History of the Inventor: In January 1915, the Hamburgische Landesverein vom Roten Kreuz and the Frankfurter Verein vom Roten Kreuz joined forces through the Prussian Ministry of War with the aim of bringing about a unified working group of all those involved in the investigation of missing persons and the care of prisoners. For the investigation of missing persons the name "Ausschuss für deutsche Kriegsgefangene" was chosen and for the care of prisoners the name "Hilfe für kriegsgefangene Deutsche". By May 1915 it had been possible to combine all the major Red Cross associations in Germany into a single working group. In September 1915, the Working Group and the Central Committee of the German Red Cross Associations in Berlin agreed on the principles of their respective responsibilities in the areas of missing persons investigation and prisoner welfare. The two headquarters in Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main became official information centres in the sense of the Hague Land Warfare Ordinance; at the same time they were attached to the Central Evidence Bureau of the Prussian War Ministry. Their tasks included the search for missing soldiers, the procurement of official death certificates and the improvement of postal traffic with prisoners of war. In addition, the Committee for German Prisoners of War of the Frankfurt Association of the Red Cross endeavored to provide information in the occupied territories of France, Russia, and Romania and to improve the situation of foreign prisoners of war in Germany. In July 1916, Rudolf Lismann, a senior member of the Committee for German POWs of the Frankfurt Association of the Red Cross, founded the Archive of the Committee for German POWs, later the Archive for POW Research. His aim was to produce a comprehensive documentation of the prisoners of war of the First World War from a uniform point of view. The collection areas included the relief organizations of the Red Cross associations, missing persons, prisoners of war and civilians, the position of prisoners under international law, refugees, hostages and refugees. Status: December 2003 Inventory description: In January 1915, the Hamburgische Landesverein vom Roten Kreuz and the Frankfurter Verein vom Roten Kreuz joined forces through the mediation of the Prussian Ministry of War, with the aim of bringing about a unified working group of all the offices concerned with the investigation of missing persons and the care of prisoners. For the investigation of missing persons the name "Ausschuss für deutsche Kriegsgefangene" was chosen and for the care of prisoners the name "Hilfe für kriegsgefangene Deutsche". By May 1915 it had been possible to combine all the major Red Cross associations in Germany into a single working group. In September 1915, the Working Group and the Central Committee of the German Red Cross Associations in Berlin agreed on the principles of their respective responsibilities in the areas of missing persons investigation and prisoner welfare. The two headquarters in Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main became official information centres in the sense of the Hague Land Warfare Ordinance; at the same time they were attached to the Central Evidence Bureau of the Prussian War Ministry. Their tasks included the search for missing soldiers, the procurement of official death certificates and the improvement of postal traffic with prisoners of war. In addition, the Committee for German Prisoners of War of the Frankfurt Association of the Red Cross endeavored to provide information in the occupied territories of France, Russia, and Romania and to improve the situation of foreign prisoners of war in Germany. In July 1916, Rudolf Lismann, a senior member of the Committee for German POWs of the Frankfurt Association of the Red Cross, founded the Archive of the Committee for German POWs, later the Archive for POW Research. His aim was to produce a comprehensive documentation of the prisoners of war of the First World War from a uniform point of view. The collection areas included the relief organizations of the Red Cross associations, missing persons, prisoners of war and civilians, the position of prisoners under international law, refugees, hostages and refugees. State of development: Findbuch (1984) Citation method: BArch, R 67/...

