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GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTRY Records, 1879-1944 Reels M244-290 AUSTRALIAN JOINT COPYING PROJECT GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTRY Records, 1879-1944 Reels M244-290 The Foreign Office Whaddon Hall Near Bletchley Buckinghamshire National Library of Australia State Library of New South Wales Filmed: 1956-58 HISTORICAL NOTE The German Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt des Deutschen Reiches) was established by the North German Confederation in 1870. In 1871, following the unification of Germany, it became responsible for the foreign relations of the German Empire. As the Chancellor, Prince Otto von Bismarck, had primary responsibility for foreign policy, the Foreign Office was headed by a Secretary of State (Staatssekretäre) rather than by a minister. It was located in the Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin, next door to the Imperial Chancery. When the Weimar Republic was created in 1919, the Foreign Office became a ministry. The post of Foreign Minister (Reichsminister des Auswärtigen) was held by the following individuals: Herman Müller (1919-20) Walter Simons (1920-21) Friedrich Rosen (1921) Joseph Wirth (1921-22) Walther Rathenau (1922) Hans von Rosenberg (1922-23) Gustav Stresemann (1923-29) Julius Curtius (1929-31) Heinrich Brüning (1931-32) Konstantin von Neurath (1932-38) Joachim von Ribbentrop (1938-45) In its early years the Foreign Office was also responsible for the administration of Germany’s colonies, including Western Samoa, German New Guinea, Nauru and the Caroline Islands. In 1907 the Kolonialabteilung became a separate department, the Reichskolonialamt, headed by a Secretary of State. Most of the colonial records of the Foreign Ministry were transferred to the new department, although some of the German embassies, particularly the London Embassy, continued to maintain files on the colonies in the Pacific. Records of the London Embassy relating to Samoa were filmed by the AJCP on reels M794-801. In 1943 the archives of the Foreign Ministry was removed from Berlin and stored in a number of castles in the Harz Mountains. In April 1945 they were discovered by units of the American First Army. They were quickly transferred to Marburg Castle in the American zone and were placed under the control of officials of the State Department and the British Foreign Office. In 1946 they were moved to Berlin. The two departments agreed to publish a comprehensive selection of German diplomatic documents from 1918 to 1945. Historians from both countries began examining the archives in November 1946. On account of the Soviet blockade of Berlin in 1948, the archives was transferred to Whaddon Hall in Buckinghamshire. The first volume of Documents on German foreign policy 1918-1945 was published in 1949. Many of the 1918-45 records were microfilmed by the German War Documents Project and the film was placed in the Public Record Office in London and the National Archives in Washington. In 1952 the Foreign office and the State Department agreed that universities and scholars should be allowed to copy selections from the pre-1920 records. A number of American and British university libraries, such as California University, Florida State University and St