History of the Inventor: The first war societies were founded immediately after the establishment of the war raw materials department on August 13, 1914 in the legal form of a stock corporation. In principle, these trading companies performed the tasks assigned to them completely independently and were only controlled in their business activities by state commissioners of the War Ministry, the Reich Office of the Interior, the Prussian Ministry of Trade and Commerce, the Reich Navy Office or other Reich authorities. Particularly in the case of commercial and technical tasks, the support of trade and industry was needed to relieve the administration of its administrative tasks. Only in this way was it believed possible to compensate for the deficits in the economic and organisational preparations. Legally, the war societies were established in the form of stock corporations, limited liability companies, accounting offices or war committees. Conceptually, they were to be distinguished from the forced syndicates, the central business associations and the state authorities themselves. As the supply situation deteriorated, additional tasks were added. In addition to the procurement, administration and distribution of raw materials, the mobilization and supplementation of existing domestic material stocks had to be dealt with. For this purpose, the state set up mobilization centers, commodity import organizations and requisition organizations were established in the occupied territories, and the domestic production of raw materials and their substitutes was promoted through direct influence on industrial capacities, the establishment of new plants and the promotion of scientific developments. Accordingly, the field of activity of the aid organisations also expanded to include technical tasks (sorting, processing, storage and transport of raw materials), production promotion and foreign trade. Of the approximately 350 organizations existing at the end of the war, 105 were under the authority of the War Food Office (later: Reich Food Ministry), 120 under the authority of Reichswirt‧schaftsamt (later: Reich Economics Ministry), five under the authority of the Reich Office of the Interior (later: Reich Ministry of the Interior), and 120 under the authority of the Prussian War Ministry or the War Office (later: Reich Economics Ministry). It should be borne in mind that only about one third of these organisations were of an administrative nature; only these organisations can be regarded as having a relationship of subordination in the administrative sense. Another third of the other organisations are so-called war societies, i.e. companies founded for the purposes of the war economy, mostly with equity interests of the Reich and the Länder, and supervised by Reich offices or specially appointed Reich Commissioners under commercial law (AG, GmbH). The organizations of the remaining third are to be regarded as self-governing bodies of the individual branches of industry with the character of voluntary or compulsory syndicates under the influence of the Reich. The dissolution of war societies was primarily governed by the provisions of the Articles of Association, which, in accordance with the purpose of the societies, provided for the commencement of liquidation at the end of the war or within one year of the conclusion of a peace treaty with all the major powers. Where there was no time limit or the district societies were continued by a subsequent agreement due to the continuing shortage of supplies, an explicit resolution to dissolve them was required. In the interest of a quick, uniform and final dismantling of the war economy, on 15 July 1921, at the instigation of the Reich Treasury, all war societies were finally given the easier opportunity of dissolution through a transition to the Reich without liquidation. Inventory description: Inventory history In 1943 and 1944, the inventories of the wartime economic organizations of World War I were first relocated to Staßfurt on a selective basis and then to Schönebeck, taking into account all of the inventories and parts initially left behind. In the course of the post-war events, they were transferred to the German Central Archive, Dept. Merseburg, where they remained until 1955. In July/August 1955, the holdings of the war organizations of World War I were transferred to the central archive in Potsdam. Archival evaluation and processing In the years 1959-1960, work began on arranging and recording individual smaller holdings for which the Reichsarchiv had no or only inadequate finding aids. Content characterisation: The tradition refers to the following focal points: - Management and organization in general, 1916-1923 - personnel matters, 1919-1923 - connection to Reich authorities, 1919-1922 - production and management of cocoa products, 1919-1923 - import of cocoa products, import committee, 1919-1923. State of development: index of finds approx. 1980 citation method: BArch, R 8815/...

Contains among other things: Coal deliveries by the company Hansing

Contains among other things: Reichsverband der Deutschen Industrie Volksbund für das Deutschtum im Ausland Vereinigung für deutsche Siedlung und Wanderung Society for Colonial Reconstruction

Contains among other things: Women's Association of the DKG Women's Association of the Red Cross for Germans via Sea Colonial Warriors thanks to the Kolonialwirtschaftliches Komitee e. V. (Colonial Economic Committee)

Contains above all: Working Group for Foreign and Colonial Technology Working Committee of German Associations Association of Foreign Germans German-Foreign Academics Club German Colonial Warriors Association German Colonial Warriors Association German Colonial Association

