Foreword Forest Office Marktheidenfeld: Administrative history: After the Napoleonic wars, Franconia and some parts of the Kurmainz territory were assigned to the Kingdom of Bavaria. In order to create a uniform administrative basis, a comprehensive forestry organisation was carried out. The boundaries of the forestry offices were redesigned and the older forestry offices with their districts were created. The noble territories dissolved by the revolution of 1848 were subordinated to the State Forestry Administration. New state precincts emerge. The large community forest Marktheidenfeld remains with the community district Neubrunn and was not assigned to its home district, but to the forestry office Würzburg. As time went by, forest districts acquired more rights of their own. This finally prepared the foundation of the new forestry office Marktheidenfeld. After the war of 1866, the assignment of the district offices Orb and Gersfeld, these forestry offices with their districts were dissolved. As far as the latter remained with Bavaria, they came to the Lohr forestry office, which in turn ceded the Michelrieth municipal district to the Stadtprozelten forestry office. By order of 12.9.1866, the Michelrieth district was renamed and its seat moved to Marktheidenfeld. In 1868 the formation of the territory was improved: Schollbrunn was ceded and Karbach and Marktheidenfeld were taken over. By executive order of 23. 6. 1885 58 forestry offices were founded in Lower Franconia including the forestry office Marktheidenfeld. Although some minor border changes and displacements still occurred during the years, the forestry office, to which extensive community forest belonged, remained in existence until 30.4.1962 (for forestry settlement see administrative history of the forestry office Marktheidenfeld II; Rep. 5.1.-58.2). Inventory formation: The present find book mainly comprises files from the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. While few begin before 1850, others reach into the 1950s. They are arranged according to the file plan of the 19th century, which precedes the find book. Especially on older files, file numbers of earlier file plans are noted, which however can no longer be assigned exactly. Hand it over to the State Archives: The files were taken over in the course of the 2005 forest reform. Previously submitted files have been incorporated as well as municipal business plans. Instructions for use: Since the recorded files are preceded by the Forstamtsaktenplan, a subject index was dispensed with. A factual search must therefore be carried out using the file plan. A closed block of general files was recorded, the contents of which can be easily overlooked by means of the "Containment notes". In any case, the file Marktheidenfeld II should be used for research purposes. Würzburg, June 2009 Barbara Hellmann

Relations with the commander of the Territoire militaire du Tchad. - Report by Dr Ebermaier to the Imperial Colonial Office, 1903 [fol. 82 - 85] Alleged threats by African employees of French merchants about an imminent Franco-German war and the resulting seizure of Adamaua and punishment of all natives opposed to France. - Investigation, 1913 [fol. 115 - 126] Sketch of North Cameroon with the areas of the Binder (Marua) and Ngaundere posts as well as the customs posts of the Residenturen, (1912) Map of the course of the French stage road Ham am Logone - bis Lere am Benue-Fluss 1:500 000 Blueprint with coloured drawing, 1912

Tradition and order: The General Adjutant's Office delivered older documents itself at the end of 1918, younger ones to the Margrave's Chancellery in Baden-Baden, from there to the Army Museum and in 1946 to the General State Archives. Since in 1909 no repository had been planned for the files of the General Adjutant's Office - with good reason, because it belonged to the "military state" of the Grand Duke, not actually to the court authorities - they were stored in 1918 in the files of the Haus- und Staatsarchiv following the Haus- und Hofsachen; in 1939 the inventory was given the number 59. Julius Kastner produced the present find book in 1964 on the basis of older card indexes. The basic lists and personnel reports about officers in Baden regiments 1858-1870 (59/618-639) and the list of names of the officers buried in the old cemetery in Karlsruhe 1870-1871 (59/404) were dispersed; both indexes are today in the thematic inventories of the General State Archive. In 2009, Kastner's search book was converted into an online search book with funds from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and then edited by Christoph Florian and Alfred Becher. Within the framework of the conversion, however, it was not possible to revise the unsatisfactory state of order. In the future, for example, confusing large categories such as "Rank and Quarter Lists, Personnel Changes, Basic Lists, Personnel Reports, Personnel Sheets", in which several series were mixed together, are to be diffused more clearly; the separation of series, which was caused by the common distinction between peacetime ("military matter") and wartime ("wartime matter"), also has a negative effect; the treatment of the meritorious, but very detailed indices of Julius Kastner remained problematic in the conversion to an online finding aid. For the collection in SCOPE archive the in-depth entries of Kastner were difficult, the result remained unsatisfactory; the indices must be worked on completely again. Since this was not possible within the scope of the finding aid conversion, only a Word version is available for the time being in the printed find book copies of the General State Archives; it was created by Christoph Florian from the typewritten template. Full text search is recommended for online searches. History and content: No written material seems to have survived from the older General Adjutant's Office in Baden, which was abolished in 1832. Grand Duke Leopold confined himself to hiring personal adjutants, some of whom - like Heinrich Krieg von Hochfelden - also had quite different non-military tasks to perform. In 1852 Frederick I, as Prince Regent in the restoration phase after the Revolution, re-established a General Adjutant's Office as the Prince Regent; it formed the link between the Grand Duke, as supreme warlord, and the Baden Army as well as the War Ministry, and after 1871 the XIV (Baden) Army Corps of the Prussian Army. Accordingly, questions of military personnel and contact with troops are at the heart of the tradition. However, since the General Adjutant's duties also included dealing with the military ceremony, the collection also provides information on the bestowal of orders, visits by emperors and princes, anniversaries, unveilings of monuments and other occasions of representation which had a major influence on the increasingly militarised everyday life of the empire. Karlsruhe, October 2009Konrad Krimm

