Contains among other things: S. M. S. "Planet": Palau Islands, Ululssi Islands S. M. S. "Stone": Mountains, Balholmen, Queenstown, Madeira, Corfu, Genoa, Valencia, Barcelona, Alexandria, Funchal, Corfu Cruise Wing: Dutch India, Manila, Zamboanga, Japan, Yangtze (Riots), Riots in Southern China S. M.S. "Charlotte": Edinburgh, Cadiz, Madeira, Wartmouth, Tangier S. M.S. 'Sperber': Cape Town, Angola, Congo, Cap Lopez, Libreville, St Thomé, Principé, French Congo (civil unrest) S.M.S. 'Moltke': Lisbon, Madeira, Las Palmas, Falmouth, Porto Grande, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, San Juan de Puertorico, Martinique, Port of Spain S. M.S. "Condor": Apia, Tahiti S.M.S. "Arcona": Cadiz S.M.S. "Panther": St. Kitts, Barbados, Demerara, Paramaribo, Porto Grande, Las Palmas, Victoria, Bata, Calabar S. "Panther": Las Palmas, Victoria, Bata. M.S. "Freya": Christiana, Bergen, Reykjavik, Queenstown, Madeira, Las Palmas, Genoa, Venice, Corfu, Smyrna, Alexandria, Beirut S. M. S. "Bremen": St. Pierre, St. Johns, Labrador Coast, Halifax, Montreal, Quebec, St. Thomas, Bahia S. M. S. "Loreley": Therapia, Black Sea S. M. S. "Sea Eagle": Durban, Reira, Port Amelia, Ibo, Dar es Salaam

Contains among other things: S. M. S. "Bremen": Martinique, St. Lucia, Curacao, Rio de Janeiro, Port of Spain, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, St. Thomas, Port-au-Prince (transfer of refugees) Newport-News, Kingston S. M. S. "Sparrow Hawk: Fernando Poo, Lagos, Lome, Kontonou, Cameroon, Conakry, Axim, St. Paulo, Lobito Bay, Benquella, Mossamedes, Duala, Forcados, Southwest Africa, Loanda, Lobito Bay, Benquella, Elelefant-Bay S.M.S. "Panther: Dakar, Sierra Leone, Monrovia, Port Bouét, Aura, Angola, Lobito-Bai, Mossamedes S. M. S. Freya: Messina, Malta, Algiers, Barcelona, Mahon, Ferrol, Arendal, Falmouth, Madeira, Corfu, Norway S. M. S. "Stone": Spezia, Guerta, Naples, Palermo, Algiers, Malaga, Vigo S.M.S. "Loreley": Athens, Tophane (information on the Russian-Japanese war), Constantinople, Therapia, Thasos, Saloniki 2 S.M.S. "Moltke": Havana, St. Thomas, Kingston, Ponta Delgada, Dartmouth S. M. S. "Charlotte": Vera Cruz, Kingston, Tenerife, Port of Spain, Barbados, Guadeloupe, Horta, Antwerp, Habana, Charleston, Bermuda S. M. S. "Planet": Bismarck Archipelago Cruise Wing: China, Manila S. M.S. "Condor": Honolulu, Japan, Caroline Islands, Mariana Islands, Palau, New Guinea, Brisbane, Sydney S.M.S. "Sea Eagle":Cape Town, Southwest Africa, Durban, Mozambique S.M.S. "Buzzard": Durban, Dozaoudzi, Port Natal S.M.S. "Victoria Luise": Madeira, Tenerife

Contains among other things: S. M. S. "Lübeck: Alexandrette, Beirut, Messina (troubled situation), Jaffa S. M. S. "Hansa: Norway, Bilbao, Vigo, Naples, Venice, Port Said, Latovia, Alexandrette, Alexandria S. M. S. "Cormoran": Messina, Syria, Aden, Colombo, Batavia, Amboina, New Guinea Cruise Squadron: South Seas, Northbound S. M. S. "Scharnhorst": Port Arthur, Seoul (Uprising) S. M. S. "Bremen": New York, St. Thomas, Mayaguez, Havana, Kingston, Newport, Port of Spain S. M. S. "Planet": Sydney, Nouméa S. "Planet": Sydney, Nouméa S. M.S. 'Panther': South West Africa, Cape Town (merging of provinces), Mossamedes, Loanda, Congo, Bata, Lagos, Lome, Forcados, Old Calabar, Victoria, Sao Tomé, Duala S. M.S. "Sea Eagle": Dar es Salaam, Mozambique, Durban, Cape Town S.M.S. "Loreley": Therapia (military uprising in Constantinople), Black Sea, Constantinople S.M.S. "Hertha": Norway, Ferrol, Madeira, Ponta Delgada, Domenica, Prince, Rupertbay, Newport, New York S.M.S. "Hertha": Norway, Ferrol, Madeira, Ponta Delgada, Domenica, Prince, Rupertbay, Newport, New York S.M.S. "Freya": Norway, Dartmouth, Madeira, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, San Sebastian, Tangier, Cagliari, Genoa, Tunis, Corfu S. M. S. "Sparrowhawk": Cape Town, South West Africa, St. Helena, Freetown, Liberia, Cameroon S. M. S. "Condor": Sydney, Suva, Samoa, Auckland, Brisbane (search for S. M. S. "Seestern"), Apia S. M. S. "Victoria Luise": Norway, New York, Newport S. M. S. "Dresden": Horta, Queenstown, Newport, New York S. M. S. "Buzzard": Dzaoudzi, Nossibé, Majunga, Durban, East London, Cape Town, Lourenzo Marques

