History of the Inventory Designer: Grand Admiral Alfred Peter Friedrich von Tirpitz Life data March 19, 1849 born in Küstrin/Oder as son of the Court of Appeal Rudolf Tirpitz March 6, 1930 died in Munich Career (1) April 24, 1865 Entry as a cadet in the Prussian Navy 15. May 1865 Corvette "Arkona" Mid June 1865 Sail training ship Frigate "Niobe" 24 June 1866 Nautical cadet July-September 1866 Frigate "Gazelle" October 1866 - April 1867 Sail training ship Brig "Musquito" Spring 1867 Main Division Baltic Sea July-August Frigate "Gefion" August 1867 - June 1868 Frigate "Thetis" 3 August 1868 -1 -1. July 1869 Naval school Kiel 22 September 1869 Lieutenant at sea Cannon ship "Barbarossa" October 1869 Regular Division Baltic Sea May 1870 - January 1871 Armour frigate "King Wilhelm" July 1871 - September 1872 First officer on cannon boat "Blitz" 25. May 1872 Lieutenant at sea October 1872 - April 1874 Officer on watch on the brig "Musquito" June - October 1874 Corvette "Nymph" October 1874 - May 1876 Naval academy and exercises as artillery officer 18. November 1875 Captain Lieutenant May - August 1876 Artillery officer on the "Kronprinz" armoured frigate September 1876 Artillery officer on the "Kaiser" armoured frigate December 18, 1877 Transfer to the Admiral Staff from January 1, 1877 Repeatedly commands to service the Admiralty/Decernate T/Torpedoangelegenheiten Commanded 17. September 1881 Corvette Captain 1884 - 1887 (summer months) Chief of the Torpedo Boat Flotilla (16 March) 1886 Inspector of Torpedo Navy 24 November 1888 Captain at sea 12 March 1889 Commander of the armoured ship "Prussia" 10. March 1890 commander of the armoured ship "Württemberg" 10 September 1890 with decommissioning of the "Württemberg" (30 November 1890) chief of the staff of the command of the naval station of the Baltic Sea 20 January 1892 chief of the staff of the supreme command of the navy 13 May 1895 Rear Admiral 31. March 1896 Head of the Kreuzerdivision 31 March 1897 Representative of the State Secretary of the Reichsmarineamt on leave 15 June 1897 State Secretary of the Reichsmarineamt 25 June 1897 Plenipotentiary to the Bundesrat 28 March 1898 State Minister and Member of the State Ministry 5. December 1899 Vice Admiral 14 November 1903 Admiral 5 April 1908 Appointment to the manor house of the Prussian Parliament for life 27 January 1911 Grand Admiral 15. March 1916 Resignation as State Secretary of the Reich Navy Office September 1917 First Chairman of the German Fatherland Party 1924 Member of the Reichstag of the German National People's Party 1928 Farewell from the Reichstag and withdrawal from political work ---------- (1) see also copy of the personal sheet in No. 10. The personal file has not been handed down. Orden und Ehrenzeichen 31. December 1871 War Memorial Coin for Combatants 2. December 1879 Royal Prussian Red Eagle Order 4. Class 26. April 1881 Cross 2. Class of the Royal Spanish Order for Merits at Sea 16. March 1886 Royal Prussian Crown Order 3. Class 9. June 1888 Service Award Cross 9. November 1889 Royal Prussian Red Eagle Order 3. Class with Ribbon 17 December 1889 Commander's Cross of the Royal Greek Order of Redeemer 2 July 1890 Commander's Cross 2 Class of the Royal Swedish Order of the Redeemer 3 September 1892 Royal Prussian Crown Order 2 Class 15 September 1893 Grand Officer's Cross of the Order of the Italian Crown 21 September 1894 Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern 3 July 1895 Grand Cross of the Royal Swedish Order of the Redeemer 3 July 1890 Austrian Franz Joseph Order 10 July 1895 Commander Cross of the French Legion of Honour 22 October 1895 Grand Commander Cross of the Royal Bavarian Order of Military Merit 1895 Cross of Honour 1st Class of the Princely Schaumburg-Lippe House Order 18. January 1897 Royal Prussian Red Eagle Order 2nd class with oak leaves 18 January 1898 Star to Royal Prussian Crown Order 2nd class 14 October 1898 Grand Cross of the Royal Württemberg Frederick's Order ca. 1898 Ksl. Commemorative steel coin for services to the expedition in China 11 January 1899 Grand Cross of the Royal Bavarian Military Order 27 January 1899 Star of the Royal Prussian Red Eagle Order 2nd Class with oak leaves 20 May 1899 Grand Cross of the Royal Spanish Military Order 9. June 1899 Grand Cross with oak leaves of the Grand Ducal Baden Order of the Zähringer Lion July 7, 1899 Grand Cross of the Royal Saxon Albrecht Order October 9, 1899 1st Class of the 2nd Class of the Chinese Order of the Double Dragon January 27, 1900 Royal Prussian Red Eagle Order 1st Class with oak leaves February 1900 Ksl. Russian White Eagle Order 18 April 1900 Grand Cross of the Grand Duke of Hesse Order of Merit of Philip the Magnanimous 23 May 1900 Grand Cross of Ksl. Austrian Order of Leopold August 1900 Grand Cross of Honour of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg House and Order of Merit of Duke Peter Ludwig Friedrich June 20, 1901 Golden Chain to the Grand Cross of the Grand Duke of Baden Order of the Zähringer Lion September 13, 1901 Commander's Cross and Star of the Royal King House Order of Hohenzollern 9 November 1901 Grand Cross of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerinischer Greifenordens 27 October 1902 Grand Cross of the Royal Spanish Order for Merits at Sea 20 December 1902 Grand Cross of the Duke of Brunswick Order of Henry the Lion December 1902 Ksl. Russian Alexander Nevsky Order 31 January 1903 Grand Cross of the Royal Italian Order of St Mauritius and Lazarus, Royal Order 1903 Grand Cross of the Royal Prussian Crown Order with Crown 1 July 1904 Grand Cross of the Royal British Victoria Order December 1905 Grand Cross of the Royal Greek Order of the Redeemer 27 Febrauar 1906 Commemorative Signs on the occasion of the Silver Wedding of Emperor Wilhelm II. September 1906 Memorial Medal on the occasion of the inauguration of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum in Berlin November 13, 1906 Grand Cross of the Royal Spanish Order of Charles III December 15, 1906 Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav December 31, 1906 Grand Cross of the Royal Danish Order of Danubia January 27, 1907 Royal Prussian Black Eagle Order November 2, 1907 Ksl. Commemorative steel coin for services rendered on the occasion of the uprising in South West Africa 6 June 1908 Grand Cross of the Royal Swedish Wasa Order 1908 Ksl. Russian Alexander Nevsky Order with Brilliants April 16, 1909 Grand Cross of the Star of Romania November 21, 1909 Grand Cross of the Grand Ducal Saxon-Weimar House Order of Vigilance or of the White Falcon 1909 Ks. Japanese Paullownia Order 24 December 1910 Grand Cross of the Order of the Wüttembergische Krone 1910 Grand Cross of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order 30 August 1911 Grand Cross of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen 22 May 1912 Diamonds to the Royal Prussian Black Eagle Order 18 September 1912 Chilean Order of Merit 1st Class 1912 Grand Cross of the Royal Bulgarian Order of St. Alexander 1912 Ksl. Turkish Osmanié Order 1st Class 4th June 1913 Grand Ducal Baden House Order of Faithfulness 16th June 1913 Grand Commander Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern 16th June 1913 Honorary Doctorate of the Georg August University Göttingen 24th April 1915 Swords to the Grand Commander Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern 10th August 1915 Order pour le mérite 3. October 1915 Austro-Hungarian Military Service Cross 1st Class with War Decoration 19 October 1915 Hamburg Hanseatic Cross 2nd November 1915 Lübeck Hanseatic Cross 10th November 1915 Bremen Hanseatic Cross 15th December 1915 Grand Cross with Star in Gold and Silver Crown and Swords of the Royal King Saxon Albrecht Order 15 March 1916 Star of the Grand Commander with Swords of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern 15. January 1917 Honorary citizen of the city of Frankfurt/Oder Description of the holdings: The estate of the officer and politician Alfred von Tirpitz contains rich sources on seven decades of German history: from the entry of the sixteen-year-old into the Royal Prussian Navy in 1865 to his service in the Imperial Navy as founder of fleet building and as long-standing State Secretary of the Reichsmarinemat, from his political service in the World War II as Chairman of the German Fatherland Party to his work for the German National People's Party. Since Tirpitz's research concentrated for a long time on fleet construction and fleet policy in Wilhelmine Germany, the part of the estate on this topic that had been developed until 1991 was intensively evaluated. The hand files and correspondence from the period of service as State Secretary of the R e i c h s m a r i n e a m t , which form a focal point of the collection, were particularly used for this purpose. The value of these documents is only marginally diminished by the publication of Tirpitzen's "Political Documents", since the texts published here are sometimes incomplete. Even