Administrative history: The holdings of "Senate war files" consist mainly of the files that were created separately in the course of the war 1914-1918 next to the Senate registry (cf. 111-1 Senate) and most probably initially filed according to numerus currens. This is indicated by the old signatures, which consisted of the abbreviation K or Krg and a continuous Arabic numerical sequence. With the introduction of this new registry principle, which was intended to make the complex allocations to the complicatedly encrypted subjects of the old Senate registry superfluous, those responsible could not overlook the fact that the war would not end quickly. The choice of the numerus currens for the structure of the collection, although it represented the simplest method of filing, soon had to prove to be disastrous for the recourse to subject matters. This is probably also the reason why different files were created on the same subjects and why topics that were factually close to each other were filed far apart. It is no longer possible today to reconstruct how the registry was restructured in individual cases as a result of the war - and this meant above all that it was determined by the loss of the majority of the previous registrar's employees - due to the lack of tradition. After the end of the war and the expiry of the war-related measures, some of which lasted until the end of the 1920s, the Senate's war registry was enriched with individual registries of commissioners and commissioners. Because some of them had their own registries growing. Thus, for example, the files of the "Senate Commissioner for the Trust Commission for the Provision of Funds for the Tasks Arising from the War" as well as those of the "Central Commission for War Support" or the "Reich Commissioner at the Higher Committee for the Determination of War Damages" reached the old registry. All these registries or parts of registries were probably still united and structured in the Senate registry. The new structure was presumably based on models that can no longer be reconstructed at present. It placed upper groups with capital letters (A to Z - whereby one did not get along with the 25 characters and had to designate the last three groups as Z I, Z II and Z III) over groups with Roman numbers (I, II and III), if this appeared necessary or directly over subgroups with lower case letters (a to z - whereby one did not get along with the 25 alphabet characters also here and then extended with z1, z2, z3 and so on). A deeper structuring could then be done again with lower case letters, the next structuring step again with Arabic numerals, so that in the outermost case signatures of considerable length resulted ( e.g. B II b 121 z 4). Archival history: In this order the registry was handed over to the State Archives at the beginning of the 1930s in a volume of approx. 60 running metres and was kept here until August 1986 without re-drawing and cassation interventions. At this time, H.-P. Plaß, the student councillor temporarily seconded to the State Archives, was commissioned to redraw the holdings. He was told not to change the signatures in the inventory, since the war records had already been used and evaluated scientifically on various occasions. From him was registered up to signature B II b 633 a. In April 1989, the undersigned took care of the larger rest and completed the registration and cassation work by February 1990. In contrast to his predecessor, the undersigned has decided to collect a considerable part of the acts of war according to the following criteria. - files which exclusively dealt with the execution of decisions of the Bundesrat or other orders of the Zentralgewalt and at most documented the instructions for publication in the Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt or Amtsblatt as an independent administrative act; - files which had no connection whatsoever with Hamburg or which did not include any formative political or administrative contribution from Hamburg; - files which arose for the Senate from all sorts of mailings, but which did not lead to any political or administrative activities; - individual case files, if they were only petitions and rejections due to lack of competence. Thus, attempts were made to document the specific Hamburg conditions, activities and special features. Since the auxiliary registrars at the Senate 1914-1918 could not know which subject matters would lead to actual document growth, they created numerous files, which in the end were occupied only with very few, in very many cases Hamburg not touching documents. On the other hand, other fact files simply expanded so much due to the amount of written material that even the creation of subfiles could not be dispensed with when new files were created, in order to subsequently achieve the necessary differentiation. The cassation from signature B II b 634 onwards concerned approx. 2/3 of the previous holdings. The total circumference was thus reduced from approx. 60 running metres to 36 running metres. The signatures were retained. Only at one point, in the files from the former registry of the Central Commission for War Support, there was a deviation from this. All files of the Central Commission were systematically included in Group C II d 11; they had their own two to four-unit registration numbers from capital letters A to M, Arabic numerals and possibly lower case letters and again Arabic numerals - e.g. B 1 g 2. This would have resulted in signatures of considerable length. Therefore a short signature C II d 11 - 1 ff. was used. A concordance at the end of the directory allows the old numbers to be found. The title formation in the war registry obviously took place quite predominantly after the first document to be filed. Only very few changes were made to titles, even if the focus of the content of the respective file changed as a result of the addition of documents. Only rarely did this necessitate the creation of a new file title; however, both H.-P. Plaß and the undersigned have ample knowledge of the possibility of adapting file titles to the content of the file by means of changes (at about 80
ller files). Since the files on the same or similar subjects reached very different locations not only in the original numerus currens procedure, but also in the newly created classification system, it was necessary from the outset to work with numerous references. These were noted on the files with the numerus currens signatures and were not adapted during the reworking into the new structure. References could therefore only be identified and verified via the provisional repertory, which contained both the original and the new numbers. H.-P. Plaß tried to take all references as references to the individual file titles. Since this led to a whole series of complicated reference signatures for almost every file title, the undersigned has reversed this procedure by replacing individual references with subject, name and place indices. This is probably the easiest way to find relatives. As a rule, the index terms were taken from the titles of the files, only in a few cases was an approximation carried out. (For example, the term "food" is always recorded as "food".) Signed July 1992. Lorenzen-Schmidt Description of the inventory: The inventory consists mainly of the files that were created separately from the Senate registry during the war of 1914-1918 and which reflect the civil needs of warfare in particular. After the end of the war and the expiry of the war-related measures, some of which extended until the end of the 1920s, the Senate's war registry was enriched with individual registries of commissioners and commissioners. Thus, for example, the files of the "Senate Commissioner for the Trust Commission for the Provision of Funds for the Tasks Arising from the War" as well as those of the "Central Commission for War Support" or the "Reich Commissioner at the Higher Committee for the Determination of War Damages" reached the old registry. All these registries or parts of registries were probably still united and structured in the Senate registry. In terms of content, the following main groups are to be named: A. The military readiness for war, B. The bourgeois readiness for war (therein dominating: b. Economic measures), C. The war welfare care, F. Measures for the implementation of the people's nutrition, X. The political conditions after the revolution and its reorganization, Z.I. The demobilization. In addition, material from almost all areas of Hamburg's supreme administrative activity during the war years is included. (LS)

History of the Inventor: The Act of 29 March 1935 on the Regulation of Public Land Requirements (Gesetz über die Regeung des Landbedarfs der öffentlichen Hand) (1) issued by the Reich Ministry of Food and Drink (Reichsernährungsministerium) established an Imperial Authority which, with the Führer Decree of 26 June 1935, was to assume the role of "Reich Office for Spatial Planning (RfR)" (Reichsstelle für Raumordnung) "for the entire territory of the Reich"(2). The expansion of planning to the Reich and state level led to the separation of spatial planning from local political sovereignty. "In agreement with the Reich and Prussian Ministers of Labor, the head of the Reich Office for Spatial Planning shall in particular regulate the organization of the planning associations and supervise them. (3) The RfR with its seat in Berlin, as the supreme Reich authority, was directly subordinate to the Führer and Reich Chancellor and, in fulfilling its tasks, made use of the Society for the Preparation of Reich Planning and Regional Planning (Gezuvor) (4), later known as the Reichsplanungsgemeinschaft e.V. (Reich Planning Association). (RPG). Head of the RfR and President of the RPG was the Reich Minister and Prussian State Minister Hanns Kerrl, who also headed the Reich Ministry for Church Affairs (RKM) in personal union. After his death in 1941, Hermann Muhs, until then State Secretary in the Reich Ministry for Church Affairs, took over the management of the official business. Due to close personal and organizational ties, the Reichsplanungsgemeinschaft appeared in the business distribution plan of the RfR from June 1937. Both as members of an organization in which the Reich Office for Spatial Planning was assigned the task of "administration", the Reich Planning Community the task of "design". The business distribution plan named two registries which served both offices according to the subject area. (5) The joint budget for the financial year 1937 stated: "Since the fields of activity of the RfR and the RPG overlap in many respects, there has been no complete administrative and budgetary separation between the RfR and the RPG, either in terms of the specific nature of the tasks to be performed or in terms of the appropriate use of all manpower. (6) Kerrls Erste Verordnung zur Durchführung der Reichs- und Landesplanung vom 15. Februar 1936(7) contains the regulations on the organization of subordinate agencies. The organic structure of the regional planning administration should correspond to the dual task of Nazi regional planning - political leadership on the one hand and coordination of all spatially relevant issues on the other. The Reich Office for Spatial Planning was established as an "organ of state and party, and it must be emphasized in particular that its competence is not limited to regulatory work in relation to agriculture, housing and industry, but that it is also co-determinative in the requirements of terrain for the public sector". (8) In organisational terms, a distinction was made between planning authorities and state planning associations. The former were the governors of the Reich and the presidents of Prussia. They supervised the state planning communities and had the task of enforcing the guidelines issued by the central office. They were able to arrange for an annual audit of the accounts and approve the relevant budget. The actual planning work was carried out by the regional planning associations, of which 22 were established throughout the country and whose number increased to 33 by 1941 as a result of the annexations that began in 1938. (9) Its members consisted of rural and urban districts, Reich and Land authorities, self-governing bodies, the administrations of professional organisations and the scientific institutions appointed to promote Reich and Land planning. The managing directors were the state planners. The statutes of the Landesplanungsgemeinschaften were based on the model statutes issued by the head of the Reich Office. Hanns Kerrl had set this up in order to maintain uniformity within the organisation. The statutes provided for the head of the planning authority as chairman and also ensured a close link between the planning communities and planning authorities in the further administrative substructure. According to the model scale of contributions, costs were borne in the following proportions: 51% was borne by the Reich, the remainder was borne equally by the member groups "self-government" (e.g. provincial associations, urban and rural districts) and "economy" (e.g. German Labour Front, Reichsnährstand, Chambers of Industry and Commerce). (10) The Landesplanungsgemeinschaften were treated as public corporations. (11) The services of the State, local authorities and professional organisations were required to provide administrative and administrative assistance to planning authorities and associations. Created as a management and coordination body for territorial planning in the entire territory of the Reich, the RfR was first to "ensure that the German area was shaped in a manner appropriate to the needs of the people and the state". (12) In addition to civilian settlement planning and management, the armament programme also dealt with the location distribution of military installations and traffic routes. Nevertheless, the decisive plans were ultimately drawn up by the Wehrmacht, the Reich Ministry of Economics and the four-year plan officers. (13) The Reich Office had practically no decision-making powers and could only veto them in individual cases. Its activities were thus limited to administrative supervision of regional planning authorities, state planning associations and the Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft für Raumforschung, which directed and coordinated research results on questions of territorial planning. In cooperation with the Reich Minister for Science, Education and People's Education, "the faculties of all German universities were called upon in the largest form to cooperate". (14) With the help of the scientific universities, expert opinions were developed on issues of emergency and conurbation rehabilitation in the pre-war period, with the focus after the outbreak of war also on the integrated eastern regions. As the central control authority, however, the Reich Office for Spatial Planning gradually lost its authority, at the latest at the time of the intensive work of the office of the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of the German People, created under Heinrich Himmler, in shaping the "living space in the East". (15) The ban of all post-war planning imposed by Hitler during the war led to the cessation of the actual professional activity. The personnel of the RfR (16) was increasingly reduced. The exemptions from military service required by the planning institutions were no longer granted after the defeat of Stalingrad. On 6 February 1943, the head of the Reich Chancellery, Dr. Lammers, informed the Supreme Reich Authorities that the Reich Office would now only administer its documents and provide information on request. (17) For reasons of air-raid protection, the documents were transferred to Wittenberg in 1943/44 together with those of the Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft für Raumforschung and parts of the Reich Ministry for Church Affairs. Notes (1) RGBl. 1935, I, p. 468 (2) RGBl. 1935, I, p. 793 (3) RGBl. 1935, I, p. 1515 (4) Previously Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung der Reichsautobahnen e.V. (until 1935) (5) BArch, R 113/2030 (6) BArch, library 96.11.22, p.3 (7) RGBl. 1936, I, p.104 (8) BArch, R 113/2439 (9) Michael Venhoff, "Die Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft für Raumforschung (RAG) und die reichs- deutsche Raumplanung seit ihrer Entstehung bis die Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges 1945", Hanover 2000, p.15 (10)Pfundtner/Neubert, Das neue Deutsche Reichsrecht I b 25 p.12 (11)See, inter alia, Werner Weber, "Die Körperschaften, Anstalten und Stiftungen des öffentlichen Rechts", Munich and Berlin, 1943, p.52 (12)See §3 of the Gesetz über die Regelung des Landbedarfs der öffentlichen Hand vom 29.3.1935 (13) "Special planning in the individual fields of activity continues to be the responsibility of the responsible departments. They have the obligation to announce their planning plans to the Reich Office for Spatial Planning." (2nd decree on the Reich Office for Regional Planning of 18 Dec. 1935), R 113/128 (14)BArch, R 113/2439 (15)Cf. Michael Venhoff, see above, p.73 (16)Exact number of employees not available (17)BArch, R 43 II/708, p.51 Inventory description: In March 1946, Martin Mäckler, then Director of Construction in the sector of the British military government, was commissioned by the Berlin magistrate to initiate the return of files from the Reich Office for Regional Planning in Wittenberg. After they had been reviewed, part of these documents were sent in 1947 to the Department of Housing, Urban Planning and Regional Planning of the Central Office of the Labour Department of the British Occupation Zone in Lemgo. After the dissolution of the head office, the maps, files and books were first forwarded to the local tax office and finally requested by the Federal Ministry of Housing. Another much larger part went to the Berlin Main Office for Overall Planning of the West Berlin Magistrate, including personnel files, and was finally handed over to the Berlin branch of the Institute for Spatial Research (Bad Godesberg). The transfer to the Berlin main archive, which had been responsible for official files since 1946 (since 1963 again Secret State Archive), took place in 1959, where the indexing began under the signature Rep.325. In 1962 2295 maps and plans as well as 1717 files in the form of a card index were listed. A mixed collection returned from the USA in April 1962 contained 15 volumes of RfR files, which were combined with the archival records in the main archive. In the course of the exchange of archival records in 1969, the Secret State Archives transferred to the Federal Archives not only the files but also the entire map section of the RfR, which was stored in Koblenz in 1971. On the basis of the first file indexing carried out in the Secret State Archives, the new indexing of the files began in 1987 in the Federal Archives under the inventory signature R 113. A first finding aid book for the approx. 2400 files has been available since 1990. The merger of Koblenz and Potsdam files in the Federal Archives in Berlin-Lichterfelde was completed in 1993. The latter, mainly newspaper clippings, printed publications, and annual and working reports, had been handed over to the German Central Archive in Potsdam by the Magdeburg State Archives in 1957 and by the Wittenberg District Council in 1963. During the database-supported recording of the stock a revision of file titles and classification took place, whereby based on the finding aid book from the year 1990 however it was renounced to sift each of the altogether more than 3000 file volumes again. The majority of series and tape sequences were archived. The map holdings held in Koblenz were not taken into account here. For data protection reasons, the personnel files available in portfolio R113 are not shown in the online find book. Requests in this respect should be addressed directly to the relevant Unit R 3. Characterisation of content: The general organisation and working methods of the Reich Office for Spatial Planning and its branches are documented in the files of the office administration and planning authorities. The traditions of the individual regional planning communities provide an insight into concrete tasks, procedures and areas of activity. The focus here is on documents relating to various economic sectors. The intention to incorporate scientific aspects of spatial research into regional economic and social structures is illustrated, among other things, by the files of the Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft für Raumforschung and the Deutsche Akademie für Städtebau. Ultimately, the collection contains material collections from the archive and the press office, most of which consist of newspaper clippings and printed matter. Supplementary records are the R 164 Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft für Raumordnung and the RfR map collection (R 113 Kart) in the Federal Archives in Koblenz. State of development: Findbuch (2013) Citation method: BArch, R 113/...