Contains among other things: S. M. S. "Sea Eagle": Zansibar, German East Africa S. M. S. "Bremen": St. Thomas, Christainsted, Rio de Janeiro, Santos, San Francisco do Sul S. M. S. "Jaguar": Hankau S. M. S. "Polecat": Hankau S. M. S. "Hansa": Queenstown, Bilbao, Horta, Philadelphia S. M. S. "Seagull": Cape Town S.M.S. "Vineta": Tangier, Malta, Gravoso, Corfu, Constantinople S.M.S. "Otter": Nanking, Shanghai S.M.S. "Cormoran": Tsingtau, Kobe, Saipan, Palau, Eitape, Friedrich Wilhelmshafen, Peterhafen, Matupi S.M.S. "Tiger": Hankau, Futschau (riots), Canton S.M.S. "Otter": Nanking, Shanghai S.M.S. "Cormoran": Tsingtau, Kobe, Saipan, Palau, Eitape, Friedrich Wilhelmshafen, Peterhafen, Matupi S.M.S. "Tiger": Hankau, Futschau (riots), Canton S.M.S. "Panther": Duala, Loanda, Swakopmund, Lüderitz Bay, Cape Town, Port Alexander, Benguella, Sao Tomé, Kribi, Fernando Poo Squadron of Cruisers: Wladiwostock, East Asia, Japan S. M. S. "Hertha": Plymouth, Pembroke, Dock, Milford, Haven, Madeira, Valencia, Barcelona, Mersina, Adana S. M. S. "Condor": Nauru, Jaluit, Panape, Bismarck Archipelago, Kaiser Wilhelm Land (unrest) S. M. S. "Vultures": Trieste S. M. S. "Victoria Luise": Azores, Halifax, Newport, Vera Cruz S. M. S. "Loreley": Constantinople (mobilization/war against Bulgaria) Mediterranean Division: Constantinople (war) S. M. S. "Wroclaw": Malta, Alexandrette S. M. S. 'Eber': Cameroon, Fernando Poo, Old Calabar, Principé, St. Thomé, Anno Bon, Loanda, Congo, Calinda, Kribi, Boma, Kobe, Yokohama, Nagasaki, Yokohama

Contains among other things: S. M. S. "Seagull": Walvis Bay S. M. S. "Hansa": Charleston, Havana (Riots), St. Thomas, Kingston S. M. S. "Bremen": Montevideo, Punta Arenas, Cape Horn, Buenos Aires, Liberia (Uprising) S. M. S. "Otter": Ichang S. M. S. "Condor": Matupi, Ponape, Truk, Jap, Palau Islands, Angaur S. M. S. "Sea Eagle": Zansibar, Portuguese East Africa Squadron of Cruisers: Beijing, Tsingtau, Pukou, Yangtze River S. M. S. "Gneisenau": Nagasaki (sketch of Japan) S. M. S. "Goeben": Constantinople S. M. S. "Hertha": Mersina, Beirut, Jaffa, Alexandria, Port Said S. M. S. "Geier": Haifa, Alexandria Mediterranean Division: Constantinople (war against Greece, coup d'état) S. M. S. "Geier": Haifa, Alexandria Mediterranean Division: Constantinople (war against Greece, coup d'état) "Fatherland": Wong Shi Kong S. M. S. "Panther": Liberia (Uprising) S. M. S. "Eber": Liberia (Uprising), Cameroon S. M. S. "Vineta": Alexandria S. M. S. "Cormoran": Australia S. M. S. "Victoria Luise": St. Thomas, Curacao, Barbados, Dominica S. M. S. "Breslau": Alexandrette

Contains among other things: S.M.S. "Cormoran": Sydney (strikes) S.M.S. "Condor": Nagasaki S.M.S. "Loreley": Constantinople, (murder of the Grand Vizier), Constanta, Therapia, Galatia, Bucharest (war preparations), Odessa, Nikolayev S.M.S. "Goeben": Smyrna, Covella, Piraeus, Naples S.M.S. "Breslau": Teodo, Pola S.M.S. 'Dresden': Constantinople (French-Romanian incident), Mersina, Alexandrette, Haifa, Rodosto S.M.S. 'Fatherland': Pojang Lake Cruise Wing: Yangtze River, Japan Mediterranean Division: Adana, Alöexandrette, Syria, Venice, Pola, Skutari, Port Said, Piraeus, Alexandria S.M.S. "Bremen": Philadelphia, Havana, St. Thomas, Trinidad, Vera Cruz S.M.S. "Panther": Cape Palmas, Lome, Lagos, Cameroon, Boma, Loanda, Lüderitz Bay, Swakopmund S.M.S "Tsingtau": North river (with map) S.M.S. "Vultures": Alexandrette, Port Said. S.M.S. "Srasburg": Constantinople. Naples S.M.S. "Hertha": Wiaby, Stockholm, Bergen S.M.S. "Vineta": Gotenburg S.M.S. "Eber": Dartmouth, Lisbon S.M.S. "Nürnberg": Shanghai S.M.S. "Hansa": Karlskrona, Uddewalla S.M.S. "Victoria Luise": Uddewalla S.M.S. "Planet": Australia VI Half Flotilla: Wisby, Kalmar