more than the hand files, some of which had been compiled from copies and multiple copies of the official records, the letters from those years supplement the tradition of the R e i c h s m a r i n e a m t . Contrary to the papers of the politician Tirpitz, the openly and impartially written letters of the young Tirpitz to his parents from the decade around the foundation of the Reich - from 1865 to 1878 -, filling several volumes, convey a vivid picture of everyday life in the Prussian, then the North German, and finally the Imperial Navy. They also give an impression of the young Tirpitz's view of history and of the national ideas of the time when the Reich was founded. In addition, the estate documents the career of an officer in the Imperial Navy, but also the private ties within the officer corps. In the history of naval affairs, the sources on the development of the torpedo system deserve special mention; in foreign policy, the letters and documents on the representation of German interests in East Asia deserve special mention, as do the sources on the development of German-English relations against the background of German fleet building. After all, the collection is also rich in cultural history, as it reflects something of the lifestyle of a state secretary in Wilhelmine Germany. Tirpitz's activities after his resignation as State Secretary were focused both on the past and on the current political problems. Both have been reflected in the estate. The justification of fleet policy is documented, among other things, in the fragmentarily preserved drafts of the "Memories" and "Political Documents" as well as in the correspondence on these publications. The rich materials on the submarine war refer both to the policy of State Secretary Tirpitz and to his evaluation of the submarine war after his resignation; they form a bracket between the work in the civil service and the work afterwards. A not inconsiderable part of the collection comes from the party political commitment after 1916, first for the German Vaterlandspartei, of which he was first chairman, then for the Deutschnationale Volkspartei, whose Reichstag fraction he belonged to from 1924 until his age-related withdrawal from politics in 1928. The extensive correspondence from the work of the party politician Tirpitz, his speeches, essays and notes on his work as a member of the Reichstag, equally informative sources on the foreign and domestic policy of the Weimar Republic, only attracted the interest of research in recent years. Reference is made to Hagenlücke's monograph on the German Fatherland Party published in 1997 and Scheck's work on Tirpitz as a politician of the right wing 1914-1930 published in 1993 (see bibliography). For research into the activities of the Imperial Navy, the tradition from the period of service, including the related materials from the last phase of life, forms a comprehensive and far from exhausted fund. The rich private correspondence opens the way to further sources: since part of the correspondence is a recipient tradition and the drafts or copies of Tirpitz letters are only partially available and rather from his last decade of life, the determination of his letters in the estates of the correspondence partners is still a worthwhile object of research. References to other stocks 1. Bundesarchiv Abteilung B N 1275 Nachlass Oskar Messter N 1549 Nachlass Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg Siegfried Graf von Eulenburg-Wicken Walter von Keudell Abteilung R, Berlin R 43 Reichskanzlei R 301 Bundesrat/Reichsrat R 8048 Alldeutscher Verband Abteilung Militärarchiv, Freiburg RM 3 Reichsmarineamt RM 5 Admiralstab der Marine RM 27 III Inspection of Torpedoes RM 31 Marinestation der Ostsee RM 43 Dienst- und Kommandostellen der Kaiserlichen Marine im Heimtbereich N 170 Eduard von Capelle N 156 Wilhelm Souchon N 568 Johann-Bernhard Mann 2. Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage (GStA), Berlin I. HA, Rep. 169 A Mansion of the Prussian Parliament I. HA, Rep. 90 Ministry of State HA VI Family of Bissing Citation method: BArch, N 253/...
Tirpitz, Alfred vonContains among other things: Adler und Falken, page 61 Alldeutscher Verband, page 16 Bund für Nationalwirtschaft und Werksgemeinschaft, page 16 Bund Oberland, page 12 Deutschbanner Schwarz-Weiss-Rot, page 16 Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft, page 16 Deutscher Frauenbund, page 16 Deutscher Offiziersbund, page 16 Deutscher Ostmarkenverein, page 16 Deutscher Seeverein, page 16 Deutsch-Evangelischer Frauenbund, page 16 Deutschnationale Studentenschaft, page 16 Deutschnationale Volkspartei, Page 16 German National Workers' Association, Page 16 German National Freedom Party, Page 16, 49-54 Fleet Association of German Women, Page 16 Women's Committee for the Fight against Versailles, Page 16 Freischar Schill, Page 74-78 Friends of Fascism (Amici del Fascismo), Page 18 Greater German Baltic Association, Page 17 Main Conservative Association, Page 17 Higher Education Ring of German Art, Page 16-17, 78-79 Kaiserdank, Page 17 Queen Luise-Bund, Page 17 National Club, Page 17 National Socialist German Workers' Party, page 2-228 National Socialist German Student League, pages 68-73, 142-144, 170-187 National Socialist Teachers' League, pages 198-228 National Socialist School League, pages 198-228 National Association of German Officers, page 17 National Association of German Women, page 17 Prussian League, page 17 Imperial Eagle, page 17 Imperial League of German Workers, page 17 Imperial League of German Officers, Page 17 Reichsbund former cadets, Page 17 Ring of national women, Page 17 Steel helmet, Bund der Frontsoldaten, Page 10 Stahlhelm-Frauenbund, Page 17 Sturmabteilungen (SA) der NSDAP, Page 139-142 Tannenbergbund, Page 93-102 Vereinigte Vaterländische Verbände Deutschlands, Page 17 Waffenring der deutschen leichte Artillerie, Page 17 Wehrwolf, Page 12 Wehrwolf-Hilfe, Page 80-92 Widerstandblock deutscher Jugend, Page 180-189 Wiking-Bund, Page 13
History of the Inventory Designer: 1902-1918 Central Information Office for Emigrants, 1918-1919 Reichsamt für deutsche Rückwanderung und Auswanderung, 1919-1924 Reichsamt für deutsche Einwanderung, Rückwanderung und Auswanderung, 1924-1945 Reichsamt für das Auswanderungswesen. Essential tasks: Informing the public about the prospects for German Auswan‧derer, promoting welfare efforts, regulating migration movements: Teil‧aufgaben was transferred to the Reichsstelle für Nachlasssse und Nachforschungen im Ausland in 1924 Long text: From 1924 to 1943, the "Reichsstelle für das Auswanderungswesen" acted as the central German advisory and observation office for the emigration movement. It largely took over the field of work and tasks as it had developed at the "Zentralauskunftsstelle für Auswanderer" (1902-1919), continued by the "Reichsstelle für deutsche Rück- und Auswanderung" (1918-1919) and expanded by the "Reichsamt für deutsche Einwanderung, Rückwanderung und Auswanderung" (1919-1924). The Foreign Office and the missions abroad of the German Reich were entrusted by the Reich Chancellor with providing information to those interested in emigrating. The processing of fundamental questions of emigration fell within the competence of the Foreign Office as well as that of the Reich Chancellery and the later Reich Office or Reich Ministry of the Interior. Until 1897, federal emigration legislation applied. Until then, the Reich had regulated only a few individual questions which were in a certain connection with emigration (e.g. §§ 1 and 3 of the Passgesetz of 12 October 1867, Staatsangehörigkeitsgesetz of 1 June 1870). It was not until the Emigration Act of 9 June 1897 (see Reichsgesetzblatt 1897, p. 463) that a uniform emigration law was created. The Emigration Act confirmed the Reich Chancellor as the highest supervisory authority in the field of emigration. According to § 38 of the Emigration Act, an "Advisory Council for Emigration" (1898-1924) was attached to the Reich Chancellor (Auswärtiges Amt). The work and duties of the Advisory Council were governed by the regulations of 17 February 1898 issued by the Federal Council (cf. Announcement of the Reich Chancellor of 17 February 1878, in: Central-Blatt für das Deutsche Reich 1898, p. 98; BArch, R 1501/101567). The Chairman of the Advisory Council was appointed by the Emperor, the members were selected by the Federal Council for a period of two years. The ongoing business work of the Advisory Board was carried out by the Foreign Office's office staff. The Advisory Council for Emigration had only an advisory function in the licensing of settlement societies and emigration enterprises. The circular instruction of the Reich Chancellor of 10 June 1898 on the implementation of the Emigration Act obliged the German consular authorities to provide the Auswärtiges Amt constantly with information and documents for the provision of information in the field of emigration (cf. BArch, R 1501/101574). Soon after the