Corps History: The Corps was established according to the mobilization plan in August 1914 and disbanded during the demobilization in 1918. At the beginning of the war, the corps was subordinated to the 7th Army and divided into two reserve divisions (26th and 28th reserve divisions). During the war it was used only on the western theater of war. The structure of the corps staffs was the same everywhere at the beginning of the war. The Commanding General was assisted by a Chief of the General Staff as co-responsible advisor and superior of all organs of the Staff. The staffs were divided into the General Staff Division I (I a leadership, I b rear services, I c enemy position), Adjutantur II (II a officer's personnel, II b personal service at the General, II c team substitute and horse affairs), Feldjustiz III, Intendantur- und Kassenwesen IV a, Sanitätswesen IV b, Veterinärwesen IV c, Militärseelsorge IV d, Feldpost, Kommandant des Hauptquartiers und Feldgendarmerie. The commanding generals of the XIV Reserve Corps during the war were: General of Artillery Richard von Schubert02.08.1914 to 13.09.1914, Lieutenant General Hermann von Stein14.09.1914 to 28.10.1916, Lieutenant General Georg Fuchs 28.10.1916 to 11.03.1917,Lieutenant General Otto von Moser11.03.1917 to 07.02.1918,Lieutenant General Arthur von Lindequist08.02.1918 to 14.06.1918,Lieutenant General Richard Wellmann15.06.1918 to 23.08.1918,General der Infanterie Kurt von Morgen24.08.1918 bis zur Demobilmachung..In the Free State of Baden the new formation of the Baden People's Army began on 13 January 1919 with the acceptance of volunteers. As a reaction to the so-called "Spartacus Uprising" in February 1919, the Reich and Badische Volksregierung had further voluntary associations set up at all units in addition to the existing voluntary formations. Inventory history: After the end of the war, the files remained with the General Command of the XIV Army Corps. From January 1920, the establishment of an archive of the XIV Army Corps was begun, in which the archives of the settlement agencies were brought together. In autumn 1920 the corps archive moved to the infantry barracks in Heilbronn. From January 1921, the Corps Archives entered the portfolio of the Reich Ministry of the Interior under the name Aktenverwaltung XIV, before being incorporated into the Reichsarchiv in Potsdam as the Heilbronn archive branch on April 1, 1921. As a result of the merger of the Heilbronn and Stuttgart branches of the Reich Archives, the holdings were transferred to Stuttgart in 1924. The Württembergische Archivdirektion, which took over the administration of the holdings of the Army Archives Stuttgart after the end of the Second World War, handed over the XIV Army Corps to the General State Archives Karlsruhe in the years 1947 to 1949. A very detailed history of the holdings is contained in the foreword of the Deputy General Command of the XIV Army Corps (holdings 456 F 8). 848 fascicles with a circumference of 21.25 linear metres are included in the holdings. References: Die Badener im Weltkrieg 1914/18, edited by Wilhelm Müller-Loebnitz, Karlsruhe 1935.German Military History in six volumes 1648-1939, edited by the Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt Freiburg, Munich 1983.Fenske, Hans: Die Verwaltung im Ersten Weltkrieg, in: Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte, vol. 3, Stuttgart 1984, p. 866-908.Fischer, Joachim: Zehn Jahre Militärarchiv des Hauptstaatsarchivs Stuttgart, in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 37 (1978), p. 362-368.Jäger, Harald: Das militärische Archivgut in der Bundesrepublik für die Zeit von 1871 bis 1919, in: Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen 1968/2, S. 135-138.Overview of the holdings of the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, edited by Joachim Fischer (published by the Staatliche Archivverwaltung Baden-Württemberg, vol. 31), Stuttgart 1983.

Contains: "Zeitschrift der Akademie für Deutsches Recht" (Journal of the Academy for German Law), including: Treatment of Foreign Property in the USA during the 1942 War 1942 Situation of the Germans in East, South and Southwest Africa and Southern Rhodesia, 4th Bulletin of the Federal Foreign Office (print), Jan. 1942 the like in England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (print), 1941 Administration of Enemy Property in Japan, 1941 - 1942

Contains among other things: Economy in the use of finances War in Denmark and Holland Fate of the Kiautschou protectorate

Preliminary remark: The present holdings include the files of Section IV e of both the General Command and the Deputy General Command of the XIV Bath. Army Corps, as they came together in 1949 from the Army Archives in Stuttgart to the General State Archives in Karlsruhe. These are individual case files on offences that were subject to the military judiciary in times of peace and war and were reported by it to the superior military authority as special cases.beyond the individual case, both the so-called honorary court files of the officers and the criminal and protective custody files of civilians provide a comprehensive insight into the sphere of activity and validity of military justice in the German Empire. Particularly during the First World War, it became clear that military justice had to fulfil political tasks, and what they had to do. With the unrelenting persecution of those persons who were considered to be "unreliable", their legally highly controversial preventive arrest and subsequent deportation to the interior of the Reich, the extraordinary war courts established for this purpose have acquired a dodgy fame. The fact that they destroyed the successes achieved over decades in integrating Alsace-Lorraine into the Wilhelminian Empire within just a few months is one of the tragic episodes in the history of the Reichland between 1871 and 1918. The present holdings were originally catalogued by a tax register compiled in the Army Archives. This did not meet the archive requirements. In the mid-1980s, the new indexing was started and completed in 1990.Karlsruhe, in November 1990Dr. Kurt Hochstuhl Conversion: In 2008, the indexing data for the present finding aid were converted into the new indexing software scopeArchiv within the scope of the project "Conversion of old finding aid data" of the General State Archive Karlsruhe. Guido Fögler was responsible for the technical implementation of the overall project "Conversion of old finding aid data" and Alexander Hoffmann for support. The editorial finishing of the online version was done by the undersigned.Karlsruhe, January 2009Dr. Martin Stingl

