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

Description of the holdings: From the independent departments of the Wehrmachtamt (from 1 March 1929 to 13 February 1936 referred to as the "Ministeramt"), the "Inland" and "Wehrmachtversorgung" departments were reorganised in the course of the reorganisation of the "Oberkommando der Wehrmacht" (High Command of the Wehrmacht) from 4 March 1929 to 13 February 1936. Until the beginning of the war, it had been assigned not only the Domestic Department and the Wehrmacht Welfare and Supply Department, but also a Department for Wehrmacht Administration and Wehrmacht Specialist Schooling, as well as a Department for Science. With the expansion of the previous official groups within the OKW into ¿offices¿ from November 1939, the official group was given the name of ¿General Wehrmachtamt¿ (AWA), which was valid until 1945, and, after the allocation of competencies for loss- and prisoner-of-war affairs, comprised seven departments and three smaller organizational units, including two liaison officers at the "Deputy of the Führer" and at the ¿Youth Leader of the German Reich¿. In the spring of 1941, the division was expanded once again to include the office of the "Plenipotentiary of the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht for Settlement Issues" and by the appointment of inspectors for the welfare and supply offices, the prisoner of war system and the Wehrmacht grave officers. In 1944, finally, the merger of larger areas of competence into official groups (for welfare and supply matters, technical schools and settlement issues as well as for the Wehrmacht administration) was carried out. At the beginning of 1944, responsibility for the "national political training" of the Wehrmacht was transferred to the head of the NS management staff in the OKW, whose office was held by the head of the AWA (General der Infanterie Reinecke) in personal union. Preprovenience: Department of Domestic Affairs and Armed Forces Supply, Division of General Armed Forces Affairs Content Characterisation: The main part of the tradition comes from the Department of Domestic Affairs, which is responsible for relations with the civil administration and the NSDAP. These include files on internal affairs and internal security 1919-1940 (ban on associations and films, espionage); treatment of the racial issue (1933-1944); relationship with the NSDAP (including differences over military policy, incidents 1933-1937); proceedings against soldiers before party courts 1942-1943; treatment of Jewish front fighters 1933-1938; foreign issues (including Secret files "Foreign States" 1922 to 1939, assessments of the situation and descriptions 1925 to 1939); disarmament (1933-1936); international law (1940-1941); dealings with the Federal Foreign Office (among others Deployment of military and naval attachés 1933-1938, stay of ships abroad 1935-1939); domestic political situation and annexation of Austria (1934-1939); national defence and spatial planning (1935-1938); personnel affairs of the Wehrmacht and the army (u. a. Salaries, e-officers, reserve and land officers, workers and employees 1929-1941); Political assessment and monitoring of members of the Wehrmacht (1936-1938), Wehrmacht legal system (including individual cases of criminal proceedings against officers 1935 to 1938 and war crime statistics 1940 to 1942), army organization (1926-1942), training, maneuvers, and exercises (1933-1939), establishment of the Luftwaffe, and air defense (1933-1943), Education, military leadership and national political education (1933-1944, also documented by 88 "Tornisterschriften" published between 1939 and 1943 and five volumes of "Soldatenblätter für Feier und Freizeit", 1940-1944), propaganda (including press and radio affairs, 1928-1943). Further files are available from the Wehrmachtfürsorge- und Versorgungsabteilung (Wehrmachtforsorge- und Versorgungsabteilung) (e.g. Occupations and budgetary issues; statutory regulations; development and provisions of service and pension law; welfare and support for war veterans, former relatives, persons disabled for military service and surviving dependants; individual cases; foundations mainly Großes Militärwaisenhaus Potsdam with 40 files and Invalidenhaus Berlin with 10 files, 1920 to 1945; the Wehrmachtverlustwesen department (with organisation and deployment; collections of regulations [including registration, notification of relatives, soldier's etc.]); the Wehrmacht Lossesen department (with organisation and deployment; collections of regulations [including registration, notification of relatives, soldier's etc.]). Graves, burial and funeral also for foreign armed forces, suicides, executed, deserters; statistics, especially losses in general as well as in particular; grave service and care; planning of memorials) and by the chief of the prisoner of war system (army pressure regulation H.Dv 38 and other general instructions and leaflets; organization; treatment and deployment of prisoners of war; postal traffic; Italian military internees; 5 volumes with numerical overviews of prisoner of war facilities in the Reich and the occupied territories, including construction and labor battalions 1941-1945). The files of the Wehrmacht administration department (on compensation for war damage; clothing, armament and equipment; travel and payment transactions; supplies; emoluments), the Wehrmacht budget department, the military replacement department (replacement), the general department(s), and the National Socialist management staff office (on installation; training and deployment of the National Socialist management officers with training and propaganda material; location in West Germany in the Febr.March 1945); documents are missing from the departments of science and for Wehrmacht technical college instruction as well as from the authorized representative for settlement questions. State of development: Findbuch Scope, Explanation: 570 AE Citation method: BArch, RW 6/...

