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

Description of the existing army: It was gradually enlarged by the allocation of further departments and official groups, further expanded in terms of organisation and personnel at the outbreak of war, and finally placed under the command of the Chief of Armament and Commander of the Reserve Army. The Army Office (AHA) worked on supplementing and arming the army in personnel, material and financial terms. The supplementary personnel department managed it according to the instructions of the OKW for the entire Wehrmacht. During the war it distributed the personnel replacement of the army among the replacement units and provided the replacement for the field army. In addition, the AHA had to work on the training regulations for the individual weapons categories and for the reserve army. The following annexes/links provide a detailed insight into the structure of the Office and the areas of responsibility of the individual organisational units: 1. overall structure AHA, 1939 (cf. RHD 18/35 and 36) 2. overall structure AHA, 1940 (from RH 15/92) 2.1. structure of the staff 2.2. areas of responsibility of the staff 2.3. structure of the Office Group Replacement and Armed Forces 2.4. areas of responsibility of the Office Group Replacement and Armed Forces 2.5. Structure and fields of work of the infantry department (In 2) 2.6. Structure and fields of work of the riding and driving department (In 3) 2.7. Structure and fields of work of the artillery department (In 4) 2.8. Structure and Fields of Activity of the Pioneer Department (In 5) 2.9. Structure of the Office Group K [Dept. Fast Troops (In 6), Dept. Motorization (In 8), Dept. Motorization (M)] 2.10. Fields of Activity of the Office Group K [Dept. Fast Troops (In 6), Dept. Motorization (In 8), Dept. Motorisation (M)] 2.11. Structure and fields of activity of the intelligence division (In 7) 2.12. Structure and fields of activity of the fog troops and gas defence division (In 9) 2.13. Structure and fields of activity of the railway pioneering division (In 10) 2.14. breakdown and fields of work of the Army Medical Inspectorate (S In) 2.15. breakdown and fields of work of the Veterinary Inspectorate (V In) 2.16. breakdown and fields of work of the Field Stuff Inspectorate (Fz In) 2. breakdown and fields of work of the Army Medical Inspectorate (S In) 2. breakdown and fields of work of the Veterinary Inspectorate (V In) 2.16. breakdown and fields of work of the Military Stuff Inspectorate (Fz In) 2. breakdown and fields of work of the Veterinary Inspectorate (V In) 2.16. breakdown and fields of work of the Military Stuff Inspectorate (Fz In) 2. breakdown and fields of work of the Veterinary Inspectorate (V In)17. structure and areas of work of the troop engineer inspection (In T) 2.18. structure and areas of work of the fortress inspection (In Fest) 2.19. structure and areas of work of the army clothing department (Dept. Bkl) 2. structure and areas of work of the army clothing department (Dept. Bkl) 2. structure and areas of work of the army engineering inspection (In T) 2.18. structure and areas of work of the fortress inspection (In Fest) 2.19. structure and areas of work of the army clothing department (Dept. Bkl) 2. structure and areas of work of the army clothing department (Dept. Bkl)20. division and fields of activity of the Army Law Department (HR) 3. overall division AHA, October 1944 (from RH 15/199) Vorprovenienz: In 1927 the Chief of Staff of the Army Office was renamed Chief of the Army Office. The General Army Office (AHA) emerged from his authority at the beginning of February 1934. Characterisation of the contents: The written material (450 vols.) was created or filed in the following offices of the office headed by General Friedrich Olbricht under the Commander of the Reserve Army until 20 July 1944: Group I a a (40 AE): mobilization plans and orders (from 1936); files on the establishment, reorganization, and dissolution of agencies, command authorities, and units (Army Structure and Implementing Regulations 1935-1939, Demobilization Measures 1940); personnel and material equipment of the Army, as well as field Army Replacements (1939-1945); field reports with information on the organization, structure, deployment, and equipment of individual branches of the armed forces and the Armed Forces Commissions (13 vol., 1940-1941). Group I(b): Armament measures, demand calculations and allocation of raw materials, iron and steel (1936-1940, 6 vols.); weapons, ammunition, apparatus and equipment and production planning for the army (1935-1942, 9 vols.). Group I c: Reorganization, reclassification, dissolution of offices, associations