Contains: with: Preparations (for withdrawal) of Finland from the war Naval coastal artillery Deployment of light naval forces and security forces, submarines Fuel situation Waste of Finland Deployment of submarines in the eastern Baltic Sea Company "Tanne" Merchant ship affairs Coastal defence of West Denmark Army troops Geb. AOK 20 Surveillance against sabotage and illegal passenger traffic in Danish waters as well as after Sweden Evacuation of the sea area of the naval commander R. Enemy situation inner Kronstadt bay Use of the Peipus Sea flotilla Situation in the Finn bust Planned settling movement from Luga bay area Preparations Withdrawal Army front in line Hungerburg - Narwa Action "Forwards" Defense of Estonia Mine situation in western Baltic Sea Enemy news on the use of the Soviet Baltic fleet Enemy and ice situation in the Finn bust Material on the enemy situation East, Soviet Union, Baltic Sea Threatening situation Narwa-Front Use of heavy cruisers "Prince Eugene" and resulting change in the command organisation in the northern area Hunting protection in the Finnish bosom Report on the political situation Finland's enemy air mine deployment in the Baltic Sea area Night hunting escort vessel "Togo" Occupation of the Aaland Islands and the island Hochland Command Army Group North for coastal protection on the north coast of Estonia Directive for companies "Tanne" Practice firing Protection of the bridges important for transport over the emperor's seaWilhelm-Kanal in case of a hostile landing Night hunt against hostile mine planes Communiqué of the Finnish government on the negotiations with the Soviet Union Material on the enemy situation East (Baltic Sea) Memorandum of the ObdM on the significance of the Narwa position for the overall warfare Dredging work in the port of Libau Operation order for keyword "Leipzig" Status Transfer of combat vehicles for Peipus Sea on 9. Apr. 1944 Reinforcement of combat forces in the Skagerrak area Termination of deliveries to Finland Statistics for month Apr. 1944 Expansion of Reval as a fixed place Code name "Rotbuche" Report on enemy air raid on Kiel (including damage to the Germania shipyard) Führer's order concerning removal of the 20th Lw Field Division from area W.Bfh. Denmark to Ob. Southwest to Northern Italy Mining Sea urchin barriers Land target shooting Use of school vehicles and inspections to clear mines in the Baltic Sea Closure planning in the Finnenbusen Possibilities of repatriating people and material from Estonian area Russian attack on the Karelian isthmus Location Finnenbusen Defence of the Koivisto offshore islands Guideline No. 50 Evacuation of the Koivisto islands Short report on companies against Narvi

Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Collection Photography, Inv.-No. FH 09381, Purchase 2005PrintGelatine silver paper29,9 x 43,3 cm (picture)Provenance 1955-2005, Agfa Foto-Historama, Leverkusen, former Inv.-No.: A? (purchased 1955)- 1985-2005, Museum Ludwig, Agfa Foto-Historama, Cologne, Inv. No.: FH 09381 (loan since 1985)Further information:- Location: Wilhelmshaven

Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Collection Photography, Inv.-No. FH 09371, purchase 2005PrintGelatinesilberpapier29,8 x 43,3 cm (picture)Provenance:- 1955-2005, Agfa Foto-Historama, Leverkusen, former Inv.-No.: A? (purchased 1955)- 1985-2005, Museum Ludwig, Agfa Foto-Historama, Cologne, Inv. No.: FH 09371 (loan since 1985)Further information:- Location: Wilhelmshaven

Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Sammlung Fotografie, Inv.-No. FH 09372, purchase 2005PrintGelatinesilberpapier17,5 x 23,1 cm (picture)Provenance:- 1955-2005, Agfa Foto-Historama, Leverkusen, former Inv.-No.: A? (purchased 1955)- 1985-2005, Museum Ludwig, Agfa Foto-Historama, Cologne, Inv.-No.: FH 09372 (on loan since 1985)Inscription: Inscription, back, upper left: No. 16 / 1900/Bremerhafen / Transport of troops to China / Prince Heinrich talks to officer Further information:- Location: Wilhelmshaven - Type: documentary photography

Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Sammlung Fotografie, Inv.-No. FH 09379, purchase 2005PrintGelatinesilberpapier29,9 x 43,4 cm (picture)Provenance:- 1955-2005, Agfa Foto-Historama, Leverkusen, former Inv.-No.: A? (purchased 1955)- 1985-2005, Museum Ludwig, Agfa Foto-Historama, Cologne, Inv. No.: FH 09379 (loan since 1985)Further information:- Location: Wilhelmshaven

Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Collection Photography, Inv.-No. FH 09380, purchase 2005PrintGelatinesilberpapier17,5 x 23,2 cm (picture)Provenance:- 1955-2005, Agfa Foto-Historama, Leverkusen, former Inv.-No.: A? (purchased 1955)- 1985-2005, Museum Ludwig, Agfa Foto-Historama, Cologne, Inv.-No.: FH 09380 (on loan since 1985)Inscription: Inscription, reverse side, top centered: No. 11 / Troop transport to China / Bavarian . Major "Lidl" delivers / an address and says: / "Our lifeblood to our emperor. "Further information:- Location: Wilhelmshaven - Type: Documentary photography

Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Collection Photography, Inv.-No. FH 09370, purchase 2005PrintGelatinesilberpapier17,6 x 23,1 cm (picture)Provenance:- 1955-2005, Agfa Foto-Historama, Leverkusen, former Inv.-No.: A? (purchased 1955)- 1985-2005, Museum Ludwig, Agfa Foto-Historama, Cologne, Inv.-No.: FH 09370 (on loan since 1985)Inscription: Inscription, back, upper left: No. 14 / 1900/Bremerhafen / Dampfer Darmstadt / Truppentransport n. [?] [illegible]further information:- Location: Wilhelmshaven - Type: Documentary photography

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: Documents on the management and organisation of the Deutsche Seeversicherungsgesellschaft von (1914-1921) as well as on marine insurance and prisenrecht (1914-1921) have been handed down. State of development: Find file approx. 1980 Citation method: BArch, R 8903/...

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 the content: The main focus of the tradition here is on the clothing industry and the management of textiles and garments, regional and local population supply including the supply of uniform fabrics and uniforms, 1916-1920. The following documents are also available: - Management and organisation, business operations, news, press releases, 1916-1922 - management committees, 1916-1919 - Kriegswirtschafts AG, 1916-1920 - personnel matters, 1916-1920 - connection with Reich authorities, 1916-1922 - export and import of textiles, 1916-1919. State of development: index of finds approx. 1980 citation method: BArch, R 8758/...