Kommandierung zur deutschen Abteilung der deutsch-französischen Grenzkommission Ost-Kamerun, 7 Aug. 1905 [fol. 2] Kröger, S. - Kommandierung als Expeditionsunteroffizier zur deutschen Abteilung der deutsch-französischen Grenzkommission Ost-Kamerun, 7 Sept. 1905 [fol. 4] Winkler, Erwin Gotthold, Oberleutnant. - Appointment as 2nd Commissioner of the German section of the Franco-German Border Commission South Cameroon, 27 Aug. 1905 [fol. 7] Engagement of workers from the Togo protectorate for the German section of the Franco-German South Cameroon Border Expedition, 1905 [fol. 9 - 14] Cancellation of the Banjo garrison and establishment of a police post under the Garua Residentur - proposal by Governor von Puttkamer, 1905 [fol. 9 - 14] Enlistment of soldiers from the Togo protectorate for the German section of the Franco-German South Cameroon Border Commission, 1905 [fol. 9 - 14] Bernhardt, Max, non-commissioned officer. - Commanding the German section of the Franco-German Border Commission East Cameroon, 1905 [fol. 47] General political, military and economic conditions. - East and South Cameroon. - Report by Captain Scheunemann, 1905 [fol. 50] Freier, Otto, cartographer at the publishing house Dietrich Reimer, Berlin. - Request for and assignment to the German section of the Franco-German East Cameroon Border Commission, 1905 - 1906 [fol. 56 - 97] Difficulties of the South Cameroon Society in supporting the German section of the Franco-German East Cameroon Border Expedition due to lack of support, 1906 [fol. 61 - 78] Incorporation of the Lamidat Binder claimed by France. - Request from Lamidos Chalid to Lieutenant Schipper, Garua, ca. 1905 [fol. 91 - 92] Regional border matters. - Binder, 1904 - 1906 [fol. 91 - 92] General political, military and economic conditions. - Njong area. - Report by Captain von Stein, 1906 [fol. 93 - 95] Glass beads as a means of payment for the German-French border commission East Cameroon due to lack of procurement of barter items from German factories, 1906 [fol. 105 - 106] Bernhardt, Max, non-commissioned officer. - Burial in Kunde after death on 5 May 1906, 1906 [fol. 108 - 113] Regional border affairs. - Djau Kombol, 1906 [fol. 140 - 144] Borders with the French possessions. - Non-recognition of the agreement approved by the Governor. - Secret decree of the Foreign Office, 1906 [fol. 142] Provisional Franco-German agreement on the course of the border in the Chari-Lagone-Tuburi region: copy, 21 July 1905 [fol. 146] Transfer of African soldiers of the protection force for Cameroon to the German section of the Franco-German Border Commission East Cameroon on 15 October 1905 - List of names, 1906 [fol. 183] General political, military and economic conditions. - Southern Musgum region. - Report by Lieutenant Kund, Bongor, ca. 1906 [fol. 194] Deployment of the Franco-German East and South Cameroon border expedition. - Memorandum, ca. 1905 [fol. 205]

I. Introduction 1 History of the authorities The existence of the General Civil Commissions is due to the Napoleonic Wars and the Stein-Hardenbergschen administrative reforms. After the military collapse of Prussia in 1806 and the Tilsiter peace of 7-9 July 1807, the question of civil and military reorganization of the state arose. Prussia had suffered great territorial losses in the peace of Tilsit, including those areas which it had only gained in the second and third Polish partition of 1793 and 1795. From these areas Emperor Napoleon formed the Grand Duchy of Warsaw. The territory of Pomerania and the Neumark, on the other hand, was preserved and the network district was divided. The Immediate Commission for the Enforcement of the Tilsit Peace was established to implement the peace provisions. For Pomerania and the Neumark as well as for East and West Prussia, general civil commissionariats were established, which were subordinated to the Immediate Commission (Kabinettsordre of July 31, 1807). The General Civil Commission for Pomerania and the Neumark was headed by a proven financial specialist: It was August Heinrich von Borgstede (1757 - 1824) who was appointed to this post by King Frederick William III. After studying camera science and law at the University of Halle, Borgstede first worked in the Justice Department of the Kurmärkische Kriegs- und Domänenkammer before being appointed to the General Directorate, where he had been employed in various territorial departments since 1795. One of the decisive factors for his later appointment was probably the fact that he had been chairman of the department for the Kur- and Neumark and in the Pomeranian department since 1800. At the time of his appointment, Borgstede held the title of Privy Supreme Finance Council, War Council and Domain Council. The task of the General Civil Commission was to implement the conditions of the peace treaty in the provinces occupied by the French army. To this end, they had to maintain close contacts with the middle administrative level, which already included the newly established governments in addition to the war and domain chambers. In addition, interim chambers for the unoccupied regions of Kolberg and Treptow an der Rega have existed since 