 30 years. (4) The bulk of the volumes available in the Bundesarchiv Koblenz until 1996 was transferred from Alexandria (cf. Guide No. 22) and from the Berlin Document Center to the Bundesarchiv in the years 1959 - 1963. The personnel files still held back were added to the portfolio in 2007. The RMVP files kept by the Ministry of State Security of the GDR (mainly personnel files, personnel processes of the theatre, music and defence departments), which were stored in the so-called NS archive until 2006, are also assigned to the holdings. Not in Allied hands was only a small collection from the Music Department and some documents from the German Press Department, which were transferred to the Federal Archives in 1969 as part of the land consolidation with the Secret State Archives of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Some original RMVP files can still be found at the Hoover Institution Standford, the Yivo Institute New York and the Wiener Library London. Fortunately, all three institutions were willing to produce microfilms for the Federal Archives (5). In 1974, the Rijksinstitut voor Oologsdocumentatie Amsterdam (Rijksinstitut for Oologsdocumentatie Amsterdam) kindly handed over some original fragments of files to the Federal Archives. In 1946, officers of the French and Soviet secret services found films of about 35,000 documents that had been filmed in the RMVP and buried near Potsdam at the end of the war with the help of an American mine detector (6). The films were taken to Paris to make re-enlargements of them, and it is possible that they will still be kept in the French secret service. The Americans apparently did not receive copies because they had withheld from the French documents of other provenance found in the CSSR. Only incomplete information is available about the content of the films; it can be assumed, however, that not exactly unimportant files have been filmed. Notes (1) Only a few handfiles and a few volumes on the promotion of music have survived. (2) Files of the Reichsfilmarchiv that had been moved to Grasleben/Helmstedt were even to be destroyed by agents of the RSHA when they threatened to fall into the hands of the English (cf. R 55/618). (3) Cf. Kl. Erw. 615, which is a selection of the bath papers from the time around 1933 in the Hoover library. (4) Frankfurter Allgemeine, 21 Nov. 1974, reader's letter. Insignificant fragments from Goebbels' estate from his student days can be found in the Federal Archives under the signature Kl. Erw. 254. (5) A collection of newspaper clippings concerning Goebbels in the amount of 82 Bde for the years 1931 - 1943 was not filmed at the Yivo-Institut. (6) See the documents in: National Archives Washington, RG 260 OMGUS 35/35 folder 19. Archival processing The order and indexing work on the holdings was relatively time-consuming and difficult, as the order of the files was extremely poor. On the one hand there were no detailed file plans or other registry aids for the mass of files from the budget and personnel departments, on the other hand the file management in the ministry, which at least in its development phase was always deliberately unbureaucratic, left a lot to be desired. Especially during the war, when inexperienced auxiliaries had to be used more and more during the war, the Ministry's staff often complained about the inadequacy of the registries. The organisation of the RMVP's records management showed typical features of office reform (1): Registries were kept on a departmental basis, with each registry having a "self-contained partial list of files". The documents were stored in standing folders (System Herdegen). Instead of a diary, an alphabetical mailing card was kept, separated according to authorities and private persons. The reference numbers consisted of the department letter, file number, date as well as an indication, on which card of an order file the procedure was seized. All in all, the files of the Budget and Human Resources Department were in a certain, albeit unsatisfactory, state of order when they entered the Federal Archives. Numerous volumes from the other departments, on the other hand, were formed in a chaotic manner, possibly as a result of a provisional recording of loose written material when it was confiscated. These were often amorphous and fragmentary materials that lacked the characteristics of organically grown writing. So it was practically impossible to form meaningful band units in all subjects. In the case of some "mixed volumes" with written material on numerous file numbers, only the most frequent ones were noted in the finding aid book. Due to the high loss of files, no strict evaluation standard was applied to the files. The main items collected were volumes from the budget department on preliminary checks in the subordinate area and individual procedures for the procurement and management of managed goods for the purposes of the Ministry. Formal records of non-compliant positions in the business division and a number of unarchivalable documents from the Human Resources Department will still be kept for the foreseeable future for the purpose of issuing service time statements. It is not listed in this guide. Preparatory work for the indexing of the Koblenz part of the stock was carried out by Mr. Oberarchivrat Regel (1967) with regard to the files of the budget department on the Reich's own film assets, Mr. Ltd. Archivdirektor Dr. Boberach (1966) with regard to correspondence and the reference files of the head of the broadcasting department, Hans Fritzsche and Ms. Archivoberinspektorin Schneider, née Fisch (1966) for files of the propaganda department. In 2005, the inventories of the finding aids of both sections of the Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda were imported into the database of the Federal Archives via a retroconversion procedure. The data records were then combined in a classification. Despite the inhomogeneity of the traditions of most specialist departments, it was advisable to maintain the division by departments. (2) Within the departments, the structure was essentially based on file numbers and factual contexts. The file numbers used in the RMVP were - as far as possible - used as aids for further subdivision. The final step was the integration of the personnel files and personal documents from the NS archive (approx. 5000 individual transactions) and the former Berlin Document Center (approx. 700 transactions). The documents taken over are mainly documents from the personnel department (in addition to personnel files also questionnaires and index cards), theatre (applications, appointments, confirmation procedures) and imperial defence (applications in propaganda companies). The personal records also contain isolated documents on denazification from the period 1946-1950. Since a relatively large number of individual transactions from the NS archives were often only a few sheets, transactions that objectively related to one transaction (e.g. applications for interpreting) were merged into one file. The names of the individual persons as well as the old signatures from the NS archive can still be traced via the BASYS-P database. Both the files from the NS archive and those from the former BDC are not always filed according to the provenance principle. However, the files were not separated again. Most of the files taken over from the former BDC are personal files and questionnaires as well as personnel index cards of individual employees of broadcasting stations. A search is still possible via the BASYS-P database. The procedures for the donation "Artist's thanks" still present in the personal records of the former BDC concerning the Theatre Department were not adopted in this context (approx. 15,000 procedures). The names are entered in the BASYS-P database and can be searched there. Notes (1) Rules of Procedure and Registration of 8 May 1942 in R 55/ 618. (2) The structure of the business distribution plan of Nov. 1942 was used as a basis. Abbreviations AA = Federal Foreign Office Department A = Department Abroad AP = Foreign Press BDC = Berlin Document Center BdS = Commander of the Security Police ChdZ = Chief of the Civil Administration DAF = German Labour Front DASD = German Amateur Broadcasting Service e.V. DNB = Deutsches Nachrichtenbüro DRK = Deutsches Rotes Kreuz Dt. = Deutsch DVO = Durchführungsverordnung french = French Gestapo = Geheimes Staatspolizeiamt KdF = Kraft durch Freude KdG = Kommandeur der Gendarmerie KdS = Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei Kl. Erw. Small acquisition KLV = Kinderlandverschickung LG = District Court MA = Military Archives, Department of the Federal Archives MdR = Member of the Reichstag MinRat = Ministerialrat MdL = Member of the Landtag NDR = Norddeutscher Rundfunk NSV = National Socialist Volkswohlfahrt o. Az. = without file number or date = without date OKW = Oberkommando der Wehrmacht OLG = Oberstes Landesgericht OLT = Oberleutnant ORR = Oberregierungsrat OT = Organisation Todt PG = Parteigenosse PK = Propagandakompanie RAVAG = Österreichische Radio-Verkehrs-AG Reg. Pres. RMI = Reich Ministry of the Interior RMJ = Reich Ministry of the Interior RMK = Reich Ministry of Justice RMK = Reich Chamber of Music RMVP = Reich Ministry of Education and Propaganda ROI = Reichsoberinspektor RPA = Reichspropagandaamt RPÄ = Reichspropagandaämter RPL = Reichspropagandalleitung RR = Regierungsrat RRG = Reichsrundfunkgesellschaft RS = Reichssender RSHA = Reichssicherheitshauptamt RSK = Reichsschrifttumskammer SBZ = Soviet Occupation Zone SD = Security Service SD-LA = SD-Leitabschnitt SDR = Süddeutscher Rundfunk Sipo = Security Police STS = Secretary of State and a. = among others v. a. = above all VGH = Volksgerichtshof VO = Regulation WDR = Westdeutscher Rundfunk ZSTA = Zentrales Staatsarchiv (Potsdam) citation method: BArch R 55/ 23456 Content characterization: Rounded delivery complexes are available only from the budget department and from the personnel department. From the point of view of financing and personnel management, they illuminate almost all areas of the Ministry's activities. From the specialist departments, the volumes from the Propaganda Department should be emphasized, which document above all the design of propaganda and the propagandistic support of foreign workers and resettled persons in the last years of the war. Also worth mentioning are mood and activity reports of individual RPÄ and suggestions from the population for propaganda and for leading the total war. In the Radio Department there is some material about the design of the radio program and the propaganda reconnaissance with reports about the opposing propaganda, which were compiled from the bugging reports of the special service Seehaus. A separate complex of this department are 14 volumes of pre-files from the RMI with handfiles of the Oberregierungsrat Scholz as representative of the Reich in supervisory committees of broadcasting companies in Berlin from 1926 - 1932. Of the film department there are only a few, but interesting volumes about the film production of the last war years with numerous ministerial documents. The majority of the theatre department's traditions are based on documents on professional issues and the Reich's dramaturgy. From the music department the promotion of musical organizations from the years 1933 - 1935 with pre-files from the RMI, the support and job placement of artists as well as material about the musical foreign relations is handed down. The files of the Department for the Occupied Eastern Territories offer rich sources for questions of Eastern propaganda. The losses are greatest in the departments Law and Organization, Magazine Press, Foreign Press, Foreign Countries, Tourism, Literature and Fine Arts. State of development: Publication Findbuch (1976, reprint 1996), Online Findbuch (2007). Citation style: BArch, R 55/...

