(These skins are so heavy that more than 35 men are needed to transport them.)

Inventory description: In the General Army Office, Group C of the Army Department also carried out military transport until the Transport Department was created at the beginning of 1920. It was entrusted with the use of the railway network and shipping routes for military traffic and regulated the execution of troop and supply transports. She was also responsible for railway protection and operational supervision of the armoured trains. Since 1 July 1935, it formed the 5th section of the General Staff of the Army and was finally subordinated directly to the Chief of the General Staff in 1939 as Chief of Transportation. It was responsible for the entire Wehrmacht's transport system and the preparation of transport routes - railways, inland waterways and roads - for military use. At the same time, she represented the interests of the Wehrmacht vis-à-vis the Reich Minister of Transport (Deutsche Reichsbahn) and the Inspector General for German Roads. It also ensured that transport interests were taken into account in the construction of military installations. From August 1939 onwards, the head of the Transport Department also held the post of head of the Wehrmacht's transport department, who, as an OKW official, had to issue decrees and orders for transport concerning all three parts of the Wehrmacht. In his home war zone as well as on the individual theatres of war, the transport chief was responsible for the offices and troops of various kinds that carried out the tasks assigned to him. In the case of the former, a distinction was made according to their structure and training for deployment between transport services at command authorities (General of the Transport Sector, Authorized Transport Officers, Transport Connection Centres, Transport Officers) and transport processing services (Wehrmacht Transport Lines, Wehrmacht Traffic Directorates, Transport Command Offices) and monitoring and field services (Station Command Offices, Unloading Commissioners, Forwarding Offices). See Appendices 1-3: Organization sketches (from Rohde: Das deutsche Wehrmachttransportwesen im Zweiten Weltkrieg) by: 1. Der Chef des Transportwesens in der Spitzengliederung des OKW (1939-1945); 2. Der Stab des Chefs des Transportwesens 1939 und 1945; and 3. Unterstellungsverhältnisse der Dienststellen und Truppen des Chefs des Transportwesens (1939-1945). Preproveniences: Group C of the Army Department in the General Staff Office and the 5th Dept. of the General Staff of the Army Content Characterization: The documents of the 5th Dept. of the General Staff of the Army were classified into the stock of the Chief of Transportation on the basis of the organizational and registry connections. In addition to fragments of files on the organisation of the transport system, documents on transport exercises (pre-war period) and on the development and usability of transport routes have been handed down. War diaries or activity reports are available to a very limited extent for the period from 1939 to 1941. The mass of the written legacy of the Chief of Transport refers to the period before 1939. Supplementary documents can be found at ministerial level, in the area of official printed matter, in some estates as well as at troop associations, command posts, offices and territorial commanders (e.g. transport officer authorized by an army or army group; general of transport of an army group). 3.2 Other holdings, information R 5 Reichsverkehrsministerium (in BA, department R) R 4601 General Inspector for German Roads (in BA, department R). R) RH 20 Armies (Authorized Transport Officers) RH 47 Associations and Units of the Railway Troops and Technical Troops RH 66 General of the Railway Troops RW 18 Transport and Traffic Command Offices N 407 Legacy of Colonel Teske (General of Transportation Mitte) N 532 Legacy of Lieutenant General Wilhelm Mittermaier (Wehrmacht Traffic Directorate Brussels) MSg 2/1470-72, 1474-75, 1477-78 Military Historical Collection (various reports by Max H.) Bork to the Wehrmacht transport system, via supply roads, railways and other transport routes) State of development: Online-Findbuch Umfang, Explanation: 300 AE (partly still old signatures) Citation method: BArch, RH 4/...