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/...

History of the Inventory Designer: The Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (PTR), founded in 1887 as a scientific institution subordinated to the Reich Ministry of the Interior and from 1934 subordinated to the Reich Ministry of Science, Education and People's Education, was the result of years of efforts to establish a state organisation for experimental natural research and precision engineering. The execution of extensive scientific-physical investigations as well as the simultaneous practical implementation of the results in precision mechanics and technology allowed the PTR to quickly play an important role in basic research. This scientific institution was headed by its president and a board of trustees set up for technical supervision and consultation. Presidents of the PTR: Hermann von Helmholtz 1887-1892 Friedrich Kohlrausch 1895-1905 Emil Warburg 1905-1922 Walther Nernst 1922-1924 Friedrich Paschen 1924-1933 Johannes Stark 1933-1939 Abraham Esau 1939-1945 In 1923, the Reichs-anstalt für Maß und Gewicht, which had emerged from the Normaleichungskommission in 1919, was merged with the PTR. Over the years, constantly growing or more specialised areas of responsibility have led to changes in the structure of the department. In the presidential department, laboratories, main workshop, main library and administration were directly subordinated to the president. Division II: Electricity (from 1936: for electricity and magnetism) Division III: Heat and Pressure Division IV: Optics Division V: Atomic Physics and Physical Chemistry (from 1939) Division VI: Precision Mechanics and Acoustics (from 1939) After 1945, the tasks of the PTR were transferred to the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Braunschweig) and the Deutsche Amt für Maß und Gewicht (Berlin). Inventory description: In 1977 and 1981 files of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt and the Normaleichungskommission (NEK) were transferred from the Office for Standardization and Metrology of the GDR to the Zentrale Staatsarchiv Potsdam. They were combined under the designation PTR to form a stock (R 1519). The files of Divisions III to VI of the PTR as well as the organisation and business operations of NEK have been handed down incompletely. The file fragments for sound, vibration and pressure measurements in torpedo and mine development and further development of precision measuring instruments for the 1936 Olympic Games (inventory R 105), which were previously stored in the Federal Archives in Koblenz, were assigned to inventory R 1519 in Berlin in 1996. Content characterisation: An important part of the science policy of the National Socialist state is documented in the existing documents on the management, organisation, planning and reporting of the PTR. Further focal points are processes relating to research and training issues, in particular in Divisions I Measurement and Weight and II Electricity and Magnetism. Also preserved are documents on the development and testing of a target time camera that was used during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, as well as some files on torpedo and mine development between 1940 and 1944. State of development: Findbuch, Online-Findbuch (2005) Citation method: BArch, R 1519/...

1814-1930 (1945) The holdings 70 of the Mainz Municipal Archives comprise all preserved files of the Mainz Municipal Administration from the period 1814/16 to 1930/45, i.e. the period when Mainz belonged to the Grand Duchy or People's State of Hesse, therefore the holdings are also called "Hessian Archives". The "Hessian Archive" also includes the files of the occupation office during the French occupation of 1918-1930 (fonds 71) and the old registry of the Mainz City Library (fonds 72). The personnel files of the Hessian period were also separated and added to the personnel files of the city archive (here: accesses before 1962). The files of the stock 70 originate from the mayor's office of the city of Mainz and from individual municipal offices or companies. Also files of the former district office Mainz are in the inventory. This goes back to the initiative of the former government director Richard Falck, who in the 1920s was active as an assessor in the district office and worked to ensure that the files relating to Mainz were not handed over to the state archives in Darmstadt, but were transferred to the city archives. Apart from a few exceptions, the records of this collection end in 1930. The municipal files from the National Socialist era (1933-1945), which were in the main registry of the town hall, were burned during a bombing raid on Mainz in August 1942. The files were also destroyed at various other municipal offices in 1942-1945. The personnel files that survived the war were not affected. It is not possible to prove for all partial holdings when the files reached the city archives or who handed them in. In the access books from 1909 to 1945, a total of 90 entries of various sizes can be found, which according to their provenance and duration can be assigned to the "Hessian Archive" and which are also largely to be found in today's holdings. Some accesses are no longer to be found and have probably been cashed (e.g. files of the garden administration and the rental agreement office). A large part of the listed deliveries is accounted for by the finance and accounting departments of both the general administration and the city. Companies, but also the local citizen registers, the trade diaries, files on fruit prices and the fruit market, on the poor and welfare, on the electricity and waterworks, election records and various deliveries of school files are mentioned in the access books. A list of the proven accesses can be found in the electronic file of the city archives under Findmittel/Sonstiges. Also after 1945 still files were handed over, which were assigned to the existence 70, in the activity report of 1948-1950 9 Faszikel air-raid protection files (cf. 70/1028 ff.) are mentioned, 1951/52 4 volumes citizen registers of the 19th century are mentioned. Ordnungsarbeiten ab 1935 (nach den Tätigkeitsberichten des Stadtarchivs) The order of the files of the Hessian period was the responsibility of the administrative secretary Wilhelm Danz from April 1935, who was active in the archive from that time. In the year 1940 4533 file bundles were formed. In 1943 390 ordered bundles were added. The type of content of the order is not reported in the activity reports. During the Second World War, a total of 92 bundles of today's 70 files had been moved to the Heldburg in Thuringia. Until 1960, there was no evidence in Mainz for these outsourced files. The files reached the central archives of the GDR in Potsdam via a collection depot in Merseburg and were not returned to the city archives until December 1986. In the "Verzeichnis der von der DDR zurückkommenen Archivalien" these bundles are listed under the numbers 586-678. After their return, they were sorted into the "Hessische Archiv" (Hessian Archive), which had meanwhile been arranged according to the file plan, and before the files were renumbered they bore the signatures "DDR-Akten Nr. [Bündelnummer lt. o. g. Verzeichnis]". During the Second World War, the archive holdings remaining in the house had to be moved several times due to the air raids. On 27.02.1945, "a small, not important, archive of modern records" was destroyed. The two upper floors of the municipal library burnt out, causing the remaining files in the house to become very disordered and the staff had to clean them of debris and dust. The files of the stock 70 were also completely confused. City secretary Danz began anew with a reorganization, in 1948 the ordered stock comprised 291 running meters, in 1952 more than 400 running meters, in 1954: 600 running meters. In 1952 there is still talk of a "jumble of single leaf pieces which are read out of the rubble or come to light from the torn, fallen apart bundles". At that time the collection was divided into 13 sections, which were listed in the activity report for 1950/51-1951/52. In his annual report for the years 1952/53-1953/54, Wilhelm Diepenbach cites an example of the work of organizing single sheets: "In earlier decades, the local court also had to deal with matters of poor law. Consequently, documents relating to this matter were classified under the factual term "local court". Now all such documents are taken out and classified in the civil alphabet under surnames." In the 1950s, Wilhelm Danz had separated out a mountain of files from the Hessian period and planned them for cassation (among them were the files on the Jewish community!); the timely intervention of his archive colleagues prevented the destruction of these valuable archival records. In 1957/58, after the departure of Danz, the archivists noticed that the system according to which the bundles of files had previously been set up (the 13 departments mentioned above) no longer met the requirements, and they had to begin anew with reordering work. The holdings were roughly sorted according to alphabetical keywords, thus preparing the final reorganization. Whether this refers to the order according to the Hessian municipal file plan of 1908 cannot be inferred from the activity reports, but is probable. Wilhelm Danz's successor was the archivist Siemsen, followed by Mrs. Schmelig. As late as 1963, Ludwig Falck, who later became archive director, wrote in the commemorative volume "De Bibliotheca Moguntina": "The uniform order ... is still in progress and will take a long time, since this work has been made very difficult by all kinds of adverse fates." After the conclusion of the order work and the listing of the file bundles formed and inscribed by the archivists according to the registration plan for Hessian mayor's offices from the year 1908, the files could be found with the help of the file plan and by examination in the magazine whether files were available to a file plan department. There wasn't a list of files. The departments and sub-items of the file plan were considered signatures. A first list of files was drawn up in the 1980s by Doris Braun, a graduate archivist. It comprised 1406 numbers and the file plan departments I (head of state) to XII (church affairs) and thus about the first quarter of the entire stock. In 2003, Ursula Kwasniewski, an archivist, began to enter the existing list of files into the archive database "Faust". The unrecorded files were then numbered consecutively and these new file signatures, together with the file titles and file numbers on the file covers, were recorded in the database. The building files in the inventory deviate from this numerical order. They had already been entered some years earlier according to the sections "Bauakten vor 1900" and "Bauakten nach 1900" and within these groups alphabetically according to building owners. This registration corresponded and corresponds to the physical order of the building files which are at the end of the inventory. After entering the approximately 22,000 file titles, Ramona Göbel (later: Weisenberger), a graduate archivist, read the titles on the basis of the database Correction and created a classification, which is largely based on the preliminary order according to the registry plan of 1908. Mainz, November 2008 Ramona Weisenberger

