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. Characterisation of content: Documents on the management and organisation of the Deutsche Seeversicherungsgesellschaft von (1914-1921) as well as on marine insurance and prisenrecht (1914-1921) have been handed down. State of development: Find file approx. 1980 Citation method: BArch, R 8903/...

History of the Inventor: Used by decree of 15.01.1940 with responsibility for the confiscation and administration of the movable and immovable property of states participating in the Second World War against the German Reich and their nationals throughout the territory of the Reich, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and in Luxembourg; subordinated to the Reich Minister of Justice; execution of tasks up to the subordination of the administered enemy property by law no. 52 of the military government under the control of the occupying powers by the trustee for the property of the allied states and their nationals. Characterisation of content: In addition to general files on organisation and personnel matters, fundamental questions of registration and treatment of German assets in hostile foreign countries and hostile assets in Germany and in the occupied territories as well as on asset management - generally in accordance with § 12 ff of the Ordinance on Enemy Asset Management, above all guidelines for administrators, applications and remuneration - individual files on asset management have been handed down, namely: Assets with the exception of participations and land (70), participations, companies, industrial property rights, special-purpose assets, in particular British, French and American assets after 1940 (1819), land in the Berlin district of the Supreme Court and the individual districts of the Higher Regional Court, in particular British assets including Commonwealth, French assets including colonies and American and Soviet assets after 1940 (6465). Few files concern Jewish property. The documents assigned are those of the Commissioner of the Reich Commissioner at the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia - Liaison Office Prague, the Chief of the Civil Administration in Luxembourg - Commissioner for the Administration of Enterprises Under Hostile Influence, the Military Commander France - Reststab and the Military Commander France - Reststab. State of development: Findbuchvorlage (1987) Citation method: BArch, R 87/...

History of the Inventory Designer: Authority founded in 1876 as the Imperial Office of Health (since 1918 known as the Reichsgesundheitsamt) within the portfolio of the Reich Ministry of the Interior; responsible for medical and veterinary affairs with a subordinate opium unit; the Reichsgesundheitsrat (Reich Health Council), established in 1900, supported the Reichsgesundheitsamt (Reich Health Office) in its tasks; Between 1935 and 1942, the Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases "Robert Koch" and the Prussian State Institute for Water, Soil and Air Hygiene were subordinated to the Reich Health Office, after which they regained their independence as Reich Institutes; at the end of 1945, the Reich Health Office was renamed the Institute for General Hygiene and integrated into the Central Institute for Hygiene and Health Service as Branch Office 1. Inventory description: Authority founded in 1876 as the Imperial Office of Health (since 1918 called Reichsgesundheitsamt) in the portfolio of the Reich Ministry of the Interior. Responsible for medical and veterinary affairs with subordinate opium site. The Reich Health Council, established in 1900, supported the Reich Health Office in its tasks. Between 1935 and 1942, the Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases "Robert Koch" and the Prussian State Institute for Water, Soil and Air Hygiene were subordinated to the Reich Health Office, after which they regained their independence as Reich Institutes. At the end of 1945, the Reich Health Office was renamed the Institute for General Hygiene and integrated as Branch Office 1 into the Central Institute for Hygiene and Health Service. State of development: 2 finding aids (2005), online finding aid (2005) Citation method: BArch, R 86/...

History of the Inventory Designer: By law of 3 July 1934 (RGBl. I p. 534) the Reichsforstamt was founded as the supreme Reich authority with Göring as "Reichsforstmeister" - in hunting matters as "Reichsjägermeister". With effect from March 1, 1935 (RGBl. I p. 305), the Prussian State Forestry Office was merged with the Reich Forestry Office in terms of both subject matter and space. The tasks of the Reich Forestry Office included the administration and supervision of governmental and non-governmental forests (from 1940), fortified universities (until 1938), forestry and timber management policy, nature, bird and plant conservation, hunting legislation, hunting administration and hunting police. Inventory description: Inventory history During the Alliieretn air raid on Berlin on 22/23 Nov. 1943, during which the Reichsforstamts building on Leipziger Platz was partially destroyed, a large part of the inventory was lost. The remains of the documents, which were formerly stored as holdings 37.01 in the Central State Archives in Potsdam, were transferred to the ZStA by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the GDR in 1953 and by the German State Library in 1966. The few files that were stored in the Federal Archives in Koblenz as R 44 originate almost exclusively from the Grundbesitz department. Both partial stocks were combined in 1990 to form stock R 3701. Content: Most of the original files were destroyed during the war in 1943. For example, documents on legal matters, nature and bird conservation and forest ownership administration are completely lacking. Also the remaining fields of work are occupied in each case only with few files. The main focus of the tradition lies in the years 1941-1945. There is a significant tradition on the following subjects: Forstliche Hochschulen, Eberswalde and Hann. Münden 1935-1939, personnel matters in the broadest sense, including: civil servant law and Reichsdienststrafordnung 1941-1945, pension 1941-1945, welfare and foundations, orders and decorations 1944, proof of identity and personnel statistics 1941-1944, civil servants and employees 1941-1945, Forstschutzkorps 1941-1945. General forestry, including: legislation 1935-1942, forestry statistics 1941, foreign forestry 1942-1945, forestry relations with foreign countries 1941-1944, Forstattachés 1941-1944, Reichsinstitut für ausländische und koloniale Forstwirtschaft 1941-1945, Internationale Forstzentrale 1941-1945, research questions. Budget matters, administrative penal proceedings 1940-1944, foreign exchange legislation 1942-1945 General information on timber management and hunting: Hunting legislation 1941-1942, hunting lease and permit 1941-1945, hunting restrictions 1941-1944, game and hunting damage 1941-1945, hunting protection 1941-1945, hunting licences 1940, 1943-1944, management of game stocks 1938-1945, game diseases 1941-1944, Shooting, game management 1940-1942, hunting literature and images 1941-1945, supervision of the German hunting community 1942-1944 management of game stocks 1936-1941, state hunting grounds 1941-1942 property in individual German regions 1932-1945. Personalakten o.D. (621) Ordnungsstrafsachen, Einzelfälle 1939-1944. State of development: Findbuch für alt 37.01 (1954) Findbuch für alt R 44 (1987) Kartei der Ordnungsstrafsachen Citation method: BArch, R 3701/...