Notes on a transport of provisions

The torpedo boat 'Wami' takes over a torpedo from the 'Königsberg' in the colony D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a during the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

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

List with deployments on L 59/LZ 104; participation in the Africa voyage 1917; report of the Naval Airship Dept. Jamboli/ Jamboly; 18 pages

Inventory description: Due to the military convention with Prussia of 23.07.1867, the military commission of the Senate replaced the military deputation. It regulated the relations between the garrison and the Hamburg authorities, and in particular, in agreement with the General Command of the IXth Army Corps, the military replacement system. She was responsible for the respective military substitute commissions. It ceased to exist in 1921. The order, consisting of two registry layers with clearly differentiated structures, is structured as follows: In the Best. 342-1 I become Generalia (Military Commission of the Senate, General Correspondence, mobilization, military transport, march routes, quartering and catering, military budgets, service instructions, taxation of military personnel, military candidate system, personnel changes in the army, Postage freedom and the war with France (1870-1871) separated from Specialia (county replacement, replacement and landwehr, compulsory service, garrison matters, troop exercises, marches through, quarters, soldiers and officials of the former Hamburg contingent and pension and disability matters). The second layer (newer registry) forms the order 342-1 II and knows the following groups: Military commission of the Senate, mobilization, benefits in kind, transport, postage and franking, Reich budgets, service regulations, personnel changes in the army and navy, military and army affairs, garrison affairs, troop exercises and quarters, pensions, navy, acts of war (World War I) and post-war acts. (LS)

History of the Inventor: The first war societies were founded immediately after the establishment of the war raw materials department on August 13, 1914 in the legal form of a stock corporation. In principle, these trading companies performed the tasks assigned to them completely independently and were only controlled in their business activities by state commissioners of the War Ministry, the Reich Office of the Interior, the Prussian Ministry of Trade and Commerce, the Reich Navy Office or other Reich authorities. Particularly in the case of commercial and technical tasks, the support of trade and industry was needed to relieve the administration of its administrative tasks. Only in this way was it believed possible to compensate for the deficits in the economic and organisational preparations. Legally, the war societies were established in the form of stock corporations, limited liability companies, accounting offices or war committees. Conceptually, they were to be distinguished from the forced syndicates, the central business associations and the state authorities themselves. As the supply situation deteriorated, additional tasks were added. In addition to the procurement, administration and distribution of raw materials, the mobilization and supplementation of existing domestic material stocks had to be dealt with. For this purpose, the state set up mobilization centers, commodity import organizations and requisition organizations were established in the occupied territories, and the domestic production of raw materials and their substitutes was promoted through direct influence on industrial capacities, the establishment of new plants and the promotion of scientific developments. Accordingly, the field of activity of the aid organisations also expanded to include technical tasks (sorting, processing, storage and transport of raw materials), production promotion and foreign trade. Of the approximately 350 organizations existing at the end of the war, 105 were under the authority of the War Food Office (later: Reich Food Ministry), 120 under the authority of Reichswirt‧schaftsamt (later: Reich Economics Ministry), five under the authority of the Reich Office of the Interior (later: Reich Ministry of the Interior), and 120 under the authority of the Prussian War Ministry or the War Office (later: Reich Economics Ministry). It should be borne in mind that only about one third of these organisations were of an administrative nature; only these organisations can be regarded as having a relationship of subordination in the administrative sense. Another third of the other organisations are so-called war societies, i.e. companies founded for the purposes of the war economy, mostly with equity interests of the Reich and the Länder, and supervised by Reich offices or specially appointed Reich Commissioners under commercial law (AG, GmbH). The organizations of the remaining third are to be regarded as self-governing bodies of the individual branches of industry with the character of voluntary or compulsory syndicates under the influence of the Reich. The dissolution of war societies was primarily governed by the provisions of the Articles of Association, which, in accordance with the purpose of the societies, provided for the commencement of liquidation at the end of the war or within one year of the conclusion of a peace treaty with all the major powers. Where there was no time limit or the district societies were continued by a subsequent agreement due to the continuing shortage of supplies, an explicit resolution to dissolve them was required. In the interest of a quick, uniform and final dismantling of the war economy, on 15 July 1921, at the instigation of the Reich Treasury, all war societies were finally given the easier opportunity of dissolution through a transition to the Reich without liquidation. Inventory description: Inventory history In 1943 and 1944, the inventories of the wartime economic organizations of World War I were first relocated to Staßfurt on a selective basis and then to Schönebeck, taking into account all of the inventories and parts initially left behind. In the course of the post-war events, they were transferred to the German Central Archive, Dept. Merseburg, where they remained until 1955. In July/August 1955, the holdings of the war organizations of World War I were transferred to the central archive in Potsdam. Archival evaluation and processing In the years 1959-1960, work began on arranging and recording individual smaller holdings for which the Reichsarchiv had no or only inadequate finding aids. Content characterization: This contains materials on the following topics: - Organisation and business operations, 1916-1922 - extraction and management of manganese ores, ferromanganese and manganese dioxide, exploitation of individual deposits in Germany, 1913-1925 - ore extraction abroad, ore imports, general and individual countries (above all Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey), 1902-1922. State of development: find register c. 1980 citation method: BArch, R 8749/...