1807. They were dissolved after the withdrawal of French troops in September 1808. At the central level, the Civil Commissioners not only worked with their superior authority, but also with the corresponding territorial departments in the Directorate-General. They also had to cooperate with the French military and civil administration in their blasting operations. In addition, Lieutenant General Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher was appointed Governor General for Pomerania and the Neumark and moved into this capacity, first to Treptow an der Rega and later to Szczecin. The demarcation district, which is repeatedly mentioned in the document titles, are the areas in which Blücher's troops were accommodated. The border villages of the demarcation district are listed in the file GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 146 No. 141. Within this structure, the General Civil Commissioners' offices probably functioned primarily as'postmen', but also as a clearing house for financial issues and questions arising from the military occupation of their bloc. Accordingly, the documents of this authority reflect almost the entire range of tasks of the war and domain chambers: they were concerned not only with contribution and excise matters and with catering for the army, but also with customs, commercial and manufacturing matters, with the affairs of offices and cities, with salt and mill matters, with sovereign matters and with questions of good policey'. Time and again, the General Civil Commission offices also became the focal point for applications from subjects, with one group, namely the officials who had fled the ceded territories and were seeking reinstatement, standing out in particular. In general, personnel decisions as well as the supply of inactive soldiers and military personnel were the main tasks of the General Civil Commissionariats. Nothing is known about the internal organization of the General Civil Commission offices. Those who go through the archival records received get the impression that it was a small authority with a few officials, which perhaps did not need a strong internal structure. In the case of the General Commissariat for Pomerania and the Neumark, all business transactions obviously ran via Borgstede's desk. Together with the Immediate Commission for the Enforcement of the Tilsit Peace, the General Civil Commissionariats were abolished on 16.12.1808. As far as Borgstede was concerned as head of the General Civil Commission for Pomerania and the Neumark, he was put into retirement and retired to his estates. Towards the end of his life (1823), however, he was reactivated once again and appointed to the Prussian Council of State. 2. inventory history The files were originally listed by title in a file index from the 19th century. During a revision in the German Central Archives, Merseburg Department, serial numbers were assigned in 1962. U. transferred the titles to the archives database in 2010 (see also 3.) and reviewed the title formation of selected files in this context. 3) Instructions for use This reference book is not based on a re-listing of the holdings, but on the old reference book from the 19th century. The titles of the indexing units have been modernized and simplified in accordance with current archival standards. Source terms for old job titles and other special terms have been inserted in parentheses in normalized spelling. Place names were checked and reproduced in the current spelling. Place names that could not be identified were enclosed in quotation marks. 4th Literature Eberhard Lebender: August Heinrich von Borgstede. A Prussian official and his work in Pomerania, in: Gesellschaft für pommersche Geschichte und Altertumskunde (ed.): Baltische Studien N.F. 86 (2000), pp. 90 - 99. 5. Reference to other archives GStA PK: GStA PK, II. HA GD, Dept. 12 Pomerania GStA PK, II HA GD, Dept. 13 Neumark GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 72 Immediate Commission for the Enforcement of the Tilsiter Peace Other Archives: Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv, Rep. 3, Neumärkische Kriegs- und Domänenkammer Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv, Rep. 3 B Government Frankfurt (Oder) Archiwum Panstwowe w Szczecinie (State Archive Stettin), War and Domain Chamber Stettin State Archive Greifswald, Rep. 20 Interimistische Kriegs- und Domänenkammer Landesarchiv Greifswald, Rep. 65 a Government of Szczecin 6. notes, order signatures and citation Scope: 8 running metres (1310 UE) Duration: 1805 - 1818 The files are to be ordered: I. HA Rep. 146 No. (...) The files are to be quoted: GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 146 Generalzivilkommissariat für Pommern und die Neumark Berlin, 07.09.2010 Dr. Leibetseder (Archivrat) finding aids: database; collective finding book, 1 vol. (for I. HA Rep. 146 and 146 B)