History of the Inventory Designer: Before the Reich Chamber of Culture Act of 22 September 1933 came into force, the law on the establishment of a provisional film chamber was enacted on 14 July. 1] Its presidents were Dr. Fritz Scheuermann (1933-1935), Prof. Dr. Oswald Lehnich (1935-1939) and Prof. Carl Froelich (from 1939). The vice presidents were Arnold Raeter, Hans Weidemann and Karl Melzer. The Reichsfilmkammer had the task of promoting the German film industry within the overall economy, of representing the interests of the individual groups of this industry among themselves and vis-à-vis the Reich, the Länder and the municipalities, and of bringing about a fair balance between those involved in working life in this field. The close connection between state and party, which is expressed in the position of the Gaufilmstellenleiter as department head of the Gaupropagandaamt and speaker of the Landesstelle of the Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, was further deepened by the appointment of the Gaufilmstellenleiter as Gauauftragter of the Reich Film Chamber. 2] The Reichsfilmkammer was divided into 10 departments: I. General Administration (Law, Budget and Finance, Personal Data) II. Politics and Culture (Domestic Press News Office; Foreign Press News Office, Reich Film Archive) III. artistic supervision of filmmaking (dramaturgy, casting questions) IV. Film Industry (Special reports on foreign exchange issues, copyright, labour and tax law issues) V. Film Student Council (production manager, directors, film formers, production managers, cameras, sound engineers, editors, actors, extras, make-up artists, requisitioners, cloakroom attendants) VI. Film Production Section (film production, film foreign trade, film studios) VII. Domestic Film Distribution Section VIII. Section Film Theatre IX. Division Film and Cinema Technology (Film Processing, Film Patents, Film Technology Research) X. Section for culture, advertising and light plays. 3] Among the cooperative members of the Film Chamber were the Paritätische Filmnachweis, the Film Quota Office, the Foreign Exchange Department, the Filmkreditbank GmbH and the Reichsfilmarchiv. 4] With the collapse of the "Third Reich" the Reichskulturkammer and with it also the Reichsfilmkammer lost their right to exist. Notes (1) RGBl. I, p. 483. (2) Cf. The Organization of the Reich Chamber of Culture. (Business Plan), ca. 1936. (3) Cf. Hans Hinkel (Ed.): Handbuch der Reichskulturkammer. Berlin 1937, p. 278 ff. (4) See The Organization of the Reich Chamber of Culture. (business plan), ca. 1936. Inventory description: Inventory history From the Reichsfilmkammer only a few files survived the war. The volumes listed here are to a large extent handfiles of the Vice President Hans Weidemann. The present collection R 56 VI, which the Berlin Document Center transferred to the Federal Archives in Koblenz in 1959, was already published in the publication find book "Reichskulturkammer und ihre Einzelkammern" (find books on the holdings of the Federal Archives, No. 31). Archival processing The index data of the files of the Reich Film Chamber, which had already been compiled and published in the Federal Archives in Koblenz, were essentially adopted when they were put online; file titles only underwent slight changes in individual cases. No new file units were added. Citation method BArch R 56 VI / ... State of development: Publication index of the Reichskulturkammer (1987), Online-Findbuch (2008). Citation style: BArch, R 56-VI/...

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. Characterisation of the content: The main focus of the tradition here is on the clothing industry and the management of textiles and garments, regional and local population supply including the supply of uniform fabrics and uniforms, 1916-1920. The following documents are also available: - Management and organisation, business operations, news, press releases, 1916-1922 - management committees, 1916-1919 - Kriegswirtschafts AG, 1916-1920 - personnel matters, 1916-1920 - connection with Reich authorities, 1916-1922 - export and import of textiles, 1916-1919. State of development: index of finds approx. 1980 citation method: BArch, R 8758/...