and units (1944-1945, 8 vols.); family boards of various offices (1941-1944, 12 vols.) Group I d/II a (30 AE): general and concrete personnel (partly also organizational and accommodation) matters (e.g. staffing of the AHA, reduction of personnel 1944/1945); documents on discipline and order; award of war awards. Central Department (65 AE): Budget documents (Army budgets and long-term budget programs from 1930-1936); Reich Defence Council (1934-1936); information on the structure, financing, equipment and training of the Reich Army (including transfer of the Provincial Police to the Reich Army). Replacement and Armed Forces Group (150 AU): Replacement Section: Collection of decrees on the registration, patterning and acceptance of conscripts and volunteers (21 vol., 1935-1945) and special documents on the compulsory military service of foreign minorities and in Austria and other integrated territories; files on the organisation and activities of military service posts; organisation, training and material equipment of individual categories of weapons (1928-1938); dissolution of units after surrender in Stalingrad and Tunis. Army Department: Documents on the organisation and business distribution of central services of the Wehrmacht and the Army, on General Army Affairs, competence issues, on the structure and mobilization, on the condition and personnel situation of the troops; collection of service instructions and leaflets in mobilization matters (39 vol.,1938-1943); information on the service law, the period of service, salaries and pensions of soldiers and Wehrmacht officials, as well as some files on foreign policy matters, the annexation of Austria, the occupation and annexation of Sudeten German territory and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Pastoral group (ca. 15 vols., 1930-1945) Files on the organisation in the military districts, recruitment, use, equipment and remuneration of full-time and part-time site pastors; general guidelines and implementation of military pastoral care as well as the situation of the church and the relationship to the state and the NSDAP. Processing staffs (110 vol.): Documents on the processing of affairs of shattered command authorities (including the 6th Army in Stalingrad, the Central, Northern and Southern Ukraine Army Groups and the Commander-in-Chief West) as well as battle and experience reports of subordinate units, also experience reports of returnees, surveys of prisoners of war and missing persons, subsequent promotions and awards (with individual cases). The Wehrkreiskommando VII (RH 53-7) is also to be regarded as a replacement delivery. The documents of the AHA also document the activities of the two last chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel i. G. Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and Colonel i. G. Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim, who were significantly involved in the assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944, and who were shot dead after the failure of the attack in the AHA's office in the Bendlerblock in Berlin. The activities of the Office are also documented by the extensive series of Army Regulations (H.Dv.), leaflets, peace and war strength and equipment records, the "Jahrbuch des deutschen Heeres" (1936-1942), the "Zeitschrift für die Heeresverwaltung" (1936-1944) and the "Heerestechnische Verordnungsblatt" (from 1943). State of development: Online-Findbuch Scope, Explanation: 462 AE Citation method: BArch, RH 15/...

Contains: 2 notebooks 1819 and 1838 - birthday letter 1848 - photo of the colonial summer festival in the Brauhof (Karlsplatz 4) 1907 - letter and inventory of the Armbrust-Schützengesellschaft 1946 - furniture seizure 1948 - letter to the mayor of Schöndorf 1860 (?). - Letter 1859 - Thanks poem to Grand Duchess Maria Pawlowna (printed matter) 1834 - leaflet Infant Care of the Reichsanstalt zur Bekämpfung der Säuglingssterblichkeit (o.D.) - annual report of the Verein zur Fürsorge für erwachsene Blinde des Großherzogtums Sachsen 1900.- Admission certificate to the Brand-Afssecuration Societät for buildings in Großbrembach 1782 - print "Napoleon` s des mortblichen Feldherr und Gesetzgeber Lebewohl" 1837 - call of the Russian army to the German soldiers (o.D.). - Birthday foundation for state welfare purposes 1898 - newspaper clippings: Weimarisches Wochenblatt, no. 24. u. 26.03.1830.- Allgemeine Zeitung no. 250 dated 7 September 1837, no. 251 dated 8 September 1837, no. 252 dated 9 September 1837.- Copy of the "Historische Nachrichten von der berühmten Residenzstadt Weimar (1737).- Copies of the "Historische Nachrichten von der berühmten Residenzstadt Weimar (1737).