Contains among other things: Association "Invalidendank" zu Berlin (statutes, print), Feb. 5, 1876 German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked Persons (business reports, prints), 1907-1910 German Colonial Congress 1910 (program, print), 1910

Contains among other things: Deployment of police battalions 63, 66 and 122 in Lorraine, 29 July 1940 Deployment of police forces of the Lorraine communes' Schutzpolizei, 10 Oct 1940 Deployment of the Ordnungspolizei in Lorraine to support security police measures, 25 Oct 1940 and 22 Nov 1940 Training of the auxiliary police officers of the Schutzpolizei recruited in Lorraine, 28 Oct 1940, 28 Oct 1940, 28 Oct 1940, 28 Oct 1940, 28 Oct 1940, 28 Oct 1940, 25 Oct 1940, 25 Oct 1940 and 22 Nov 1940, 25 Oct 1940, 25 Oct 1940, 22 Oct 1940, 25 Oct 1940, 22 Oct 1940, 25 Oct 1940, 22 Oct 1940, 22 Oct 1940, 22 Oct 1940, 22 Oct 1940, 22 Oct 1940, 22 Oct 1940, 22 Oct 1940, 22 Oct 1940, 22 Oct 1940, 22 Oct 19, 21 Nov. 1940 and 9 Apr. 1941 Deployment of the order police in Lorraine to support a security police resettlement operation, 3 and 10 Nov. 1940 Training of the auxiliary police officers and the former French police officers and gendarmes, 9 Nov. 1940, 9 Nov. 1940, 9 Nov. 1940, 9 Nov. 1940, 9 Nov. 1940, 9 Nov. 1940, 9 Nov. 1940, 9 Nov. 1940, 9 Nov. 1940, 9 Nov. 1940, 9 Nov. 1940, 9 Nov. 1940, 9 Nov. 1940, 9 Nov. 1940, 9 Nov. 1940, 9 Nov. 1940, 9 Nov. 1940, 9 Nov. 1940, 9 Nov. 1940, 9 Nov. 1940, 9 Nov. 1940, 9 Nov. 1940, 19 Nov. 1940, 19 Nov. 1940, 19 Nov. 19.26 Nov. 1940, 6, 14 and 17 Jan. 1941 Criminal training courses for the district officers, foremen and sergeants of the uniformed order police who were found to be fit for colonial service, 11 Nov. 15 Nov. 1940, 4 Feb. 1941, Criminal training courses for the district officers, foremen and sergeants of the uniformed order police who were found to be fit for colonial service, 11 Nov. 15 Nov. 1940, 4 Feb. 1940, 4 Feb. 1940, 4 Feb. 1940, 11 Feb. 1940, 4 March, 6 May and 30 July 1941 Occupation of posts and promotion in the Security and Emergency Service 1st Order, 28 Oct 1940 Passport regulations for traffic between Lorraine and the Reich, 25 Nov 1940 Deployment of the closed units of the Schutzpolizei in Lorraine, 27 Nov 1940 Withdrawal of the Reserve Police Battalion 66 from Lorraine and occupation of the police border, 17 Jan 1940 1941 Marching order of the Reserve Police Battalion 66, Jan. 20, 1941 Renaming of the SS upper section "Lorraine-Saarpfalz" to "Westmark", Feb. 6, 1941 Establishment and occupation of the police border, Feb. 8, 1941 Distribution of the auxiliary policemen of the Reserve Police Battalion 63, Feb. 10, 1941 Technical passport regulations for traffic between Alsace, Lorraine, Luxembourg, and the Old Empire, (Jan.) Feb. 1941 Pass technical regulations for traffic between Alsace, Lorraine, Luxembourg, and the Old Empire, (Jan.) Feb. 1941

Contains: Group of German Colonial Economic Enterprises, 1940 - 1941; Court of Honour of the German Economy, May - June 1941; Evaluation Office of the Technical and Economic World Press, July 1941; German National Group of the International Society for Commercial Education, Sept. 1941

Collection of newspaper clippings, pamphlets, printed matter, confessions, green letters on the situation and correspondence on the dispute between German Christians and Confessing Church; Die Deutsche Bekenntnis-Synode, S.-Dr., Barmer Zeitung, May 1934; Theological Declaration on the Barmer Confession Synod, 1934

Contains also: Kiautschou Deutsch-Samoa Deutsch-Neuguinea - Marshall and Caroline Islands

Note Müller: Ho, chief of Matse with entourage before 1914, contains: Flag, German

Contains also: Photo of Malitoa and Tamasese from 24. Nov. 1884