History of the Inventory Designer: On April 1, 1901, foundation of the "Königliche Versuchs- und Prüfungsanstalt für Wasserver‧sorgung und Abwasserbeseitigung" (Royal Testing and Examination Institute for Wasserver‧sorgung and Sewage Disposal), which was initially subordinate to the Prussian Minister of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs and, from April 1, 1911, to the Prussian Minister of the Interior, Mini‧sterium des Innern (Mini‧sterium of the Interior); with the decree of the Prussian Minister of the Interior of April 27, 1911, the "Königliche Versuchs- und Prüfungsanstalt für Wasserver‧sorgung und Abwasserbeseitigung" (Royal Testing and Examination Institute for Wasserver‧sorgung and Sewage Disposal) was founded. In February 1913, the name was changed to "Königliche Landesanstalt für Wasserhygiene"; with the joint decree of the Prussian Ministers for Public Welfare, Trade and Commerce and for Agriculture, Domains and Forests of 25 April 1923, the institution was given the title "Landesanstalt für Wasser-, Boden- und Lufthygiene"; the President of Reichsge‧sundheitsamtes, Professor Dr. Reiter, was entrusted by decree of the Reich and Prussian Minister of the Interior of 2 February 1935 with the performance of the duties of the President of the Preu‧ßischen Landesanstalt für Wasser-, Boden- und Lufthygiene; the supervisory authority was the Reich Ministry of the Interior; with the 1st Reich Ministry of the Interior he was entrusted with the management of the affairs of the President of the Preu‧ßischen Landesanstalt für Wasser-, Boden- und Lufthygiene; with the 1st Reich Ministry of the Interior. April 1942 Conversion of the institution into the "Reichsanstalt für Wasser- und Luftgüte" and extension of its field of activity to the ge‧samte German Reich: Professor Dr. Konrich became director; after the Second World War Umbe‧nennung in Institut für Wasser-, Boden- und Lufthygiene as branch office 3 of Zentral‧instituts for hygiene and health service. Inventory description: On April 1, 1901, the "Königliche Versuchs- und Prüfungsanstalt für Wasserversorgung und Abwasserbeseitigung" was founded, which was initially subordinate to the Prussian Minister of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs and, from April 1, 1911, to the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. With the decree of the Prussian Minister of the Interior of 27 February 1913 the name was changed to "Königliche Landesanstalt für Wasserhygiene". With the joint decree of the Prussian Ministers for Public Welfare, Trade and Commerce and for Agriculture, Domains and Forests of 25 April 1923, the institution was given the title "State Institute for Water, Soil and Air Hygiene". The President of the Reich Health Office, Prof. Dr. Reiter, was commissioned by decree of the Reich and Prussian Minister of the Interior on February 2, 1935, to carry out the duties of the President of the Prussian State Institute for Water, Soil and Air Hygiene; the supervisory authority was the Reich Ministry of the Interior. On 1 April 1942, the institution was converted into the "Reichsanstalt für Wasser- und Luftgüte" (Reich Institute for Water and Air Quality) and its field of activity extended to the entire German Reich. Prof. Dr. Konrich was appointed director. After the Second World War it was renamed the Institute for Water, Soil and Air Hygiene as Branch Office 3 of the Central Institute for Hygiene and Health Service. State of development: Findbuch (1984), Listenings (1991), Online-Findbuch (2008) Citation method: BArch, R 154/...

History of the Inventory Designer: 1938 Formation essentially from the Office for German Raw Materials formed in the Four-Year Plan with the task of organising and promoting research, development and development in the field of industrial raw materials production and processing and preparing the planning in the field of industrial production of the higher Reich authority subordinate to the Commissioner for the Four-Year Plan at the Reich Ministry of Economics. Inventory description: Inventory history Most of the written material has been destroyed. The few registry remains kept until 1990 in the Federal Archive Koblenz as inventory R 25 originate from file returns from the USA and concern in particular the promotion of research and development in the field of industrial raw material production and processing as well as the planning and control of industrial production programs. Until 1990, the Central State Archives of the GDR held two Tel holdings 31.12 Reichsamt für Wirtschaftsausbau and 31.20 Reichsamt für Wirtschaftsausbau - Representative for Dry Ice, which were taken over in 1959 and 1970. The origin of the documents could not be clarified. As a result of reunification and the merging of the holdings of the Federal Archives and the Central State Archives of the GDR, the three partial holdings were merged under the tectonic number R 3112. The files of the Potsdam holdings 31.12 and 31.20 were renumbered as new: R 3112/ 301-383 and R 3112/ 401-468 respectively. Archival evaluation and processing As a result of reunification and the merging of the holdings of the Federal Archives and the Central State Archives of the GDR, the three partial holdings were merged under the tectonic number R 3112. The files of the Potsdam holdings 31.12 and 31.20 were renumbered as new: R 3112/ 301-383 and R 3112/ 401-468 respectively. Volume sequences and series are almost exclusively archived. The index was compiled using the programs for indexing and indexing (BASYS-S) available in the IT system of the Federal Archives. Content characterization: Documents on the following main topics have been handed down: - Vorrakten Amt für deutsche Roh- und Werkstoffe (Sekretariat Pleiger) - Organisation, Budget - Meetings, Discussions, Situation Reports - Statistical Documentation - Statistical Documentation - Statistical Documentation - Four Year Plan, Mob Plans, Defence Economic Production Plans, Industrial Expansion Plans, Production Programs - Individual Fields of Economic Expansion - Documentation of the Commissioner for Dry Ice at the Reich Commissioner for Chemistry - Research Questions - Lectures - Hand Files Obering. Ludwig Raichle, Commissioner of GebeChem at the Commissioner for the Four-Year Plan "State of Development: Findbuch (2006) Online-Findbuch (2006) Zitierweise: BArch, R 3112/...

History of the Inventory Designer: With the "Ordinance for the Reich Weather Service" of 6 April 1934, the responsibility for the weather service, which until then had mainly been the responsibility of the Länder, was transferred to the Reich Minister of Aviation. The weather service comprised the flight, economic, sea, high altitude and climate weather service. The research and teaching tasks performed by the universities remained unaffected by this. The Reichsamt für Flugsicherung was given the designation Reichsamt für Wetterdienst (RfW) by ordinance of 28 November 1934. He was responsible for the operational, technical and scientific management of the Reich Weather Service. The RfW was subordinate to Division LB 3 (Reichswetterdienst) of the General Air Office in the Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM). With the beginning of the war, the "Chef Wetterdienst" (Chief Weather Service) was created at the Luftwaffe General Staff. Most of the tasks of the LB 3 department in the Reich Aviation Ministry were transferred to the Chief Weather Service, among others: - Organisation, operational and technical management of the weather service, - management of weather intelligence in cooperation with the chief of the intelligence unit, - deployment of personnel according to operational needs, - cooperation with weather services of other parts of the Wehrmacht and other states. Division LB 3 of the General Air Office retained the following tasks: - personnel administration including training, - development and supply of weather service equipment, - operating regulations. The Reichsamt für Wetterdienst with its observatories and research centres and the Deutsche Seewarte remained subordinated to the LB 3 department. The Institute for Long-term Weather Forecasts has been assigned to the Chief Weather Service. In order to enable the Chief Weather Service to manage the weather service responsibly despite the division of responsibilities, he received the authority to issue directives to the General Air Office, Department LB 3. As part of the general cost-cutting measures, in 1944 the operational management and training were also transferred to the Chief Weather Service, and in January 1945 the personnel administration. Only the Reichsamt für Wetterdienst and the Deutsche Seewarte remained with the LB 3 department. In urgent cases, however, the Chief Weather Service was entitled, with the approval of Division LB 3, to give immediate instructions to these services. The weather school of the Reich Weather Service was founded in 1935. It was housed in the building complex of the Reichsamt für Wetterdienst. Your duties were: - training of meteorological staff, - refresher courses for meteorologists, - training courses for technical staff, - training courses for supplementary meteorologists, obtained from physicists and geographers of universities and schools. As a secondary purpose, a uniform mode of operation of all weather stations with regard to meteorological-synoptic term formation as well as entry and processing of weather charts should be achieved. In November 1944 the Reichswetterdienstschule was also subordinated to the chief weather service. Tasks of the departments of the Reichsamt für Wetterdienst Presidential Department: It dealt with all personnel and financial matters. Department I: She was responsible for the operational and scientific management of the climate service. The climate network was divided into five climate districts: Königsberg, Berlin, Münster, Dresden and Munich as well as air conditioning branch offices in Breslau and Stuttgart. All the observation material was collected, tested and processed at the services of the climate districts. This resulted in the monthly "Weather Report Services", monthly reports on precipitation and precipitation maps. The department also carried out research tasks on observation methodology, among other things. Division I was subordinate: - Meteorological observatories in Potsdam, Aachen and Wahnsdorf; - Agricultural meteorological research centres in Geisenheim, Gießen, Müncheberg and Trier; - Bioclimatic research centres in Bad Elster, Braunlage, Friedrichroda and Wyk/Föhr; - Mountain observatories on the Brocken, Feldberg, Fichtelberg, Kahler Asten, Kalmit as well as the Schneekoppe and Zugspitze; - 20 health resort climate circle sites. Department II: The tasks included the processing and evaluation of aerological and synoptic observational material from radiosonde, aircraft and captive balloon ascents as well as pilot soundings to supplement the Hollerith archive; the processing of flight climatologies and other reports for local weather characteristics; development of methods for the recording of spatial fields such as air masses, pressure, temperature, wind and water vapour. Division II was in charge: - Aeronautical Observatory in Lindenberg; - Aerological Observatory in Friedrichshafen; - From 1940: Cloud Research Centre Prague (emerged from the cloud physics department of the Aerological Observatory Friedrichshafen). Division III: It was responsible for the central control of the entire development of meteorological measuring instruments and new instrumental research methods, the procurement of the entire instrument requirements of the aeronautical meteorological service, the testing and calibration of the delivered equipment and its supply to the individual requirement points. In addition, the department was responsible for testing equipment and methods as well as training and retraining personnel in these equipment and methods. For development and testing as well as training and retraining she was directly assigned a radiosonde test platoon (mot.) and a Würzburgstellung with balloon troop. For the acceptance, testing and calibration of equipment, it had at its disposal, in addition to its own calibration group, the radiosonde test centre of the Reichsamt für Wetterdienst and the Aeroprüfstelle e.V. (Aeroprüfstelle). The meteorological state institutes in the occupied territories were incorporated into the Reichsamt für Wetterdienst as new branch offices, e.g. the Klimainstitut Minsk. Until 1945, the following branch offices were dissolved: - the Meteorological Observatories Aachen and Wahnsdorf, - the Aerological Observatory Friedrichshafen, - the Agricultural Meteorological Research Centres Geisenheim, Müncheberg and Trier, - the Bioclimatic Research Centres, - the majority of the spa climate district offices. The mountain observatories were reduced to purely synoptic reporting points and subordinated to the ground organisation of the military weather service in the individual air meadows. Inventory description: The existing archival material originates from two file returns from the USA. The first submission was made in 1968 to the Document Centre of the Military History Research Office, from where it subsequently reached the Federal Archives Military Archives. The return of files in 2004 was directly transferred to the Federal Archives Military Archives. The files previously held in the official printed matter (inventory: RLD 28) were transferred to the inventory. Characterisation of content: The holdings contain only splinter-like documents about the service in the Reichsamt für Wetterdienst and the subordinated observatories and research centres. The preserved documents on the construction and operation of precipitation measuring stations and meteorological stations in the area of the Air Force Command III/IV as well as in Alsace, Lorraine and Luxembourg should be emphasised. In addition, studies and elaborations on climatological and meteorological topics are available. Citation style: BArch, RL 40/...