Inventory description: In 1920 a counterespionage group with two departments for espionage and sabotage defense in the east and west was formed in the army statistics department of the troop office. In 1935 it was used as the starting point for the defence department of the Reichswehr and Reichskriegsministerium. In 1938 it was renamed into the Foreign Intelligence and Defense Office Group of the OKW, and in October 1939 it was finally renamed into the Foreign Department/Defense Office. The Office was divided into five departments: Central department (task: organization and administration) with groups: Z O- Officer's personal data Z K- Central file and ZKV-Zentral file of V-people Z B- Foreign policy reporting Z R- Legal affairs Z F- Finances, connection with the foreign exchange protection commands Z Reg and Z Arch- Registratur und Materialverwaltung sowie Archiv Abteilungung/Amtsgruppe Ausland (auslands- und Wehrpolitischer Nachrichtendienst); Evaluation of the press, literature and radio; connection to the German military attachés abroad and the foreign ones in Berlin as well as the German military missions; questions of warfare under international law; situation reports) with groups: Abroad I- Military policy information for Wehrmacht leadership Abroad II- Foreign policy issues, press reports Abroad III- International law issues Abroad IV- Supply of warships and blockade breakers Chief group adjutant, personnel, accommodation, defence vehicles I (procurement of military, armaments and war-related news in the foreign country; development of a reporting organisation and an agency network with control and contact points, letter boxes, radio and courier connections abroad), divided into groups: I Z- Central and Chief Office I H(eer)- Espionage against foreign armies with subgroups I H West and I H East - Explorations in the West and East I M(arine)- Espionage against foreign navies I L(uftwaffe)- Espionage against foreign air forces I T(echnik) L(uft)w(monkey)- Espionage against foreign air transport technology I Wi(rtschaft)- Espionage against foreign economy I G- Laboratories, u.a. false documents, secret inks, photo laboratory I i- radio, esp. transmission, agent radio network, traffic I T(echnik)- espionage against foreign technology I C(riegs)O(rganisations)-connection to the war organ. in the neutral countries) defence II (sabotage; active sabotage protection; training for and preparation of command enterprises) with groups: II A- Executive Office II West (further divided into North and South) II East (also divided into North and South) II Southeast II Overseas II Technology subject to factual subordination: Front reconnaissance commandos and troops as well as units and formations of the "Brandenburger" defence III (above all Defense protection in the Wehrmacht, but also in civilian areas; combating espionage and treason; infiltration of enemy intelligence services) with III A/Chefgruppe-Adjutantur III C- Military secrecy and defense protection; security of the civilian authorities with which the Wehrmacht is in contact; connection to the RSHA; OKW-Paßstelle III C 1- Behörden III C 2- remaining civilian sector, without economy III D- misleading the enemy, double agents (so-called Spielmaterial) III F- Counter-espionage against foreign intelligence services, especially abroad (KO) III F fu- Fahndungsfunk III G- Expert opinion on treason III K- Radio defence (at the beginning of the war passed to Wehrmacht command staff) III Kgf- defence in the prisoner of war camps III N- connection to the press; Protection of own radio, telephone and telegate network III U- Internal evaluation, results of counter-espionage; defence instruction III W- Wehrmacht command group with subgroups III H- Wehrmacht defence in the army, esp. Secret protection and preservation of the moral III L- defense in the air force III M- defense in the navy with the front troop the defense officers were settled in the department Ic III Wi/Rü- counter espionage in the own economy and armament the "secret field police" belonging to the army in the area of the military commanders was subordinate to the defense department III until beginning of 1942. Then their members were integrated to a large extent into the security police. In addition, foreign letter and telegram inspection offices existed; they were affiliated to the locally responsible defensive offices. After individual areas of responsibility and parts of the office had already been assigned to the Reichsführer-SS with the Führer's order of 12.2.1944 (Amt MIL. of the RSHA), the defense departments were subordinated after the 20th century. In July 1944 the chief of the Security Police and the SD was finally assigned to the Wehrmacht leadership staff (OKW/WFSt/Ag.Ausl.), only the foreign department and the troop defense (including the defense officers deployed at the deputy general commandos, the military and Wehrmacht commanders in the still occupied territories) were assigned to the Wehrmacht leadership staff (OKW/WFSt/Ag.Ausl.) Vorprovenienzen: Defense department in the Reich Ministry of Defence or Reich Ministry of War Content characterization: Central department: business distribution plans, including organizational documents, also for subordinate and Defence services (1935-1944); salary and career regulations; identification mark directories; individual personnel documents, in particular of V-people (1939-1945); files with personnel, training and budget matters; provision of foreign exchange for assignments abroad (1935-1944); other services administration (e.g. management and procurement matters); a total of approx. 100 vol. Foreign Office Group: series of files on foreign, economic and military policy of individual countries and groups of countries (ca. 170 Bde, 1934-1944); reports of the Enlightenment Committee Hamburg-Bremen on individual countries (ca. 60 Bde, 1939-1945); news and overviews from and to the Department (ca. 40 Bde, 1939-1945); reports "Fremde Handelsschif-fahrt" (1940-1942); files on the treatment of German prisoners of war and internees (1939-1943); international law and violations (1939-1944); cooperation with the Red Cross 1939-1942); Naval war (1939-1942); gas war preparation abroad and gas defense 1933-1943); disarmament issues (1934-1935); press reports on German violations of the Treaty of Versailles (1933-1935). For the lost files of the Administrative Group Abw. I The few documents of defence stations alone offer a substitute (inventory: RW 49). Defense Section II: War diary of the group leader GM E. Lahousen (3 volumes, 1939-1943, with records of individual actions); elaboration of the "Secret Intelligence Service and Defense Against Espionage of the Army" for the period 1866-1917 (15 volumes); training documents (1939-1944); correspondence with defense units in defense districts I, IV, and VIII (1934-1939, v.a. Personnel documents); processes about V-people and individual companies (1940-1944); altogether approx. 50 vol. Defense III: Collection of secret decrees, decrees and circulars (1935-1940); instructions for defensive instruction (1937-1942); internal security, including individual cases (1940-1943); search lists (1940); secret protection; surveillance of the economy (1933-1945); surveillance of foreigners, including prisoners of war; documents on enemy agent schools (1943/44); individual companies (1941-1943); total of all documents on enemy agent schools (1941-1943). 60 vol. 32 volumes contain deciphering reports of the cipher centre (1925-1933). State of development: Word-Findbuch Scope, Explanation: 570 AE Citation method: BArch, RW 5/...

Annual reports from Rehoboth, Okombahe and Aroab, 1926-1968; Biblical and medical education of native girls. Practical ways; correspondence with the Africa Department of the RMG, 1961-1968; various publications. Licenses & Documents

Description of the holdings: To supplement the document series in the AllProz 1 and AllProz 2 holdings, the Federal Archives have collected reference files of the lawyers and defendants involved in the trials. Content characterisation: The scope and content of the sub-sets are very different. In detail, the following lawyers are liable: Kurt Behling (cf. N 1253), in particular the lawyers' trial (Case 3), RuSHA trial (Case 8), Krupp trial (Case 10) and OKW trial (Case 12, 74 AE); Joachim Bergmann, Wilhelmstraßen trial (Case 11, 9 AE); Hans Gawlik, and others. IMT (146 AU); Kurt Gollnick (Case 12, 13 AU); F. Gordan, Milk Process (9 AU); Theodor Klefisch (7 AU); Justus Koch, Wilhelmstrasse Process (Case 11, 23 AU); Otto Kranzbühler, IMT and Flick Process (unlisted) Kurt Minkel, Task Force and Wilhelmstrasse Process (unlisted); Heinz Nagel, v. a. Flick, IG-Farben and Krupp Trials (Cases 5, 6 and 10, 16 AE); Horst Pelckmann, Nürnberger and other Allied and German postwar trials (approx. 90 AE) Robert Servatius, et al. Defense of Fritz Sauckel and Wilhelmstraßenprozeß (IMT, Case 11, only provisionally listed) Walter Siemers, IMT, Flick- und IG-Farbenprozeß (unlisted) Otto Stahmer, especially IMT-Kommissionsprotokolle; Alfred Thoma, a. o. Handakten zur Verteidigung von Alfred Rosenberg (IMT, 172 AE) The following defendants also have documents: Ulrich Greifelt, RuSHA Process, Case 8 (2 AE); Walter Schellenberg, Weizsäcker Process, Case 11 (6 AE); Wilhelm Stuckart, Weizsäcker Process, Case 11 (11 AE). Status: 2008 State of development: provisional directories, database collection, unlisted parts Citation method: BArch, ALLPROZ 3/...

History of the possession of the island Mainau: After the abolition of the Kommende of the Teutonic Order on the island Mainau in 1805, the Kommenden possession first fell to the Baden state; today the Kommenden archive in the General State Archives consists mainly of the holdings 5 (documents Mainau) and 93 (files Mainau). After a rapid change of ownership - 1827 from Baden to Prince Nikolaus von Esterhazy, 1827 from his son Nikolaus Freiherr von Mainau to Katharina Gräfin Langenstein - Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden bought the island from Langenstein¿schem in 1853 with funds from the private box and made the Teutonic Order palace a secondary residence. With advancing age, the stays of the Grand Duke and his wife Luise became increasingly frequent; the park owes its design largely to Frederick's initiative. In 1907 the Grand Duke of Mainau died. After her death in 1923, the widow's residence of the Grand Duchess was transferred to her son Frederick II, and from him to his sister Victoria, Queen of Sweden. In 1930, their grandson Lennart, now Count Bernadotte, took possession of the Mainau. History and notes on tradition: The Schlossarchiv, which was handed over to the General State Archives in 1997 as a deposit of Blumeninsel Mainau GmbH, depicts the history of possession and the court holdings of the Grand Ducal couple rather fragmentarily. Only the planned stock has survived as a closed overdelivery complex. After the death of Frederick I, Grand Duchess Luise decided that neither the castle nor the park could be altered in any way, so the plans provide a good overview of the conversion of the old Kommende buildings and the layout of the park from the Grand Ducal period to the Bernadotte era. Almost all the plans came from the architects of the Grand Ducal Court Building Office (Dyckerhoff, Hemberger, Amersbach), a few from the Court Garden Centre, from commissioned companies and from the Constance District Building Inspectorate. Outside the island, only the St. Katharina estate near Litzelstetten and a park bench near Constance are documented. The plans were recorded in detail by Ms. Kreyenberg before they were handed over to the General State Archives; her index continues to serve as a finding aid for the plan inventory, while the file part of the archive consists only of fragments. There are internal and external reasons for this. The changing courtly style between Karlsruhe, Baden-Baden, Badenweiler and Mainau may have brought with it a transport of written documents, which in all residences allowed half site-related, half accidentally left behind layers of files to emerge. In many respects, the Mainau holdings correspond almost perfectly to the files that have been kept in the General State Archives since 1995 from the tradition in the New Palace in Baden-Baden: Here and there the boundaries between the files of the court authorities, the daily ceremony and the personal, princely estate can hardly be drawn exactly, here and there correspondence and telegram series, diaries and notebooks, private entries and greeting addresses, documents of the wide-ranging charity work of Grand Duchess Luise and much more can be found. (cf. GLA 69 Baden, Collection 1995 A, B, D, F I, FII, G , K). In a nutshell, the Mainau collection - insofar as it does not directly refer to the Mainau court - microscopically depicts the Baden-Baden manor; both collections relate primarily to Grand Duchess Luise, and only in the second to her husband and children. As in Baden-Baden, the Mainau collection also includes a large group of photographs documenting, among other things, the close ties to relatives of the imperial family. Unlike in Baden-Baden, however, the fragmentary character of the Mainau archive also seems to be due to unintentional interventions. In the summer of 1945, the castle served as a military hospital for former concentration camp prisoners; during this time, they are said to have burned the archives, the bookkeeping and the more recent documentation of the island and to have taken documents with them when they were released in September (Alexander and Johanna Dées de Sterio, Die Mainau, Stuttgart / Zürich 1977 p.93). It will no longer be possible to reconstruct exactly what kind of archive this was; in any case, it must have been the written records of the goods administration which were taken over by the successors of the Teutonic Order and continued through the 19th century. Only fractions of files from this area have actually survived in today's inventory. Editor's report: Because of the difficult history of tradition, the order of the remaining holdings was not easy either. A separation according to personnel and court office conveniences would have made little sense and would also have been hardly possible in view of fragments that could hardly be allocated. Thus special occasions (such as birthdays and anniversaries) and special source genres (such as notebooks or telegrams) now form the highest order criteria, then the reference to persons or events and finally, within a unit of records, the chronological order; however, most of these units of records had to be formed first, since at the time the inventory was taken over any order of parts was not recognizable; as a rule they were loose, connected sheets.In August and September 1998, in the context of the training for the Higher Archive Service, the holdings were arranged by Claudia Maria Neesen and Christof Strauß under the guidance of the undersigned and recorded and indexed with the help of the MIDOSA programme package of the Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg. Karlsruhe, June 1999Konrad Krimm Conversion: The finding aid was converted in 2015. The final editing was carried out by Sara Diedrich in April 2016. The plans and building drawings were added under the inventory designation 69 Baden, Mainau K to the inventory 69 Baden, Mainau and listed under the signatures 69 Baden, Mainau K 1 to 69 Baden, Mainau K 209.