Contains among other things: S.M.S. "Hansa": Palma, Naples S.M.S. "Hertha": Halifax, Vera Cruz (political unrest), Havana, Port-au-Prince, St. Thomas, Jamaica, Trinidad, St. Lucia S.M.S. "Eber": Duala, Boma, Matadi, Loanda S.M.S. "Victoria Luise": Gibraltar S.M.S. "Panther": Southwest Africa, Duala (report of unrest in Cameroon) S.M.S. "Condor": Japan, Maron, Kaiser Wilhelm Land, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, Rabaul, Käwieng, Suva, Samoa, Ponape S.M.S. "Goeben": Pola S.M.S. "Nuremberg": Honolulu, West Coast Mexico (political unrest) Cruiser squadrons: East Asia, Nanking (uprising in South China, plan of Nanking) S.M.S. "Otter": Upper Yangtse S.M.S "Bremen": Vera Cruz, Pampico, Tampico (political unrest, report on the situation in Mexico) S.M.S. "Tiger": Futschau S.M.S. "Fatherland": Nanking S.M.S. "Seagull": Zanzibar Mediterranean Division: Egypt, Corfu, Shutari, Venice, Trieste, Athens S.M.S. "Cormoran": Sydney, Rabaul, Käwieng, New Guinea (unrest) S.M.S. "Strasbourg": Freetown Detached Division: Las Palmas, Santa Cruz, Lome S.M.S. "Sea Eagle": German East Africa, Aden S.M.S. "Dresden": Madeira, St. Thomas. Vera Cruz

Contains among other things: Thomas, Bermuda, Santa Cruz, San Domingo, Kingston, Port-au-Prince, S.M.S. "Moltke": Livorno, Abbazia, Fiume, S.M.S. "Loreley": Piraeus, Constantinople, S.M.S. "Loreley": Piraeus, Constantinople, S.M.S. "Livorno, Abbazia, Fiume, S.M.S.": Piraeus, Constantinople, S.M.S. "Loreley": Piraeus, Constantinople, S.M.S. "L.": Piraeus, Constantinople, S.M.S. "Loreley". "Cormoran": Jaluit, Ponape, Ruck-Atoll, Jap, Guam, Saipan, Sydney, Jervis-Bey, Thursday-Island, Bismarck-Archipelago, Herbertshöhe, Matupi, New-Mecklenburg, Solomon Islands S. M. S. "Charlotte": Horta, Port of Spain. Trinidad S. M. S. "Wolf": Cameroon, Loanda, Cape Town, Duala, Southwest Africa, Cape Lopez S. M. S. "Stosch": Zibau, Madeira S. M. S. "Gazelle": Newport News, Charleston, Kingston S. M. S. "Sparrowhawk": Zansibar, Dar es Salam S. M. S. "Panther: Annapolis S. M. S. "Vineta": Halifax S. "Vineta": Halifax S. "Zansibar", Dar es Salam S. M. S. "Panther: Annapolis S. M. S. "Halifax S. M.S. "Falcon": Port Antonio, Port-au-Prince, Santiago de Cuba S.M.S. "Condor": Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Jervis-Bay, Freemantle, Brisbane, Fidji, Apia, Samoa

Contains among other things: Situation in Poznan, West Prussia, East Prussia, Upper Silesia; service conditions with volunteer formations, 1st Jan. 1919; border protection East; foundation of the German People's Council Gdansk, 3rd Jan. 1919; special position of the Bavarian army; appeal of the Reich government for the provision of volunteers, 9th Jan. 1919; German government of the German Reich for the provision of volunteers, 9th Jan. 1919; German government of the German Reich Gdansk, 3rd Jan. 1919. Jan. 1919; formation of voluntary associations, Jan. 10, 1919; situation in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; strikes and demonstrations in the Ruhr area, Jan. 11, 1919; relocation of the Supreme Army Command to the east, division of East Border Guard and subordination 8. Army and General Commands, 11 Jan. 1919; Dissolution of the Oberost Command Authority, 12 Jan. 1919; Miners' strike in Senftenberg, 15 Jan. 1919; Establishment of regulated service operations in barracks, 15 Jan. 1919; Dissolution of the Oberost Command Authority, 12 Jan. 1919; Strike of the miners in Senftenberg, 15 Jan. 1919; Establishment of regulated service operations in barracks, 15 Jan. 1919. 1919; Excerpt from Reich Minister Matthias Erzberger's speech during negotiations on the extension of the armistice on 15 January 1919; Report on Pozna? Uprising, 16 Jan 1919; Resolutions of the members of the Provinziallandtag Ostpreußens 10 Jan 1919. 1919; Strengths of the border troops in the east 20. Jan. 1919; protests of soldiers' councils and protests of officers against provisional regulations; corps order of the commanding general Walther von Lüttwitz for the suppression of the Bremen Räterepublik by Freikorps Gerstenberg, 26. Jan. 1919; Structure of the East Border Guard, Jan. 27, 1919; Regulation on the Dissolution of the Republican Protection Force, Jan. 31, 1919; Mobile General Commands and Divisions in the East Border Guard, Jan. 31, 1919; Call for Volunteer Corps Silesia, Jan. 1919