Emigration Act came into force, efforts to establish a central information centre for emigrants did not lead to the constitution of an independent Reich authority. Rather, one of the already existing private information associations, the "Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft", was commissioned to provide the information. It was placed under state supervision and supported financially by the state. Before 1902 the following private associations were active in the field of emigration counselling in the German Reich: Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft, Berlin, Verein für Auswandererwohlfahrt, Hanover, Zentralverein für Handelsgeografie und Förderung deutscher Interessen im Ausland, Berlin, Leipzig, Jena, Stuttgart, Evangelischer Hauptverein für deutsche Ansiedler und Auswanderer, Witzenhausen, St. Gallen, Berlin, St. Gallen, St. Gallen, St. Gallen, St. Gallen, St. Gallen, St. Gallen, St. Gallen, St. Gallen, St. Gallen, St. Gallen, St. Gallen Raphaelsverein, Limburg (Lahn), Central Office for the Provision of Information to Emigrants and for German Enterprises Abroad, Berlin, Public Information Office for Emigrants, Dresden, German Emigration Association of Seyffert, Berlin, German-Brazilian Association, Berlin, Overseas Association, Munich, All-German Association, Berlin, German School Association, Nightingale Society, Evangelical African Association, Catholic African Association. On 1 April 1902, the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft opened the "Zentralauskunftsstelle für Auswanderer" (1902-1919) as the administrative department of the Kolonialgesellschaft based in Berlin (cf. BArch, R 1501/101573). The Central Information Office was under the supervision of the President of the "Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft", who appointed the head of the Central Information Office with the permission of the Reich Chancellor. The head of the central enquiry unit was responsible for the management and publications of the unit. The Reich Chancellor exercised the right of supervision over the Central Information Office. The organisation of the Central Enquiry Office was governed by the provisions laid down in the "Guidelines for the provision of information to persons wishing to emigrate" and in the "Rules of Procedure of the Central Enquiry Office for Emigrants". The provision of information extended to all non-German territories as well as to the German colonies. It was carried out free of charge, either directly through the Central Information Office or through branches of the Central Information Office. Branch offices were departments of the D e u t s c h e K o l o n i a l s e l s c h a f t , as well as private emigrant associations and organizations. The Central Information Office for Emigrants had a network of more than 50 voluntary branches. The main task of the Central Information Office was to exert propagandistic influence on the flow of emigrants flowing out of the German Reich. The German emigration movement should be contained and brought under control as effectively as possible. Until 1914, the focus was on providing information on possibilities of emigration to the German colonies, to the United States of America and to South America. This advisory and information activity was accompanied by a corresponding collection, inspection and processing of the news and documents submitted by the diplomatic and consular representations of the German Reich via the Foreign Office to the Central Information Office. Similar information on the situation and prospects of emigrants abroad was also sent to the Central Information Office by public bodies, non-profit associations and registered associations at home and abroad. The Central Information Office cooperated closely with the emigrant associations that operated independently in the German Reich. The Central Information Office published information booklets on immigration regulations, economic conditions and career prospects in various countries, e.g. Paraguay, Mexico, Chile, Argentina or the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. On 9 May 1902, the "Advisory Council of the D e u t s c h e K o l o n i a l s c h e G e l l l s c h a f t for the Central Information Office" - Information Advisory Council - was constituted (cf. Barch, R 1501/101573). The Information Advisory Board assisted the President of the D e u t s c h e K o l o n i a l g e s e l l s c h a f t or his representative in the supervision of the Central Information Office. One third of the members of the Advisory Board were representatives of the D e u t s c h e K o l o n i a l g e s e l l s c h a f t , and two thirds were the chairman of the information associations and organizations that had joined the Central Information Office. The ordinary meetings of the Advisory Board, convened once a year in Berlin by the President of the D e u t s c h e K o l o n i a l g e s e l l s c h a f t , took place in camera. The head of the Central Information Office submitted the annual report of the Central Information Office to the Information Advisory Board for confirmation after obtaining the consent of the Reich Chancellor. The Imperial Chancellor could be represented by commissioners at the meetings of the Advisory Council and veto the decisions taken there. With the outbreak of the First World War, the "Central Information Office for Emigrants" stopped providing information to those interested in emigrating. After the Prussian War Ministry had established a "Central Office of Evidence for War Losses and War Graves" at the beginning of the war, the A u s w ä r t i g e s A m t assigned similar tasks to the Central Information Office, especially for the circle of Reich citizens interned in civilian affairs. On the basis of the announcement made by the Reich Chancellor on the creation of a "Central Office for the Provision of Information on Germans in Hostile Foreign Countries" on 1 September 1914, the Central Information Office assumed responsibility for the provision of information, the transfer of money, the transmission of information, the processing of applications for release, and the investigation of German citizens of the Reich both in the Entente states and in the neutral states (cf. German Reich Gazette No. 205 of 1 September 1914). By decree of the Reich Chancellor of 30 September 1914, the "Zentralauskunftsstelle für Auswanderer" (Central Information Office for Emigrants) was annexed to the Foreign Office as a "Reich Commission for the Affairs of German Civilians in Enemy Land" with official character (cf. BArch, R 1501/118320). Even before the beginning of the First World War, a "Reichsstelle für deutsche Rückwanderung und Auswanderung" (Reich Migration Office) was issued by the Reich Chancellor on 29 May 1918 at the Reich Office of the Interior to regulate the return migration and emigration of Reich Germans and Volks Germans (Announcement by the Reich Chancellor on 29 May 1918, in: Deutscher Reichsanzeiger on 30 May 1918 and Königlich Preußischer Staatsanzeiger No. 125). The Reich Migration Office commenced its activities on 1 June 1918, which until the end of 1918 extended almost exclusively to return emigrant affairs. This was essentially a matter of central influence on the return migration from the occupied Polish, Romanian and Russian parts of the territory. Special attention was also paid to the return migration from the western Entente countries and the German colonies. In this context, the Reich Migration Office dealt with the collection, inspection and processing of incoming documents, the provision of information, the promotion of care for returnees, the organisation of returnees, the securing of admission, care, secondment and temporary accommodation of returnees. The chairman, his deputy and the members of the advisory board of the Reich Migration Office were appointed by the Reich Chancellor. The "Advisory Council of the Reich Migration Office", under the direction of the Chairman of the Reich Migration Office, advised the plenum and the committees on fundamental questions of return and emigration (cf. BArch, R 1501/118318). The Reich Migration Office was initially divided into an administrative and an advisory department. The advisory department consisted of members of the administrative department and of the advisory board members who discussed policy issues of return and emigration in a joint meeting. The Reich Migration Office subsequently consisted of five working groups: an administrative group, an information group, a welfare group, a legal group and a scientific group. In the occupied eastern territories, the Reich Migration Office maintained two branch offices, which had to be dismantled at the beginning of the armistice negotiations. The area to the south of the Polozk-Lida railway line and the Warsaw General Government were the responsibility of the "Deutsche Rückwandererfürsorstelle Ostgebiet Bezirk Süd" with its head office in Kowel. The area north of the railway line