Station see RMG 2.509; Documents on the Ownership and land donation by the Deutsche Colonial-Gesellschaft für Südwestafrika;

Manuscripts, correspondence, life documents

History of the Inventor: The Naval Cabinet was created in 1889, modelled on the Prussian Military Cabinet, as an office for the exercise of command in maritime affairs. It became the decisive authority in personnel matters of naval officers. On 28.10.1918 subordinated to the State Secretary of the Reichsmarineamt. Inventory description: Following the model of the Prussian Military Cabinet, the Naval Cabinet was created on April 1, 1889. Designed as an office for the exercise of command in maritime affairs, it has evolved in practice into the key personnel agency for naval officers. As an immediate authority, it was directly subordinated to the emperor, i.e. it was not subject to the responsibility of parliament. The Naval Cabinet should act as the administrative authority for the "management of maritime affairs" and for the transmission of orders to the Naval Authorities and to certain persons. However, the main task became the processing of the personal data and staffing of the naval officers, naval cadets, naval infantry officers, mechanical engineers, witness officers, fireworks officers and torpedo officers. On 28 October 1918 the authority was subordinated to the State Secretary of the Reichsmarineamt and in December 1918 it was converted into the Personalamt im Reichsmarineamt. Characterisation of the contents: The files of the naval cabinet have been relatively completely preserved. This does not rule out gaps in individual cases. For example, there are no detailed file plans or other registration aids or a business distribution plan valid at the time. As adjutant general, the chief of the naval cabinet was in the emperor's personal service. The files of his authority therefore document to a considerable extent the personal affairs of Wilhelm II and other domestic and foreign princes. They contain, among other things, hand-drawn fleet tables, drawings and ship constructions of the emperor, lecture manuscripts, texts of imperial sermons and ship services, correspondence, gift lists and newspaper cuttings with personal marginal notes to all questions of the time as well as documents about construction and maintenance of the imperial yachts, all sea and land journeys of the emperor and personal affairs of the imperial family. The largest part of the stock concerns the personnel affairs of the officers. Although the personnel files were destroyed as intended after the deaths of those affected, the existing extracts from the qualification reports in conjunction with documents on visits, farewells, personnel budgets and staffing allow an almost complete reconstruction of personnel policy in the Navy as well as the military career of individual active officers. Documents on the general organisation of the navy and military political affairs, including correspondence with the military cabinet and other military and civil authorities, as well as military reporting on general political and economic affairs are another focus of the collection. Order awards, social affairs, administration and administration of justice are also documented. State of development: Online-Findbuch Scope, Explanation: Stock without increase78,5 lfm 2573 AE Citation method: BArch, RM 2/...

Die umfangreiche Gruppe der Personalia ist erst zum Teil verzeichnet. 2006 ist eine große Sammlung (28 lfm) mit personenbezogenen Presseausschnitten hinzugekommen, die vom Archiv des Gruner und Jahr Verlagsan die FZH abgegeben wurde. Der alphabetisch gut geordnete Bestand ist noch nicht in die Beständeübersicht integriert, steht aber zur Nutzung bereit. Bei den Nachlässen und persönlichen Sammlungen wird auf Personen konzentriert, die keine herausragenden öffentlichen Funktionen ausübten. Hervorzuheben ist der umfangreiche Nachlass Otto Piehls zu seinen Exiljahren in Dänemark / Schweden, seiner Rückkehr in die BRD und seiner Tätigkeit für die IG Metall. Auspersönlicher Verbundenheit vermachte er seine Unterlagen der FZH. Zahlreiche Briefnachlässe gelangeten durch Schenkungen von Flohmarktkäufen an unser Achiv. Sie sind nur anonymisiert zu verwenden und erscheinen in der Beständeübersicht als 11/anonym + fortlaufende Nummer. Sie bilden alltagsgeschichtlich interessante Quellen, sind aber meist sehr umfangreich, so dass durch aussagekräftige Bestandsbeschreibungen deutlich werden muss, für welche Fragestellungen sich eine Durchsicht lohnt. Eine Sonderform von Nachlässen bilden die Abschriften des über Jahrzehnte geführtenTagebuchs der Hamburger Lehrerin Luise Solmitz und die Transkripte der Diensttagebücher des Regierenden Bürgermeisters Carl Vincent Krogmann. Die Originale liegen im Staatsarchiv Hamburg, die Abschriften wurden in den 1950er Jahren in der ersten Forschungsstelle angefertigt und dürfen weiterhin hiereingesehen werden. Die Sammlungen verteilen sich auf fünf thematische Schwerpunkte, unter denen sie auchin dieser Übersicht auftauchen: NS-Verfolgte und christlich-jüdischer Dialog, Arbeiterbewegung und politische Organisationen, Nationalsozialismus, Friedensbewegung, Geschichte der Sexualität. Der letztgenannte Bereich hat sich aus internationalen Forschungskontakten entwickelt: Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Heineman (University of Iowa) vermittelte 2003 die Sammlungen der persönlichen Referentin von Beate Rotermund (Uhse) an das Archiv der Forschungsstelle. Ergänzt wurden sie um Firmenpapiere und eine Literatursammlung zweier andere Unternehmer aus der Erotik-Branche. Eine wichtige Sammlung in der Gruppe Arbeiterbewegung bildet das aus dem ABA-Archiv Kopenhagen übernommene Depositum zur KPD(O) / IVKO, in dem sich wichtige Unterlagen zur Biographie der Gründungsmitglieder Prof. Dr. August Thalheimer und Heinrich Brandler befinden. Die Verzeichnung des Bestands und der zahlreichen Nachlieferungen ist noch nicht abgeschlossen. Das Hans-Schwarz-Archiv zur Geschichte der Konzentrationslager Dachau und Neuengamme beinhaltet auch die Sammlungen und Manuskripte von Gertrud Meyer zu Verfolgung und Widerstand in Hamburg. Im Herbst 2007 wurden die Teile zum KZ Neuengamme an die dortige Gedenkstätte abgegeben. Aus Ablieferungen anderer Archive gelang es, den in der FZH verbliebenen Bestand um einen persönlichen Teilnachlass von Hans Schwarz und Gertrud Meyer zu ergänzen. Weitere große Sammlungen bilden die Archive der "Notgemeinschaft der durch die Nürnberger Gesetze Betroffenen" und der "Gesellschaft für christlich-jüdische Zusammenarbeit". Von Herrn Erhart Lotter erhielten wir 2012 eine weitere Nachlieferung aus seinem Arbeitsdienst-Archiv, das jetzt fast vollständig in das FZH-Archiv gelangt ist und einen wesentlichen Zugang in der Gruppe "Nationalsozialismus" bildet. Es enthält auch Dokumente zum Arbeitsdienstgedanken in internationaler Perspektive und zum Freiwilligen Arbeitsdienst (FAD), sein Schwerpunkt liegt jedoch auf dem deutschen Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD). In der Untergruppe "Friedensbewegung" ist auf die Archive der IPPNW (Internationale Ärzte für die Verhütung des Atomkrieges, Ärzte in sozialer Verantwortung e.V.) und der DFG-IDK (Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft-Internationale der Kriegsdienstgegner e.V.) hinzuweisen. Das letztgenannte Archiv wurde der FZH vom Fritz-Küster-Archiv in Oldenburg überlassen.