History of Tradition For the history of the authorities, see the preface to the holdings Ho 235 T 3 Processor's report In Section I, Section VI Trade and Industry, files were produced in the following areas: Size and weight, annual and weekly markets, trade concessions and pedlar trade, customs association and traffic in the same, trade, trade schools, trade police, guild system, book printers and bookstores, insurance companies and emigration agents as well as patent awards, building craftsmen and chimney sweeps, restaurants and pubs, Mills and shipping as well as water engines, ban rights, factories and steam boilers as well as smoke development, mining and metallurgy and saltworks as well as petroleum, budget and cash management, health insurance of workers, accident insurance of workers, disability and old age insurance, economic and other measures as a result of the world wars. Files on trade and trade schools were originally listed under a classification point "Trade" in the old index. However, since this was a confusing abundance of file titles, the division into two classification points was recommended: the classification point "Wanderschaften der Handwerksgesellen und Dispensationen davon" no longer has any files. The present repertory is the revised version of the 1852 official finding aid of the Prussian Government Section I Section VI Trade and Industry of 1852 with a supplement of 1927 (see No. 739). There is an index to the old repertory (see no. 740). There is also a concordance in the archive (see No. 741) between the authority file number and the NVA (=newly recorded files) number assigned in the archive. The addendum is partly in line with the 1852 finding fund of the authorities and partly not. Occasionally, file numbers that had previously been regarded as order signatures were assigned twice. As this is a means of finding authorities, supplements were made and these were not always in the expected places, which led to a great deal of confusion. Also the various entries about destruction or transfer to other registries (especially registry G of the standing registry) and other authorities created confusion about the existence or location of the files. The NVA numbers behind the individual title records (if at all clearly assignable) gave a certain indication that the file must already have been in the archive. - The NVA number was the first signature assigned in the archive, later the files were detached from the NVA stock again and were set up again according to the old authority signature. - However, not every file with an NVA number could be found. The complexity and the poor manageability of the old finding aid, in addition to the necessity of simplifying the old signatures, have led to the present directory. The first processing of the inventory took place only on the basis of the finding aids and not on the basis of the files. The content of the titles was not checked against the files, but only carefully normalised. The actual existence of the files and their duration was determined in the inventory in the magazine. Files from the previously unallocated remainder of the total holdings of the Prussian Government of Sigmaringen had to be allocated to the present partial holdings. In the course of the file check, the notes in the file were included in the repertory and no evidence of prior provenance was found. Unless it was a matter of a file with the preliminary provenance "Prussian Government Sigmaringen" and with the final provenance "Presidents of Hohenzollern - Liquidation Office". Mainly, however, one has to reckon with the preliminary provinces "Gehei me Konferenz Sigmaringen", "Geheime Konferenz Hechingen", "Fürstliche Landesregierung Sigmaringen", "Fürstliche Landesregierung Hechingen", "Preußische Übergangsregierung Sigmaringen", "Preußische Übergangsregierung Hechingen", "Preußischer Kommissarius" and "Landratsamt Hechingen". Individual files were left as they were in spite of free conveniences. Only "Prussian Commissarius" and "President of Hohenzollern - Processing Office" appear as foreign provenances. After the dissolution of Prussia, the authority "President of Hohenzollern - Abwicklungsstelle" (President of Hohenzollern - Settlement Office) had the task of fully settling the affairs of the Prussian government of Sigmaringen, which was also dissolved in 1945. The repertory now has a place and person index. The problem with the place index was that many places in the east of the former German Empire are now mainly on Polish territory. In order to facilitate the understanding of contemporary administrative contexts, these places were identified according to their administrative affiliation at the time. The same procedure was applied to Alsace-Lorraine. The present repertory lists all files that are listed in the list of authorities. If they could not be found, the note "not available" appears in the repertory. The state of conservation of the files is questionable, as the Prussian-stitched files were previously loose and unpacked on the shelves. However, no further deterioration of the state is to be expected, as the files have been packaged in an archival manner. The title recordings were recorded by the undersigned in 2004 using the Midosa 95 archive indexing program. Corinna Knobloch and the undersigned checked the files in the magazine. Holger Fleischer completed the final EDP work. The present inventory comprises 741 units of distortion and 27 linear metres and is quoted as follows: Ho 235 T 13-15 Nr. Sigmaringen, December 2005 Birgit Kirchmaier Content and evaluation Includes above all..: Measures and weights Regulation of the ratios of measure and weight; establishment and occupation of the Pfechtämter; control of the fineness of gold and silver goods; determination of measures for the brickworks; volume of the dispensing vessels; introduction of the hundred-part thermometer; order of measure and weight; establishment and new construction of the Weights and Measures Office in Sigmaringen and the processing office in Burladingen; Reich professional competitions - annual and weekly markets fair traffic; fairs - trade concessions, pedlar trade General provisions on pedlar trade; granting of trade concessions; ministerial decrees; commercial matters; department stores; granting of subsidies for the payment of rent for commercially used premises - customs union and traffic with the same customs union; traffic with neighbouring states; Trade and customs contracts; export of domestic products; customs duties - trade Landesgewerbeamt; Sunday rest in trade, industry and crafts; installations not subject to approval; experts for building trades; police ordinance on the establishment and operation of bakeries; bakery ordinance; state aid for the raising of small trade; Child labour in commercial enterprises; cartels; Ostrach gravel and crushed stone works; laws for the protection of workers; regulation of commercial relations; ministerial decrees; retail trade, migrant trade; trade licences; trade police; funds for commercial purposes; trade licences for foreigners; installation of vending machines; withdrawal of licences; commercial support funds; introduction of branches of industry, for example B. Embroideries; establishment of mechanical workshops; support for tradesmen; establishment of model workshops; commercial further training and vocational schools; pupil exchange between Württemberg and Hohenzollern; craftsman further training schools; personnel files of vocational school teachers; care of aviation in schools; aerial sports courses; state premiums for apprentice exhibitions; Premiums for the training of the deaf and dumb; private commercial schools; vocational schools for home economics; homework law; industrial and trade certificates; master builder ordinance; improvement of gainful employment; Kampfbund des gewerblichen Mittelstands; law on the organisation of national work; public welfare workers; kindergarten teachers; youth leaders; manufacture of hollows; Distance learning; UK employment of trade teachers; combating epidemics through schools; deployment of German teachers from the western and eastern regions; trade identification cards; trade privileges and subsidies; licensing of private hospitals, maternity hospitals and mental homes; trade courts; establishment of workers' health insurance funds; accident insurance for civil engineering workers; Improvement of housing; formation of commercial and industrial cooperatives; testing of small arms; workers' welfare institutions; establishment of employment offices; credit cooperatives of craftsmen; trade and commerce associations; chamber of crafts; award of state medals "for commercial services"; strikes and lock-outs; impairments of the craft trades; 1. May celebration; theatre; arbitration; labour court law; master builder regulation; wines and wine trade; accidents in commercial enterprises; employment agencies; award of public contracts; shortage of raw materials; chamber of commerce; films - trade police police police regulation on beer and meat taxes; regulation of fruit and bread prices; business by foreigners; butchery; slaughterhouses; transport of liquid carbon dioxide; electric power systems; lifts; explosives; transport and traffic with petroleum; air gas systems; Acetyl plants; price monitoring; ordinance on Thomas flour; remote gas supply; plants requiring monitoring; mineral oils; tank plants; beverage dispensing plants; mineral water apparatuses; ammonium nitrate; Sigmaringen gas station - guild of farriers; farriers; guild; Compulsory guilds; business transactions - hikes, dispensations Nothing left - book printing houses, bookstores Examination of booksellers and book printers; exclusive trade licence of the Court Chamber Council Ribler von Hechingen; supervision of lending libraries; Establishment of bookstores and book printers - insurance companies, patent grants, emigration agents Emigration companies; life and pension insurance companies; law on the business of insurance; granting of invention patents; intended establishment of a general hail insurance; private insurance companies - building craftsmen, chimney sweeps Classification and occupation of chimney sweep districts; instruction for chimney sweeps; regulation of chimney sweep wages; district chimney sweeps; Examination of building tradesmen; operation of the building trade; building materials; buildings; building experts - guest and public houses - granting of concessions; retail trade with beverages; reduction of pubs; economic fairness - mills, shipping, water engines - mill regulations; Mill visits; milling; reed, bone and powder mills; construction of waterworks; shipping - ban rights - abolition of the obligation to mill - factories, steam boilers, smoke development Employment of young factory workers; Revision of factory regulations; steam boilers; steam saws; individual factories; impairment of mill and factory operations by meadow irrigation; support for factory owners; worker protection; annual report of factory inspectors; employment of women and young people; labour inspectorate; meetings, travel expenses and annual report of labour inspectors; telephone systems; employment of blind people; German Labour Front; Youth Protection Act; Maternity Protection Act; labour protection for foreign workers and Eastern workers; arsenic-containing wallpaper and fabrics; anthrax; Sunday work; working hours - mining, metallurgy and saltworks, petroleum production; miners' law; mining law; establishment of ore washes; geognostische Untersuchung Hohenzollerns; petroleum - budget and cash management of the trade and industry administration final conclusions of the trade and industry administration; invoice acceptance; official affairs; support for retirement officials, their widows and orphans - health insurance of workers execution of the law on registered auxiliary funds of 1876 workers execution of the law on registered auxiliary funds of 1876; working hours - mining, metallurgy and saltworks, petroleum production; miners' law; establishment of ore washes; geognostische investigation of Hohenzollerns; petroleum - budget and cash management final conclusions of the trade and industry administration; invoice acceptance; civil servant affairs; support of retirement officials, their widows and orphans - health insurance of workers Implementation of the Reich Law on Health Insurance for Workers of 1883 and 1892; Implementation of the Reich Law on Health Insurance for Persons Employed in Agriculture; Earnings of Persons Employed in Agriculture; Health Insurance; Local Health Insurance Funds; Company Health Insurance Funds - Accident Insurance for Workers; Workers' Compensation Associations; Accident Insurance for State Enterprises - Disability and Old Age Insurance for Workers Implementation of the Reich Law on Disability and Old Age Insurance of 1889; Pension office for invalidity insurance; Insurance Act for Employees; Health insurance funds; Determination of local wages and benefits in kind - Mixed statistics; Air-raid protection of industrial installations; Leave of absence for employees and workers; Jews; Medal of Honour for Military Service; Cross of Merit for War; Medal of Merit for War; War measures of an economic nature; Administrative fees; Decrees notified by the Minister of Commerce; Medal of Honour for German public welfare; Reichskredithilfe; Orders, laws, etc. of the French military government; file levy on the occasion of the dissolution of the Prussian government Sigmaringen - economic measures in and after the 1st world war Nothing left