Pskow-Wilna-Grodnow belonged to the "Sprengel der Deutschen Rückwandererfürsorgestelle Ostgebiet Bezirk Nord" with its head office in Vilnius. Both main offices were subject to several border transit and return migration collection camps (cf. BArch, R 1501/118318). In central Russia and the Ukraine "representatives of the Reich Migration Office" were appointed (cf. BArch, R 1501/118318). They had the task of contacting the German population living there, informing them about settlement and accommodation possibilities in Germany and advising them on legal, supply and property matters. The commissioners remained active only until the withdrawal of German troops or the severance of diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia. On 1 April 1919, the work and tasks of the "Central Information Office for Emigrants" were transferred to the Reich Migration Office (cf. BArch, R 1501/118318). Since then, the Reich Migration Office has been responsible not only for dealing with the affairs of returnees but also for keeping lists and records of the Reich German civilians interned abroad. At that time, the organisation and powers of the Reichswanderungsstelle no longer met the requirements for dealing with questions of return, immigration and emigration. By decree of the Reich President of 7 May 1919, the Reich Migration Office was renamed "Reichsamt für deutsche Einwanderung, Rückwanderung und Auswanderung" (Reich Migration Office) (Reichsgesetzblatt 1919, p. 451), while the business area was expanded (see Reichsgesetzblatt 1919, p. 451). In addition, the "Reichskommissar zur Erörterung von Gewalttätigkeiten gegen deutsche Zivilpersonen in Feindesland" (Reich Commissioner for the Discussion of Violence against German Civilians in Enemy Land) remained responsible for the settlement of war damages and the "Reichszentrale für Kriegs- und Zivilgefangene" (Reich Central Office for War and Civil Prisoners) remained responsible for the care of German returnees from war captivity and civil internment. The Reich Migration Office, as an independently operating Reich Resources Authority, was simultaneously subordinate to the Reich Ministry of the Interior and the Foreign Office. The Ministry of the Interior was responsible, among other things, for combating unreliable emigration agents, monitoring private information activities and promoting the welfare of migrants in Germany. The Federal Foreign Office was responsible for communicating with the German missions abroad and promoting migration assistance abroad. The Central Office of the Reich Migration Office in Berlin was initially divided into eight, later fourteen working groups, which were grouped into three departments. According to the business distribution plan of 1 April 1923, valid until the dissolution of the Reich Migration Office, the central office was structured as follows (cf. BArch, R 1501/118321): Department A I. Administrative Affairs a) Personnel Affairs b) Administrative and Economic Affairs c) General Affairs of the Emigration Service d) Welfare Affairs II. Country Affairs 1. Europe 2. Asia Section B I. General Affairs II. Country Affairs 1. Africa 2. Asia 3. Australia 4. America C. The Reich Migration Office maintained official branch offices administered by employees of the Reich Migration Office, municipal branch offices whose administration was left to municipal bodies, and private branch offices. On the basis of the "Richtlinien für die Anerkennung gemeinnütziger Auskunftsstellen für deutsche Aus-, Rück- und Einwanderer durch das Reichswanderungsamt" (Guidelines for the Recognition of Non-Profit Information Centres for German Immigrants, Returnees and Immigrants by the Reich Migration Office) of 1 January 2006, the following information is available In June 1920, the Reichswanderungsamt assigned tasks from branches of the Reichswanderungsamt to institutions and associations such as the "Deutsche Auslandsinstitut" in Stuttgart, the "Evangelische Hauptverein für deutsche Ansiedler und Auswanderer" in Witzenhausen and the "Raphaelverein zum Schutze deutscher katholischer Auswanderer" in Freiburg im Breisgau (cf. BArch, R 1501/118320). Outside the German Reich there were no information facilities under the control of the Reich Migration Office. In Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, "experts in emigration matters" worked to support the Reich Migration Office by providing information and promoting emigration assistance. The experts had been assigned to the German missions abroad and were subordinate to them in official and disciplinary respects (cf. BArch, R 1501/118320). According to the constitution of the Reichswanderungsamt of 24 May 1919 (cf. BArch, R 1501/118320), an "Advisory Council of the Reichswanderungsamt" was constituted for the purpose of an expert opinion on fundamental migration matters. The Advisory Council consisted of 54 members appointed by the Reich Ministry of the Interior and the Foreign Office for a period of two years. Advisory councils were also set up in the branches of the Reich Migration Office. These advisory councils brought together all the local organisations active in the area of activity of the branch offices, which, like the branch associations of the "Verein für das Deutschtum im Ausland", the "Red Cross", dealt, among other things, with questions of migration. The Reich Migration Office operated an extensive intelligence, reconnaissance and information service. Those interested in emigrating should be made aware of the employment and settlement opportunities available in Germany and held back from emigrating. The information and documents forwarded to the Reichswanderungsamt were processed by the Reichswanderungsamt into information leaflets on countries considered as German emigration destinations and into leaflets on emigration problems of general interest. The Reichswanderungsamt published twice a month since 1919 the "Nachrichtenblatt des Reichsamtes für deutsche Einwanderung, Rückwanderung und Auswanderung (Reichswanderungsamt)", since 1921 under the title "Nachrichtenblatt des Reichswanderungsamtes (Reichsamt für deutsche Einwanderung, Rückwanderung und Auswanderung)". After the dissolution of the Reichswanderungsamt, the newsletter was published until 1944 under the title "Nachrichtenblatt der Reichsstelle für das Auswanderungswesen". The business area of the Reichswanderungsamt expanded continuously until 1924. At the beginning of 1920, the Reich Migration Office took over from the Passport Office of the Foreign Office the processing of all written and oral applications for travel opportunities for Germans abroad, emigrants and returnees from Germany to other countries and vice versa. With effect from 1 October 1923, the tasks of the probate office and the civil status department were largely transferred from the legal department of the Foreign Office to the Reich Migration Office (cf. the news bulletin of the Reich Migration Office 1923, p. 210). In this way the migration, investigation, inheritance and civil status matters were essentially united at the Reich Migration Office. The scope of duties of the Reich Migration Office was limited only by the responsibilities of the Reich Commissioners for Emigration and the Reich Ministry of the Interior for dealing with emigration ship matters, for dealing with emigrant and refugee welfare associations and associations, and for deciding on applications for entry by returnees. This demarcation, however, did not have such a strong effect as the head of the Reich Migration Office was at the same time expert for return migration matters and personnel officer for the office in the Reich Ministry of the Interior. The efforts of the Administrative Removal Commission to dismantle the Reich Migration Office led to the decision of the Administrative Removal Commission of 24 January 1924, according to which the Reich Migration Office was to be dissolved with effect from 1 October 1924. Under the pressure of the financial situation of the German Reich, a cabinet decision of 12 February 1924 and the ordinance of 28 March 1924 set the dissolution date for 1 April 1924 (see BArch, R 1501/118321). By decree of 29 March 1924, the newly formed "Reichsstelle für das Auswanderungswesen" (Reich Office for Emigration) continued from 1 April 1924 only to deal with the central tasks connected with the emigration movement (cf. Reichsgesetzblatt 1924 I, p. 395). The Reich Office for Emigration processed information and documents for emigration counselling, forwarded relevant materials to the counselling offices, and supervised the emigration counselling offices permitted in the German Reich. The Reich Office carried out its activities with the assistance of an advisory council in the portfolio of the Reich Ministry of the Interior, with a significantly limited circle of employees compared to the Reich Migration Office. With effect from 1 April 1924, the legal ownership of the official branches of the Reich Migration Office was transferred from