History of the possession of the island Mainau: After the abolition of the Kommende of the Teutonic Order on the island Mainau in 1805, the Kommenden possession first fell to the Baden state; today the Kommenden archive in the General State Archives consists mainly of the holdings 5 (documents Mainau) and 93 (files Mainau). After a rapid change of ownership - 1827 from Baden to Prince Nikolaus von Esterhazy, 1827 from his son Nikolaus Freiherr von Mainau to Katharina Gräfin Langenstein - Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden bought the island from Langenstein¿schem in 1853 with funds from the private box and made the Teutonic Order palace a secondary residence. With advancing age, the stays of the Grand Duke and his wife Luise became increasingly frequent; the park owes its design largely to Frederick's initiative. In 1907 the Grand Duke of Mainau died. After her death in 1923, the widow's residence of the Grand Duchess was transferred to her son Frederick II, and from him to his sister Victoria, Queen of Sweden. In 1930, their grandson Lennart, now Count Bernadotte, took possession of the Mainau. History and notes on tradition: The Schlossarchiv, which was handed over to the General State Archives in 1997 as a deposit of Blumeninsel Mainau GmbH, depicts the history of possession and the court holdings of the Grand Ducal couple rather fragmentarily. Only the planned stock has survived as a closed overdelivery complex. After the death of Frederick I, Grand Duchess Luise decided that neither the castle nor the park could be altered in any way, so the plans provide a good overview of the conversion of the old Kommende buildings and the layout of the park from the Grand Ducal period to the Bernadotte era. Almost all the plans came from the architects of the Grand Ducal Court Building Office (Dyckerhoff, Hemberger, Amersbach), a few from the Court Garden Centre, from commissioned companies and from the Constance District Building Inspectorate. Outside the island, only the St. Katharina estate near Litzelstetten and a park bench near Constance are documented. The plans were recorded in detail by Ms. Kreyenberg before they were handed over to the General State Archives; her index continues to serve as a finding aid for the plan inventory, while the file part of the archive consists only of fragments. There are internal and external reasons for this. The changing courtly style between Karlsruhe, Baden-Baden, Badenweiler and Mainau may have brought with it a transport of written documents, which in all residences allowed half site-related, half accidentally left behind layers of files to emerge. In many respects, the Mainau holdings correspond almost perfectly to the files that have been kept in the General State Archives since 1995 from the tradition in the New Palace in Baden-Baden: Here and there the boundaries between the files of the court authorities, the daily ceremony and the personal, princely estate can hardly be drawn exactly, here and there correspondence and telegram series, diaries and notebooks, private entries and greeting addresses, documents of the wide-ranging charity work of Grand Duchess Luise and much more can be found. (cf. GLA 69 Baden, Collection 1995 A, B, D, F I, FII, G , K). In a nutshell, the Mainau collection - insofar as it does not directly refer to the Mainau court - microscopically depicts the Baden-Baden manor; both collections relate primarily to Grand Duchess Luise, and only in the second to her husband and children. As in Baden-Baden, the Mainau collection also includes a large group of photographs documenting, among other things, the close ties to relatives of the imperial family. Unlike in Baden-Baden, however, the fragmentary character of the Mainau archive also seems to be due to unintentional interventions. In the summer of 1945, the castle served as a military hospital for former concentration camp prisoners; during this time, they are said to have burned the archives, the bookkeeping and the more recent documentation of the island and to have taken documents with them when they were released in September (Alexander and Johanna Dées de Sterio, Die Mainau, Stuttgart / Zürich 1977 p.93). It will no longer be possible to reconstruct exactly what kind of archive this was; in any case, it must have been the written records of the goods administration which were taken over by the successors of the Teutonic Order and continued through the 19th century. Only fractions of files from this area have actually survived in today's inventory. Editor's report: Because of the difficult history of tradition, the order of the remaining holdings was not easy either. A separation according to personnel and court office conveniences would have made little sense and would also have been hardly possible in view of fragments that could hardly be allocated. Thus special occasions (such as birthdays and anniversaries) and special source genres (such as notebooks or telegrams) now form the highest order criteria, then the reference to persons or events and finally, within a unit of records, the chronological order; however, most of these units of records had to be formed first, since at the time the inventory was taken over any order of parts was not recognizable; as a rule they were loose, connected sheets.In August and September 1998, in the context of the training for the Higher Archive Service, the holdings were arranged by Claudia Maria Neesen and Christof Strauß under the guidance of the undersigned and recorded and indexed with the help of the MIDOSA programme package of the Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg. Karlsruhe, June 1999Konrad Krimm Conversion: The finding aid was converted in 2015. The final editing was carried out by Sara Diedrich in April 2016. The plans and building drawings were added under the inventory designation 69 Baden, Mainau K to the inventory 69 Baden, Mainau and listed under the signatures 69 Baden, Mainau K 1 to 69 Baden, Mainau K 209.