History of the Inventory Designer: By decree of the Reich President of 4. Founded on 1 May 1920 as an organ of the Reich government for the assessment of draft social and economic laws of fundamental importance prior to their submission to the Reichstag; conceived as an interim solution until the creation of the final Reich Economic Council provided for in Article 165 of the Weimar Constitution; consisted of 326 members initially grouped into ten professional and representative groups, appointed by professional interest groups and trade associations, the Reich government and the Reich Council; due to conflicts of interest between representatives of employers and employees, later divided into three departments: Entrepreneurs, workers, non-commercial representatives; influence of the work of the experts in the framework of the General Assembly and the three main committees (Economic Policy Committee, Social Policy Committee, Financial Policy Committee) on economic and social policy decisions of the Parliament remained limited; dissolved on 31 March 1934. Content characterization: Provisional Reich Economic Council (VRWR) and other economic interest groups: Function, tasks and organisation of the VRWR 1919-1934 (88), activity of the VRWR, board of directors, plenum 1920-1934 (40), composition and cooperation with other central institutions 1919-1933 (121), district economic councils as a planned substructure of the VRWR 1920-1933 (12), other professional and interest groups 1920-1934 (25), economic parliaments abroad 1920-1936 (3) Economic Policy Committee, economic policy: Meetings of the Committee 1920-1932 (46), Economic Policy Implications of the Treaty of Versailles, Economic Conference of the League of Nations 1920-1932 (39), Enquête Committee 1926-1934 (36), Socialization 1920-1922 (9), Raw Materials and Energy Supply 1920-1933 (11), Industrial Code and Other Economic Legal Norms 1920-1932 (56), Water management 1920-1926 (15), industry 1920-1933 (38), agriculture and forestry, food 1920-1933 (78), trade 1919-1933 (85), transport, post 1920-1933 (33), housing 1920-1933 (63), other economic policy areas 1920-1931 (21) Social Policy Committee, social policy: Committee meetings 1920-1933 (41), Labour law 1920-1932 (39), Vocational training 1921-1931 (17), Wages, tariffs, working time, health and safety at work and job creation 1919-1933 (147), Social security 1920-1933 (45), Promotion of intellectual work 1920-1933 (23), Other social sectors 1920-1931 (15) Financial policy committee, Finance, taxes, customs: Meetings of the Committee 1920-1933 (27), Financial implications of the Treaty of Versailles 1920-1933 (23), Prices, price reductions, price maintenance 1920-1933 (41), Monetary, coinage and banking 1920-1933 (54), Taxation 1920-1933 (162), Customs 1920-1932 (118). Citation style: BArch, R 401/...

Note: The holdings contain archival material that is subject to personal protection periods in accordance with § 10 Para. 3 Sentence 2 ArchG LSA and until their expiration is only accessible by shortening the protection period in accordance with § 10 Para. 4 Sentence 2 ArchG LSA or by accessing information in accordance with § 10 Para. 4a ArchG LSA. Search tools: Find book (online searchable) Registrar: Until the beginning of the 19th century, the police administration in the larger cities was very fragmented. In Magdeburg, more than ten different jurisdictions shared this territory until 1807. Within the Magdeburg police administration, the criminal investigation department stood out as an independent department in the first half of the 19th century. In addition, another special department was established in 1851 in the form of the central residents' registration office. An II. Business department was created in 1884. It was responsible for the affairs of the military office, the customs and market police and the public transport system, the matters relating to fines, transport and vaccinations, the issue of identity cards including hunting licences and, since 1888, also for health insurance, accident insurance and settlement matters. 1888 also saw the unification of the moral and criminal police. Since 15 July 1889, the Magdeburg Police Administration has been known as the Royal Police Presidium, in accordance with the title of Police President. At the beginning of the 1920s, as part of a structural restructuring of the Magdeburg police headquarters, there was a stronger distinction between the administrative police and the police administration on the one hand and the excellence consisting of the protective police and the criminal police on the other. At that time, the Presidium was structurally divided into five large departments, in addition to the Presidential Department and an Administrative Department. Department V was connected to the residents' registration office. Inventory information: The older files of the police headquarters in Magdeburg, which were created or continued in the years 1929-1945, were completely destroyed in the war except for the registry of the criminal directorate. Only the older part of the collection from the years 1803-1928 has been preserved, which was taken over by the Magdeburg State Archives in 1913, 1941 and 1945 in three deliveries of different sizes. In 1947 it was combined to form a single collection and rearranged according to the main subject areas of the police administration. The so-called gypsy personal files, criminal offender files and files on prostitutes, as well as the prisoner's books of the police prison and personal files of police members, which were later taken over by the criminal investigation department, were added to the inventory as Annex I-IV.