the German Reich to public corporations, non-profit associations and registered associations. According to the business distribution plan of 1 April 1924 (cf. BArch, R 1501/118322), the Reich Office began its work with the following subject areas grouped into groups: 1. general administrative matters; general matters of the information centres and recognised information centres; dealings with associations, societies and the press; observation of the emigration movement; prevention and combating of grievances in the emigration movement; legal cases; annual reports; matters of the Advisory Council 2. personnel matters 3. treasury and accounting matters 4. Emigration and information statistics 5. collection and transmission of information material to advice centres and cooperation in the news bulletin for North and Central America and Asia (excluding Siberia) 6. the same for South America 7. the same for Western and Northern Europe 8. the same for Western and Northern Europe the same for Southern Europe 9. the same for Eastern Europe and Siberia 10. the same for Africa, Australia and the South Seas 11. Editing and publication of the newsletters, leaflets and information leaflets 12. Internal ministry 13. Library and archive 14. Registry 15. Chancellery. The investigation, estate and civil status matters processed to date by the Reich Migration Office were transferred to the newly founded "Reichsstelle für Nachlässe" by ordinance of 1 April 1924 (cf. Reichsgesetzblatt 1924 I, p. 402). This Reich Office was an authority subordinate to the Federal Foreign Office with a central area of responsibility. The Reichsnachlassstelle was dissolved by decree of 30 December 1927 (see Reichsgesetzblatt 1927 I, p. 4). It handed over the subjects it dealt with to the Federal Foreign Office, the German missions abroad and the responsible state authorities. The Reichsstelle für das Auswanderungswesen lost considerable importance during the Nazi era. The fundamental questions of emigration were concentrated to a greater extent at the Reich Ministry of the Interior, the Foreign Office and, in the following years, especially at NSDAP offices and, since 1938/39, at the "Reichsführer SS und Chefs der Deutschen Polizei", such as the "Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle" and the "Deutsche Umsiedlungs- und Treuhandgesellschaft mbH". From 1924 to 1936, the Reich Office for Emigration was subject to Department II (Public Health, Welfare, German Studies) and from 1936 to 1943 to Department VI (German Studies, Surveying) of the Reich Ministry of the Interior. After the dissolution of Division VI of the Reich Ministry of the Interior, the "Reichsstelle für das Auswanderungswesen" (Reich Office for Emigration) with the subjects "Flüchtlings- und Rückwandererfürsorge" (Refugee and Return Migration Welfare), "Wanderungswesen" (Migration), "Auswanderungsschifffahrt" (Emigration Shipping), previously dealt with by Division VI of the Reich Ministry of the Interior, merged in December 1943 into the "Hauptamt Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle, Amt VI. Reichswanderungsstelle" (cf. BArch, R 4901/185). Inventory description: Inventory history On November 30, 1951, the Deutsche Zentralarchiv Potsdam took over files of the "Reichsstelle für das Auswanderungswesen" (Reich Office for Emigration) from the cellar of the registry office I, Berlin C 2, Stralauer Straße 42/43, amounting to about 1,400 files. According to information provided by the former main archives department at the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR, these files had been found in the building of the former Reichsarchiv in Troppau and had been handed over to Berlin by the CSSR at an unknown time. According to investigations carried out after 1945, the files of the Reich Office for Emigration (most recently "Amt VI Reichswanderungsstelle" of the Hauptamt Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle) were moved in 1944/45 to the Posterholungsheim Templin and to the Reichsarchiv in Troppau. The files that were transferred to Templin included state and administrative files from 1918 to 1945, German origin files from 1920 to 1945, files from Department VI of the Reich Ministry of the Interior, which was dissolved in 1943, and personnel files from the personnel registry. These files had not been found in 1946. Of the files moved to Troppau - more than 12,000 files are said to have been sent to more than 170,000 German civilian internees all over the world from the time of the First World War - the aforementioned 1,400 files were transferred to the German Central Archive in Potsdam. The files were in an extraordinarily poor state of preservation, disordered and unrecorded. These were very fragmentary documents on individual cases from the activities of the "Central Information Office for Emigrants", the "Reichswanderstelle", the "Reichswanderungsamt" and the "Reichsstelle für das Auswanderungswesen". Archival evaluation and processing At the beginning of the 1960s, around 1,360 file units were collected due to a lack of archival value. 44 file units remained as inventory 15.05 "Reichsstelle für das Auswanderungswesen" for permanent storage. They provide an insight into the subject and method of work of the emigration authorities. The first indexing of the files took place in 1960. In view of the fragmentary tradition at hand, the organizing work was limited to a classification according to factual aspects. The following classification groups were formed: Group I Provision of information to those interested in emigrating Group II Investigation of German citizens interned in civilian life Group III Organization and business operations Wolfgang Merker provided the initial development in 1960/63. The finding aid he has compiled forms the basis for the present finding aid. During the revision in 2009, a previously unlisted fragment was integrated into the collection (R 1505/45). The classification of the stock has been retained. Subsequently, series and band sequences were created. The listing information as well as the introduction to the history of the authorities and the inventory have been editorially revised. Characterisation of content: Characteristics of content: The files handed over to the German Central Archive in Potsdam in 1951 essentially contained inquiries from individuals, associations under private law and authorities about the whereabouts of emigrants, prisoners of war and civilian internees of the First World War, processes concerning the settlement of property and inheritance matters, correspondence about search forms and communications with foreign missions, German and foreign authorities as well as applications for the release and extradition of prisoners of war and civilian internees. There are no procedures on fundamental issues of emigration, the organisation and the remit of the emigration authorities. The 45 AE (1.3 running meter) of the stock remaining after the archival processing are assigned to three classification groups: Provision of information to prospective emigrants 1902-1928 (18), searches for civilian internees of the German Reich 1914-1923 (17), business operations and personnel files 1920-1945 (10). ‧‧ State of development: Online-Findbuch (2009) Citation method: BArch, R 1505/...
Contains: All-German Association; Reichsverband der Baltikumkämpfer; Sudetendeutscher Heimatverband; Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge; Reichsbund der Kinderreichen; Volksbund für das Deutschtum im Ausland; Reichskolonialbund; Reichsbund der deutschen Familie; Reichsbund der Hausbesitzer Darin: 1. Volksbund für das Deutschtum im Ausland "Nachrichten des Gauverbandes" 20.12.1939; 25.1.1940; 2nd Reichskolonialbund "Vordringliche Aufgaben der deutschen Kolonialforschung", booklet, print
Contains among other things: All-German Association, page 83 Andreas Hofer Association, page 83 Bavarian Homeland and King Association, page 83 Bavarian Warrior Association, page 83 Bavarian Ordnungsblock, page 83 Bavarian and Reich Association, page 83 Bavarian Oberland Association, page 81-82 German Officer Association, Page 83 German National Youth Movement, Page 83 German National Working Group, Page 83 German National Freedom Party, Page 14-19, 26, 44-45, 56-57 German National Protection and Defence Association, Page 83 Düll Association, Page 83 Eichheimer Medical Association, Page 83 Front Warriors Association e. V., Page 83 Greater German Movement, Page 15 Higher Education Ring of German Art, Page 83 Interest Group of German Army and Navy Members, Page 83 Youth Association Count Yorck von Wartenburg, Page 16 Young Bavaria, Page 83 National Bolshevism, Page 47-48 National Socialist German Workers Party, Page 13-22, 57-60 National Association of German Officers, Page 83 Organization Rossbach, Page 15, 45 Verband der bayrischen Offizier-Regimentsvereine, Page 83 Verband nationalgesinnter Soldaten, Page 15-16 Verein Deutschdenkender Arbeiter, Page 60 Vereinigte Vaterländische Verbände Deutschlands, Page 83-85 Völkische Gewerkschaften, Page 45, 82-83 Aufstand und Aufstandagitation, Page 52-55 Beamtenbewegung der KPD, Page 17 Executive Committee of the III. (Communist) International ECCI, pages 26-29, 50-51, 67-72 Communist Workers Party of Germany (KAPD), pages 39-40 Communist Party of Germany, pages 6-12, 26-33, 50-51, 67-72, 76-80 Communist Youth Union of Germany, Page 52-55, 80 Proletarian dog associations, Page 73 Reichsverband der Erwerbslosen, Page 38-39, 76-80 Roter Frontkämpferbund, Page 11-12, 49-51 Selbstschutzbewegung, Page 26, 34-37 Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (USPD), Page 22