A ship has moored at the loading bridge of Tsingtau in the bay of Kiautschou / Photographer: Scherl

Table of Contents/Rubrum (pages 3-9). Correspondence with the main board of the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft Düsseldorf, A. Achenbach, H. Deiters, (pp. 19-22, 27-30, 240), inter alia on the appointment of the jury for the art exhibition: as representative of the Düsseldorfer Kunstakademie: Gregor v. Bochmann, Eugène Dücker, Ferdinand Fagerlin, Christian Kröner, Benjamin Vautier, Heinrich Lauenstein, Max Volkhart (pp. 240).<br />Format with the Munich Artists' Cooperative, E. Stieler (pp. 264f.). Participation of the Weimar artists, list of artists (pp. 273f.). Correspondence about the participation of foreign artists in the exhibition (pp. 181, 190-193), Scandinavian artists (pp. 263, 282-286), Italian artists (pp. 268f., 282f.), English artists (pp. 287, 309, 321, 347), Russian artists (pp. 346), Dutch artists (pp. 275-277, 295, 367), Belgian artists (pp. 361, 385f..), Belgian artists (pp. 385f.), and the participation of foreign artists in the exhibition (pp. 181, 190-193), Jean Portaels), Austrian artist (pp. 362f.); no participation of Japanese artists (pp. 258).<br />Managing director of the art exhibition by Fritz Gurlitt (pp. 23-25, 114-121, 128f., 133, 140, 154). Conversion of the hygiene exhibition building for the anniversary art exhibition 1886 (pp. 33-38). Financing of the exhibition both by budget funds of the Ministry of Culture and by additional funds from the Magistrate (pp. 39-48, 75, 77, 82-89, 93, 99f., 153, 157, 185-187, 194, 243, 260, 279, 344f., 371, 395, 401).<br />Appointment of the members of the Ministry of Culture to the Commission for the Jubilee Art Exhibition: Greiff, Spieker, Jordan (pp. 49). Honorary Presidium and Honorary Committee for the Exhibition: Suggestions, Appointments (pp. 80, 101-103, 105, 130-132, 143, 171-178, 195, 202f., 207f.), List of Members of the Honorary Committee (pp. 144f..), and the list of members of the Honorary Committee (pp. 144f.), 204-206, 236, 292).<br />Suggestions for the design of the exhibition: Gustav Eilers (pp. 63f.), Kyllmann and Heyden, including an introduction to ancient Pergamon and Olympia as well as a diorama of the German colonies in West Africa and New Guinea (pp. 65-73, 364). Participation of the commission of the Verein Berliner Künstler in the design of the anniversary art exhibition, secretary Konrad Dielitz (pp. 122-127, 136). Association of Berlin artists to support its needy members and their surviving dependants (pp. 278, 288). Structural measures for the exhibition (pp. 262, 339). Glass paintings for the exhibition building (Bl. 290f.). Construction of a church on the exhibition site as a hall for the works with religious themes (sheet 219). Proposals by the architect Orth (pp. 198f., 226), Johannes Otzen (pp. 210-212, 280f.). Postponement of the Vienna Art Exhibition in favor of the Berlin Jubilee Art Exhibition (pp. 90-92, 115f.).<br />Inquiries about the exhibition program, free tickets, etc. Verein für deutsches Kunstgewerbe zu Berlin (pp. 95-98), Verein der Steinbildhauer, Peter Steffens (pp. 310). Request by Fritz Hummel to send a portrait of Leopold Ranke to the exhibition (pp. 408).<br />Program of the exhibition (pp. 147, 152, print, 161), Invitation to send the exhibition (pp. 107f), Application form (pp. 167). Sale of tickets by Soenderop