28cm howitzer after the blasting by the Germans. / Photographer: Scherl

History of the Inventor: After Adolf Hitler had been appointed Reich Chancellor of the German Reich on January 30, 1933, the NSDAP gradually undermined the democratic system of the Weimar Republic over the following months and finally eliminated it. Decisive stages were the abolition of fundamental rights after the fire of the Reichstag on 28 February 1933 and the abolition of parliamentarism by the so-called Enabling Act of 23 March 1933. The latter abolished the separation of powers and conferred all legislative powers on the government under Adolf Hitler for four years. A further step was the smashing of the parties and unions. After the KPD had been banned, the trade unions dissolved and the SPD rendered incapable of action, the other parties dissolved on their own. In the course of these measures, the six existing municipal umbrella organisations also lost their independence. On May 22, 1933, the chairmen and managing presidents of the German/Prussian Association of Cities, the Reichsstädtebund, the Deutscher Landkreistag, the Deutscher Landgemeindetag, the Preußischer Landgemeindetag West, and the Association of Prussian Provinces were forced to give their consent to the transfer of the various associations into a new unified association. From now on, this "German Community Day" was to be the sole corporate representation of all German city and community associations recognised by the NSDAP. In order to standardize the previous associations with their 80 sub-organizations, the provisional Lord Mayor of Munich, Karl Fiehler, was appointed as "Representative for the Standardization of the Municipal Central Associations". The management of the new association was taken over by Dr. Kurt Jeserich, provisional director of the Institute for Municipal Science in Berlin, and Dr. Ralf Zeitler, speaker at the Reich Employers' Association. The merger process, which lasted for months, finally came to an end in the Law on the German Community Day of 15 December 1933, which finally established the formation of the new association. As the only existing communal top organization, the German Community Day, which as a corporation under public law was fundamentally subordinate to the Reich Minister of the Interior, was forced to include all cities, rural communities, administrative districts, provinces and later also the Reichsgaue in its capacity as self-governing government units. After the integration of Austria and the Sudetenland into the German Reich in 1938, the annexation of West Prussia, Gdansk and Poznan in the following year, the sphere of influence of the German Association of Municipalities was extended to the new parts of the Reich and their Gau administrations. In principle, the association took over the municipal representation of interests for all areas placed under German sovereignty. On February 14, 1934, Karl Fiehler, the previous commissioner for unification, was appointed the first chairman of the German Association of Municipalities. Fiehler was head of the NSDAP's local government department. The personal union was intended to coordinate the orientation of the NSDAP's work in local politics with the work of the German Community Congress and thus to comply with the principle of the harmony of party and state proclaimed at the 1933 Reich Party Congress in Nuremberg. The management of the German Association of Municipalities was subject to the instructions of the chairman and Reichsleiter of municipal politics. Through this entanglement of party and state authorities, the German Community Day came under the "organizations supported by the NSDAP", which was also partly advantageous, since the technical work could be made more effective under the supremacy of the party office. The association was now much more representative of the state. However, the idea of a unitary association with clearly defined tasks and closer ties to the state was nothing new; quite a few saw in it the possibility of better asserting municipal interests. The forced standardization and the practice of the totalitarian state, however, only allowed the possible advantages of the new uniform association to recede into the background. The association was supervised by the Reich Minister of the Interior, who appointed the chairman, the members of the board and the specialist committees. The executive committee and specialist committees were only allowed to meet after being convened by the minister, who also determined the agenda. In addition, he approved the budget and he himself or a deputy had to chair the committees. In addition to the 20 specialist committees, which only had the right to advise the chairman, the state and provincial offices were the only subordinate bodies of the Berlin office. Although the association had a highly centralised structure, the necessary expansion to include regional working groups and county departments in order to increase the exchange of experience led to an organisational structure that was comparable in its approach to that of the old associations. The fact that the association no longer had the right to represent municipal interests before the Reich and Land authorities on its own initiative had a particularly drastic effect. Only after a request by the authorities should the association be allowed to express itself from now on. Before 1933, however, it was precisely this right of initiative that had been decisive for the active representation of interests vis-à-vis the state and the self-determination of municipal associations as part of a pluralistic social order. Despite the organisational and political changes, the German Community Day also played an important role between 1933 and 1945, above all as a community advisory centre and as a mediator of practical experience in the field of local administration. Even the exchange between municipalities and state administration was by no means discontinued, which is evidenced by the active expert activities of the German Association of Municipalities (Deutscher Gemeindetags). A certain continuity in the association's work could also be ensured by the fact that a larger number of executives from the dissolved associations transferred to the new association. The organisational structure of the German Association of Municipalities was basically very similar to that of the German/Prussian Association of Cities. Thus the German Community Day took over the coat of arms of the German/Prussian Community Day, the Holstentor, and also its registry. The annual meetings of the German Association of Municipalities also followed on from similar events of the predecessor institutions. As a result of the bombing of Berlin during the Second World War, the German Community Day moved part of its administrative offices in August 1943 from Berlin to Wels/Upper Austria. The main tasks of the departments there were Ia (civil servants, employees and workers), II (finances and taxes), III (welfare, health and social policy), V (schools), Va (culture), VI (real estate, construction and housing) and Rv (defence of the Reich). It should be noted that only Division III with all registries moved to Wels. The other departments - probably only working staffs - took only parts of their registries with them. Also the cash administration and the personnel office moved to Wels. Departments Z (Central Department: General Administration, Management), I (Constitution and Administration), IV (Economy and Transport) and the Department for the Eastern Territories remained in Berlin. After the collapse of the German Reich in 1945, the German Community Day, due to its status as a "supervised organization", was regarded by the Allies as a part of the NSDAP's outlines and, together with the other organizations of the NSDAP, banned and formally dissolved. The administrator appointed by the Berlin magistrate for the concerns of the German Association of Municipalities did not succeed in correcting this misunderstanding. It was not possible to set up a kind of municipal chamber as the successor to the German Association of Municipalities. The "German Association of Cities", which had already re-constituted itself in 1946, was granted the right to ownership of the property of the German Association of Cities, but it could not bear the financial burden of the reconstruction and repair of the building on its own. Together with the Berlin Senate, the "Verein zur Pflege kommunalwissenschaftlicher Aufgaben e.V." was finally founded and established in 1951 as an asset holder of the German Association of Municipalities. The association, which was soon renamed "Verein für Kommunalwissenschaften", took over the office building in Straße des 17. Juni and also the files stored there. The building, today known as the Ernst Reuter House, was planned by Albert Speer for the German Community Day, erected from 1938 and finally occupied by the German Community Day in 1942. The German Association of Cities, the largest municipal umbrella organisation, initially set up its headquarters in Cologne due to its special status in Berlin. It was not until 1999 that the head office was partially relocated to the Ernst-Reuter-Haus in Berlin. In addition to the German Association of Cities and Towns, the central associations at district and municipal level were also newly formed after the Second World War. The Deutscher Landkreistag and the Deutscher Städte- und Gemeindebund, together with the Deutscher Städtetag, represent the most important municipal interest groups. The Federal Association of Municipal Central Associations offers these three associations the opportunity to present their interests in a bundled manner and to jointly express their views on overarching problems. Inventory description: Inventory history The inventory R 36 consists entirely of the files of the administrative offices relocated to Wels during the war. Apart from the cash documents and personnel files, the whereabouts of which could not be clarified, the Wels stockpiles have survived the war and the turmoil of the post-war period without any losses. They were taken by a member of the German Association of Communities via Linz/Donau, Offenburg, Frankfurt/Main to Siegburg, where the files were first kept at the newly founded German Association of Counties. With the approval of the Federal Association of Municipal Central Associations, the latter handed them over to the Federal Archives in 1953. The records in the Federal Archives represent only a small part of the total records. An estimated three-quarters of the total holdings, which consisted of the non-displaced registry parts of the German Association of Municipalities and the old registries of the dissolved umbrella organisations, remained in Berlin. After the Second World War, the files were stored at the Verein für Kommunalwissenschaften, which handed them over to the Landesarchiv Berlin as a deposit in 1968. There the German Community Day is registered today with 8600 file units. The second largest part of the collection is the legacy of the German and Prussian Association of Cities with 4286 files, whereby its war economy files from the years 1914 to 1918 form a separate collection with 1279 file units. Furthermore, the tradition of the Reichsstädtebund, the Association of Prussian Provinces, the German and Prussian Landkreistag, the German and Prussian Landgemeindetag and other associations that were absorbed into the German Gemeindetag in 1933 can be found in the Berlin State Archives. The German Association of Cities also handed over its old registrations to the Landesarchiv Berlin until 1985. Already in 1937/38 a small part of the files of the predecessor institutions of the German Community Day had been transferred to the Prussian Secret State Archives - today the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage. These holdings had been moved to Stassfurt during the war and then to the German Central Archive of the GDR, Merseburg Department. Today the tradition of the German and Prussian Association of Cities and Towns, the Association of Prussian Provinces, the Prussian County Council and the Prussian West Community Council is again in the Secret State Archives in Berlin-Dahlem. Documents of the German and Prussian Association of Cities, the Reichsstädtebund and the German and Prussian Landkreistag amounting to some 2600 file units, which had been transferred to the Reichsarchiv Potsdam in 1938, were lost in the fire at the archive building in April 1945. Archive evaluation and processing The present finding aid book represents a revision of the finding aid book produced in Koblenz in 1957. Volume counts, as far as they had been specified in the file numbers, were taken over for the volume sequences. In addition, further tape sequences were created for archiving purposes. The transactions contained in individual volumes ("booklets") were included in the titles. For the illustration of the volume and issue divisions, the file numbers are displayed in the index. Furthermore, the titles and the classification, which were based entirely on the file plan of the German Association of Municipalities, were slightly changed. For example, file plan items have been grouped together and the names of individual subgroups have been standardized. The changes were made carefully in order to reproduce as faithfully as possible the traditional registry order, as far as it has been preserved. There were no cassations. Furthermore, it should be pointed out that a large part of the files had been created by the predecessor institutions and then continued by the German Association of Municipalities after 1933. Content characterization: Administration of departments, committees, personnel and salary matters 1926-1945 (24), personnel files 1927-1944 (25), budget, cash and accounting 1939-1943 (2), course of business and management 1936-1945 (10), Publishing affairs 1933-1945 (16), constitutional and administrative affairs 1926-1944 (10), civil service affairs 1916-1945 (350), employee affairs 1932-1944 (41), worker affairs 1932-1944 (55), labor law 1934-1944 (32), Hospital staff 1926-1945 (26), four-year plan 1936-1944 (8), general financial matters, financial equalisation 1920-1945 (40), budget, cash and accounting of municipalities 1923-1944 (37), taxation and tax law 1918-1945 (81), Contributions and fees 1932-1944 (6), wealth and debt management 1922-1944 (24), savings banks, banking 1928-1944 (17), welfare 1915-1945 (354), economic welfare 1914-1945 (126), health 1912-1944 (60), health 1909-1945 (108), Youth welfare 1913-1945 (68), unemployment assistance 1925-1945 (93), social insurance 1921-1945 (62), accident insurance 1925-1945 (100), hospitals 1920-1944 (12), institutions 1912-1945 (177), work service 1924-1944 (41), welfare education 1928-1945 (59), Youth education 1921-1945 (35), Sport 1906-1945 (49), Cemetery and Funeral 1917-1944 (31), Economy and Transport 1935-1939 (3), Education 1913-1945 (167), Vocational and Continuing Education 1920-1944 (26), Technical and Higher Education 1920-1945 (25), Popular education 1933-1945 (8), art, monument conservation, nature conservation 1926-1945 (123), religious affairs 1931-1943 (9), tourism 1934-1944 (3), urban development, roads 1931-1945 (29), road construction, road traffic 1925-1945 (39), agriculture, Forestry and Water Management 1927-1945 (23), General Affairs of the Reich Defence 1939-1944 (4), War Welfare 1937-1945 (18), War Food Economy 1919-1944 (79), Air Protection 1926-1945 (53) State of Development: Online-Findbuch (2007) Citation method: BArch, R 36/...