Contains among other things: Formation of the Republican Protection Force, 1 Apr. 1919; situation in Posen, West Prussia, Silesia, Apr. 1919; riots and strikes in Bremen, Verden, Emden, Leer, Frankfurt am Main, Offenbach, Braunschweig, Stolp and in the Ruhr area, March 1919; situation in the Baltic States, Apr. 1919; situation in Poznan, West Prussia, Silesia, Apr. 1919; situation in the Baltic States, Apr. 1919; situation in the Baltic States, Apr. 1919; situation in the Baltic States, Apr. 1919; situation in the Baltic States, Apr. 1919; situation in the Baltic States, Apr. 1919; situation in the Baltic States. 1919; experiences from fights with Poland, 3, Apr. 1919; memorandum about government protection troops in Bremen, 3. Apr. 1919; war classification department Lüttwitz, 4. Apr. 1919; war classification department Lüttwitz, 4. Apr. 1919; memorandum about government protection troops in Bremen, 3. Apr. 1919; war classification department Lüttwitz, 4. Apr. 1919. 1919; Freikorps Schleswig-Holstein, 4th Apr. 1919; Bayerisches Freikorps, Apr. 1919; Overview of border patrol troops, Apr. 1919; Table of the formations of the Reichswehr, 10th Apr. 1919; dismantling of the Saxon army and new formation of security formations, 10 Apr. 1919; Freikorps Schleswig-Holstein, 12 Apr. 1919; implementation regulation for the formation of the Bavarian Volkswehr, Apr. 1919; war classification Guard-Cavalry-Shooter-Corps, 14 Apr. 1919; war classification Guard-Cavalry-Shooter-Corps, 14 Apr. 1919; German, English, French, German, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Spanish, English 1919; Power of Attorney for Commissioner of the Reich Government and Prussian Government for East Prussia and West Prussia and the Occupied Russian Territories, 15 Apr. 1919; Report on Operations of the VIth Reserve Corps, 16 Apr. 1919; Law on the Formation of a Provisional Imperial Navy, 16 Apr. 1919; Situation in Bavaria, Apr. 1919; Tasks of the Associations of the Lüttwitz Branch, 22 Apr. 1919; Directive for the Leadership of Troops in Operation to Munich, 23 Apr. 1919; Report on Operations of the VIth Reserve Corps, 16 Apr. 1919; Law on the Formation of a Provisional Imperial Navy, 16 Apr. 1919; Directive for the Leadership of Troops in Operation to Munich, 23 Apr. 1919 1919; subordination conditions in neutral zone, 25 Apr. 1919; Freikorps Hülsen, 26 Apr. 1919; head of the military representation of the German peace legation, 26 Apr. 1919; overview of volunteer associations and security troops, 27 Apr. 1919; German only, 27 Apr. 1919; German only, 27 Apr. 1919; German only, 27 Apr. 1919; German only, 27 Apr. 1919; German only, 27 Apr. 1919 Apr. 1919; Protection of voluntary associations against declarations of discredit, 28 Apr. 1919; Naval Brigade of Loewenfeld, 30 Apr. 1919; Reichswehr Minister Gustav Noske at a meeting of representatives of the German student body, 30 Apr. 1919

Contains among other things: Recognition of Military Actions in Cameroon as Campaign for Retirements

Contains among other things: Reprints of the General Staff of the Prussian Army, 1909-1912

Contains among other things: Reprints of the General Staff of the Prussian Army, 1912-1914

Contains: chart systems

Contains among other things: Carl Peters: "English Mendacity." Newspaper prints, 16. and 17.10.1914 Complaint of the Reich Chancellor about lack of information by the Navy, 5.11.1914

Contains among other things: Equipment, costs, transport of coal supplies by steamer "Marie" to China Installation of steamer "Elsa" to transfer workers to Kiautschou

Contains among other things: Memorandum of the R e i c h s k o l o n i a l a m t: The Economic Value of Central Africa Nautical and Military Value of Seaports and Coastal Places in the West African Properties of Belgium, Great Britain, France and Portugal

Contains among other things: Reports, newspaper clippings on the confiscation of ships French war damage law draft (French) "Hanseatische Rechtszeitschrift für Handel, Schiffahrt und Versicherung, Kolonial- und Auslandsbeziehungen sowie für hanseatisches Recht", Supplement 1, Vol. 1, Jan. 1918 Overview of the treaties of the German Reich affected during the present World War by the onset of the state of war or the termination of diplomatic relations

contains agreements with Japan and China on the resumption of economic and missionary activities in the Kiautschou protectorate of Germany occupied by them

