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.

Contains: 1st incoming letter, from Weisner, Strausberg, 03.06.1933 (2 sheets, hsl.); sheets 1r-2v 2nd outgoing letter, to C. Weiss, Berlin, 09.06.1933 (2 sheets, mschr.); sheets 3r-4r 3rd incoming letter, from Brecht´s Press

Contains among other things: Bank transfers. - List of assets of the Hamburg Main Association of the Gustav Adolf Foundation in Hamburg 1925 - Questionnaire B for reporting to the Central Board in Leipzig of the Main Association Hamburg 1927 - Booklet, report on the activities of the Hamburg Main Association of the Gustav Adolf Foundation 1910 - Single sheet, list of the municipalities recommended to the Main Association in the support plan 1912 - Leaflet, Flying Sheet No. 98, article: The Gustav Adolf Club in our German colonies.

Contains among other things: National donation on the occasion of the imperial jubilee for the Christian missions in the German colonies and protectorates. - Establishment of a full professorship for missionary science at the University of Berlin. - Foundation of the "Deutsche Evangelischen Missions-Hilfe"; Prints: The German Thought in the World. Lecture by Prof. D. Carl Meinhof, Hamburg, held at Sangerhausen on 18 April 1913. - Supplement to No. 120 of the "Wandsbeker Stadtblatt". 25 May 1913 - Information about the national donation for the Emperor's Jubilee in favour of the Christian missions in the German colonies and protectorates. Edited by the Press Committee of the National Donation. No. 1/22. March 1913; No. 2/16. April 1913; No. 4/2. May 1913; No. 5/29. May 1913; No. 7/24. June 1913; No. 8/11. July 1913 - Information on the work of the Evangelical Press Association for Germany (E. V.) in the period from 1 January to 1 July 1913 - Supplement to the Correspondence Sheet of the Evangelical Social Press Association for the Province of Saxony. No. 20/16 October 1913 - Correspondence for Colony and Mission. Published by the Evangelischer Preßverband für Deutschland (E. V.). No. 1/7 October 1913; No. 2/30 October 1913; Jhg, 1914: 20 May 1914 - Correspondence B of the Evangelical Social Press Association for the Province of Saxony, Office Halle (Saale), 8 December 1913 - Chronicle of the Christian World. 23rd century, No. 36/4 September 1913 - The effects of the World War on German mission societies. Lecture on the Sächs. Mission conference in Halle a. S. on 9 February 1915 by A. W. Schreiber. Leipzig, 1915.

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/...

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)

From: Hamburger Morgenpost from 3.4.2003. Online document. Source: http://archiv.mopo.de/