Contains among other things: Reports of the Accounting Commission on the income and expenditure of the Reich in the respective accounting year; overview of Reich expenditure and income for the accounting years 1907 - 1909; submission of the Reich Chancellor to the Federal Council; Correspondence of the Minister of Finance with the Count von Zeppelin, von Moser, von Varnbüler and von Schleehauf, the Federal Plenipotentiaries, and the deputy plenipotentiaries von Fischer and von Schicker; overviews of income and expenditure for the protectorates of D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a, Cameroon, Togo, D e u t s c h - S ü d w e s t a f r i k a, D e u t s c h - N euguinea, Samoa and Kiautschou, the Caroline Islands, Palau Islands and Mariana Islands

The collection comprises the documents (files and official books) from the city of Lemgo before the formation of the administrative district of Lemgo in 1932 and the encirclement of Lemgo in 1934. Until then, Lemgo was a free city, i.e. it was directly subordinated to the sovereign government without an intermediate instance. In the Late Middle Ages, the constitution of the city of Lemgo was laid down in three documents, which subsequently documented the traditional constitutional reality: the so-called "Kerbschnittbrief" (mid 14th century, U 86), the so-called Regimentsnottel I (mid 15th century, U 763) and the Regimentsnottel II (1491, U 764). The political bodies were therefore organised in so-called four heaps. The New or Jury Council (12 members), the Old or Resting Council (12 members), the Meinheit (24 members) and the Dechen of the nine "councilable" offices (= guilds, guilds). Each of the two councils consisted of six councillors (without functional assignment), two chamberlains, an assessor, a council sealant and two mayors. The Old and New Councils alternated annually in the context of the Council change on 6 January. New members were selected on the basis of the co-optation principle, i.e. the "outgoing" Council elected the "dormant" Council again. Only when a councillor retired (due to death or other reasons) was a new councillor elected. Meinheit and Dechen had a say in this; they could reject a candidate. The members of the Meinheit were composed of the elected representatives of the six Lemgo building communities according to the principle of residence. In addition, there were six farmer masters who carried out police duties in the city quarters and six red masters, i.e. the former farmer masters who carried out the tax assessment in the residential districts. The two councils were responsible for the day-to-day political and legal business of the city. The other two piles represented the municipal community and were supposed to exercise a limited control function over the council bodies. In 1843, a uniform legal basis was created for the first time with the Lippe city order and the four-heap constitution in Lemgo, which had been valid until then, was abolished. The municipal bodies were now the magistrate and the city council. The magistrate headed the municipal administration and consisted of the mayor and other members of the magistrate. The city councillors were elected by the entire citizenry, i.e. those who also possessed citizenship. The City Council elected the Magistrate and exercised a control and oversight function over the Magistrate (with the exception of police matters). With the city order, a separation between administration and justice took place for the first time. The municipal jurisdiction was finally abolished only with the formation of the district courts in 1879. With the Lippe city order of 1886, the acquisition of citizenship was solved from house and land ownership, exercise of a trade and secure income. Every man who had lived in the city for more than two years and paid taxes was now a citizen. The election was conducted in accordance with the three-class system. The City Council and the Magistrate had to make their decisions separately in matters of self-government. In matters of statutes and budget, the magistrate could not decide without the city council. The provisional municipal constitution of 1919 granted the right to vote to women and men over the age of 20 who had lived in the municipality for more than three months. This was the first time that a universal and equal right to vote had been created at municipal level. In 1928 the separation between official municipalities and city municipalities was abolished (see also H-existing stocks). The magistrate or city council now needed the confidence of the city council. Stock A originally also included the documents after 1932/34, which were only later renumbered stock B. The documents were then transferred to stock A. The documents were then stored in the museum. The town archivist August Schacht ordered the files for the first time. He concentrated mainly on the trial records of the various Lemgo dishes. There was no separation by provenance here. In short: all files, which originated before 1932/34 in Lemgo, form the stock A. The classification is oriented after subject matter (pertinence principle), whereby the current classification represents a revision of the original classification. The current classification attempts to make the original provenances and contexts of origin more visible again. Nevertheless, many court acts are no longer filed under the respective court instance, but can be found under other classification points (e.g. under guild matters) according to the subject matter of the dispute or the parties to the dispute. This also applies to other classification points or archive materials. In the case of files from the A inventory which do not expire until after 1934, they are assigned to the B inventory (see there). In the opposite case, files with B signatures are included in the A inventory if their terms expire before 1934. The respective signatures are always retained. The court files of the two councils or the magistrate and the other court instances are summarized in the holdings 01.02.01 - 01.02.11 and 01.03.01 to 01.03.05. The witch trials can also be found there. The so-called Audience Protocols of inventory A 01.01.01 also contain court hearings, primarily in civil law. Court files of the Lemgo City Court (= magistrate of justice, as successor to the sovereign judge) are also found in the L 88 Lemgo holdings in the NRW State Archive, Detmold, OWL Department. The tradition of the schools (Gymnasium, Bürgerschule, Lyzeum, Technikum, Fortbildungsschule...) is also in the inventory A 01.01.01, independent of the formation of the independent school communities independent of the political communities 1849 (until 1937). This is mainly the tradition of the school boards, which were mostly composed of the local pastors and the mayor. Supplementary material can also be found in the T (school) holdings. The records of the Lemgo registry office (established throughout the Reich in 1876) in the form of birth, marriage and death certificates can be found in the holdings F 1 to F 3. In addition to the A holdings, personal documents / personal data can also be found in the holdings J - personal files. The old archive signatures (such as Gw 1, Gy 1, Ki 1...) have been retained and are searchable, so that a concordance is given when sources from literature are cited.