1. on the history of the map collection: the Hohenlohe Central Archives holds an important and extensive collection of printed maps from the 16th to 19th centuries, some of which date back to the 20th century. This quantity, which is unusual for a smaller archive, can be explained by the many and varied tasks of the highlohish administrations. But more than that, it is explained by the various functions and inclinations of members of the Princely House itself. Most of the cards were collected for military reasons. Several counts and princes were in high positions in foreign military services, e.g. Count Philipp von H.-Neuenstein (1550 - 1606) as general of Wilhelm v. Oraniens in Dutch services, Prince Heinrich August zu H.-Ingelfingen (1715 - 1796) as Reichsfeldmarschall and general field witness of the Franconian Imperial Circle or his son Friedrich Ludwig (1746 - 1818) as Prussian infantry general and governor of Breslau and Bay-reuth. However, maps were also produced or collected to secure and clarify sovereign rights (e.g. hunting and forestry) and territorial claims. Further reasons for the collecting activities were the geographical (travel maps: "foreign regions"), economic, scientific and educational (school maps) interests of the collectors. These varied interests also explain why the maps on hand are not limited to the area of Württemberg and Hohenlohe. Namely comparatively many maps to the German, European and international area are included. The extent of the collection could have benefited positively from the participation of the House of H.-Oehringen (old) in one of the renowned Nuremberg map publishers - the "Homännische Officin" or the "Homännische Erben". A good half of the cards come from this publisher. The temporal emphasis lies in the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. From the middle of the 19th century onwards, the collection became considerably thinner, but with individual specimens it reached as far back as the 1960s. Either cards have been purchased less since the 1850s or are still in use by the respective princely administrations. War losses or wear and tear can also be expected. The political caesura of 1806 does not play a decisive role in connection with the collecting activity. The changed tasks of the princely houses from the middle of the 19th century onwards. All in all, the collection of maps documents the broad political and cultural interest and significance of the House of Hohenlohe during the period in which the collection was created. It is to be assumed that map collections were built up in various Hohenlohe houses and also kept in the castles concerned, mostly probably in the library. With the relocation of all Hohenlohe archives to Neuenstein, the printed maps from the various castles were transferred to the Hohenlohe Central Archives. Here they were combined to a stock of printed maps. The origin of the maps was not considered to be significant and as a rule was not documented in any way. This must have taken place immediately after the end of the war, since in 1951 a list-like inventory of the holdings was already available. In the course of the relocation of the various line archives to Neuenstein, over 3100 printed maps gradually came together. 2. on the history of the collection and its processing: during the first provisional processing, the compilation of a list under the Princely Archivist Karl Schumm in 1951, the majority of the maps already available at that time were combined to form a complete collection, as already mentioned, without regard to provenance and ownership. The machining was carried out according to the numerus currensprinciple. The order was based on an alpha-betic ranking by country, region and place names and the geographical classification was based on superficial aspects. Often, in the course of the order, map connections were torn apart and even maps from outside the stock - hand-drawn - were included in the list. The signatures were assigned according to the geo-graphical classification. The signature consisted of a capital letter (W for world maps, E for European maps and D for German maps) and a sequential number. For example, a European map has the signature "E 80" or a map of Germany "D 46". In the case of sequences, lower-case letters have been added after the number, for example in the case of a map of France: "E 206 a - cc". Some war cards were provided with Roman numerals, e.g. a card of Hungary with "K X/ 161". This type of signature assignment was not very useful for appropriate use. Cards were often difficult to find. A careful revision of the map collection was urgently needed, especially as several printed maps that had been added later were not taken into account. However, it was no longer possible to reconstruct original provenances, as there is no indication of their origin from the various archives. With the exception of one group (H.-Kirchberg: "Sch[rank], T[isch] or F[ach], Sch[ublade]"), the old signatures do not provide any reliable information about the provenance. The pre-signatures were probably already assigned at the time the maps were purchased. They are divided into groups according to simple number assignment ("131", "No. 131", "1311/2" or "Nro 131"), according to combinations with upper and lower case letters and numbers ("Dd x S.138"), according to combinations with Roman and Arabic numerals and letters ("II M. 10" or "605 R. I") or according to locature (H.-Kirchberg: "S. 642, T. 2, Sch. 3"). For many cards several signatures were assigned. They point to older resistance structures. A few maps and atlases, the origin of which could be clearly determined, were removed from the holdings for ownership reasons and returned to the relevant line archives. The main part of the maps is probably of h.-kirchberg origin, enriched with a considerable number of maps of the Dutch/Belgian area from probably Württemberg-neuenstädtisches Besitz (h.-kirchberg heritage). The remainder of the maps, which could not be defined more precisely, was distributed among the various other line archives. 22 drawers, 92 cartons/boxes with approx. 31/2 linear metres of shelving, 59 rolled maps, 38 volumes and booklets and 4 folders were first viewed prior to drawing. For technical reasons, the cards were first taken from the cupboard drawers, then the pieces stored in cartons or boxes, and finally the volumes on the shelves were recorded according to the numerus-current-principle. In the process, hand-drawn maps, pictures, construction plans and printed maps from the archives of Langenburg, Waldenburg and Öhringen were also noticed. They were separated and recorded for a later inventory or supplementation of the inventory of hand-drawn maps. Apart from a small group of atlases and military maps, the remaining printed maps still found in the Hohenlohe Central Archives are mainly field, forest and surveying maps from the archives of Langenburg, Waldenburg and Öhringen. They, too, were not included in the inventory of printed maps, but were prepared for their own holdings, and once all the maps had been indexed, a classification for the holdings had to be established. For practical reasons and in order to facilitate access for users, the breakdown was mainly geographical. An order by subject would have led to greater opacity due to the size and nature of the maps. The map collection is divided into thirteen categories. It is progressed from the large to the small space: World; continents without Europe, with subitems Africa, America, Asia and Australia/Oceania; Europe, with subdivision into individual, non-German countries; and the area Germany and former German Empire, with subdivision into individual territories and regions. Headings 7 to 13 include maps that cannot be clearly allocated geographically (transnational theatres of war), special areas (field maps, city maps, canals, natural phenomena) or the category "Other". Compromises had to be made with the classification in order to arrange the stock according to modern geographical criteria. With the exception of a Russian atlas with European and Chinese territories [No. 7], the classification into world and continental maps could be carried out without complications. It was more difficult to classify the continent of Europe and European countries. Two problem areas stood in the way of simple, uniform processing. On the one hand, the grouping of maps that span space and countries or of maps with two or more different representations on one sheet; on the other hand, the allocation of maps with changed historical spaces. The classification of map sheets with several representations was problem-free again. They were sorted by the larger geographical area. For example, a map showing Europe on the front and the German Empire on the back was assigned to the group Europe [No. 65]. The transnational maps were more problematic. Thus a subgroup "Alps" had to be formed immediately with the first division of the individual European countries. It comprises the maps of the French-Italian-Swiss