Antony’s College, Oxford, set up filming projects. The Australian Joint Copying Project also carried out some original filming of the records at 2 Whaddon Hall. In addition, the Foreign Office provided copies of selected reels produced by the German War Documents Project. In 1958 the records were returned to the Federal Republic of Germany and placed in the Bundesarchiv in Bonn. Reference: Astrid M. Eckert. Struggle for the files: the Western allies and the return of German archives after the Second World War, translated by Dona Geyer, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012. 3 GERMAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Reel M244 Handakten Clodius Carl Clodius (1897-1952) was Gesandter 1st Klass, Leiter der Wirtschaftspolitischen Abteilung, Deutsches Aussenministerium, from 1938 to 1944. 4/1 Australien (Australische-Deutsche Handelsberiehungen), 1926-36 (vol. 1) 4/2 Australien (Australische-Deutsche Handelsberiehungen), 1937-39 (vol. 2) Reel M245 Handakten Wiehl Emil Wiehl (1886-1960) was Ministerialdirektor, Leiter der Wirtschaftspolitischen Abteilung, Deutsches Aussenministerium, from 1937 to 1944. 4/3 Australien (Australische-Deutsche Handelsberiehungen), 1938-39 (vol. 1) Reel M246 Büro des Reichsminister 120/4 Japan, 1920-35 (vol. 1) 118/2 China, 1920-28 (vol. 1) 118/3 China, 1928-29 (vol. 2) Reel M247 118/3 China, July-Oct. 1929 (vol. 2) 118/4 China, 1929-31 (vol. 3) 118/5 China, 1931-32 (vol. 4) Reel M248 4 118/5 China, Nov.-Dec. 1932 (vol. 4) 118/6 China, 1932-35 (vol. 5) 136/2 Siam, 1923-35 (vol. 1) 129/5 Afghanistan, 1923-29 (vol. 1) 129/6 Afghanistan, 1929-33 (vol. 2) 135/6 Persien, 1923-35 (vol. 1) 135/5 Ägypten, 1923-33 (vol. 1) Reel M249 135/5 Ägypten, 1933-35 (vol. 1) 135/1 Abessinien, 1924-35 (vol. 1) 129/1 Kolonien, 1921-30 129/2 Kolonien, 1930-35 Kolonien, 1926-33 Reel M250 Büro des Staatssekretär Carl von Schubert Carl von Schubert was Secretary of State at the German Foreign Ministry from 1924 to 1930. 79/1 Kolonialfragen Mandate, 1924-26 (vol. 1) 79/2 Kolonialfragen, 1926-29 (vol. 2) 79/3 Kolonialfragen, 1929-30 (vol. 3) Reel M251 Abteilung A 1784/1 Australischer Bundesstaat 1. Allgemeine Angelegenheiten, Jan.-June 1910 (vol. 1) 1784/2 Australischer Bundesstaat 1. Allgemeine Angelegenheiten, 1910-11 (vol. 2) 1784/3 Australischer Bundesstaat 1. Allgemeine Angelegenheiten, 1911-12 (vol. 3) 5 1784/4 Australischer Bundesstaat 1. Allgemeine Angelegenheiten, March-July 1912 (vol. 4) 1785/1 Australischer Bundesstaat 1. Allgemeine Angelegenheiten, July-Dec. 1912 (vol. 5) 1785/2 Australischer Bundesstaat 1. Allgemeine Angelegenheiten, Jan.-March 1913 (vol. 6) Reel M252 1785/2 Australischer Bundesstaat 1. Allgemeine Angelegenheiten, Feb.-April 1913 (vol. 6) 1785/3 Australischer Bundesstaat 1. Allgemeine Angelegenheiten, April-Aug. 1913 (vol. 7) 1785/4 Australischer Bundesstaat 1. Allgemeine Angelegenheiten, Aug. 1913-May 1914 (vol. 8) 1785/5 Australischer Bundesstaat 1. Allgemeine Angelegenheiten, 1914-20 (vol. 9) 1786/1 Australischer Bundesstaat 2. Presse, 1908-14 (vol. 1) 1786/2 Australischer Bundesstaat 2. Presse, 1914-17 (vo. 2) 1786/3 Australischer Bundesstaat 3. Militär und Marine, 1913-14(vol. 1) 1786/4 Australischer Bundesstaat 4. Englische Besitzungen in Australien, 1891-97 (vol. 1) 1786/5 Australischer Bundesstaat 4. Englische Besitzungen in Australien, 1898-99 (vol. 2) Reel M253 1786/5 Englische Besitzungen in Australien, 1898-1900 (vol. 2) 1787/1 Englische Besitzungen in Australien, June-Dec. 1900 (vol. 3) 1787/2 Englische Besitzungen in Australien, Jan.