Contains among other things: Report on the war and civil prison camp in Verdala (Malta) Memorandum on the transfer of the Germans arrested in Cameroon to England

contains, among other things, demands by Germany concerning Kiautschou at the Peace Commission; proposals by the Navy for amendments and additions to the guidelines for German peace negotiators; article: "Die wirtschaftliche Ausbeutung des Saarbecken"; proposals by the R e i c h s m a r i n e a m t for the negotiations of pre-peace

Contains among other things: Status and prospects of the submarine war at the end of 1917 Reorganization of the German part of the Austria-German Lake Constance Flotilla Agreement between the governments of Germany, Finland and Russia concerning the execution of the signed peace treaties of March 1918 "Die Kolonialdeutschen aus Deutsch-Ostafrika in belgischer Gefangenschaft", Reichskolonialamt, Berlin 1918

Contains among other things: Preparatory work for peace negotiations Remarks on the re-establishment of German world trade Compilation of strategic aspects of the war objectives to be pursued by the Navy Points of view on German colonial politics in Africa, Oct. 1915 (print) Memorandum on the fate of the Kiautschou protectorate at the end of the peace process Special Report of the War Press Office: Pope's Peace Note in the Foreign Press Verdict, Berlin 29 Aug 1917

History of the Inventory Designer: Georg von Müller, Admiral Born on 24 March 1854 in Chemnitz, died on 18 April 1940 in Hangelsberg November 1889 Married Elisabeth Luise von Montbart; March 1900 Elevated to hereditary nobility Military career (selection) May 1871: Entry into the Imperial Navy; August 1878: Appointment as lieutenant at sea; May 1879: Commanded torpedo weapon; 1882-1884: Travels abroad to West India and South America on S.M.S. "Olga" and S.M.S. "Blücher"; November 1884: Statistical Office of the Admiralty; May 1885 - March 1886: Military Political Advisor (Marine Attaché) at the German Embassy in Stockholm; March 1886: Promotion to lieutenant captain; until spring 1889: changing uses on board and on land, including participation in the company in Samoa in Aug./Sept. 1887 on board S.M.S. "Bismarck"; spring 1889: entry into the newly created Imperial Naval Cabinet; September 1891: Commander gunboat S.M.S. "Iltis"; November 1892: Head of Personnel in the High Command of the Navy; Autumn 1895 - February 1898: Personal Adjutant of Prince Heinrich of Prussia; November 1898: Commander of the Great Cruiser S.M.S. "Germany"; April 1899: Chief of the Staff Ostasiatisches Kreuzergeschwader; May 1899: Promotion to Captain at Sea; April 1900: Head of Department in the Navy Cabinet; October 1902 - September 1904: Commander Linienschiff S.M.S. "Wettin"; September 1904: Duty wing adjutant of Kaiser Wilhelms II; 1905: Appointment as rear admiral; July 1906: Head of Imperial Naval Cabinet; 1907: Appointment as vice-admiral; 1910: Appointment as admiral, also general adjutant of Kaiser Wilhelms II.November 1918: Farewell to active service Description of the inventory: As head of the naval cabinet, Georg Alexander von Müller had the opportunity to exert far-reaching influence on all naval affairs beyond his duties as head of personnel policy. His key position was based, on the one hand, on a special, personal relationship of trust with the Emperor and, on the other hand, on the fact that all personnel decisions of the Navy were in his hands and that Müller was called in for all lectures. Müller served as a link between the Emperor and the various Immediate Offices of the Navy. During the war, Müller increasingly met with reservations and criticism from the Naval Corps of Officers for the widespread view that the head of the Naval Cabinet delayed or blocked measures for a more aggressive naval war. Müller also entered into a permanent conflict with Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz and was publicly attacked by him and his followers during and especially after the war. Although Müller, in contrast to numerous other members of the Naval Corps, did not publish any memoirs, a whole series of published articles from Müller's pen testifies to this permanent conflict. Müller's influence on naval affairs in general and on warfare in particular declined as a function of the importance of Kaiser Wilhelm II. As Supreme Warlord. In October 1918, Müller was largely on the fringes of the project of a militarily senseless, but myth-founding sacrificial corridor of the deep-sea fleet. As the duty wing adjutant of Wilhelm II and chief of the naval cabinet, Georg Alexander von Müller belonged to the immediate circle of Wilhelm II for more than a decade and a half and throughout the First World War. His records reflect in a special way the court society as well as the personality and work of the monarch in the last years of the German Empire. Content characterisation: The collection comprises only the seven handwritten diaries of Georg Alexander von Müller. They extend over a period of 47 years, beginning with Müller's entry into the Imperial Navy in 1871 up to his retirement as Chief of the Naval Cabinet in 1918. The records are enriched with photos and drawings. Other documents from the estate edited by Walter Görlitz and his son Sven von Müller, on the other hand, are considered lost. Citation style: Barch, N 159/...