History of the Inventory Designer: History After the foundation of the Reich in 1871, the creation of a common railway administration for all German states was not initially on the agenda. The southern German states feared the overweight of Prussia and finally rejected Bismarck's rich railroad law of 1875. Only the railway lines in Alsace and Lorraine, which were separated from France, were subject to the Imperial Chancellor since 1871. For the railway system in Germany the network of the Alsace-Lorraine Railways (besides 7 state administrations at that time) existed as the only state administration until the transfer of the state railway administrations of the Länder into the possession of the Reich. This railway network consisted of the parts of the French Ostbahn assigned to the German Reich on the basis of the Frankfurt Peace Treaty of 10 May 1871 and the lines of the Wilhelm-Luxemburg-Eisenbahnen taken over on a lease basis by the State Treaty of 11 June 1872 with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The newly formed "Kaiserliche Generaldirektion der Reichseisenbahnen in Elsass-Lothringen" had been established for this purpose by the Most High Decree of 9 December 1871 with the powers and duties of a public authority. At first it was directly subordinated to the Reich Chancellery (Department III for Alsace-Lorraine). Until the French occupation of Alsace-Lorraine in November 1918, it was also the focal point of operations and administration. For the development of transport in Alsace-Lorraine, in addition to the special traffic situation on the Upper Rhine road and the Burgundy Gate, the development of industry was of importance. While originally the textile industry in the area of Mulhouse stood in the first place, the German heavy industry, which shifted to Lorraine and Luxembourg, came more and more into the foreground, in addition the potash works in the Upper Alsace, which developed on a coincidental discovery, and the not very important but in Germany at that time almost only petroleum extraction near Pechelbronn. In the interests of smooth cooperation between transport operators and production units, a "Railway Committee" was set up on 1 October 1874, composed of representatives of chambers of commerce, industry and agriculture. This first Railway Committee later became the model for the Railway Councils affiliated to the other German State Railway Administrations. The Directorate-General also broke new ground on the question of tariffs by creating the so-called wagon room tariff. The inauguration of the first railways in Alsace-Lorraine, the Strasbourg - Basel line, took place on 19 and 20 September 1841. Thirty years later, when the Alsace-Lorraine Railways were taken over by the German Reich, the length of the line was 768.21 km, plus 174.54 km of the Wilhelm-Luxemburg Railway Company. Under German administration more than 1200 km were added. From a technical point of view, the railways were regarded as model installations in every respect: the transhipment facilities between railways and inland waterways were brought to the highest level of technical efficiency; the stations in Strasbourg and Metz were converted from small provincial stations into metropolitan stations with all the requirements of modern times. Net revenues in 1872 amounted to more than 5 million Marks, increased to 20 million Marks in 1890, 86 million Marks in 1900 and 153 million Marks in 1913, the last year of peace. On 27 May 1878, the Imperial Decree established the Reichsamt für die Verwaltung der Reichseisenbahnen in Berlin. It was a central authority under the direct authority of the Imperial Chancellor to manage the administration of the railways in Alsace-Lorraine and the neighbouring regions. The General Directorate of the Reichseisenbahnen in Alsace-Lorraine was now subordinated to the Reichsamt für die Verwaltung der Reichseisenbahnen, which acted as the state supervisory authority. The respective Prussian Minister of Public Works was entrusted with the management of the authority. First head of the Reich Office was State Minister Albert von Maybach (1822-1904), later Karl von Thielen (1832-1906) followed from June 1891, Hermann von Budde (1851-1906) from June 1902 and Paul von Breitenbach (1850-1930) from 1906. Direct management was the responsibility of the Directorate-General for Railways in Alsace-Lorraine, based in Strasbourg. Until 1 October 1909 it consisted of three departments: Division 1 for Operations, Division 2 for Construction, Division 3 for Transport and General Administration. To this end, the company management, traffic inspections, machine inspections, workshop inspections and a telegraph inspection managed the various branches of the company and traffic, while the central technical offices (the technical office, the construction office, the mechanical office and the materials office) independently handled a number of general transactions falling within the scope of the central administration. On 1 October 1909, a reorganisation came into force, the importance of which lay essentially in the removal of the operational directorates without replacement and the abolition of the central offices and the telegraph inspection, whose business was now handled by the Directorate-General itself. At the same time, the number of departments increased to 5: Department 1 for General Administration, Finance and Budgeting, Department 2 for Operations, Department 3 for Transportation, Department 4 for Construction, Department 5 for Machinery and Workshops. The 17 operational inspections in Alsace-Lorraine and 3 operational inspections in Luxembourg were directly carried out by the Directorate-General. The Executive Board of the German operations administration in Luxembourg was the superior authority for all departments of the district. There were 8 traffic inspections in Basel, Mulhouse, Colmar, Strasbourg, Saargemünd, Metz, Diedenhofen and Luxembourg. The traffic inspector in Basel also held the post of representative of the German administration vis-à-vis Switzerland. There were 6 machine inspections: in Mulhouse, Strasbourg, Saargemünd, Metz, Diedenhofen and Luxembourg. The main workshops were in Mulhouse, Bischheim near Strasbourg, Montigny near Metz and Niederjeutz near Diedenhofen. They were subject to the workshop inspections in Bischheim and Montigny two each (for locomotive construction and for carriage construction one each). Secondary workshops subject to machine inspections were located in Saargemünd and Luxembourg. Since 1911, all inspections have been called Offices, Plant Office, Machine Office, etc.). The incorporation of the Prussian Minister of Public Works into the administrative organization of the Reich strengthened the influence of the head of the Prussian State Railways over the heads of the other federal railway administrations and reduced the importance of the Reich Railway Office for issues related to national defence. 