and the German-Swiss-Austrian border regions, but without the group of maps of the narrower region of the Swiss-Austrian Alps, which were assigned to the categories "Switzerland" and "Austrian Hereditary Lands". The group "Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg" did not simply fit into a given scheme in terms of both spatial and historical classification. The Belgian-Luxembourg region changed its political affiliation several times during the period under study, from about 1660 to 1840: the Spanish Netherlands until 1715, then the Austrian Netherlands, French during the revolutionary period, the Kingdom of the United Netherlands from 1815 to 1830, and only then the Kingdom of Belgium. With some justification, the maps could also have been assigned to a group 'Spain', the division 'Germany and Central Europe' with the subgroup 'Austrian Hereditary Lands' or 'France' if there were no overlaps with the area of the narrower Netherlands [Republic of the United Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands]. Thus, the maps relating to the Belgian and Dutch regions could only be formed into a separate group according to modern geographical, historically inaccurate aspects. France, which had historically and geographically undergone relatively continuous development, could be divided into the sub-groups of France as a whole and individual regions, including areas whose political affiliation was not entirely clear and only later belonged definitively to France, such as Lorraine, Alsace, Corsica, Savoy and Nice. Note swert is with this group the first topographical atlas of France [No. 138] by Cassini, of which 108 of altogether 175 sheets are available in the copy kept here. The subgroup "Territories of France" was first created alphabetically and then chronologically. The situation was similar with the area of Italy, which was treated as a single area and could also be divided into the categories of Italy as a whole and individual territories according to modern political-geographical aspects, including the archipelago of Malta. More extensive measures had to be taken in the Western European areas. Great Britain and Ireland as well as Spain and Portugal with Gibraltar in their overall representation were mostly depicted on a map sheet. Therefore a division into the groups "Great Britain and Ireland" and "Iberian Peninsula" was appropriate. The area of Eastern and Southeastern Europe posed problems because the territorial affiliations and borders permanently changed during the period from about 1650 to 1880. From the temporary affiliation of the Duchies of Kurland and Livonia and the permanent affiliation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to the Kingdom of Poland, for example, the maps of this area were merged into the section "Poland and Baltic Countries". Because of the political changes, in particular the partition of Poland, compromises had to be made. Thus a general division "Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania" was formed, which covers the greater area as a whole. The great "Carte de la Pologne" [No. 230] from 1772 by Rizzi-Zannoni should be mentioned as a rarity. However, in order to do justice to the political vicissitudes in terms of the size of the cards, two further subgroups were formed. The "Baltic Duchies" section linked the above-mentioned duchies with the Duchy of Estonia, which was ethnically and geographically but not politically part of the Polish-Lithuanian area. The classification of the map group "Kingdom of Galicia" was more difficult. For historical reasons it could have been added to the 'Österreichische Erblande' division by accepting the fragmentation of the geographical context. In order to reach a reasonable compromise, however, it was assigned to the Polish area as a separate group. More difficult was the treatment of the cards of the Russian Empire. A structure that would have corresponded to the given order was only possible with restrictions. Russia, which stretches with large parts of its area over Asia, could just as well have been assigned to this division. However, since the country's focus was and is in Europe, the "Russia" group could be integrated into the group of European countries. The classification of the maps surrounding the Ottoman Empire [Turkey] and the neighbouring regions proved to be an almost insoluble task: in addition to maps of the Ottoman Empire, which was divided into a European and an Asian part, there are a number of map sets in this group representing the Russian-Turkish-Austrian theatres of war of the 18th and early 19th centuries on the Balkans and in the northern Black Sea regions. In addition there are maps with overlaps of the different southeast European territories from this time. Compromises had to be accepted in this area in order not to tear up map connections. Thus, in order to cover the whole area, a division "Southeast Europe, Black Sea and Asia Minor" was formed, divided into four sub-groups: the group "Balkans and Greece" is composed of the various South Slavic, Romanian and Greek territories and Danube maps, the second group comprises "Hungary (with Transylvania)"], the third group "Turkey (Ottoman Empire)" and the fourth group "Several Countries" [04.11.04.] as a collection basin of maps which cannot be clearly assigned, consisting of maps of the theatres of war in the Balkans and Black Sea region and of maps of the southern Russian-Ukrainian rivers. Maps of the Crimea/Tauria were, if they are not part of the war theatre maps, classified in the category Russia. The Nordic states with their provinces, on the other hand, could be uniformly included in the Greater Scandinavia area, especially as several of the countries were each depicted on one sheet. The same procedure was followed for the "Switzerland" group. The "Atlas Suisse" [No. 280], which was split up into individual maps and registered individually, could be merged, making it somewhat easier to classify the maps into "Germany and Central Europe" and "Territories and Parts of Germany". Here, too, compromises had to be made between political-geographical classification and historical affiliation. Should maps, which today represent non-German countries, be integrated into the group of European countries or into the German territories? And should maps, e.g. of the Reich circles, which covered several territories, be formed as a separate group or not? The classification was carried out primarily according to historical-geographical aspects, since a classification under modern political aspects would not have corresponded in any way to the map statements. The structure was based on a mixture of regional areas and Histo-rical territories, with the maps of the Imperial circles being classified according to the categories of the respective regions. The maps assigned to the category "Germany" essentially cover the territory of the old German Reich, partly in sections (atlas fragments), according to a relatively clear order pattern, while the category "Territories of Germany" again demanded greater concessions. The structure of the "Bayern" group was simple. It includes only the territory of the Duchy, the Electorate and the Kingdom of Bavaria. Here you can find the oldest maps in the collection, the "Bavarian Land Tables" by Phillipp Appian from the year 1568 [No. 379 and 380]. "Bohemia and Moravia" was designated as a separate map group due to the extent of the maps and the important role as territory of the German Empire [Kingdom, Electorate], with different atlases and map series of both areas. The groups of the "Franconian Territories" and of "Hesse" could be classified according to uniform principles. They contain interesting maps and map sets of the margraviate Ansbach [No. 423 - 428] and contemporary map sets of the theater of war Hessen during the Seven Years' War [No. 457 and 458] from 1761, the latter by Carlet de la Rozière, adjutant of the French commander-in-chief, Marshal Broglie. For the special documentation of the domestic area, a separate map group "Hohenlohe" was highlighted and separated from the group of Franconian and southwest German maps. Particularly noteworthy are the land tables of the regions around Langenburg and Kirchberg from the first half of the 17th century [no. 472 - 475] and the complete representations of Hohenlohe by Schapuzet and Hammer from the second half of the 18th and at the beginning of the 19th century [no. 477 - 482]. The section "Northern Germany" comprises all maps of the Lower Saxon-North-Elbian area with two atlases of Mecklenburg-Strelitz [No. 499] and Mecklenburg-Schwerin [No. 501] by Count v. Schmettau from the 1780s. With the group "Österreichische Erblande" it had to be decided whether one summarized all maps of the Austrian monarchy or, as here because of the extent and the kind of the maps, divided into the individual partial realms and/or Erblande. Only maps of the narrower area [Austrian Imperial Circle, territory of present-day Austria] were included in this category, with