General information The files combined in this finding aid book originate from different registry layers as well as from different registries. In the main, they comprise from the old central office of the government (i.e. the Presidential Division CB I) the former subjects 35 (Public Peace and Mood), 35a (Social Democracy and Anarchism), 36 (Forbidden Links, Supervision of Individual Suspicious Individuals) as well as 47 (so-called Registrar's Office MOB). This latter registry grew into a comprehensive processing area for the mobilization, the war of 1914/18, the economic and military demobilization, as well as the entire occupation-related opportunities. The confusion led to a radical reorganization of the CB II (or CB III) registry around 1922, with a new division of the subject and a focus on occupation issues and political affairs. The special circumstances of the occupation period necessitated a branch of the district government in Krefeld. In 1920/21, the latter had its own registry, as did the district president Grützner during his expulsions in Barmen (February 1923 to April 1924) and Bielefeld (April-September 1924). The files of the so-called Essen Reporting Office are integrated into the inventory. This is one of the Provincial Public Order Supervision Services established at the instigation of the State Commissioner for Public Order, Robert Weismann, in August 1919. On 15 November 1920 a special registration office for the administrative district of Düsseldorf was set up, and Jürgens, the councillor of the district court, was appointed head of this office on 30 November 1920. On 10 March 1921 the registration office was moved from Düsseldorf to Essen, on 29 July 1927 it was moved back to Düsseldorf and integrated into the CB II department, where it existed until the end of 1922. The Reporting Office collected news about the political and economic movements in its area from the police and administrative authorities and from the press, stimulated the intervention of the executive branch on the basis of the news it received and reported continuously by the President of the Government to the Chief President in Münster, in important cases immediately to the State Commissioner. The documents and newspaper clippings were originally stapled together in notebooks marked M ff. At the end of 1922 Faszikel was created and newly signed (A lff., B lff. etc.). That reorganisation was carried out up to the letter M, with the exception of the files relating to the crew, which were not stapled. Of the following letters, only a few particularly important files have been stapled. The records of the Essen Reporting Office and also of the CB II registry from 1922 ff. are partly very inconsistent, they tend above all to the formation of very narrow subject matters (or institutions concerning) and therefore show partly very thin fascicles. Also included in the inventory are the documents of various authorities and organisations of the transitional economy (above all price control and usury control) as well as the opportunities for occupation. The documents of the German delegation to Düsseldorf for the implementation of the London Agreements of 1924 are particularly worthy of mention here. The German delegations in Düsseldorf and Koblenz were headed by Johannes Horion, Governor of the State of Düsseldorf, whose permanent deputy in the Düsseldorf delegation was the Privy Councillor Dr. Claussen. The delegation, which had its seat first in the Landeshaus, and since 24 November 1924 in the government building, began its activities in September and ended them in December 1924. Occasionally, documents of the District President Abbot CB II are attached to the files. These files were handed over by the Düsseldorf government in 1934. Professor Wentzcke saw others in the possession of the late governor Horion. The files of the district police commissioner Otto Kammhoff in Elberfeld make up a numerically large but not so important part. For a critical assessment of the source value of these files, the personal file of Kammhoff is to be consulted (No. 15993). The files summarized in the present find book extend from the middle of the 19th century to about 1944, with the emphasis on the labour movement since 1880, the First World War and the post-war period until about 1928. From the later years there are files of the police department only for 1931/32 and a few from the foreigner surveillance of the Second World War. The archivability is given in the majority; often the arrangement of a permanent storage is to be understood only from the special situation (crew defense). For reasons of a closed overdelivery, which is in itself also a document, however, it was decided not to carry out subsequent individual cassations. Due to the fragmentation of the authorities' activities (headquarters in Düsseldorf, branch office in Krefeld, registry of the district president), numerous multiple documents have been produced, as well as the simultaneous reporting to superior offices. Overview of the groups of files, main subjects, camp numbers and duration Subject 35 Public peace and order (most of the previous files in the holdings of the Düsseldorf government, presidential office. Nrr. 15904-15983, 1850-1922 Subject 35a Social Democracy and Anarchism. Presidential files, other subject 40 Reg. Düsseldorf police no. 9028-9072, 15984-16035, 42781-42814, 1889-1922 subject 36 foreigners, mostly Polish movement. Presidential files, previous files in Reg.Düss.Präs. Nrr. 16015-16035, 1876-1922 subject 47 so-called Registratur Mob Essentially world war and occupation until 1922 presidential files, previous files in Reg.Düss.Präs. Nrr. 9073-9087, 14911-15248, 15346-15360, 1914-1922 Bezirkspreisprüfungsstelle Nrr. 41707-41742, 1916-1925 War economy, mainly price control Industrial supply (war economy) Nrr. 15299-15345, 1918 suction. Old things, without registration signature (mostly Mob) Nrr. 16036-16055, 1912-1923 CB II Supplements, without registration signature Strikes, Crew matters (expulsions) Nrr. 16890-16911, 1921-1925 Journals Dept. CB II Nrr. 16912-16921, 1923 Registration office Essen General Nrr. 15361-15396, 1919-1922 mostly economic and political situation reports Reporting office Essen Individuals, organizations, incidents Nrr. 15535-15854, 1920-1922 (partly little extensive files) Notification office Essen Political circumstances in individual places, mostly reports, Nrr. 15397-15534 (organised according to location) 1920-1922 Reporting office Essen Newspaper clipping collection of the press department on general and special political subjects (subject matters, individual case files) Nrr. 15855-15903, 1920-1922 Branch office of the government in Krefeld (occupied part of the RB Düsseldorf) occupation matters B II files without technical designation, probably at delivery not yet ordered mob things Nrr. 17030-17061, 1922 files of the district president Grützner from his time in Barmen Nrr. 17062-17145, 1923-1924 New registry CB II Fach 1 (expulsions, punishments by the occupation authorities, care for expellees) Nrr. 16056-16121, 1923-1926 CB II Fach 2 Occupation of individual places, enterprises etc., interventions of the occupation, ordinances of the occupation authorities, evacuation (old occupied area) No. 16122-16274, 1923-1926 CB II Fach 3 Excesses of the occupation Nrr. 16275-16395, 1922-1927 CB II Fach 4 riots, occasionally also expulsions or revocation of expulsions Nrr. 16296-16337, 1921-1926 CB II Subject 5 Occupation matters sanction area (occupation interventions, damage), ordinances Nrr. 16338-16532, 1923-1926 CB II compartment 6 crew matters, ;Ruhrkampf Nrr. 16533-16672, 1923 CB II Fach 7 Besatzungsangelegenheiten, support of the expelled and political prisoners, return of the expelled Nrr. 16673-16735, 1923-1928 Fach 7 Abt. CB III (1923-1925 CB II) The files in Fach 7 were processed 1923-1925 by CB II, 1926 by the department I T, later called CB III. Finally CB II and CB III were united in I C. CB II Subject 8 Political parties etc., mostly created after individual meetings Nrr. 16736-16815, 1922-1928 CB II Subject 9, 10, 14, 16, 1new Political Affairs, Espionage etc. Unemployment movement, situation reports Nrr. 16840-16889, 1923-1928 CB II, so-called communist files. Partly created according to location or via individual organisations Nrr. 16923-16994, 1922-1928 CB II so-called Separatist files Nrr. 16995-17029, 1920-1927 Political department mostly activity of radical parties, KPD, polit. Collisions Nrr. 17146-17274, 1931-1932 Police Affairs (Unit I A) Nrr. 45356-45363, 1940-1944 files of the district police commissioner Kammhoff, Elberfeld, surveillance of social democracy and anarchism Nrr. 42815-43025 (with gaps), 1878-1903 Distortion and order The old file titles were retained as far as possible and specified if necessary during the new distortion. Discriminatory title formulations due to time constraints were left, but the title formation was corrected by additions or explanations in the Include note. Especially out of the anti-occupation defence files have been formulated under a title, which assumes a much more far-reaching fact than actually going facts. The same title structure was retained for general and special files. The terms, however, are uniformly reproduced as general; individual cases or accompanying acts (instead of generalia, specialia or adhibenda). The content of the memos has been broken down further, i.e. further information has been provided which is covered by the title of the file but not addressed in detail, or the formal page of the content of the file has been added for explanatory purposes. Documentation content that differs from this is indicated both in terms of content and form (especially print and periodicals, posters, etc.). In view of the very uneven size of individual volumes and their nevertheless promising titles, the size was shown (either in the exact or in an estimated size). The following subject areas were selected for the content and thematic classification 1) Political Affairs 2) Administrative Law, Foreigners' Affairs 3) Occupation Affairs 4) Military Affairs, Warfare 5) War and Forced Economy (Transition Economy) The subdivision into the individual points takes into account both the factual context and the formation of the files, i.e.h. where sufficiently large amounts of files were created into a complex under a (contemporary) subject, these series were also merged (e.g., Social Democracy and Anarchism Communism and related organizations National Socialism and related organizations). These definitions are of a purely practical nature and are intended to avoid classification according to ideological principles. In addition, either the alphabet or the chronology are strictly regarded as further order factors in individual classification groups. For the history of authorities and registries, the introduction to the finding aid G 21/2 (presidential office) is to be used. The files shall be quoted: BR 0007, BR 1041, BR 2049 current no. References to further holdings In addition to the present finding aid book G 21/1a, classification point elections; government Düsseldorf presidential office, classification point ;police, gendarmerie G 21/2; G 21/5, government Düsseldorf police, classification point political police or Security Police" as well as G 21/10-11, Government Düsseldorf Gewerbe, Fach 9 (according to the still provisional indexing) Workers' Movement, Working Hours, Works Councils Basically, the files of the subordinate authorities (police authorities, district administration offices) as well as the holdings of the judicial authorities are to be consulted for all questions. Literature G. Knopp. The Prussian administration of the administrative district Düsseldorf 1899-1919, Cologne-Berlin 1974 GeneralThe files united in this find book originate both from different registry layers and from different registries. In the main, they comprise from the old central office of the government (i.e. the Presidential Division CB I) the former subjects 35 (Public Peace and Mood), 35a (Social Democracy and Anarchism), 36 (Forbidden Links, Supervision of Individual Suspicious Individuals) as well as 47 (so-called Registrar's Office MOB). This latter registry grew into a comprehensive processing area for the mobilization, the war of 1914/18, the economic and military demobilization, as well as the entire occupation-related opportunities. The lack of clarity led to a radical reorganization of the CB II (or CB III) registry around 1922, with a new division of the registry and a new focus on occupation issues and political affairs. In 1920/21, the latter had its own registry, as did the district president Grützner during his expulsion in Barmen (February 1923 to April 1924) and Bielefeld (April-September 1924). The files of the so-called Essen registration office are integrated into the inventory. It is one of the provincial offices for the supervision of public order, which were established at the instigation of the State Commissioner for Public Order, Robert Weismann, in August 1919 (with the chief presidents). 15 November 1920 the formation of a special registration office for the administrative district Düsseldorf was ordered, to whose leader on 30 Nov. 1920 the district court councillor Jürgens was appointed. On 10 March 1921 the registration office was moved from Düsseldorf to Essen, on 29 July 1927 it was moved back to Düsseldorf and integrated into the CB II department, where it existed until the end of 1922.The Reporting Office collected news about the political and economic movements in its area from the police and administrative authorities and from the press, stimulated the intervention of the executive branch on the basis of the news it received, and reported continuously by the President of the Government to the Chief President in Münster, and in important cases immediately to the State Commissioner. At the end of 1922 Faszikel was created and re-signed (A lff., B lff. etc.). This reorganization was carried out up to the letter M with the exception of the files referring to the crew, which were not stapled. Of the following letters, only a few particularly important files have been stapled: the records of the Essen Reporting Office and also of the CB II registry from 1922 et seq. are sometimes very inconsistent, they tend above all to form very narrowly defined subject matters (or institutions) and therefore sometimes exhibit very thin fascicles.Included in the inventory are also the documents of various authorities and organizations of the transitional economy (especially price control and usury control) as well as the opportunities for occupation, in particular the documents of the German delegation to Düsseldorf for the implementation of the London Agreements of 1924. The German delegations in Düsseldorf and Koblenz were headed by Johannes Horion, Governor of the State of Düsseldorf, whose permanent deputy in the Düsseldorf delegation was the Privy Councillor Dr. Claussen. The delegation, which had its seat first in the Landeshaus, since 24 November 1924 in the government building, began its activity in September and terminated it in December 1924. Occasionally documents of the district president abbot CB II are attached to the files. The delivery of these files took place in 1934 by the government of Düsseldorf. Professor Wentzcke saw others in the possession of the late governor Horion. The files of the district police commissioner Otto Kammhoff in Elberfeld make up a numerically large but not so important part. The personal file of Kammhoff (No. 15993) is to be used for a critical appraisal of the source value of these files. the files summarized in the present find book extend from the middle of the 19th century to about 1944, with the emphasis on the labour movement since 1880, the First World War and the post-war period until about 1928. From the later years files of the police department are available only for 1931/32 and some few from the foreigner surveillance of the Second World War. the archive-worthiness is given in the majority; often the arrangement of a permanent storage is to be understood only from the special situation (occupation defense). Due to the fragmentation of the activities of the authorities (head office in Düsseldorf, branch office in Krefeld, registry of the district president), numerous multiple documents were created, as well as the simultaneous reporting to superior offices.Overview of the groups of files, essential subjects, warehouse numbers and running timeSubject 35 Public peace and order (most of the previous files in the holdings Government of Düsseldorf, presidential office). Nrr. 15904-15983, 1850-1922Fach 35a Social Democracy and Anarchism. Presidential files, other subject 40 Reg. Düsseldorf Police No. 9028-9072, 15984-16035, 42781-42814, 1889-1922Fach 36 Foreigners, mostly Polish movement. Presidential files, previous files in Reg.Düss.Präs. Nrr. 16015-16035, 1876-1922Fach 47 so-called Registratur Mob Essentially world war and occupation until 1922 presidential files, previous files in Reg.Düss.Präs. Nrr. 9073-9087, 14911-15248, 15346-15360, 1914-1922Bezirkspreisprüfungsstelle Nrr. 41707-41742, 1916-1925 War economy, mainly price controlIndustrial supply (war economy) Nrr. 15299-15345, 1918 suction. Old things, without registration signature (mostly Mob) Nrr. 16036-16055, 1912-1923CB II Supplements, without registration signature Strikes, Crew matters (expulsions) Nrr. 16890-16911, 1921-1925Journals Dept. CB II Nrr. 16912-16921, 1923Notification office Essen General Nrr. 15361-15396, 1919-1922 mostly economic and political situation reportsMeldetestelle Essen Individuals, organizations, incidents Nrr. 15535-15854, 1920-1922 (partly little extensive files) Notification office Essen Political circumstances in individual places, mostly reports, Nrr. 15397-15534 (organised according to location) 1920-1922Meldestelle Essen newspaper clipping collection of the press department on general and special political subjects (subjects, individual case files) Nrr. 15855-15903, 1920-1922Government branch in Krefeld (occupied part of the RB Düsseldorf) Occupation mattersB II Files without technical designation, probably at delivery not yet ordered mob things Nrr. 17030-17061, 1922Files of the Regierungspräsident Grützner from his time in Barmen Nrr. 17062-17145, 1923-1924New registry CB II Fach 1 (expulsions, punishments by the occupation authorities, care for expellees) Nrr. 16056-16121, 1923-1926CB II Fach 2 Occupation of individual places, enterprises etc., interventions of the crew, ordinances of the occupation authorities, evacuation (old occupied area) No. 16122-16274, 1923-1926CB II Fach 3 Occupation riots Nrr. 16275-16395, 1922-1927CB II compartment 4 riots, occasionally also expulsions or revocation of expulsions Nrr. 16296-16337, 1921-1926CB II Subject 5 Occupation matters Sanction area (occupation interventions, damage), ordinances Nrr. 16338-16532, 1923-1926CB II compartment 6 crew matters, ;RuhrkampfNrr. 16533-16672, 1923CB II compartment 7 Occupation affairs, support of expellees and political prisoners, return of expellees Nrr. 16673-16735, 1923-1928Fach 7 Abt. CB III (1923-1925 CB II) The files in Fach 7 were processed 1923-1925 by CB II, 1926 by the department later called CB III I T. Lastly CB II and CB III were united in I C.CB II Fach 8 Politische Parteien etc., mostly created according to individual issues Nrr. 16736-16815, 1922-1928CB II Subject 9, 10, 14, 16, 1new Political Affairs, Espionage etc. Unemployment movement, situation reports Nrr. 16840-16889, 1923-1928CB II, so-called communist files. Partly created according to location or via individual organisations Nrr. 16923-16994, 1922-1928CB II so-called Separatist files Nrr. 16995-17029, 1920-1927Political department mostly activity of radical parties, KPD, polit. Collisions Nrr. 17146-17274, 1931-1932Police Affairs (Unit I A) Nrr. 45356-45363, 1940-1944Files of the District Police Commissioner Kammhoff, Elberfeld, Surveillance of Social Democracy and Anarchism Nrr. 42815-43025 (with gaps), 1878-1903Distortion and orderWhenever possible, the old file titles were retained and, if necessary, specified. Discriminatory title formulations due to time constraints were left, but the title formation was corrected by additions or explanations in the Include note. Especially out of the anti-occupation defence files have been formulated under a title which assumes a much more far-reaching fact than actually going facts. the same title formation was maintained with general and special files. The content was further broken down in the content notes, i.e. further information was given that was covered by the file title but not addressed in detail, or the formal page of the file content was added in an explanatory manner. In view of the very uneven scope of individual volumes and their nevertheless promising titles, the scope was indicated (either in the exact or in an estimated indication).The following subject areas were selected for the content and thematic classification 1) Political Affairs 2) Administrative Law, Foreign Nationals Affairs 3) Occupation Affairs 4) Military Affairs, Warfare 5) War and Forced Economy (Transition Economy)The subdivision into the individual points takes into account both the factual context and the formation of the files, i.e.h. where sufficiently large amounts of files were created into a complex under a (contemporary) subject, these series were also merged (e.g., Social Democracy and Anarchism Communism and related organizations National Socialism and related organizations). These definitions are of a purely practical nature and are intended to avoid classification according to ideological principles. In addition, either the alphabet or the chronology are strictly considered as further order factors in individual classification groups. For the history of authorities and registries, the introduction to the finding aid book G 21/2 (presidential office) is to be used: BR 0007, BR 1041, BR 2049 current no. References to further holdingsAdditional to this finding aid book are to be consulted G 21/1a, classification point elections; Government Düsseldorf presidential office, classification point ;Police, Gendarmerie G 21/2; G 21/5, Government Düsseldorf police, classification point political police or Sicherheitspolizei" and G 21/10-11, Regierungs Düsseldorf Gewerbe, Fach 9 (after the still provisional indexing) Arbeiterbewegung, Arbeitszeit, BetriebsräteGerundslich are for all questions the files of the subordinate authorities (police authorities, district administration offices) as well as further the stocks of the judicial authorities to consult.LiteraturG. Knopp. The Prussian Administration of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf 1899-1919, Cologne-Berlin 1974

Contains: Recruiting members. - Effects of the war on the situation of the indigenous African population and German interests in Africa. - A. W. Schreiber: "Two demonstrations against the unleashing of war in the colonies".