7 After the assignment of Alsace-Lorraine to France as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, the Reich Ministry of Transport took over the Reich Office's execution tasks in the autumn of 1919. The source value of the files taken over from the General Directorate in Strasbourg was described by the Reichsarchiv as "sufficient" at the time. "Apart from some historically interesting details from the recent times of Emperor Wilhelm I and Prince Bismarck, their value for the history of the German Empire lies in the... 9 Reference should be made to the peculiarities of Alsace-Lorraine's traffic situation at the intersection of important north-south and east-west connections and the resulting tradition of archival sources. The files contain documents from negotiations on the construction of major Alpine passes (Gotthard Railway, Eastern Alpine Railway, Simplon Railway), traffic between England, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy, traffic between the Balkan states, Austria-Hungary and the southern German administrations on the one hand and France and Spain on the other. Further documents are available on construction and engineering, operational services, passenger, baggage and freight traffic. A comprehensive component reflects the collective bargaining system, including social aspects taking into account foreign language problems. Measures against espionage, sabotage and agent activity, also persecution of political opponents are recorded in the "Secret Acts A and B", statements on military facts, especially the mobilization, the war 1914/18, the armistice and the peace negotiations can be found in the "Secret Acts M". Inventory description: Inventory history The files of the Directorate-General of the Reichseisenbahnen in Strasbourg have been transferred to France. A few files from the former Central State Archives in Potsdam are in the inventory R 4202 General Directorate of the Reich Railways in Alsace-Lorraine in the Federal Archives. The files of the Reichsamt for the administration of the Reichseisenbahnen were offered to the Reichsarchiv for takeover in autumn 1931. From the entire file stock of about 4000 volumes, 1313 volumes were transferred to the Reichsarchiv for permanent storage in accordance with the then existing regulations. Obviously, there were no war losses. Archival evaluation and processing The files of the Reich Office for the Administration of the Reich Railways taken over by the Reichsarchiv were arranged, listed and recorded on index cards in 1932, followed by a finding aid book for the holdings (today: R 4201). In 2008, the inventory was recorded in the BASYS-S database of the Federal Archives on the basis of the find book available from 1932. This was done by entering the data into the BASYS-S database of the Federal Archives for the purpose of making the search results available online. The intensive index data were taken over for the most part original with the abbreviations used at that time. Only the numerical archive signatures were retained for the indexing; for found files with volume numbering (e.g. 154 a), each volume received a new archive signature. This concerned all files with the now new archive signature R 4201/729 to R 4201/1430. The previous signatures were listed as old signatures, the files themselves were re-signed in 2008 in the course of an inventory revision and magazine-technical work. Content: Organization and administration of the Reichsamt 1870-1920 (186), budget and cash administration 1870-1921(386), personnel matters: Civil servant matters 1871-1920 (385), special personnel matters (secret files B) 1872-1919 (13), building and construction 1864-1919 (152), operational services 1871-1918 (86), passenger and baggage traffic 1871-1918 (21), freight traffic 1871-1919 (169), collective bargaining 1871-1919 (145), Measures against espionage, sabotage and agent activity, also persecution of political opponents (secret files A) 1881-1919 (14), mobilization, war, armistice, peace negotiations (secret files M) 1872-1920 (93) Online Findbuch (2009) In total, the holdings in the Federal Archives include 1430 files. Together with the holdings of the Reichseisenbahnamt (R 4101) and the Generaldirektion der Eisenbahnen in Elsass-Lothringen (R 4202), a rather complete set of files exists for the early period of traffic organisation in the railway age in Germany - regardless of its correspondence with the files of the Prussian Ministry of Public Works, which are located in the Prussian Secret State Archives in Berlin-Dahlem, and the large number of archival sources on railway history in the archives of the Länder, districts and cities. The source value of the files taken over from the General Directorate in Strasbourg was described by the Reichsarchiv as "sufficient" at the time. Apart from some historically interesting details from the recent time of Emperor Wilhelm I. and Prince Bismarck, their value for the history of the German Empire [lies] in the... that at the Reichsamt almost all the questions that the Prussian Ministry of Public Works had to deal with were reflected in a more concise and concise form. Reference should be made to the special features of Alsace-Lorraine's traffic situation at the intersection of important north-south and east-west connections and the resulting tradition of archival sources. The files contain documents from negotiations on the construction of major Alpine passes (Gotthard Railway, Eastern Alpine Railway, Simplon Railway), traffic between England, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy, traffic between the Balkan states, Austria-Hungary and the southern German administrations on the one hand and France and Spain on the other. Further documents are available on construction and engineering, operational services, passenger, baggage and freight traffic. A comprehensive component reflects the collective bargaining system, including social aspects taking into account foreign language problems. Measures against espionage, sabotage and agent activity, also persecution of political opponents are recorded in the "Secret Acts A and B", statements on military facts, especially the mobilization, the war 1914/18, the armistice and the peace negotiations can be found in the "Secret Acts M". Supplementary traditions Further traditions include the inventories R 4101 Reichseisenbahnamt and R 4202 Generaldirektion der Eisenbahnen in Elsass-Lothringen. The Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin contain the files of the Prussian Ministry of Public Works (holdings I. HA Rep. 93 B Ministry of Public Works). Citation style: BArch, R 4201/...