the exception of representations of the entire monarchy. It is worth mentioning the Atlas [Kartenwerk] Tirol by Peter Anich and Blasius Hueber from the year 1774 [No. 509]. The situation was similar with the maps of the Prussian monarchy. Here, too, the groups had to be divided in order to avoid spatial and cartographic separations. The section "Pomerania" also contains maps with representations of Swedish-Vorpommern, the group "Silesia" stretches from the Austrian epoch to the end of the German Reich, with an atlas of the Silesian part principalities from the 1730s to the 1750s [no. 648, 649 and 658], war maps of the Silesian wars and maps reaching into the 1940s. The main group of the "Prussian States" comprises all other maps, from representations of the entire monarchy to individual districts, with maps of East and West Prussia [No. 548 and 555] and a "Special Map" of South Prussia by the Prussian court architect David Gilly from the years 1802/1803 [No. 552 - 554]. The formation of the division "Rhine (with adjoining countries)" took place under the compromise to unite river maps of the Rhine, maps of the Rhine area [Upper, Lower and Kurrhein] and war maps, which carry the title Rhine, but extend over a far larger area, into a comprehensible group. During the processing, torn map sets could be assembled, such as the war theatre map 1794 by Dewarat [No. 605] or the current measurement maps of the Palatinate-Bavarian Upper Rhine Inspector Wiebeking at the end of the 18th century [No. 608 and 612]. The area "Saxony" was structured under clear aspects, including the maps of the Obersächsischen Reichskreis (with Prussian territories) for reasons of uniformity. To be mentioned here are the map sets of the Erzgebirgskreis of the Prussian major v. Petri [No. 630], the individual representations of the Obersächsischer Kreis in eight boxes by Peter Schenk [No. 623], the complete depiction of the Wettiner Lande of the Frankfurt cartographer Johann Wilhelm Abraham Jäger [No. 634] and of the war theatre map of the Seven Years' War of the Saxon captain Backenberg [No. 641]. In order to do justice to the caesura of the years 1803, 1806 and 1810 with their political and territorial changes, the maps of the Swabian-Alemannic and the today Baden-Wuerttemberg area were combined to a unified group "Southwest Germany". Worth mentioning are the "Charte von Schwaben/Württemberg" [No. 681 and 682] by Amann and the Tübingen mathematician and astronomer Bohnenberger as the first attempt of surveying the state, ca. 1796 to 1810, the "Topographische Atlas des Königreichs Würt-temberg" [No. 695 - 697] of the Landesaufnahme from 1821 to 1851 and the forerunner maps of the Historical Atlas of Baden-Württemberg, the "Generalkarte von Württemberg" by Bach [No. 707] and "Der deutsche Südwesten am Ende des alten Reiches" [No. 714] by Erwin Hölzle, 1938 "Thüringen" could be sorted uniformly according to territories, the last section of the "Territories of Germany", the group "Westfalen", was formed again according to compromise aspects, since the range of representation often went beyond the mentioned space of the title, as with the war maps of Dezauche, 1797 [No. 743] and of le Coq, 1804 [No. 744]. The rest of the maps are distributed among the categories 7 to 13. In the group of "transnational theatres of war" all the war maps were classified which cannot be assigned to a fixed geographical area, like the maps of the Seven Years' War, with all battlefields and theatres of war, of the Prussian Colonel Friedrich Wilhelm v. Baur [No. 747 - 749] and the Prime Lieutenant J. v. Saint Paul [No. 763] or the Atlas of Revolutionary Wars [No. 760] of the Swiss General in French and Russian service, Baron Henri v. Jomini. For reasons of determination and provenance, the corridor maps in the inventory were not assigned to the general corridor map collection, but form a separate group. "City maps", "canal constructions" such as the old Rhine-Main-Danube canal, "natural phenomena" such as the solar eclipse of 1706, "statistics" and "miscellaneous", with copper printing plates to the Hohenlohe land plates [no. 853: to no. 473 - 475] and the Hohenlohe map by C. F. Hammer [no. 860: to no. 481] formed the end of the collection.The final signatures have been assigned according to the following criteria: with single numbering, for sets of cards with continuation cards with oblique stroke after the signature, such as "208/1" or "229/1 - 4", and for double or multiple deliveries with indication of the copies, such as the Weikersheim card "476 (4 copies)". The type of storage depends on the conditions of the cartons. There are four types of bearing supports. They are recognizable by their signature: the usual plan storage in drawers is not particularly emphasized. Then there is rolled card ["(rolled)"] and shelf storage of volumes or books ["(tape)"] and cards in boxes ["(carton)"]. Combinations between storage type and card sequences in the signatures occur frequently, such as "296/1 (2 copies)" or "209/1 - 4 (carton)". The indexing was comparatively intensive according to the historical value of the maps. As a rule, the title recordings contain the following information: The title is usually taken over in the original wording, in abbreviated form in the case of excess length. In the absence of a title, a separate version was created describing the theme and area of the map. In the case of non-German, ancient titles or titles deviating from the representation, the German spelling or the spelling customary today is adopted in square brackets [ ]. The area of the map representation is described according to three patterns: Sections refer to the map margin (left-right, top-bottom), sections to prominent vertices and locations at the map margin, and areas to imaginary radii of prominent points or locations. For some cards, the type of card sequence they belong to is also included in the title. The cartographers were indicated, if noted on the map, with their professional title or function as author/cartographer, publisher, editor, draughtsman, engraver, copywriter, printer, etc. In the description of the map design, the edition, the copy number (for multiple copies), the type of map (print, lithography or [copper] engraving) and the type of colouring are given, if given, whereby the majority of the maps are only partially coloured. Boundary lines were dyed in various colors by hand until the beginning of the 19th century. The areas and territories indicated in the title are flat, places are usually colored red or orange, the border areas of the map remain predominantly uncolored. The scale of almost all maps - even without the original scale - was converted into the metric fracture system common today, with the exception of sonar maps and atlases with very different maps. Place and year of publication are generally recorded, in some cases with multiple citation; in case of uncertain assignment the place of origin is indicated in square brackets, in case of missing time indication the presumed period ([um...] or [after...]) is also indicated in square brackets. The old signatures, as far as verifiable, have all been included in the order in which they were listed, with the signatures that Karl Schumm included in his list being the last to be mentioned. The map dimensions (width x height) refer to the actual map display, the dimensions of the sheet cut (outer frame) are shown in brackets. The cartographic type is divided into three categories (thematic, topographic or physical map). Maps dating from before the beginning of the 19th century often cannot be clearly assigned and are given in mixed forms for better identification. This is followed by basic information on the map display, such as the transport network, topography, form of settlement, political division or war events on military maps. In the case of sets or works of cards, the main title is given, the sheet number, if any, and the function of the card (title or continuation sheet). Finally, the intended use of the map is indicated, e.g. as a political, military, school or traffic map. In the remarks, the original scale or scales, the division according to longitude and latitude, as far as they were available, or the meridian grid were mentioned, usually the meridian designated here as the "old Parisian meridian" (fixed in Paris in 1613, with zero meridian by the island Ferro = Hierro/Canaries). In case of deviation from the usual northing of the map, the corresponding orientation according to the direction of the compass was specifically mentioned. Other conspicuous elements of the map presentation, such as the artistic design of the title, scale or dedication templates in allegorical form, the details of troop positions or siege rings, of coat-of-arms representations, explanations, dedications, more precise details of the political division, handwritten notes and other special features, were included at the end of the list.The final indexing and creation of the present holdings by the undersigned was carried out within the framework of the project "Indexing of the printed maps of the Hohenlohe Central Archives" sponsored by the Kulturgutstiftung in the period from 1 January 1999 to 31 December 2000. 1382 title records for approx. 3060 maps in 33 drawers, 59 rolled maps, 92 maps in boxes/cartons and 38 volumes (approx. 4.5 linear metres of shelving) were included in the holdings, which received the designation "Hohenlohe Central Archives: Printed maps". A supplementary use of the map holdings of the line archives of the holdings of the hand-drawn maps of the Hohenlohe Central Archives may make sense under certain circumstances. 3. an explanation of the structure of the title recordings: All maps are described in the present finding aid book according to the following scheme in the indicated order:Order signature - Order numberTitle of the map (as quotation) or indication of the map contentKarthograph and other persons involved in the creation of the mapEngineering stage, edition, execution of the mapScaleEngineering place Further formal descriptionRemarksPre-signaturesEngineering time