Contains: 1st incoming letter, from Schede, Wyk, 27.05.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 1r 2nd incoming letter, from Kurt Scheele, Berlin, 27.06.1934 (1 sheet, hsl.); sheet 2r 3rd outgoing letter (carbon copy), from Kurt Scheele, Berlin, 05.07.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 2r 3rd outgoing letter (carbon copy), from Kurt Scheele, Berlin, 05.07.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.), mschr.); sheet 3r 4th incoming letter, from Alfred Scheer, Bleicherode, [28.08.1934] (1 sheet,mschr.); sheet 4r 5th outgoing letter (carbon copy), to Alfred Scheer, Berlin, 11.09.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 5r 6th incoming letter, from Adolf Scheffbuch, Stuttgart, 24.01.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.), mschr.); sheet 6r 7. letter of issue (copy), to Adolf Scheffbuch, Berlin, 27.01.1934(1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 7r 8. letter of issue, from Helmut Scheffel, Volo, 11.07.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 8r 9. letter of issue (copy), to Helmut Scheffel, Berlin, 20.07.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.), mschr.); sheet 9r 10. letter of receipt, by Herbert Scheffler, Wandsbek, 10.01.1934 (1 sheet,mschr. m. hsl. note by Paul Fechter); sheet 10r 11. letter of receipt(copy), to Herbert Scheffler, Berlin, 16.01.1934 (1 sheet,mschr.); sheet 11r 12. incoming letter, by Herbert Scheffler, Wandsbek, 17.01.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 12r 13. outgoing letter (carbon copy), to Herbert Scheffler, Berlin, 23.01.1934 (1 sheet.); sheet 11r 13. outgoing letter (carbon copy), to Herbert Scheffler, Berlin, 23.01.1934 (1 sheet.) mschr.); sheet 13r 14. letter of receipt, by Herbert Scheffler, Wandsbek, 18.07.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 14r 15. card (receipt), by Herbert Scheffler, Wandsbek, 13.08.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 15r-15v 16. card (receipt), by Herbert Scheffler, Wandsbek, 14.09.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.), pp. 16r-16v 17th outgoing letter (carbon copy), to Herbert Scheffler, Berlin, 21.09.1934 (1 pp., mschr.); pp. 17r 18th outgoing letter (carbon copy), to Herbert Scheffler, Berlin, 16.10.1934 (1 pp., mschr.),mschr.); sheet 18r 19th incoming letter, by Albert Scheibe, Berlin, 12.03.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.; with: Albert Scheibe, "Dem Andenken einesgrossen Deutschen [über Alfred von Tirpitz]" (copy), 2 sheets, mschr. m. hsl. Correction); sheet 19r-21r 20. letter of issue, on/for Scheiner, Berlin, 10.04.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 22r 21. letter of issue, from Eitelfritz Scheiner, Kronstadt, 16.01.1934(1 sheet.) sheet 23r 22. letter (carbon copy), from EitelfritzScheiner to Verlag Franz Eher Nachfolger GmbH, Berlin 14.04.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 24r 23. incoming letter, from Hansjulius Schepers, Göttingen, 08.11.1934 (1 sheet, hsl.); sheet 25r 24. incoming letter, from Peter Scher, Munich, n. d. (1 sheet, hsl.); sheet 26r 25. letter of exit, to Peter Scher, Berlin, 20.08.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 27r-27v 26. letter of entry, from Lene Scher, Wasserburg, 21.09.1934(1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 28r 27. letter of entry, from Peter Scher, Wasserburg, 27.10.1934 (1 sheet, hsl.), mschr. m. hsl. note of the fee department); sheet 29r 28. letter of exit (copy), to PeterScher, Berlin, 07.11.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 30r-30v 29. letter of entry, from Kurt von Scherff, Garmisch, 18.08.1934 (1 sheet,mschr.); p. 31r 30. outgoing letter (carbon copy), to Kurt vonScherff, Berlin, 20.08.1934 (1 p., mschr.); p. 32r 31. incoming letter, from the publisher August Scherl - Juristische Abteilung, Berlin, 16.01.1934 (1 p..); p. 31r 30. outgoing letter (carbon copy), to Kurt vonScherff, Berlin, 20.08.1934 (1 p., mschr.), p. 33r; p. 33r; 32nd outgoing letter (copy), to the publisher August Scherl - Juristische Abteilung, Berlin, 17.01.1934 (1 p., mschr.); p. 34r; 33rd invoice of the publisher August Scherl ("Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger"), Berlin, 31.05.1934 (1 p.),printed, mschr., hsl. m. with glued notice to the advertisers, 1 sheet, printed); sheet 35r-36r 34. initial letter (copy), to the publishing house August Scherl, Berlin, 08.06.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); page 37r 35. letter of receipt, from the publisher August Scherl, Berlin, 07.07.1934 (1 page, mschr.); page 38r 36. letter of receipt (copy), to the publisher August Scherl, Berlin, 09.07.1934 (1 page, mschr.), mschr.); sheet 39r 37. letter of receipt, by Wilhelm Scheuermann, Freienbrink, 24.02.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 40r 38. letter of receipt (carbon copy), to Wilhelm Scheuermann, Berlin, 08.05.1934 (1 sheet.); sheet 39r 37. letter of receipt, by Wilhelm Scheuermann, Freienbrink, 24.02.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.), sheet 41r 39. letter of receipt, from Martin Schian, Sibyllenort, 24.06.1934 (1 sheet, hsl.); sheet 42r-42v 40. letter of receipt (carbon copy), to Martin Schian, Berlin, 20.07.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 43r 41. letter of receipt, from Adolf Schick, Berlin, 08.03.1934 (1 sheet, hsl.), sheet 44r 42. letter of exit (copy), to Adolf Schick, Berlin, 12.03.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 45r 43. letter of entrance, from Klaus Schickert, Budapest, 28.02.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 46r 44. letter of entrance, from Klaus Schickert, Budapest, 22.03.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.), sheet 47r 45. letter of receipt, by Klaus Schickert, Budapest, 06.11.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 48r 46. letter of receipt, by the German East African Society (for Claus Schilling), o. O., 03.11.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.),mschr.); p. 49r 47. outgoing letter (carbon copy), to Claus Schilling, Berlin, 07.11.1934 (1 p., mschr.); p. 50r 48. incoming letter, vonWerner Schilling, Rostock, 26.01.1934 (1 p., hsl.); p. 51r-51v 49. outgoing letter (carbon copy), to Werner Schilling, Berlin, 31.01.1934(1 p., mschr.), mschr.); sheet 52r 50. letter of receipt, from Karl-Ludwig-Schimmelbusch, Emmerich, 30.12.1933 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 53r 51. letter of receipt (carbon copy), to Karl-Ludwig Schimmelbusch, Berlin, 03.01.1934 (1 sheet.); sheet 52r 50. letter of receipt, from Karl-Ludwig-Schimmelbusch, Emmerich, 30.12.1933 (1 sheet, mschr.), sheet 54r 52. incoming letter, by Karl-Ludwig Schimmelbusch, Emmerich, 06.03.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 55r 53. outgoing letter (carbon copy), to Karl-Ludwig Schimmelbusch, Berlin, 14.03.1934 (1 sheet.) mschr.); sheet 56r 54. letter of dispatch, on/for von Schimpff, Berlin, 18.12.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 57r 55. letter of dispatch, by Karl Schindler, Breslau, 03.10.1934 (1 sheet, hsl.); sheet 58r 56. letter of dispatch, on/for Karl Schindler, Berlin, 18.10.1934 (1 sheet, hsl.), mschr.); page 59r 57. incoming letter, by Hans-Joachim Schlamp, Berlin, 28.09.1934 (1 page, mschr.); page 60r 58. outgoing letter (carbon copy), to Hans-JoachimSchlamp, Berlin, 08.10.1934 (1 page, mschr.), mschr.); p. 61r 59. map(entrance), by Clotilde Schlayer, Berlin, 01.02.1934 (1 p., hsl.); p. 62r-62v 60. letter(entrance), by Oskar Schlemmer, Sihlbrugg, 02.03.1934 (1 p., mschr. m. hsl. note by Paul Fechter); p. 63r61. Outgoing letter (copy), to Oskar Schlemmer, Berlin, 12.03.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 64r 62nd New Year's card (receipt), from the Schlesische Portland-Zement-Industrie AG, Oppeln, [05.01.1934] (2 sheets, German), (printed); p. 65r-66r 63rd outgoing letter (copy), to theSchlesische Portland-Zement-Industrie AG, Berlin, 16.01.1934 (1 p,sheet 67r 64. incoming letter, from the "Schlesische Zeitung", Breslau, 11.05.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.; with: order card, 1 sheet, printed); sheet 68r-69v 65. outgoing letter (copy), to the "Schlesische Zeitung", Berlin, 22.05.1934 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 70r66. Incoming letter, from the "Schlesische Zeitung", Breslau, 30.05.1934(1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 71r