Regiment history: The regiment was rebuilt on 22 October 1852 as the 3rd Line Infantry Regiment. On 1 July 1871 it was renamed the 3rd Baden Infantry Regiment. As a result of the military convention concluded with Prussia and the associated numbering of the units, the addition no. 111 was added at the same time, following the Prussian model. From 18 December 1892, the unit was given the final designation of 3rd Baden Infantry Regiment Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm No. 111. When war broke out, the regiment belonged to the 56th Infantry Brigade (28th Infantry Division). At the beginning of the war, each infantry regiment, including the Reserve and Landwehr infantry regiments, had set up a replacement battalion for the training of replacements. In January 1915, a further replacement battalion was ordered. In addition to the training of the army replacement, new units were also formed by the replacement battalions. The 1st replacement battalion was erected on 2 August 1914 and stationed in Rastatt. The 2nd replacement battalion was also formed in Rastatt in February 1915. As a result of the demobilisation, from 2 May 1919 only the General Command, four higher dissolution staffs and one liquidation post each for each of the infantry and artillery regiments that were part of the peace budget before 1914 remained in the area of the XIV Army Corps. 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 at the processing office of Infantry Regiment No. 111. From January 1920, the establishment of an archive of the XIV Army Corps began, in which the archives of the processing offices 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). 317 fascicles with a circumference of 8.5 linear metres are included. 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.Feill, (Heinrich): Das 3. Badische Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 111 in the campaign 1870/71 along with a short prehistory of the Baden troops from 1604 to 1850 and of the establishment of the regiment 1853 to 1870, Berlin 1884.Feill, (Heinrich): Das 3. Badische Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 111 from 1852-1888, Berlin 1895. Fenske, Hans: Die Verwaltung im Ersten Weltkrieg, in: German Administrative History, vol. 3, Stuttgart 1984, p. 866-908. Fischer, Joachim: Ten Years Military Archive of the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 37 (1978), p. 362-368 [Infantry Regiment 111]: Experiences of a deserter of the regiment Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm (3rd Baden) No. 111 in the French Foreign Legion 1889-1896, Baden-Baden 1898.Infanterie-Regiment 111]: Ehren-Tafel, list of the officers, non-commissioned officers and crews of the Infanterie-Regiment Markgraf Ludwig Wilhelm (3. Badisches) No. 111, Karlsruhe 1924 who remained in the field of honour. [Infanterie-Regiment 111]: Festbuch, Regimentstag on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the I. regiment.R. 111, Rastatt 1927.Jäger, Harald: The military archival material in the Federal Republic of Germany for the period from 1871 to 1919, in: Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen 1968/2, pp. 135-138.Kilian: Stock list of the officers' corps of the infantry regiment Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm (3rd ed. 1968/2, pp. 135-138). Baden) No. 111, 1852-1912, Rastatt 1912 Merz, Johann: Experiences of a soldier of the 3rd Baden Infantry Regiment Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm No. 111 in the campaign 1870/71, Karlsruhe 1897.Overview of the holdings of the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, edited by Joachim Fischer (publication of the Staatliche Archivverwaltung Baden-Württemberg, vol. 31), Stuttgart 1983.Zahn, Th.: Das Infanterie-Regiment Margraf Ludwig Wilhelm (3. badisches) Nr. 111 im Weltkriege 1914-1918, Wiesbaden 1936.

Contains among other things: All-German Association, page 44 Anti-Semitism, page 10, 26-27 Bund der Aufrechten, page 44, 67 Bund für Freiheit und Ordnung in Berlin und Umgebung, page 12 Deutsche Erneuerungsgemeinde, page 75-76 Deutscher Befreiungsbund, page 50-51 Deutscher Freiheitsbund, page 10-11, 86-91 German War Graves Commission "Black-White-Red", page 11 German National Youth Movement, page 44 German National Freedom Party, pages 11, 49-50, 64, 97-98, 127-128 German National Defence and Defense Party, pages 43, 47-49 Greater German Labour Party, pages 11, 49-50, 64 Squirehood, page 44 Mosquito Federation, page 68 National Youth Federation, page 44 National Socialist German Workers' Party, pages 3, 11, 27-28, 39-42, 93-98 National Association of German Officers, page 44 National Association of German Soldiers, pages 26-27, 44 Organization Rossbach, Page 10-11 Steel helmet, Bund der Frontsoldaten, Page 43, 91-92 Sturmabteilungen (SA) der NSDAP, Page 93-96 Verband nationalengesinnter Soldaten, Page 42, 45-47 Allgemeine Arbeiter-Union (AAU), Page 38 Aufstand und Aufstandagitation, Page 24-25 Executive Committee of the III. (Communist) International ECCI, pages 9-10, 16, 34-36 International Federation of War-Damaged and War-Remained Persons, page 83 Communist Workers Party of Germany (KAPD), page 38 Communist Party of Germany, pages 7-8, 17-23, 35-39, 55-60, 70-71, 75-77 Communist Youth Union of Germany, pages 38, 80-81 Self-Protection Movement, pages 55-60, 77-83 Decomposition Work of the KPD, pages 83, 84-85

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/...