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Circulars, minutes, messages, annual accounts; Entries to the Federal Foreign Office to protect the interests of German Protestant missions; Call by the Evangelical Press Association for a Reformation thank-you donation, Dr., 1917; Why and for what a Protestant Reformation thank-you donation. An Explanatory Word to the Call, 8 p., Dr., 1917; Allgemeine Missions-Nachrichten, October 1917; Aus d. seelsorgerl. Hilfsarbeit f. kriegsgefangene Deutsche, Dr., January 1918; Protest declaration on the political activity of Dr. John Motts, 3rd part, Dr., ca. 1918; Der Krieg in den gt. Schutzgebieten, S.-Dr. Dt. Kolonialblatt No. 19/20, October 1918; Coloniale Kundgebung u. Aufruf zur Signatureensammlung, 1918; A protest of the German Colonial Society, Dr., 1918; J. Richter: Report on the state of the German Protestant mission in the colonies at the beginning of World War I, 28 p., ms., c. 1918; Statute of the German Society for Missiology, Dr., n.d.

Correspondence, especially on difficulties due to outbreak of war; To the Evangelical Christians Abroad, by German theologians, August 1914; The European War, answer English theologians, September 1914

Annual report, minutes of negotiations, circulars; correspondence, especially on the question of the mission in English colonies, esp. m. Oldham and J. Mott; Call for Peace and Christian Community, the Neutral to the Warring Countries, Dr.; Press Notes of the Evangelical-Lutheran Mission Leipzig; Axenfeld: Prohibits War for the Future German Mission in Non-German Areas, 8 p., Dr.; Stark (ed.): The Martyrdom of the Evangelical Missionaries in Cameroon, 15 p., Dr.

