Item FO 383/24 - Germany: Prisoners, including: Cases for consideration for possible exchange or release of prisoners, particularly consular...

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FO 383/24

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Germany: Prisoners, including: Cases for consideration for possible exchange or release of prisoners, particularly consular...

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  • 1915 (Creation)

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Germany: Prisoners, including: Cases for consideration for possible exchange or release of prisoners, particularly consular officials, including: Albert Brill, formerly Consular Agent for Germany at Madras. Detention of German and Austro-Hungarian consular officers in India: Foreign and Political Department report. H J Nelson Hawkins, civilian interned in Germany. German consular officials in Egypt, in particular case of Franz Blassig. German consular officers detained by British Government: Hans Schuler, former German consul at Calcutta; also Erich Ottens, Arthur Harnack, Johann Fette, and Emil Bucholski. Karl Veit (or Carl Veit), arrested in Aden and interned at Ahmednagar: request that he be permitted to leave for a neutral country, as he was formerly German Vice-Consul at Djibuti. F J Reinecke, late acting German Consul at Bassein, interned in India. Enemy subjects employed by US authorities in Egypt. Reinhart Freudenberg, late German Consul at Colombo, interned in Australia. Henry John Lorch, interned in Ruhleben. Arthur Harnack, formerly employed in German Consulate General at Capetown. Albert Mau, German subject, late Austro-Hungarian Consul at Zanzibar. Emil Bucholski and Ernst Koehler: no claim to repatriation under consular exchange as secretaries to German Consuls in provincial towns. F W Steege, manager of Standard Bank of South Africa, Hamburg, interned in Germany: proposed exchange for Erich Ottens, late German Deputy Vice-Consul at Salisbury, Rhodesia, interned at Pietermaritzburg. Exchange of German officials interned in Australia. Herr Listeman, late German Consul at Bushire, interned in India. E H L Mummenhoff, British consular official interned at Ruhleben. J Moresby-White, British civilian prisoner interned in Ruhleben: possible exchange for interned German consul official, Arthur Harnack. Alfred Suhl, German subject, former Austro-Hungarian Consul at Penang, held in UK: exchange for Richard Wolf Gordon, British subject residing at Wurzburg. Proposed exchange of Mr Lean and Mr Schill, invalided German consular officials. Stanley Lambert, proposed exchange for a German consular officer. Erich F Ottens, former German Vice-Consul in Rhodesia: proposed repatriation to Germany. Franz Blassig, former German consular official: exchange for Mr Ashley (or Asley). Exchange of German consular officials detained in HM Dominions. H J N Hawkins, released prisoner: enquiries concerning possible information regarding his date of arrival in UK. Code 1218 File 85 (papers 113833-112036).

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The National Archives >> Records created or inherited by the Foreign Office >> Records of various First World War Departments >> Foreign Office: Prisoners of War and Aliens Department: General Correspondence from 1906

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