History of the Inventory Designer: Establishment of the Reichsstudentenführung (RStFü) on 5 November 1936 by merging the offices of the National Socialist German Student Federation (NSDStB) - as Gliede‧rung the NSDAP - and the Deutsche Studentenschaft (DSt) - as supervised organization - in the staff of the Reichsstudentenführer; appointment of Dr. Gustaf Adolf Scheel as Reichsfüh‧rer the NSDStB, the DSt, the Altherrenbund and the Reichsstudentenwerk. Inventory description: Establishment of the Reichsstudentenführung (RSF) on 05.11.1936 by merging the offices of the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB) - as a division of the NSDAP - and the German Student Body (DSt) - as a supervised organization - in the staff of the Reichsstudentenführer. Appointment of Dr. Gustaf Adolf Scheel as Reichsstudentenführer, Reichsführer of the NSDStB, the DSt, the Altherrenbund and the Reichsstudentenwerk. Some of the holdings are the property of the Federal Archives; the signatures NS 38/2001 ff. are on permanent loan from the Free State of Bavaria (Würzburg State Archives), which has been in the Federal Archives since autumn 2005. State of development: Provisional finding aid book (1969) of the Federal Archives; three provisional finding aid books and card index (before 1990) from the State Archives Würzburg. Citation style: BArch, NS 38/...

History of the Inventory Designer: 1872 Establishment of the Imperial Statistical Office by the Imperial Chancellor with the issue of a business instruction by the Imperial Chancellor, first subordinated to the Imperial Chancellery, since 1879 to the Imperial Office of the Interior and since 1918 with simultaneous renaming into the Imperial Statistical Office to the Imperial Ministry of Economics, 1934 Merger with the Prussian Statistical Office The task of the Office was the collection of material for Imperial Statistics, its technical and scientific examination, processing and publication, expert reporting on statistical issues. Inventory description: Inventory history Due to the effects of war and the collapse of the German Reich, the records of the Reich Statistical Office suffered heavy losses. At the Berlin headquarters in the Neue Königstraße, parts of the statistical material were destroyed during bomb attacks in May 1945. During the demolition of the building in 1945, the central registry was completely destroyed and approximately 10 of the 200,000 volumes of the library were lost. In the years 1943/44 several departments or departments with their written material had been moved to alternative locations. Much of the material that remained in the territories later occupied by Soviet troops was destroyed, while others were sent to the then Central State Archive in Potsdam. In April, the Dargun and Weimar branches were able to bring important material to Schwerin, from where the staff of the Reich Statistical Office there were able to flee to Hamburg at the end of April with parts of the documents in Schwerin. In Schwerin the original material of industrial production statistics and the mass of price statistics documents fell into Russian hands. The parts of the tax statistics that had been moved to Wernigerode were transported to Derenburg in Hesse before the retreat of the American troops. The stocks brought to Würzburg suffered losses due to bomb damage; the remaining documents were preserved. After 1945, the stock that had been relocated to the western occupation zones and the fragments of the traditions rescued from the Soviet occupation zone were concentrated in three places: 1. in the British occupation zone in the Statistical Office in Hamburg and Minden 2. and in the American occupation zone in the Ministerial Collecting Center in Fürstenhagen near Kassel; from there larger parts were brought to the USA 3. in the French occupation zone in the Office for Statistics and Economic Development in Baden-Baden. Essentially, the documents that fell into the hands of the Western occupying powers at the time were sent to the Federal Archives via the American Document Center in Berlin, the Federal Statistical Office or the USA. Archival evaluation and processing The successive transfer of parts of the collection from the Reich Statistical Office to the Federal Archives has led to a gradual recording of the holdings. The documents on the excise tax statistics, which came to the Federal Archives in 1952 with written documents from other American departments, were indexed in a finding aid book. The material returned from Alexandria in 1958 was provisionally developed in 1959. After a return of the files from the Berlin Document Center in 1962 and further splinter deliveries, a provisional completion of the indexing could be achieved in 1968. All the documents of the Statistical Office of the Reich that had entered the Federal Archives were indexed by a index of finds, whereby parts of the material recorded in the index of consumption statistics were re-signed. The publications of the Statistisches Reichsamt available in the Budnesarchiv at that time were recorded in a second index. Later, the Federal Statistical Office, in particular, was able to adopt further documents from agricultural statistics, industrial production statistics and the Reich Office for Defense Economic Planning and social statistics. Further exhibitor provenances were incorporated from the traditions of the Reichsnährstand and the Reichsstelle für Raumordnung which had been passed on to the Federal Archives. In addition, the Imperial War Museum in London handed over to the Federal Archives some relevant documents of small volume. In the winter of 1975, these additions were also incorporated into the inventory. Characterization of content: The following groups of written documents are to be named as the main focus of the collection: - Social statistics - Industry - Financial and tax statistics - Transport and communications - Abroad - Money and loans, insurance Part 1 (formerly: ZStA 31.02): Organisation and business operations 1922-1945 (186); Population and area 1925, 1933-1943 (28); Cross-sectoral economic activities 1910-1944 (533); Armament and war economy 1933-1947 (312); Industry 1910-1946 (542); Agriculture and forestry, fishing 1913, 1924-1945 (93); Transport and transportation 1924-1945 (475); Post and telegraph 1913-1944 (12); Crafts 1895, 1936-1944 (8); Arts and culture 1930-1944 (88); Medicine and sport 1928-1945 (72); Social services 1909-1945 (164); Education 1937, 1939-1944 (4); Finance and taxes 1913-1945 (177); Money and credit, insurance 1876-1946 (223); Justice and crime statistics 1937-1941 (3); Foreign countries 1904-1944 (640). Part 2 (formerly: BArch R 24): Administration 1923-1945 (16); Trade and transport statistics 1927-1944 (11); Social statistics 1927-1945 (1633); Population, business and cultural statistics 1910-1944 (5); Financial and tax statistics 1913-1945 (527); Summary economic statistics 1934-1945 (53); industrial production statistics 1936-1945 (35); general foreign statistics 1927-1945 (107); statistical communications - Memel 1932-1934 (2). State of development: Findbuch für Teil 1 (1982) Findbuch für Teil 2 (1975) Citation method: BArch, R 3102/...