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/...

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.

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

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

Leaflets, pamphlets, invitations, programmes, commemorative publications, newspapers, articles, disputes, memoranda, speeches, occasional poems - each unique - about Cologne, its past and history. I. Imperial city; Icewalk from 1784, funeral service for Emperor Leopold II, Imperial Post Office in Cologne, pamphlet of the evangelicals against mayor and council in Cologne (Wetzlar 1715), municipal lottery, occasional poems for weddings, individual personalities (Jan von Werth, Frhr. Theodor Steffan von Neuhoff); II. Time of the French occupation 1794-1815: opening of the Protestant church (1802), educational affairs (Collége de Cologne, Université), Heshuisian inheritance, secularization, Peace of Tilsit, election of the department 1804; assignates, dentists, liberation wars; successor society of the society at Wirz, Neumarkt (1813); III. Prussian period (1815-1945): Visit of members of the Prussian royal house, imperial birthday celebrations, cathedral, cathedral building, cathedral completion celebration 1880, cathedral building association; Hohenzollern bridge, southern bridge, monument to Friedrich Wilhelm III, Laying of the foundation stone of the Rhine. Appellhofs (1824), building festival for the town hall (1913), town hall, provost's house at St. Maria ad Gradus; suburbs (terrain in Marienburg, parish St. Marien, Kalk: Fabriken, Arbeiter, 1903); travel brochures, city maps, articles on Cologne for tourism; commemorative and public holidays; revolution 1848; parties, elections (centre, liberal parties, social democratic party); Reichstag elections, city elections; city announcements/publications, decrees concerning the city of Cologne. Debt management (1824), rules of procedure of the city council, census, distribution of business in the administration; announcements of the news office; general comptoir or table calendar 1814-1829 (incomplete); programmes of the Konzertgesellschaft Köln and the Gürzenich concerts (1849-1933); programmes of the chamber music concerts (1897-1914); programmes of the Musikalische Gesellschaft (1900-1916), music festivals, etc. Lower Rhine Music Festivals (1844-1910); Cologne Theater Almanach (1904-1908), City Theater, Schauspielhaus, including program booklets and leaflets; Theater Millowitsch; musical performances at celebrations and festivals, concert programs; Cologne Arts and Crafts Association (Annual Report 1912); Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv: Statutes, Rules of Procedure 1907; Exhibitions, etc. Art in Cologne private possession (1916), Carstan's Panoptikum (1888), German Art Exhibition, Cologne 1906, Deutsche Werkbund-Ausstellung 1914, Exhibition for War Welfare Cologne 1916; Handelshochschule Köln; university courses in Brussels (1918); Women's university studies for social professions (1916/17); music conservatory (1913); grammar schools, further education schools, elementary schools, weaving school in Mülheim, Waldschulhof Brück (1917), elementary school teachers' seminar; scientific conferences: 43. Meeting of German Philologists and Schoolmen 1895, IX. Annual meeting of the Association of Bathing Professionals 1910, 12th Association Day of the Association of German Professional Fire Brigades 1912; occasional poems for family celebrations, weddings; associations; programmes, membership cards, diplomas, statutes of health insurance funds and death funds; Catholic Church: associations, parishes, saints and patrons; Protestant Church: religious service order or Death ceremonies for the chief president Count Solms-Laubach (1822), for Moritz Bölling (1824); inauguration of the new synagogue, Glockengasse (1861); military: regimental celebrations, forbidden streets and restaurants (before 1914); memorandums about the garrison Cologne (1818); food supply in the First World War: food stamps, bread and commodity books, ration coupons and forms, etc.a. for coal purchasing; Einkaufs-Gesellschaft Rhein-Mosel m. b. H.Economy: Stadtsparkasse, cattle market in Cologne, stock exchange, beer price increase 1911; individual commercial enterprises, commercial and business buildings, hotels: brochures, letterheads, advertising cards and leaflets, price lists, statutes; shipping: Rhine shipping regulations, timetables, price lists, memorandums; main post office building, inauguration 1893; Rheinische Eisenbahn, Köln-Gießener Eisenbahn; German-French War 1870/71; First World War, etc.a. Leaflets, war loans, field letters, war poems; cruisers "Cologne"; natural disasters: Rhine floods, railway accident in Mülheim in 1910, hurricanes; social affairs: charity fair, asylum for male homeless people, possibly home for working young girls, invalidity and old-age insurance; St. Marien-Hospital; Sports: clubs, sports facilities, gymnastics festivals; Carnival: programs, carnival newspapers, - songs, - poems; celebrations, ceremonies for imperial birthdays, enthronements of archbishops, celebrations of other personalities; IV. Weimar Republic and National Socialism: floods; churches, treasure chambers; cathedral; individual buildings, monuments, including the old town, town hall, Gürzenich, Haus zum großen Rosendal, Mühlengasse; Revolution 1918: workers' and soldiers' council; gifts, honorary citizenship to NS greats; hanged forced laborers; bank robber Gebrüder Heidger (1928); municipal and other official publications concerning the Weimar Republic and National Socialism. Luftschutz, NSRechtsbetreuungsstelle; Newsletter of the Welfare Office 1937, 1938; Kameradschaftsdienst der Verwaltung für Wirtschaftsfürsorge, Jugendpflege und Sport 1940, 1943, 1944; Müllabfuhr und Müllverwertungsanstalt, Wirtschaftspolitik, Industrieansiedlung, Eingemeindung von Worringen, Erweiterung des Stadtgebiets; political parties: Advertising flyers for elections, pins, badges of DNVP, NSDAP, SPD, centre; camouflage letters of the KPD; appeals, rallies of various political groups, including the Reich Committee for the German Referendum (against the Young Plan, 1929), Reich Presidential Election, referendum in the Saar region, Working