Inventory Description: The Naval Airship Department was established by Allerhöchste Kabinettsordre on 3 May 1913 from the "Aviation Personnel of the Imperial Navy" next to the Naval Airship Department as an independent department with the temporary location Johannisthal. (1) The commanders of the departments were given "judicial, disciplinary and leave powers". In all training and technical matters, both departments were under the control of the State Secretary of the Reichsmarineamt, in all others of the inspection of coastal artillery and mines, as well as the head of the "North Sea Naval Station". (1) The State Secretary of the Reich Naval Office, Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, established 1 June as the day of formation by order of 8 May 1913. (2) As early as April 1912, members of the navy, including Corvette Captain Friedrich Metzing, were commanded for training at Deutsche Luftschifffahrts-AG. The airship command was subordinated on 15 July 1912 under the designation "Luftschiff-Detachement" with the Johannisthal site near Berlin Metzing as commander. (3) After the death of the commander of the naval airship department Friedrich Metzing in the accident of "L 1" on 9 September 1913, Corvette Captain Peter Strasser became his successor. Responsibility for the airship sector in the navy lay with the BX "Luftschiff- und Fliegerwesen" department of the shipyard department of the Reichsmarineamt formed on 12 October 1912. On 1 April 1913 an organisational change followed: Department BX was restructured to become the "Aviation Section" (Section BX with Divisions BXa and BXb). (4) At the beginning of the First World War, the command structure of the Naval Airship Division changed. By the Most High Cabinet Order of 29 August 1914, the office "Commander of the Aviation Departments" was created as the highest central command post of the entire naval aviation. (5) The Naval Airship Department and the Naval Aircraft Department were subordinated to this. The cabinet order assigned the following tasks to the new commander: Provision and training of personnel, management of schooling outside departments, test drives and maintenance of aircraft operational capability. The Most High Cabinet Order of May 1, 1916 assigned the naval airship division Cuxhaven (Nordholz) as a new location and divided the division into airship troops. (6) On November 23, 1916, the Naval Aviation Departments were divided into the Airship and Aircraft divisions by the Most High Cabinet Order. (7) The post of Commander of the Naval Aviation Divisions was transformed into Commander of the Naval Aviation Division and the Commander of the Naval Airship Division was elevated to "Chief of Naval Airships". The newly appointed Naval Airship Leader was in charge of the Naval Airship Division and the Naval Airships. The newly created position was subordinate to the command of the high seas armed forces in "matters of use and training of the North Sea front airships, to the State Secretary of the R e i c h s m a r i n e a m t , in technical and experimental matters and in matters of the school and experimental airships, and in all other matters to the naval station command of the North Sea". (7) For the airships deployed in the Baltic Sea, a new "Airship Ladder East" was formed as division commander. (7) The latter acted independently or according to the orders of the Commander-in-Chief of the Baltic Sea, but remained subordinate to the Commander of the Naval Airships. (8) The post of Airship Manager East was vacated in November 1917 due to staff shortages and the cessation of airship operations in the Baltic Sea. (9) This structure remained in place until the end of the war. After Strasser's death in the "L 70" on 5 August 1918, the post of commander of the naval airships was not reoccupied. (10) Due to the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles to abandon military aviation in Germany, the Naval Airship Department was dissolved in Nordholz on 10 December 1920. (11) During the First World War, naval airships were used for reconnaissance in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, securing and supporting mine search units, sighting and reporting of enemy naval forces and mine barriers, reports on merchant shipping and for offensive voyages, in particular on Great Britain. Commander of the Naval Aviation Departments 29 August 1914 - 23 November 1916 Rear Admiral Otto Philipp Leader of the Naval Airships 23 November 1916 - 5 August 1918 Frigate Captain Peter Strasser from 5 August 1918 August 1918 unmanned (representative: Hans-Paul Werther) Airship Leader East 23 November 1916 - November 1917 Corvette Captain Hans Wendt Naval Airship Troops Status: May 1916 (12) I. Nordholz II. Fuhlsbüttel III. Ahlhorn IV. Hage V. Tondern VI. Seerappen VII. Seddin VIII. Düren IX. Wainoden Status: November 1918 (13) I. Nordholz III. Ahlhorn IV. Wittmundhaven V. Tondern VI. Seerappen VII. Seddin-Jeseritz XI. Wainoden Characterisation of the contents: The collection covers the period 1914 to 1938, with a focus on the deployment of the naval airship department in the First World War from 1914 to 1918. The records also include other provenances based on circulars and forwarded communications from other or superior agencies such as the Navy Admiral Staff, the Commander of the Reconnaissance Ships of the Baltic Sea or the Commanding General of the Air Force, etc. The collection is also available in German. The operations of the naval airships are reflected in the tradition. The focus is on the operational and enterprise files for the reconnaissance voyages in the North Sea and Baltic Sea as well as the attack voyages, especially in Great Britain. War diaries and orders are available on a large scale for this purpose. The war diaries were created for individual airships or naval