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- 1914-1918 (Creation)
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302 Aufbewahrungseinheiten; 3,9 laufende Meter
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Kaiserliches Generalgouvernement Belgien, 1914-1918
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History of the Inventor: During the 1st World War, occupied Belgium was subordinated to a governor general. His chief of the general staff had to secure the area militarily; next to him stood a chief of the civil administration. Inventory description: By cabinet order of 23.8.1914 the occupied Belgium was subordinated to a general government. His chief of the general staff had to secure the area militarily; next to him stood a chief of the civil administration. From 1915 an independent "Political Department of the General Governor in Belgium" was subordinated to the civil administration, to which the following tasks were assigned: 1. diplomacy, 2. domestic politics, 3. Belgian-American food factory, 4. Belgian archives, 5. press. Characterization of content: The records of the Political Department include records and files of Schwertfeger and his collaborators Professor Dr. Karl Spannagel and Professor Dr. Alfred Doren. Schwertfeger's handfiles consist mainly of copies of the Belgian diplomatic reports, from which Schwertfeger published the file "Zur europäischen Politik 1897-1914" in 1919. Among other things, these contain material on Belgian economic interests in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The civil administration has handed down minutes of meetings, studies, memorandums and other documents on economics, transport and banking. Pre-archival order: The files of the Political Department of the Governor General in Belgium have been completely lost. Some files from the archive department of the Political Affairs Department have been transferred to the Federal Archives as part of the estate of their head, the then Colonel Bernhard Schwertfeger. Some remains of the civil administration have been preserved. In 1965, the Rehse Collection, which had been transferred from the Library of Congress in Washington to the Federal Archives, brought further remains of written documents into the military archives. In 1994, a few fragments of files from the former military archives of the GDR were added to the collection. Scope, explanation: 239 AE Citation method: BArch, PH 30-I/...
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Prussian Army 1867 to 1918/1919 >> Commanders and Gouvernements
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Rechteinformation beim Datenlieferanten zu klären.
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- German
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Schriftgut
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Verwandtes Archivgut im Bundesarchiv: <br />
NL 15 Nachlass Bernhard Schwertfeger<br />
Militärgeschichtliche Sammlungen (MSg)<br />
N 39/301 (Nachlaß Mackensen): Gouvernement Antwerpen.- Handakten der Adjutantur<br />
enthält u.a.: Geschäftsverteilungspläne für das Generalgouvernement Belgien, die Gouvernements Antwerpen, Namur, Brüssel und Brabant, die Militärgouvernements Namur, Hennegau, Lüttich, Luxemburg, Limburg und Beverloo;<br />
Soll- und Ist-Stellenbesetzung der Offiziere (9.3.1915-1.4.1918); Stellenbesetzungen des nachgeordneten Bereichs; sonstige Unterlagen<br />
N 39/302 (Nachlaß Mackensen): Gouvernement Antwerpen.- 8 Fotos von Angehörigen des Stabes (13.8.1917)<br />
N 27/8 (Nachlaß Fulda): Generalgouvernement Belgien.- verschiedene Unterlagen<br />
enthält u.a.: Kriegstagebuch des Verkehrsoffiziers beim GG (13.9.1914-1.5.1915); Befehle und Mitteilungen des Generalgouverneurs (1914/15)<br />
N 27/9 (Nachlaß Fulda): Generalgouvernement Belgien.- Halten von Tauben (1914/15)
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Amtliche Druckschriften: <br />
PHD 23 Militärverwaltungen
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Literatur: <br />
Cron, Hermann: Die Organisation des deutschen Heeres im Weltkriege. In: Forschungen und Darstellungen aus dem Reichsarchiv, Heft 5. Berlin 1923<br />
Cron, Hermann: Geschichte des deutschen Heeres im Weltkrieg 1914-1918. Berlin 1937<br />
Chrysant, P.: Die rechtliche Stellung des Generalgouverneurs in Belgien. Jur. Diss. Bonn 1917<br />
Köhler, Ludwig v.: Die Staatsverwaltung der besetzten Gebiete. Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig 1927<br />
Lancken Wakenitz, Oskar Freiherr von der: Meine dreißig Dienstjahre. Berlin 1931<br />
Oszwald, Paul: Die Errichtung des deutschen Generalgouvernements in Belgien 1914. In: Staat und Persönlichkeit. Festschrift für Erich Brandenburg. Leipzig 1928<br />
Wingerfeldt, H.v.: Die deutsche Verwaltung des Generalgouvernements in Belgien 1914-1918. In: Schwarte, L.: Der große Krieg. Bd. 10. Berlin 1923.<br />
Horne, John/Kramer, Alan: Deutsche Kriegsgreuel 1914. Die umstrittene Wahrheit. Hamburg 2004.<br />
Joris Vanderborght: Iventaris van het archief van de Kamer van volksvertegenwoordigers in ballingschap 1914-1918 (1920). Met in bijlage de inventaris van het archief van het Offizierskasino van het Duitse Gouvernement-Generaal in België 1914-1916, Brussel 2014.
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Original description: Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek