Fonds BArch, R 8851 - Central purchasing company mbH

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History of the Inventor: <br /> 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 that the deficits in the economic and organizational preparations could be compensated.<br /> 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 trade associations and the state authorities themselves.<br /> With the increasing deterioration of the supply situation, further areas of responsibility 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, reworking, storage and transport of raw materials), production promotion and foreign trade. 350 organizations were subordinated to the War Food Office (later: Reich Food Ministry), 105 to Reichswirt‧schaftsamt (later: Reich Economic Ministry), 120 to the Reich Office of the Interior (later: Reich Ministry of the Interior), and 120 to the Prussian War Ministry or the War Office (later: Reich Economic 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.<br /> The dissolution of war societies was primarily based on the provisions of the Articles of Association, which, in accordance with the purpose of the societies, provided for the start of liquidation regularly upon the end of the war or within one year of the conclusion of a peace treaty with all 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, the Reichsschatzamt finally ordered on July 15, 1921 that all war societies be given the opportunity to dissolve their war societies more easily by transferring them to the Reich without liquidation.<br /> <br /><br /> Description of the holdings: <br /> History of the holdings<br /> The holdings of the war economy organizations of the I. During the Second World War, in 1943 and 1944, they were first relocated to Staßfurt on a selective basis and then to Schönebeck, taking into account the entire holdings and parts initially left behind.<br /> 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 Archives in Potsdam.<br /> Archivische Bewertung und Bearbeitung<br /> In the years 1959-1960, work began on arranging and registering individual smaller holdings for which the Reichsarchiv had no or only inadequate finding aids.<br /> <br /><br /> Characterization of content: <br /> The main focus of the tradition refers to documents on foreign relations countries A-Z (1915-1925), on the goods department in particular correspondence on export and price issues of individual foodstuffs and materials on the participation of the ZEG in other war economy organizations of the food sector (1915-1921) as well as on finances and balance sheets (1914-11924).<br /> In addition, written material contains the following facts.<br /> - Hamburger Spedition und Seeversicherung, 1914-1922<br /> - Zentralorganisation der ZEG Berlin, Gründung und Leitung, 1914-1924<br /> - Verkehr mit Behörden, 1915-1923<br /> - Verkehr mit Kriegswirtschafts- und Wirtschaftsorganisationen, 1914-1924<br /> - dealings with banks, financial matters, 1914-1923<br /> - administration and organisation, 1914-1922<br /> - domestic representations, 1916-1924<br /> - Press, dismantling of the ZEG,1915-1924<br /> - Printed activity reports, 1914-1918<br /> - General registry: Administration and organization, 1914-1920<br /> - Statistics, press reviews, 1909, 1914-1919<br /> - Legal affairs and contract control, 1914-1919<br /> - forwarding agency with Danube navigation, 1915-1920<br /> - representation of the ZEG in Sofia and Vienna, 1916-1920<br /> - economic center Kiev, 1918-1921<br /> - Executive Committee of the Three Food Centres and Central Cash Office for Ukrainian Imports, 1918-1920<br /> - Goods Departments of ZEG, 1915-1920<br /> - Special Liquidation Acts, 1916-1922<br /> - Personnel Affairs 1915-1923.<br /> <br /><br /> State of development: <br /> Findbuch 1937<br /> <br /><br /> Citation: <br /> BArch, R 8851/...

Zentraleinkaufsgesellschaft mbH (ZEG), 1915-1926

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Literatur: <br /> Inventare des Reichsarchivs, Serie 2: Kriegswirtschaftliche Organisationen, 1922 ff<br /> Dieckmann, Wilhelm: Die Behördenorganisation in der deutschen Kriegswirtschaft 1914-1918 (Schriften zur kriegswirtschaftlichen Forschung und Schulung), Hamburg 1937<br /> Cron, Hermann: Die Organisation der Kriegswirtschaft im Kriege 1914-1918 und ihre Überleitung in die Friedensverhältnisse sowie Wertung ihrer Akten, Potsdam 1942<br /> Müller, Alfred: Die Kriegsrohstoffbewirtschaftung 1914-1918 im Dienste des deutschen Monopolkapitals, Berlin 1955 [10144]<br /> Schreyer, Hermann: Die Kriegswirtschaftsorganisationen im ersten Weltkrieg und ihre Archivbestände als Quellen zur Geschichte des staatsmonopolistischen Kapitalismus, in: Jb. f. Wirtschaftsgeschichte 1985/3<br /> Rohlack, Momme: Kriegsgesellschaften (1914-1918): Arten, Rechtsformen und Funktionen in der Kriegswirtschaft des Ersten Weltkrieges, Frankfurt/M; Berlin. 2001 (Rechtshistorische Reihe; Band 241)

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