Contains among other things: All-German Association, page 44 Anti-Semitism, page 10, 26-27 Bund der Aufrechten, page 44, 67 Bund für Freiheit und Ordnung in Berlin und Umgebung, page 12 Deutsche Erneuerungsgemeinde, page 75-76 Deutscher Befreiungsbund, page 50-51 Deutscher Freiheitsbund, page 10-11, 86-91 German War Graves Commission "Black-White-Red", page 11 German National Youth Movement, page 44 German National Freedom Party, pages 11, 49-50, 64, 97-98, 127-128 German National Defence and Defense Party, pages 43, 47-49 Greater German Labour Party, pages 11, 49-50, 64 Squirehood, page 44 Mosquito Federation, page 68 National Youth Federation, page 44 National Socialist German Workers' Party, pages 3, 11, 27-28, 39-42, 93-98 National Association of German Officers, page 44 National Association of German Soldiers, pages 26-27, 44 Organization Rossbach, Page 10-11 Steel helmet, Bund der Frontsoldaten, Page 43, 91-92 Sturmabteilungen (SA) der NSDAP, Page 93-96 Verband nationalengesinnter Soldaten, Page 42, 45-47 Allgemeine Arbeiter-Union (AAU), Page 38 Aufstand und Aufstandagitation, Page 24-25 Executive Committee of the III. (Communist) International ECCI, pages 9-10, 16, 34-36 International Federation of War-Damaged and War-Remained Persons, page 83 Communist Workers Party of Germany (KAPD), page 38 Communist Party of Germany, pages 7-8, 17-23, 35-39, 55-60, 70-71, 75-77 Communist Youth Union of Germany, pages 38, 80-81 Self-Protection Movement, pages 55-60, 77-83 Decomposition Work of the KPD, pages 83, 84-85
Contains among other things: Adler und Falken, page 10, 54-57 Alldeutscher Verband, page 51, 53-57, 166 Allgemeiner deutsch-völkischer Turnverein, page 12 Antikommunistische Weltliga, page 48-50 Antisemitismus, page 11, 12, 142, 153-155, 157, 168-169 Arndt-Hochschule, Page 166 Enlightenment Committee concerning the question of war guilt, page 166 Bavarian Homeland and King's League, page 51 Bavarian Order Book, page 51, 166 Bismarck Order, page 10, 53-57 Braver Heiderich, page 11 Bremen Hansa, Page 166 Brigade Ehrhardt, page 6 Bund Bayern und Reich, page 51 Bund der Aufrechten, page 9, 53-57 Bund der Getreuen, page 9 Bund der Kaistreuen, page 11 Bund Deutschland, page 10 Bund für Freiheit und Ordnung in Berlin und Umgebung, page 104-107, 166 Bund Jungdeutschland, page 166 Bund Oberland, page 9 Bund zur Brechung der Zinsknechtschaft, page 51 Christian-Völkische Arbeitsgemeinschaft, page 166 Deutschbund, page 10, 166, 169 Deutsche Vereinigung, page 166 Deutscher Bund e. V., Page 141 German National Teachers Association, page 166 German National Association for Austria, page 166 German Nordic Society, page 167 German National Working Group, page 51 German National Youth, page 9 German National Protection and Defence Association, Page 6, 9, 51-58, 142, 153-155 Eos, page 11 Fichtegesellschaft, page 167 Flottenbund deutscher Frauen, page 167 Frauenbund zur Wahrung der deutschen Ehre für unsere Kinder, page 167 Friesen-Sachsenbund, page 167 Frontkriegerbund e. V., Page 51 Germanenhort, Page 167 Hermannsbund, Page 10 Hochschulring Deutscher Art, Page 9, 53-57, 167 Interessengemeinschaft deutscher Heeres- und Marineangehöriger, Page 51 Junglehrerbund Baldur, Page 10, 54-57 Jungnationaler Bund, Page 11 Knappenschaft, Page 12, 54-57 Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, Page 11, 51, 63, 142, 145, 153-155, 168-170 National Association of German Officers, Page 9, 51, 54-57, 167 National Association of German Soldiers, Page 7-8, 21-22 Niedersachsenring, Page 10, 54-57 Self-Defense Association, Page 10 Organisation Consul, Page 6-7, 9, 18-20, 153-155 Organisation Escherich, Page 11 Organisation Rossbach, Page 11, 170 Prussian Federation, Page 167 Reichsbund deutscher Kriegsteilnehmer deutscher Hochschulen, Page 51 Reichsbund ehemaliger Kadetten, Page 11, 54-57 Reichsbund black-white-red, page 11 Reichsflagge, page 51 Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten, page 9, 53-57 Sturmabteilungen (SA) der NSDAP, page 168-169 Teja-Bund, page 10 Turnverein Theodor Körner, page 11 Verband der bayrischen Offizier-Regimentsvereine, page 51 Verband nationalegesinnter Soldaten, pages 6, 8-9, 21-22, 51 Verein ehemaliger Baltikumer, page 11 Verein Hindenburgehrung, page 167 Verein reichstreuer Männer, page 167 Vereinigte Vaterländische Verbände Deutschlands, page 166 Volksbund gegen Bolschewismus, page 167 Volkskraftbund, page 166 Wandervogel völkischer Art, page 11 Westvorstädtischer Sportverein Leipzig-Lindenau, pages 54-57 Allgemeine Arbeiter-Union (AAU), pages 31-33, 158-159 Aufstand und Aufstandagitation, pages 36-38, 63 Executive Committee of the III. (Communist) International ECCI, page 30, 42-43, 135-136 Communist Workers Party of Germany (KAPD), page 31-33, 43, 47-48, 58-159, 163 Communist Party of Germany, page 17, 26-31, 36-41, 75-80, 83-85, 104-111, 115-136, 147-152, 158, 163 Organization Plättner, page 47-48 Political Prisoners, Work of the RHD, page 43-46 Proletarian Tribune, Page 81 Reich Association of the Unemployed, Page 158 Red Front Fighters Association, Page 161-162 Red Young Storm of the RFB, Page 9 Self-Protection Movement, Page 152 Soviet Film Society for Proletarian Culture, Page 81 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), Page 26-29 Disintegration Work of the KPD, Page 108, 132-134, 150-151, 163
Contains among other things: All-German Association, pages 102-103, 124-125 Anti-Semitism, pages 99-103 Bavarian Homeland and King's League, pages 131-133 Ehrhardt Brigade, pages 117-121 Bavarian and Reich Confederation, pages 131-133 Oberland Confederation, pages 96, 102-103 German National Assistance Association (DHV), pages 102-103 German National Freedom Party, Pages 105-107, 149-151 German National Officers' League, pages 102-103 Queen Luise-Bund, pages 102-103 National Bolshevism, pages 117-121 Nationalist Emergency Aid, pages 136 National Socialist German Workers' Party, pages 95, 104-105, 104, 107-110 National Association of German Officers, Page 102-103 Olympia, Page 125 Reichsflagge, Page 134-135 Scharnhorstbund, Page 116 Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten, Page 96, 102-103, 111-115, 117 Tannenbergbund, Page 96-102, 103, 129-130 Unabhängige Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands, Page 99-103 Vaterländische Gefangenenhilfe, Page 136-137 United Vaterländische Verbände Deutschlands, Page 96 Wehrwolf, Page 96, 102-103 Wiking-Bund, Page 122-123 Arbeiterkorrespondenz der KPD, Page 29, 38 Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kommunistischer Schriftsteller, Page 37 Bund der Freunde der Sowjetunion, Page 34-37 Executive Committee of the III. (Communist) International ECCI, page 12-67 International Workers' Aid (IAH), pages 16-18, 86-88 Communist Party of Germany, page 138-148 Proletarian Photograph Center, page 73 Red Aid of Germany, page 73-78 Red Youth Front of the RFB, page 47-66 Red Sports International, page 92-94 Red Front Fighter League, page 43-55, 143-148 Spartacus League, page 79-85 Sports Movement, page 92-94 Decomposition Work of the KPD, page 30-33
Contains among other things: All-German Association, page 58 Anti-Semitism, page 69 Bavarian Homeland and Royal League, page 58 Bismarck Youth of the German National People's Party, page 112 Totenkopf League, page 74 Tölkischer Freiheitskämpfer League, page 67 Deutschbanner Black-White-Red, page 58, 109-111 German Conservative Party, page 58 German National People's Party, page 7 German National Freedom Party, pages 59-66 German National Officers' League, pages 68-69, 72-73, 119-123 Frontbann, pages 68-69 Frontgeist, Halberstadt, page 91 Front Warriors' League e. V., Page 71 Großdeutsche Jugend, page 112 Großdeutsche Jungmannschaft, page 124-125 Hitler Youth of the NSDAP, page 82-83 Jugendbund Schill, page 105-108 Jugendvereinigung Graf Yorck von Wartenburg, page 74 Jungdeutschlandbund, page 112 Jungnationaler Bund, page 112 Jungsturm Wiking, page 112 Kyffhäuser Youth, Page 112 National Bolshevism, page 86-87 National Socialist German Workers' Party, pages 57-66, 75-85, 130-131 National Association of German Officers, page 58 Organization Rossbach, page 68-69, 105-108 Reichsflagge, page 74 Scharnhorstbund, page 112 Protection Squadrons (SS) of the NSDAP, page 79-81 Steel Helmet, Bund der Frontsoldaten, page 88-95 Stahlhelm, Jung-Stahlhelm, page 89, 112 Sturmabteilungen (SA) der NSDAP, page 79-81, 130-131 Tannenbergbund, page 68-69, 74 Treubund Deutschorden, page 99-100, 132-140 Unabhängige Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands, page 86-87 Verband Hindenburg, Page 70 United Patriotic Associations of Germany, Page 58, 89 Wehrwolf, Jung-Wehrwolf, Page 112 Wehrwolf, Page 74, 101-104, 126-129 Wiking-Bund, Page 68-69, 74, 92-95 Allgemeine Arbeiter-Union (AAU), Page 25, 26-27 Bauern- und Landarbeiterbewegung der KPD, Page 11 Executive Committee of the III. (Communist) International ECCI, page 4, 13-18 Community of Proletarian Free Thinkers, page 50-52 International Proletarian Free Thinkers, page 50-52 Communist Party of Germany, page 4-12, 19-24 League Against Imperialism and Colonial Oppression, Page 41-45 Reich Association of the Unemployed, Page 19-24 Germany's Red Aid, Page 28-40 Red Front Fighters Association, Page 8 Spartacus Association, Page 25-27, 114-118 Association of Freethinkers for Cremation, Page 50-52 Decomposition Work of the KPD, Page 8