Inventory description: Abt. 77/14 Turngemeinde 1846 Worms (Dep.) Scope: 107 archive cartons (= 747 units = 12 linear metres) Duration: 1861 - 2007 I. Acquisition and condition Documents on the history of the Turngemeinde (1 archive carton) had been handed over to the municipal archives at an unknown point in time (between 1975 and 1988) without depositary reservation. The actual archives of the gymnastics community were collected on 7 and 16 May 2008 at the gymnastics community Worms 1846 after preliminary talks with the honorary chairman Herbert W. Hofmann and conclusion of a contract with the club, where they had been kept in the basement and in the top floor of the tower of the Jahnturnhalle, at the latter location also in the context of a permanent exhibition in showcases. These two storage locations were, as far as can be reconstructed with certainty after the transport to the city archives, noted in the field "Remark" with "Cellar" or "Tower". A pre-archival order above the file units could only be found on the envelopes for some files of the 1920s (numbering 1 - 44); a registration plan was not available. A brief reference to the reorganization of the archive by Peter Hofmann is contained in the file Dept. 77/14 No. 480. However, the first known overview of the archive is that of Prof. Dr. Harald Braun in his Festschrift der Turngemeinde of 1995 (see below). The preparatory work for this work also includes the copies of Worms and foreign archives, transcriptions and notes summarised in No. 626. The condition of the material is perfect. II Provenances In addition to the actual record keeping of the gymnastics community, other places have contributed to a small extent to the written material and photographic material as it was taken over by the city archives. They were left in the inventory with reference to the respective provenance. Apart from the above-mentioned author of the 1995 commemorative publication, Prof. Harald Braun, recognizable are - above all Nikolaus Doerr, 1st Chairman, of whom there are also files concerning his activities as a member of the City Council and Chairman of the City Sports Association; - Peter Hofmann, 2nd and 3rd Chairman, Altersturnwart as well as expert advisor for physical education at the City Education Authority; - Willi Hein, Oberturnwart, Gaujugendturnwart. With the photo albums and collections private origin is mostly probable. Hermann Fendel, Josef Fischer, Willi Hein, Anton Hilken and Wilma Wolfrath can be identified as previous owners. The archives of the gymnastics department of the F.C. Blau-Weiß Worms of 1933 for the years 1948-49 (Dept. 77/14 No. 588, due to the change of departments of the temporarily forbidden gymnastics community) and of the gymnastics club 1883 Alsheim (Dept. 77/14 No. 217, probably in connection with Peter Hofmann's activity for the club, of which he was an honorary member since 1936, can be found of foreign clubs. III. archival indexing The indexing took place in 2008/09. Due to the quite clear delimitability of the older part of the tradition from the beginnings up to prohibition and reestablishment of the gymnastics community after World War II on the one hand and the following time up to today on the other hand, the stock was divided into an older (up to 1945) and a newer part (from 1945) during the preparation of a file plan. For a certain part of the material a new formation was necessary, which is then marked with "NF" after the serial number. IV. Cassations of documents in the amount of 7 archive boxes was collected after review by Mr. Herbert W. Hofmann, honorary chairman of the gymnastics community. V. Literature: - Philipp Baas, Geschichte der Turngemeinde Worms von Weihnachten 1846 bis Ostern 1908, Worms 1909 - Festschrift zum 110jährigen Jubiläum der Turngemeinde 1846 Worms, Worms 1956 - Schmahl, Hans J., 125 years of the gymnastics community in 1846 Worms, Worms 1971 - Harald Braun, Geschichte der Turngemeinde Worms e.V. von 1845/46 bis 1995/96, Alzey 1995 (in it a first short, incomplete overview of the archive of the gymnastics community) as well as numerous publications to the individual departments and printed statutes etc., which are proven in this stock in the printed publications or in the file context and in the online catalogue of the city library. There are no restrictions on use. Martin Geyer, Worms City Archive, May 2009