Includes: Staatspolitische Bildungstagung in Neustadt a. Rbge. on 10.02.1925 and in Febr. 1927 (Organizer: Reichszentrale für Heimatdienst, Hannover), and in Oct. 1928; German Colonial Travelling Exhibition 1928; Report about the Borromaeus Library (Volksbücherei) in Neustadt a. Rbge, 1930; correspondence about the municipal public library, decree concerning the replacement of the Catholic public libraries in 1941; protection of natural monuments, generally 1934; foundation charter of the "Nieders. Spielgemeinschaft für nationale Festgestaltung" GmbH from 09.01.1934 in Hanover with participation of the city of Neustadt a. Rbge; events of the "Nieders. Spielgemeinschaft" in Neustadt a. Rbge.Darin:1) Letter from Georg v. Grabenhorst dated 16.08.1937 with a map by Westermann-Verlag, Braunschweig, about the places of birth of "German poets of today" in Germany and other European countries2) Autumn exhibition of Hanover artists 1938. catalogue by Kunstverein Hannover e.V.3) Program of the elementary school Neustadt a. Rbge. for the "Woche der Hausmusik" of 23.11.19384) Directory of the library in the municipal hospital "Theresenstift" of Neustadt a. Rbge, 19385) Theater-Tageblatt. German Theatre Service from 25.01.19346) Sdr. from the magazine "Bauart und Gemeindebau", 16th volume: "Thingplätze für Freilichttheater "7) Sdr. from: "Die Kulturverwaltung" 1938, No. 4: Grabenhorst, Georg: "Heimatpflege und Hitler-Jugend

Contains: above all: Accompanying letters and notices on submitted papers etc., including Haardt, V. v. (Vienna): General map of the ethnographic conditions of Asia (1886); Conze: Verzeichnis der Abklatsche von Inschriften (1886); Fraya, Zeitung für Volks-Aufklärung, No. 38, 1886 with article Die Verwerflichkeit der Zehn und die Vorzüglichkeit der Vier im Teil-Verkehr der Menschheit; Hoetsch, L. (Weil) on physiological artificial tone formation (1887); Mende, A. (Frankfurt/O.): Universelle Forschungen zur Geschichte des Weltalls (1887); Borch, L. v. (Innsbruck): Ein Beitrag zum gerichtlichen Verfahren des Mittelalters (1887); Paret, K. L. (Stuttgart): Protestation against science, the theologians and the state of the art in the calculation of the world era (1888) - Reports to the Academy, including: Chief of the Army General Staff on the location of the Varus Battle (1886); Meyer, A. B. (Dresden) about the old streets in the Obergailtal (1886); Königlich Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften München about the 27th plenary assembly of the Historische Kommission (1886); Kultusministerium about the discovery of a collection of laws of Alarich II by Beer in Leon (1888) and sending the report of the Kaiserlich-Deutschen Konsulat in Tunis about the opening of the Museum Alaoui (1888) - offers, information and notices to the academy, among others: Plan of the Philological Society in Constantinople for the publication of a catalogue of Greek manuscripts (1886); 100th anniversary of the Regia Academia Litterarum Historiae Antiquitatis Holmiensis S. D. P. (1886); information sheet on the 7th anniversary of the foundation of the Society. International Congress of Orientalists (1886); Wachtel (Cospoli): sale of Turkish word essays (1886); invitation to the 500th anniversary of the Ruperto Carola University Heidelberg (1886); Academy of Sciences of the Netherlands: programme of a poetic competition (1886); Rangabe (Berlin): Programme of the 25th anniversary of the Greek Philological Society of Constantinople (1886); information about the Imperial University of Japan (1886); Royal Museums: catalogue and tickets to the exhibition of the Finsch Collection of objects from New Guinea (1886); K. u. K. Consulate General: Statutes and Regulations of the Schwestern-Fröhlich-Stiftung (1887); Verein Berliner Presse: Tickets for the Uhland celebration (1887); batistie, N. (Zara): sale of a work in the old Croatian language (1888); invitation to the inauguration ceremony of the monument to Adalbert von Chamisso (1888); accompanying letter and information on applications to the academy, including..: Freier Deutscher Hochstift (Frankfurt/M.): financial support for the reappearance of the Bibliotheca historica (1886, 1887); Blass, F. (Kiel): financial support for a research trip to Constantinople to study Greek manuscripts (1886); call for financial support for a monument to Adalbert von Chamisso in Berlin (1887); Wernicke, K. (1886): financial support for the reappearance of the Bibliotheca historica (1886, 1887). (Paris): financial support for a trip to Italy to research the depictions of Greek heroic sagas (1887); Haupt, K. (New York): printing of his treatise on the problem of causality in the Academy's reports (1888): Blass, F. (Kiel): Mediation of the permission of the Turkish government to use the manuscripts of the Serail Library (1886); Pauli, C. (Leipzig): Permission to examine the epigraphic estate of Corssen (1886); Kopecky, I. (Athens): Examination of his treatise on the rowing equipment of the Attischen Trieren (1888); Lühmann (Greifswald): Printing of his treatise The Old Languages at the Prussian Grammar Schools in the reports or journals of the Academy (1888).- Expert opinion on applications to the Academy for financial support, including: Baist, G. (Erlangen): research trip to London to study older Romanesque literature (1886); Meyer, P. (Smyrna): trip to the libraries of the Athos monasteries (1887); Herzsohn, P. (Bonn): publication of the work Der Überfall Alexandriens durch Peter I. (The Attack of Alexandria by Peter I.), King of Jerusalem and Cyprus (1888); Fügner (Nienburg): Publication of a Lexicon Livianum (1888) - Expert opinion for the Ministry of Culture on applications for the same for financial support, including: Corssen, P. (Jever): Publication of the Vulgate of the New Testament (1886); Wenker, G.: Sprachatlas des deutschen Reiches (1886); Büttner, C. G. (Wormditt): Foundation of a journal for African languages (1886); Königliche Bibliothek: Acquisition of the Bibliotheca Meermanniana (1887); 38. Meeting of German philologists and teachers: publication of the Monumenta Germaniae Paedagogica (1887); Royal Museums: purchase of Faijûm-Papyri (1887); expert opinion for the Ministry of Culture on a procedure of F. F. Mendonça Cortez for the production of geographical maps (1886); communication to Purgold (Gotha) on measures to protect his person on a research trip to Algeria (1886).

Contains among other things: Site plan of the plot intended for the construction of the new court (corner of Irenenstraße-Hohenloheweg-Gouvernementsplatz), sheet no. 10, scale 1 : 500, Oct. 1911 (fol. 22, 40) Photographs of the projected building site and court building (fol. 39) Construction plans: Court building in Tsingtau, sketch for the construction of the western border wall, scale 1 : 100, Feb. 29, 1912

Contains among other things: Information about the University of Hong Kong map of the site for the German-Chinese university and a hospital construction of a university hospital

Vol. 1; Letters and Reports from New Guinea, 1895-1899; Conference Paper "Our Position on the Roman Mission", 14 p. hs, 1897; Map sketches of Astrolabe-Bai and Pomeranian Bay, as well as of the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land from Gorinna to Bunsenspitze, scale 1:250.000, drawn by Hanke, 1897-1898; Narrative of the Moon God in the Bongu language, with German translation, 1898; paper "Die Erziehung u. Behandlung unserer Eingeb.n hinsichtlich ihrer sittlichen, geistigen u. materiellen Entwicklung", 19 p., ed. 1899; Private Letters to Inspectors, 1895-1902; Vol. 2; Letters and Reports from New Guinea, 1899-1905; Biblical Stories in the Bongu Language, 16 p.., Dr., 1901; Vol. 3; Letters and Reports from New Guinea, 1906-1912; "Painting the Body with Red Color by the Papuans", IN: Brudergruß, 18th ed, 1906; "Reisebericht über eine Erkundungsreise in das Gebiet der Djeba-Lpete", 1912; Korrespondenz mit August Hanke im Heimaturlaub, 1909; vol. 4; Letters and reports from New Guinea (also family letters), 1913-1918; Nachricht vom Tod von August Hanke, 1918; Correspondenz mit Johanna Hanke, geb. Heider in New Guinea, 1919-1920; correspondence with Johanna Hanke in Germany, 1921-1966; death certificate, obituary and letter of condolence for Johanna Hanke, 1966