Committee of German Associations (against the Treaty of Versailles); Municipal Stages: Periodical "Die Tribüne", 1929-1940, annual reports 1939-1944, programme and cast sheets for performances in the opera house and the Schauspielhaus, also in the Kammerspiele; Lower Rhine music festivals; galleries (Dr. Becker, Goyert), Kölnischer Kunstverein: Invitations to exhibitions (1934-1938), circulars to members; art auctions at Fa. Math. Lempertz (1925-1931); music performances, concerts: Kölner Männer-Gesang-Verein, municipal orchestra, concerts of young artists, Concert Society Cologne; Millennium Exhibition 1925; museums: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Kunstgewerbemuseum (among others monuments of old Russian painting, 1929), Schnütgen-Museum, art exhibitions, among others. Arno Breker (NSDAP-Gaupropaganda-Amt Gau Köln-Aachen), exhibition of works by West German artists (Deutsche Arbeitsfront), Richard Seewald, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Ausstellungsgemeinschaft Kölner Maler; universities, including the University of Cologne (lecture timetables, new building, anniversary 1938), Hochschule für Musik bzw. Conservatory of Music in Cologne; Reich activity reports of the foreign office of the lecturers of the German universities and colleges (1939-1942); Lower Rhine music festivals; scientific and cultural institutions and events and events in the region.a. Petrarca-Haus, German-Italian Cultural Institute, Volksbildungsstätte Köln, German-Dutch Institute, Cologne Meisterschule, Vereinigung für rechts- und staatswissenschaftliche Fortbildung in Köln, Austrian Weeks, Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur e.V.Conferences (Westdeutscher Archivtag 1939, Deutsche Anthropologische Gesellschaft 1927, Rheinische Siedlungstage 1925, Conference for Monument Conservation and Cultural Heritage Protection, Grenzland-Kundgebung der Beamten der Westmark, Cologne 1933, Internationaler Brieftauben-Züchter- Kongress (IBRA) 1939; Schools: Invitations, Testimonials Concerning the German Anthropological Society 1927, Rheinische Siedlungstage 1925, Conference for the Preservation of Monuments and Cultural Heritage, Borderland Demonstration of the Officials of the Westmark, Cologne 1933, Internationaler Brieftauben-Züchter-Kongreß (IBRA) 1939; Schools: Invitations, Testimonials Concerning the German Anthropological Society 1927, Rheinische Siedlungstagestage 1925, Conference for the Preservation of Monuments and Cultural Heritage, Borderland Demonstration of the Officials of the Westmark, Cologne 1933, International Brieftauben Congress (IBRA) 1939) Elementary schools, vocational schools, grammar schools; Sports: Vaterländische Festspiele 1924, Zweckverband für Leibesübungen Groß-Köln, 14th German Gymnastics Festival 1928, II German Fighting Games 1926, Leichtathletik-Welt- und Länderkämpfe, Westdeutscher Spielverband, Hockey-Damen-Länderspiel Deutschland- Australien 1930, Excelsior-Club Köln e.V., XII. Bannerspiele der weiblichen Jugend der Rheinprovinz 1926; Catholic Church (official announcements and publications, e.g. Kirchlicher Anzeiger für die Erzdiözese Köln; pamphlets; programme, prayer slips); British occupation, French colonial troops in the Rhineland, identity cards, passports; British World War I pamphlets; Liberation celebration in Cologne 1926; Second World War: appeals, leaflets concerning the Second World War; information leaflets concerning the Second World War: "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution", "The German Revolution". Air raids, defence, low-flying combat, darkening, etc.; newspaper articles about air raids on Cologne; advertising: leaflets, leaflets of the advertising office, the Cologne Week publishing house and the Cologne Tourist Association for Cologne, including the surrounding area and the Rhine Valley; invitations, menus to receptions and meals of the Lord Mayor Adenauer (1927-1929); pay slips, work certificates, work books of Cologne companies; Cologne Trade Fair: Programmes, brochures, adhesive stamps, catalogues for trade fairs and exhibitions (1924-1933); food stamps and cards for World War I; announcements; clothing cards, basic cards for normal consumers for World War II; vouchers for the city of Cologne (emergency money) from 1920-1923, anniversary vouchers for Gewerbebank eGmbH Köln-Mülheim, also for Dellbrücker Volksbank eGmbH; savings banks: Annual reports of the Sparkasse der Hansestadt Köln; documents, savings books of the Spar- und Darlehnskasse Köln-Dünnwald, the Kreissparkasse des Landkreises Köln, Bergheim und Mülheim, also the branch Köln-Worringen, the Bank des Rheinischen Bankverein/Rheinischen Bauernbank; Köln-Bonner-Eisenbahnen: Annual reports, balance sheets (1939-1941); trams: Annual Report, Annual Report (1939, 1940), Ticket; Köln-Frechen-Benzelrather Eisenbahn: Tariffs; Shipping: Preussisch-Rheinische Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft zu Köln, Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft für den Nieder- und Mittelrhein zu Düsseldorf (Annual Reports 1938-1940), Köln- Düsseldorfer Rheindampfschiffahrt, Weber-Schiff (Timetables); Kraftverkehr Wupper-Sieg AG, Wipperfürth (Annual Reports 1939, 1940, Advertising Brochure 1937); Advertising brochure of the Airport Administration Cologne (1929); Individual Companies: House announcements, advertising leaflets, cards, brochures, adhesive stamps, receipts from industrial companies (Ford Motor Company AG, Glanzstoff- Courtaulds GmbH, Herbig-Haarhaus, department stores). Department store Carl Peters, insurance companies, newspapers, publishing houses, bookstores, craft businesses, shops (tobacco shops); Cologne bridges (Mülheimer bridge), post office, restaurants, hotels; invitations to festivals, events, anniversaries of associations, programmes; professional associations; cooperatives (Cologne-Lindenthal cooperative savings and building association (1930-1938); social affairs: Cologne emergency aid, housing assistance, sending of children (mostly official printed matter); collecting cards from Cologne and other companies, above all from the food and luxury food industries, such as coffee and tobacco companies, etc.a. the companies Haus Neuerburg, Himmelreich Kaffee, Stollwerk AG, König