Contains: - Article "Ueber die Völkerliga" from the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung", Aug. 13, 1918 (mechanical copy) - Report on a survey on the establishment of a "Deutscher Völkerbund-Liga" (mechanical copy) together with a letter from Fritz Springer, [1918] and Oct. 2, respectively. 1918 - Proposal of the Swiss Committee for the Preparation of the League of Nations for the Realization of the League of Nations, Application for the Establishment of a "German League of Nations" as a Section of the "League of Nations for Freedom and Fatherland" and Invitation to Discuss these Applications, Oct. 7, 1918. 1918 - Proposal to the warring powers for the establishment of peace and for the establishment of the League of Nations, as well as draft of a declaration of Germany to its war opponents by the Swiss Committee for the Preparation of the League of Nations, with accompanying letter, Oct. 1918 - flyer draft for the "Deutsche Liga für Völkerbund" and league flyer "Der Völkerbund", [Oct. or Nov. 1918 resp. 1918-1919] - "Arbeitsplan für die Deutsche Liga für Völkerbund", [1918-1919] - essay "Erzbergers Grundgedanken", signed with "Fidelis", from: "Der Vortrupp" 7 (1918) Nr. 21, p. 401-411 - essay "Walther Schücking. A German Teacher of International Law" by Hans Wehberg, n.d. - Invitation and programme as well as principles for the programme of the International League of Nations Conference from 5-12 March 1919 in Bern together with accompanying letter, Febr. 1919 - Essay "Wilson und der Völkerbundgedanke" by Count Bernstorff in the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", Feb. 1, 1919 - Essay "Deutschland und Wilson" by Prof. Dr. Walther Schücking in the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", Feb. 1, 1919 - Essay "Deutschland und Wilson" by Prof. Dr. Walther Schücking in the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", Feb. 1, 1919 - Essay "Wilson und der Völkerbundgedanke" by Graf Bernstorff in the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", Feb. 1, 1919 - Essay "Deutschland und Wilson" by Prof. Dr. Walther Schücking in the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", Febr. 1919 - Essay "Die Entente - Deutschlands Wegweiser zum Bolschewismus oder zum Völkerbund?" by Bernhard Dernburg, from: "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", Febr. 7, 1919 - Essay "Deutschlands sozialpolitisches Programm für den Völkerbund" by J. Giesberts in the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", Feb. 3, 1919 - Essay "Die deutschen Missionen und das Völkerrecht" by Prof. Dr. D. Baumgarten in the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", Feb. 24, 1919. April 1919 - Essay "Der 'gerechte Krieg'" by Prof. Dr. Gustav Radbruch in the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", 28 April 1919 - Part of a draft law on labour law issues from the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", o.D. - "Deutscher Entwurf eines Verfassung des Völkerbundes" der Studienkommission der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerrecht unter dem Vorsitz von Prof. Dr. Niemeyer, [1919] - "Proposals of the German Government for the Establishment of a League of Nations" in the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", n.d. - Cross section of the press "Der Völkerbundgedanke in Italien" in the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", Jan. 1919 - article "Der Smutssche Völkerbundplan" in the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", n.d. - cross section "Zug um Zug der Entente-Propaganda" in the "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Liga für Völkerbund", febr. 1919 - newspaper article "Der Völkerbund. Der Entwurf", 15 Febr. [1919] - Letter by Prof. Ruhlmann of the "League for League of Nations", concerning the discussion of cultural policy propaganda abroad in the Committee for Foreign Affairs, with drafts of Haußmann's reply and a letter to the Reich Foreign Minister Hermann Müller, Jan.Feb. 1920 - Invitation by the weekly "Die Menschheit" to comment on what would be the most effective decisions of the League of Nations Assembly, with draft reply, Oct. 1920 - "Article for the Volkswehr. The disarmament question at the League of Nations Conference in Bern" by Count Max Montgelas, [1919] Darin: - Die Tätigkeit des Völkerbundes im Monat August Nr. 5, 1. Sept. 1921

German patrol with Kaumi (today: Gaomi) in the German colony Kiautschou during the Boxer Uprising / Photographer: Scherl

Landing of the pilot Trück, who was the first to land in the steppe of German Southwest Africa in the First World War. / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: - "The colonial Germans from D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a in Belgian captivity." Published by Reichskolonialamt, Berlin 1918 (printed).

Soldiers of the Schutztruppe in Deutsch-Südwestafrika on their camels / Photographer: Scherl

Supporting column of the Schutztruppe on the march through D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a during the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

German soldiers and Askari of the protective group in defensive position in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a during the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Askaris and German officers of the German Schutztruppe in a battle position near Kilimanjaro / Photographer: Scherl

German Schutztruppe in the Mahenge combat area resting on a harvested millet field. In the background characteristic formations of the Upogora Mountains / Photographer: Scherl

Colonial troops with carrier column on the march in Deutsch-Ostafrika in the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Section of the Mora position in northern Cameroon: Sergeant Weissenberger on a captured English machine gun while firing at the opposite English position / Photographer: Scherl

Soldiers in front of an armoured car of the Uganda Railway in British East Africa / Photographer: Scherl

Column of German soldiers on horses and in horse carts. Pre-war attempts by the captain of the Schutztruppe in Cameroon, Kurt Strümpell. / Photographer: Scherl

German soldiers in the jungle with a machine gun. The photo was taken by a photographer in captivity. / Photographer: Scherl

German soldiers (from left to right: Senior Physician Dr. Wolf, Lieutenant Baldamus, Lieutenant von Schappuis) in front of the customs house in Bagamojo with bullet hole in the colony of D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a during the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Soldiers of the German Schutztruppe felling trees in the fighting area Mahenge in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a / Photographer: Scherl

Contains: Experiences in the war against the Hottentots (Sept. 1905 - Feb. 1906)

Contains: Reception and catering for returning troops, etc: Letterheads: Carl GIESER, pig butcher; K. LAUFER, master baker; Johann Heinrich MAYER, wines and delicacies; Hermann WOLFF, material, colonial and paint shop; Jacob BÄRSCH, tobacco products. Also dep.: LUDWIG (III.): To my faithful people (print), 1866 Sept. 17.