airship troops. Further few file complexes are found to the organization and to the personnel of the naval airship department. The structure of the documents mainly consists of war diaries, orders (daily and departmental orders) and so-called driving reports of the numerous reconnaissance and attack drives. The trip reports contain information on the trip task, names of crew members, weather conditions, technical data and square maps with the marked route. In addition, there are radio messages (some encrypted), spark telegraphy bearings, weather and barometer maps and telegrams. The collection also includes photographs, press articles, technical drawings, sketches and a large number of maps. The overdelivery is not complete. Only the war records have survived. Documents from the pre-war and post-war periods may have been destroyed in the air archives in 1945. State of development: Online-Findbuch Vorarchivische Ordnung: Bestandsgeschichte After the end of the First World War, the documents of the disbanded naval services, including the Naval Airship Department, were collected in the War History Department of the Admiral Staff of the Navy (established on 15 February 1916) for the purpose of setting up a new naval archive. From 1919 the name of the naval archive was changed to "Head of the Institute for Naval History and Chairman of the Naval Archive". A second renaming took place on 22 January 1936 in "Kriegswissenschaftliche Abteilung der Marine". However, this did not belong to the Reichsarchiv, but was subject until 31 March 1934 to the Inspectorate of Naval Education, then to the Chief of Naval Management, and later as a subordinate authority to the Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine. During the First World War some war diaries (RM 116/185-199) were already forwarded to the admiral's staff of the Navy for information and were thus integrated into his written material, but are handed down in this inventory. During the Second World War, naval records were moved to Tambach Castle near Coburg on 22 November 1943. (14 ) After the end of the war, the archives were confiscated by US troops and taken to London. There the files were filmed on a large scale, combined into bundles, provided with consecutive F-numbers ("Faszikel", "File" or "Fach") and partly with a seven-digit number with the prefixed letters "PG" ("pinched from the Germans"). The archives were then handed over to the British Admiralty. In the 1960s, the marine files were returned to the Federal Republic of Germany as part of the process of returning files and were transferred to the Document Centre of the Military History Research Office in Freiburg i.Br. With the transfer of the Document Centre in 1968, which is based on the 1968 interministerial agreement between the Federal Ministry of Defence and the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the documents were transferred to the Federal Archives and Military Archives moved from Koblenz to Freiburg. In 1977 an access with a photo album to the naval airships (access number 2005/77) took place, which was transferred under RM 116/200 into the inventory. An LL signature (LL 410) refers to a storage in the air archive. A note in English on the file cover indicates a seizure by British and/or US troops. During the file repatriations, the photo album was also handed over to the Document Centre at the Military History Research Office, where it received an I L signature (I L (B) 11). (15 ) The tradition is not complete. A large part of the documents may have been transferred to the Luftarchiv at that time and destroyed in 1945. In 1936, the Luftwaffe set up its own archive under the name "Kriegswissenschaftliche Abteilung der Luftwaffe" (War Science Department of the Air Force) and collected the entire archives of the Air Forces of the Army and the Navy Air Forces. (16) It may have included parts of the naval airship department files, which would justify the small size of the file delivery. Archivische Bearbeitung A rough list of files was available on the holdings, which contained only imprecise file titles and durations as well as old signatures. An evaluation of the documents was not carried out due to the loss of written records and the resulting gaps in the records before 1945. The existing rules of procedure were retained. The documents had already been formed; most of them were in Prussian thread stitching, a small part in archive folders. The file structure is uneven; thus, in part, uniformly formed and coherent files were found for a task or an assignment. On the other hand, there were also documents with heterogeneous contents, such as aerial reconnaissance and attack drives. The inventory of the stock was carried out with the archive management system of the Federal Archives BASYS-S-2. The files were recorded and classified on the basis of the specified overdelivery due to a lack of organisational documents. The old signatures F and PG numbers as well as the file numbers were recorded. The terms "Detachement" and "Trupp", for the units subordinated to the Naval Airship Department, were not used uniformly in the files despite the same meaning. The collection contains numerous photographs and maps, the content of which is linked to the files and have therefore been left in their context. Only the oversized maps which were not sewn in due to damaged files were removed for conservation reasons and are now stored together in a map folder in the inventory under RM 116/201. The files are in a poor state of conservation. The damage ranges from dissolved thread stitching, mechanical damage as a result of use, to paper decay and ink corrosion. The collection needs to be restored soon. The stock is not completely foliated. Scope, explanation: Holdings without increase 7.4 linear metres 198 AU Citation method: BArch, RM 116/...