Contains among other things: Alldeutscher Verband, pages 75-76 Bismarckorden, pages 169 Brigade Ehrhardt, pages 152 Bund der Guten, pages 94 Deutsche Ehren-Legion, pages 185 Deutscher Volksbund "Schwarz-Weiß-Rot", pages 93 Deutschvölkische Freiheitspartei, pages 85-86 Frontgeist, Halberstadt, pages 88 Frontkriegerbund e. V., Page 58 Hitler Youth of the NSDAP, pages 181-182 League for International Law, pages 149 National Socialist German Workers' Party, pages 72-74, 87-90, 156, 174-184 National Socialist German Student League, pages 184 National Association of German Officers, pages 75-76 National Association of German NCOs, Page 94 Olympia, Page 75-76, 77, 81-82 Reichsbund Black-White-Red, Page 93 Protection Squadrons (SS) of the NSDAP, Page 90, 179 Steel Helmet, Federation of Front Soldiers, Page 5, 72-74, 83-84, 156, 159-162 Storm Departments (SA) of the NSDAP, Page 90, 179 Tannenbergbund, Page 72-74, 87-88, 155-156, 170-171 Treubund German Order, Page 168 United Patriotic Associations of Germany, Page 72-74 Wehrbund Ostmark, Page 81-82 Wehrwolf, Page 73-74, 91-92 Wiking-Bund, Page 77-80, 158 "Prometheus"-Verleih und Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH, Page 34-37 Allgemeine Arbeiter-Union (AAU), Page 54 Settlement East, Page 65-68 Anti-authoritarian Block, Page 54 Arbeiter-Radio-Klub Deutschlands, Page 57-59 Arbeiter-Samariter-Bewegung, Page 51-52 Arbeiter-Schach-Klub, Page 60 Arbeiter-Schützen-Bund, Page 150 Aufstand und Aufstandagitation, Page 45-46 Bauern- und Landarbeiterbewegung der KPD, Page 5 Beamtenbewegung der KPD, Page 41-43 Bund Rote Marine, Page 26 Executive Committee of the III. (Communist) International ECCI, page 7-14, 138-139 Filmarbeit der KPD, page 34-37 Freie Arbeiterunion Deutschlands (FAUD), page 54 Gegnerabwehr der KPD, page 99-104 Gemeinschaft proletarischer Freidenker, page 70-71 Internationale Arbeiterhilfe (IAH), Page 49-50, 105 Communist Workers' Party of Germany (KAPD), Page 54, 150 Communist Party of Germany, Page 9-71, 97-109, 119-130, 133-151 Communist Youth Association of Germany, Page 23, 53, 148 Cultural policy work, Page 34-37 KPD Intelligence Service, page 29-30 KPD Folder Service, page 15-16 Proletarian Cultural Community, page 55-56 Reich Association of the Unemployed, page 137 Revolutionary Youth Ring, page 61-64 Germany's Red Aid, Page 47-48 Red Frontkämpferbund, Page 5, 17-19, 33, 121-130, 135-136, 140-145, Spartakusbund, Page 138 Sport movement, Page 31-32 Theatre work, Page 34-37 Vagantes, Page 39-40, 149 Decomposition work of the KPD, Page 27-28, 131-132
Contains among other things: Alkengilde, page 145 Alldeutscher Verband, page 32, 144 Bismarckorden, page 36 Blücherbund, page 32 Brigade Ehrhardt, page 32 Bund Oberland, page 32 Bund Sachsen und Reich, page 144 Bund Völkischer Lehrer, page 36-37 Deutsche Ehren-Legion, page 144 Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft, page 144 Deutscher Frauenorden der NSDAP, page 36 Deutscher Offiziersbund, page 144 Deutscher Ostmarkenverein, Page 145 Deutscher Schützen- und Wanderbund, Page 143-144, 159-161 Deutscher Seeverein, Page 145 Deutscher Wehrverein, Page 145 Deutschnationale Volkspartei, Page 144 Deutschnationaler Arbeiterbund, Page 144 Deutschnationaler Handlungsgehilfenverband (DHV), Page 145 Deutschnationaler Volksverein, Page 32 Deutschvölkische Freiheitspartei, Page 144 Deutschvölkische Loge, Page 32 Deutschvölkische Studentenbewegung, Page 36 German-Völkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund, page 144 German-Völkischer Turnverein, page 32 Fleet Association of German Women, page 144 Women's Club, page 145 Free Völkische Arbeitsgemeinschaft, page 144 Frontbann, page 144 Germanen-Loge, page 145 Society for the Promotion of German Art and German Essence, page 145 Greater German Youth, page 32 Greater German National Community, page 35-37, 142 Youth League Albert Leo Schlageter, page 36 Queen Luise-Bund, page 145 League for the Protection of German Culture, page 144 Naval Officers Association, page 144 National Teachers, page 145 National Club, page 145 National Ordnungsdienst, page 32, 145 National Socialist German Workers Party, pages 35-37, 140-141, 146 National Association of German Officers, page 144 East German Youth League v. Hindenburg, page 36 Reichsadler, page 144 Reichsbund deutscher Offiziere, page 144 Reichsbund Vaterländischer Arbeitervereine, page 144 Reichsflagge, page 32, 144 Sächsischer Militärvereinsbund, page 144 Scharnhorstbund, page 32 Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten, page 32-34, 144 Verein ehemaliger Baltikumer, page 144 Verein zur Förderung der nationalen Arbeiterbewegung, Page 145 United Patriotic Federations of Germany, Page 144-145 Völkische Bauernschaften, Page 36 Völkische Gewerkschaften, Page 36 Völkische Liga, Page 145 Völkischer Beamtenbund, Page 36 Völkisch-sozialer Block, Page 32, 145 Wehrwolf, Page 32, 145 Wiking-Bund, Page 34-35, 105-107 Bauern- und Landarbeiterbewegung der KPD, Page 15-21, 80-93 Executive Committee of the III. (Communist) International ECCI, pages 42-55 International of Educational Workers, pages 103-104 Jung-Spartakus-Bund (JSB), pages 21-22, 94-97 Communist Workers Party of Germany (KAPD), pages 28 Communist Party of Germany, pages 4-31, 38-61, 111-139, 147-158 Cultural Policy Work, Page 30-31 Teachers' Movement, Page 30-31 Reich Association of the Unemployed, Page 119-125 Germany's Red Aid, Page 22-28 Red Front Fighters' Association, Page 6-12, 38-55, 127-130, 154-156 KPD training work, Page 30-31 KPD Cheka, Page 125-126 KPD decomposition work, Page 38-39, 131-132, 133-134, 157-158
Contains among other things: Alkengilde, page 145 Alldeutscher Verband, page 32, 144 Bismarckorden, page 36 Blücherbund, page 32 Brigade Ehrhardt, page 32 Bund Oberland, page 32 Bund Sachsen und Reich, page 144 Bund Völkischer Lehrer, page 36-37 Deutsche Ehren-Legion, page 144 Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft, page 144 Deutscher Frauenorden der NSDAP, page 36 Deutscher Offiziersbund, page 144 Deutscher Ostmarkenverein, Page 145 Deutscher Schützen- und Wanderbund, Page 143-144, 159-161 Deutscher Seeverein, Page 145 Deutscher Wehrverein, Page 145 Deutschnationale Volkspartei, Page 144 Deutschnationaler Arbeiterbund, Page 144 Deutschnationaler Handlungsgehilfenverband (DHV), Page 145 Deutschnationaler Volksverein, Page 32 Deutschvölkische Freiheitspartei, Page 144 Deutschvölkische Loge, Page 32 Deutschvölkische Studentenbewegung, Page 36 German-Völkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund, page 144 German-Völkischer Turnverein, page 32 Fleet Association of German Women, page 144 Women's Club, page 145 Free Völkische Arbeitsgemeinschaft, page 144 Frontbann, page 144 Germanen-Loge, page 145 Society for the Promotion of German Art and German Essence, page 145 Greater German Youth, page 32 Greater German National Community, page 35-37, 142 Youth League Albert Leo Schlageter, page 36 Queen Luise-Bund, page 145 League for the Protection of German Culture, page 144 Naval Officers Association, page 144 National Teachers, page 145 National Club, page 145 National Ordnungsdienst, page 32, 145 National Socialist German Workers Party, pages 35-37, 140-141, 146 National Association of German Officers, page 144 East German Youth League v. Hindenburg, page 36 Reichsadler, page 144 Reichsbund deutscher Offiziere, page 144 Reichsbund Vaterländischer Arbeitervereine, page 144 Reichsflagge, page 32, 144 Sächsischer Militärvereinsbund, page 144 Scharnhorstbund, page 32 Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten, page 32-34, 144 Verein ehemaliger Baltikumer, page 144 Verein zur Förderung der nationalen Arbeiterbewegung, Page 145 United Patriotic Federations of Germany, Page 144-145 Völkische Bauernschaften, Page 36 Völkische Gewerkschaften, Page 36 Völkische Liga, Page 145 Völkischer Beamtenbund, Page 36 Völkisch-sozialer Block, Page 32, 145 Wehrwolf, Page 32, 145 Wiking-Bund, Page 34-35, 105-107 Bauern- und Landarbeiterbewegung der KPD, Page 15-21, 80-93 Executive Committee of the III. (Communist) International ECCI, pages 42-55 International of Educational Workers, pages 103-104 Jung-Spartakus-Bund (JSB), pages 21-22, 94-97 Communist Workers Party of Germany (KAPD), pages 28 Communist Party of Germany, pages 4-31, 38-61, 111-139, 147-158 Cultural Policy Work, Page 30-31 Teachers' Movement, Page 30-31 Reich Association of the Unemployed, Page 119-125 Germany's Red Aid, Page 22-28 Red Front Fighters' Association, Page 6-12, 38-55, 127-130, 154-156 KPD training work, Page 30-31 KPD Cheka, Page 125-126 KPD decomposition work, Page 38-39, 131-132, 133-134, 157-158