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 characterisation: The tradition refers to the following focal points: - Management and organization in general, 1916-1923 - personnel matters, 1919-1923 - connection to Reich authorities, 1919-1922 - production and management of cocoa products, 1919-1923 - import of cocoa products, import committee, 1919-1923. State of development: index of finds approx. 1980 citation method: BArch, R 8815/...

Note: Box with longitudinally extendable plywood drawer with metal straps and carrying handle, 11 x 10.8 x 44.5 cm.

Contains: Abdel Rahman Azzam Bey, 1942 Anschel, Alex (2.4.1888), 1943 British

History of the Inventor: The Technical Office, established in 1933, set up testing facilities for weapons and equipment at various locations that existed until 1945. Inventory description: KOMMANDO DER ERPROBUNGSSTELLEN According to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty of 1919, the German Reich was prohibited from developing and constructing aircraft for military purposes. Nevertheless, as early as 1920, the Reichswehr Ministry (RWM) set up units with the task of carrying out preparatory work for the creation of development and testing sites for an air force. For example, a "Air Defence" (TA) unit was set up in the Truppenamt (TA) and an aeronautical unit in the Inspektion für Waffen und Gerät (IWG). After the merger of the IWG with the Waffenamt (Wa.A) of the RWM at the beginning of 1927, the aeronautical department became the department 6 F of the testing group (Wa.Prw. 6 F). He was in charge of the development departments disguised as civil engineering offices as well as the test groups in Johannisthal and Rechlin. The testing thus fell within the competence of the testing department of the Weapons Office. At the end of November 1928, the procurement department was also taken over by the Wa.L.Prw. Group. At the end of July 1939, in order to better meet the growing requirements, the Aviation Group in the Weapons Office (Wa.L) was divided into three groups: "Development of aircraft (Wa.L. I)", "Development of equipment" (Wa.L. II) and "Testing" (Wa.L. III). There was also a group on "Procurement" and a group on "Defense Economics and Armaments". On February 8, 1933, on the orders of Reichswehr Minister Blomberg, the Air Protection Office (LA) was formed, which was now also to be responsible for the development, testing and procurement of aircraft, aircraft engines and special aircraft equipment. He was assigned the aviation group in the weapons office, now known as Wa.Prw. 8, as Division L 2. After the transfer of the air-raid protection office to the newly created Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM) in May, the aviation technology department was initially subordinated as the Technical Department (B II) to the General Office (LB) of the RLM, but then, in the course of the reclassification of the RLM to the Technical Office (LC) on October 1, 1933, and, like the latter, directly subordinated to the Secretary of State for Aviation, Colonel General Milch. It was divided into the departments LC I (Research), LC II (Testing) and LC III (Procurement). Colonel Wimmer, as head of the Technical Office, remained responsible for aviation technology, while Captain Freiherr von Richthofen, who headed the LC II department from June 1934, was in charge of the technical aspects of the test centres (e-places). Until the Luftwaffe was unmasked in March 1935, the tests were carried out by the "Test Centres of the Reich Association of the German Aviation Industry" disguised as civilian. The "Commando der Fliegererprobungsstellen" (Command of Pilot Test Centres), which had been established in 1934 and was based in Rechlin, now appeared as the central testing authority. At the head of the command was the commander of the testing stations (K.d.E.), who was at the same time head of the E station Rechlin and superior of the chief of the E station Travemünde. His supervisor was the head of department LC II (Testing). In December 1936, the E posts Rechlin and Travemünde as well as Tarnewitz were directly subordinated to the new Chief of the Technical Office, Colonel Udet, in 1937 and charged with the development and technical testing of the Luftwaffe equipment. In the course of a reorganization of the entire RLM, the Technical Office was directly subordinated to Göring. As a result, Udet changed the organizational structure of the Technical Office again in May 1938 and dissolved the office of Commander of the Test Laboratories. The E posts now received independent command offices, which were technically subordinate to the head of the Technical Office. On February 1, 1939, the Technical Office, the Supply Office and the "Industry and Economy" group of offices were merged to form the new General Airworthiness Inspectorate (GL) and once again placed under the authority of the State Secretary for Aviation. Lieutenant General Udet was appointed General Airworthiness Officer and was now responsible for the management and control of the entire aviation technology as well as for the securing of the entire air force requirement while retaining his function as Chief of the Technical Office. After his suicide on 17 November 1941, the former Secretary of State for Aviation at the RLM, Generalfeldmarschall Milch, assumed these offices in personal union. In autumn 1941 a new command of the testing stations (Kdo.d.E) was established. In technical and operational terms, it was subordinate to the Commander of the Test Centres (K.d.E ), who in turn was subordinate to the Chief of the Technical Office and worked closely with the responsible development departments C to E of the Technical Office (GL/C). This post was held by Major Petersen until the end of the war. After the General Aircraft Master's Office was dissolved on 27 July 1944, the business area and thus the entire technical air armament was transferred to the Chief of Technical Air Armament (Chief TLR). The office was subordinated to the General Staff of the Luftwaffe and thus to the High Command of the Luftwaffe (OKL). The commander of the testing stations was now directly under the command of the Chief of Technical Air Armament, but was then subordinated to the commander of the Ersatzluftwaffe (BdE-Lw) shortly before the end of the war. Until 1945 the following E-positions were established and partially dissolved: Rechlin, Travemünde, Tarnewitz, Peenemünde, Udetfeld, Madüsee, Werneuchen, Süd (Foggia), Munster-Nord, Jesau, Arktis-Finsee, Cazeaux (Süd) and Karlshagen. In addition, a large number of test commands and test squadrons were set up from 1941 onwards, some of which were formed only briefly for the testing of individual aircraft types and quickly dissolved again after testing. ERPROBUNGSSTELLEN Torpedowaffenplatz der Luftwaffe Gotenhafen-Hexengrund (ca. 1942-1945) On April 2, 1942, the Luftwaffe Torpedowaffenplatz was repositioned as a branch office. He was subordinate to the General Airworthiness Officer (Technical Office) in terms of military service and discipline. He was assigned to Luftgaukommando I in terms of war classification, economy and administration. With effect from 1 May 1944, the Torpedowaffenplatz was then placed under the command of the E units. He was responsible for the testing of air torpedoes and associated dropping devices. Jesau (1943-1944) This E-Stelle was founded in 1943 as an outpost of the Peenemünde-West testing station. The main task of the E-Stelle Jesau was the execution of surveying work for distance and proximity fuses as well as the testing of the rocket-powered aircraft Messerschmitt Me 163. In August 1944 the E-Stelle Jesau was dissolved. Munster-Nord (1935-1945) As early as 1916, a test and production facility for gas ammunition was set up in Munster-Breloh for the first time on 6,500 hectares. From 1935, manufacturing and testing facilities for chemical warfare agents were again built on the site and the Munster-Nord Army Experimental Station, which was subordinate to the Army Ordnance Office, was set up. Both the Luftwaffe and the Weapons Office use the area for technical testing of high attack bombs and low attack spray containers. Peenemünde-West, later Karlshagen (approx. 1939-1945) After the start of construction work at the end of July 1937, Peenemünde-West started operations on 1 April 1938. Uvo Pauls was in charge until September 1, 1942, succeeding Major Otto Stams and Major Karl Henkelmann at the end of 1944. The task of the E unit was the testing of rocket engines and rocket-propelled, remote-controlled dropping weapons (e.g. Fi 103, Hs 298). The central group of the test centre was the air traffic control, which was responsible for the deployment of the aircraft fleet. She was also assigned a weather station. The following test groups were active at the experimental site, working on different tasks: E 2: Aircraft and missile systems with rocket propulsion, including support of the troop test commands (Fi 103 and Hs 117) E 3: Engines and fuels E 4: Radio and radio control systems E 5: Equipment (power supply, control systems, image station, measuring base) E 7: Drop systems, target and target training equipment E 8: Ground systems The E station was moved to Wesermünde air base near Bremerhaven in April 1945. Rechlin (approx. 