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/...

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/...

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

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