Execution: Lithograph Persons and institutions involved in the creation: signed. Volz, H., print by J. Albert Picture carrier: paper Image and sheet size: 41 x 29.2 cm

The warship 'Hertha' is anchored in the harbour of Dar-es-Salaam / Photographer: Scherl

German colonial officials travel on the first section of the Dar es Salaam - Mrogoro railway / Photographer: Scherl

Undersecretary of State of Lindequist at Dar es Salaam railway station during his inspection trip through East Africa / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: Transport insurance for embassy and consular facilities overseas, 1933

Contains: Printed budget for 1941 Colonial political training of the police. Question of budgetary competence, 1941 List of salaries (lists of names) of members of branch offices of the German Academic Exchange Service abroad, as of 10 June 1941 List of remuneration (lists of names) of members of cultural institutes abroad, approx. 1941 Remuneration of German lecturers (lists of names) at foreign universities, as of June 1941 Overview of the average salaries of German teachers abroad, 1941 The ski lodge of the International Office of the lecturers at Reit im Winkel (illustrated brochure), 1941 Activity reports of the International Office of the lecturers at German universities and universities of Apr. 1940 to March 1941 List of the personally supervised foreign scientists of the Foreign Office of the Lecturership, status: 1.6.1941 Lease of the Jagd Schönhoff/Sudetengau by the Reich Foreign Minister to camouflage meetings with leading foreign personalities as private invitations, 1941 Definition of competence between the Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Reichsführer SS in matters of folklore, 1941 Compensation for goods destined for Switzerland and confiscated by the Germans during the occupation of French ports. Comparison agreement with Switzerland with the assistance of the Prisenhof Hamburg, 1941-1942 care of needy German seamen in overseas territories, 1941 list of officials and employees of foreign administrations assigned to the German missions in Bucharest, Bratislava and Copenhagen (attachés), 1941 exchange of Soviet citizens for corresponding groups of Reich Germans after the outbreak of war with the Soviet Union. Transport to Svilengrad and transfer to Turkish territory, 1942 scholarships to foreigners - record of Legation Councillor Dr. Schaefer-Rümelin, 1940