Contains: 1st incoming letter, by Margarete Gärtner, Berlin, 30.11.1933(1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 1r 2nd outgoing letter (copy), to MargareteGärtner, Berlin, 06.12.1933 (1 sheet, mschr.), mschr.); sheet 2r 3rd outgoing letter(copy), to Julius Emil Gaul, Berlin, 20.11.1933 (1 sheet,mschr.); sheet 3r 4th incoming letter, by Hans Geller, Dresden, 23.11.1933 (1 sheet.); sheet 2r 3rd outgoing letter(copy), to Julius Emil Gaul, Berlin, 20.11.1933 (1 sheet,mschr.); sheet 3r 4th incoming letter, by Hans Geller, Dresden, 23.11.1933 (1 sheet.) sheet 4r 5. outgoing letter (copy), anHans Geller, Berlin, 29.11.1933 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 5r 6. birth announcement (receipt), by Günther Gericke, Berlin, 20.11.1933 (1 sheet, printed); sheet 6r 7. card (receipt), by Gerlach to the DeutscherVerlag für Christliche Wissenschaft, Berlin, 15.12.1933 (1 sheet, printed),hsl.); sheet 7r-7v 8. card (entrance), by Heinrich Gerstenberg, Weimar, 12.11.1933 (1 sheet, hsl.); sheet 8r-8v 9. letter, by Heinrich Gerstenberg, Weimar, 17.11.1933 (1 sheet, hsl.), hsl.; with:review (special print) by Arnold Oskar Meyer to Heinrich Gerstenberg, "Deutschland über alles!", 2 sheets, printed); sheet 9r-11r 10.Ausgangsbrief (carbon copy), to Heinrich Gerstenberg, Berlin, 20.11.1933 (1 sheet, sheet 12r 11. card (entrance), by Heinrich Gerstenberg, Weimar, 26.11.1933 (1 sheet, hsl.); sheet 13r-13v 12. exit letter (copy), to Heinrich Gerstenberg, Berlin, 11.12.1933 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 14r 13. entrance letter, by the Society for German Literature, Berlin, [16.10.1933] (1 sheet, hsl.),sheet 15r 14. letter of receipt, from the Gesellschaft für Deutsches Schrifttum, Berlin, 27.10.1933 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 16r 15. letter of receipt (copy), to the Gesellschaft für Deutsches Schrifttum, Berlin, 25.10.1933 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 17r 16. letter of receipt, from the Gesellschaft für Deutsches Schrifttum, Berlin, 31.10.1933 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 17r 16. letter of receipt, from the Gesellschaft für Deutsches Schrifttum, Berlin, 31.10.1933 (1 sheet, mschr.), mschr.); sheet 18r 17. letter of issue (carbon copy), to Otto Geßler, Berlin, 13.11.1933 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 19r 18. map (receipt), by Heinrich Gidion, Hannover, 13.12.1933 (1 sheet.); sheet 18r 17. letter of issue (carbon copy), to Otto Geßler, Berlin, 13.11.1933 (1 sheet, mschr.), pp. 20r-20v 19th incoming letter, by Edmund Glaeser, Breslau, 25.10.1933(1 pp., mschr.); pp. 21r-21v 20th outgoing letter (carbon copy), anEdmund Glaeser, Berlin, 08.11.1933 (1 pp., Breslau, 25.10.1933), mschr.); sheet 22r 21. letter of receipt, by Edmund Glaeser, Breslau, 18.12.1933 (1 sheet,mschr.); sheet 23r 22. letter of receipt (carbon copy), to Edmund Glaeser, Berlin, 20.12.1933 (1 sheet.) sheet 24r 23. letter of receipt, by Heinrich von Gleichen, Berlin, 13.11.1933 (1 sheet, mschr.; with:article (special print) by Heinrich Rogge, "Hitlers Friedensreden alsvölkerrechtliches Ereignis", 1 sheet, sheet 25r-26v 24. letter of dispatch (copy), to Heinrich von Gleichen, Berlin, 15.11.1933 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 27r 25. letter of dispatch, to Heinrich von Gleichen, Berlin, 11.12.1933 (1 sheet, mschr.), mschr.); sheet 28r 26. incoming letter, from Komm.-Verlag A. Gloede, Berlin, 28.10.1933 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 29r 27. outgoing letter (carbon copy), to Komm.-VerlagA. Gloede, Berlin, 01.11.1933 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 30r 28. letter of receipt, by Fritz Görke, Berlin, 14.10.1933 (1 sheet, hsl.); sheet 31r 29. letter of receipt, by Carl Görler, Dresden, 09.11.1933 (1 sheet, mschr.),sheet 32r 30. letter of dispatch (copy), to Carl Görler, Berlin, 15.11.1933 (1 sheet, copy); sheet 33r 31. letter of dispatch (copy), to Wolfgang Goetz, Berlin, 29.12.1933 (1 sheet, copy); sheet 34r 32. letter of dispatch, from Heinz Goldammer, Heilbronn, 17.11.1933(1 sheet, copy), mschr.); sheet 35r-35v 33. initial letter (carbon copy), anHeinz Goldammer, Berlin, 21.11.1933 (1 sheet, mschr.); sheet 36r 34. card (entrance), by Kurt Grahl, Hannover, 05.12.1933 (1 sheet.) pp. 37r-37v 35th outgoing letter (carbon copy), to Kurt Grahl, Berlin, 06.12.1933 (1 pp., mschr.); pp. 38r 36th outgoing letter (carbon copy), to Ludwig Grauert, Berlin, 18.10.1933 (1 pp., mschr.); pp. 39r 37th out of office note Erich Gritzbach, o. O., o. D. (1 sheet, hsl.); Bl.40r 38. letter of exit (carbon copy), to Hans Grimm, Berlin, 28.10.1933(1 sheet, mschr.); Bl. 41r-41v 39. letter of entry, from Hans Grimm, Lippoldsberg, 30.10.1933 (1 sheet, mschr.); Bl. 42r 40. letter of exit (carbon copy), to Hans Grimm, Berlin, 30.10.1933 (1 sheet, mschr.), mschr.); page 43r 41. letter of receipt, from Oskar Groß, Leipzig, 19.10.1933 (1 page, hsl.); page 44r-44v 42. card (receipt), from the Großhandels- undLagerei-Berufsgenossenschaft, Berlin, 20.12.1933 (1 page, printed),hsl.); p. 45r-45v 43rd outgoing letter (copy), to the Großhandels- und Lagerei-Berufsgenossenschaft, Berlin, 23.12.1933 (1 p., mschr.); p. 46r 44rd incoming letter, from Paul Großmann, Dresden, 10.11.1933 (1 p., hsl.); p. 47r 45th outgoing letter (copy), to Paul Großmann, Berlin, 27.11.1933 (1 p., mschr.), sheet 48r 46. letter of receipt, by Rudolf Großmann, Berlin, 02.12.1933 (1 sheet, hsl.); sheet 49r 47. card (receipt), by Rudolf Großmann, Cortina d´Ampezzo, 21.12.1933 (1 sheet, hsl.); sheet 50r-50v 48. card (receipt), by Rudolf Großmann, Cortina d´Ampezzo, 31.12.1933 (1 sheet, hsl.); sheet 51r-51v49, by Rudolf Großmann, Cortina d´Ampezzo, 31.12.1933 (1 sheet, hsl.). Incoming letter, from Verlag Walter de Gruyter

Contains:- "How the Germans treated the natives in their colonies Togo and Cameroon, report according to official documents": Journal officiel de la République Française Nov. 8, 1918

Bequests reveal facets of personalities that would otherwise not be passed on: Correspondence, association activities, speeches, lectures and publications, but also testimonies and personal documents. Among the 20 or so larger estates in the Kiel City Archives, documents from City Planning Councillor Herbert Jensen, Minister President Bruno Diekmann, DGB District Chairman Bruno Verdiek and the Schweffel family are particularly noteworthy.

Contains: Report on a ten-day school excursion from Weinheim to Weinsberg, hand-written, bound, with steel engraving: View of Weinsberg, (c. 1858); application forms for the exhibition of women's clothing in Karlsruhe, 1903; honorary doctorate by the Technical University of Braunschweig, (1903); admission to the Academy of Building and Construction in Berlin, 1909; application lists for the accommodation of Viennese children in Karlsruhe; petition action by the Reichsverband der Kolonialdeutschen: Recall of German Colonies, 1919; List of Publications, (1922); List of Building Projects, n.d.; Newspaper clippings with articles about the person, 1911-1935; Congratulatory telegram of the former Grand Duke Friedrich II. of Baden, 1928

The farm of the family Meiwes or Thöne once called Robrecht Stellbrink is located until 1900 in the community Wewer, a district southwest of Paderborn and since 1969 merged with the city. Since its relocation in 1900, the farm has been located in the district of Elsen, which today also belongs to Paderborn. In 1794 Henricus Altmiercks called Stellbrink was the first farm owner to be mentioned in a Meier protocol (file 45). From 1825 the documents show Ferdinand Robrecht named Stellbrink, married to Antoniette Drewer zu Wewer, as the owner of the court at Wewer (file 39). In 1839 the married couple Robrecht called Stellbrink transferred the farm to their stepson Johann Thöne (file 45). His son, the farmer and later head of the village Joseph Thöne, signed over the farm from his father on 11 February 1870 (file 45). In 1900 Joseph Thöne acquires a marsh area of about 200 acres in the neighbouring municipality of Elsen, bought fifty years earlier by Baron von Brenken, and then begins to cultivate it and builds the estate.

Find aids: Find book from 1951 (online searchable) Registraturbilddner: Deersheim belongs to the city of Osterwieck, Lkr. Harz, Saxony-Anhalt. In the late Middle Ages, Deersheim belonged to the Halberstadt monastery, which fell to the Electors of Brandenburg in 1650 as the principality of Halberstadt, and in 1816 was absorbed into the Prussian province of Saxony, which existed until 1945. Rechte in Deersheim also owned the Westerburg office. The Westerburg was already awarded in 1180 by the bishops of Halberstadt to the Counts of Regenstein. After the extinction of the Regensteiner in 1599, the dukes of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel inherited the office of Westerburg, but the Elector of Brandenburg was able to move in the fief as Prince of Halberstadt in 1670. The von Gustedt family was probably already resident in the parish of Deersheim and neighbouring Bexheim in 1406. In 1538 Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, as administrator of the diocese of Halberstadt, enfeoffed it with jurisdiction in both villages. In the 18th century the jurisdiction was divided between the manor and the Westerburg office, in 1842 it was completely in the office. In 1706 von Gustedt acquired the parish patronage of the Braunschweig monastery St. Blasius, after they already had the patronage of the chapel in Bexheim. The estate remained in family ownership until its expropriation in the course of the land reform in 1945. Inventory information: The manor archive of the von Gustedt family from Deersheim has an older order, as old signatures on the files and an old repertory from the 2nd decade of the 19th century prove. In addition, there seems to have been a land registry that was not passed through much later. A final order of the entire file and document material was planned for the period after the end of the Second World War by the Archive Advisory Office of the Province of Saxony. In the course of the land reform, however, the manor archive was salvaged by the state main archive and first transferred to Wernigerode, then to the Magdeburg archive. In this phase there were probably losses in the portfolio. For the archival new order, the old registry structure, which could be restored except for a few gaps, offered itself as a structuring system. The holdings of the old manor archive and a lot of loose and partly disordered files had to be distributed into this system. There is no denying that there are shortcomings in this division of the registry. Their disintegration, however, would have led to the dissolution of the collection, especially as the construction of the old manor archive had been severely disrupted. The numerous loose sheets were divided into the individual chapters and placed in folders at the end of each chapter. On the basis of a contract concluded in 2000, the holdings are kept as a deposit in the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives. The main index of the Deersheim manor archive was transferred from an access file to the present archive information system in January 2014. The documents handed over in connection with the conclusion of the deposit agreement by the von Gustedt family as a supplement to the deposit were already listed under the item "Annex" in 2013. Additional information: Literature: aristocratic archives in the Saxony-Anhalt state archives. Overview of the holdings, edited by Jörg Brückner, Andreas Erb and Christoph Volkmar (Sources on the History of Saxony-Anhalt; 20), Magdeburg 2012.