History of the Inventory Designer: First Reich Research Council established by decree of the Reich Minister for Science, Education and Popular Education of 16 March 1937 within the administrative framework of the German Research Foundation; reorganization due to the Führer decree of 9 June 1942, de facto subordination to the four-year plan by the appointment of Reichsmarschall Göring as the new president; by decree of Göring of 29 March 1937; by the Reich Minister for Science, Education and Popular Education of 16 March 1937 within the administrative framework of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; reorganization due to the Führer decree of 9 June 1942, de facto subordination to the four-year plan by the appointment of Reichsmarschall Göring as the new president; by decree of Göring of 29 March 1936; by the Reichsminister for Science, Education and Popular Education of 16 March 1937.6.8.1944 Approval by Göring of the "Wehrforschungsgemeinschaft des Reichsforschungsrates" (Wehrforschungsgemeinschaft of the Reich Research Council) as the central management body for research in all state institutes, parts of the Wehrmacht and industrial laboratories. Inventory description: First Reich Research Council founded by decree of the Reich Minister for Science, Education and People's Education of 16 March 1937 within the administrative framework of the German Research Foundation; reorganised on the basis of the Führer decree of 9 June 1942, de facto subordinated to the four-year plan by the appointment of Reich Marshal Göring as the new president; by decree of Göring of 29 March 1937; by decree of the Reich Minister for Science, Education and People's Education of 29 March 1937; by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of 19 March 1937; by the Reich Ministry of Economics and Technology of the Federal Republic of Germany, by the decree of the Reichsminister for Science, Education and People's Education of 16 March 1937; by the decree of the Reich Minister for Science, Education and People's Education of 16 March 1937; by the decree of the Reich Minister for Science, Education and People's Education of 16 March 1937; by the decree of the Reichsminister for Science, Education and People's Education.06.1943 Formation of a planning office as an independent division of the RFR; 24.08.1944 by Göring approval of the "Wehrforschungsgemeinschaft des Reichsforschungsrates" as the central management organ for research of all state institutes, Wehrmacht parts and industrial laboratories. State of development: Preliminary find book (1985), file citation method: BArch, R 26-III/...

History of the Inventor: By order of 7 Sept. 1929, the Federal Foreign Office and the Reich Economic Ministry merged the Central Office for the Foreign Economic Intelligence Service, the Customs Office in the Reich Economic Ministry and the German Economic Service GmbH for the tasks assigned to them in the field of foreign trade promotion with immediate effect under the common name of the Central Office for Foreign Trade (ZFA). The ZFA is structured as follows: - Intelligence service - Trade information service - Customs service. The legal basis was enshrined in the Law on Measures to Promote Foreign Trade of 18 Oct 1933. The previous ZFA had proved its worth in practice and was now legally recognised as the Reichsstelle für den Außenhandel (RFA), which was a joint department of the Foreign Office and the Reich Economic Ministry. It was empowered to issue instructions to the regional (most recently 22) foreign trade offices under its supervision. In the course of the reorganisation of the commercial economy, the previous branch offices were closed or integrated into the Gauwirtschaftskammern. Their activities have now been carried out by departments established at the Gauwirtschaftskammern for the promotion of economic relations with foreign countries (foreign trade departments). The RFA existed until its collapse in 1945. Inventory description: Inventory history The documents arrived in September 1955 as part of a Custodian's levy for the Reich offices, economic groups and other state economic offices in the American, British and French sectors of Berlin without a delivery list and in disorder in the Federal Archives. Apart from the fact that the inventory is only one part of the registry, it has also been seized by the British occupying power, which confiscated it in 1945 and examined it at the beginning of 1948. At the end of 1949, the files were released to the custodian, who took over the files himself at the beginning of 1951. Another extensive part of the registry is still in US hands. Among them several card indexes, which could be the Jewish card indexes and the card index of insecure foreign companies, which survived the bombing of the RFA (to 50 in Nov. 1943 demonstrably without loss). Archival evaluation and processing The holdings, which entered the Federal Archives without a list of deliveries and in disorder, consisted mainly of standing files, whose state of preservation was generally good. An exception to this is the specialist archive of Department III A, which contained almost exclusively loose items. In the course of its existence, this collection has undergone a number of recognizable changes, which are reflected in changing signatures according to false criteria. The entire material of the subject archives is listed by country in the find book. In principle, the country names used in the collection itself and valid at the time are used, i.e. Croatia, Serbia instead of Yugoslavia, etc., which are used at that time. All country names, whether they concern a single country, a group of countries (such as Scandinavia) or parts of countries (such as Scotland), are in alphabetical order. Only the possessions of the European colonial states are listed under their respective names (British possessions, Dutch possessions, etc.). Documents from foreign trade offices were handed over to the regionally responsible state archives. Characterization of content: The main focus of the transmission is on correspondence with the foreign trade offices (Gauwirtschaftskammern) A-Z: Information on foreign representative and trading companies 1940-1945 (510) Letter and telegram switching 1940-1945 Administrative matters, including personnel procedures A-Z, business distribution plans, budget questions 1922-1945 General matters of foreign trade promotion, legal and organizational questions of the RfA and its predecessor institutions 1934-1945 Collection of material on all countries of the world (newspaper clippings, brochures, mission reports, official announcements, company and private letters, etc.).a.) within the countries or country groups according to subject areas (economic situation, industry, trade, banking, social situation, foreign trade, legal system, press etc.) State of development: Findbuch (2014) Citation method: BArch, R 9-I/...