1925-1945) Already planned in 1916, the "Flieger-Versuchs- und Lehranstalt am Müritzsee" started operations in 1918 during the First World War. Due to the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, however, the installations there were dismantled again at the beginning of the 1920s. As part of the camouflaged continuation of pilot testing in the Weimar Republic, a test airfield was built in Rechlin from 1925. On the initiative of Hauptmann Student, the German Aviation Research Institute (DVL) in Berlin-Adlershof set up a new "Department M" specifically for this purpose. The "Luftfahrtverein Waren e.V.", founded in 1925, acquired the necessary area on behalf of the Reich and took over the operation of the new airfield. Factory and flight operations began in the summer of 1926. From 1927/28 Albatros Flugzeugwerke GmbH in Berlin-Johannisthal leased the facility, which was now called the "Testing Department of Albatros Flugzeugwerke Johannisthal". After the Reichsverband der Deutschen Luftfahrt-Industrie (RDL) had taken over the site at the insistence of the Reichswehr troop office at the end of 1929, it was continued under the camouflage name "RDL Erprobungsstelle Staaken". After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the facilities in Rechlin were rapidly expanded to become the largest testing station (E station) for aviation equipment. From 1935, the E-Stelle Rechlin was regarded as a showpiece of the Luftwaffe. Until the end of the war, four large building complexes with different uses were built on the huge area: Group North management and technical administration, air base command and weather station; Testing of airframes (from 1936), of radio and navigation equipment, of aircraft on-board devices and equipment, aeromedical tests as well as high-frequency and ionospheric research Group South Testing of engines, of materials as well as of fuels and lubricants East Group Testing of ammunition for on-board weapons and drop-weapons West Group Military testing (only 1935-1938), test group and shipyard, fracture recovery, training workshop Initially, the focus of testing activities in Rechlin was on flight and engine testing. This included the flight testing of the engines, the measurements on the individual engine components as well as the creation of complete aircraft types. Other areas of activity include the testing of aircraft equipment - from on-board instruments to rescue and safety equipment, hydraulic systems - and radio and navigation equipment. From 1933 the testing of weapons was also carried out in Rechlin. The main focus was on the testing of ammunition for firearms as well as the testing of drop ammunition within the framework of flight testing. After the beginning of the 2nd World War, prey planes were thoroughly tested there and the results evaluated. In addition to the purely technical testing of all land aircraft and their equipment, new aircraft types are tested for their military suitability, especially after the start of the war. For this purpose, the Lärz Test Command was set up, to which these aircraft types were assigned for operational testing. From mid-1944 the testing of the new jet aircraft Me 262, Ar 234 and He 162 received highest priority. The E-Stelle Rechlin has undergone several organisational changes during its existence. An overview of the structure and filling of positions is attached as an annex. This is a compilation from the publication of Beauvais. South (Foggia) (c. 1941-1942) In the second half of 1941, the E-Stelle Süd started operations at the airfield in Foggia, Italy. It was intended for the testing of air torpedoes and underwater weapons, which had to be carried out in Grosseto due to unfavourable conditions. At the end of February 1942, it was decided to move the E-Stelle Süd to the French town of Cazaux, southwest of Bordeaux, and operations began at the airfield in May 1942. The test flights were used for the ballistic measurement of various types of bombs or dropping containers, the testing of target devices and bomb droppings. The commander of the E post was Captain Henno Schlockermann. After Allied air raids in March and September 1944, during which the installations were severely damaged and several test aircraft destroyed, operations had to be restricted and then discontinued altogether. By order of 10 October 1944, the E post was officially closed. Tarnewitz (1937-1945) Construction work began in 1935, and two years later the Tarnewitz electric power station was officially put into operation. The task of the new unit was to test new weapon systems for Luftwaffe aircraft. In addition to machine guns and bombs, this also included the newly developed rocket weapons. The various tasks were performed by the groups W 1 (installation), W 2 (ballistics and sights), W 3 (mountings and air discs) and W 4 (on-board weapons and ammunition). From 1938, the E post was subdivided into the specialist groups machine guns and ammunition, including rocket testing (IIA), mountings and air discs (II D), ballistics and sights (II E), installation of weapons in aircraft (II F). Travemünde (1928-1945) In 1928 a seaplane test centre (SES) was founded in Travemünde under the camouflage name "Reichsverband der Deutschen Luftfahrtindustrie Gruppe Flugzeugbau". Originally planned and established after World War I as a secret testing ground for independent naval aviation, the Travemünde testing ground was subordinated to the RLM in 1934 after the National Socialists seized power and expanded further. The focus of the testing activities in Travemünde was the testing of seaplanes and their equipment, naval mines and air torpedoes as well as special ships and boats for maritime flight operations. This also included testing seaplanes, landing on icy and snowy ground, landing attempts on aircraft carriers and rescue measures on the open sea with the aircraft. The E post was divided into the following groups in 1933: A: Navigation, radio, seaman's equipment, special installations B: Operation of aircraft, ships, docks, catapults and vehicles, ground services E: Flight service, holding pilots ready F: Aircraft testing, preparation, execution and evaluation of measurements, reports, assessments G: Testing of on-board devices, radio measuring devices, laboratory, precision mechanical workshop, photo service, duplication K: Administration, personnel, material, buildings, installations M: engines, propellers, aggregates, workshop and test benches Udetfeld (1940-1945) The Udetfeld electric power station was set up in 1940 near Beuthen/Oberschlesien. At the beginning it was led by Major Werner Zober, later by Lieutenant Colonel Rieser. The test leader was Fl.Stabsingenieur Rudolf Noch. The task of the E-Stelle was the testing of small explosive and incendiary bombs, parachute bombs and special detonators as well as the acceptance blasting of all German bomb types. At times she was also engaged in the testing of parachutes and ejection seats. For this purpose it was equipped step-by-step with a measuring base, several discharge points and a picture position. Last tests and measurements took place until shortly before the invasion of the Soviet army at the end of January 1945. The E-Stelle was dissolved by order of 15 February 1945 and its tasks taken over by the E-Stelle Rechlin. Werneuchen (1942-1945) The E post was established in April 1942 at the air base in Werneuchen. She was responsible for the testing and development of search and target devices for air and sea reconnaissance and worked closely with the Aeronautical Radio Research Institute in Oberpfaffenhofen. Field stations for testing ground radio measuring instruments were located in Weesow and Tremmen. The flight testing of newly developed equipment was initially carried out by the test squadron of the Technical Test Command (TVK), and was then transferred to the newly formed night fighter group 10. Their tasks also included the development and testing of equipment for the defence against interference and deception by the enemy air forces. In Werneuchen, the night hunt radio measuring devices FuG 202 "Lichtenstein", the ship's target search device FuG "Hohentwiel" as well as the ground search devices "Würzburg-Riese" and "Freya" were tested. In February 1945, the E-Stelle was moved to Stade and renamed to E-Stelle Stade in April 1945. The E post was commanded by Major i.G. August Hentz until April 1944, then until its dissolution by Major i.G. Cerener. ERPROBUNGSKOMMANDOS und ERPROBUNGSSTAFFELN Erprobungskommando 4 (ERPROBUNGSSTAFFELN Test Command 4) Set-up by order of 1 December 1944 by air fleet 10. Troop testing of the X4 guided missile and testing of operational procedures and tactical capabilities. Test Command 15 Formed from the Experimental Squadron Hs 293 and intended for troop testing of the Gleitbombe Hs 293. Test Command 16 Set up on the Command Path in April 1942 in Peenemünde-West, at the beginning of September budgeting and transfer to Zwischenahn, then in October to Brandis. Testing of the rocket-propelled hunter Me 163 B "Komet". Dissolution on 14 February 1945. Tasks were to be taken over by Jagdkommando 400, which also received the operational aircraft. Erprobungskommando 17 Transfer of the 2./Kampfgruppe 100 from Hannover-Langenhagen to the French Chartes, renaming into E-Kommando XY in January 1942 and temporarily into E-Kommando 100 (March to May 1942), then budgeted as E-Kommando 