General information The files combined in this finding aid book originate from different registry layers as well as from different registries. In the main, they comprise from the old central office of the government (i.e. the Presidential Division CB I) the former subjects 35 (Public Peace and Mood), 35a (Social Democracy and Anarchism), 36 (Forbidden Links, Supervision of Individual Suspicious Individuals) as well as 47 (so-called Registrar's Office MOB). This latter registry grew into a comprehensive processing area for the mobilization, the war of 1914/18, the economic and military demobilization, as well as the entire occupation-related opportunities. The confusion led to a radical reorganization of the CB II (or CB III) registry around 1922, with a new division of the subject and a focus on occupation issues and political affairs. The special circumstances of the occupation period necessitated a branch of the district government in Krefeld. In 1920/21, the latter had its own registry, as did the district president Grützner during his expulsions in Barmen (February 1923 to April 1924) and Bielefeld (April-September 1924). The files of the so-called Essen Reporting Office are integrated into the inventory. This is one of the Provincial Public Order Supervision Services established at the instigation of the State Commissioner for Public Order, Robert Weismann, in August 1919. On 15 November 1920 a special registration office for the administrative district of Düsseldorf was set up, and Jürgens, the councillor of the district court, was appointed head of this office on 30 November 1920. On 10 March 1921 the registration office was moved from Düsseldorf to Essen, on 29 July 1927 it was moved back to Düsseldorf and integrated into the CB II department, where it existed until the end of 1922. The Reporting Office collected news about the political and economic movements in its area from the police and administrative authorities and from the press, stimulated the intervention of the executive branch on the basis of the news it received and reported continuously by the President of the Government to the Chief President in Münster, in important cases immediately to the State Commissioner. The documents and newspaper clippings were originally stapled together in notebooks marked M ff. At the end of 1922 Faszikel was created and newly signed (A lff., B lff. etc.). That reorganisation was carried out up to the letter M, with the exception of the files relating to the crew, which were not stapled. Of the following letters, only a few particularly important files have been stapled. The records of the Essen Reporting Office and also of the CB II registry from 1922 ff. are partly very inconsistent, they tend above all to the formation of very narrow subject matters (or institutions concerning) and therefore show partly very thin fascicles. Also included in the inventory are the documents of various authorities and organisations of the transitional economy (above all price control and usury control) as well as the opportunities for occupation. The documents of the German delegation to Düsseldorf for the implementation of the London Agreements of 1924 are particularly worthy of mention here. The German delegations in Düsseldorf and Koblenz were headed by Johannes Horion, Governor of the State of Düsseldorf, whose permanent deputy in the Düsseldorf delegation was the Privy Councillor Dr. Claussen. The delegation, which had its seat first in the Landeshaus, and since 24 November 1924 in the government building, began its activities in September and ended them in December 1924. Occasionally, documents of the District President Abbot CB II are attached to the files. These files were handed over by the Düsseldorf government in 1934. Professor Wentzcke saw others in the possession of the late governor Horion. The files of the district police commissioner Otto Kammhoff in Elberfeld make up a numerically large but not so important part. For a critical assessment of the source value of these files, the personal file of Kammhoff is to be consulted (No. 15993). The files summarized in the present find book extend from the middle of the 19th century to about 1944, with the emphasis on the labour movement since 1880, the First World War and the post-war period until about 1928. From the later years there are files of the police department only for 1931/32 and a few from the foreigner surveillance of the Second World War. The archivability is given in the majority; often the arrangement of a permanent storage is to be understood only from the special situation (crew defense). For reasons of a closed overdelivery, which is in itself also a document, however, it was decided not to carry out subsequent individual cassations. Due to the fragmentation of the authorities' activities (headquarters in Düsseldorf, branch office in Krefeld, registry of the district president), numerous multiple documents have been produced, as well as the simultaneous reporting to superior offices. Overview of the groups of files, main subjects, camp numbers and duration Subject 35 Public peace and order (most of the previous files in the holdings of the Düsseldorf government, presidential office. Nrr. 15904-15983, 1850-1922 Subject 35a Social Democracy and Anarchism. Presidential files, other subject 40 Reg. Düsseldorf police no. 9028-9072, 15984-16035, 42781-42814, 1889-1922 subject 36 foreigners, mostly Polish movement. Presidential files, previous files in Reg.Düss.Präs. Nrr. 16015-16035, 1876-1922 subject 47 so-called Registratur Mob Essentially world war and occupation until 1922 presidential files, previous files in Reg.Düss.Präs. Nrr. 9073-9087, 14911-15248, 15346-15360, 1914-1922 Bezirkspreisprüfungsstelle Nrr. 41707-41742, 1916-1925 War economy, mainly price control Industrial supply (war economy) Nrr. 15299-15345, 1918 suction. Old things, without registration signature (mostly Mob) Nrr. 16036-16055, 1912-1923 CB II Supplements, without registration signature Strikes, Crew matters (expulsions) Nrr. 16890-16911, 1921-1925 Journals Dept. CB II Nrr. 16912-16921, 1923 Registration office Essen General Nrr. 15361-15396, 1919-1922 mostly economic and political situation reports Reporting office Essen Individuals, organizations, incidents Nrr. 15535-15854, 1920-1922 (partly little extensive files) Notification office Essen Political circumstances in individual places, mostly reports, Nrr. 15397-15534 (organised according to location) 1920-1922 Reporting office Essen Newspaper clipping collection of the press department on general and special political subjects (subject matters, individual case files) Nrr. 15855-15903, 1920-1922 Branch office of the government in Krefeld (occupied part of the RB Düsseldorf) occupation matters B II files without technical designation, probably at delivery not yet ordered mob things Nrr. 17030-17061, 1922 files of the district president Grützner from his time in Barmen Nrr. 17062-17145, 1923-1924 New registry CB II Fach 1 (expulsions, punishments by the occupation authorities, care for expellees) Nrr. 16056-16121, 1923-1926 CB II Fach 2 Occupation of individual places, enterprises etc., interventions of the occupation, ordinances of the occupation authorities, evacuation (old occupied area) No. 16122-16274, 1923-1926 CB II Fach 3 Excesses of the occupation Nrr. 16275-16395, 1922-1927 CB II Fach 4 riots, occasionally also expulsions or revocation of expulsions Nrr. 16296-16337, 1921-1926 CB II Subject 5 Occupation matters sanction area (occupation interventions, damage), ordinances Nrr. 16338-16532, 1923-1926 CB II compartment 6 crew