-June 1901 (vol. 4) 1787/3 Englische Besitzungen in Australien, June-Nov. 1901 (vol. 5) 1787/4 Englische Besitzungen in Australien, 1901-3 (vol. 6) 1788/2 Englische Besitzungen in Australien, 1903-4 (vol. 7) Reel M254 1788/2 Englische Besitzungen in Australien, 1903-4 (vol. 7) 1788/3 Englische Besitzungen in Australien, April-Dec. 1904 (vol. 8) 6 1788/4 Englische Besitzungen in Australien, Jan.-Sept. 1905 (vol. 9) 1789/1 Englische Besitzungen in Australien, 1905-6 (vol. 10) 1789/2 Englische Besitzungen in Australien, 1906-8 (vol. 11) 1789/3 Englische Besitzungen in Australien, Feb.-Oct. 1908 (vol. 12) 1790/1 Englische Besitzungen in Australien, 1908-9 (vol. 13) 1790/2 Englische Besitzungen in Australien, Feb.-May 1909 (vol. 14) Reel M255 1790/2 Englische Besitzungen in Australien, May-Aug. 1909 (vol. 14) 1790/3 Englische Besitzungen in Australien, Aug.-Dec. 1909 (vol. 15) 1790/4 EnglischeBesitzungen in Australien, 1901-2 (vol. 1) 1791/1 Südsee I: Hawaii, 1891-93 (vol. 1) 1791/2 Südsee 1: Hawaii, Feb.-April 1893 (vol. 2) 1791/3 Südsee 1: Hawaii, 1893-94 (vol. 3) 1791/4 Südsee 1: Hawaii, 1894-95 (vol. 4) 1791/5 Südsee 1: Hawaii, 1896-97 (vol. 5) Reel M256 1791/5 Südsee1: Hawaii, June-Sept. 1897 (vol. 5) 1792/1 Südsee 1: Hawaii, 1897-1907 (vol. 6) 1792/2 Südsee 1: Hawaii, 1907-8 (vol. 7) 1792/3 Südsee 1: Hawaii, 1908-11 (vol. 8) 1792/4 Südsee 1: Hawaii, 1911-13 (vol. 9) 1792/5 Südsee 1: Hawaii, 1913-18 (vol. 10) 1793/1 Südsee 2: Palmyra-Gruppe, 1897-1912 (vol. 1) 1798/4 Südsee 6: Wake, Fanning-und Midway Inseln, 1898-1914 (vol. 1) 1798/5 Südsee 7: Marcus Insel, 1899-1914 (vol. 1) 7 1798/6 Südsee 8: Gilbert-und Ellice Inseln, 1901-8 (vol. 1) 1798/7 Südsee 9: Neue Hebriden, 1900-2 (vol. 1) Reel M257 1798/7 Südsee 9: Neue Hebriden, 1902-6 (vol. 1) 1799/1 Südsee 9: Neue Hebriden, 1906-7 (vol. 2) 1799/2 Südsee 9: Neue Hebriden, 1907-13 (vol. 3) 1799/3 Südsee 9: Neue Hebriden, 1913-18 (vol. 4) 1799/4 Südsee 10: Fidschi-und Salomen Inseln, 1901-20 (vol. 1) 1799/5 Südsee 11: Tonga, 1903-4 (vol. 1) 1799/6 Südsee 12: Gesellschaffsinseln (Society Islands), 1898-1914 (vol. 1) 1800/1 Südsee 13: Fanning-und Washington Inseln, 1906-12 (vol. 1) 1800/2 Südsee 14: Deutsch Neuguinea, 1907-9 (vol. 1) 1800/3 Südsee 14: Deutsch Neuguinea, 1909-10 (vol. 2) 1800/4 Südsee 14: Deutsch Neuguinea, 1911 (vol. 3) Reel M258 1800/4 Südsee 14: Deutsch Neuguinea, 1911-14 (vol. 3) 1800/5 Südsee 14: Deutsch Neuguinea, 1914-18 (vol. 4) 1800/6 Südsee 15: Neu-Kaledonien, 1907-17 (vol. 1) 1801/1 Südsee 16: Deutsche Besitzungen in der Südsee, 1907-9 (vol. 1) 1802/1 Englische Besitzungen in der Südsee 1: Suvarov (Suwarrow) Island, 1907-9 (vol. 1) 1802/2 Englische Besitzungen in der Südsee 2: Neuguinea, 1903-9 (vol. 1) 1802/3 Englische Besitzungen in der Südsee3: Neuseeland und Nebengebiete, 1910-14 (vols. 1-2) 1802/5 Niederländische Besitzungen in der Südsee: Niederländsche-Neuguinea, 1901-13 (vol. 1) 1802/6 Franz Besitzungen in der Südsee: Kerguelen Archipel, 1901 (vol. 1) Verträge (treaties) 54: Englische und deutsche Interessen im Pazifik, 1886 (vol.
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