finding aids: finding aid book, 1 vol.

Contains among other things: Statutes - Official Journal for Annex.

Description of the holdings: In 1920 the attaché service was essentially dissolved. Between 1920 and 1933, no naval attachés were notified to German embassies abroad. From 1933 to 1945, the Kriegsmarine again sent naval attachés to the most important embassies. The majority of the naval attachés' files from 1933 to 1945 are still with the British admiralty in London. In the form of microfilms, the Federal Archives contain documents of the naval attaché in Madrid as well as fragments of files from Tokyo, Moscow and Oslo. Characterisation of content: Of the imperial naval attachés, only files of the attaché in Sofia from World War I have survived to a considerable extent. The tradition for the individual naval attachés since 1933 is very different. While for some attachés, e.g. Washington, no archives have been preserved in the holdings, for others, e.g. London, Rome, Tokyo, Moscow, Istanbul and Ankara, as well as Madrid, Lisbon, Agram and the four Scandinavian capitals, entire series of files have been preserved. The files of the naval attaché Tokyo go through the internment of the ´Personals (first by the Japanese, then by the Allies) and the handling of the office after the Second World War beyond the end of the war until 1947. State of development: Index of duties Vorarchivische Ordnung: The archival records of the naval attachés of the Imperial Navy until their recall in 1920 are summarized under the sub-collection RM 12 I. The archival records of the naval attachés of the Imperial Navy until their recall in 1920 are summarized under the sub-collection RM 12 I. Documents of the naval attachés appointed between 1933 and 1945 are part of RM 12 II. Scope, explanation: Holdings without increase 11.0 m 462 AU Citation method: BArch, RM 12-II/...

History of the Inventor: The Naval Command Office (A) assumed the function of the Admiral Staff, which had been dissolved as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, and in 1933 was expanded from originally 2 to 5 departments (A I: Operations, A II: Organisation and Readiness of the Naval Forces, A III: Naval Intelligence, A IV: Training, A V: Defense). After the operations department A I became independent in 1937 as naval war command, the importance of the naval command declined. In 1939 it was subordinated to the naval war command and was given the name Quartiermeisteramt (Skl/QuA), in 1944 finally the name Seekriegsleitung/ Der Admiralquartiermeister (Skl/AdmQu). Description of the stock: The Naval Command Office assumed the function of the Admiral Staff dissolved on the basis of the Treaty of Versailles. Initially divided into the fleet department and the weir department, it was expanded in 1923 to include the naval training department. In 1933, a reorganization with the following departments came into force: AI Fleet Department (for operations and foreign navies); AII Naval Organization Department (for organization and readiness of naval forces); AIII Naval Intelligence Department; AIV Naval Training Department (for training matters); V Naval Department (for certain naval matters). In addition the naval justice administration AJustV joined. After the operations department of the Fleet Department became independent as a naval war command, the leadership importance of the Naval Command Office declined. At the beginning of the war in 1939 it was subordinated to the naval war command and in the course of the war it was given the name Quartermaster's Office (Skl/QuA), then on 1 May 1944 it was renamed the Naval War Command/ The Admiral Quartermaster's Office (Skl/AdmQu). From 1937 to 1939, the head of the Naval Command Office was also head of the Naval War Management Staff. Tasks of the Fleet Department, questions of border protection, mine clearance, settlement matters and rebuilding of the Reichsmarine until the end of March 1921; files on air law and secret armaments matters, matters of liability for damages against the Allies after 1918, documents on the Fleet Construction Program and operational questions 1923-1939, further documents of the Naval Intelligence Service, among others from the time of the Spanish Civil War. Characterization of content: The surviving written material is divided into three registry groups. The "Alte Registratur" documents the tasks of the Fleet Department, questions of border protection, mine clearance, handling matters and rebuilding of the Reichsmarine until the end of March 1921; files on air law and secret armaments matters reach into the early thirties. From the early twenties, the affairs of the naval officers designated by the Allies as war criminals in the mixed arbitral tribunals have been documented, as have the procedures for liability for damages under the peace treaty. The third group consists mainly of documents on the fleet construction programme, on issues relating to the training of assistant leaders and on operational issues from 1923 to 1939; the documents of the Naval Intelligence Service, including those from the time of the Spanish Civil War, are also of importance. State of development: Findbuch Scope, Explanation: Inventory without increase 61.1 m 2160 AE Citation method: BArch, RM 20/...

History of the Inventor: The Naval Group Command West was formed in August 1939 in Wilhelmshaven as the operational command staff for the German Bight, the North Sea and the Atlantic. After the French campaign, it moved its headquarters to Paris and transferred part of its powers to the Naval Group Command North. Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Group Command West was simultaneously Commander Admiral France. In October 1944, the Maritime-Negruppenkommando West was replaced by the Marineoberkommando West in Bad Schwalbach. Description: The Naval Group Command West was formed in August 1939 in Sengwarden near Wilhelmshaven as the operational command staff for the German Bight, the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. After the French campaign it took its seat in Paris and transferred part of its competence to the Naval Group Command North. His commander-in-chief was Commanding Admiral France, whose staff was integrated into the Group Command in November 1942 as the Chief Quartermaster's Staff, which since then had not only been the operational command staff, but also carried out military service and location-related tasks. In October 1944 the Naval Group Command West was replaced by the Naval Command West in Bad Schwalbach. His commander-in-chief was at the same time commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht of all troops of the army, the navy and the air force enclosed in the fortress areas of France. Characterisation of content: In addition to the war diary from 23.8.1939 to 31.1.1945, the holdings also include files on the occupation of Norway, the preparations for landing in England and the operations of the blockade crushers, battleships and auxiliary cruisers arriving in French ports. There are gaps in the operational records of the companies "Weserübung", "Seelöwe", "Rheinübung" and "Cerberus". West Marine Command files are no longer available. State of development: Findbuch Scope, Explanation: 384 Citation method: BArch, RM 35-II/...