Curriculum vitae, application and health certificate, 1907; correspondence about Glitz' training as a boatman, 1908; certificate about the qualification for coastal navigation, 1908; instruction for Gustav Glitz, 1908; letters and reports from Hong Kong and New Guinea, 1908-1911; "Sketch of the old steam engine" and boiler, scale 1:10, 1908; employment certificate, 1921

Contains: 1st incoming letter, from Ernst Kube, Breslau, 17.06.1934 (1 sheet, hsl.); sheets 1r-1v 2nd outgoing letter (carbon copy), to Ernst Kube, Berlin, 06.06.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheets 2r 3rd incoming letter, from Fritz Kühn, Leipzig, 20.04.1934 (1 sheet, hsl.), mschr., hsl.); sheet 3r 4th outgoing letter (carbon copy), to Fritz Kühn, Berlin, 20.04.1934 (?) (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 4r 5th incoming letter, from Wolfgang Kühn, Wuppertal, 05.02.1934 (1 sheet, hsl.); page 5r-5v 6th outgoing letter (carbon copy), to Wolfgang Kühn, Berlin, 28.02.1934 (1 page, mschr.); page 6r 7th incoming letter, by W. Kühn, Berlin, 22.02.1934 (1 page, mschr.); page 7r 8th outgoing letter (carbon copy), to W. Kühn, Berlin, 03.03.1934 (1 page, mschr.); page 7r 8th outgoing letter (carbon copy), to W. Kühn, Berlin, 03.03.1934 (1 page, mschr.), sheet 8r 9. letter of receipt, from Karl Kuehne, Berlin, 05.05.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.) sheet 9r 10. letter of receipt (copy), to Karl Kuehne, Berlin, 09.05.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.) sheet 10r 11. letter of receipt, from Karl Kuehne, Berlin, 22.05.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.) sheet 8r 9. letter of receipt, from Karl Kuehne, Berlin, 05.22.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.) sheet 9r 10. letter of receipt (copy), to Karl Kuehne, Berlin, 09.05.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.) sheet 10r 11. letter of receipt, from Karl Kuehne, Berlin, 22.05.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.) sheet sheet 11r 12. outgoing letter (copy), to Karl Kuehne, Berlin, 25.05.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 12r 13. card (receipt), from WalterKühne, Sydowsaue, 30.07.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 13r-13v 14. incoming letter, from the publisher Philipp Kühner, Eisenach, 04.10.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.),sheet 14r 15. letter of exit (carbon copy), to the VerlagPhilipp Kühner, Berlin, 12.10.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 15r 16. letter of entry, from Wilhelm Külz, Dresden, 19.02.1934 (1 sheet, 16.5.1934), sheet 16r 17. letter of exit (carbon copy), to Wilhelm Külz, Berlin, 20.02.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 17r 18. letter of entry, from WilhelmKülz, Dresden, 20.09.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.), mschr. m. hsl. notes by Paul Fechter); sheet 18r 19th outgoing letter (carbon copy), to Wilhelm Külz, Berlin, 22.10.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 19r 20th incoming letter, by Wilhelm Külz, Dresden, 03.11.1934 (1 sheet, hsl.); sheet 20r 21st incoming letter, by Wilhelm Külz, Dresden, 03.12.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.), pp. 21r-21v 22. letter of receipt, by Rudolf Külzow, Berlin, 06.05.1934(1 pp., mschr.); pp. 22r 23. letter of receipt, by Rudolf Külzow, Berlin, 06.05.1934 (1 pp., mschr.); pp. 23r 24. letter of receipt(carbon copy), to Rudolf Külzow, Berlin, 11.05.1934 (1 pp., mschr.), sheet 24r-24v 25. letter of receipt, by Walter Küntzel, Mannheim, 03.09.1934 (1 sheet, hsl.); sheet 25r 26. letter of receipt (copy), to Walter Küntzel, Berlin, 12.09.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 26r 27. letter of receipt, by Hilde Küpper, Berlin, 23.05.1934 (1 sheet, hsl.); sheet 26r 27. letter of receipt, by Hilde Küpper, Berlin, 23.05.1934 (1 sheet, hsl.), sheet 27r 28. incoming letter, by Hilde Küpper, Berlin, 24.05.1934 (1 sheet, mschr., hsl.); sheet 28r-28v 29. outgoing letter (carbon copy), toHilde Küpper, Berlin, 29.05.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 29r 30. incoming letter, by Hilde Küpper, Berlin, 09.09.1934 (1 sheet, mschr., hsl.); sheet 29r 30. incoming letter, by Hilde Küpper, Berlin, 09.09.1934 (1 sheet, mschr., mschr.), sheet 30r 31. incoming letter, by Gustav Adolf Küppers-Sonnenberg,Werder, 05.01.1934 (1 sheet, hsl.); sheet 31r 32. outgoing letter(copy), to Gustav Adolf Küppers-Sonnenberg, Berlin, 13.08.1934(1 sheet.) mschr.); sheet 32r 33. letter of receipt, from Kugel, Kassel, 04.05.1934 (1 sheet, hsl.); sheet 33r 34. card (receipt), from JohannKuhn, Csepel, 05.02.1934 (1 sheet, printed, mschr.); sheet 34r-34v 35. letter of receipt, from Hans Kuhnert, Berlin, 05.12.1934 (1 sheet, hsl.), sheet 35r 36th outgoing letter (copy), to Hans Kuhnert, Berlin, 08.12.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 36r 37th map (receipt), from Kulturpolitische Verlag, Leipzig, 27.08.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 37r-37v 38. letter of issue (copy), to the KulturpolitischeVerlag, Berlin, 03.10.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 38r 39. letter of receipt, from Kunauer (?), Berlin, 28.12.1933 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 39r 40. card (receipt), from E. Kunau, Groß-Schwechten, 21.03.1934(1 sheet, mschr.), hsl.); p. 40r-40v 41st outgoing letter (carbon copy), to E.Kunau, Berlin, 27.03.1934 (1 p., mschr.); p. 41r 42nd incoming letter, of "Art of the Nation", Berlin, 13.06.1934 (1 p., mschr.); p. 42r43. Outgoing letter (copy), to "Art of the Nation", Berlin, 18.06.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 43r 44. incoming letter, by IlseKunz-Lack, Augsburg, 15.06.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 44r 45. incoming letter, by Ilse Kunz-Lack, Augsburg, 02.09.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.),sheet 45r 46. card (entrance), by Ilse Kunz-Lack, Augsburg, 01.10.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 46r-46v 47. letter (entrance), by IlseKunz-Lack, Augsburg, 06.10.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.), mschr.); sheet 47r 48.outgoing letter (carbon copy), on/for Ilse Kunz-Lack, Berlin, 09.10.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 48r 49. incoming letter, by Ilse Kunz-Lack, Augsburg, 13.10.1934 (2 sheets.) mschr.); sheet 49r-50v 50. letter of issue, to Ilse Kunz-Lack, Berlin, 15.10.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 51r-51v 51. letter of receipt, from Ilse Kunz-Lack, Augsburg, 01.11.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 52r 52. letter of receipt, from Ilse Kunz-Lack, Augsburg, 16.12.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.), sheet 53r 53. letter of receipt, from Kunze, Gottleuba, 10.07.1934 (1 sheet, hsl.); sheet 54r 54. letter of receipt, from Friedrich Kunze, Bodenbach, 26.07.1934 (1 sheet, hsl.); sheet 55r 55. letter of receipt (carbon copy), to FriedrichKunze, Berlin, 28.07.1934 (1 sheet, hsl.), mschr.); sheet 56r 56. letter of receipt, by Wilhelm R. Kurze, Berlin, 05.12.1934 (1 sheet, hsl.); sheet 57r 57. letter of receipt (copy), to Wilhelm R. Kurze, Berlin, 10.12.1934(1 sheet.) mschr.); sheet 58r 58. letter of receipt, by Harry E. Kutschbach, Bad Elster, 26.01.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 59r 59. letter of receipt, to Harry E. Kutschbach, Berlin, 02.02.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 60r 60. card (receipt), by Magdalene Kuttner, Breslau, 16.02.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.), hsl.); Bl. 61r-61v 61. letter of exit (copy), to Magdalene Kuttner, Berlin, 19.02.1934 (1 Bl.,mschr.); Bl. 62r 62. map (entrance), by Magdalene Kuttner, Breslau, 08.03.1934 (1 Bl., hsl.); Bl. 63r-63v