Contains among other things: All-German Association, page 76-77 Anti-Semitism, page 21, 146 Bismarck Order, page 97 Brigade Ehrhardt, page 13, 98, 116-117 Bund Oberland, page 12, 38-40, 99 Deutscher Arbeiterbund, page 130 Deutscher Bund e. V., Volksbund deutscher Föderalisten, page 130 Deutscher Herold, page 14-15, 115 Deutschvölkische Freiheitspartei, page 13, 36-37, 92-94, 115, 132-133 Deutsch-Völkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund, page 16 Großdeutsche Arbeiterpartei, page 130 Kampforganisation "Vaterland", Page 40 National Socialist German Workers Party, pages 14, 16, 36, 40-41, 98, 101, 111-112, 130-131 National Association of German Officers, pages 95-96 North German German Battle Association, page 14 Organisation Escherich, page 12 Flag of the Reich, page 13 Roland League, pages 96-97 Schlageter Memorial League e. V., Page 15-16 Steel helmet, Federation of Front Soldiers, page 37-38, 97-98, 134-136 Storm Departments (SA) of the NSDAP, page 12-13, 95-98 Völkischer Treubund Staffelstein, page 130 Völkisch-sozialer Block, page 112-114 Völkisch-sozialer Bund e. V.. (National Socialist League), Page 130 Wiking-Bund, Page 40-41, 116-117, 133 Arbeitervolksbund, Page 48-50 Uprising and Uprising agitation, Page 21-35 Offices under the direction of the Berlin Soviet Representation, Page 138 Executive Committee of the III. (Communist) International ECCI, pages 23, 55-56, 78-83, 136 Communist Party of Germany, pages 3-12, 20-36, 42-43, 57-59, 78-91, 101-109, 120-128, 136-145 Communist Youth Association of Germany, pages 7-8, 60-67 Markenzentrale Ost, page 25 Ordnerdienst der KPD, pages 65, 83-85, 106-109, 121-122 Reichsverband der Erwerbslosen, Page 21 Red Aid of Germany, Page 25-26 Red Women's and Girls' League of the KPD, Page 7-8, 104 Red Front Fighters' League, Page 4-6, 27-35, 51-52, 83-85, 103-109, 121-122 Cheka of the KPD, Page 124-126 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), Page 20 Decomposition Work of the KPD, Page 7-9, 29-30, 53
Contains among other things: Badges of the Confederations. - Overview board, 1930 Association for Proletarian Enlightenment ("Fiery Knights") - Communication of the Gauleiter Hildebrandt to the Reich Secretary of the NSDAP Bouhler, 1926 Unification or dissolution of various associations - Orders of the Political Police, 1933-1935 National Socialist Employees, 1933 Reichsbund für Arbeitsbeschaffung, 1934 Deutscher Freiheitsbund, 1934 Reichsbund former Reichswehr- und Freikorpsangehöriger, 1934 Frontsoldatenbund e.V.. (Front Soldiers' Association), 1934 Verein deutscher Rückwanderer, 1935 Bund der Runenforscher, 1935 A: Alldeutscher Verband, 1933-1934, 1938 Allgemeiner Deutscher Waffenring, 1933 Alligatorbund, 1935 Allgemeiner Schriftstellerverein, 1935 Alter Orden St. Georg, 1938 Antibolshevistische Vereinigung, 1934 Anthroposophische Gesellschaft Dr. Rudolf Steiner, 1934, 1943 Working Committee of German Associations, 1931 Workers' Samaritan League, 1933 NS Working Group for Geopolitics Working Group for Natural and Human Sciences, 1935 Victims' Union, 1934 Revaluation Movement, 1934-1935 Ascension Working Group for National Security, 1933 B: Baltic State Armed Forces, Baltic Regiment, (1936), 1943 Bavarian Home and Royal League, 1934 Former Royal Bavarian Cadet Corps e. V., 1931 Bund Bayerischer Inflationsgeschädigter Staatsbürger, 1930 Bayreuther Bund e. V., 1939-1943 Blücher (forbidden Hamburger SA) Bündische Jugend mit verschiedenen Organisationen, 1935-1939 Bund der Deckoffiziere, 1934 Bund der Goten, 1939-1941 Bund der Schweizer in Grossdeutschland, 1942 Bund der Lichtfreunde Bund Deutschstämmiger Ausländer im Reich e. V., 1931 Bund der Lichtfreunde Bund Deutschstämmiger Ausländer im Reich, 1934 Bund für inneren Frieden, 1934 Bund für Leibeszucht, 1939 Bund völkischer Europäer, 1933 Bund der Auslandsdeutschen e. V., 1933-1934 Bund Deutsche Schlaraffia, 1934 Bund der Sowjetgegner e. V., 1932-1936 C: Club 1926 e. V. (Society for Politics, Science and Art) The Club zu Bremen D: Danziger Heimatdienst, 1937 Deutscherbund, 1929, 1939 Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft, 1934-1935 Deutsche Arbeiter Volksbewegung, 1932 Deutsche Ehrenlegion, 1935 Deutscher Albertus Magnus Verein, 1939 Deutscher Amateur Sende- und Empfangsdienst, 1933-1938 Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft, 1938 Deutsch-japanische Gesellschaft.- Constitution, 1943 German Freedom Party, German Freedom League, 1934 German Life Reform Movement, n. d. German Dutch Society, 1942 German Gymnastics Association, 1933 German Association for the National Pacification of Europe, 1939 German Homeland League, 1941 German Aid, 1929 German Youth Association, 1935 German Emperor Movement, 1934-1935 German Language Association, 1933 German Club, 1933 German Colonial Association, n. d. German Warrior League, 1914/18 e. V. Deutscher Marien Ritter Orden e. V, 1939 Deutscher Fichtebund e. V. Deutscher Guttempler Orden Deutscher Ritterbund, 1934-1936 Deutscher Schützen- und Wanderbund e.V., 1933 Deutscher Schützenverband, 1939, 1942 Deutscher Rettungsdienst, 1933 Deutscher Schutzbund, 1934 Deutscher Sittlichkeitsbund vom Weissen Kreuz, 1939 Deutsche Volksgewerkschaft. Statutes, 1924 German Military Association German Association against Alcoholism, 1935 Association "German Will", 1934 German Cell Community Statutes, 1930 German People's Party Programme, 1932 German Military Team, 1935 German Public Health Association, 1944 German Youth Relief Association, 1944 German National People's Party German National Protection and Protection Association German National Combat Ring German Language Association German Science Service (DWD)
History of the Inventory Designer: The All-German Association was founded on 9 April 1891 under the name "Allgemeiner Deutscher Verband" with its headquarters in Mainz as a reaction against the German-English Zanzibar Treaty. The main tasks were to revive German national consciousness, to support German nationality abroad and to promote German interests in Europe and overseas, especially German colonial policy. In 1894 the name was changed to Alldeutscher Verband. In 1918 the seat was moved to Berlin. The association's programme was expansionist and nationalistic. Especially in the Habsburgs' Austro-Hungarian Empire, anti-Semitism and anti-Slavism were already pronounced before the First World War. With his ideological aim he acted as an intellectual precursor of Hitler's fascism. In March 1939 he was dissolved by Reinhard Heydrich on the grounds that his programme had now been fulfilled. Processing note: Findbuch (1960/70) Inventory description: Inventory history In 1942, the last chairman of the association, Dr. Heinrich Class, handed over the remains of the association archive to the Reichsarchiv. In 1943 further files of Prof. Calmbach (Stuttgart) were added to the Reichsarchiv. In 1950, the German Central Archive in Potsdam (later Zentrales Staatsarchiv Potsdam) took over the AV documents, which had been stored out together with other holdings of the Reichsarchiv during the Second World War. Due to a lack of old finding aids, there is no information about possible war-related losses. Archive evaluation and processing As a result of the first simple indexing of the documents in the German Central Archive in Potsdam, a finding index was created in 1960 which described 720 file units with a circumference of 9.2 linear metres. In 1970 the collection was reworked, partly refoliated, renumbered and redefined in terms of content. As a result, a preliminary finding aid book was created, which was technically processed in the period from 2003 to 2005. The search book can now be searched online on the website of the Federal Archives. Characterisation of the contents: Main points of the tradition: Foundation, organisation and history of the association, meetings of the board, meetings of the executive committee, general correspondence by year, relations and relationships with organisations and persons, publications and situation reports of the office, submissions and public declarations 1895-1933, collections, war target movement in the 1st World War. World War II, Ethnic and Anti-Semitic Movement, Position on Christianity, Position on State and Government during the Weimar Republic, Relations with Austria-Hungary, Anschluss Österreichs, Verhältnis zum Ausland Erschließungszustand: Findbuch (o.Dat.), Online-Findbuch (2005) Citation method: BArch, R 8048/...