1. the history of the collection: The term "wall attacks" for the posters kept in this inventory is contemporary. It refers to the simple mounting: not like advertising posters on splendid advertising pillars, but on simple wall walls they were fastened visibly for everyone. The war situation requires simple use. Wall attacks were often used in the occupied territories. But even in the home country there was little room for such posters. The poor equipment of these posters is a consequence of this situation. The war situation allowed only simple, often newspaper-thin paper. As a rule, there was no graphic design, but the text poster predominates, on which at most the title (often the word "Bekanntmachung") is highlighted in large letters. Sometimes the paper is dyed with a signal colour, which can perhaps be interpreted as a preliminary stage of a graphic design. A more elaborate design for political posters only emerged during the First World War (Ursula Zeller. The Early Period of the Political Image Poster in Germany (1848-1918), Stuttgart 1987, especially Chapter 7). The advertising posters contained in this collection for the subscription of war loans offer charming examples of this. Such graphically designed and aesthetically "beautiful" posters, however, only make up a vanishing part of the collection of wall attacks. After all, it contains pieces by artists such as Hanns Anker, Lucian Bernhard, Alexander U. Cay, Fritz Erler, Louis Oppenheim and Egon Tschirch. However, most of the pieces kept in this collection are not such posters, but pure text posters without a graphic or even pictorial design. The collection of wall attacks was established in the army archive, Stuttgart branch, in the 1920s and continued for decades. Little is known about the motifs, the conception of the collection and the practical collecting activity from this period. A general interest in wall attacks can be established early on: some wall attacks were already reprinted in reduced size in brochures during the war (such booklets can be found in the HSTAS collection of publications) and even sold in the front area (cf. J 151 No. 1240). From the available material it can be concluded that the employees of the Army Archives in principle included every piece in their collection that they could get hold of. In comparison to today's collection concepts, a broad collection was intended. It was by no means restricted to German or even southwest German wall attacks. However, the existing collection sources were not always able to meet the high demands: often gaps remained which could only be taken into account with a few pieces or not at all. A lot can be said about the collection sources. It can be assumed that some of the wall stops were taken from files, which can be seen today in the perforations at the edges of the former multiple-folded piece. Other pieces contain official notes on the poster on the back or at the bottom. By the way, the group that carries a stamp "Landsturm Infanterie Bataillon Calw" or Leonberg is comparatively large. The fact that a third (523) of the 1622 Wall attacks of the western front came from the stage commandantur Roubaix can only be explained by the fact that a Württemberg regiment was stationed there, apparently like the two Landsturm infantry battalions mentioned a source for the collection of the army archive. Other stage commandantures for which such a connection was missing are accordingly sporadically considered. Stamps show that pieces were also taken from related institutions (in exchange?): namely from the Königlich Württembergischen Armeemuseum and from the Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig. A larger group of pieces has been extracted from the pamphlet collection of the Army Archives (now part of the Main State Archives J 150) and integrated into the collection of wall attacks. Over a certain period, the two collections held in the Army Archives overlapped. In addition - but to a lesser extent - wall stops were taken from Luck's collection and from estates (Hahn's estate, later also Haußmann's estate) and added to the collection. Some accesses from the Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg might be relatively young. The collection of wall attacks was added to the collection of the Main State Archives before 1974 from the holdings of the Army Archives. It was given the signature J 151. The background to the abolition of the quite sensible delimitation of the holdings between the collections of the Military Archives and the J holdings of the Main State Archives can no longer be discerned. Even before this relocation, the collection of wall attacks was arranged by the student Markus Braun in the army archive in 1954 and provisionally indexed by a twelve-page find book. The collection continued to receive further additions, especially from estates. The comprehensive conception of the collection failed in practice due to the limitations of the collection sources. Not all areas could be documented equally intensively. The collection covers the period from 1914 to 1948, including the post-war period of the Second World War. In quantitative terms, the focus is clearly on the First World War (2582 wall attacks totalling approx. 2700) and here again on wall attacks from the western front (1622 vs. 599 from the eastern front). These are mainly wall attacks by the (German) occupying power, to a lesser extent also those of Austrian provenance. Only a few wall attacks were made by the opponents (France and Russia) at that time. Another group are the pieces used in Germany (on the "home front") themselves. As provenances (publishers of the Wall attacks) both civilian (Generalgouvernement Belgium, French mayor's offices) and military authorities (army high commandos, stage inspections and commandant's offices) are represented, often combined with each other (at the level of stage commandant's offices and mayor's offices). In terms of content, these are often ordinances and communications from the crew to the local population. The wall attacks serve, for example, to announce war economic measures such as setting maximum prices, recording stocks that can be used for military purposes, announcing the punishment of locals or to incite desired behaviour among the population of the occupied area, such as observance of curfews, blackout measures or a ban on meetings. An interesting group are the wall attacks with "information" about the war situation, with which the resistance should be broken or at least discouraged. In the homeland, wall attacks served to call for recruits, to call for donations and to propaganda against the hostile powers, but also to strengthen national self-confidence, to advertise cultural events and to announce war economic measures. 2. processing of the stock: The merit of the work of the student Markus Braun of 1954 lay more in the order of the extensive collection than in its indexing. Braun limited the indexing to a group entry, for which the scheme "Regulations and notices: Etappenkommandantur XY, year, number of pieces" is typical. Wall attacks of the same kind were united to form a group and this group was described as generally as possible in the manner indicated. For reasons of time, it was probably not the intention to go into the contents of the individual pieces, which Braun, however, signed individually. Already the supplements to the finding aid book by later supplements tend in contrast to an individual indexing, thus to a description of each individual piece. Such a thorough indexing is finally standard for the poster collections begun in the 1970s in the Main State Archives (J 153, J 154 and J 154/5), which, unlike the Wall attacks, have no historical relevance. With the exception of minor changes, however, the order of the brown wall stops could essentially be maintained. The structure of his find book is therefore almost identical to that of the present one. Also, the old Braun signature runs in principle parallel with the present Numerus currens (which determines the place of storage). But since Braun started the counting with 1 again with each new larger group, a concordance of the signatures is attached to the find book. The individual development was therefore the aim of the reworking begun in October 1989. At the same time, it served to introduce the aspirants trained in the Main State Archives to the cataloguing of posters as an example for the work on collections. On the occasion of the reworking, better packaging was also provided. The wall stops were repackaged in acid-free DIN A 1 envelopes, also in order to avoid as far as possible the folds (especially cross folds) harmful to the very thin paper. Smaller cracks were also repaired. The new indexing was based on the MIDEPLAK (EDP) mask developed in cooperation with LAD in the summer of 1989 and a data sheet designed for this purpose. This data entry mask, which can be used under the MIDOSA program package, should not only be usable for wall stops, but should also be able to be used for IT data entry for all types of posters (advertising posters and political posters). The description of the wall stops is arranged according to the following scheme in the finding aid book: The order number in the upper left corner is only relevant for the order of the description and references from the index. For storage in the magazine and also for ordering the pieces, only the order number is used, which can be found at the end of the description of the individual unit. The title of the poster is treated as a quotation and is therefore enclosed in quotation marks. If necessary, additions are added for identification. Most of the titles are "regulation", "notice" and the like, and the editor then had to further specify the content in his own words. Several titles on a wall attack are quite conceivable. The title is reproduced in the original language, only in Slavic languages it is translated or transcribed. The runtime usually specifies the print or publication date. In the next line, the reason for the occurrence of the wall stop - as far as known - is given, but this is comparatively seldom the case with the wall stops. This is followed by information about the publisher, graphics, print, persons responsible in terms of press law, etc. The formal information includes the format of the poster and the number of pieces stored. The description of the visual representation takes place in a separate block. Since the stock at hand is mainly made up of text posters, an actual image description is omitted in over 90 percent of cases. In the case of pure text posters, a reference is made here to special features in the design (multiple columns, highlighting, colouring) or to the languages used (in extreme cases up to seven different ones). At the time of the creation of graphically designed political posters, such things can already be seen as elements of a graphic design. Before the final order signature, the provenances (here in the sense of collection sources) and the preliminary signatures must be indicated. Within the same category, the wall stops are usually arranged chronologically. Pieces that cannot be dated or only dated to the year appear at the end. As a rule, the date of a prescription is decisive for dating. In the case of wall attacks with ordinances of different dates, the last date closer to the publication date is decisive for the chronological classification. In the case of local meetings, the order is alphabetical. A folder with various French food ration cards from the Second World War was taken from the collection and incorporated into the relevant collection J 524, which has since been opened. The collection of wall attacks contains around 2,700 copies without counting the duplicates. The reworking of the wall attacks took place from autumn 1989 to summer 1993 under the direction of the undersigned within the framework of the introductory and intermediate practical courses of the candidates of the 26th, 27th, 28th and 30th training courses. The cooperating candidates were: Hartmut Obst, Andrea Rösler, Petra Schad, Jutta Stockhammer and Martina Wagner from 26., Bettina Heiß, Sybille Kraiss, Barbara Löslein, Jörg Martin, Armin Roether, Daniel Stihler, Martin Walter and Regina Witzmann from 27.Andrea Binz, Armin Braun, Daniela Deckwart, Astrid Groh, Katja Hoffmann and Nicole Röck from the 28th and Michael Bing, Dorothea Kiwitt, Michael Konrad, Manuela Nordmeyer, Annelie Jägersküpper and Christian Schlafner from the 30th training course. Neuenstein, September 1996Dr. Peter Schiffer In the spring of 1998, approximately 370 wall attacks from the time of the First World War, which were presumably delivered there in the 1950s, were transferred from the Heilbronn City Archives to the Main State Archives. The largest part of the collection is made up of wall attacks of the Roubaix stage commandant, the smaller part of those of the VI Army Command and stage inspections 2, 4, 5 and 6 and other editors. With the exception of the pieces kept in the Supplement to fonds J 151 under serial number 2717-2734, these are almost exclusively duplicates or other multiple copies of wall attacks that already exist in fonds J 151. In detail, the following status numbers have been increased by this delivery: 5, 16, 770-773, 775, 778, 780, 783, 788, 794, 872, 874, 875, 877, 879, 881, 883, 885, 887-893, 895-897, 909, 911, 913, 978-1306 (without serial numbers 980-984, 987-990, 993-998, 1001, 1003, 1004, 1006, 1009-1012, 1014, 1022, 1025, 1030, 1031, 1033, 1035, 1036, 1040, 1047, 1050, 1051, 1053, 1057, 1058, 1062-1070, 1075, 1076, 1078-1080, 1092, 1110, 1112, 1114, 1120, 1127, 1130, 1131, 1136, 1138, 1141, 1145, 1155, 1164, 1165, 1167, 1171, 1173, 1174, 1178, 1180, 1183, 1190-1193, 1196, 1203, 1207, 1209, 1213, 1216, 1218-1220, 1222, 1236, 1238, 1240, 1244, 1249, 1250, 1255-1258, 1267, 1272, 1300), 1336, 1477, 1479, 1480, 1602, 2312. May 1998 Eberhard Merk In 2002 Eberhard Merk revised and corrected the title listings and the overall index. In the summer of 2003, Wolf-Dieter Dorn's file of the distortion of the wall attacks, which was only available as a Word document, was converted into an Access database from which the online version of the finding aid book could be generated. The duplicated index with detailed index is still based on the Word document. September 2003 Regina Keyler

Station Karibib s. RMG 2.505 a-c; 2 documents for the sale of small-bars, 1902; Documents to d. Ownership and donation of Mrs. Amalie Hälbich in Karibib, 1903-1908;

Contains: Outgoing letter.

Brief description: Ulrich Delius and Water Baumeister (1903 - 1971), Photographers Scope: 76 units Contents: Photos: History of photography; Photo Sport company; family portraits; written material: family tree Duration: 1925-1933; 2006 Instructions for use: Individual units cannot be used for conservation reasons. Preface: The estate of Walter Baumeister and Ulrich Delius was donated to the Stuttgart City Archives in November 2006 by Mrs. Inge Eberle-Delius, the daughter of the photographer Ulrich Delius. It contains stereo glass slides with night shots of the Stuttgart Light Festival in 1928, photo albums with family portraits, views of Stuttgart and other places in Baden-Württemberg, and excursions with participants in photo courses, as well as a copy of a family tree of the Baumeister family. Ulrich Delius ran the photo studio Photo-Sport at Büchsenstraße 8 in Stuttgart together with Walter Baumeister (1903 - 1971), a great cousin of the painter Willi Baumeister. In this context, they offered courses for amateur photographers, with whom they undertook excursions to the region around Tübingen and the eastern northern Black Forest. Both had a special interest in monastery architecture. In July 1928 Ulrich Delius married Irma Baumeister, the sister of the painter Walter Baumeister. At this time only his mother-in-law Emma Baumeister, née Vock (5.8.1878 - ca. 1934), was still alive, his father-in-law Erich Baumeister (18.10.1877 - 20.11.1924) had died of blood poisoning after a visit to the barber. Ulrich Delius and Irma Baumeister had six daughters together, the two older ones, Eleonore and Inge, can be seen in some of the children's portraits. Walter Baumeister was married for about ten years to Hede Baumeister, née Oberndorfer (born 1909), with whom he had his son Dieter. The marriage was divorced. The Baumeister and Delius married couple lived together with Emma Baumeister in Sonnenbergstraße 5 b. The late Erich Baumeister had been a partner in a metal goods factory in Büchsenstraße 8, where Ulrich Delius set up the Photo-Sport studio in 1928. Walter Baumeister, who had continued his father's business until then, must have joined the company around 1929, because from 1930 he is named in the address book as managing director of the Photo-Sport company. In October 1929 a branch was opened in Hirschstraße and Breite Straße 2. The Delius family moved to Ludwigsburg around 1932, where Ulrich Delius set up his own photo studio. Walter Baumeister continued the Photo-Sport company until the end of World War II, or at least until the destruction of Stuttgart's city centre in 1944. His extensive camera collection, which he had hidden at a secret location, was confiscated by the Allies after the end of the war because the company's authorized signatory had told them where he was hiding. This also meant the end of the Photo-Sport company. The Baumeister-Delius estate contains photos on the history of photography in Stuttgart. Thus the photos of the excursions of the photo course participants of the company Photo Sport can be regarded as proof for the spreading of the medium photography in large population strata. For a long time photography as a hobby had been unaffordable for many because of the high costs, but after the invention of the 35 mm camera it quickly became popular. Here and there you can see technical tricks like attaching a camera to a hot air balloon for "aerial photos" on photos of excursions of the company Photo-Sport with course participants. The few photographs from the late 1920s that document events such as the 1928 Colonial Conference, a visit to the Sarasani Circus, a zeppelin over Stuttgart, the Hindenburg visit to Stuttgart and military parades are worthy of special mention. The family photos were taken during excursions or on the occasion of birthdays, weddings and Christmas parties. The use of the estate is free of charge. The stereo glass slides with their analog reproductions are locked for use in the reading room. Instead, photo prints are available for viewing in the reading room. Additional digital copies of the glass slides were made. The collection covers the years 1925 to 1933 and 2006 and contains 40 glass slides with reproductions, seven photo albums and one document. Citation style: Stadtarchiv Stuttgart - 2679 - Nachlass Baumeister-Delius - FM 151/lfd. No. Please indicate when ordering: 2679 - Nachlass Baumeister-Delius - FM 151/lfd. No. - Title December 2011 Heike van der Horst