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/...

The estate splinter of Heinz von Ortenberg presented here was donated to the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage in March 2003 (Akz. 118/2009) by his nephew Karl-Theo Schneider (Hofheim). Heinz von Ortenberg was the personal physician of the former Emperor Wilhelm II in Doorn. According to the "Arzt vom Dienst" lists, he was in Doorn at the following times: 30.10.-08.03.1940 20.03.-10.07.1940 03.08.-15.12.1940 01.06.-18.06.1941. The records relate to correspondence in connection with Ortenberg's employment as a personal physician in Doorn and from the subsequent period of this activity, as well as pictorial material mainly from members of the House of Hohenzollern. Duration: 1938 - 1949, without date Scope: 0.03 lfm To order: VI. HA, Nl Ortenberg, H. v., No. ... To quote: GStA PK, VI. HA Family archives and estates, Nl Heinz von Ortenberg, No. ... Berlin, January 2010 (Sylvia Rose, Chief Archive Inspector) Selected literature on the person: - Leandro Silva Telles, Heinz von Ortenberg, médico do Kaiser e de Santa Cruz do Sul. Santa Cruz do Sul (Coleção História de Santa Cruz 3) 1980 by Heinz von Ortenberg: - On the importance of sugar for the nutrition of the soldier, Med. Diss. v. 5. Jan. 1904 by Heinrich von Ortenberg, Assistenzarzt im Deutsch-Ordens-Inf.-Reg. No 152, Deutsch-Eylau/Westpr., Berlin 1904, 31 S. (from the catalogue of the State Library PK) - From the diary of a physician. Feldzugsskizzen aus Südwestafrika, Berlin 1907 Life data of Heinz (partly also Heinrich) von Ortenberg 1.12.1879 born in Salzwedel Father: Arthur Karl Wilhelm von Ortenberg, born 30.11.1844 Riga, high school professor in Salzwedel Mother: Bertha Friedericke Karoline, née Gerlach, 28.2.1854 Salzwedel Siblings: Lilli, née 24.3.1878, Walter Martin, née 15.4.1883 11 September 1903 Joined the army 1904 Assistant doctor in the Deutsch-Ordens-Inf.-.Reg. No 152 Deutsch-Eylau then in the Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika 1906 resignation from military service as senior physician a.D. due to accidents suffered during the campaign in Deutsch-Süd-West-Afrika "feld- und garnisondienstunfähig" from 1908 head of a medical-surgical clinic in St. Cruz (Brazil) 1914 Reentry into the army Prisoners of war in Gibraltar 1916 Stay in Bulgaria 1918 Retirement from military service as staff doctor (ret.) 30 October 1939 Beginning as personal physician of Wilhelm II in Doorn/Netherlands 1941 Death of his brother von Ortenberg 4 June 1941 von Ortenberg cared for the emperor in the last days until his death Heinz von Ortenberg had property in Brazil, where he also lived for many years. His date of death could not be determined. The above data on life were included in the letter of 29.3.1940 in order no. 1, the rankings of the Royal Prussian Army of 1904 and 1905, the Archivale I and the Archivale I. HA Rep. 176 Heroldsamt No. 6922 and the following websites: - http://www.eeh2008.anpuh-rs.org.br/resources/content/anais/1214537110_ARQUIVO_OsprimordiosdosbalneariosnoRioGrandedoSul.pdf - http://www.hospitalstacruz.com.br/institucional/historico.htm. Description: Life data: born 1879 finding aids: database; find book, 1 vol.