matters, ;Ruhrkampf Nrr. 16533-16672, 1923 CB II Fach 7 Besatzungsangelegenheiten, support of the expelled and political prisoners, return of the expelled Nrr. 16673-16735, 1923-1928 Fach 7 Abt. CB III (1923-1925 CB II) The files in Fach 7 were processed 1923-1925 by CB II, 1926 by the department I T, later called CB III. Finally CB II and CB III were united in I C. CB II Subject 8 Political parties etc., mostly created after individual meetings Nrr. 16736-16815, 1922-1928 CB II Subject 9, 10, 14, 16, 1new Political Affairs, Espionage etc. Unemployment movement, situation reports Nrr. 16840-16889, 1923-1928 CB II, so-called communist files. Partly created according to location or via individual organisations Nrr. 16923-16994, 1922-1928 CB II so-called Separatist files Nrr. 16995-17029, 1920-1927 Political department mostly activity of radical parties, KPD, polit. Collisions Nrr. 17146-17274, 1931-1932 Police Affairs (Unit I A) Nrr. 45356-45363, 1940-1944 files of the district police commissioner Kammhoff, Elberfeld, surveillance of social democracy and anarchism Nrr. 42815-43025 (with gaps), 1878-1903 Distortion and order The old file titles were retained as far as possible and specified if necessary during the new distortion. Discriminatory title formulations due to time constraints were left, but the title formation was corrected by additions or explanations in the Include note. Especially out of the anti-occupation defence files have been formulated under a title, which assumes a much more far-reaching fact than actually going facts. The same title structure was retained for general and special files. The terms, however, are uniformly reproduced as general; individual cases or accompanying acts (instead of generalia, specialia or adhibenda). The content of the memos has been broken down further, i.e. further information has been provided which is covered by the title of the file but not addressed in detail, or the formal page of the content of the file has been added for explanatory purposes. Documentation content that differs from this is indicated both in terms of content and form (especially print and periodicals, posters, etc.). In view of the very uneven size of individual volumes and their nevertheless promising titles, the size was shown (either in the exact or in an estimated size). The following subject areas were selected for the content and thematic classification 1) Political Affairs 2) Administrative Law, Foreigners' Affairs 3) Occupation Affairs 4) Military Affairs, Warfare 5) War and Forced Economy (Transition Economy) The subdivision into the individual points takes into account both the factual context and the formation of the files, i.e.h. where sufficiently large amounts of files were created into a complex under a (contemporary) subject, these series were also merged (e.g., Social Democracy and Anarchism Communism and related organizations National Socialism and related organizations). These definitions are of a purely practical nature and are intended to avoid classification according to ideological principles. In addition, either the alphabet or the chronology are strictly regarded as further order factors in individual classification groups. For the history of authorities and registries, the introduction to the finding aid G 21/2 (presidential office) is to be used. The files shall be quoted: BR 0007, BR 1041, BR 2049 current no. References to further holdings In addition to the present finding aid book G 21/1a, classification point elections; government Düsseldorf presidential office, classification point ;police, gendarmerie G 21/2; G 21/5, government Düsseldorf police, classification point political police or Security Police" as well as G 21/10-11, Government Düsseldorf Gewerbe, Fach 9 (according to the still provisional indexing) Workers' Movement, Working Hours, Works Councils Basically, the files of the subordinate authorities (police authorities, district administration offices) as well as the holdings of the judicial authorities are to be consulted for all questions. Literature G. Knopp. The Prussian administration of the administrative district Düsseldorf 1899-1919, Cologne-Berlin 1974 GeneralThe files united in this find book originate both from different registry layers and from different registries. In the main, they comprise from the old central office of the government (i.e. the Presidential Division CB I) the former subjects 35 (Public Peace and Mood), 35a (Social Democracy and Anarchism), 36 (Forbidden Links, Supervision of Individual Suspicious Individuals) as well as 47 (so-called Registrar's Office MOB). This latter registry grew into a comprehensive processing area for the mobilization, the war of 1914/18, the economic and military demobilization, as well as the entire occupation-related opportunities. The lack of clarity led to a radical reorganization of the CB II (or CB III) registry around 1922, with a new division of the registry and a new focus on occupation issues and political affairs. In 1920/21, the latter had its own registry, as did the district president Grützner during his expulsion in Barmen (February 1923 to April 1924) and Bielefeld (April-September 1924). The files of the so-called Essen registration office are integrated into the inventory. It is one of the provincial offices for the supervision of public order, which were established at the instigation of the State Commissioner for Public Order, Robert Weismann, in August 1919 (with the chief presidents). 15 November 1920 the formation of a special registration office for the administrative district Düsseldorf was ordered, to whose leader on 30 Nov. 1920 the district court councillor Jürgens was appointed. On 10 March 1921 the registration office was moved from Düsseldorf to Essen, on 29 July 1927 it was moved back to Düsseldorf and integrated into the CB II department, where it existed until the end of 1922.The Reporting Office collected news about the political and economic movements in its area from the police and administrative authorities and from the press, stimulated the intervention of the executive branch on the basis of the news it received, and reported continuously by the President of the Government to the Chief President in Münster, and in important cases immediately to the State Commissioner. At the end of 1922 Faszikel was created and re-signed (A lff., B lff. etc.). This reorganization was carried out up to the letter M with the exception of the files referring to the crew, which were not stapled. Of the following letters, only a few particularly important files have been stapled: the records of the Essen Reporting Office and also of the CB II registry from 1922 et seq. are sometimes very inconsistent, they tend above all to form very narrowly defined subject matters (or institutions) and therefore sometimes exhibit very thin fascicles.Included in the inventory are also the documents of various authorities and organizations of the transitional economy (especially price control and usury control) as well as the opportunities for occupation, in particular the documents of the German delegation to Düsseldorf for the implementation of the London Agreements of 1924. The German delegations in Düsseldorf and Koblenz were headed by Johannes Horion, Governor of the State of Düsseldorf, whose permanent deputy in the Düsseldorf delegation was the Privy Councillor Dr. Claussen. The delegation, which had its seat first in the Landeshaus, since 24 November 1924 in the government building, began its activity in September and terminated it in December 1924. Occasionally documents of the district