Contains: 1st incoming letter, by Charles Coleman, Lübeck, 14.03.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 1r 2nd incoming letter, by Charles Coleman, Lübeck, 19.04.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.; with: publisher's advertisement of "Colemans kleineBiographien", 4th row, 2 sheets, mschr.), Bl. 2r-4v 3rd outgoing letter(copy), to Charles Coleman, Berlin, 21.04.1934 (1 Bl.,mschr.); Bl. 5r 4th incoming letter, from Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen, Berlin, 02.01.1934 (1 Bl.., Berlin, 02.01.1934); Bl. 2r-4v 3rd outgoing letter(copy), to Charles Coleman, Berlin, 21.04.1934 (1 Bl., mschr.), mschr.); sheet 6r 5. invitation card, by Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen, Berlin, April/May 1934 (1 sheet, printed, mschr.); sheet 7r 6. letter of exit (copy), to Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen, Berlin, 02.05.1934 (1 sheet, printed, mschr.), mschr.); sheet 8r 7th outgoing letter (carbon copy), to Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen, Berlin, 19.05.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 9r 8th business card of Arthur Connor, Berlin, no D. (1 sheet, printed); sheet 10r 9. card (entrance), of HerbertConnor, Berlin, 20.03.1934 (1 sheet, printed); sheet 11r-11v 10. card (entrance), of Herbert Connor, Berlin, 21.05.1934 (1 sheet, printed); sheet 12r-12v 11. letter (copy), to Herbert Connor, Berlin, o.D. (1 sheet, printed), sheet 13r 12. incoming letter, by Herbert Connor, Berlin, 31.07.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 14r 13. outgoing letter (copy), to Herbert Connor, Berlin, 06.08.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 15r 14. card (incoming), by Herbert Connor, Berlin, 07.09.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.), sheets 16r-16v 15. card (entrance), by Herbert Connor, Berlin, 13.11.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheets 17r-17v 16. letter (copy), to Herbert Connor, Berlin, 14.12.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheets 18r 17. letter (entrance), by Herbert Connor, Berlin, 28.12.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.), sheet 19r 18. card (entrance), by Carl Contiuho, Hamburg, 20.10.1934 (1 sheet, hsl.); sheet 20r-20v 19. letter (copy), to Carl Contiuho, Berlin, 27.10.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 21r 20. business card by Livius Cornea, Berlin, o. D. (1 sheet, printed, hsl.); sheet 22r 21. letter of receipt, from Ernst Hugo Correll, Neubabelsberg, 12.09.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 23r 22. letter of receipt (copy), to Ernst Hugo Correll, Berlin, 18.09.1934 (1 sheet, hsl.),mschr.); sheet 24r 23. card (entrance), by Walter Correll, Nuremberg, 08.06.1934 (1 sheet, hsl.); sheet 25r-25v 24. letter (copy), to Walter Correll, Berlin, 28.06.1934 (1 sheet.) sheet 26r 25. incoming letter, from the Correspondenz für Kunst undWissenschaft, Berlin, 09.01.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 27r 26. outgoing letter (carbon copy), to the J. G. Cotta´sche Buchhandlung, Berlin, 16.05.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 28r 27. incoming letter, from the J. G. Cotta´schen Buchhandlung, Stuttgart, 12.06.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.),sheet 29r 28. card (entrance), from the J. G. Cotta´schenBuchhandlung, Stuttgart, 12.06.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 30r-30v 29. letter, from the J. G. Cotta´schen Buchhandlung, Stuttgart, 13.06.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.; with: copy of a letter to the J. G. Cotta´sche Buchhandlung, Berlin, o. D., 1 sheet, mschr.), pp. 31r-32v30: Outgoing letter (copy) to J. G. Cotta´sche bookshop, Berlin, 14.06.1934 (1 pp., mschr.); pp. 33r: 31st incoming letter, by Else Cramer, Berlin, 15.10.1934 (1 pp, mschr.); page 34r 32. letter of receipt, by Hugo Cramer, New York, 29.03.1934 (1 page, mschr.); page 35r 33. letter of receipt (carbon copy), to Hugo Cramer, Berlin, 13.04.1934 (1 page, 32. letter of receipt, by Hugo Cramer, New York, 29.03.1934), mschr.); sheet 36r 34. incoming letter, from HugoCramer, Amsterdam, 03.09.1934 (2 sheets, mschr.); sheet 37r-38r 35. outgoing letter (carbon copy), to Hugo Cramer, Berlin, 08.09.1934 (1 sheet.); sheet 36r 34. incoming letter, from HugoCramer, Amsterdam, 03.09.1934 (2 sheets, mschr.), mschr.); page 39r 36. letter of receipt, by Friedrich Wilhelm Cramm, Timmerlah, 13.02.1934 (1 page, hsl.); page 40r-40v 37. card (receipt), by Friedrich Wilhelm Cramm, Timmerlah, 21.02.1934 (1 page, hsl.); page 41r-41v 38th outgoing letter (carbon copy), to Friedrich Wilhelm Cramm, Berlin, 28.02.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 42r 39th outgoing letter (carbon copy), to August von Cramon, Berlin, 17.03.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.),mschr.); p. 43r 40. card (entrance), of August of Cramon, Berlin, 19.03.1934 (1 p., mschr.); p. 44r-44v 41. letter (copy), of August of Cramon, Berlin, 23.03.1934 (1 p.),sheet 45r 42. letter of receipt, from August von Cramon, Berlin, 12.04.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 46r 43. letter of receipt (carbon copy), to August von Cramon, Berlin, 16.04.1934 (1 sheet, from August von Cramon, Berlin, 12.04.1934), mschr.); sheet 47r 44. letter of receipt, from August von Cramon, Berlin, 04.05.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 48r 45. letter of receipt (copy), to August vonCramon, Berlin, 11.05.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.), mschr.); sheet 49r 46. letter of receipt, from Helmut Cron, Berlin, [02.10.1934] (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 50r 47. letter of receipt (copy), to Helmut Cron, Berlin, 12.10.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 51r 48. letter of receipt, from GeorgCrusen, Danzig, 23.10.1934 (2 sheets, hsl.); sheet 52r-53r 49. letter of receipt (circular), from Richard Csaki, Stuttgart, February1934 (1 sheet.) printed M. hsl. greeting from Csaki on/for Klein); sheet 54r-54v 50.letter of receipt, by Carl H. Csallner, Bistritz, 21.02.1934 (1 sheet,mschr.); p. 55r-55v 51. letter of origin (carbon copy), to Carl H.Csallner, Berlin, 26.02.1934 (1 p., mschr.); p. 56r-56v 52. letter of origin (carbon copy), to Carl H. Csallner, Berlin, 20.03.1934(1 p..) mschr.); p. 57r 53. incoming letter, by Carl H. Csallner, Bistritz, 27.03.1934 (1 p., mschr.; with it: letter (copy) by Carl H. Csallner to Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, Bistritz, 24.03.1934, 1 p., by Carl H. Csallner, Bistritz, 27.03.1934 (1 p., mschr.) mschr., hsl.; "Tatsachenbericht zurHindenburg-Ehrengabe eines Bauern", Bistritz, 24.03.1934, 2 sheets, mschr.); sheet 58r-61r 54. letter of receipt, by Carl H. Csallner, Bistritz, September 1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 62r 55. map(entrance), by Karl Heinz Csallner, Dresden, 30.11.1934 (1 sheet,hsl.); sheet 63r-63v 56. map(entrance), by Karl Heinz Csallner,Bistritz, 08.12.1934 (1 sheet.); sheet 62r 55. map(entrance), by Karl Heinz Csallner, Dresden, 30.11.1934 (1 sheet,hsl.); sheet 63r-63v 56. map(entrance), by Karl Heinz Csallner,Bistritz, 08.12.1934 (1 sheet.) hsl. m. hsl. greeting by Carl H. Csallner); p. 64r-64v 57. card (receipt), by Hans Culemann, Düsseldorf, 05.01.1934 (1 p., mschr.); p. 65r-65v 58. letter of receipt, by Hans-Culemann, Düsseldorf, 22.01.1934 (1 p., mschr.), mschr.); p. 66r 59.Ausgangsbrief (Durchschlag), to Hans Culemann, Berlin, 07.02.1934 (p. 1, mschr.; with: Answortkonzept zum Schreiben, 1 p., mschr.); p. 67r-68r 60. letter of receipt, by Hans Culemann, Düsseldorf, 09.02.1934(1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 69r-69v 61. letter of receipt (copy), to HansCulemann, Berlin, 28.02.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.), mschr.); p. 70r 62nd card(entrance), by Hans Culemann, Düsseldorf, 26.03.1934 (1 p., mschr.); p. 71r-71v 63rd card(entrance), by Hans Culemann, Düsseldorf, 10.04.1934 (1 p., mschr.), mschr.); sheet 72r-72v 64. letter of receipt, by HansCulemann, Düsseldorf, 11.04.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 73r 65. card(receipt), by Hans Culemann, Düsseldorf, 08.05.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.), sheet 74r-74v 66. letter of receipt, by Hans Culemann, Düsseldorf, 23.05.1934 (2 sheets, mschr.); sheet 75r-76v 67. card (receipt), by Hans Culemann, Düsseldorf, 15.06.1934 (1 sheet.) sheet 77r-77v 68. letter of receipt, by Hans Culemann, Düsseldorf, 22.06.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 78r 69. letter of receipt, by Hans Culemann, Düsseldorf, 27.06.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.), mschr.); p. 79r 70. outgoing letter (carbon copy), to Hans Culemann, Berlin, 30.06.1934 (1 p., mschr.); p. 80r 71. incoming letter, by Hans Culemann, Düsseldorf, 02.07.1934 (1 p., mschr.),sheet 81r 72. letter of receipt, by Hans Culemann, Düsseldorf, 25.07.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 82r 73. letter of receipt (carbon copy), to Hans Culemann, Berlin, 01.08.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 81r 72. letter of receipt, by Hans Culemann, Düsseldorf, 25.07.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 82r 73. letter of receipt (carbon copy), to Hans Culemann, Berlin, 01.08.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.), sheet 83r 74. incoming letter, by Hans Culemann, Düsseldorf, 01.08.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 84r 75. outgoing letter (copy), to Hans Culemann, Berlin, 09.08.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 85r 76. incoming letter, by Herbert Cysarz, Mönichkirchen, 05.10.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 86r77. Outgoing letter (carbon copy), to Herbert Cysarz, Berlin, 09.10.1934(1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 87r 78. Outgoing letter (carbon copy), to WilliCzell, Berlin, 03.01.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 88r 79. Incoming letter, from Willi Czell, Kronstadt, 01.03.1934 (2 sheets, hsl.); sheet 89r-90r.