17. Further development of the X- and Y-process and deployment against England. Mid-September 1942 Renamed 15th Combat Squadron, 6th Experimental and Training Command, 18, set up on 1 August 1942 in Pillau and subordinated to the General of the Air Force by the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy (Ob.d.M.). Testing of the aircraft types intended for the aircraft carrier "Graf Zeppelin" including the instruction and training of the flying and ground personnel on this equipment. Test Command 19 Deployment on 1 July 1942 at the Castel Benito airfield near Tripoli on the Command Way. Testing of the aircraft types Bf 109 and Fw 109 for tropical suitability as fighter and battle planes. Personnel of the supplementary groups of the fighter squadron 27 and 53, respectively. Test and training command 20 formation on 1 October 1942 in Travemünde (later Kamp). Testing of on-board special aircraft as well as instruction and training of flying and ground personnel for on-board special aircraft. Test and Training Command 21 Set up on 1 August 1942 in Garz/Usedom. Personnel and equipment of the disbanded II. combat squadron 3. troop testing of the bomb PC 1400X. Test and teaching command 22 Set up autumn 1942 in Lärz. Testing of the Fw 190 fighter bomber version with long range (Jaborei). Personnel of the combat squadron 40, of the fighter squadrons 2 and 26 as well as of a destroyer school. Spring 1943 Transfer to St. André in France and use for the formation of the I./Schlachtkampfgeschwader 10. Test and training command 24 formation on 1 March 1943 in Mark-Zwuschen. Testing of aircraft types suitable for reconnaissance purposes, including equipment (navigation and heading devices). Dissolution in October 1944, assumption of the tasks and the personnel by the experimental association OKL. Test Command 25 Set-up in accordance with the order of 17 April 1943. Troop testing of the aircraft required for day hunting, aircraft radio measuring equipment, weapons and combat procedures as well as deployment within the framework of the Reich Defence. Reclassification into hunting group 10 with the same tasks. Test Command 26 Set-up in accordance with the order of 29 December 1943 by renaming the 11th (Pz.)/battle squadron at the airfield of the Udetfeld E station. Dissolution on 14 February 1945 and transfer of personnel to General der Schlachtflieger. Assumption of the tasks of the supplementary squadron of the Schlachtgeschwader 151. Experimental squadron 36 Set up in Garz according to the order of 10 August 1943 by renaming the 13th/fighting squadron 100. Testing of the suitability for troops of the successor models of the Hs 293 as well as briefing of observers on the He 177 equipped with the Kehlgerät FuG 203. Dissolution on 12 July 1944. Transfer of the personnel to the E-Kommando 25 for the continuation of the testing of the fighter missiles. Test Command 40 The Fliegerforstschutzverband was formed on 5 March 1940 as an independent association from the "Pest Control Group" of the Flugkommando Berlin, which had existed since 1936. It was mainly used for forest pest control and from October 1941 also took over malaria control in the occupied territories. Numerous spraying and pollination flights were carried out for this purpose. Another focus of his activities was the sowing of agricultural and forestry seeds and the spreading of artificial fertilizers. After being placed under the command of the E units on 1 January 1944, the Fliegerforstschutzverband was renamed E-Kommando 40. By order of 3 September 1944, the command stationed in Göttingen was dissolved and the remainder of the command was transferred to Coburg in November 1944, where it was used to set up E-command 41. Erprobungskommando 41 Formation on January 22, 1945 from remaining parts of the Erprobungskommando 40 and subordination in military service under Luftgaukommando VII and operational under Luftflottenkommando Reich. Test Command 100 See Test Command 17 Test Command Bf 109 G Report of arrival at Rechlin on 15 March 1942. Equipped with eleven Bf 109 G-1 and seven pilots in July. No more data. Test Command Ta 152 Positioning on the Command Way on 2 November 1944 in Rechlin. In accordance with the order of January 9, 1945, the deployment was extended until April 1945, and the deployment was reorganized into a group staff with a staff company as well as four task forces and a technical testing squadron. No formation of the four operational squadrons due to takeover of troop testing of the aircraft type Ta 152 by III/Jagdgeschwader 301. Dissolution on January 23, 1945. Test command Ta 154 formation on December 9, 1943 at the air base Hannover-Langenhagen. Testing of the front suitability of the aircraft type Ta 154. Dissolution according to the order of August 1, 1944. Transfer of personnel to the E-command Me 262. Test command He 162, deployment order of January 9, 1945 for an E-command in group strength (but not with this designation). Implementation of the operational testing of the aircraft type He 162 by I./Jagdgeschwader 1. Experimental squadron He 177 deployment on 1 February 1942 in Lärz. Testing of the aircraft type He 177. Dissolution on September 20, 1943. Transfer of personnel to combat squadron 40. Test squadron Ju 188 set up on March 1, 1943 in Rechlin. Transfer at the end of July 1943 to Chièvres near Brussels. Used for 4th/combat squadron 66th test squadron Me 210 set up in late spring 1942 in Lechfeld, relocated in July 1942 to Evreux in France. Operational testing of the aircraft type. After temporary renaming into 16th/fighter squadron 6 and 11th/destroyer squadron 1, finally reclassification into test squadron Me 410. Test squadron Ar 234 set up summer 1944 (July) in Lärz. Operational testing of the aircraft type Ar 234 B as a bomber. Personnel of the combat squadron 76th Erprobungskommando Me 262, deployment on 9 December 1943 at the Lechfeld air base. First testing of the V-model Me 262 and personnel supply of the III./Zerstörergeschwader 26 in April 1944. Starting from August 1944 formation of Einsatzkommandoos among other things in Lärz. At the end of September use of parts of the E-command, the III./ZG 26 to form the E-command "Novotny" and a new E-command 262 in Lechfeld. Official dissolution of E-command 262 on 2 November 1944. Test command Do 335 set up on 4 September 1944 by command of the E-positions. Troop testing of the aircraft type Do 335 as a mosquito night fighter, fighter, reconnaissance and combat aircraft. Relocation to Rechlin on 20 November. Revocation of the dissolution order of 14 February 1945. Test command JU 388 set up on 15 July 1944 in Rechlin. Testing the Ju 388 as a night hunter. Dissolution on 14 February 1945. Transfer of personnel to Combat Wing 76, E-Command Do 335 and various units. Test squadron Me 410 See test squadron Me 210. Troop testing of the aircraft type Me 410. Integration as 9th squadron of the combat squadron 101 and renaming into 12./KG 2 in October 1943 and finally April 1944 into 13./KG 51. Test squadron 600 formation according to order of April 1, 1945, intended for testing the rocket-driven interceptor Ba 349 "Natter". No further data known. Test command "Kolb", order of 20 November 1944. No further information known. Test command "Nebel" (Fog), order of 26 July 1944, for the testing and production of the Me 264 aircraft type, then from December 1944 also for the testing of long-range aircraft. Etatisierung des E-Kommandoos Ende Februar 1945. Lehr- und Erprobungskommando (W) After Colonel Wachtel had already been commissioned since April 1943 to carry out the war operation of the Fieseler Fi 103 (camouflage designation Flak sight FZG 76), the establishment of the Erprobungskommando began in June 1943. In military service it was subordinated to the higher commander of the anti-aircraft artillery schools and in questions of training and testing to the general of the anti-aircraft weapon. It was supplied by Luftgaukommando III, to which it belonged in terms of war classification. On 15 August 1943, the Wachtel Command formed the Flak Regiment 155 (W), which was soon transferred to France. Sonderkommando Fähre (Siebel) The Sonderkommando Fähre was responsible for the provision and operation of air force ferries for the transport of air force goods. (The information on the E-positions and E-commands were published in abbreviated form by Heinrich Beauvais/Karl Kössler/Max Mayer/Christoph Regel: Flugerprobungsstellen bis 1945. Johannisthal, Lipezk, Rechlin, Travemünde, Tarnewitz, Peenemünde-West. Bonn 1998). Characterisation of content: The collection mainly comprises work and test reports as well as correspondence between the command of the test centres and the test centres themselves and superior departments and various companies. Most of the test reports are for the two E posts Rechlin (approx. 200 AU) and Travemünde (approx. 160 AU). About 60 volumes of files with pollination and spray reports including the corresponding maps have been handed down by the Fliegerforstschutzverband. Of the remaining e-positions, only minor fragments of files have been preserved. The seven file volumes of the command of the e-offices, which deal with organizational matters of the e-offices and e-commands, are to be emphasized. State of development: Online-Findbuch 2007 Scope, Explanation: 573 AE Citation method: BArch, RL 36/...