president abbot CB II are attached to the files. The delivery of these files took place in 1934 by the government of Düsseldorf. Professor Wentzcke saw others in the possession of the late governor Horion. The files of the district police commissioner Otto Kammhoff in Elberfeld make up a numerically large but not so important part. The personal file of Kammhoff (No. 15993) is to be used for a critical appraisal of the source value of these files. the files summarized in the present find book extend from the middle of the 19th century to about 1944, with the emphasis on the labour movement since 1880, the First World War and the post-war period until about 1928. From the later years files of the police department are available only for 1931/32 and some few from the foreigner surveillance of the Second World War. the archive-worthiness is given in the majority; often the arrangement of a permanent storage is to be understood only from the special situation (occupation defense). Due to the fragmentation of the activities of the authorities (head office in Düsseldorf, branch office in Krefeld, registry of the district president), numerous multiple documents were created, as well as the simultaneous reporting to superior offices.Overview of the groups of files, essential subjects, warehouse numbers and running timeSubject 35 Public peace and order (most of the previous files in the holdings Government of Düsseldorf, presidential office). Nrr. 15904-15983, 1850-1922Fach 35a Social Democracy and Anarchism. Presidential files, other subject 40 Reg. Düsseldorf Police No. 9028-9072, 15984-16035, 42781-42814, 1889-1922Fach 36 Foreigners, mostly Polish movement. Presidential files, previous files in Reg.Düss.Präs. Nrr. 16015-16035, 1876-1922Fach 47 so-called Registratur Mob Essentially world war and occupation until 1922 presidential files, previous files in Reg.Düss.Präs. Nrr. 9073-9087, 14911-15248, 15346-15360, 1914-1922Bezirkspreisprüfungsstelle Nrr. 41707-41742, 1916-1925 War economy, mainly price controlIndustrial supply (war economy) Nrr. 15299-15345, 1918 suction. Old things, without registration signature (mostly Mob) Nrr. 16036-16055, 1912-1923CB II Supplements, without registration signature Strikes, Crew matters (expulsions) Nrr. 16890-16911, 1921-1925Journals Dept. CB II Nrr. 16912-16921, 1923Notification office Essen General Nrr. 15361-15396, 1919-1922 mostly economic and political situation reportsMeldetestelle Essen Individuals, organizations, incidents Nrr. 15535-15854, 1920-1922 (partly little extensive files) Notification office Essen Political circumstances in individual places, mostly reports, Nrr. 15397-15534 (organised according to location) 1920-1922Meldestelle Essen newspaper clipping collection of the press department on general and special political subjects (subjects, individual case files) Nrr. 15855-15903, 1920-1922Government branch in Krefeld (occupied part of the RB Düsseldorf) Occupation mattersB II Files without technical designation, probably at delivery not yet ordered mob things Nrr. 17030-17061, 1922Files of the Regierungspräsident Grützner from his time in Barmen Nrr. 17062-17145, 1923-1924New registry CB II Fach 1 (expulsions, punishments by the occupation authorities, care for expellees) Nrr. 16056-16121, 1923-1926CB II Fach 2 Occupation of individual places, enterprises etc., interventions of the crew, ordinances of the occupation authorities, evacuation (old occupied area) No. 16122-16274, 1923-1926CB II Fach 3 Occupation riots Nrr. 16275-16395, 1922-1927CB II compartment 4 riots, occasionally also expulsions or revocation of expulsions Nrr. 16296-16337, 1921-1926CB II Subject 5 Occupation matters Sanction area (occupation interventions, damage), ordinances Nrr. 16338-16532, 1923-1926CB II compartment 6 crew matters, ;RuhrkampfNrr. 16533-16672, 1923CB II compartment 7 Occupation affairs, support of expellees and political prisoners, return of expellees Nrr. 16673-16735, 1923-1928Fach 7 Abt. CB III (1923-1925 CB II) The files in Fach 7 were processed 1923-1925 by CB II, 1926 by the department later called CB III I T. Lastly CB II and CB III were united in I C.CB II Fach 8 Politische Parteien etc., mostly created according to individual issues Nrr. 16736-16815, 1922-1928CB II Subject 9, 10, 14, 16, 1new Political Affairs, Espionage etc. Unemployment movement, situation reports Nrr. 16840-16889, 1923-1928CB II, so-called communist files. Partly created according to location or via individual organisations Nrr. 16923-16994, 1922-1928CB II so-called Separatist files Nrr. 16995-17029, 1920-1927Political department mostly activity of radical parties, KPD, polit. Collisions Nrr. 17146-17274, 1931-1932Police Affairs (Unit I A) Nrr. 45356-45363, 1940-1944Files of the District Police Commissioner Kammhoff, Elberfeld, Surveillance of Social Democracy and Anarchism Nrr. 42815-43025 (with gaps), 1878-1903Distortion and orderWhenever possible, the old file titles were retained and, if necessary, specified. Discriminatory title formulations due to time constraints were left, but the title formation was corrected by additions or explanations in the Include note. Especially out of the anti-occupation defence files have been formulated under a title which assumes a much more far-reaching fact than actually going facts. the same title formation was maintained with general and special files. The content was further broken down in the content notes, i.e. further information was given that was covered by the file title but not addressed in detail, or the formal page of the file content was added in an explanatory manner. In view of the very uneven scope of individual volumes and their nevertheless promising titles, the scope was indicated (either in the exact or in an estimated indication).The following subject areas were selected for the content and thematic classification 1) Political Affairs 2) Administrative Law, Foreign Nationals Affairs 3) Occupation Affairs 4) Military Affairs, Warfare 5) War and Forced Economy (Transition Economy)The subdivision into the individual points takes into account both the factual context and the formation of the files, i.e.h. where sufficiently large amounts of files were created into a complex under a (contemporary) subject, these series were also merged (e.g., Social Democracy and Anarchism Communism and related organizations National Socialism and related organizations). These definitions are of a purely practical nature and are intended to avoid classification according to ideological principles. In addition, either the alphabet or the chronology are strictly considered as further order factors in individual classification groups. For the history of authorities and registries, the introduction to the finding aid book G 21/2 (presidential office) is to be used: BR 0007, BR 1041, BR 2049 current no. References to further holdingsAdditional to this finding aid book are to be consulted G 21/1a, classification point elections; Government Düsseldorf presidential office, classification point ;Police, Gendarmerie G 21/2; G 21/5, Government Düsseldorf police, classification point political police or Sicherheitspolizei" and G 21/10-11, Regierungs Düsseldorf Gewerbe, Fach 9 (after the still provisional indexing) Arbeiterbewegung, Arbeitszeit, BetriebsräteGerundslich are for all questions the files of the subordinate authorities (police authorities, district administration offices) as well as further the stocks of the judicial authorities to consult.LiteraturG. Knopp. The Prussian Administration of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf 1899-1919, Cologne-Berlin 1974