History of the Inventor: The first war societies were founded immediately after the establishment of the war raw materials department on August 13, 1914 in the legal form of a stock corporation. In principle, these trading companies performed the tasks assigned to them completely independently and were only controlled in their business activities by state commissioners of the War Ministry, the Reich Office of the Interior, the Prussian Ministry of Trade and Commerce, the Reich Navy Office or other Reich authorities. Particularly in the case of commercial and technical tasks, the support of trade and industry was needed to relieve the administration of its administrative tasks. Only in this way was it believed possible to compensate for the deficits in the economic and organisational preparations. Legally, the war societies were established in the form of stock corporations, limited liability companies, accounting offices or war committees. Conceptually, they were to be distinguished from the forced syndicates, the central business associations and the state authorities themselves. As the supply situation deteriorated, additional tasks were added. In addition to the procurement, administration and distribution of raw materials, the mobilization and supplementation of existing domestic material stocks had to be dealt with. For this purpose, the state set up mobilization centers, commodity import organizations and requisition organizations were established in the occupied territories, and the domestic production of raw materials and their substitutes was promoted through direct influence on industrial capacities, the establishment of new plants and the promotion of scientific developments. Accordingly, the field of activity of the aid organisations also expanded to include technical tasks (sorting, processing, storage and transport of raw materials), production promotion and foreign trade. Of the approximately 350 organizations existing at the end of the war, 105 were under the authority of the War Food Office (later: Reich Food Ministry), 120 under the authority of Reichswirt‧schaftsamt (later: Reich Economics Ministry), five under the authority of the Reich Office of the Interior (later: Reich Ministry of the Interior), and 120 under the authority of the Prussian War Ministry or the War Office (later: Reich Economics Ministry). It should be borne in mind that only about one third of these organisations were of an administrative nature; only these organisations can be regarded as having a relationship of subordination in the administrative sense. Another third of the other organisations are so-called war societies, i.e. companies founded for the purposes of the war economy, mostly with equity interests of the Reich and the Länder, and supervised by Reich offices or specially appointed Reich Commissioners under commercial law (AG, GmbH). The organizations of the remaining third are to be regarded as self-governing bodies of the individual branches of industry with the character of voluntary or compulsory syndicates under the influence of the Reich. The dissolution of war societies was primarily governed by the provisions of the Articles of Association, which, in accordance with the purpose of the societies, provided for the commencement of liquidation at the end of the war or within one year of the conclusion of a peace treaty with all the major powers. Where there was no time limit or the district societies were continued by a subsequent agreement due to the continuing shortage of supplies, an explicit resolution to dissolve them was required. In the interest of a quick, uniform and final dismantling of the war economy, on 15 July 1921, at the instigation of the Reich Treasury, all war societies were finally given the easier opportunity of dissolution through a transition to the Reich without liquidation. Inventory description: Inventory history In 1943 and 1944, the inventories of the wartime economic organizations of World War I were first relocated to Staßfurt on a selective basis and then to Schönebeck, taking into account all of the inventories and parts initially left behind. In the course of the post-war events, they were transferred to the German Central Archive, Dept. Merseburg, where they remained until 1955. In July/August 1955, the holdings of the war organizations of World War I were transferred to the central archive in Potsdam. Archival evaluation and processing In the years 1959-1960, work began on arranging and recording individual smaller holdings for which the Reichsarchiv had no or only inadequate finding aids. Characterisation of content: The following documents have been handed down: - management and organisation, 1916-1920 - personnel matters, 1917-1919 - price monitoring and trade, 1917-1920. State of development: find index approx. 1980 citation method: BArch, R 8715/...

Lange, Erich (1889 - 1965) Prof. Dr.phil.; Professor of Fuel Geology 1946 President of the German Geological Survey; Director of the Geological Service of the GDR The estate contains: Excerpts from the file 1957 "Preparation of the commemorative event 10 years StGK (Staatliche Geologische Kommission) (contains among other things: material, elaborations and handwritten notes) Correspondences Personal letter of Gottlieb A. Seberna Handwritten notes among other things from and to geological books, to Cameroon, manuscripts to geological observation in French, German and English. Colonies (e.g. East-Adamaua), excerpts from the journal of the German Geological Society vol. 84(1932), photographs of tree trunks in a basalt stream near Meiganga

Contains among other things: Establishment of a direct Tsingtaus steamboat connection with the Yalu estuary for the transport of raw material for silk production from Manchuria (application by the German-Chinese Silk Industry Society), (1903) 1904 Attacks on the German administration in Kiautschou in the Chinese press, 1904 Railway construction projects of the Chinese-German Tschunghsiang Coal Society of Ihsien in Schantung ("Ihsien Society") and question of German concession rights in the province of Schantung, 1904 customs collection procedure in Tsingtau, 1904

The Duke of Mecklenburg as Governor of Togo before a journey through the country at the train station of Nuatja / Photographer: Scherl

Contains: Varia and Generalia the taxation of the colonial and liquid goods, thereby defeat (venture), trade with coffee and transport over Erder etc., month March-May 1811