History of Tradition Biographical information Heinz Braun was born in 1927 as the son of Heinrich Braun and Barbara Braun, née Müller. At the age of ten the secondary school student Heinz Braun went to the Hitler Youth, at 15 he became a member of the fire brigade, at 16 he became an air force helper. He was drafted at the age of 17. After Heinz Braun had been deployed around Breslau in 1945, he spent a few weeks of rest with his comrades in a village near Prague. Finally, Heinz Braun was deployed on his way to Lake Balaton in mid-April 1945 in Vienna. While defending a crossroads, he and his comrades were taken prisoner of war in Russia. After a three-month stay in Vienna, they were taken to Stalingrad. He returned home from captivity in January 1950. With the help of the care of the returnees, he began training as an electrician, to which he joined the technician. In 1956 Heinz Braun married a young woman from Rottweil, with whom he has two sons. He took early retirement in 1985. After Mr. Braun had learned of the estate of Kugler, which had been published by the State Archive Sigmaringen, he donated a photo album with a collection of field postcards and some photographs to the archive in 2006 (access 2006/45). The vast majority of the field postcards his mother Barbara Braun, née Müller, had received from her brothers Jakob and Philipp during the First World War. Furthermore, in 2007 (access 2007/02), Mr Braun donated letters, personal documents and photographs from the first half of the 20th century to the Sigmaringen State Archives. In addition, Mr. Braun supplemented his past, in particular his stay in a prisoner of war camp in Stalingrad, as well as the past of his mother and his uncle Jakob Müller with personal notes and partially literarily worked up. The collection's focus is on 167 field postcards from the time of the First World War. They visualize the everyday life of soldiers as well as the effects of war. Used as a means of propaganda against their own population, they also illustrate the expansion of psychological warfare in the First World War. Within the newly created classification levels, the units of description were arranged chronologically. Postcards and photographs not to be dated are placed at the end of a classification group. Records, letters and personal documents of the estate giver were summarized in thematic units. Titles of postcards and photographs were made on the basis of text imprints. If no text imprints were available, the handwritten titles of the postcard owners were taken over in quotation marks. Own title formations or additions were made without quotation marks. In the case of postcards sent, the sender and recipient are also noted. The title shows place names in the spelling used on the postcards and photographs. Where today's official place names differ, they have been added in square brackets. The place names of that time, but also German names for foreign places can be understood in this way. The postcards are dated after the date of dispatch of the card. If the author of a postcard has dated his message to a date before the date of dispatch, both dates have been included. Information on publishers, photo studios, series and film numbering appear in the "Presignature 1" data field. In ScopeArchive the inventory was recorded and packaged under the guidance of Dr. Volker Trugen berger and Sibylle Brühl by intern Sarah Bongermino in July and August 2008. The inventory comprises 167 postcards, 15 photographs and 10 file units with a total volume of 0.4 linear metres of shelving. The citation of the inventory is as follows: N 1/85 T 1 No. [order number] Sigmaringen, August 2008 Sarah Bongermino The personal documents, photographs and maps (N1/85 T 1 No. 200-234) donated in the years 2008 (access 2008/56) and 2009 (access 2009/28 and 2009/37) were catalogued by Sibylle Brühl and the two interns Bernhard Homa and Anika Mester in September 2009 and included in the inventory. The collection comprises 167 postcards, 31 photographs, 19 file units and 5 cards with a total volume of 0.5 running metres of shelving. Sigmaringen, September 2009 Sibylle Brühl Content and evaluation Field postcards and photographs from the First World War; letters, personal documents, maps and photographs from the first half of the 20th century as well as records of the life stories of the estate giver and family members.

Lange, Erich (1889 - 1965) Prof. Dr.phil.; Professor of Fuel Geology 1946 President of the German Geological Survey; Director of the Geological Service of the GDR The estate contains: Excerpts from the file 1957 "Preparation of the commemorative event 10 years StGK (Staatliche Geologische Kommission) (contains among other things: material, elaborations and handwritten notes) Correspondences Personal letter of Gottlieb A. Seberna Handwritten notes among other things from and to geological books, to Cameroon, manuscripts to geological observation in French, German and English. Colonies (e.g. East-Adamaua), excerpts from the journal of the German Geological Society vol. 84(1932), photographs of tree trunks in a basalt stream near Meiganga

Contains: Correspondence concerning planning and financing (e.g. creation of an expedition fund) as well as follow-up (e.g. operation of the order award to the patron Hugo von Gahlen, owner of factory and manor); scientific expert's opinion: drawn map of Central Africa; reports on the expedition in the "Tägliche Rundschau" (mainly parts of the travel report "Ins Innerste Afrikas", 1908, written by Adolf Friedrich himself).

description: Contains:StartVNr: E 7/1902; EndVNr: E 837/1902; and others: Cooperation with the Botanical Museum, p. 245, and the Museum of Natural History, Berlin, (1902), p. 50, p. 242 - submission of doublets to the Ethnographic Collection, Göttingen, (1902), p. 72, the Museums for Ethnology, Cologne, p. 129, Leipzig, p. 115, 203, Stuttgart, (1903), p. 127 ff., the American Museum of Natural History, New York, p. 15 ff., and the Ethnographic Museum, St. Petersburg, (1902), p. 251 f.- Exchange of duplicates with private individuals, (1902), p. 213 - Cooperation with the governors of DOA, (1902), p. 57, and Togo, (1901), p. 45 - Cooperation with the High Command of the Schutztruppen, Berlin, p. 12, the German Colonial School Wilhelmshof, Witzenhausen, (1902), p. 12, the German Federal Armed Forces, (1901), p. 4, the German Colonial School Wilhelmshof, Witzenhausen, (1902), p. 4, the German Armed Forces, p. 4, the German Armed Forces, p. 4, the German Armed Forces, p. 4, the German Armed Forces, p. 4, and the German Armed Forces, p. 4, p. 4, p. 4, the German Armed Forces, p. 4, p. 4. 174 - Cooperation with the White Fathers, (1902), p. 220 - Volkmann: Shipment of a Skeleton, (1901), p. 2 - "General map of Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika.", (no year), map, p. 142 - [Lübbert:] "Die Eingeborenen Deutsch-Südwestafrikas", (1902), p. 143 ff - Merker: Report on the relationship of the Wadschagga to the Massai, (1902), pp. 159 ff.- Glauning: Verwertung seiner wissenschaftlichen Notes, (1902), pp. 163 f.- "Auction of Works of Modern Art.", and "Auction of Weapons and Decorative Objects." Communications of the K.k. Versatz-, Verwahrungs- und Versteigerungsamtes, [1902], Druckschr., pp. 189 et seq. - Langheld: Sendung von einem "Kopf der Ekois, mit Menschenhaut überzogen", (1902), pp. 210 et seq. "List des photographies de Madagascar et de la Réunion de F. Sikora naturaliste, ...", (n.d.), Printed by Printm., pp. 217 ff. - Thierry: Sendung von Schädeln, (1902), pp. 248 f., 262.

Africanische Gesellschaft (Verfasser, Herausgeber). Robert Vaugondy, Renell und Sotzmann (Verfasser der Vorläuferkarte), Robert Sayer, Lemprier, Sparrmann, Bruce, Niebuhr, Robert Dapres (Mitglieder der Africanischen Gesellschaft, Verfasser?), Ad[am] Gottl[ieb] Schneider und Weigel (Kunst- und Buchhandlung, Verlag). Druck, koloriert (Teilgebiete Afrikas transparent mehrfarbig). Ca. 1 : 16.000.000 (Azoren 1 : 7.000.000). Nürnberg. Vertikal gefaltet, 62 x 55 cm; thematisch-topographische Karten, nicht maßstabsgetreu (Topographie Afrikas z. T. unbekannt oder mit falscher Lage); Teilinselkarte mit durchbrochenem Rahmen; auf Karton aufgezogen. Bem.: ohne Maßstab; Meridiangitternetz (Pariser Meridian, Globalprojetion, mit Äquator und Wendekreisen); Legende (unterer Rand) mit farbiger Belegung (Balken, verwaschen) des europäischen Kolonialbesitzes; Einzeichnung länderkundlicher Besonderheiten. Schaden: Abspliffungen u. kleine Einrisse i. d. Karte; Schimmelflecken. Vorsignaturen: 200; A 18.